October 17, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike look ahead to Game 4 of the NLCS. The guy’s breakdown Sabrina Ionescu’s WNBA Finals GAME WINNER. Patrick Mahomes has "extreme confidence" in the Chiefs current WR options. And Jason sends a strong message for the "it’s all Aaron Rodgers fault" crowd.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, ty shir, how about
we really start this party.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Hernandez hits it in the air left field, Nimo back
on the warning track.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's at the wall. This ball is good.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Kick k Hernandez owns october A two run blasts and
the Dodgers double their lead. It's now four to nothing
in the sixth or nothing, Jason.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
The pitch is hit high in the air right field,
hooking toward the poll and.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
This ball is fair and gone. Oh hey, old Tony unloads.
Hey three run home run here on the top of
the eighth inning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Terrible for the Mets to start of the eighth inning
like that.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Monsey gets into a ball high in the air right field.
He drops the battle Max Mounsey max power into the
second deck there was no doubt off the bat that
Max Munsey was leaving the yard his third home run
of the postseason.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We done, we got any more home runs? You want
to play? We good anymore?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, we'd play a Mets home run, but they didn't
have any.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, it's too you know, it's you didn't win the
series tonight. It's two to one. I mean, just so
you know it's two to one.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Why don't you go massage Devonte Adams hamstring.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I'm just that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hey, obviously the hamstring is fine. He's playing on Sunday.
I think everything is all right there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, how is that hamstring? Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
You know he's gonna play on Sunday. Y Oh, that's great.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's I did high knees on the plane going to
visit and we're good to go. Oh man.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
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Speaker 1 (02:17):
All right, So just to just to because we'll get
into this and coming up more in a couple minutes,
but I mentioned this a few minutes ago. So I
watched that new Travis Kelce game show today, Are you
Smarter than an athlete?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And here here's like I said, it's hard for me
to to to say just what I thought of the show,
but basically it's.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Like, are you smarter than a fifth grader?
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Like, here comes questions and all this, and you have
people that can help you. You have celebrities who you
can call on to help. So it's kind of like,
are you smarter than a fifth grader? Married to who
wants to be a millionaire?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And Travis Kelsey is the host, and he's fine. He
moves around a lot, like you could tell he's a
little nerd and he's trying to so he moves a lot.
But it comes down to the end for this the
guy wins. The one guy wins, and the questions are
somewhat he's there's a couple I didn't know, but the
questions are wow, some are so really easy, but okay,
you expect them to get harder and harder towards the end.
(03:14):
So this guy wins, and he wins like twenty grand
or something like that, I don't know what it is.
And he's got a choice to either stop or to
try to answer the last question and win one hundred
thousand dollars. Right, So that's a choice the guy has. Okay,
so look it comes up and they say, you know,
obviously they're building up the drama. They're building it up.
And they go, okay, before you make your decision, because
(03:36):
you can choose to stop and you don't have to
answer the question.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Obviously, I'm sure the executives in the show they want
everybody to go to the end and answer the big
question at the end, right of course. So so this
guy is deciding whether or not he's going to go
on or not, and he says, I don't know. This
is a lot of money for me. It's kind of
life changing money in certain things. Okay, and you know,
Travis Kelsey to his best, going, yeah, you could get
(04:00):
one hundred thousand dollars, man if you get this question right.
So let me reveal what the question is. And it
was sixth grade literature that was that was. I'm like, oh, okay, boom,
well you got you gotta do this, And Nikki Glazer says,
I was a literature major in college.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's like, okay, so you and you can have her
help you.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And the guy sitting there he goes, yeah, I don't know,
I don't know any hems and haws. He goes, this
is you know, it's tough, like I don't like to
take risks. I took a risk with the last question
and yeah, and it's building up a lot of drama.
I'm going this guy's not gonna answer, and and he
gets to the end he goes, you know, I just
I'm sorry, I don't I know. I want to stop.
Everyone goes oh, It's like, oh, come on, man, how
(04:40):
do you not want to do this? So he takes
the money. Everybody collapsed. I'll say, good decision, good decision,
good decision. And uh and I'm going, okay, well let's
say so hopefully they show the question.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
So Travis Kelsey says, yes, here's the question.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, here's the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Question, and I'm gonna say I'll give all of you
guys a shot at it. But if if you guys
don't know the answer, you're all fired. So the question,
the question is twenty that listen.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I'll just I'll get other people to answer my question.
I don't I don't wanna. I don't want to answer
this one right here. No, not not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So it was it was sixth grade literature and it says,
complete the line by the by the poem the raven,
quote the raven blank, and I'm going, oh my god.
So they know they don't know yet. That's for one
hundred grand that's the question, right. And so they go
(05:36):
and they go, all right, does anybody have an idea?
And and Ocho Cinco was on and he either doesn't
know anything or he was really funny because every answer
he gave was funny. And they go and they go, Ocho, Sinka,
what's the answer, quote the Raven?
Speaker 6 (05:49):
What Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, okay, And so they go to Nikki Glazer and
they go to the they go to the guy, do
you know what? The answers guys, all then, I have
no idea what the answer this is. I'm like, you
don't have any idea to the answer to this? Really,
he had the guys, I don't know, I don't know. Nikki,
do you know the answer? Nikki goes, yeah, quote the
Raven never more, let's see the answer never more.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And I'm going that was the last question.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Like that would we've gone from who wants to be
a Millionaire? Where questions are like, you know, hey, this
space program, which was invented in nineteen sixty one, went
to this planet which was in this solar system, like
and now it's a quote the raven blank. That was
I'm like, that's the last question. Really, that's that's the
last question.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I like that Nikki Glazer, the comedian, has to be
the straight man on the show.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, I'm waiting for her to roast the guy. And
how do you not go for that? What's my wife
gonna say to me when hey, I want some action.
I only came home with twenty thousand bucks never more.
You know it's something crazy like that's good line. You see,
I could write for Nicki Glazer. But that's why I
said when you asked me how the show was, and
I thought to the final I'm like, I don't have
(06:57):
enough time to just tell you about I'm just gonna
tell you the story of the last question and then
we can go from there.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That really says a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that was the last question. The guy had quote
the raven blank. I'm like, oh my goodness, because for
the first split second, I'm like, is it not?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Nevermore? Is it something? Am I missing? I gotta be
missing something, right, because there's no way, no, no, no, no,
never more.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Okay no, it's that straightforward the thumb.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The answer is usually the easiest.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeps. I could not believe I said, Okay, great, that
was that show?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
All right? Then? Oh, I mean you could say, hey,
I watched it, It's not for me. I did.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I did because, like I said, it was part of
my day of Hey, I'm locked in on the Mets.
I can't really do anything else. So maybe that was
about the level of my brain. This is this is
as much as I could take right now, because I'm
really focused on the Mets right the games at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I really really locked in.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, I can't even make good wardrobe decisions every day.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I'm just wearing everything Mets every day and.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Doing laundry every three days, just watching watching all my
Met stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So I can just continue to come out with it
the next day.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I will say it makes it easier to decide what
to wear, but that that's like where I'm at, like
the top of my my thought process right now, because
it taken up by so much by the Mets, So
maybe that was the right thing for me to see today.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I don't know. Yes, you needed something mindless, something that
you clearly made you feel superior to at least that gentleman.
So you know, that's one it's all about going on
and oh today. So even if your team lost, it's
like that new line of commercials where everybody's tailgating. I
have no idea what the hell they're trying to sell me,
but it's basically, hey, we're gonna win the tailgate. We're
(08:37):
going one and oh today. Yeah, no matter what our
team does, the show and then co opted that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That's the Eli Manninguen right where they go, how do
you lose tailgate?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
You can't?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh, all right, then it's good. Okay, Yeah, I again,
I have no idea what they're selling. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It's kind of like how I felt like when you know,
the Dodger came with my dad and I go, you know,
if DZ blows this in the ninth it's okay because
I had a great day with him at the game,
and I don't know how many days I'm gonna have.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Like this, you know, with with him anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's it's like the fact the Mets are in the
playoffs and they're playing here in La.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
How often is that gonna happen? And we get to
go to the game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Together and just yeah, you know, no, that's gonna that's
my win today. And then at the end I realized
what I really had been okay with it? If DZ
gave up all those runs we lost, I don't know.
I'd like to think I wouldn't have been but that's
kind Oh hell no, yeah, I couldn't lose it, though.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You would have been salty as hell and be it
mad at your dad because now he wanted to listen
to the Yankees and he didn't want to hear about
your Mets collapse? Dad?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Can you believe that the DZ gave up four?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Hang on?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know what, if you're talking, I can't hear John
Sterling and it turns the.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Volume all the way up on the radio. On the
drive home, they're on the bases, like junks say, we
would have missed that. The Jason Smith Show with Mike
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Speaker 1 (09:55):
All right, look, so now going into game game four tomorrow,
I talked to about last night, how this was the
much more of a must win game for the Mets
than it was for the Dodgers because of the way
the series. The Dodgers decided to push this series forward.
Bullpen game in Game two, are shakiest starter in game three.
And I don't care what Dave Roberts anybody said after
(10:17):
the game, Oh that's the walker buller we expected. Stop,
you were just you had your fingers crossed, going, oh
my goodness, just don't give up seven.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Runs in the first three innings.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But now, the reason it was more than one win
for the Dodgers that I had felt that way because
they're up to on with their two best pitchers going. Now, look,
the Mets are gonna answer with a couple of really
good pictures themselves. But this is this was the Dodgers'
plan working to perfection, Like this was a perfect night
for them, and it was the exact and total opposite
of how I thought this game was gonna go. I really,
I really thought the Mets are coming in here, they're
(10:47):
excited to be home, they get a juice of electricity
after winning that game winning Game two, and they're gonna
get They're gonna put runners on base and get to
Buehler early.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And I thought, that's how this is gonna go.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And instead they have three minutes plays in the top
of the second and Lindor strikes out with the bases
loaded in a full count in the bottom of the
second inning, and that was the game. Like I know,
they played the rest of the game, there was eight nothing,
but the second inning. Sometimes the second inning is the game.
And they get two runs on three misplays, two by Severino,
one by Alvarez and and and Lindor strikes out with
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the bases loaded, and and Buehler kind of jaws at
him going off the field, and that was the game.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And right right after that it was It was.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So much less energy and it was just like a
slow and steady march the Dodgers winning.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I will say this not to be, not to.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Be knee jerk reaction and not to be but you
know that's what I's where I realize in baseball being
a manager would be really tough because I just want
to get rid of everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well day it's a mess.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, the Mets need a couple of lineup chain, they
need something to spark them at this point, and and
Francisco Alvarez has been terrible. Uh, you know, his at
bats are awful, and he pushed, and when when you're
at bats are awful and you strike out all the time,
he should have walked tonight and insteady when the game
is still in the balance, it's two nothing, he swings
(12:04):
at a pitch that was gonna hit him in the
neck and he goes around and instead of a three
to zero count, it's two and one and he strikes out.
When that happens and you're not hitting, you press defensively.
He makes an awful decision the second inning that contributes
to the Dodgers two runs by trying to get the
lead runner out at second base on a swinging bunt.
And so he needs a day off, and Luis Torrens
needs to play, and I think.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Iglesias needs a day off.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You know, a little bit better at bats tonight, but
he needs the day off. He's not swinging the bat
grade and j D Martinez, I don't know why he
was in the lineup sight to begin with, because Jesse
Winkers had pretty good success ye against Bueller. You know,
four for twelve of his crew are two home runs,
But I think Winker needs to be back in the
lineup because JD. Martinez was nothing was nowhere close to
the ball tonight. He would swing everything was was three
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four feet off the plate and he was just waving
at it. So, you know, coming off the last night,
I know it's a knee jerk thing a bit. But
tomorrow's a must win game. You need a little bit
of more energy in the lineup. I think McNeil should
play second base, Winker goes back to DH and Louis
Torrens goes into catch.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I think the Mets need those moves. Yeah, Martinez did
at least draw a couple of walks, part of four
that the Mets had overall, eight left on base, over
four runners in scoring position. You signaled all of the
big things in the fails in those early innings Walker
Bueller most missed bats of his twenty twenty four campaign
(13:27):
right shortened season off injury. Here four innings seem like
eight at least if you followed Twitter and followed the
announcers in the booth, because it was the how much
are we going to get? Instead it's three hits, six strikeouts,
and four shutout innings, and that was all you could
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have hoped for. If you're Dave Roberts, I'd always like
to steal the fifth, but I get greedy for Bueller
to go four. It was everything that they could have
wanted in Dielle and then some. I mean, because you
had no idea how he was gonna respond to this.
We talked about it last night quite a bit of
all right, I think I would have started him game
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two up one to zero. But here you go. He
comes up huge in this spot on the road, makes
all the big pitches when they count gets guys chasing,
had a good snap on the off speed like all
of that to say, you know, he gave them ample
opportunities because they work counts on him. Because that was
the other thing, right, It wasn't first ball swinging. He
threw ninety pitches, yeah, only fifty one strikes, So I
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mean you worked counts to try to set up a
big pitch and then still ended up waving out of
the zone or swinging straight through it. I mean the
pitch that he threw to Lindoor, I mean the snap
off there and whatever they said to each other, it
had a nice little animated feel to it. For the moment.
But for the Dodgers, you feel pretty good. Kopic gets
an inning, Brazier gets an inning trying and gets an inning.
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None of them really tested too much. I guess Brazier,
you know, had his twenty pitch but otherwise not very stressful.
And Casparius can comes in for two innings and finishes it.
So you still have your high leverage, high inning, high
octane guys. So for Dave Roberts advantage into tomorrow seeing
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what you get out of your starter. So yeah, I
would expect a lot of changes on the Mets side,
listless at bats down the stretch, go for that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Boost, man, it's all or nothing, all enough. McNeil's a
guy that won a batting title. You can always put
guys like Iglacias in the middle of the game if
they change pictures.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You can always do that. But need something tomorrow, man,
because these guys are just not hitting. And we know
straw and good and are in town.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So that's right, Hey, if you want to start Good
in Strawberry tomorrow, I'm good with that. I'm absolutely okay
with that one percent exit out about a Fresco exit
swollen dome.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Coming up next, we will break down the biggest, hugest
play of the night. And here's the thing wasn't in
the NLCS. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
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Speaker 6 (16:14):
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Speaker 6 (16:18):
Quote the raven never more.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I would have had that. I thought some one of
them would have squawked. Am I supposed to give an
impression of a raven? What? What am I supposed to
do here? I don't know. Just you just sit there
and go okay, rack, I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
We got two big NFL quarterback stories coming up in
a minute. But want to say this. The highlight of
the night tonight, by far comes from the w NBA.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The pitch is hit.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
High and this ball is fair and gone. Dudes, Hey,
three run home run here in the top of.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yes again for the highlight of the night. We talked
about this. I can't believe that was only three hundred
ninety seven feet. I'm never gonna trust the technology of
stat cast saying this is how far that was fifteen
rows from being out of city field, from being over
the top of the stadium. Somebody, three ninety seven feet.
Come on, man, that's ridiculous. I go, yeah, okay, three
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ninety seven feet. We don't know how long any of
these home runs are.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That's just ridiculous. Well, you know what, it's more ridiculous though.
I just sent you the text with it the number
forty drawn on everybody's face and support of their pitcher.
The hell is that? Oh? Well, they wanted support Louis Severino.
He couldn't just say, hey, go get him, big guy.
Well maybe they were not going to craw on my face?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Is that I black actually helping like that? No, didn't
help him feel the ball in the second I think. No,
when he blew those two grounders and gave the Dodgers
two runs, they help him there and did it? Didn't
help us at all? But yes, all right, So, as
I said, we you know there was a play. Let's
go to the other play of the night.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Munsey gets into a ball high in the air right field.
He drops the bat. Max Munsey Max Power into the
second deck.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
There was no doubt off the bat that Okay, nobody
tells Max Power what to do Power?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Who is that man and why is he here again?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
So yes, those are big highlights the night.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But Game three of the WNBA Finals, best of five
Liberty and the Links. This game is tied at seventy
seven apiece, so Brina Yanescu has the ball for the
Liberty and broving that only one New York team can
have a big win a day. H This is how
Game three of the finals ended.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
They still have their reset into Foebish eight seconds remaining
in the fourth quarter of Game three.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Four seconds you nest, you will tea Sopritao Nescu with
the biggest shot in Liberty history.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
ESPN on the call, a twenty eight footer to win
the game over the Links, who don't really get a
shot off.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
With one second left on the clock.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
She takes the shot clock all the way down, dribbles
a little bit to the left, and hits a logo
Damian Lillard Steph Curry, winning the gold medal twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Foot three pointer.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, and the best part about this is that, yeah,
here we are you thought, Okay, Yes, WNBA is Caitlin
Clark driven big headline. Today she's named First Team All WNBA.
Everybody's still paying attention to the playoffs. Everybody's still watching
the finals. It's still a big deal. And this is
one of those shots where even if you have you're
(19:53):
new to the WNBA this season, you've never watched a game.
I don't watch women's games, and why you watch the
end of this game? You he hit that shot and
you go, man, that's a Steph shot, That's a Lillard shot.
That is an unbelievable shot, no matter what kind of
basketball you like to watch.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Because what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
She's twenty eight feet away, couple of dribbles and she
just drains it. That is so impressive. How many NBA
Finals games that we seem end that way, playoff games
that we've seen end where it's no.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, no, no, no, oh, what a shot.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Oh Steph with a shot winning gold medal after gold medal,
getting all the gold medals because of what he did
at the end of the game, or Lillard.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I mean, that was just an amazing shot. And in
the best season.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The WNBA has ever had, and they got issues obviously,
but the best season they've had. We're in a finals
where you have a shot like that that puts the
Liberty one win away from winning the WNBA title for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Nineteen thousand, five hundred people in attendance, big ratings, no doubt,
still a draw, even opposite a league championship series game.
And one of the stars, right, the one that was
getting off of the attention as we got towards COVID
and all of that. So for and I ask you
(21:06):
to come and hit this big shot in this moment
as they're announcing you know, league's best and all this stuff.
Absolutely huge and then the full celebration crowd kind of
goes silent, you know, raucus to oh, thinking you're getting overtime,
getting gonna get some free basketball instead. Boom, and then
she runs down the court, gets the tongue out and
(21:26):
waving and running past the benches. Yeah. I mean, it
was all the theatrics that you want in a big game
kind of moment and one of the big players that
you can propel to another another level here, I mean,
because we remember talking about her when she was in college, uh,
and what a star she was and wondering how that
would translate. And well, Caitlin Clark gets the headline. Doesn't
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mean there aren't a lot of other folks that are
right there with her. So big, big shot, big opportunity.
And then you just talk about the liberty and you know,
balancing your world. Smith of New York Sports.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You know, and she's got that mamba mentality. She was
one of the players Kobe took under his wing when
he became such a great proponent for women's basketball. You know,
Kevin Durantz putting out a cold blooded killer tweet tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
For her making that shot.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Just an incredible shot by her.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And and not and and I know it's weird to
say this because it's it's kind of contrary to where
sports is going. But with the rise of the WNBA
this year, right, we're gonna see next year the end
the WNA files going to seven games, Right, I think
I think every round should go best to seven.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But okay, and here I am.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
The last few weeks and and uh, you know, maybe
because just going through the for the first time ever,
really going through the extended playoff, you know with the Mets,
when it's okay, it's the first round best of three,
then it's the best of five. Then then you're in
the NLCS and all the playoffs. Is I started thinking
to myself, you know, I get that, Hey, all these games,
all the best of seven, best of seven.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I don't know. I kind of dig best of fives.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I think the maybe because the length of the series
it seems like it's it's it's so long. But man,
I'll tell you the excitement of the short series, the
excitement of a best of five and winning three out
of five.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I don't know, man, I just feel like the games.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Mean, not that they don't, not that other games don't
mean as much, but boy, in a series where you
lose a couple of games, it's a bit like there's
such a there's such an impetus to win because of that, right,
And I thought about it because of this, right. Obviously, yes,
the series with the Phillies and the Mets, and the
Mets putting pressure on Philadelphia, and you know, coming off
the best of three series of the Brewers. But think
(23:34):
about best of five, right, what did we see in
Game two of the NLCS? Dave Roberts basically just said, Hey,
if we win today, it's a bonus right, there's not
a lot we're gonna we're gonna put our bullpen guys
out there. Are you gonna put any of your high
leverage guys out there when you're down one nothing. No,
we're gonna go to land in neck and he's gonna
give up bread and and we're basically saying this is
a game we can win or not not win.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You don't have that in in a.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Best of five.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Dave Roberts saying, oh man, we gotta walker buler eruptik,
we gotta have game two.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
We gotta do that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You're not saying we're gonna let a team get a
w get back into a best of five series. I
like the immediacy and the sense of urgency of a
best of five. I think that's more excitement. I think
it's more of a of a of I don't want
to say you you don't you have a You have
more energy to win a game, but every second counts
a lot more because there's less wiggle room. You don't
(24:24):
have time to get down and say everything's fine. It's
gonna be a long series. We get one over there,
we're back here at our place, and look how many
series you wind up saying okay, game five. You know,
series tied it to a piece. I like the the
the amping up of of what the incredible energy of
a series is when you go best of five. I
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mean just me watching this last and just seeing how
long Best of seven is and how long this series is.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Best of seven. Hey, Met's got their baskets to the wall.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
They'd win or go home tomorrow. But if not, you
for it's a decisive game five. Hey, that's great, right,
I love that part of it. I you know, when
now that we have so much drama with the best
of five series, I don't know, I look at the
Best of seven, I go, yeah, it's a little long.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, it gets.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Like I like I said, maybe it's just a weird
place m in my head right now. But just after
seeing this over the playoffs the last few weeks, to
start thinking, yeah, boy, best of five would be really
really good.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah. As a as a glutton for hey, give me
more games, more more power, all that stuff, right, Everybody
laments an eighteenth game in the NFL season, like, hey,
players are gonna get half the money. Eventually they'll just
shrug because it'll get forced on them and they'll move on. Right,
or eventually a nineteenth game or expansion or international super Bowls.
(25:38):
If the dollars may make sense, everything else will follow
with it, which is why we get to seven games.
But to your point, also dragging the NBA into it,
how many times you say, all right, they're down twenty
in the first All right, that guy's now got an
ice pack on his knee and that's the end to him.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Yeah, we're done, We're putting this game away and we're
coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, there's a lot of but a lot as you said,
with seven game series, right.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
But with Dave Roberts in game two. If we get
get a good run, great, If not, we don't not
gonna use the high leverage. Guys, not gonna stress it.
Got to reset the bullpen, reset the starting rotation. And
the old mantra of the show going on a decade
is I can't fall to good strategy. Now, let's see
if it works to become a good strategy. But at
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least in theory, this is how they're laying it out
and how they want to play it. Right, and through
three games here we are two to one. Now you
get your starters back. You got a little bit of
work for trying in and copicking company to kind of
push this game along, but never really in stressful situations
and stressful innings to where the pitch count goes up,
(26:42):
et cetera. Now you have everything rolling forward as you
move through the series. But yeah, I like the urgency
of a all right, let's let's push the buttons. What
do you need to do and what's your best decision
to try to force things your way? Yeah? The five
game certainly doesn't that far more so for for drama purposes. Yeah,
(27:04):
sense of urgency and you have to perform and every
bat takes on that much more meaning absolutely for the
other Again, I grabbed my popcorn because if we get seven,
we all win.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. Got a
big quarterback story coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
Brian Finley has what's trending in the wide world of
Sports BF.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Yeah, thanks Jason and Mike. We're talking Game three NLCS
where the Dodgers wanted eight to nothing against the Mets,
And yeah, Carlos Mendoza, the manager for the Mets, had
this to say afterwards, considering how challenging LA was in
the game and the challenges they provided.
Speaker 9 (27:46):
The shrikes on they're not gonna chase us much. They
don't have guys there that chase as much. And then
they can hit them ball out of the ballpark. They
can get on base. So yes, we gotta not only
get ahead, but we gotta go think to stay on
that time being execute pitchers. If we get behind in
couns are gonna make us bay.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
There were three home runs in the game four Los Angeles,
including sho heey Otani. Max Munsey went yard as well,
and that Munty home run is significant because he joins
Justin Turner and Corey Seeger as the Dodgers all time
postseason home run leaders, all with thirteen to their name.
These series is now two to one in favor of
the Dodgers. In Game four is tomorrow from New York WNBA.
(28:26):
Game three the final Sabrina Ionescu hit a twenty eight
foot three pointer to seal it at the end to
give the Liberty at eighty to seventy seven win against
the Links. So just like the Dodgers go up two
games to one, the Liberty go up two games to
one as well. NHL regular season four games on the
(28:47):
docket on Wednesday, everything went final two going to overtime,
including the Ducks at home winning five to four at
OT against the Utah Hockey Club, a win for the
Bruins five to three games it's the Avalanche, Avalanche or
zero to four.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
They haven't won yet, may beliefs.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
They truck the King six to two, and an overtime
win for the Penguin six to five against the Sabers
where Sidney Crosby net of the overtime win for the Penguins.
And lastly, guys in the world of the NFL, we
do know that with the Thursday night game coming up
between the Saints and the Broncos, Denver is sidelining their
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cornerback Patrick's retained, the second because of a concussion. New
Orleans wide receiver Chris o'lavey will not be playing in
that game because of a head injury. And lastly, the
Steelers holding running back Naji Harris out of practice today
with a rib injury. With that, let's get it back
to Jason and Mike.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Thank you very much, Brian family. So we got a
couple of quarterback stories coming away. The first one is
this on the heels of Davante Adams getting delt to
the Jets and the Marii Cooper getting delt to the
Buffalo Bills. Patrick Mahomes today talked about the status of
the Chiefs wide receivers and he was like, I know
they're gonna ask me, because boy, we need wide receivers.
(30:06):
And he said he's happy with the crew they got. Okay, Uh,
first of all, yes, that's obviously what he's going to say.
Right Hey, I wake up every day, I gotta worry
about what Britney and Jackson are doing.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I gotta check them, make sure social media is clean
before I go.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
To this, go to the facilities, and if not, I
got to worry about what I gotta do after. So
just gotta make sure I'm not The wide receivers are fine.
They're the least of my problems right now. So, yeah,
I understand that's what he's gonna say. But were the
Raiders gonna trade DeVonta Adams to the Chiefs? Know where
the Brown's gonna trade Amari Cooper to the Chiefs. Know
the Chiefs are gonna get a wide receiver. In fact,
(30:41):
I'll go bold at the deadline, They're gonna get two
wide receivers. While things are okay for them. Now, look, look,
they're five and zero. They have some time. They don't
need to be as desperate as teams like the Jets
and the Bills. Right, the Jets need a wide receiver
because hey, look at what's going on. They want to
make sure they get to vont Adams. The Bill saw,
we better get a wide receiver sooner rather than later
(31:03):
because it's just not working. The Chiefs have time. They
don't need to get world beater wide receivers. They don't
need to go out and pay a lot of money
for these guys. But they're gonna go get two guys
for the deadline that are gonna come in and transform
the wide receiver room. They have to, and there's gonna
be guys available, you know. Deontay Johnson may right now say,
oh I want to stay in Carolina.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I love Carolina. Oh you could trade me.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
To the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh well, okay, I want to go there and win
a Super Bowl. So they have time because they're five
and zero, right. The Chargers are not bad, but everybody
else in the division stinks. The AFC is wide open.
They're at the top of it. They don't need to
panic but there is no way they are going to
the playoffs with this being their wide receiver room of
Worthy in Smith, Schuster.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And Justin Watson being their top three guys.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's not happening because while that may be enough to
win enough games in the regular season, that's not getting
into the super Bowl. You're not winning with that. You're
just not The Chiefs are a different team. They are
winning by holding on. They are winning by by out
executing and clubs. That's what the Chiefs are. They're a
really good team with a clutch quarterback and a pretty
good defense. But that's a team that can lose in
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the playoffs and they're gonna do everything they can to
make sure that's not who they are. But it's just
not gonna be right now. It'll be more close to
the deadline when more players are available, and they'll bring
not one, but two wide receivers will come in and
that's gonna be your wife. And they'll bring in two
guys will be two of the top three guys like
it may be Worthy and the two guys they bring in,
(32:27):
those are gonna be your starting wide receivers by the
time the Chiefs got to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, I think one of the big things to ponder,
and certainly, you know, as we talk about this, you
look at Ah they got rid of Tyreek Hill and
then they won. Well, I would argue the AFC is
a bit deeper and ready to go, and Cincinnati's gonna
start playing better football. I don't know if that they
figure out their defense, but the offense is certainly clicking
(32:51):
on a whole other level. So it's not gonna be
a runaway and hide kind of situation. And as good
as the defense is played, and you would can expect
them to continue to do so, you know, and Travis
Kelcey's starting to round back into Travis Kelcey, et cetera.
You got to keep up with the Joneses. You got
(33:12):
to get Patrick Mahomes as many options as possible. And
let's face it, there's a lot of teams that are
starting to look ahead towards twenty twenty five already as
we saw this week, right, big trades in the east
of the AFC. You gotta keep pace. I assume Worthy
gets better as it goes. But is he suddenly a
(33:32):
number one No, he's never He's never gonna be a
number one receiver. That's not He's not built to be
that guy in that way. So yeah, and Juju Smith
Schuster is a great find. Is he a true number one? Again? No,
we watched the well traveled path that he's had, so
you gotta go find some more help, especially the running
(33:53):
back room, you know, kind of being depleted as well.
So yeah, I would expect them to be active. How
aggress they are. I like the double up. I like
the boldness there.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Let's go exit out about a Fresco exit, swollen dove.
That that is how the Chiefs are going to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Man. But speaking of being.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Bold, you'll never guess who's gonna play on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
That's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 8 (34:19):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:27):
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Speaker 2 (34:33):
We're not even close, man.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
We want somebody off tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
We get two more days.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The Mets are one day closer to vacation.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You won Game three, Frostburg. Congratulations, we didn't congratulations, congratulate you.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Tommy's bull hasn't landed yet, No.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
It hasn't.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Three ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He knocked the crap out of that one. Yeah, no way,
no way, three ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's four hundred and fifty feet live again. It was
fifteen rows from going out of the stadium like whatever.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
With the wind blowing the other way, paying the.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Ball with and the ball was actually dunked in water
before they threw it. So tell you what fall is
here though?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
What was it? A fifty degrees at first pitch?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, it was nice. Yeah, it's fun seeing baseball. Oh,
this is what baseball is when when guys are in
winter coats and the fans are all they have, like
they have scarves around them in gloves on.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
That's baseball. That's playoff baseball. So guess who's gonna play
On Sunday?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Davante Adams will make his Jets debut for the team
against the Steelers. And look what do we say last night?
I have no doubt the Jets are gonna succeed. It
just has to be now. They can't wait.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
It can't be.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Oh, in a month, if they're really good, in a month,
and there's still a couple games under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
The season's over.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
They already right now have to go eight and three
to make the playoffs, to get to ten and seven, right,
so there's no wiggle room. They have to be good.
They have to be good now, no surprise. Hey Adams
is familiar with Aaron rodd Yeah, we'll throw him out there.
It's gonna be great on Sunday. Uh, you won't miss
any of the cadence. No, no, no, he's gonna know
the cadence. He's gonna he's gonna know it. And he
(36:09):
actually said the moment he said today, I want to
be here for a long time. I don't want to
be somebody traveling around. He wants to stay with Rogers,
which makes me think Rogers in it for another year
at least and moving on, because that's a big thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I want to stay here.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
But with the Davante Adams trade, the last twenty four
hours has been everybody hates Aaron Rodgers, Like this is
the moment that people have been waiting for forever. He's
a bad leader, he can't get it done anymore. He's
past his prime. He's a bad teammate. He gets his
coach fired, he gets his offensive coordinator demoted, He throws
(36:43):
his wide receiver under the bus. He says he ran
a wrong route on the big play at the end
of the game. Aaron Rodgers, bad guy, bad everything. This
is a field day for Aaron Rodgers haters. Okay, now
let me let me let me tell you the truth
here is. This is not where I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Say Aaron Rodgers is the best. Come on, man, I'll Rogers.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
First of all, I don't think anybody's ever questioned him
being a bad leader. Uh, pretty sure. In Green Bay,
everybody loved him for going on fifteen years. So I
think that bad leader part is out of it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Should he have said that about to talk about But.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Being a leader is about is about being able to
lead the guys in the locker room, not like, hey,
I'm leading the organization. I'm a leader with my teammates.
Should he have said that about Mike Williams. No, But
I don't think Aaron Rodgers is going to say Mike
Williams ran the wrong route.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
If he didn't run the wrong route, so yeah, was
that the best thing? No? So I don't think that's
that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Jason, you're right, he's not a bad leader. He's a
horrible leader.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
No, just stop, man, you would trade stop?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Oh yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Just go to Harballs trailer park and where we're living
in whatever?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Where does he live in the r v where he's
living in the r v U?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Does he live in one of those like Sheishi areas
or trailer park areas.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
To jj Abrams.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
So let me let let me let me say this.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
The whole the whole deal with Rogers is that for
all the haters, I'm gonna tell you this right now,
for the haters, people who think he's bad, bad guy bad,
this bad everything, we're gonna find out because the rest
of the season is a referendum on him.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Everything.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
He's gotten everything he needs.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
He got his wide receivers, he got his coach fired
that he wanted, He got everything he needs, got everything
he wants. So there's nothing else to give him. It's like,
you know, there's what else can I give you? There's nothing,
I have nothing else, I have nothing, that we fired
the coach, that there's no trades that can happen, there's
no The offensive line is good enough, and the more
they play together, the better. They're gonna be No, he's
(38:42):
not under constant duress like like like as Zach Wilson
or the last couple of years before that. He's fine enough.
He's not getting sacked a lot. He's he threw for
three hundred yards. They ran for a hundred. He didn't
get three hundred yards. That's twenty eight games in a row.
Okay to eighty seven to eighty seven, that's fine. They
ran for one hundred and fifty. I think the offensive
line twenty nine is not thirty. So he will get
(39:04):
only the money you deserve. So, but we're gonna find out,
because this is gonna be it. Like at the end
of this year, we are gonna know is Rogers still good,
is Rogers done?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Does his team love him all?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We're gonna get the answers to all of these because
there's nothing else out there now.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
It could be an excuse or anything else.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
We are gonna know, and we're gonna see it in
black and white on the field over the course of
the next ten plus weeks.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, I mean through six weeks. I mean we've seen
him have opportunities and come up short, and we can
talk about all the different things that didn't happen, that
didn't go right. Some of them are decisions and throws
that he didn't make, and I'm sure each one of
them would be the well, if this guy did this,
I wouldn't have thrown that interception or that. He hasn't
(39:48):
been perfect right, and nobody is, but certainly a couple
of the losses in this three game losing streak, I
think we can look at him. You gotta come up
with more than nine points against Denver all night. Listen.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I'm not saying there's that, But we're gonna find out
all of this.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Oh I think he said no, No, We're gonna find
out it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Is all right in a row.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
We're gonna know over the next ten weeks just what
kind of quarterback he is because he's got everything he wants.
Twenty five teams are jealous as hell to have the
weapons he has. Twitter and how about a Fresco Mike
at Swollen Dome Coming up next, my buddy Ben Mallor.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this parties.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, ty shir, how about
we really start this party.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Hernandez hits it in the air left field, Nimo back
on the warning track.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's at the wall. This ball is good.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Kick k Hernandez owns october A two run blasts and
the Dodgers double their lead. It's now four to nothing
in the sixth or nothing, Jason.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
The pitch is hit high in the air right field,
hooking toward the poll and.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
This ball is fair and gone. Oh hey, old Tony unloads.
Hey three run home run here on the top of
the eighth inning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Terrible for the Mets to start of the eighth inning
like that.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Monsey gets into a ball high in the air right field.
He drops the battle Max Mounsey max power into the
second deck there was no doubt off the bat that
Max Munsey was leaving the yard his third home run
of the postseason.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We done, we got any more home runs? You want
to play? We good anymore?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, we'd play a Mets home run, but they didn't
have any.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, it's too you know, it's you didn't win the
series tonight. It's two to one. I mean, just so
you know it's two to one.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Why don't you go massage Devonte Adams hamstring.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I'm just that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hey, obviously the hamstring is fine. He's playing on Sunday.
I think everything is all right there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, how is that hamstring? Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
You know he's gonna play on Sunday. Y Oh, that's great.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's I did high knees on the plane going to
visit and we're good to go. Oh man.
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Speaker 1 (02:17):
All right, So just to just to because we'll get
into this and coming up more in a couple minutes,
but I mentioned this a few minutes ago. So I
watched that new Travis Kelce game show today, Are you
Smarter than an athlete?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And here here's like I said, it's hard for me
to to to say just what I thought of the show,
but basically it's.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Like, are you smarter than a fifth grader?
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Like, here comes questions and all this, and you have
people that can help you. You have celebrities who you
can call on to help. So it's kind of like,
are you smarter than a fifth grader? Married to who
wants to be a millionaire?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And Travis Kelsey is the host, and he's fine. He
moves around a lot, like you could tell he's a
little nerd and he's trying to so he moves a lot.
But it comes down to the end for this the
guy wins. The one guy wins, and the questions are
somewhat he's there's a couple I didn't know, but the
questions are wow, some are so really easy, but okay,
you expect them to get harder and harder towards the end.
(03:14):
So this guy wins, and he wins like twenty grand
or something like that, I don't know what it is.
And he's got a choice to either stop or to
try to answer the last question and win one hundred
thousand dollars. Right, So that's a choice the guy has. Okay,
so look it comes up and they say, you know,
obviously they're building up the drama. They're building it up.
And they go, okay, before you make your decision, because
(03:36):
you can choose to stop and you don't have to
answer the question.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Obviously, I'm sure the executives in the show they want
everybody to go to the end and answer the big
question at the end, right of course. So so this
guy is deciding whether or not he's going to go
on or not, and he says, I don't know. This
is a lot of money for me. It's kind of
life changing money in certain things. Okay, and you know,
Travis Kelsey to his best, going, yeah, you could get
(04:00):
one hundred thousand dollars, man if you get this question right.
So let me reveal what the question is. And it
was sixth grade literature that was that was. I'm like, oh, okay, boom,
well you got you gotta do this, And Nikki Glazer says,
I was a literature major in college.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's like, okay, so you and you can have her
help you.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And the guy sitting there he goes, yeah, I don't know,
I don't know any hems and haws. He goes, this
is you know, it's tough, like I don't like to
take risks. I took a risk with the last question
and yeah, and it's building up a lot of drama.
I'm going this guy's not gonna answer, and and he
gets to the end he goes, you know, I just
I'm sorry, I don't I know. I want to stop.
Everyone goes oh, It's like, oh, come on, man, how
(04:40):
do you not want to do this? So he takes
the money. Everybody collapsed. I'll say, good decision, good decision,
good decision. And uh and I'm going, okay, well let's
say so hopefully they show the question.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
So Travis Kelsey says, yes, here's the question.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, here's the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Question, and I'm gonna say I'll give all of you
guys a shot at it. But if if you guys
don't know the answer, you're all fired. So the question,
the question is twenty that listen.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I'll just I'll get other people to answer my question.
I don't I don't wanna. I don't want to answer
this one right here. No, not not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So it was it was sixth grade literature and it says,
complete the line by the by the poem the raven,
quote the raven blank, and I'm going, oh my god.
So they know they don't know yet. That's for one
hundred grand that's the question, right. And so they go
(05:36):
and they go, all right, does anybody have an idea?
And and Ocho Cinco was on and he either doesn't
know anything or he was really funny because every answer
he gave was funny. And they go and they go, Ocho, Sinka,
what's the answer, quote the Raven?
Speaker 6 (05:49):
What Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, okay, And so they go to Nikki Glazer and
they go to the they go to the guy, do
you know what? The answers guys, all then, I have
no idea what the answer this is. I'm like, you
don't have any idea to the answer to this? Really,
he had the guys, I don't know, I don't know. Nikki,
do you know the answer? Nikki goes, yeah, quote the
Raven never more, let's see the answer never more.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And I'm going that was the last question.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Like that would we've gone from who wants to be
a Millionaire? Where questions are like, you know, hey, this
space program, which was invented in nineteen sixty one, went
to this planet which was in this solar system, like
and now it's a quote the raven blank. That was
I'm like, that's the last question. Really, that's that's the
last question.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I like that Nikki Glazer, the comedian, has to be
the straight man on the show.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, I'm waiting for her to roast the guy. And
how do you not go for that? What's my wife
gonna say to me when hey, I want some action.
I only came home with twenty thousand bucks never more.
You know it's something crazy like that's good line. You see,
I could write for Nicki Glazer. But that's why I
said when you asked me how the show was, and
I thought to the final I'm like, I don't have
(06:57):
enough time to just tell you about I'm just gonna
tell you the story of the last question and then
we can go from there.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That really says a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that was the last question. The guy had quote
the raven blank. I'm like, oh my goodness, because for
the first split second, I'm like, is it not?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Nevermore? Is it something? Am I missing? I gotta be
missing something, right, because there's no way, no, no, no, no,
never more.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Okay no, it's that straightforward the thumb.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The answer is usually the easiest.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeps. I could not believe I said, Okay, great, that
was that show?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
All right? Then? Oh, I mean you could say, hey,
I watched it, It's not for me. I did.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I did because, like I said, it was part of
my day of Hey, I'm locked in on the Mets.
I can't really do anything else. So maybe that was
about the level of my brain. This is this is
as much as I could take right now, because I'm
really focused on the Mets right the games at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I really really locked in.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, I can't even make good wardrobe decisions every day.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I'm just wearing everything Mets every day and.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Doing laundry every three days, just watching watching all my
Met stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So I can just continue to come out with it
the next day.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I will say it makes it easier to decide what
to wear, but that that's like where I'm at, like
the top of my my thought process right now, because
it taken up by so much by the Mets, So
maybe that was the right thing for me to see today.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I don't know. Yes, you needed something mindless, something that
you clearly made you feel superior to at least that gentleman.
So you know, that's one it's all about going on
and oh today. So even if your team lost, it's
like that new line of commercials where everybody's tailgating. I
have no idea what the hell they're trying to sell me,
but it's basically, hey, we're gonna win the tailgate. We're
(08:37):
going one and oh today. Yeah, no matter what our
team does, the show and then co opted that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That's the Eli Manninguen right where they go, how do
you lose tailgate?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
You can't?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh, all right, then it's good. Okay, Yeah, I again,
I have no idea what they're selling. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It's kind of like how I felt like when you know,
the Dodger came with my dad and I go, you know,
if DZ blows this in the ninth it's okay because
I had a great day with him at the game,
and I don't know how many days I'm gonna have.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Like this, you know, with with him anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's it's like the fact the Mets are in the
playoffs and they're playing here in La.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
How often is that gonna happen? And we get to
go to the game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Together and just yeah, you know, no, that's gonna that's
my win today. And then at the end I realized
what I really had been okay with it? If DZ
gave up all those runs we lost, I don't know.
I'd like to think I wouldn't have been but that's
kind Oh hell no, yeah, I couldn't lose it, though.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You would have been salty as hell and be it
mad at your dad because now he wanted to listen
to the Yankees and he didn't want to hear about
your Mets collapse? Dad?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Can you believe that the DZ gave up four?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Hang on?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know what, if you're talking, I can't hear John
Sterling and it turns the.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Volume all the way up on the radio. On the
drive home, they're on the bases, like junks say, we
would have missed that. The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Carmen Live from the Ti rat dot Com studios.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
All right, look, so now going into game game four tomorrow,
I talked to about last night, how this was the
much more of a must win game for the Mets
than it was for the Dodgers because of the way
the series. The Dodgers decided to push this series forward.
Bullpen game in Game two, are shakiest starter in game three.
And I don't care what Dave Roberts anybody said after
(10:17):
the game, Oh that's the walker buller we expected. Stop,
you were just you had your fingers crossed, going, oh
my goodness, just don't give up seven.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Runs in the first three innings.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But now, the reason it was more than one win
for the Dodgers that I had felt that way because
they're up to on with their two best pitchers going. Now, look,
the Mets are gonna answer with a couple of really
good pictures themselves. But this is this was the Dodgers'
plan working to perfection, Like this was a perfect night
for them, and it was the exact and total opposite
of how I thought this game was gonna go. I really,
I really thought the Mets are coming in here, they're
(10:47):
excited to be home, they get a juice of electricity
after winning that game winning Game two, and they're gonna
get They're gonna put runners on base and get to
Buehler early.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And I thought, that's how this is gonna go.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And instead they have three minutes plays in the top
of the second and Lindor strikes out with the bases
loaded in a full count in the bottom of the
second inning, and that was the game. Like I know,
they played the rest of the game, there was eight nothing,
but the second inning. Sometimes the second inning is the game.
And they get two runs on three misplays, two by Severino,
one by Alvarez and and and Lindor strikes out with
(11:18):
the bases loaded, and and Buehler kind of jaws at
him going off the field, and that was the game.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And right right after that it was It was.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So much less energy and it was just like a
slow and steady march the Dodgers winning.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I will say this not to be, not to.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Be knee jerk reaction and not to be but you
know that's what I's where I realize in baseball being
a manager would be really tough because I just want
to get rid of everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well day it's a mess.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, the Mets need a couple of lineup chain, they
need something to spark them at this point, and and
Francisco Alvarez has been terrible. Uh, you know, his at
bats are awful, and he pushed, and when when you're
at bats are awful and you strike out all the time,
he should have walked tonight and insteady when the game
is still in the balance, it's two nothing, he swings
(12:04):
at a pitch that was gonna hit him in the
neck and he goes around and instead of a three
to zero count, it's two and one and he strikes out.
When that happens and you're not hitting, you press defensively.
He makes an awful decision the second inning that contributes
to the Dodgers two runs by trying to get the
lead runner out at second base on a swinging bunt.
And so he needs a day off, and Luis Torrens
needs to play, and I think.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Iglesias needs a day off.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You know, a little bit better at bats tonight, but
he needs the day off. He's not swinging the bat
grade and j D Martinez, I don't know why he
was in the lineup sight to begin with, because Jesse
Winkers had pretty good success ye against Bueller. You know,
four for twelve of his crew are two home runs,
But I think Winker needs to be back in the
lineup because JD. Martinez was nothing was nowhere close to
the ball tonight. He would swing everything was was three
(12:49):
four feet off the plate and he was just waving
at it. So, you know, coming off the last night,
I know it's a knee jerk thing a bit. But
tomorrow's a must win game. You need a little bit
of more energy in the lineup. I think McNeil should
play second base, Winker goes back to DH and Louis
Torrens goes into catch.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I think the Mets need those moves. Yeah, Martinez did
at least draw a couple of walks, part of four
that the Mets had overall, eight left on base, over
four runners in scoring position. You signaled all of the
big things in the fails in those early innings Walker
Bueller most missed bats of his twenty twenty four campaign
(13:27):
right shortened season off injury. Here four innings seem like
eight at least if you followed Twitter and followed the
announcers in the booth, because it was the how much
are we going to get? Instead it's three hits, six strikeouts,
and four shutout innings, and that was all you could
(13:49):
have hoped for. If you're Dave Roberts, I'd always like
to steal the fifth, but I get greedy for Bueller
to go four. It was everything that they could have
wanted in Dielle and then some. I mean, because you
had no idea how he was gonna respond to this.
We talked about it last night quite a bit of
all right, I think I would have started him game
(14:10):
two up one to zero. But here you go. He
comes up huge in this spot on the road, makes
all the big pitches when they count gets guys chasing,
had a good snap on the off speed like all
of that to say, you know, he gave them ample
opportunities because they work counts on him. Because that was
the other thing, right, It wasn't first ball swinging. He
threw ninety pitches, yeah, only fifty one strikes, So I
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mean you worked counts to try to set up a
big pitch and then still ended up waving out of
the zone or swinging straight through it. I mean the
pitch that he threw to Lindoor, I mean the snap
off there and whatever they said to each other, it
had a nice little animated feel to it. For the moment.
But for the Dodgers, you feel pretty good. Kopic gets
an inning, Brazier gets an inning trying and gets an inning.
(14:55):
None of them really tested too much. I guess Brazier,
you know, had his twenty pitch but otherwise not very stressful.
And Casparius can comes in for two innings and finishes it.
So you still have your high leverage, high inning, high
octane guys. So for Dave Roberts advantage into tomorrow seeing
(15:16):
what you get out of your starter. So yeah, I
would expect a lot of changes on the Mets side,
listless at bats down the stretch, go for that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Boost, man, it's all or nothing, all enough. McNeil's a
guy that won a batting title. You can always put
guys like Iglacias in the middle of the game if
they change pictures.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You can always do that. But need something tomorrow, man,
because these guys are just not hitting. And we know
straw and good and are in town.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So that's right, Hey, if you want to start Good
in Strawberry tomorrow, I'm good with that. I'm absolutely okay
with that one percent exit out about a Fresco exit
swollen dome.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Coming up next, we will break down the biggest, hugest
play of the night. And here's the thing wasn't in
the NLCS. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Quote the raven never more.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I would have had that. I thought some one of
them would have squawked. Am I supposed to give an
impression of a raven? What? What am I supposed to
do here? I don't know. Just you just sit there
and go okay, rack, I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
We got two big NFL quarterback stories coming up in
a minute. But want to say this. The highlight of
the night tonight, by far comes from the w NBA.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The pitch is hit.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
High and this ball is fair and gone. Dudes, Hey,
three run home run here in the top of.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yes again for the highlight of the night. We talked
about this. I can't believe that was only three hundred
ninety seven feet. I'm never gonna trust the technology of
stat cast saying this is how far that was fifteen
rows from being out of city field, from being over
the top of the stadium. Somebody, three ninety seven feet.
Come on, man, that's ridiculous. I go, yeah, okay, three
(17:25):
ninety seven feet. We don't know how long any of
these home runs are.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That's just ridiculous. Well, you know what, it's more ridiculous though.
I just sent you the text with it the number
forty drawn on everybody's face and support of their pitcher.
The hell is that? Oh? Well, they wanted support Louis Severino.
He couldn't just say, hey, go get him, big guy.
Well maybe they were not going to craw on my face?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Is that I black actually helping like that? No, didn't
help him feel the ball in the second I think. No,
when he blew those two grounders and gave the Dodgers
two runs, they help him there and did it? Didn't
help us at all? But yes, all right, So, as
I said, we you know there was a play. Let's
go to the other play of the night.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Munsey gets into a ball high in the air right field.
He drops the bat. Max Munsey Max Power into the
second deck.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
There was no doubt off the bat that Okay, nobody
tells Max Power what to do Power?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Who is that man and why is he here again?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
So yes, those are big highlights the night.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But Game three of the WNBA Finals, best of five
Liberty and the Links. This game is tied at seventy
seven apiece, so Brina Yanescu has the ball for the
Liberty and broving that only one New York team can
have a big win a day. H This is how
Game three of the finals ended.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
They still have their reset into Foebish eight seconds remaining
in the fourth quarter of Game three.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Four seconds you nest, you will tea Sopritao Nescu with
the biggest shot in Liberty history.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
ESPN on the call, a twenty eight footer to win
the game over the Links, who don't really get a
shot off.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
With one second left on the clock.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
She takes the shot clock all the way down, dribbles
a little bit to the left, and hits a logo
Damian Lillard Steph Curry, winning the gold medal twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Foot three pointer.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, and the best part about this is that, yeah,
here we are you thought, Okay, Yes, WNBA is Caitlin
Clark driven big headline. Today she's named First Team All WNBA.
Everybody's still paying attention to the playoffs. Everybody's still watching
the finals. It's still a big deal. And this is
one of those shots where even if you have you're
(19:53):
new to the WNBA this season, you've never watched a game.
I don't watch women's games, and why you watch the
end of this game? You he hit that shot and
you go, man, that's a Steph shot, That's a Lillard shot.
That is an unbelievable shot, no matter what kind of
basketball you like to watch.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Because what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
She's twenty eight feet away, couple of dribbles and she
just drains it. That is so impressive. How many NBA
Finals games that we seem end that way, playoff games
that we've seen end where it's no.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, no, no, no, oh, what a shot.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Oh Steph with a shot winning gold medal after gold medal,
getting all the gold medals because of what he did
at the end of the game, or Lillard.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I mean, that was just an amazing shot. And in
the best season.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The WNBA has ever had, and they got issues obviously,
but the best season they've had. We're in a finals
where you have a shot like that that puts the
Liberty one win away from winning the WNBA title for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Nineteen thousand, five hundred people in attendance, big ratings, no doubt,
still a draw, even opposite a league championship series game.
And one of the stars, right, the one that was
getting off of the attention as we got towards COVID
and all of that. So for and I ask you
(21:06):
to come and hit this big shot in this moment
as they're announcing you know, league's best and all this stuff.
Absolutely huge and then the full celebration crowd kind of
goes silent, you know, raucus to oh, thinking you're getting overtime,
getting gonna get some free basketball instead. Boom, and then
she runs down the court, gets the tongue out and
(21:26):
waving and running past the benches. Yeah. I mean, it
was all the theatrics that you want in a big game
kind of moment and one of the big players that
you can propel to another another level here, I mean,
because we remember talking about her when she was in college, uh,
and what a star she was and wondering how that
would translate. And well, Caitlin Clark gets the headline. Doesn't
(21:49):
mean there aren't a lot of other folks that are
right there with her. So big, big shot, big opportunity.
And then you just talk about the liberty and you know,
balancing your world. Smith of New York Sports.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You know, and she's got that mamba mentality. She was
one of the players Kobe took under his wing when
he became such a great proponent for women's basketball. You know,
Kevin Durantz putting out a cold blooded killer tweet tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
For her making that shot.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Just an incredible shot by her.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And and not and and I know it's weird to
say this because it's it's kind of contrary to where
sports is going. But with the rise of the WNBA
this year, right, we're gonna see next year the end
the WNA files going to seven games, Right, I think
I think every round should go best to seven.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But okay, and here I am.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
The last few weeks and and uh, you know, maybe
because just going through the for the first time ever,
really going through the extended playoff, you know with the Mets,
when it's okay, it's the first round best of three,
then it's the best of five. Then then you're in
the NLCS and all the playoffs. Is I started thinking
to myself, you know, I get that, Hey, all these games,
all the best of seven, best of seven.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I don't know. I kind of dig best of fives.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I think the maybe because the length of the series
it seems like it's it's it's so long. But man,
I'll tell you the excitement of the short series, the
excitement of a best of five and winning three out
of five.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I don't know, man, I just feel like the games.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Mean, not that they don't, not that other games don't
mean as much, but boy, in a series where you
lose a couple of games, it's a bit like there's
such a there's such an impetus to win because of that, right,
And I thought about it because of this, right. Obviously, yes,
the series with the Phillies and the Mets, and the
Mets putting pressure on Philadelphia, and you know, coming off
the best of three series of the Brewers. But think
(23:34):
about best of five, right, what did we see in
Game two of the NLCS? Dave Roberts basically just said, Hey,
if we win today, it's a bonus right, there's not
a lot we're gonna we're gonna put our bullpen guys
out there. Are you gonna put any of your high
leverage guys out there when you're down one nothing. No,
we're gonna go to land in neck and he's gonna
give up bread and and we're basically saying this is
a game we can win or not not win.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You don't have that in in a.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Best of five.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Dave Roberts saying, oh man, we gotta walker buler eruptik,
we gotta have game two.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
We gotta do that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You're not saying we're gonna let a team get a
w get back into a best of five series. I
like the immediacy and the sense of urgency of a
best of five. I think that's more excitement. I think
it's more of a of a of I don't want
to say you you don't you have a You have
more energy to win a game, but every second counts
a lot more because there's less wiggle room. You don't
(24:24):
have time to get down and say everything's fine. It's
gonna be a long series. We get one over there,
we're back here at our place, and look how many
series you wind up saying okay, game five. You know,
series tied it to a piece. I like the the
the amping up of of what the incredible energy of
a series is when you go best of five. I
(24:44):
mean just me watching this last and just seeing how
long Best of seven is and how long this series is.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Best of seven. Hey, Met's got their baskets to the wall.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
They'd win or go home tomorrow. But if not, you
for it's a decisive game five. Hey, that's great, right,
I love that part of it. I you know, when
now that we have so much drama with the best
of five series, I don't know, I look at the
Best of seven, I go, yeah, it's a little long.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, it gets.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Like I like I said, maybe it's just a weird
place m in my head right now. But just after
seeing this over the playoffs the last few weeks, to
start thinking, yeah, boy, best of five would be really
really good.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah. As a as a glutton for hey, give me
more games, more more power, all that stuff, right, Everybody
laments an eighteenth game in the NFL season, like, hey,
players are gonna get half the money. Eventually they'll just
shrug because it'll get forced on them and they'll move on. Right,
or eventually a nineteenth game or expansion or international super Bowls.
(25:38):
If the dollars may make sense, everything else will follow
with it, which is why we get to seven games.
But to your point, also dragging the NBA into it,
how many times you say, all right, they're down twenty
in the first All right, that guy's now got an
ice pack on his knee and that's the end to him.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Yeah, we're done, We're putting this game away and we're
coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, there's a lot of but a lot as you said,
with seven game series, right.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
But with Dave Roberts in game two. If we get
get a good run, great, If not, we don't not
gonna use the high leverage. Guys, not gonna stress it.
Got to reset the bullpen, reset the starting rotation. And
the old mantra of the show going on a decade
is I can't fall to good strategy. Now, let's see
if it works to become a good strategy. But at
(26:21):
least in theory, this is how they're laying it out
and how they want to play it. Right, and through
three games here we are two to one. Now you
get your starters back. You got a little bit of
work for trying in and copicking company to kind of
push this game along, but never really in stressful situations
and stressful innings to where the pitch count goes up,
(26:42):
et cetera. Now you have everything rolling forward as you
move through the series. But yeah, I like the urgency
of a all right, let's let's push the buttons. What
do you need to do and what's your best decision
to try to force things your way? Yeah? The five
game certainly doesn't that far more so for for drama purposes. Yeah,
(27:04):
sense of urgency and you have to perform and every
bat takes on that much more meaning absolutely for the
other Again, I grabbed my popcorn because if we get seven,
we all win.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. Got a
big quarterback story coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
Brian Finley has what's trending in the wide world of
Sports BF.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Yeah, thanks Jason and Mike. We're talking Game three NLCS
where the Dodgers wanted eight to nothing against the Mets,
And yeah, Carlos Mendoza, the manager for the Mets, had
this to say afterwards, considering how challenging LA was in
the game and the challenges they provided.
Speaker 9 (27:46):
The shrikes on they're not gonna chase us much. They
don't have guys there that chase as much. And then
they can hit them ball out of the ballpark. They
can get on base. So yes, we gotta not only
get ahead, but we gotta go think to stay on
that time being execute pitchers. If we get behind in
couns are gonna make us bay.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
There were three home runs in the game four Los Angeles,
including sho heey Otani. Max Munsey went yard as well,
and that Munty home run is significant because he joins
Justin Turner and Corey Seeger as the Dodgers all time
postseason home run leaders, all with thirteen to their name.
These series is now two to one in favor of
the Dodgers. In Game four is tomorrow from New York WNBA.
(28:26):
Game three the final Sabrina Ionescu hit a twenty eight
foot three pointer to seal it at the end to
give the Liberty at eighty to seventy seven win against
the Links. So just like the Dodgers go up two
games to one, the Liberty go up two games to
one as well. NHL regular season four games on the
(28:47):
docket on Wednesday, everything went final two going to overtime,
including the Ducks at home winning five to four at
OT against the Utah Hockey Club, a win for the
Bruins five to three games it's the Avalanche, Avalanche or
zero to four.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
They haven't won yet, may beliefs.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
They truck the King six to two, and an overtime
win for the Penguin six to five against the Sabers
where Sidney Crosby net of the overtime win for the Penguins.
And lastly, guys in the world of the NFL, we
do know that with the Thursday night game coming up
between the Saints and the Broncos, Denver is sidelining their
(29:25):
cornerback Patrick's retained, the second because of a concussion. New
Orleans wide receiver Chris o'lavey will not be playing in
that game because of a head injury. And lastly, the
Steelers holding running back Naji Harris out of practice today
with a rib injury. With that, let's get it back
to Jason and Mike.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Thank you very much, Brian family. So we got a
couple of quarterback stories coming away. The first one is
this on the heels of Davante Adams getting delt to
the Jets and the Marii Cooper getting delt to the
Buffalo Bills. Patrick Mahomes today talked about the status of
the Chiefs wide receivers and he was like, I know
they're gonna ask me, because boy, we need wide receivers.
(30:06):
And he said he's happy with the crew they got. Okay, Uh,
first of all, yes, that's obviously what he's going to say.
Right Hey, I wake up every day, I gotta worry
about what Britney and Jackson are doing.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I gotta check them, make sure social media is clean
before I go.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
To this, go to the facilities, and if not, I
got to worry about what I gotta do after. So
just gotta make sure I'm not The wide receivers are fine.
They're the least of my problems right now. So, yeah,
I understand that's what he's gonna say. But were the
Raiders gonna trade DeVonta Adams to the Chiefs? Know where
the Brown's gonna trade Amari Cooper to the Chiefs. Know
the Chiefs are gonna get a wide receiver. In fact,
(30:41):
I'll go bold at the deadline, They're gonna get two
wide receivers. While things are okay for them. Now, look, look,
they're five and zero. They have some time. They don't
need to be as desperate as teams like the Jets
and the Bills. Right, the Jets need a wide receiver
because hey, look at what's going on. They want to
make sure they get to vont Adams. The Bill saw,
we better get a wide receiver sooner rather than later
(31:03):
because it's just not working. The Chiefs have time. They
don't need to get world beater wide receivers. They don't
need to go out and pay a lot of money
for these guys. But they're gonna go get two guys
for the deadline that are gonna come in and transform
the wide receiver room. They have to, and there's gonna
be guys available, you know. Deontay Johnson may right now say,
oh I want to stay in Carolina.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I love Carolina. Oh you could trade me.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
To the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh well, okay, I want to go there and win
a Super Bowl. So they have time because they're five
and zero, right. The Chargers are not bad, but everybody
else in the division stinks. The AFC is wide open.
They're at the top of it. They don't need to
panic but there is no way they are going to
the playoffs with this being their wide receiver room of
Worthy in Smith, Schuster.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And Justin Watson being their top three guys.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's not happening because while that may be enough to
win enough games in the regular season, that's not getting
into the super Bowl. You're not winning with that. You're
just not The Chiefs are a different team. They are
winning by holding on. They are winning by by out
executing and clubs. That's what the Chiefs are. They're a
really good team with a clutch quarterback and a pretty
good defense. But that's a team that can lose in
(32:07):
the playoffs and they're gonna do everything they can to
make sure that's not who they are. But it's just
not gonna be right now. It'll be more close to
the deadline when more players are available, and they'll bring
not one, but two wide receivers will come in and
that's gonna be your wife. And they'll bring in two
guys will be two of the top three guys like
it may be Worthy and the two guys they bring in,
(32:27):
those are gonna be your starting wide receivers by the
time the Chiefs got to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, I think one of the big things to ponder,
and certainly, you know, as we talk about this, you
look at Ah they got rid of Tyreek Hill and
then they won. Well, I would argue the AFC is
a bit deeper and ready to go, and Cincinnati's gonna
start playing better football. I don't know if that they
figure out their defense, but the offense is certainly clicking
(32:51):
on a whole other level. So it's not gonna be
a runaway and hide kind of situation. And as good
as the defense is played, and you would can expect
them to continue to do so, you know, and Travis
Kelcey's starting to round back into Travis Kelcey, et cetera.
You got to keep up with the Joneses. You got
(33:12):
to get Patrick Mahomes as many options as possible. And
let's face it, there's a lot of teams that are
starting to look ahead towards twenty twenty five already as
we saw this week, right, big trades in the east
of the AFC. You gotta keep pace. I assume Worthy
gets better as it goes. But is he suddenly a
(33:32):
number one No, he's never He's never gonna be a
number one receiver. That's not He's not built to be
that guy in that way. So yeah, and Juju Smith
Schuster is a great find. Is he a true number one? Again? No,
we watched the well traveled path that he's had, so
you gotta go find some more help, especially the running
(33:53):
back room, you know, kind of being depleted as well.
So yeah, I would expect them to be active. How
aggress they are. I like the double up. I like
the boldness there.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Let's go exit out about a Fresco exit, swollen dove.
That that is how the Chiefs are going to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Man. But speaking of being.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Bold, you'll never guess who's gonna play on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
That's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tireck dot Com Studio.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
We're not even close, man.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
We want somebody off tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
We get two more days.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The Mets are one day closer to vacation.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You won Game three, Frostburg. Congratulations, we didn't congratulations, congratulate you.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Tommy's bull hasn't landed yet, No.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
It hasn't.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Three ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He knocked the crap out of that one. Yeah, no way,
no way, three ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's four hundred and fifty feet live again. It was
fifteen rows from going out of the stadium like whatever.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
With the wind blowing the other way, paying the.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Ball with and the ball was actually dunked in water
before they threw it. So tell you what fall is
here though?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
What was it? A fifty degrees at first pitch?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, it was nice. Yeah, it's fun seeing baseball. Oh,
this is what baseball is when when guys are in
winter coats and the fans are all they have, like
they have scarves around them in gloves on.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
That's baseball. That's playoff baseball. So guess who's gonna play
On Sunday?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Davante Adams will make his Jets debut for the team
against the Steelers. And look what do we say last night?
I have no doubt the Jets are gonna succeed. It
just has to be now. They can't wait.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
It can't be.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Oh, in a month, if they're really good, in a month,
and there's still a couple games under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
The season's over.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
They already right now have to go eight and three
to make the playoffs, to get to ten and seven, right,
so there's no wiggle room. They have to be good.
They have to be good now, no surprise. Hey Adams
is familiar with Aaron rodd Yeah, we'll throw him out there.
It's gonna be great on Sunday. Uh, you won't miss
any of the cadence. No, no, no, he's gonna know
the cadence. He's gonna he's gonna know it. And he
(36:09):
actually said the moment he said today, I want to
be here for a long time. I don't want to
be somebody traveling around. He wants to stay with Rogers,
which makes me think Rogers in it for another year
at least and moving on, because that's a big thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I want to stay here.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
But with the Davante Adams trade, the last twenty four
hours has been everybody hates Aaron Rodgers, Like this is
the moment that people have been waiting for forever. He's
a bad leader, he can't get it done anymore. He's
past his prime. He's a bad teammate. He gets his
coach fired, he gets his offensive coordinator demoted, He throws
(36:43):
his wide receiver under the bus. He says he ran
a wrong route on the big play at the end
of the game. Aaron Rodgers, bad guy, bad everything. This
is a field day for Aaron Rodgers haters. Okay, now
let me let me let me tell you the truth
here is. This is not where I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Say Aaron Rodgers is the best. Come on, man, I'll Rogers.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
First of all, I don't think anybody's ever questioned him
being a bad leader. Uh, pretty sure. In Green Bay,
everybody loved him for going on fifteen years. So I
think that bad leader part is out of it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Should he have said that about to talk about But.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Being a leader is about is about being able to
lead the guys in the locker room, not like, hey,
I'm leading the organization. I'm a leader with my teammates.
Should he have said that about Mike Williams. No, But
I don't think Aaron Rodgers is going to say Mike
Williams ran the wrong route.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
If he didn't run the wrong route, so yeah, was
that the best thing? No? So I don't think that's
that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Jason, you're right, he's not a bad leader. He's a
horrible leader.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
No, just stop, man, you would trade stop?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Oh yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Just go to Harballs trailer park and where we're living
in whatever?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Where does he live in the r v where he's
living in the r v U?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Does he live in one of those like Sheishi areas
or trailer park areas.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
To jj Abrams.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
So let me let let me let me say this.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
The whole the whole deal with Rogers is that for
all the haters, I'm gonna tell you this right now,
for the haters, people who think he's bad, bad guy bad,
this bad everything, we're gonna find out because the rest
of the season is a referendum on him.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Everything.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
He's gotten everything he needs.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
He got his wide receivers, he got his coach fired
that he wanted, He got everything he needs, got everything
he wants. So there's nothing else to give him. It's like,
you know, there's what else can I give you? There's nothing,
I have nothing else, I have nothing, that we fired
the coach, that there's no trades that can happen, there's
no The offensive line is good enough, and the more
they play together, the better. They're gonna be No, he's
(38:42):
not under constant duress like like like as Zach Wilson
or the last couple of years before that. He's fine enough.
He's not getting sacked a lot. He's he threw for
three hundred yards. They ran for a hundred. He didn't
get three hundred yards. That's twenty eight games in a row.
Okay to eighty seven to eighty seven, that's fine. They
ran for one hundred and fifty. I think the offensive
line twenty nine is not thirty. So he will get
(39:04):
only the money you deserve. So, but we're gonna find out,
because this is gonna be it. Like at the end
of this year, we are gonna know is Rogers still good,
is Rogers done?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Does his team love him all?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We're gonna get the answers to all of these because
there's nothing else out there now.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
It could be an excuse or anything else.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
We are gonna know, and we're gonna see it in
black and white on the field over the course of
the next ten plus weeks.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, I mean through six weeks. I mean we've seen
him have opportunities and come up short, and we can
talk about all the different things that didn't happen, that
didn't go right. Some of them are decisions and throws
that he didn't make, and I'm sure each one of
them would be the well, if this guy did this,
I wouldn't have thrown that interception or that. He hasn't
(39:48):
been perfect right, and nobody is, but certainly a couple
of the losses in this three game losing streak, I
think we can look at him. You gotta come up
with more than nine points against Denver all night. Listen.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I'm not saying there's that, But we're gonna find out
all of this.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Oh I think he said no, No, We're gonna find
out it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Is all right in a row.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
We're gonna know over the next ten weeks just what
kind of quarterback he is because he's got everything he wants.
Twenty five teams are jealous as hell to have the
weapons he has. Twitter and how about a Fresco Mike
at Swollen Dome Coming up next, my buddy Ben Mallor.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
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