October 10, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason tells you the moment Woody Johnson decided to finally fire Robert Saleh. Plus all the BIG stories and headlines from the MLB Playoffs!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Five second Dance Party.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'll walk the first two guys and then I'll get
the next three out.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'll make Jason Smith nervous.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'll make them think they have to go to the
bullpen to bring in Stanic. Do you put a heart
monitor on when he comes in, just to see what
the rhythm does. As soon as they say, they have
to zap you again, Like, just keep Keith Peterson in
the game. He's putting, don't don't go to DS dot.
He's He's the lamar Odom of closers. He's every other game.
Don't do it, don't do Here comes DS and it
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can never be easy. I could have done for a
nice one, two three top of that. No, no, no, hey,
we're gonna put to bring the tying run to the plate.
Oh great, thanks d I appreciate. Hey, hey we know drama.
We need drama. We can't have easy one, two, three innings.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm just I'm just saying I just saw so many things.
It's like when Doctor Stranger was looking at all the
different ways they could beat Thantos came with one in
fourteen million. Like in my head, I'm going, how many
ways can I see this going badly? Okay, here's a
three run homer by Clement's kid, or we just gonna
wind up getting a couple outs, but then Harper's going
to hit a grand slam all the and I'm just
sitting there going do my head going all these all
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these bad things I can see coming off.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Joey, just sit there and look at you going look
at him twitch.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now this is no bet Benny was the one. My
dog Benny had to wear it again. No, Benny just
gets a little like when when I start yelling when
something happens with the Mets, he starts barking like someone's invading.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No, I have that same same circle when door hit
that home and I boke, come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Betty gets up and runs outside, the squirrels around like, oh,
because you know the squirrels are like inspectorcluse O and data. Yeah,
and he's running like what's happening? Dad is yelling what's
going I gotta save everybody now. Betty Lindorge's hit home run. Man,
it's unbelievably good. Uh. But I will say this before
we get to a big football story. You know, I
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said last night, Look, I could never be a good
GM in baseball because I'd want to trade everybody after
a bad three days, right, I could never do that.
Oh no, so you're in one inning, couple of bats, Yeah,
you're done. And I knew, and I said, you know,
I'd be a much better manager because I know how
I managed, you know in softball that I managed the
last few years. I know, I know you saw, Oh,
I'd be pretty good manager. And then I watched today
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in the third inning, they did an interview with Carlos
Mendoza after the Mets left the bases loaded in the
first and the bases loaded in the second, and at
that point I think they had sent eight batters to
the plate with a runner and scoring position, and the
Mets didn't score run right like Jason Stark tweeted out,
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I don't know how that's possible. I'm like, oh my god,
we had eight at batches, runners and scoring fish and
didn't score a run.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's like that.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That doesn't seem like that is mathematically possible. And I
was so mad. I was so mad after that.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Stop going.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're gonna lose this game like one, nothing like Harper's
gonna hit home run in the seventh. We're gonna leave
twenty five runners on base. This is how it's gonna
go for the Mets. And I don't have to grip my
ass off waiting for Game five in Philadelphia with Wheeler
all of a sudden, and I'm so mad, and I'm like,
I'm like, how do how does nobody hit?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How do we have that many bad at bats? How
do we have the bases loaded?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And Iglacias is waving at three pitches out of the
strike zone?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What the hell are we doing?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And I'm saying this, and they interview Carlos Mendoza and Carlos,
you know, I guys had a bunch of runners, left
the bases loaded a couple of times. How do you
feel he goes? Well, if we keep getting good at
bats like that, We'll be fine. And I'm like, no,
if you interviewed me, I would.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Go, how dare you ask me that question?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Why are you and my dugout questions that over there?
Our performance, about my team's performance, the kind of questions.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Get the hell out of here. I don't care what
you work for. Get the hell out of here, Fox
Sports one, and I don't care. Get that Casmara, That's
what I would be.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But he just goes yeah, and he's got his arms
fold to go yeah, yeah, look, if we keep getting
that bats like that, we're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm like, dog, what would be funny?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He did get excitable and then he gripped his ass
and went full Jim Carrey. He's ventura in terms of
responding to the question. He just kind of happens and
he just says, yeah, you know, if we get better
at bats, as we keep getting these at bats, we're
gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I long have his facial expressions right, they would get
the shot of the dugout where he just gotta be
nodding his head and doing the dizzy Gillespie, there's a
reference for you blow up my cheek kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But yeah, the calm to mean some kind of manager. Man.
I'm not wanted to.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fire two weeks ago, but now now he's everything. He no, no,
he only made okay, I want you called for his
head that night, just one night. One very was just
a bad few minutes I had, right, just a bad
a few minutes every brought Das and when I knew
bringing in Diaz was a bad idea, it was just
a bad couple of seconds. That's all everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Look, I still love you.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
To be able to exude that kind of call. And look,
and this gets into a bigger conversation about Dave Roberts
and all this stuff, is that to be able to
exude that kind of calm when the Mets are are
are testing your blood pressure every five seconds is really something.
And that's the biggest thing you can do as a
manager or a head coach, is Hey, no matter what,
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hey excited when we win. You know, hey, you're bummed
when we lose. But be this, be that, you be
that person. Don't change so much. And that's what that's
what helped did Robert solidin is that when they won,
everything was great, and when he lost it was awful.
He looked sullen and Sulky on the sideline like for it.
But it's not the manager to make that happen, right,
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So to wide this out from the Mets. Yes, here's
the Mets, and they have all kinds of fun. Look,
nobody likes to have. I get why some teams hate
the Mets because nobody likes to have more fun.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Than the Mets.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Every home run they take a picture with the O MG.
They love to celebrate, right, the same thing, same thing.
But I understand, but I understand. But but to me,
because this this is my thing for Dave Roberts, is
that is to to think that, Okay, I get why
people don't like that. I get why the Brewers are
doing the Mets hitting h celebration when they when they
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scored those couple of runs in in Game two. I
get why they do that. But that's not Carlos Mendoza, right,
That's not it's not the manager, right, Because this is
what gets to Dave Roberts is that he's the guy
trying to keep everybody on an even keel, and that's
what you need to do. And he has done just
an amazing job since he came in earlier this year.
Now you go to the Dodgers and suddenly and suddenly
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what what what's the big criticism of Dave Roberts. Dave
Roberts has to find a way to get this to
Dave Roberts has to find a way. Wait, wait he does.
I don't think Dave Roberts does. Dave Roberts has to
make the right moves in the bullpen. He's got, you know,
there's certain things he has to do. This is not
on Dave Roberts to make sure the Dodgers have more
fight or have more whatever sort of intangible they need.
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Just like it's not a you think Mike Shilt is
doing this with the padres that Fernando to tease Junior
and Manny Machatta are coming in between anything's going. Hey, guys,
like listen, let's talk about the book where we're both
reading the Grapes of Rats, and Mike Shilt's going.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No, you guys, get out there and.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
To tease you wiggle those hips to those fans, and
Machada you throw that ball at Dave Roberts like you're
asking too much of the of the manager and asking
them to do stuff that they don't do. So there's
a lot of criticisms and a lot there's criticisms and
both praise for managers in the playoffs that they don't
get or don't deserve and that, and that's the main
one is that yes, the Mets, this this is their
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vibe they have with this team and Mendoza keep mon
and even Keel. Same thing with Dave Roberts, same thing
with Mike Shilt. The players are the players. They do
their thing, but you can't ask the manager to do
something that he shouldn't. And when he starts doing stuff
like that and he starts getting all the moosha, you're
not gonna be around very long. You can't do it.
What did I say about Rex Ryan right when he
was co the Jets? He was fun, but every week
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was a super Bowl and the minute you lose, you
go into three game losing streak and it's the worst.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You can't. You can't coach like that. In sports.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You have to be the same guy, and being the
same guy you succeed a lot. Right, Mendoza has had
a lot of success this year. Roberts has had tremendous
success for the last decade plus with the Dodgers, Mike
Schilft is having tremendous success with this team. That's a
whole bunch of crazy hotheads running around and dancing and
doing and making trouble, all right, So it's the manager
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as long as they're doing that, they're being that person.
These teams can take on the personalities they want to
and it helps them. Right, the Mets are the way
they are because of the vibe of this team. Same
thing with the Padres, same thing with the Dodgers. Right,
the players and the manager do not have to be
in alignment. Where the Dodgers of the Tommy Lesorda era
the same as him. No, he had a couple of
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guys that would match his energy, but for the most part,
a bunch of guys that just went out and played baseball.
Any team that is managed by Lou Panella or the
Great Earl, go on down, guess, just play baseball, and
obviously we're spanning the globe and grabbing you know, years
and years of history. More recently, go to Joe Tory,
keep on going down the line. The team they take
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on their their own identity. Right for the Yankees, they
were all it was just business, or so it seemed right.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
With the Jeter Rivera and you know, the core four Yankees,
it was, hey, just go you're expected to win, Just
do it, stay out of trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And for the most part they did.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And for these Dodgers, like we've been calling for it,
for the clubhouse to find some animation behind them beyond
shoheo tanis you know, bat flips and stealing a bases
or whatever. And every once in a while Mookie Betts
steps back out a little bit hard to do when
you're not hitting the ball very well, so you can't
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really do much of that. But yeah, the managers, their
old thing is to ride and keep what that wave is,
to ride it out back back to the to the coast, right,
ride it back on to the sand and dismount properly
here getting fired up and feeding into that to recipe
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for disaster, right, because especially if that's not who you are,
right you on the sideline I'm watching, you're a lunatic. Okay,
I'm just kidding, but no, but it's that same energy,
right if suddenly you're trying to be someone you're not,
because like, all right, we really need it now. But
for the first one, hundred and fifty games of a season.
You're level headed. Here's how we approach things formulaic. Right
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in the Dodgers case, a lot of it comes down
above Dave Roberts. Here's what we're doing, and now you
have to execute. You know what came out of the
algorithm and the brain trust, and go from there. It's
not even a hey, go do this on instinct to
where maybe those emotions come over the top. For day
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of the most emotion we've seen it when he was
almost killed by that ball the other day.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, hey, where's that man? And oh, by the way,
how about after the game. Yeah, I didn't really see it. No,
I didn't see it. Reacted right now, paragraphs it was
behind it. You reacted right away, David, pretty sure. It's
not so on that ball getting tossed.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Just understand, it's the job of the manager to steer
the vibe and to steer the the energy and where
the team is headed. It's not the job of the
manager to make sure you are fired up or your
team is answering. You can't ask the Dodgers to be
the padres. It's just not who they are. The padres.
They love to instigate they love to get under your skin.
The Mets love to party. The Dodgers like to be
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professionals and just crush your soul with winning game after
game because of their talent. And that's where the managers, Okay,
whoever you are, your job is to make sure that
that vibe of the Mets keeps going, that vibe of
the Padres keeps going, that vibe of the Dodgers keeps going.
And that's really the most unfair criticism of Dave Roberts.
So there's stuff you can get to. You talk about
bullpen usage and everything else. That's absolutely fair. But when
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you say, hey, the direction of the team and how
they are, it's not on Dave Roberts to make sure
things are going different. That this is a this is
where the players are the ones out there here. Dave
Roberts is not playing. He's not playing a single inning
on the field anymore, right, He's not getting out in
between pitches and yelling at people on the field to say.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Or do this that that's not how it goes.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So when I see that, what, you know, I can
appreciate the jobs that managers doing baseball much more, you know,
seeing especially how things can spiral out of control. How
easy it is to get caught up in a in
a We don't want to just beat you on the field,
we want to fight you as well. Like you're seeing
what the Padres and the Dodgers now. So it's it's
just it's just one thing to see to understand that
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this is what the what the job of the manager
really is to do. Dave Roberts is not led Tasso. Okay,
time for them to meet lead Tasso.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What huh?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Just wait, just wait, it don't make sense. Time for
me Marlow's candoza Wait?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Who wait? Wait? Do you see where? Do you see it?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean that, but that's but that's what folks are
expecting Dave Roberts suddenly, all right, I'm gonna flip my
hat on backwards or making a rally cat throw it
to the ground, and I'm gonna go nuts.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I mean, how many football coaches we've talked to, how
many guys through the years, like what was the coach like?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Pretty pretty even keeled?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah really no, no no yelling and screamers like yeah
occasionally after a big win, but generally it was all right, guys,
here's the task ahead of us.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Let's go. That's Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I mean, look that and I thought it was thinking
about that a lot to say, watching Mendoza do that interview,
going yeah, whatever, we keep.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Getting the good at bats. I feel good. I'm like,
how would you.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Feel eventually we're gonna break through if he was attached
to a line detector test? Is he really believing this
crap that he's saying on TV? Or he who's he
trying to sell?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I love him to say.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
What we guys gotta do is get is get franky
up with with basis loaded, We'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Just gotta gotta get frank up, we'll be okay. Oh
all right, then that's what we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
We're just gonna get into the bullpen. But their bullpen
was that we just need to get into the bull
exit out about a Fresca exit swallow Dome, the Jason
Smithson with Mike carbon Hey, real quick for a second, obviously, Look,
we're having a lot of fun tonight. This is the
nights we need extra dosages of fun. I'm you know,
I'm sure everybody's got one eye on what's going on
in Florida right now, the flash flood emergency that's been
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issued for the Tampa area with Hurricane Milton uh making
land right now. And one of the big things we
just saw that you just showed me on the computer,
part of the roof has been blown off of the
trap in Tampa, like.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Two yeah giants, Giant swaths, huge.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Pieces of the roof have been ripped off of the
of the trop in in Tampa, And it's just one
of those moments you see it and you you understand
the power of nature.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You understand what's going on.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So we want to make sure to take a minute
here all our best thoughts with everybody in Florida, with
whether they are in place, whether you are being able
to evacuate. I know your parents are until they're not
in the in the evacuating. Not in the evacuate. They're
just on the other side of the causeway, which usually
gets a little bit dicey, but we'll see how much
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it comes out. They're they're in clear Water. So watching
Anderson Coop. They brought all the A list guys. He
is out there. Yeah, Cooper's out there.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, I'm worried for Anison Cooper for a couple of seconds,
there was a.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Couple of anxious moments. I mean, we're almost got blown
blown into the water.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, it was. He was on some tenuous, uh tenuous
footing there.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Uh So, once again, all our best thoughts with everybody
in Florida as you cross your fingers and hope mother
nature can you find find its way back out to
see a little bit again with Hurricane Milton making landfall
right now like category two h hurricane. And we'll keep
you updated on more of this as we see tonight.
But the video and pictures of the trop in Tampa
are just they're.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Just stunning, insane. Yeah, but our business is sports and
we're going to continue to break it down for you.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What we're going to get into that big topic in
the NFL from today, but wanted to make sure we
brought this to you, uh what's going on in Tampa.
Uh So we got that coming up next right here,
Jason and I. You're listening to sports radio.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
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Speaker 1 (16:13):
This is Yankees Music. We don't need Yankees music on
the show.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
They won. Do not need Yankees music? They won? Who
do they beat?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
They're the real team in New York, by the way,
they're the second best team in New York.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Royals. Oh hell, and where do the Royals play?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Kansas City? Who just told you that, Moncey, No, thank you,
mon Can City. I would I would have believed you
would have known if you didn't say Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I she wasn't cackling like a mad woman in the
news Updates studio. Either Kansas City is in it is
that it is that city, Monsey.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You can't let them cheat.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You can't don't look behind the curtain. You gotta let
Tyshert do his thing. You gotta let type meet them
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
That makes Monzi the wizard. I can see. Monzi is
a pretty good wizard. Yeah, yeah, you know he's mine.
Because how tall are you? Monci? Five feet right? Like
if you were like.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Like if you were like in this huge outfit, like
this huge robotic GPS, like, oh my god, and then
like they knock it off you like and you see
it's like, oh, she's just five feet tall.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
She's yeah, she's okay.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
That's perfect for one of those costumes.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Where are you? I'm down here. I doubt it you
and your Dodgers hat. Yeah, we all ready to go.
I just can't be goofy.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I just can't be goofy.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You mean as a character or in general as a character.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
He's tall, oh, taller than that Mets player that last season.
Oh stop, no, no jet, I'm done, no jet. Williams
slander on the stop. Stop with that. Monte will join
us in a few minutes. Tell us what's trending in
the wide world of sports right now? The Dodgers threatening
to add on to their five nothing lead. They have
first and third. Uh, looked like what could be a
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double playground? Or instead goes into center field takes a
bad hot there. Yeah, a couple of a couple of
runners on for the Dodgers, one out as they bat
in the top of the seventh inning.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
They win.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
We have Game five in Los Angeles. If the Padres
come back and win, Game one of the NLCS is Sunday, Padres.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Will host the New York Mets in the NLCS.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Did you see Mets tickets went on sale right now?
You want if you wanted to get I can't even
get to New York. Jason, where are Petco? Are you sitting?
I can't Did you really just say that, mister Dodger fan?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Where am I sitting at Petco? I mean I already
know where I'm sitting Friday night?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Did you really just say that? Where am I sitting
at Petco? I'll be a temple. You're up five, you're
up five? Nothing, you haven't get Wow? Where are you
sitting at Petco? If the Dodgers only knew what you said,
if they only he may have been referring to a
concert that's coming up. I mean, they do a lot
of goods.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
This is the bullpen game. It's invincible.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Moncey's got to turn you into the I'm sorry, because
she's got to turn you in now. Pantone has got
They're gonna yeah, I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Gonna be it. Man, That's yeah, that's it. Now come
and get you. They're gonna come and get your o
Twani pillows. Oh yeah, any any that was me igniting
a padre flame, any letting them think they got the
w Barrilli.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So the Dodgers execute a suicide squeeze to get a
run in. Max Munsey from third go to make it
six nothing. Edmund lays down a perfect bunt. I love him,
now kick it. He's my favorite. Catches the padres by surprise,
and they get him out at first, but he's staying
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on first. I think they're gonna look at this. This
is a really close play. No matter what. It's six nothing,
it's just whether it's hey, there's two on and one
out or one on and two outs. I bet you
get really cheap tickets for Sunday in Petco right now.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I just like that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I'm not bleepingly you can't. You can't walk that back
Crossburg yet. Where are you sitting in? I can't believe that,
absolutely can't. When the Dodgers prevail, Wow, I can't believe that.
Uh so again, you know again, I hate the bunt,
but I always i'm impressed by you can actually get
it down. I hate the bunt. The bunt is stupid.
Why no, because it's just like Billy Bean and money Ball.
If they're giving us an out, take it, pick up
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the ball and throw it to first. Let him get
I mean, now, obviously a situation like this suicide. Just
the regular butt. We're we're gonna send some more a second.
If they want to give us it up, pick up
the ball. Don't be a hero, just pick up the
ball and throw it first.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Do that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Let's see. I see now I'm looking at get in price. Uh,
sixty two is the get in price for Okay?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Therehet go, Baron, Baron. That's not bad. That's that's kind
of that's lesson I thought it would be.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Actually, I'm sure Dodge is more close up to be
up up close to four hundred for that. But we'll
say again, there's still a long way to go. The
Dodgers have a six run lead here in the top
of the seventh, and we'll have more on this coming
up in a few minutes. But it looks like we
are headed to Game five the Dodgers. Now. I think
Jerry Royce and Eric Kanye warming up in the bullpen
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for it to maybe they get the seventh eighth innings
coming up. Yeah, great stash and a lot of juice.
I think Brad Penny also warming up. He might get
the ninth. You want to get a Kevin Brown reference
in while you're at it, thank him.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He's on his private jets and sailing in right now.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
But everybody waited today to see what Aaron Rodgers was
gonna say about the firing of Robert Sala all the
talk yesterday. You know, Rogers got him fired. He's a
coach killer. He got Robert Salah let go. You know
he had a role.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Woody Johnson, owner of the Jets, called in to say
what do you want and he said, I want him going.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You know what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, Aaron Rodgers went on Pat McAfee today, pushing his
McAfee appearance a day because you know, hey, I can't
come on here today. You just fired the coach. But
I'll be on tomorrow. Just about that. Tomorrow's good. Today's
not good, but tomorrow's good.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
See.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I really think it would have been a boss moved
to just show up yesterday like it's been a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah, process.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I met with Jeff Allbrick. Where ready to go on Monday. Boy,
you should see the new plays we're putting in. They're fantastic.
We're gonna actually throw the football before we run it.
I know it's amazing. But here he was today. First
thing he said on Pat McAfee was asked about, Hey,
what kind of role would you have? One went on
with Robert Sala. Aaron Rodgers wanted to make sure everybody
knows that he had no role in the firing of Sala.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
As far as any of the ridiculous allegations out there,
I'm not going to spend more than one sentence in
response to it, and that is that I resent any
of those accusations because they're patently false. And it's interesting
the amount of power that people think that I have,
which I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
That's three sentences. I counted three sentences. One might have
been a run on sentence, but I counted three sentences there.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, I mean decide where punctuation begins and ends.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I mean, I really stop, you had there's three sentences
in there at least. Yeah. In the end, it's you know,
the flat denial. I mean it almost sounded like he
was trying to make a point in a political debate.
All right, categoric deny it. I did not, no, partner,
But you didn't answer the question. You spent a minute
not answering the question. Yes, yes, it is my time up?
By my time is up?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Next question? Oh no, the senator yield no. I was
ready to answer no. But the best was their reaction.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah right, thanks Aaron,
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How about it? Did stretches, stretches, logic incredulely see.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
But but here's the thing is that what Aaron rodg
again to go moneyball, what he says does not matter. Okay, Oh,
Aaron Rodgers is a coach kills You know, Aaron Rodgers,
You think this is new if he did? How many
other coaches has he killed over the course of his career.
He is the Freddy Krueger of quarterbacks. And I was
gonna say he was murder she wrote she was Angela. Well,
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she didn't kill anybody. She she found the people that
killed everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That would have been a great last episode.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I've killed everyone for Halloween. There's three hundred and seventy
five people in prison for crimes they did not commit.
This is me and now there's nobody left in Cabit Cove.
That's actually that's when the last episode. Everybody's gone just
hurt an alligator. Everybody's gone not to do. But what
he says does not matter because he has had a
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Hall of Fame career. With all of this, it's the
first time he's not said anything about Mike McCarthy or Lafleur.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He wanted out.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
He's he, This is who he's been his whole career,
and he's going to the Hall of Fames.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
One of the best quarterbacks in the history of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Again, nobody knows more about the I don't think anybody
knows more about the quarterback position than he.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Does, because in today's game, pretty oh sure he does.
Sure he does.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
He would be He'll be an unbelievable head coach when
he decides to come and we're gonna do this, this, this, this, this, this.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I wouldn't want to play in flag football that Well.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
It depends on fe I can throw it. I meant
to coach, it doesn't. It doesn't matter because even if
he did, it's okay because he's succeeds in all of
these He's got a super Bowl, he's been to a couple,
he goes to the playoffs every year, he's one MVPs.
He's not suddenly changing who he is. And yeah, it's
worked out well for those teams. It has, So why
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do I care what he has to say? Who do
I have more trust in to spark the Jets? Aaron
Rodgers or Robert Sala Aaron Rodgers. Because I've watched Robert
Sala for the last three years. Do you know what
I've seen. I've seen penalties, they still commit that they shouldn't.
I still see a lot of undisciplined play. I see
players now that were calling him out going. We need
to have more accountability, and there was none of that.
(25:35):
So you can't sit her and tell me all. They
fired Robert Sala. It was the bad move. It was
a bad move to fire it. No, they did because
they had to, because it wasn't going to get better.
They needed a change. And I know Sala had five
games with Aaron Rodgers, but he also had more time
before that to prove that he was a good head coach.
And that was my big point yesterday was you can
blame Rodgers all you want, but Sala has been a
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bad head coach.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It doesn't matter when he's had him when he's not.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
In seventy five was his record before he got fired.
He gets worse and worse, it goes up. He got
thirty six right, twenty and thirty six. He's not a
good head coach and more often than so, to making
this move, they had to whether Rogers said it or not,
it doesn't matter because the Jets needed a change. But
I will tell you this. You know the moment I
guarantee you that has not been talked about that really
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convinced Woody Johnson. He was going to fire Robert Salam. Right,
this is the moment, right, this is the big deal. Yes,
say what was the moment? And you know that he
wasn't happy. He was fuming after the loss of the Broncos,
which why wouldn't you be? It was awful, But I
guarantee you this was the moment. Monday's press conference, he
was asked about the direction of the team and Sala
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obviously had no inkling he was going to get fired,
and he said, hey, guys, look there's no panic here.
No one's panicking here. We all trust what's going on.
There's no panic. And I guarantee you when he said that,
that's what was the final switch in Woody Johnson's mind
to say we need somebody else, because we need some
with a sense of urgency, with a sense of hey,
maybe it's not panic, but not to sit back and
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go everything's gonna be all right, because what have we seen?
Everything has not been all right? You want to have
a sense of urgency. I think he wanted to see
saw a little pissed off, a little upset about stuff,
and it said, hey, guys, everything's fine, no one's panicking.
And when you see that and you don't see the
fight that you want. Hey, So you're okay losing these
last couple of games. You're okay being two and three.
You're okay losing two games and we probably shouldn't have lost.
(27:26):
You're okay continuing to have a bad offense. You're okay
with the undisciplined penalties. You're okay with the lack of accountability.
When he said that, I guarantee you When he said, guys,
there's no panic here, that was the moment where Woody
Johnson said, Okay, I gotta let him go. Well, because
we need a little bit sense of weed, a sense
of urgency. But that's the big thing, right, because we
were just talking about it. When you talk about the
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temperament of Shilt and Dave Roberts and what they bring
to the disable, Robert Sala is that guy most of
the time, right. He's not a cool customer. Measured in
his words, most of it is reactionary, Like if you
ask the question the right way, you normally get a
visceral response, right, and in that press conference you didn't
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get it. It was all about calm and preaching the
long game, and the defensive metrics are great, special teams
metrics are great. Nobody's arguing about those. You're the head coach,
You're in charge of all of it. And yes, Aaron
Rodgers has not been good. Nobody's arguing that he is,
but he's far from the biggest problem that you have.
(28:29):
Should they be better offensively, sure, Should they have invested
more or better in their offensive line, Yeah, I think so,
But I think some of this is again, you got
a guy coming off a big injury and you're still
working out timming. Again, it should be better than it is,
there's no question. But all of the other penalties you play,
how you practice, and obviously all of those basic football
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registers are not happening for this squad, and they haven't
gotten any better. Time and time again, we're seeing the
same thing. So yeah, very much so. With Robert Sola,
we've had him react and be angry. Just go back
to the cadence problems, go back to you know, other
times where he's piped up about things he was unhappy about.
(29:15):
You just lost two games. You should have won back
to back weeks. You gave away games and that Denver game, Look,
it's gonna rate as one of the bottom three games
of the NFL season. You're gonna add that in that
Miami New England game, I think, or two of them.
But it was a winnable game. Now, dude's got to
kick the fifty yard I mean, he was greg the
(29:36):
leg for years and now he missed a fifty yarder. Yeah,
it's in the rain. Whatever, make the field goal. But
you lose to a Broncos team now suddenly showing signs
of life. And we've talked about their defense for a while,
and if the offense figures something out, maybe they're interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But all said, you should.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Be going into this game against Buffalo securely in first
place if you were able to rally your squad, and
clearly that's not happening. There's still dissent, and Rogers can
sell that line all he wants that I didn't do it.
Who cares, who's believing it? Perception is reality, right, You
can protest in front of a microphone and your friends
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all you want nobody's buying it. But I'll tell you
that was the that was the moment. That was the
moment where Whatdy Johnson said, Yeah, I've had it. Let
let we we got it. We gotta go, we gotta
to go on. And like I said, whatever Aaron Rodgers
did doesn't do it doesn't matter because he's the guy
that's got to fix it, right, that's all. So what
he says his defense does not matter. What Aaron Rodgers
says does not matter.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
No, now you're in charge, you are the captain.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now what someone says that always matters. Always is Monte
Bolanos with what's trending in the wide world of sports.
A big home run to talk about that she just
watched very excitedly, and it was a replay of the
Francisco Lindork gramcon.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I mean, that was a big hit by Francisco lind Or.
We'll get to that Bgavin Lux Digg's home run for
the Dodgers. So they're extending their lead. They're hitting tonight,
which is something that we hadn't seen the last couple
of nights all over the Padres. Eight to zero is
a score bottom of the seventh inning San Diego leads
the series two to one. If the Dodgers hold on,
there will be a Game five on Friday in La,
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meaning I will work on Friday if that happens at
the Dodgers. The Tigers are now leading the series two
to one after blanking the Guardians for a second game
in a row. Three zero was a final score today
and yes, the Mets they punch their ticket to the NLCS.
Jason Smith is very excited. So is Rich Davis. Very excited.
Francisco Lindor with the Grand Slam. Four to one was
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a final score against the Phillies. The Yankees they held
on to their lead over the Royals. Gian Carlos stan
was the one who put them on the scoreboard first
with an RBI double, then he gave them the go
ahead solo shot in the eighth inning.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yankees hold on.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
They edged the Royals three to two, so New York
leads that series two to one.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
A little NFL news.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
With Derek Carr's recent oblique injury, the Saints will be
starting rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler on Sunday against the Buccaneers.
The Raiders announced that they're going to be starting eight
and O'Connell on Sunday against the Steelers. Wide receiver Davonte
Adams not expected to play. Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson. He
was a full participant in practice today, the first time
since the start of the regular season. ESPN reports that
Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Junior is expected to miss
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several weeks with a back injury.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That could land him on IR.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Anthony Richardson was limited in practice today and running back
Jonathan Taylor did not practice because of his high ankle sprain.
But Eagles wide receivers Aj Brown and Devonte Smith were
full participants in practice today, and forty nine Ers tight
end George Kittle, he is off the injury report, will
play Thursday night against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Back to you guys, thank.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You very much, Lassy. I wanted to make sure you
got you could watch the rest of the game. Thank you,
you're looking out.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love from the
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but most Senseless debate that's making its way around now
After certain results we've seen today in the Major League
Baseball playoffs. Well wait, Jason, if it's senseless, why are
we talking about it? Because we've gotta tell you why
this is stupid? All right, then why this argument is
(33:11):
just stupid? That's next, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
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Speaker 1 (33:23):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon top of the Eighth Inning Show. Heyo, Honey,
up again, looks like we're heading to Game five?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You think just getna just kind of hang out. Will
we have a day off on Sunday? Or I mean
you'll they'll pay you to go Right now.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Dude, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna relax next couple
of days. The Mets just gonna relax. Well, I watch
guys sweating it out to get to the league championship.
Think Mets will take a boat ride or anything. I'll
go to catal Off. I go to Catalena and hang out.
Let's see Catalina wine mixer two hundred. Is your get
in at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Very nice, very nice? Any decent seats?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Actually so it's going to be likely a winner take
all game for Game five as the Dodgers lead the
Padres eight to nothing as they bat in the top
of the thing. Remember the Dodgers putting all these runs
at the war without Freddie Freeman, who missed the game.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Now, we thought it was going to be the Chris
Taylor game, though, why not?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Right, there's a reason we hung on to Chris Taylor
over all these other places, all these other players we
let go that nobody wanted.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
To let go.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
But the biggest and most ridiculous discussion that I've heard
over the course of the last round after the Phillies
get eliminated by the Mets. And I've heard it for
a bunch of people talk, but I actually heard Buster
only talking about in the ESPN radio a little bit.
He was asked the question about it, and he said,
you know that that's going to be a thing? Is
is you see the way that the playoffs have come out.
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Now the Mets eliminate the Phillies, a sixteed eliminates the
one of the top two seeds. The Padres are up
two games to one over the Dodgers, Yankees and Royals
are tied at one apiece. The Tigers are up to
one over the Guardians. They squeaked into the playoffs, and
the debate is gonna be do you really want to buy?
Is the buy a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Right the whole?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Do you want the rest? Or do you want to
play and stay sharp? And I don't know how this
became a debate. Nobody is losing a series because they
had three days off. No one's losing a series because
of that. It's not like the guys all took off
and they're not coming back in time. Hey, you know
we got a game on. There's that, Yeah, you know,
but why got these three days off? So I'm gonna
go to Antarctica and I'm gonna hang out for a bit,
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and you know, you know, if I can't get back out,
you know, plane service is difficult, especially if a dog
shows up that has like an alien inside it and
it winds up infecting everybody and you know it's me
and Kurt Russell and Keith David at the end, and
you know I might not be able to get back.
Is that where the shadow? I mean, that's just that's
just the worst. That's just a stupid argument. Would you rather,
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would you rather be able to be guaranteed that you're
gonna play in the League Division Series, or would you
rather have to win three games? You're telling me it
was an advantage for the Mets that they had to
win a double header on the final day, on the
extra day of the season on a Monday, and then
had to play the next three days against the Brewers,
then have a day then they had to start the
season against the Phillies. You're telling me that's an advantage
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over the Philly saying, Hey, we got three days to
rest and get our rotation how we want to, and
we can set it up and have Zach Wheeler in
Game one and be able to go back to Zach
Wheeler in Game five, and have it set up where
we have our pitcher that we want to pitch because
he's a better pitcher at home. In game two, we'll
put Nola on the road. In game three, we have
an all star. In game four, we're back to Wheeler
for Game five. Don't tell me that it's more. It's
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it's more of an advantage to play. Yeah, do you
play more games? Are you more on the swing?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Sure, But it's not like you it's not like you're
watching a team that hasn't played in a month. You
just played one hundred and sixty two games. You have
a couple of days off, Okay, you practice, you see
like you see live pitching. You're not losing your edge
in three days. You are guaranteed to be playing in
the league Division series. Because what the reason this argument
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doesn't make any sense is that you are already assuming
though it's better to play than it is to get
a buye. Would the Brewers say that no? Of course,
not right. Would the astro say that?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would the oriole say that no? But it's only the
team that wins. You say, oh, would you rather have
the buy or not?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No, because you're you're already counting the team that won
the series. So it's almost like that doesn't leak into it.
You want to ask that question, it's hey, would you
rather have the buy or would you rather play in
the series? If you asked that question, would you rather
be the Phillies or the Mets of the Brewers. Of
course you want to be the Phillies. Of course the
Phillies want to be the Phillies. They don't want to
play in that first team nobody wants playing that first
tea if they don't have to. But it's only it's
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only after a team gets upset and the top to
oh who would you rather be? No, no, you can't
ask that question after a team has already won and
moved on. Nobody wants to be the team that has
to win to get to that level and specious reasoning, Yeah,
let's play several extra games. That's the first time that
word has ever been used on sports talk radio. Well,
I don't think species is where that's never unless people
are saying, hey, give a shit a Dasha Henstridge.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That specious movies that was pretty good? Was he She's
the alien? She's hot? He saw that movie? Is speechless? Yeah, yeah,
I think that came up a lot when mister skin
was a thing. Look anyway, not the word speciess. The
movies species were for Stars Withthflesh dot Com.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
It's it's a website that shows you where people Oh
so like mister skind.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
What that was the name, right, Stars of the Flesh.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yeah that was No, that's nically done, but just the
idea that yes, let's add more variables. We always talk
about this, all right, why do we want to add
more opportunities for innings pitched guys to get hurt, because
I mean, we see what happens time and again with arms.
We've been talking about with the Dodgers all season long.
Next man up the fact that they're winning and crushing
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in this bullpen game. But did you come in feeling
confident about it?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Maybe maybe on.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
The offensive side you had to be better, But you're
wringing your hands as the guy takes the hill for
the bottom of the first. All that to say, you
add extra games, you add extra instances for potential injury
and let's face it, body fatigue. You went through the
one sixty two like you said. Instead, hey we get
a week off, Guys that are nursing minor injuries, get
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a chance to rest, guys that are that just had
to pitch, maybe a couple extra innings or extra games
in the in the vein of the relief pitchers. And
how heavily bullpens are getting used. Yeah, they can't use
the week off. It's all momentum. Much as we know
his FRAUDU. It's just the stupidest argument. Would would you
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rather be say, Hey, I have one hundred thousand dollars
for you guaranteed, or you have to fight another guy
and if you win, you get one hundred thousand dollars. No,
you want to just be guaranteed one hundred thousand dollars. Now,
it was just saying blind resume boxer facing me, what's
going over there?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Fighting guy just like you. I wouldn't trust that.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I okay, you want to be able to be guaranteed
that one hundred thousand dollars. Rat That's just he stabbed me,
he said with the back of a fishing pole.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Five second Dance Party.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'll walk the first two guys and then I'll get
the next three out.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'll make Jason Smith nervous.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'll make them think they have to go to the
bullpen to bring in Stanic. Do you put a heart
monitor on when he comes in, just to see what
the rhythm does. As soon as they say, they have
to zap you again, Like, just keep Keith Peterson in
the game. He's putting, don't don't go to DS dot.
He's He's the lamar Odom of closers. He's every other game.
Don't do it, don't do Here comes DS and it
(00:59):
can never be easy. I could have done for a
nice one, two three top of that. No, no, no, hey,
we're gonna put to bring the tying run to the plate.
Oh great, thanks d I appreciate. Hey, hey we know drama.
We need drama. We can't have easy one, two, three innings.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm just I'm just saying I just saw so many things.
It's like when Doctor Stranger was looking at all the
different ways they could beat Thantos came with one in
fourteen million. Like in my head, I'm going, how many
ways can I see this going badly? Okay, here's a
three run homer by Clement's kid, or we just gonna
wind up getting a couple outs, but then Harper's going
to hit a grand slam all the and I'm just
sitting there going do my head going all these all
(01:37):
these bad things I can see coming off.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Joey, just sit there and look at you going look
at him twitch.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now this is no bet Benny was the one. My
dog Benny had to wear it again. No, Benny just
gets a little like when when I start yelling when
something happens with the Mets, he starts barking like someone's invading.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No, I have that same same circle when door hit
that home and I boke, come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Betty gets up and runs outside, the squirrels around like, oh,
because you know the squirrels are like inspectorcluse O and data. Yeah,
and he's running like what's happening? Dad is yelling what's
going I gotta save everybody now. Betty Lindorge's hit home run. Man,
it's unbelievably good. Uh. But I will say this before
we get to a big football story. You know, I
(02:22):
said last night, Look, I could never be a good
GM in baseball because I'd want to trade everybody after
a bad three days, right, I could never do that.
Oh no, so you're in one inning, couple of bats, Yeah,
you're done. And I knew, and I said, you know,
I'd be a much better manager because I know how
I managed, you know in softball that I managed the
last few years. I know, I know you saw, Oh,
I'd be pretty good manager. And then I watched today
(02:42):
in the third inning, they did an interview with Carlos
Mendoza after the Mets left the bases loaded in the
first and the bases loaded in the second, and at
that point I think they had sent eight batters to
the plate with a runner and scoring position, and the
Mets didn't score run right like Jason Stark tweeted out,
(03:02):
I don't know how that's possible. I'm like, oh my god,
we had eight at batches, runners and scoring fish and
didn't score a run.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's like that.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That doesn't seem like that is mathematically possible. And I
was so mad. I was so mad after that.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Stop going.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're gonna lose this game like one, nothing like Harper's
gonna hit home run in the seventh. We're gonna leave
twenty five runners on base. This is how it's gonna
go for the Mets. And I don't have to grip my
ass off waiting for Game five in Philadelphia with Wheeler
all of a sudden, and I'm so mad, and I'm like,
I'm like, how do how does nobody hit?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How do we have that many bad at bats? How
do we have the bases loaded?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And Iglacias is waving at three pitches out of the
strike zone?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What the hell are we doing?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And I'm saying this, and they interview Carlos Mendoza and Carlos,
you know, I guys had a bunch of runners, left
the bases loaded a couple of times. How do you
feel he goes? Well, if we keep getting good at
bats like that, We'll be fine. And I'm like, no,
if you interviewed me, I would.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Go, how dare you ask me that question?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Why are you and my dugout questions that over there?
Our performance, about my team's performance, the kind of questions.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Get the hell out of here. I don't care what
you work for. Get the hell out of here, Fox
Sports one, and I don't care. Get that Casmara, That's
what I would be.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But he just goes yeah, and he's got his arms
fold to go yeah, yeah, look, if we keep getting
that bats like that, we're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm like, dog, what would be funny?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He did get excitable and then he gripped his ass
and went full Jim Carrey. He's ventura in terms of
responding to the question. He just kind of happens and
he just says, yeah, you know, if we get better
at bats, as we keep getting these at bats, we're
gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I long have his facial expressions right, they would get
the shot of the dugout where he just gotta be
nodding his head and doing the dizzy Gillespie, there's a
reference for you blow up my cheek kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But yeah, the calm to mean some kind of manager. Man.
I'm not wanted to.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fire two weeks ago, but now now he's everything. He no, no,
he only made okay, I want you called for his
head that night, just one night. One very was just
a bad few minutes I had, right, just a bad
a few minutes every brought Das and when I knew
bringing in Diaz was a bad idea, it was just
a bad couple of seconds. That's all everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Look, I still love you.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
To be able to exude that kind of call. And look,
and this gets into a bigger conversation about Dave Roberts
and all this stuff, is that to be able to
exude that kind of calm when the Mets are are
are testing your blood pressure every five seconds is really something.
And that's the biggest thing you can do as a
manager or a head coach, is Hey, no matter what,
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hey excited when we win. You know, hey, you're bummed
when we lose. But be this, be that, you be
that person. Don't change so much. And that's what that's
what helped did Robert solidin is that when they won,
everything was great, and when he lost it was awful.
He looked sullen and Sulky on the sideline like for it.
But it's not the manager to make that happen, right,
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So to wide this out from the Mets. Yes, here's
the Mets, and they have all kinds of fun. Look,
nobody likes to have. I get why some teams hate
the Mets because nobody likes to have more fun.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Than the Mets.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Every home run they take a picture with the O MG.
They love to celebrate, right, the same thing, same thing.
But I understand, but I understand. But but to me,
because this this is my thing for Dave Roberts, is
that is to to think that, Okay, I get why
people don't like that. I get why the Brewers are
doing the Mets hitting h celebration when they when they
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scored those couple of runs in in Game two. I
get why they do that. But that's not Carlos Mendoza, right,
That's not it's not the manager, right, Because this is
what gets to Dave Roberts is that he's the guy
trying to keep everybody on an even keel, and that's
what you need to do. And he has done just
an amazing job since he came in earlier this year.
Now you go to the Dodgers and suddenly and suddenly
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what what what's the big criticism of Dave Roberts. Dave
Roberts has to find a way to get this to
Dave Roberts has to find a way. Wait, wait he does.
I don't think Dave Roberts does. Dave Roberts has to
make the right moves in the bullpen. He's got, you know,
there's certain things he has to do. This is not
on Dave Roberts to make sure the Dodgers have more
fight or have more whatever sort of intangible they need.
(07:07):
Just like it's not a you think Mike Shilt is
doing this with the padres that Fernando to tease Junior
and Manny Machatta are coming in between anything's going. Hey, guys,
like listen, let's talk about the book where we're both
reading the Grapes of Rats, and Mike Shilt's going.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No, you guys, get out there and.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
To tease you wiggle those hips to those fans, and
Machada you throw that ball at Dave Roberts like you're
asking too much of the of the manager and asking
them to do stuff that they don't do. So there's
a lot of criticisms and a lot there's criticisms and
both praise for managers in the playoffs that they don't
get or don't deserve and that, and that's the main
one is that yes, the Mets, this this is their
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vibe they have with this team and Mendoza keep mon
and even Keel. Same thing with Dave Roberts, same thing
with Mike Shilt. The players are the players. They do
their thing, but you can't ask the manager to do
something that he shouldn't. And when he starts doing stuff
like that and he starts getting all the moosha, you're
not gonna be around very long. You can't do it.
What did I say about Rex Ryan right when he
was co the Jets? He was fun, but every week
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was a super Bowl and the minute you lose, you
go into three game losing streak and it's the worst.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You can't. You can't coach like that. In sports.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You have to be the same guy, and being the
same guy you succeed a lot. Right, Mendoza has had
a lot of success this year. Roberts has had tremendous
success for the last decade plus with the Dodgers, Mike
Schilft is having tremendous success with this team. That's a
whole bunch of crazy hotheads running around and dancing and
doing and making trouble, all right, So it's the manager
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as long as they're doing that, they're being that person.
These teams can take on the personalities they want to
and it helps them. Right, the Mets are the way
they are because of the vibe of this team. Same
thing with the Padres, same thing with the Dodgers. Right,
the players and the manager do not have to be
in alignment. Where the Dodgers of the Tommy Lesorda era
the same as him. No, he had a couple of
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guys that would match his energy, but for the most part,
a bunch of guys that just went out and played baseball.
Any team that is managed by Lou Panella or the
Great Earl, go on down, guess, just play baseball, and
obviously we're spanning the globe and grabbing you know, years
and years of history. More recently, go to Joe Tory,
keep on going down the line. The team they take
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on their their own identity. Right for the Yankees, they
were all it was just business, or so it seemed right.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
With the Jeter Rivera and you know, the core four Yankees,
it was, hey, just go you're expected to win, Just
do it, stay out of trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And for the most part they did.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And for these Dodgers, like we've been calling for it,
for the clubhouse to find some animation behind them beyond
shoheo tanis you know, bat flips and stealing a bases
or whatever. And every once in a while Mookie Betts
steps back out a little bit hard to do when
you're not hitting the ball very well, so you can't
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really do much of that. But yeah, the managers, their
old thing is to ride and keep what that wave is,
to ride it out back back to the to the coast, right,
ride it back on to the sand and dismount properly
here getting fired up and feeding into that to recipe
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for disaster, right, because especially if that's not who you are,
right you on the sideline I'm watching, you're a lunatic. Okay,
I'm just kidding, but no, but it's that same energy,
right if suddenly you're trying to be someone you're not,
because like, all right, we really need it now. But
for the first one, hundred and fifty games of a season.
You're level headed. Here's how we approach things formulaic. Right
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in the Dodgers case, a lot of it comes down
above Dave Roberts. Here's what we're doing, and now you
have to execute. You know what came out of the
algorithm and the brain trust, and go from there. It's
not even a hey, go do this on instinct to
where maybe those emotions come over the top. For day
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of the most emotion we've seen it when he was
almost killed by that ball the other day.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, hey, where's that man? And oh, by the way,
how about after the game. Yeah, I didn't really see it. No,
I didn't see it. Reacted right now, paragraphs it was
behind it. You reacted right away, David, pretty sure. It's
not so on that ball getting tossed.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Just understand, it's the job of the manager to steer
the vibe and to steer the the energy and where
the team is headed. It's not the job of the
manager to make sure you are fired up or your
team is answering. You can't ask the Dodgers to be
the padres. It's just not who they are. The padres.
They love to instigate they love to get under your skin.
The Mets love to party. The Dodgers like to be
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professionals and just crush your soul with winning game after
game because of their talent. And that's where the managers, Okay,
whoever you are, your job is to make sure that
that vibe of the Mets keeps going, that vibe of
the Padres keeps going, that vibe of the Dodgers keeps going.
And that's really the most unfair criticism of Dave Roberts.
So there's stuff you can get to. You talk about
bullpen usage and everything else. That's absolutely fair. But when
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you say, hey, the direction of the team and how
they are, it's not on Dave Roberts to make sure
things are going different. That this is a this is
where the players are the ones out there here. Dave
Roberts is not playing. He's not playing a single inning
on the field anymore, right, He's not getting out in
between pitches and yelling at people on the field to say.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Or do this that that's not how it goes.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So when I see that, what, you know, I can
appreciate the jobs that managers doing baseball much more, you know,
seeing especially how things can spiral out of control. How
easy it is to get caught up in a in
a We don't want to just beat you on the field,
we want to fight you as well. Like you're seeing
what the Padres and the Dodgers now. So it's it's
just it's just one thing to see to understand that
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this is what the what the job of the manager
really is to do. Dave Roberts is not led Tasso. Okay,
time for them to meet lead Tasso.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What huh?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Just wait, just wait, it don't make sense. Time for
me Marlow's candoza Wait?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Who wait? Wait? Do you see where? Do you see it?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean that, but that's but that's what folks are
expecting Dave Roberts suddenly, all right, I'm gonna flip my
hat on backwards or making a rally cat throw it
to the ground, and I'm gonna go nuts.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I mean, how many football coaches we've talked to, how
many guys through the years, like what was the coach like?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Pretty pretty even keeled?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah really no, no no yelling and screamers like yeah
occasionally after a big win, but generally it was all right, guys,
here's the task ahead of us.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Let's go. That's Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I mean, look that and I thought it was thinking
about that a lot to say, watching Mendoza do that interview,
going yeah, whatever, we keep.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Getting the good at bats. I feel good. I'm like,
how would you.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Feel eventually we're gonna break through if he was attached
to a line detector test? Is he really believing this
crap that he's saying on TV? Or he who's he
trying to sell?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I love him to say.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
What we guys gotta do is get is get franky
up with with basis loaded, We'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Just gotta gotta get frank up, we'll be okay. Oh
all right, then that's what we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
We're just gonna get into the bullpen. But their bullpen
was that we just need to get into the bull
exit out about a Fresca exit swallow Dome, the Jason
Smithson with Mike carbon Hey, real quick for a second, obviously, Look,
we're having a lot of fun tonight. This is the
nights we need extra dosages of fun. I'm you know,
I'm sure everybody's got one eye on what's going on
in Florida right now, the flash flood emergency that's been
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issued for the Tampa area with Hurricane Milton uh making
land right now. And one of the big things we
just saw that you just showed me on the computer,
part of the roof has been blown off of the
trap in Tampa, like.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Two yeah giants, Giant swaths, huge.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Pieces of the roof have been ripped off of the
of the trop in in Tampa, And it's just one
of those moments you see it and you you understand
the power of nature.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You understand what's going on.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So we want to make sure to take a minute
here all our best thoughts with everybody in Florida, with
whether they are in place, whether you are being able
to evacuate. I know your parents are until they're not
in the in the evacuating. Not in the evacuate. They're
just on the other side of the causeway, which usually
gets a little bit dicey, but we'll see how much
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it comes out. They're they're in clear Water. So watching
Anderson Coop. They brought all the A list guys. He
is out there. Yeah, Cooper's out there.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, I'm worried for Anison Cooper for a couple of seconds,
there was a.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Couple of anxious moments. I mean, we're almost got blown
blown into the water.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, it was. He was on some tenuous, uh tenuous
footing there.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Uh So, once again, all our best thoughts with everybody
in Florida as you cross your fingers and hope mother
nature can you find find its way back out to
see a little bit again with Hurricane Milton making landfall
right now like category two h hurricane. And we'll keep
you updated on more of this as we see tonight.
But the video and pictures of the trop in Tampa
are just they're.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Just stunning, insane. Yeah, but our business is sports and
we're going to continue to break it down for you.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What we're going to get into that big topic in
the NFL from today, but wanted to make sure we
brought this to you, uh what's going on in Tampa.
Uh So we got that coming up next right here,
Jason and I. You're listening to sports radio.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (16:13):
This is Yankees Music. We don't need Yankees music on
the show.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
They won. Do not need Yankees music? They won? Who
do they beat?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
They're the real team in New York, by the way,
they're the second best team in New York.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Royals. Oh hell, and where do the Royals play?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Kansas City? Who just told you that, Moncey, No, thank you,
mon Can City. I would I would have believed you
would have known if you didn't say Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I she wasn't cackling like a mad woman in the
news Updates studio. Either Kansas City is in it is
that it is that city, Monsey.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You can't let them cheat.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You can't don't look behind the curtain. You gotta let
Tyshert do his thing. You gotta let type meet them
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
That makes Monzi the wizard. I can see. Monzi is
a pretty good wizard. Yeah, yeah, you know he's mine.
Because how tall are you? Monci? Five feet right? Like
if you were like.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Like if you were like in this huge outfit, like
this huge robotic GPS, like, oh my god, and then
like they knock it off you like and you see
it's like, oh, she's just five feet tall.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
She's yeah, she's okay.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
That's perfect for one of those costumes.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Where are you? I'm down here. I doubt it you
and your Dodgers hat. Yeah, we all ready to go.
I just can't be goofy.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I just can't be goofy.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You mean as a character or in general as a character.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
He's tall, oh, taller than that Mets player that last season.
Oh stop, no, no jet, I'm done, no jet. Williams
slander on the stop. Stop with that. Monte will join
us in a few minutes. Tell us what's trending in
the wide world of sports right now? The Dodgers threatening
to add on to their five nothing lead. They have
first and third. Uh, looked like what could be a
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double playground? Or instead goes into center field takes a
bad hot there. Yeah, a couple of a couple of
runners on for the Dodgers, one out as they bat
in the top of the seventh inning.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
They win.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
We have Game five in Los Angeles. If the Padres
come back and win, Game one of the NLCS is Sunday, Padres.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Will host the New York Mets in the NLCS.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Did you see Mets tickets went on sale right now?
You want if you wanted to get I can't even
get to New York. Jason, where are Petco? Are you sitting?
I can't Did you really just say that, mister Dodger fan?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Where am I sitting at Petco? I mean I already
know where I'm sitting Friday night?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Did you really just say that? Where am I sitting
at Petco? I'll be a temple. You're up five, you're
up five? Nothing, you haven't get Wow? Where are you
sitting at Petco? If the Dodgers only knew what you said,
if they only he may have been referring to a
concert that's coming up. I mean, they do a lot
of goods.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
This is the bullpen game. It's invincible.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Moncey's got to turn you into the I'm sorry, because
she's got to turn you in now. Pantone has got
They're gonna yeah, I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Gonna be it. Man, That's yeah, that's it. Now come
and get you. They're gonna come and get your o
Twani pillows. Oh yeah, any any that was me igniting
a padre flame, any letting them think they got the
w Barrilli.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So the Dodgers execute a suicide squeeze to get a
run in. Max Munsey from third go to make it
six nothing. Edmund lays down a perfect bunt. I love him,
now kick it. He's my favorite. Catches the padres by surprise,
and they get him out at first, but he's staying
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on first. I think they're gonna look at this. This
is a really close play. No matter what. It's six nothing,
it's just whether it's hey, there's two on and one
out or one on and two outs. I bet you
get really cheap tickets for Sunday in Petco right now.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I just like that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I'm not bleepingly you can't. You can't walk that back
Crossburg yet. Where are you sitting in? I can't believe that,
absolutely can't. When the Dodgers prevail, Wow, I can't believe that.
Uh so again, you know again, I hate the bunt,
but I always i'm impressed by you can actually get
it down. I hate the bunt. The bunt is stupid.
Why no, because it's just like Billy Bean and money Ball.
If they're giving us an out, take it, pick up
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the ball and throw it to first. Let him get
I mean, now, obviously a situation like this suicide. Just
the regular butt. We're we're gonna send some more a second.
If they want to give us it up, pick up
the ball. Don't be a hero, just pick up the
ball and throw it first.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Do that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Let's see. I see now I'm looking at get in price. Uh,
sixty two is the get in price for Okay?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Therehet go, Baron, Baron. That's not bad. That's that's kind
of that's lesson I thought it would be.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Actually, I'm sure Dodge is more close up to be
up up close to four hundred for that. But we'll
say again, there's still a long way to go. The
Dodgers have a six run lead here in the top
of the seventh, and we'll have more on this coming
up in a few minutes. But it looks like we
are headed to Game five the Dodgers. Now. I think
Jerry Royce and Eric Kanye warming up in the bullpen
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for it to maybe they get the seventh eighth innings
coming up. Yeah, great stash and a lot of juice.
I think Brad Penny also warming up. He might get
the ninth. You want to get a Kevin Brown reference
in while you're at it, thank him.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He's on his private jets and sailing in right now.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
But everybody waited today to see what Aaron Rodgers was
gonna say about the firing of Robert Sala all the
talk yesterday. You know, Rogers got him fired. He's a
coach killer. He got Robert Salah let go. You know
he had a role.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Woody Johnson, owner of the Jets, called in to say
what do you want and he said, I want him going.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You know what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, Aaron Rodgers went on Pat McAfee today, pushing his
McAfee appearance a day because you know, hey, I can't
come on here today. You just fired the coach. But
I'll be on tomorrow. Just about that. Tomorrow's good. Today's
not good, but tomorrow's good.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
See.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I really think it would have been a boss moved
to just show up yesterday like it's been a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah, process.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I met with Jeff Allbrick. Where ready to go on Monday. Boy,
you should see the new plays we're putting in. They're fantastic.
We're gonna actually throw the football before we run it.
I know it's amazing. But here he was today. First
thing he said on Pat McAfee was asked about, Hey,
what kind of role would you have? One went on
with Robert Sala. Aaron Rodgers wanted to make sure everybody
knows that he had no role in the firing of Sala.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
As far as any of the ridiculous allegations out there,
I'm not going to spend more than one sentence in
response to it, and that is that I resent any
of those accusations because they're patently false. And it's interesting
the amount of power that people think that I have,
which I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
That's three sentences. I counted three sentences. One might have
been a run on sentence, but I counted three sentences there.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, I mean decide where punctuation begins and ends.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I mean, I really stop, you had there's three sentences
in there at least. Yeah. In the end, it's you know,
the flat denial. I mean it almost sounded like he
was trying to make a point in a political debate.
All right, categoric deny it. I did not, no, partner,
But you didn't answer the question. You spent a minute
not answering the question. Yes, yes, it is my time up?
By my time is up?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Next question? Oh no, the senator yield no. I was
ready to answer no. But the best was their reaction.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah right, thanks Aaron,
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How about it? Did stretches, stretches, logic incredulely see.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
But but here's the thing is that what Aaron rodg
again to go moneyball, what he says does not matter. Okay, Oh,
Aaron Rodgers is a coach kills You know, Aaron Rodgers,
You think this is new if he did? How many
other coaches has he killed over the course of his career.
He is the Freddy Krueger of quarterbacks. And I was
gonna say he was murder she wrote she was Angela. Well,
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she didn't kill anybody. She she found the people that
killed everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That would have been a great last episode.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I've killed everyone for Halloween. There's three hundred and seventy
five people in prison for crimes they did not commit.
This is me and now there's nobody left in Cabit Cove.
That's actually that's when the last episode. Everybody's gone just
hurt an alligator. Everybody's gone not to do. But what
he says does not matter because he has had a
(24:19):
Hall of Fame career. With all of this, it's the
first time he's not said anything about Mike McCarthy or Lafleur.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He wanted out.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
He's he, This is who he's been his whole career,
and he's going to the Hall of Fames.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
One of the best quarterbacks in the history of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Again, nobody knows more about the I don't think anybody
knows more about the quarterback position than he.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Does, because in today's game, pretty oh sure he does.
Sure he does.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
He would be He'll be an unbelievable head coach when
he decides to come and we're gonna do this, this, this, this, this, this.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I wouldn't want to play in flag football that Well.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
It depends on fe I can throw it. I meant
to coach, it doesn't. It doesn't matter because even if
he did, it's okay because he's succeeds in all of
these He's got a super Bowl, he's been to a couple,
he goes to the playoffs every year, he's one MVPs.
He's not suddenly changing who he is. And yeah, it's
worked out well for those teams. It has, So why
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do I care what he has to say? Who do
I have more trust in to spark the Jets? Aaron
Rodgers or Robert Sala Aaron Rodgers. Because I've watched Robert
Sala for the last three years. Do you know what
I've seen. I've seen penalties, they still commit that they shouldn't.
I still see a lot of undisciplined play. I see
players now that were calling him out going. We need
to have more accountability, and there was none of that.
(25:35):
So you can't sit her and tell me all. They
fired Robert Sala. It was the bad move. It was
a bad move to fire it. No, they did because
they had to, because it wasn't going to get better.
They needed a change. And I know Sala had five
games with Aaron Rodgers, but he also had more time
before that to prove that he was a good head coach.
And that was my big point yesterday was you can
blame Rodgers all you want, but Sala has been a
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bad head coach.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It doesn't matter when he's had him when he's not.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
In seventy five was his record before he got fired.
He gets worse and worse, it goes up. He got
thirty six right, twenty and thirty six. He's not a
good head coach and more often than so, to making
this move, they had to whether Rogers said it or not,
it doesn't matter because the Jets needed a change. But
I will tell you this. You know the moment I
guarantee you that has not been talked about that really
(26:21):
convinced Woody Johnson. He was going to fire Robert Salam. Right,
this is the moment, right, this is the big deal. Yes,
say what was the moment? And you know that he
wasn't happy. He was fuming after the loss of the Broncos,
which why wouldn't you be? It was awful, But I
guarantee you this was the moment. Monday's press conference, he
was asked about the direction of the team and Sala
(26:42):
obviously had no inkling he was going to get fired,
and he said, hey, guys, look there's no panic here.
No one's panicking here. We all trust what's going on.
There's no panic. And I guarantee you when he said that,
that's what was the final switch in Woody Johnson's mind
to say we need somebody else, because we need some
with a sense of urgency, with a sense of hey,
maybe it's not panic, but not to sit back and
(27:04):
go everything's gonna be all right, because what have we seen?
Everything has not been all right? You want to have
a sense of urgency. I think he wanted to see
saw a little pissed off, a little upset about stuff,
and it said, hey, guys, everything's fine, no one's panicking.
And when you see that and you don't see the
fight that you want. Hey, So you're okay losing these
last couple of games. You're okay being two and three.
You're okay losing two games and we probably shouldn't have lost.
(27:26):
You're okay continuing to have a bad offense. You're okay
with the undisciplined penalties. You're okay with the lack of accountability.
When he said that, I guarantee you When he said, guys,
there's no panic here, that was the moment where Woody
Johnson said, Okay, I gotta let him go. Well, because
we need a little bit sense of weed, a sense
of urgency. But that's the big thing, right, because we
were just talking about it. When you talk about the
(27:46):
temperament of Shilt and Dave Roberts and what they bring
to the disable, Robert Sala is that guy most of
the time, right. He's not a cool customer. Measured in
his words, most of it is reactionary, Like if you
ask the question the right way, you normally get a
visceral response, right, and in that press conference you didn't
(28:08):
get it. It was all about calm and preaching the
long game, and the defensive metrics are great, special teams
metrics are great. Nobody's arguing about those. You're the head coach,
You're in charge of all of it. And yes, Aaron
Rodgers has not been good. Nobody's arguing that he is,
but he's far from the biggest problem that you have.
(28:29):
Should they be better offensively, sure, Should they have invested
more or better in their offensive line, Yeah, I think so,
But I think some of this is again, you got
a guy coming off a big injury and you're still
working out timming. Again, it should be better than it is,
there's no question. But all of the other penalties you play,
how you practice, and obviously all of those basic football
(28:54):
registers are not happening for this squad, and they haven't
gotten any better. Time and time again, we're seeing the
same thing. So yeah, very much so. With Robert Sola,
we've had him react and be angry. Just go back
to the cadence problems, go back to you know, other
times where he's piped up about things he was unhappy about.
(29:15):
You just lost two games. You should have won back
to back weeks. You gave away games and that Denver game, Look,
it's gonna rate as one of the bottom three games
of the NFL season. You're gonna add that in that
Miami New England game, I think, or two of them.
But it was a winnable game. Now, dude's got to
kick the fifty yard I mean, he was greg the
(29:36):
leg for years and now he missed a fifty yarder. Yeah,
it's in the rain. Whatever, make the field goal. But
you lose to a Broncos team now suddenly showing signs
of life. And we've talked about their defense for a while,
and if the offense figures something out, maybe they're interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But all said, you should.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Be going into this game against Buffalo securely in first
place if you were able to rally your squad, and
clearly that's not happening. There's still dissent, and Rogers can
sell that line all he wants that I didn't do it.
Who cares, who's believing it? Perception is reality, right, You
can protest in front of a microphone and your friends
(30:14):
all you want nobody's buying it. But I'll tell you
that was the that was the moment. That was the
moment where Whatdy Johnson said, Yeah, I've had it. Let
let we we got it. We gotta go, we gotta
to go on. And like I said, whatever Aaron Rodgers
did doesn't do it doesn't matter because he's the guy
that's got to fix it, right, that's all. So what
he says his defense does not matter. What Aaron Rodgers
says does not matter.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
No, now you're in charge, you are the captain.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now what someone says that always matters. Always is Monte
Bolanos with what's trending in the wide world of sports.
A big home run to talk about that she just
watched very excitedly, and it was a replay of the
Francisco Lindork gramcon.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I mean, that was a big hit by Francisco lind Or.
We'll get to that Bgavin Lux Digg's home run for
the Dodgers. So they're extending their lead. They're hitting tonight,
which is something that we hadn't seen the last couple
of nights all over the Padres. Eight to zero is
a score bottom of the seventh inning San Diego leads
the series two to one. If the Dodgers hold on,
there will be a Game five on Friday in La,
(31:17):
meaning I will work on Friday if that happens at
the Dodgers. The Tigers are now leading the series two
to one after blanking the Guardians for a second game
in a row. Three zero was a final score today
and yes, the Mets they punch their ticket to the NLCS.
Jason Smith is very excited. So is Rich Davis. Very excited.
Francisco Lindor with the Grand Slam. Four to one was
(31:38):
a final score against the Phillies. The Yankees they held
on to their lead over the Royals. Gian Carlos stan
was the one who put them on the scoreboard first
with an RBI double, then he gave them the go
ahead solo shot in the eighth inning.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yankees hold on.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
They edged the Royals three to two, so New York
leads that series two to one.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
A little NFL news.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
With Derek Carr's recent oblique injury, the Saints will be
starting rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler on Sunday against the Buccaneers.
The Raiders announced that they're going to be starting eight
and O'Connell on Sunday against the Steelers. Wide receiver Davonte
Adams not expected to play. Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson. He
was a full participant in practice today, the first time
since the start of the regular season. ESPN reports that
Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Junior is expected to miss
(32:19):
several weeks with a back injury.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That could land him on IR.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Anthony Richardson was limited in practice today and running back
Jonathan Taylor did not practice because of his high ankle sprain.
But Eagles wide receivers Aj Brown and Devonte Smith were
full participants in practice today, and forty nine Ers tight
end George Kittle, he is off the injury report, will
play Thursday night against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Back to you guys, thank.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You very much, Lassy. I wanted to make sure you
got you could watch the rest of the game. Thank you,
you're looking out.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love from the
tirerac dot Com Studios. Coming up next, The knee jerk
but most Senseless debate that's making its way around now
After certain results we've seen today in the Major League
Baseball playoffs. Well wait, Jason, if it's senseless, why are
we talking about it? Because we've gotta tell you why
this is stupid? All right, then why this argument is
(33:11):
just stupid? That's next, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
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Speaker 1 (33:23):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon top of the Eighth Inning Show. Heyo, Honey,
up again, looks like we're heading to Game five?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You think just getna just kind of hang out. Will
we have a day off on Sunday? Or I mean
you'll they'll pay you to go Right now.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Dude, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna relax next couple
of days. The Mets just gonna relax. Well, I watch
guys sweating it out to get to the league championship.
Think Mets will take a boat ride or anything. I'll
go to catal Off. I go to Catalena and hang out.
Let's see Catalina wine mixer two hundred. Is your get
in at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Very nice, very nice? Any decent seats?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Actually so it's going to be likely a winner take
all game for Game five as the Dodgers lead the
Padres eight to nothing as they bat in the top
of the thing. Remember the Dodgers putting all these runs
at the war without Freddie Freeman, who missed the game.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Now, we thought it was going to be the Chris
Taylor game, though, why not?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Right, there's a reason we hung on to Chris Taylor
over all these other places, all these other players we
let go that nobody wanted.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
To let go.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
But the biggest and most ridiculous discussion that I've heard
over the course of the last round after the Phillies
get eliminated by the Mets. And I've heard it for
a bunch of people talk, but I actually heard Buster
only talking about in the ESPN radio a little bit.
He was asked the question about it, and he said,
you know that that's going to be a thing? Is
is you see the way that the playoffs have come out.
(34:53):
Now the Mets eliminate the Phillies, a sixteed eliminates the
one of the top two seeds. The Padres are up
two games to one over the Dodgers, Yankees and Royals
are tied at one apiece. The Tigers are up to
one over the Guardians. They squeaked into the playoffs, and
the debate is gonna be do you really want to buy?
Is the buy a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Right the whole?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Do you want the rest? Or do you want to
play and stay sharp? And I don't know how this
became a debate. Nobody is losing a series because they
had three days off. No one's losing a series because
of that. It's not like the guys all took off
and they're not coming back in time. Hey, you know
we got a game on. There's that, Yeah, you know,
but why got these three days off? So I'm gonna
go to Antarctica and I'm gonna hang out for a bit,
(35:33):
and you know, you know, if I can't get back out,
you know, plane service is difficult, especially if a dog
shows up that has like an alien inside it and
it winds up infecting everybody and you know it's me
and Kurt Russell and Keith David at the end, and
you know I might not be able to get back.
Is that where the shadow? I mean, that's just that's
just the worst. That's just a stupid argument. Would you rather,
(35:55):
would you rather be able to be guaranteed that you're
gonna play in the League Division Series, or would you
rather have to win three games? You're telling me it
was an advantage for the Mets that they had to
win a double header on the final day, on the
extra day of the season on a Monday, and then
had to play the next three days against the Brewers,
then have a day then they had to start the
season against the Phillies. You're telling me that's an advantage
(36:16):
over the Philly saying, Hey, we got three days to
rest and get our rotation how we want to, and
we can set it up and have Zach Wheeler in
Game one and be able to go back to Zach
Wheeler in Game five, and have it set up where
we have our pitcher that we want to pitch because
he's a better pitcher at home. In game two, we'll
put Nola on the road. In game three, we have
an all star. In game four, we're back to Wheeler
for Game five. Don't tell me that it's more. It's
(36:37):
it's more of an advantage to play. Yeah, do you
play more games? Are you more on the swing?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Sure, But it's not like you it's not like you're
watching a team that hasn't played in a month. You
just played one hundred and sixty two games. You have
a couple of days off, Okay, you practice, you see
like you see live pitching. You're not losing your edge
in three days. You are guaranteed to be playing in
the league Division series. Because what the reason this argument
(37:02):
doesn't make any sense is that you are already assuming
though it's better to play than it is to get
a buye. Would the Brewers say that no? Of course,
not right. Would the astro say that?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would the oriole say that no? But it's only the
team that wins. You say, oh, would you rather have
the buy or not?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No, because you're you're already counting the team that won
the series. So it's almost like that doesn't leak into it.
You want to ask that question, it's hey, would you
rather have the buy or would you rather play in
the series? If you asked that question, would you rather
be the Phillies or the Mets of the Brewers. Of
course you want to be the Phillies. Of course the
Phillies want to be the Phillies. They don't want to
play in that first team nobody wants playing that first
tea if they don't have to. But it's only it's
(37:39):
only after a team gets upset and the top to
oh who would you rather be? No, no, you can't
ask that question after a team has already won and
moved on. Nobody wants to be the team that has
to win to get to that level and specious reasoning, Yeah,
let's play several extra games. That's the first time that
word has ever been used on sports talk radio. Well,
I don't think species is where that's never unless people
are saying, hey, give a shit a Dasha Henstridge.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That specious movies that was pretty good? Was he She's
the alien? She's hot? He saw that movie? Is speechless? Yeah, yeah,
I think that came up a lot when mister skin
was a thing. Look anyway, not the word speciess. The
movies species were for Stars Withthflesh dot Com.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
It's it's a website that shows you where people Oh
so like mister skind.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
What that was the name, right, Stars of the Flesh.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yeah that was No, that's nically done, but just the
idea that yes, let's add more variables. We always talk
about this, all right, why do we want to add
more opportunities for innings pitched guys to get hurt, because
I mean, we see what happens time and again with arms.
We've been talking about with the Dodgers all season long.
Next man up the fact that they're winning and crushing
(38:47):
in this bullpen game. But did you come in feeling
confident about it?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Maybe maybe on.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
The offensive side you had to be better, But you're
wringing your hands as the guy takes the hill for
the bottom of the first. All that to say, you
add extra games, you add extra instances for potential injury
and let's face it, body fatigue. You went through the
one sixty two like you said. Instead, hey we get
a week off, Guys that are nursing minor injuries, get
(39:14):
a chance to rest, guys that are that just had
to pitch, maybe a couple extra innings or extra games
in the in the vein of the relief pitchers. And
how heavily bullpens are getting used. Yeah, they can't use
the week off. It's all momentum. Much as we know
his FRAUDU. It's just the stupidest argument. Would would you
(39:35):
rather be say, Hey, I have one hundred thousand dollars
for you guaranteed, or you have to fight another guy
and if you win, you get one hundred thousand dollars. No,
you want to just be guaranteed one hundred thousand dollars. Now,
it was just saying blind resume boxer facing me, what's
going over there?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Fighting guy just like you. I wouldn't trust that.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I okay, you want to be able to be guaranteed
that one hundred thousand dollars. Rat That's just he stabbed me,
he said with the back of a fishing pole.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
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