October 18, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason Smith admits the Dodgers are peaking and making hamburger meat out of the Mets. The Cleveland Guardians hit two late BOMBS and walk it off in extra innings to beat the Yankees. And Jason shares the dream he had about Jerry Jones!
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Right now, two big games happening. We'll get to the
Yankees and the Guardians in a minute. NFL first, the
Broncos with a sixteen to three lead over the Saints
and they are looking for more. Big run puts them
deep in Saints territory sixteen to three early in the
third quarter. And I know that we talk about celebrating
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all to seventy two. But boy, that Patriots game a
couple weeks ago that might be in the two seventy range.
This game tonight might be in the two seventy range.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
This is bottom three, I think, no matter what happens,
the rest of the way, just an absolute train wreck.
Towards the end of the half, you literally had the
Saints call a timeout only to then kneel on the
ball to end the half.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
All right, We're.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Maybe gonna throw a hail there once to get everybody
in the game. All right, who hasn't gotten in yet, Okay,
we'll call time out. Everybody get in. You can tell
your parents you played. Okay, great, come to practice next week.
It'll be awesome, all right.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Prior possession, bo Nicks throws an awful pass to nobody
in particular, Honey Badger're back to basically make a fair catch,
drops it. Career leader in interceptions to thirty five. We
would later find out Broncos keep the ball one completion
and they're able to tack on to their lead to
make it sixteen and now sixteen guys, it's awful.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Quick question for you. Yeah, who's more mad tonight?
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Jason Smith about his Mets okay or Al Michael's having
to call this craft Michaels.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, he's very, very upfront about how bad this is.
The Other thing is they're celebrating Drew Brees even with
his bad shoulder. He'd look better than Spencer Rattler. I mean,
I've seeing dog poop look better.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Than the Mets.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Game is still in the fifth inning and we've had
a magic carpet ride. This is just Al's Thursday. It's like, great,
the Broncos in the Saints. Hey, that check's gotta clear.
He'll be just fine. And he's hanging with Ben, so
we get him some gumbo. Yeah, we need something. We
will have more from this game if it merits. I
will have more in this game coming up throughout the night.
Sixteen to three again, Broncos with the lead, and it
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looks like they're gonna be kicking a field goal to
make this a nineteen to three ball game. Meanwhile, happening
right now in New York, it is the Dodgers on
top of the Mets five to two. Pitching change, Yoshinoba
Yamamoto leaving the game. They hit Francisco Alvarez to open
the inning, struck out Francisco Lindor on a fastball that
was about three feet too high, And this has been
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a big theme for the Mets there at bats have
not been good, but the Dodgers have kicked this game
off with a.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Home run from sho Heo Tani.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They have had timely and clutch hitting, and you could
say many things about the series to this point, and still,
you know, it's still a long way to go, and
the Mets games don't really start till the seventh or
eighth inning. But with the Dodgers up five to Yoshinoba
Yamamoto had a really good start. Talked about this last night.
If the Mets were chasing against Walker Bueller, they're gonna
chase against Yamamoto. They've been chasing against Yamamoto. But all
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the permutations combinations. I just come back to this. The
Dodgers are now hitting the point where they're playing their
best baseball the postseason, and maybe the Mets have already
hit that point because they've kind of been existing, you know,
game to game the last few nights. They had a
horrible game one, they had a really good game Two,
they had a really bad Game Three, They're having a
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really bad Game four. The Dodgers seemed like a team
that you want to look back and say, hey, Game
four of the NLDS, it looks like that's when they
turn into the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They had the big win over the Padres when they
went not nine for eight for eight bullpen guys from
Dave Roberts. They go on to win Game five with
a shutout. Then they come in with a shutout in
Game one, they get a shutout. In Game three, they're
out five to two. Here, you could say a lot
of things, but the Dodgers really they're playing their best
baseball right now. And this is what we expected from
them most of the season. Now they're getting what they needed,
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and the biggest question was how is their starting pitching
going to do? But you're getting four innings out of
Walker Bueler, you got great seven innings out of Flaherty,
you got five innings out of Yamamoto and a three
run lead, So you've gotten everything you wanted out of
your starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I mean, look, you made the joke off air about
alvarez Is best at bat weeks was the hit by pitch. Yeah,
took one for the team. It's smarted. It took a
second for him to get down to first, but yeah,
he won for one and now represents you know, a runner,
uh for for this potential Mets rally as it were. Look,
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you can't walk as many batters as the Mets have
and think you're going.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But that's the whole season, is the Mets of one.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
But eventually it comes back to bite you in the
as they've walked in in a playoff series where the
stakes are that much higher.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And let's face it, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
We were talking about this even with your dad, uh
and and of course with our executive producer and mister Frostberg.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Just the umpires like you got.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
The Dodgers broadcasters for the for the home call, complaining
on both sides like normally it's the you know, all
one way. Nope, No, the energy was consistent of these
guys are just awful and it's back but it's been
back to back nights where you've had no consistency whatsoever
in the strike zone. To the players aren't complaining, they're
just looking back on Okay, what do we call them?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Just tell me what it's gonna be. What are we doing?
Tell me what it's gonna be so I can adjust.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
But yeah, so all of those bad at bats, because
Mendoza said this last night and I just wanted to
make sure to punctuate it, commenting on the quality of
the Dodgers at bats, and then there was a pause
leaving the obvious unsaid, we're not getting.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Good at bats.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
We're going up too aggressively and not waiting for a pitch,
not making these guys work. And you've seen it this
entire series with the Dodger hitters is they've been patient,
drawing walks and setting up big opportunities.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I mean, I'd like to say that this is a
Dodgers thing, but this is kind of the Mets walk you.
It's say, be patient, see a lot of pitches, because
the Mets will put you on.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I mean that's the data point, especially for Quintana Man.
They threw out the stat and it still they do,
uh go and get these specificity off it, but they
estimated it was low forty percent in terms of him
being on the plate.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But the one thing I can say for this right
because look, because it breaks down that way, the Dodgers
are the better team. They're playing their best baseball right now.
The one thing for the Mets I can say, Look,
I completely disagree. Carlos Mendoza needed to do something to
jolt the team tonight. He couldn't wait, and he's gonna
wind up waiting one too many games and he's gonna
make it when it's three games to one in the series,
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is gonna be over. But last night I said, you
have a lot of guys that just aren't hitting. They're
just aren't hitting, and you need some kind of jolt.
And as good as a Glacias has been, and as
good as you know, a young player as Francisco Alvarez is,
and as good as JD. Martinez was for parts of
the season, they can't play. They can't hit.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
JD.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Martinez is waving at pitches in the dirt and he
doesn't stop. The same thing with Francisco Alvarez. And I
want to want to go and talk about Aglacius, who
was hitting three point fifty. Now he's swinging it stuff
that is way outside the strike zone and he's not
making solid contact. The Mets needed to say, okay, you
know what this is a Jesse Winker plays and then
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we're gonna go back to Jeff McNeil, who's gonna play,
And Luis Torrens is gonna catch like.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I know sure?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And and Hernandez will play first? Yeah no no, Ray
Knight will play third. No, I got Rafael Santana shortstop. No no, no,
I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
There.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They needed they did, oh man like that. They need
They needed some kind of change. He needed legend.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, they needed something to spark the lineup and they
didn't do it. And Mendoz is waiting a game too
long to do this because you can see they've had
a couple of chances not been able to go through.
The at bats aren't great. Look, the Dodgers are playing great.
The Mets seem like they're hitting the wall. But when
his team seems like and looked like they were hitting
the wall last night, you need to do something.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I get.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You want to be you want to be beholden and
be loyal to guys who got you there. But it's
not gonna it's not gonna kill you to tell Iglesias,
hey man, you're not hitting.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Take a day.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I've been the everyday second baseman. You're thirty four years old,
you're Candelita, You're OMG, you're the You know, we can
put in a Jeff McNeil, who maybe is gonna give
us a little bit better at bats. We can put
in Louise Torrens, who is not gonna be a big
hole at the bottom of the lineup right. We can
put Jesse Winker and who is at least getting on
basic times, and not Jad Martinez who looks like he's
done at thirty seven. Like that's the one thing I
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can say is that boy. They needed some kind of
spark tonight and Mendoza didn't do it. And we talked
about it last night, and right away after the game
he said, nope, same guys are playing tomorrow. Like, dude,
you gotta take a step back and understand that you
can't play this like I'm loyal and these guys are
gonna what these guys are gonna break out against y'all.
I mean, come on, man, what are you doing? You
need someone You gotta put some lefties in there against yamamotor.
You have to figure something else out. Sometimes it's just
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about changing the energy and maybe it's a little bit different,
and instead the Mets just look like a team that's
punching the clock right now, They're looking for answers. They
can't find them at bats aren't good. I just watched
Mark Fiento strikeout on a fastball.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Down the middle.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He didn't pull a bat off his shoulders on like
I wonder if the Dodgers. The Dodgers have just defeated
the Mets mentally. You know, they hit the home run
to tie the game in the first ending after Otani's
home run. Okay, the Mets got the momentum back, and
then the Dodgers bleed their way to more runs infield,
single drives, in a run, the Mets walk a couple,
and it's just the Mets look like mentally they're a
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little defeated right now. And if you're a little defeated
against the best team in the National League and maybe
the best team in baseball, guess what, You're not gonna
win games that way.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
And you've ended five, you've only gone to a one
guy in the bullpen thus far, Yamamoto with his seventy
three pitches, he finished with eight strikeouts, giving up the
tour and runs in four and a third.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
They give a way to Phillips.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And now we move on to the meat of the game,
to where you still have all your high leverage guys
for the Dodgers lying in wait, so you know, opportunities
have been there. Mets have certainly had them leaving runners
on base once again, Dodgers had opportunities for monster innings,
and they made the out pitches. The Mets did a
good job to contain what could have been even bigger
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rallies to keep them in the game. But then once again,
just bat at bats and then you finally get a
fat ball to Ham and he watches it go by.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, it's it's You could say a lot of things, right,
he could say a lot of things, But I'm a realist.
The Mets have overachieved. They certainly have enough to play
the Dodgers. They're they're they're a heavyweight team. But the
Dodgers are playing great at the right time right. Sometimes
it's get in the playoffs and you gotta get hot,
and boy, the Mets got hot and hot at the
right time right end of the regular season. Carry them
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through the Brewers series, carry them through the Philly Series.
Dodgers kind of meandered their way to the end. All
of a sudden, it was like they flipped a switch.
In Game four against the Padres, shutout, shut out, shutout, loss,
shut out, now dominating this game five to two in
the sixth inning. It's like they they are peaking at
the time when it's like, hey, we're gonna take this
into the World Series, right, not playing that first round,
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Which is why the argument for do.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You really want the bu the bue no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
The Dodgers showing you this is why you don't want
to buy, because they're gonna be playing their best ball
going into the World Series, where whoever comes out of
the American League after tonight, that's gonna be a big thing.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But the Dodgers have started to play their best baseball,
and you see that this is the team we thought
we were going to see all season long. We saw
it early in the season for such sure, and then
they kind of just said, Okay, we're good. We got
the big lead in the West. We're going to play
five hundred the rest of the way. We don't know
what our pitching is going to be. And the big
question mark has come through for them so big in
the postseason. Now you're mixing and matching throughout the season.
I mean, like it's been well chronicled. The number of
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pitchers that they had to go through the bullpen. Depending
on where you were grabbing and which metric you wanted
to rank them, they were no worse than fourth as
a bullpen as a whole. So when it all comes
down to it is they were well versed in the
rhythms of how a game was going to operate, because
it was rare that you saw a starter get into
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the sixth, let alone finish it. We didn't get that
much at all. You know, when Flaherty did it the
other day, you know, you wanted to, you know, shoot
off some fireworks because it was a big deal because
you didn't go to five six guys out of the
pen to get yourself a w So, yeah, it's peaking
at the right time, pulling all the strings. Joey o'toanni
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now won one for one, you know, with nobody on base. Yeah,
and then because we walked them every other time, because
we could pick random arbitrary polls by which to start
the streak.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So guys, I got a chant, ready repeat after me?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Ready, go ahead, Rostburg, what do you got the the
Mets say it.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Mets say it, stink say it, and Frostburg stink. There
you go.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Like, Mike, you were supposed to join, and I said
you guys, Oh, I thought it was just for him.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No, I would have said, Jason, I got one for you. Okay,
all right, that's fine, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
You're not a pile on Mike. What what's up the
Mets season? Mets games don't start till the eighth inning.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Man, it's fine, said we didn't play that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It was fine, we didn't. I'm sure. I'm sure that
the ball was deuced. I'm sure they find.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Well, I mean you had other people were saying that
they had the signal. Yeah, sure, sure that the same
A million things floating on the inner webs. Alright, you
got other folks saying that the the whole production part
of things was canceled in New York. Did you see
that meme that was going around saying, Wow, this is
this supplier for Major League Baseball. They notified them they
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wouldn't need them for the Mets for this.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Fourteen feet I think you don't sell it short. I
think it might have been at a thousand, might have
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Speaker 1 (15:18):
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with my best friend Mike Harmon Imperial Highway. Bottom of
the sixth inning. The Dodgers' lead is now seven too
over the Mets. Til Mayton comes in and in my
best Larry Beale, here it comes and there it goes.
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Mookie Bets a two run homer to give the Dodgers
say seven to two lead as the Mets come to
bat in the bottom of the sixth inning. And look,
it's that simple. The Dodgers are peaking and they're making
mincemeat and hamburger out of a Mets bullpen that doesn't
have one trustworthy reliever right now, right. So to get
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a little bit more into this, we'll get to the
Guardians and the Yankees in a minute. What do I
always tell you, show me a bullpen having a bad series,
I'll show your team getting knocked out of the playoffs.
You can overcome a lot in the Major League Baseball players.
You can overcome a series where you don't hit because
you can pitch and you can do well. You can
overcome a series which you know, I don't have starting
pitching because you can hit the bullpen. Nobody can overcome
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bad bullpen. Nobody can. And every series has that in
common the last few years in Major League Baseball, with
the lesser reliance on starting pitching. And you look at
you know, you look at you know Boyd who is
where was he six months ago? And now here he is,
you know, starting Game three for the Guardians?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Right What was he?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I was teaching my kids little league team now starting
game three of the Ald.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Movie from Disney anyway, right now.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So with the more reliance on the bullpen, it's become
that simple. You can overcome a lot in the playoffs,
but you will not overcome a bad bullpen. And the
Mets bullpen has zero, I mean zero trustworthy relievers. Right
there's nobody to go to. They don't have won. Peterson
lost his mojo. Bhutto, who is a best reliever over
the last couple of months, can't go to him. Diz
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is in every other game guy, he's the lamar Odom
of Major League Baseball closers. Ottovido, who is our set
up guy last year, isn't even on the roster this time,
Arond because he's not good enough. They just the Mets
have zero trustworthy relievers and the Dodgers have all of them,
right like that and that, and that's a big reason
you wouldn you know, parse this out a bit more.
Is that that you know, I look at why the
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Mets are losing, why the Dodgers are winning, and and
the bullpen for the Mets is what really has just
betrayed them because when the starting pitching comes out, all right.
But there it's like, hey, now we're in. You can't
bring anybody in that. We're afraid anybody that. Okay, here's
a big high leverage guy. Yeah, okay, yeah, you bring
in your high leverage. You don't have any high leverage guys.
Everybody you have that is low leverage. Like it's when
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when that kind of confidence is hitting a team. Uh,
it is something to watch. And I watched the Mets
have it against the Phillies and the Brewers and the Brays.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
But watching the Dodgers have this against the Mets, it's
quite something else because the Mets really they have no
relievers to bring. They're not they haven't had any in
in a month. They've had nobody to bring it, and
that's killing them.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Well.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
As Guerrilla Monson would say, it was a reversal of fortune,
the reversal of circumstance, because to your point, you would
talk going into this series, the expectation was, hey, we'd
gotten into bullpens and we decimated what were some of
the best bullpens in Major League Baseball. The Mets had
taken care of business, good at bats, quality at bats, waiting.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
On a pitch. This series no, quite the opposite. They're
why they're.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
On the receiving end time and again of Dodgers hitters
just saying eventually, you're gonna give me a fat one.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I'm not first ball swinging. I'm not giving you a freebie.
We're gonna make you work. And when you're two teams
that are heavily reliant on bullpens because you don't have
anybody that really stretches games. No really, I mean manayah
at this point. But other than that, you know you're
going to the pen fairly regularly. That again, the the
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unlucky penny is going to show up time and time again.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Every penny is the unlucky penny.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I always say, you go to the bullpen enough, you're
gonna find the guy not having a good day. No,
everybody the Mets go to it's not your day. It's
not your day. It's not your day, it's not your day,
it's all of these things. It's not anybody's day, nobody's day. Yeah, unfortunately,
you're just getting bled. It's not that one big awful inning. Yeah,
it's like, all right, we're still in this. Whoever comes,
here's another two run home, right, no, every couple of
innings that Dodgers are getting a couple of runs. At
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some point you're gonna have to admit they suck.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Stop It's just stop, man, It just stops.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
You say, they think, hey, there's a good graphic though
from our friends at FS one series, you're talking about
what seven hits in about forty at bats.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I can't tell you anything the Mets are doing well
this year. I can't tell you one thing they're doing well.
And I Black has been dialistic. I don't think it's
actually helping anything. But I can't tell you one thing
they're doing well. And I can tell you everything. The
Dodgers are doing well, and in fury it's like, boy,
how are they not going for the suite? But the
Mets had the big home run by Mark Fientos, and
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the Dodgers played Game two like, hey, we can win this.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Game or not.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh okay, And that was the game the Mets won
when when Dave Roberts said, yeah, it's more important we
lengthened out our bullpen for the rest of the series
and try to win this game. And that's the game
the Mets had. So again, we'll have more on this
game coming up again. Bottom of the six inning, Dodgers
lead the Mets seven to two, looking to take a
three games to one lead. Meanwhile, earlier tonight it was
the Yankees looking like they were going up three zip
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against the Cleveland Guardians. It was everything the Yankees could
have wanted. They were down three to one in this
game and it doesn't matter. Top of the eighth inning,
they get lightning in a bottle, a two run homer
by Aaron Judge followed by a solo home run by
Gene Carlos Stanton, and the Yankees took a two run
lead into the bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
This is how he was your dad at that point.
He was so happy, even though it was.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, no, you know, you know he said when I
called him earlier and Stanton because you know in case,
you know, my dad just can't stand stand right.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Like Judge is his guy. He loves chi.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know what I said to me after the guy
said Dad, oh, because I called him right after the
back to back home runs, I said, Dad, oh my god,
how about that from standy He goes first thing he says, yeah,
but Judge tied it, Like yeah, but Judged, I go Dad,
you gotta work through these issues you have, whichurreing. Carlos
Stantony's been so great this postseason. Yeah, but Judge tied it.
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So they go to the ninth inning and Clay Holmes
is in and it looks like this is gonna be it.
The Yankees get a double play to a race the
leadoff batter of the inning. The Guardians look like they're
going down and they're gonna lose this game and go
down three games to none.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But they get a double with two outs. Okay, everything
is still fine. Yeah, you got a two run lead.
Everything is all good. Not worried, not worried.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, But then Big Christmas comes up pinch hitting with
two outs in the ninth and this is what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Swing out in the hammer die deep t left away.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Cleveland, John Kenzy, No well, Big Christmas, John Kenzie, No well,
with a no doubt about it to run Homer to
tie the game at five apiece. It was insanity. Then
we get to the tenth inning, Guardians get a runner on,
move a runner over to second. You're thinking maybe a
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walk off single by the Guardians. No, no, no, Stephen Fry.
All he does is at big home runs late in games,
swing on hit.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
High hit, deep t lift.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
She goes, oh, look up, two run home run to
the play too soon left.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
By David Fry, and.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
The magical twenty twenty four season is done by any
means play blame more at seven to five tenth to.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Panning win Handy on the call Indians Radio Network. So
Steven Fry the big home run against the Tigers, uh
hits the walk off homer against the Yankees, and this
is now I gotta look. Is this the first walk
off the Guardians have had against the Yankees since Willie
mays Hayes on the Tom Berenger bunt where he was
able to come all the way around from second base.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I believe it's the first walk off since that happened. Wow,
that could be. That's a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It has a great slide by Willie mays Haes to
to avoid the tag.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
No, it was great slide, great slide coming in.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Now you wouldn't be able to block the plate like
that until the players coming all these stupid ass rules
that they keep changing in Major League plan interference, Get
out of inference.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So the Guardians went in a walk off. Absolute insanity,
and Yankee fans are just incensed right now.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I can't believe this. I can't believe this. I can't
believe they open the doors. I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, the opportunity to go believe I mean, if you're
down to your last strike. And Big Christmas. Oh, by
the way, there's nicknames and there's Big Christmas. Like Big
Christmas is one of the is a top five sports.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I need to see if he's been included in any
of the inscription subsets from a baseball card company where
that's inscription shows up. If not, I'm gonna gets Big
Christmas for Big Sexy. Oh Big Christmas. I think Christmas
is pretty well. Big Sexy has a pict so long time.
Big Sexy is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But Big Christmas is like you can really make something
to that, Like you can market that. A lot of
guys call themselves yeah, but a lot of guys call
them yeah. But you make more money if you have
something at the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Holiday.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You can make a Hallmark movie and Big Christmas could
be in it and nobody's watching it all of a sudden,
O people watching Kidney gets the holiday.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
As long as Lacey shot bears in there. They're in
Once Once Thanksgiving hits. It's all Hallmark and Danic mkelly.
You watch right now there. They've been running the holiday
but no these for a couple of months. I mean,
we're two weeks away from flipping here locally, right.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You know who's in the most though? Is uh what's
her name? It's not uh Dana mckeller. No, no, no, Danica
Keller's in the I actually did this not too long
rank we didn't know. We did the quiz who starred
in the Most, and until she left it was Candace
camera right, But then now it's somebody. Lacy Shabert is
number two, Danic good Keller's like number three. There's somebody
else who's been in more and I can't and I
can't think of who it was.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I'm like, oh, yeah, obviously I know Lori Longman's on
the top ten missed some time.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, but uh, I don't know. There's somebody else's on
a man Lacy Sabert, I think.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I don't feel will have to figure out the rankings,
but uh, I'll find that out.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Because I actually had an ad for a new Lacy
in short order.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
As well as whatever that Kelsey, the one that decis
it no, no, no, they Kelsey Taylor Swift base one
that's coming.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Right right, the one with the yeah, yes, they did
a big figure. It's got Bagley Junior.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Yeah, and the people and give me five people who've
never thrown a football for one hundred thousands, and then
we're gonna have the Chiefs one. It is, this is
the Chiefs one. Ddrick Baiterer, who else? But they're throwing
a football back and forth and likes, like.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
H does he play Lawrence? Is that dedrig Baty plays Lawrence?
He's a next door neighbor.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Rocking the mullet.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You're watching. Patrick mahomes a kind of a game manager. Now, Peter,
He's not not somebody Peter, Peter. He's kind of a
game manager.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Uh so.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But look, this is the crazy part about the Yankees,
and this, this is what is infuriating, is that the
Yankees lose this game in such incredible, heartbreaking fashion, right
down to the final strike. The Guardians tie it, they
went on a walk off the next inning. Everything it
took for the Guardians just to get just to get
this game. The Yankees have had a season where it's
(26:55):
been ups and downs. They've not looked like a great team,
and still they're They're twenty games over five hundred. They
come into the playoffs here, they run the bases like
a bunch of drunks, they make bad mistakes, they're pitching
betrays them, and still they're gonna win this series, this
one again.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
And still Caring almost lost his mind in the move,
like he paused at one point.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I'm like, hey, he's almost gonna curse. And it's not
right there.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And it's not that the Yankees are great, but they
find a way to overcome horrendously bad plays that are
just killers for most teams. And yes, when Judge and
Stander are hitting home runs in every game, I don't
know how that helps you. But that's so maddening and
so frustrating about the Yankees. Want to punch of wall
is that they could plays this badly. They can do
all they can do, all of these things, and still
(27:39):
they're gonna waltz to the World Series because nobody they played.
And we talked about this a month ago. Congratulations to
a Rod and everybody else who took this take. We
had a week as soon as the first round of
the playoffs was over. We told you the Yankees, if
they don't make the World Series, it is an absolute
epic failed. Because the two teams in their way that
they have the most trouble with, the Assos and the Orioles,
got knocked out in the first round. It's an easy
(28:02):
path for them. We said it from the beginning. Congratulates
to everybody who took that take about a couple of
days ago. But this is exactly where we're at. And
this is what's so maddening is that the Yankees can
withstand all of this sub level play and still make it.
And a couple of sub level plays for the Mets
against the Dodgers, and that's it. Your throat is cut,
like that's it.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
It's note how many dopes have come forward with you?
You are twenty seven titles like you got one and yeah,
a long long time.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a bit, manh Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
The two thousand and nine when they beat the Phillies
A long long time ago, that was it was Cliff
Lee was actually play pitching back then.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I think he won the two games. Yeah, he won two.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Games of the Phillies in that series, and the Yankees
won the rest fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, fifteen years, dude, I was in kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Okay, what that's what happened. I bet the Yankees had
a better year than you did in kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean I passed with flying colors.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Oh that's well, you're supposed to pass. And if you
fail kindergarten, you really have to try to fail kindergarten.
Oh you eat to try, Cary mac did.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Was eat paste?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Not and not?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I was a good kid. Why did you want her test?
Actually took other kids lunches things.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I did do that, and I'd put my hand, let
it dry, and then I'd peel it off and I'd
leave them all over the classroom.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Oh and you still you still pass kindergarten. Yeah, fingerprints
all over the place. Congratulate all those bad things that
can come out of that. Look at me now working
for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, look at you all that and here you are
sitting next to us, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We're all the same.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports, where things are getting a little interesting at
City Field right now, I don't know a lot interesting,
but a little interesting and Steve de Sager has the latest.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Oh it is not close to over bottom of the
six It was base and loaded, no outs for the Mets.
They are down at home seven to two to the Dodgers.
Now bottom of the sixth and one out in this one.
The Dodger bullpen is going the rest of the night
because the starter Yamamoto went four and a third, eight
strikeouts and one walk. Looks like we've just got to
pop out for the second out and the bases remain
(30:01):
loaded in the bottom of the sixth. The Dodgers at
the moment up two games to one in the National
League Championship Series. Show Hey Otani with a leadoff home
run in this one, Mookie Betts with a two run
double in the fourth, and a two run homer in
the sixth. And then there was that game at Cleveland.
The Guardians, on a tenth inning home run beat the
Yankee seven to five. David Fry the hero, a man
(30:22):
who had homered a week ago at Detroit to win
a playoff game the loss to Clay Holmes. The Yankees
in the top of the eighth got back to back
homers from Aaron Judge and Gencarlos Stanton off closer Emmanuel
Class who was the best closer in baseball this year.
In the bottom of the ninth, Yankee closer Luke Weaver,
who's been incredible the last week a month and a
half until this week, allowed the tying two run homer
(30:46):
ninth with two outs to pinch hitter John Kenzie Noel.
Just a crazy, crazy night and game. The people north
of the border at sportsnet Stats make sure to point
out that the Yankees, in their long postseason hit, have
never won a playoff series when allowing a walk off
home run in one of the games. But this was
one of the rare games in postseason history to have
(31:09):
four game tying or go ahead homers in the eighth
inning or later. And the other involved Cleveland the opener
of the nineteen ninety five Alds, which yes, Cleveland won
on a walk off homer. And yeah, then we've got
the NFL game tonight. If you're not watching, you're not missing.
(31:29):
Broncos lead twenty six to three at New Orleans early
fourth quarter and former Saints kicker Will Lutz is four
for four on field goals in this one, and a
lot of people out for the Saints wide receiver Chris
Olave out tonight with a concussion. They've had a couple
of defensive injuries in the game. Wide receiver for the Saints,
Rashid Shaheed is out for the year after knee surgery
(31:52):
today is now on injured reserve. New Orleans quarterback Derek
Carr could miss another three weeks or so with the
oblique injury, and tight end Taysom Hill is still out
with a rib injury, and the Titans release safety Jamal
Adams as he'd requested, and the Clippers Kawhi Leonard is
out in definitely with knee inflammation.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Shocker. This is not a repeat. Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
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get off the air. Dodgers going to the bullpen right now.
The Mets bases loaded, nobody out. Now bases loaded, two outs.
Brandon Nimo can't score on a sacrifice fly attempt by
Jeff McNeil. Nimo having some of the Planner fascia tough
time running doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Just till didn't look happy, That doesn't matter. Jeff McNeil.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
A bad at bat, chasing pitches outside the strike zone.
This is what the Mets have been doing, helping the
Dodgers out the entire series, but still not out of
it yet. Uh, Dodgers going to the bullpen with bases loaded,
two outs, Mets batting in the bottom of the sixth Uh,
this inning, this inning's not over yet more. If okay,
you know what, if okay, if Darryl Strawberry pinchits, it's
(33:16):
a grand slam here. You just watch, you just watch
what happens at this place, sir. These players are professionals.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
They can.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
They can take any kind of uh, any kind.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Of any kind of of of flack you want to
give them. So, bases loaded, Mets batting, bottom of the
seventh inning, Jesse Winker.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, so we'll see. Let's see if he rewards my faith.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
It Dotter a correct Mundo so we'll have more on
this game, en plus another big story out of the
NFL coming up next.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And oh my goodness, Jesse Winker has just flown out
to the warning track. Uh seven to Dodgers lead. Nobody
turns bases loaded, nobody outs into no run quite like
the Mets too, So we'll keep you posting on here,
but it certainly looks like the Dodgers about to go
up three games to one. Big NFL story on the
way next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (34:17):
Fox Sports Radio. I need to take some time to heal.
Tell me, Darren Waller, I need time to heal.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Top of the seventh inning, Dodgers get out of a
bases loaded, nobody out jam because nobody turns bases loaded,
nobody out into no runs like the Mets, and they're
batting with first and second.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Top of the seventh.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Max Munsey has just tied Reggie Jackson for the MLB
record of reaching base twelve consecutive times. Good in the postseason.
He just singled to start the seventh inning. Twelve consecutive
at bats he has reached either on a hit or
a Like I said, when you run into a team
(35:02):
playing their best baseball, this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Dialed in guys with playoff experience, not like the Dodgers
haven't been there before.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
No, no, no, no no. It's one of those things.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
I remember when Keith k Hernandez, they were interviewing him
after the Hurroics, like, oh, what's different from the other seven?
You know, when he cursed and became that much bigger
a folk hero, but very much that. I like, Yeah,
we've done this, so we we don't necessarily feel the
pressure the same way. Outcomes could have been better, but yeah,
the opportunity knocks once again for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
So debating stats on that, by the way, okay, because
important people that are in control of the stats are
saying it's Muncie's record, not Reggie Jackson's.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Okayst him once it was eleven.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I believe, Okay, Okay, I'm going off with a couple
of Dodger things. Okay, so he now he is twelve times.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
I'm not saying you're wrong, Okay, saying there's conflicting reports
right now?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Which is the lead?
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Oh, you know what, You're right, You're right? Did there
are conflicting reports?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You know what they should do? They should call Reggie. Hey, dude,
well how many times you get did you did you
reach base? How many times you read?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
It could be Steve? The saga brings up a brilliant point.
Reggie was two years combined.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh so that's probably why you know what, Steve, Why
don't you call the great statistician Sarah Langs and see
what Sarah Langs has for you on this.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Sarah Langs is the one who points out that Reggie did.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It all right, So we'll wait till we'll wait to
see if it's which.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
It is, if he has tied the record or if
he is he's tied that record, but he has the
single postseason mark.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Why story Halloween season based on Steve? That matters? Sure?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Okay, all right, so once he's got the month, he
has the record for one.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
Reggie's leftover was from the three homer game against the Dodgers.
Oh okay, and then all of the getting on base
to start the next.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Postseason leftovers unless it's Thanksgiving, I leftovers, all the time
you can, you know, leftovers. I'm gonna I'm gonna kill tonight,
being down three one to the Dodgers. My entire, my
entire refriger is going to get cleaned out when I
get home. The hell sitting there, whatever's left and whatever's
open on the way back. This is a double chicken,
big man, mate. I don't now we have.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
A big story about the cowboys coming up in the cupments.
But I want to tell you this. This is how
I know we've been talking about Jerry Jones way too much,
is because I had an incredibly long dream about Jerry
Jones last night. Really okay, I woke up, I won nervous. No,
I woke up and it was Jerry Jones was coming
on the show. And we were interviewing the Panther run
(37:33):
and we were interviewing Jerry Jones and it was the
first interview after he got mad at all the radio
hosts in Dallas, who that's been the big story this
week obviously, And he came on the show and we
were interviewing him and he said, and he said, I
heard you do an impression, Nubby, so let me hear
your impression. So I was doing my impression of Jerry
Jones to him.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
I ain't got time to jack with you, Jerry, and
Jerry Jones said, and Jerry said, see, this is the
kind of interviews I should be doing.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
When when this is going on here, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
This is so great, and what a great interview that
says we're having fun with Jerry Jones. And then I
said to him, I said, you don't need to do Jerry.
Is you need to go on a tour like you
see now when everybody is waiting to see whether Kamala
Harris or Donald Trump is going to do an interview,
they're going to talk a lot like if you went
on a tour like with somebody else, like another NFL owner,
and you had like a like a debate, and said,
he would be so cool. And I said, like, I
(38:22):
could be like Bob Kraft and you would be Jerry
and I would say something like, hey, you know, we
can't have any more expansion teams, And Jerry Jones said, no,
can't have enough of them, need more expansion teams. There
there's your there's your headline for you, there's your there's
a thing that can go viral for you. Yeah, more
I'm gonna bring more expansion teams to the NFL. That
was the dream I had. I don't know why it
(38:42):
went that way. Me doing my impression to Jerry Jones
and he liked it and then giving me the you know,
giving us the the scoop. Hey, he's gonna have more
expansion teams in the NFL. This is how I know.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
We've been talking about Jerry Jones just way too much. No,
that's good, just way too much. I like that.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
The show absolutely consumes you. I don't have any memory
of dreams.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Oh, I just don't.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
I don't know that I get deep enough into sleep
to where I hit dream state.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Well you have to. You got to get to rem
sleep at some point. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
If not, you're like a bear. But not after the
White Sox season. It's been a long, long, long road
for me. Here a lot of angst.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
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Right now, two big games happening. We'll get to the
Yankees and the Guardians in a minute. NFL first, the
Broncos with a sixteen to three lead over the Saints
and they are looking for more. Big run puts them
deep in Saints territory sixteen to three early in the
third quarter. And I know that we talk about celebrating
(01:17):
all to seventy two. But boy, that Patriots game a
couple weeks ago that might be in the two seventy range.
This game tonight might be in the two seventy range.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
This is bottom three, I think, no matter what happens,
the rest of the way, just an absolute train wreck.
Towards the end of the half, you literally had the
Saints call a timeout only to then kneel on the
ball to end the half.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
All right, We're.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Maybe gonna throw a hail there once to get everybody
in the game. All right, who hasn't gotten in yet, Okay,
we'll call time out. Everybody get in. You can tell
your parents you played. Okay, great, come to practice next week.
It'll be awesome, all right.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Prior possession, bo Nicks throws an awful pass to nobody
in particular, Honey Badger're back to basically make a fair catch,
drops it. Career leader in interceptions to thirty five. We
would later find out Broncos keep the ball one completion
and they're able to tack on to their lead to
make it sixteen and now sixteen guys, it's awful.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Quick question for you. Yeah, who's more mad tonight?
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Jason Smith about his Mets okay or Al Michael's having
to call this craft Michaels.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, he's very, very upfront about how bad this is.
The Other thing is they're celebrating Drew Brees even with
his bad shoulder. He'd look better than Spencer Rattler. I mean,
I've seeing dog poop look better.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Than the Mets.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Game is still in the fifth inning and we've had
a magic carpet ride. This is just Al's Thursday. It's like, great,
the Broncos in the Saints. Hey, that check's gotta clear.
He'll be just fine. And he's hanging with Ben, so
we get him some gumbo. Yeah, we need something. We
will have more from this game if it merits. I
will have more in this game coming up throughout the night.
Sixteen to three again, Broncos with the lead, and it
(02:58):
looks like they're gonna be kicking a field goal to
make this a nineteen to three ball game. Meanwhile, happening
right now in New York, it is the Dodgers on
top of the Mets five to two. Pitching change, Yoshinoba
Yamamoto leaving the game. They hit Francisco Alvarez to open
the inning, struck out Francisco Lindor on a fastball that
was about three feet too high, And this has been
(03:20):
a big theme for the Mets there at bats have
not been good, but the Dodgers have kicked this game
off with a.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Home run from sho Heo Tani.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They have had timely and clutch hitting, and you could
say many things about the series to this point, and still,
you know, it's still a long way to go, and
the Mets games don't really start till the seventh or
eighth inning. But with the Dodgers up five to Yoshinoba
Yamamoto had a really good start. Talked about this last night.
If the Mets were chasing against Walker Bueller, they're gonna
chase against Yamamoto. They've been chasing against Yamamoto. But all
(03:50):
the permutations combinations. I just come back to this. The
Dodgers are now hitting the point where they're playing their
best baseball the postseason, and maybe the Mets have already
hit that point because they've kind of been existing, you know,
game to game the last few nights. They had a
horrible game one, they had a really good game Two,
they had a really bad Game Three, They're having a
(04:10):
really bad Game four. The Dodgers seemed like a team
that you want to look back and say, hey, Game
four of the NLDS, it looks like that's when they
turn into the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They had the big win over the Padres when they
went not nine for eight for eight bullpen guys from
Dave Roberts. They go on to win Game five with
a shutout. Then they come in with a shutout in
Game one, they get a shutout. In Game three, they're
out five to two. Here, you could say a lot
of things, but the Dodgers really they're playing their best
baseball right now. And this is what we expected from
them most of the season. Now they're getting what they needed,
(04:42):
and the biggest question was how is their starting pitching
going to do? But you're getting four innings out of
Walker Bueler, you got great seven innings out of Flaherty,
you got five innings out of Yamamoto and a three
run lead, So you've gotten everything you wanted out of
your starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I mean, look, you made the joke off air about
alvarez Is best at bat weeks was the hit by pitch. Yeah,
took one for the team. It's smarted. It took a
second for him to get down to first, but yeah,
he won for one and now represents you know, a runner,
uh for for this potential Mets rally as it were. Look,
(05:18):
you can't walk as many batters as the Mets have
and think you're going.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But that's the whole season, is the Mets of one.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
But eventually it comes back to bite you in the
as they've walked in in a playoff series where the
stakes are that much higher.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And let's face it, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
We were talking about this even with your dad, uh
and and of course with our executive producer and mister Frostberg.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Just the umpires like you got.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
The Dodgers broadcasters for the for the home call, complaining
on both sides like normally it's the you know, all
one way. Nope, No, the energy was consistent of these
guys are just awful and it's back but it's been
back to back nights where you've had no consistency whatsoever
in the strike zone. To the players aren't complaining, they're
just looking back on Okay, what do we call them?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Just tell me what it's gonna be. What are we doing?
Tell me what it's gonna be so I can adjust.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
But yeah, so all of those bad at bats, because
Mendoza said this last night and I just wanted to
make sure to punctuate it, commenting on the quality of
the Dodgers at bats, and then there was a pause
leaving the obvious unsaid, we're not getting.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Good at bats.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
We're going up too aggressively and not waiting for a pitch,
not making these guys work. And you've seen it this
entire series with the Dodger hitters is they've been patient,
drawing walks and setting up big opportunities.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I mean, I'd like to say that this is a
Dodgers thing, but this is kind of the Mets walk you.
It's say, be patient, see a lot of pitches, because
the Mets will put you on.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I mean that's the data point, especially for Quintana Man.
They threw out the stat and it still they do,
uh go and get these specificity off it, but they
estimated it was low forty percent in terms of him
being on the plate.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But the one thing I can say for this right
because look, because it breaks down that way, the Dodgers
are the better team. They're playing their best baseball right now.
The one thing for the Mets I can say, Look,
I completely disagree. Carlos Mendoza needed to do something to
jolt the team tonight. He couldn't wait, and he's gonna
wind up waiting one too many games and he's gonna
make it when it's three games to one in the series,
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is gonna be over. But last night I said, you
have a lot of guys that just aren't hitting. They're
just aren't hitting, and you need some kind of jolt.
And as good as a Glacias has been, and as
good as you know, a young player as Francisco Alvarez is,
and as good as JD. Martinez was for parts of
the season, they can't play. They can't hit.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
JD.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Martinez is waving at pitches in the dirt and he
doesn't stop. The same thing with Francisco Alvarez. And I
want to want to go and talk about Aglacius, who
was hitting three point fifty. Now he's swinging it stuff
that is way outside the strike zone and he's not
making solid contact. The Mets needed to say, okay, you
know what this is a Jesse Winker plays and then
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we're gonna go back to Jeff McNeil, who's gonna play,
And Luis Torrens is gonna catch like.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I know sure?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And and Hernandez will play first? Yeah no no, Ray
Knight will play third. No, I got Rafael Santana shortstop. No no, no,
I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
There.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They needed they did, oh man like that. They need
They needed some kind of change. He needed legend.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, they needed something to spark the lineup and they
didn't do it. And Mendoz is waiting a game too
long to do this because you can see they've had
a couple of chances not been able to go through.
The at bats aren't great. Look, the Dodgers are playing great.
The Mets seem like they're hitting the wall. But when
his team seems like and looked like they were hitting
the wall last night, you need to do something.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I get.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You want to be you want to be beholden and
be loyal to guys who got you there. But it's
not gonna it's not gonna kill you to tell Iglesias,
hey man, you're not hitting.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Take a day.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I've been the everyday second baseman. You're thirty four years old,
you're Candelita, You're OMG, you're the You know, we can
put in a Jeff McNeil, who maybe is gonna give
us a little bit better at bats. We can put
in Louise Torrens, who is not gonna be a big
hole at the bottom of the lineup right. We can
put Jesse Winker and who is at least getting on
basic times, and not Jad Martinez who looks like he's
done at thirty seven. Like that's the one thing I
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can say is that boy. They needed some kind of
spark tonight and Mendoza didn't do it. And we talked
about it last night, and right away after the game
he said, nope, same guys are playing tomorrow. Like, dude,
you gotta take a step back and understand that you
can't play this like I'm loyal and these guys are
gonna what these guys are gonna break out against y'all.
I mean, come on, man, what are you doing? You
need someone You gotta put some lefties in there against yamamotor.
You have to figure something else out. Sometimes it's just
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about changing the energy and maybe it's a little bit different,
and instead the Mets just look like a team that's
punching the clock right now, They're looking for answers. They
can't find them at bats aren't good. I just watched
Mark Fiento strikeout on a fastball.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Down the middle.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He didn't pull a bat off his shoulders on like
I wonder if the Dodgers. The Dodgers have just defeated
the Mets mentally. You know, they hit the home run
to tie the game in the first ending after Otani's
home run. Okay, the Mets got the momentum back, and
then the Dodgers bleed their way to more runs infield,
single drives, in a run, the Mets walk a couple,
and it's just the Mets look like mentally they're a
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little defeated right now. And if you're a little defeated
against the best team in the National League and maybe
the best team in baseball, guess what, You're not gonna
win games that way.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
And you've ended five, you've only gone to a one
guy in the bullpen thus far, Yamamoto with his seventy
three pitches, he finished with eight strikeouts, giving up the
tour and runs in four and a third.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
They give a way to Phillips.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And now we move on to the meat of the game,
to where you still have all your high leverage guys
for the Dodgers lying in wait, so you know, opportunities
have been there. Mets have certainly had them leaving runners
on base once again, Dodgers had opportunities for monster innings,
and they made the out pitches. The Mets did a
good job to contain what could have been even bigger
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rallies to keep them in the game. But then once again,
just bat at bats and then you finally get a
fat ball to Ham and he watches it go by.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, it's it's You could say a lot of things, right,
he could say a lot of things, But I'm a realist.
The Mets have overachieved. They certainly have enough to play
the Dodgers. They're they're they're a heavyweight team. But the
Dodgers are playing great at the right time right. Sometimes
it's get in the playoffs and you gotta get hot,
and boy, the Mets got hot and hot at the
right time right end of the regular season. Carry them
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through the Brewers series, carry them through the Philly Series.
Dodgers kind of meandered their way to the end. All
of a sudden, it was like they flipped a switch.
In Game four against the Padres, shutout, shut out, shutout, loss,
shut out, now dominating this game five to two in
the sixth inning. It's like they they are peaking at
the time when it's like, hey, we're gonna take this
into the World Series, right, not playing that first round,
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Which is why the argument for do.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You really want the bu the bue no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
The Dodgers showing you this is why you don't want
to buy, because they're gonna be playing their best ball
going into the World Series, where whoever comes out of
the American League after tonight, that's gonna be a big thing.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But the Dodgers have started to play their best baseball,
and you see that this is the team we thought
we were going to see all season long. We saw
it early in the season for such sure, and then
they kind of just said, Okay, we're good. We got
the big lead in the West. We're going to play
five hundred the rest of the way. We don't know
what our pitching is going to be. And the big
question mark has come through for them so big in
the postseason. Now you're mixing and matching throughout the season.
I mean, like it's been well chronicled. The number of
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pitchers that they had to go through the bullpen. Depending
on where you were grabbing and which metric you wanted
to rank them, they were no worse than fourth as
a bullpen as a whole. So when it all comes
down to it is they were well versed in the
rhythms of how a game was going to operate, because
it was rare that you saw a starter get into
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the sixth, let alone finish it. We didn't get that
much at all. You know, when Flaherty did it the
other day, you know, you wanted to, you know, shoot
off some fireworks because it was a big deal because
you didn't go to five six guys out of the
pen to get yourself a w So, yeah, it's peaking
at the right time, pulling all the strings. Joey o'toanni
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now won one for one, you know, with nobody on base. Yeah,
and then because we walked them every other time, because
we could pick random arbitrary polls by which to start
the streak.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So guys, I got a chant, ready repeat after me?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Ready, go ahead, Rostburg, what do you got the the
Mets say it.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Mets say it, stink say it, and Frostburg stink. There
you go.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Like, Mike, you were supposed to join, and I said
you guys, Oh, I thought it was just for him.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No, I would have said, Jason, I got one for you. Okay,
all right, that's fine, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
You're not a pile on Mike. What what's up the
Mets season? Mets games don't start till the eighth inning.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Man, it's fine, said we didn't play that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It was fine, we didn't. I'm sure. I'm sure that
the ball was deuced. I'm sure they find.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Well, I mean you had other people were saying that
they had the signal. Yeah, sure, sure that the same
A million things floating on the inner webs. Alright, you
got other folks saying that the the whole production part
of things was canceled in New York. Did you see
that meme that was going around saying, Wow, this is
this supplier for Major League Baseball. They notified them they
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wouldn't need them for the Mets for this.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Fourteen feet I think you don't sell it short. I
think it might have been at a thousand, might have
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Speaker 2 (15:02):
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Speaker 1 (15:18):
X Sports Radio, Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon Imperial Highway. Bottom of
the sixth inning. The Dodgers' lead is now seven too
over the Mets. Til Mayton comes in and in my
best Larry Beale, here it comes and there it goes.
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Mookie Bets a two run homer to give the Dodgers
say seven to two lead as the Mets come to
bat in the bottom of the sixth inning. And look,
it's that simple. The Dodgers are peaking and they're making
mincemeat and hamburger out of a Mets bullpen that doesn't
have one trustworthy reliever right now, right. So to get
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a little bit more into this, we'll get to the
Guardians and the Yankees in a minute. What do I
always tell you, show me a bullpen having a bad series,
I'll show your team getting knocked out of the playoffs.
You can overcome a lot in the Major League Baseball players.
You can overcome a series where you don't hit because
you can pitch and you can do well. You can
overcome a series which you know, I don't have starting
pitching because you can hit the bullpen. Nobody can overcome
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bad bullpen. Nobody can. And every series has that in
common the last few years in Major League Baseball, with
the lesser reliance on starting pitching. And you look at
you know, you look at you know Boyd who is
where was he six months ago? And now here he is,
you know, starting Game three for the Guardians?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Right What was he?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I was teaching my kids little league team now starting
game three of the Ald.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Movie from Disney anyway, right now.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So with the more reliance on the bullpen, it's become
that simple. You can overcome a lot in the playoffs,
but you will not overcome a bad bullpen. And the
Mets bullpen has zero, I mean zero trustworthy relievers. Right
there's nobody to go to. They don't have won. Peterson
lost his mojo. Bhutto, who is a best reliever over
the last couple of months, can't go to him. Diz
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is in every other game guy, he's the lamar Odom
of Major League Baseball closers. Ottovido, who is our set
up guy last year, isn't even on the roster this time,
Arond because he's not good enough. They just the Mets
have zero trustworthy relievers and the Dodgers have all of them,
right like that and that, and that's a big reason
you wouldn you know, parse this out a bit more.
Is that that you know, I look at why the
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Mets are losing, why the Dodgers are winning, and and
the bullpen for the Mets is what really has just
betrayed them because when the starting pitching comes out, all right.
But there it's like, hey, now we're in. You can't
bring anybody in that. We're afraid anybody that. Okay, here's
a big high leverage guy. Yeah, okay, yeah, you bring
in your high leverage. You don't have any high leverage guys.
Everybody you have that is low leverage. Like it's when
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when that kind of confidence is hitting a team. Uh,
it is something to watch. And I watched the Mets
have it against the Phillies and the Brewers and the Brays.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
But watching the Dodgers have this against the Mets, it's
quite something else because the Mets really they have no
relievers to bring. They're not they haven't had any in
in a month. They've had nobody to bring it, and
that's killing them.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Well.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
As Guerrilla Monson would say, it was a reversal of fortune,
the reversal of circumstance, because to your point, you would
talk going into this series, the expectation was, hey, we'd
gotten into bullpens and we decimated what were some of
the best bullpens in Major League Baseball. The Mets had
taken care of business, good at bats, quality at bats, waiting.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
On a pitch. This series no, quite the opposite. They're
why they're.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
On the receiving end time and again of Dodgers hitters
just saying eventually, you're gonna give me a fat one.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I'm not first ball swinging. I'm not giving you a freebie.
We're gonna make you work. And when you're two teams
that are heavily reliant on bullpens because you don't have
anybody that really stretches games. No really, I mean manayah
at this point. But other than that, you know you're
going to the pen fairly regularly. That again, the the
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unlucky penny is going to show up time and time again.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Every penny is the unlucky penny.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I always say, you go to the bullpen enough, you're
gonna find the guy not having a good day. No,
everybody the Mets go to it's not your day. It's
not your day. It's not your day, it's not your day,
it's all of these things. It's not anybody's day, nobody's day. Yeah, unfortunately,
you're just getting bled. It's not that one big awful inning. Yeah,
it's like, all right, we're still in this. Whoever comes,
here's another two run home, right, no, every couple of
innings that Dodgers are getting a couple of runs. At
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some point you're gonna have to admit they suck.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Stop It's just stop, man, It just stops.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
You say, they think, hey, there's a good graphic though
from our friends at FS one series, you're talking about
what seven hits in about forty at bats.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I can't tell you anything the Mets are doing well
this year. I can't tell you one thing they're doing well.
And I Black has been dialistic. I don't think it's
actually helping anything. But I can't tell you one thing
they're doing well. And I can tell you everything. The
Dodgers are doing well, and in fury it's like, boy,
how are they not going for the suite? But the
Mets had the big home run by Mark Fientos, and
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the Dodgers played Game two like, hey, we can win this.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Game or not.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh okay, And that was the game the Mets won
when when Dave Roberts said, yeah, it's more important we
lengthened out our bullpen for the rest of the series
and try to win this game. And that's the game
the Mets had. So again, we'll have more on this
game coming up again. Bottom of the six inning, Dodgers
lead the Mets seven to two, looking to take a
three games to one lead. Meanwhile, earlier tonight it was
the Yankees looking like they were going up three zip
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against the Cleveland Guardians. It was everything the Yankees could
have wanted. They were down three to one in this
game and it doesn't matter. Top of the eighth inning,
they get lightning in a bottle, a two run homer
by Aaron Judge followed by a solo home run by
Gene Carlos Stanton, and the Yankees took a two run
lead into the bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
This is how he was your dad at that point.
He was so happy, even though it was.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, no, you know, you know he said when I
called him earlier and Stanton because you know in case,
you know, my dad just can't stand stand right.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Like Judge is his guy. He loves chi.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know what I said to me after the guy
said Dad, oh, because I called him right after the
back to back home runs, I said, Dad, oh my god,
how about that from standy He goes first thing he says, yeah,
but Judge tied it, Like yeah, but Judged, I go Dad,
you gotta work through these issues you have, whichurreing. Carlos
Stantony's been so great this postseason. Yeah, but Judge tied it.
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So they go to the ninth inning and Clay Holmes
is in and it looks like this is gonna be it.
The Yankees get a double play to a race the
leadoff batter of the inning. The Guardians look like they're
going down and they're gonna lose this game and go
down three games to none.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But they get a double with two outs. Okay, everything
is still fine. Yeah, you got a two run lead.
Everything is all good. Not worried, not worried.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, But then Big Christmas comes up pinch hitting with
two outs in the ninth and this is what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Swing out in the hammer die deep t left away.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Cleveland, John Kenzy, No well, Big Christmas, John Kenzie, No well,
with a no doubt about it to run Homer to
tie the game at five apiece. It was insanity. Then
we get to the tenth inning, Guardians get a runner on,
move a runner over to second. You're thinking maybe a
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walk off single by the Guardians. No, no, no, Stephen Fry.
All he does is at big home runs late in games,
swing on hit.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
High hit, deep t lift.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
She goes, oh, look up, two run home run to
the play too soon left.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
By David Fry, and.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
The magical twenty twenty four season is done by any
means play blame more at seven to five tenth to.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Panning win Handy on the call Indians Radio Network. So
Steven Fry the big home run against the Tigers, uh
hits the walk off homer against the Yankees, and this
is now I gotta look. Is this the first walk
off the Guardians have had against the Yankees since Willie
mays Hayes on the Tom Berenger bunt where he was
able to come all the way around from second base.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I believe it's the first walk off since that happened. Wow,
that could be. That's a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It has a great slide by Willie mays Haes to
to avoid the tag.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
No, it was great slide, great slide coming in.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Now you wouldn't be able to block the plate like
that until the players coming all these stupid ass rules
that they keep changing in Major League plan interference, Get
out of inference.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So the Guardians went in a walk off. Absolute insanity,
and Yankee fans are just incensed right now.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I can't believe this. I can't believe this. I can't
believe they open the doors. I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, the opportunity to go believe I mean, if you're
down to your last strike. And Big Christmas. Oh, by
the way, there's nicknames and there's Big Christmas. Like Big
Christmas is one of the is a top five sports.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I need to see if he's been included in any
of the inscription subsets from a baseball card company where
that's inscription shows up. If not, I'm gonna gets Big
Christmas for Big Sexy. Oh Big Christmas. I think Christmas
is pretty well. Big Sexy has a pict so long time.
Big Sexy is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But Big Christmas is like you can really make something
to that, Like you can market that. A lot of
guys call themselves yeah, but a lot of guys call
them yeah. But you make more money if you have
something at the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Holiday.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You can make a Hallmark movie and Big Christmas could
be in it and nobody's watching it all of a sudden,
O people watching Kidney gets the holiday.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
As long as Lacey shot bears in there. They're in
Once Once Thanksgiving hits. It's all Hallmark and Danic mkelly.
You watch right now there. They've been running the holiday
but no these for a couple of months. I mean,
we're two weeks away from flipping here locally, right.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You know who's in the most though? Is uh what's
her name? It's not uh Dana mckeller. No, no, no, Danica
Keller's in the I actually did this not too long
rank we didn't know. We did the quiz who starred
in the Most, and until she left it was Candace
camera right, But then now it's somebody. Lacy Shabert is
number two, Danic good Keller's like number three. There's somebody
else who's been in more and I can't and I
can't think of who it was.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I'm like, oh, yeah, obviously I know Lori Longman's on
the top ten missed some time.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, but uh, I don't know. There's somebody else's on
a man Lacy Sabert, I think.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I don't feel will have to figure out the rankings,
but uh, I'll find that out.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Because I actually had an ad for a new Lacy
in short order.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
As well as whatever that Kelsey, the one that decis
it no, no, no, they Kelsey Taylor Swift base one
that's coming.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Right right, the one with the yeah, yes, they did
a big figure. It's got Bagley Junior.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Yeah, and the people and give me five people who've
never thrown a football for one hundred thousands, and then
we're gonna have the Chiefs one. It is, this is
the Chiefs one. Ddrick Baiterer, who else? But they're throwing
a football back and forth and likes, like.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
H does he play Lawrence? Is that dedrig Baty plays Lawrence?
He's a next door neighbor.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Rocking the mullet.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You're watching. Patrick mahomes a kind of a game manager. Now, Peter,
He's not not somebody Peter, Peter. He's kind of a
game manager.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Uh so.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But look, this is the crazy part about the Yankees,
and this, this is what is infuriating, is that the
Yankees lose this game in such incredible, heartbreaking fashion, right
down to the final strike. The Guardians tie it, they
went on a walk off the next inning. Everything it
took for the Guardians just to get just to get
this game. The Yankees have had a season where it's
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been ups and downs. They've not looked like a great team,
and still they're They're twenty games over five hundred. They
come into the playoffs here, they run the bases like
a bunch of drunks, they make bad mistakes, they're pitching
betrays them, and still they're gonna win this series, this
one again.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
And still Caring almost lost his mind in the move,
like he paused at one point.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I'm like, hey, he's almost gonna curse. And it's not
right there.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And it's not that the Yankees are great, but they
find a way to overcome horrendously bad plays that are
just killers for most teams. And yes, when Judge and
Stander are hitting home runs in every game, I don't
know how that helps you. But that's so maddening and
so frustrating about the Yankees. Want to punch of wall
is that they could plays this badly. They can do
all they can do, all of these things, and still
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they're gonna waltz to the World Series because nobody they played.
And we talked about this a month ago. Congratulations to
a Rod and everybody else who took this take. We
had a week as soon as the first round of
the playoffs was over. We told you the Yankees, if
they don't make the World Series, it is an absolute
epic failed. Because the two teams in their way that
they have the most trouble with, the Assos and the Orioles,
got knocked out in the first round. It's an easy
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path for them. We said it from the beginning. Congratulates
to everybody who took that take about a couple of
days ago. But this is exactly where we're at. And
this is what's so maddening is that the Yankees can
withstand all of this sub level play and still make it.
And a couple of sub level plays for the Mets
against the Dodgers, and that's it. Your throat is cut,
like that's it.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
It's note how many dopes have come forward with you?
You are twenty seven titles like you got one and yeah,
a long long time.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a bit, manh Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
The two thousand and nine when they beat the Phillies
A long long time ago, that was it was Cliff
Lee was actually play pitching back then.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I think he won the two games. Yeah, he won two.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Games of the Phillies in that series, and the Yankees
won the rest fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, fifteen years, dude, I was in kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Okay, what that's what happened. I bet the Yankees had
a better year than you did in kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean I passed with flying colors.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Oh that's well, you're supposed to pass. And if you
fail kindergarten, you really have to try to fail kindergarten.
Oh you eat to try, Cary mac did.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Was eat paste?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Not and not?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I was a good kid. Why did you want her test?
Actually took other kids lunches things.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I did do that, and I'd put my hand, let
it dry, and then I'd peel it off and I'd
leave them all over the classroom.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Oh and you still you still pass kindergarten. Yeah, fingerprints
all over the place. Congratulate all those bad things that
can come out of that. Look at me now working
for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, look at you all that and here you are
sitting next to us, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We're all the same.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports, where things are getting a little interesting at
City Field right now, I don't know a lot interesting,
but a little interesting and Steve de Sager has the latest.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Oh it is not close to over bottom of the
six It was base and loaded, no outs for the Mets.
They are down at home seven to two to the Dodgers.
Now bottom of the sixth and one out in this one.
The Dodger bullpen is going the rest of the night
because the starter Yamamoto went four and a third, eight
strikeouts and one walk. Looks like we've just got to
pop out for the second out and the bases remain
(30:01):
loaded in the bottom of the sixth. The Dodgers at
the moment up two games to one in the National
League Championship Series. Show Hey Otani with a leadoff home
run in this one, Mookie Betts with a two run
double in the fourth, and a two run homer in
the sixth. And then there was that game at Cleveland.
The Guardians, on a tenth inning home run beat the
Yankee seven to five. David Fry the hero, a man
(30:22):
who had homered a week ago at Detroit to win
a playoff game the loss to Clay Holmes. The Yankees
in the top of the eighth got back to back
homers from Aaron Judge and Gencarlos Stanton off closer Emmanuel
Class who was the best closer in baseball this year.
In the bottom of the ninth, Yankee closer Luke Weaver,
who's been incredible the last week a month and a
half until this week, allowed the tying two run homer
(30:46):
ninth with two outs to pinch hitter John Kenzie Noel.
Just a crazy, crazy night and game. The people north
of the border at sportsnet Stats make sure to point
out that the Yankees, in their long postseason hit, have
never won a playoff series when allowing a walk off
home run in one of the games. But this was
one of the rare games in postseason history to have
(31:09):
four game tying or go ahead homers in the eighth
inning or later. And the other involved Cleveland the opener
of the nineteen ninety five Alds, which yes, Cleveland won
on a walk off homer. And yeah, then we've got
the NFL game tonight. If you're not watching, you're not missing.
(31:29):
Broncos lead twenty six to three at New Orleans early
fourth quarter and former Saints kicker Will Lutz is four
for four on field goals in this one, and a
lot of people out for the Saints wide receiver Chris
Olave out tonight with a concussion. They've had a couple
of defensive injuries in the game. Wide receiver for the Saints,
Rashid Shaheed is out for the year after knee surgery
(31:52):
today is now on injured reserve. New Orleans quarterback Derek
Carr could miss another three weeks or so with the
oblique injury, and tight end Taysom Hill is still out
with a rib injury, and the Titans release safety Jamal
Adams as he'd requested, and the Clippers Kawhi Leonard is
out in definitely with knee inflammation.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Shocker. This is not a repeat. Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
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Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get
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get off the air. Dodgers going to the bullpen right now.
The Mets bases loaded, nobody out. Now bases loaded, two outs.
Brandon Nimo can't score on a sacrifice fly attempt by
Jeff McNeil. Nimo having some of the Planner fascia tough
time running doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Just till didn't look happy, That doesn't matter. Jeff McNeil.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
A bad at bat, chasing pitches outside the strike zone.
This is what the Mets have been doing, helping the
Dodgers out the entire series, but still not out of
it yet. Uh, Dodgers going to the bullpen with bases loaded,
two outs, Mets batting in the bottom of the sixth Uh,
this inning, this inning's not over yet more. If okay,
you know what, if okay, if Darryl Strawberry pinchits, it's
(33:16):
a grand slam here. You just watch, you just watch
what happens at this place, sir. These players are professionals.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
They can.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
They can take any kind of uh, any kind.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Of any kind of of of flack you want to
give them. So, bases loaded, Mets batting, bottom of the
seventh inning, Jesse Winker.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, so we'll see. Let's see if he rewards my faith.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
It Dotter a correct Mundo so we'll have more on
this game, en plus another big story out of the
NFL coming up next.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And oh my goodness, Jesse Winker has just flown out
to the warning track. Uh seven to Dodgers lead. Nobody
turns bases loaded, nobody outs into no run quite like
the Mets too, So we'll keep you posting on here,
but it certainly looks like the Dodgers about to go
up three games to one. Big NFL story on the
way next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (34:17):
Fox Sports Radio. I need to take some time to heal.
Tell me, Darren Waller, I need time to heal.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Top of the seventh inning, Dodgers get out of a
bases loaded, nobody out jam because nobody turns bases loaded,
nobody out into no runs like the Mets, and they're
batting with first and second.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Top of the seventh.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Max Munsey has just tied Reggie Jackson for the MLB
record of reaching base twelve consecutive times. Good in the postseason.
He just singled to start the seventh inning. Twelve consecutive
at bats he has reached either on a hit or
a Like I said, when you run into a team
(35:02):
playing their best baseball, this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Dialed in guys with playoff experience, not like the Dodgers
haven't been there before.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
No, no, no, no no. It's one of those things.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
I remember when Keith k Hernandez, they were interviewing him
after the Hurroics, like, oh, what's different from the other seven?
You know, when he cursed and became that much bigger
a folk hero, but very much that. I like, Yeah,
we've done this, so we we don't necessarily feel the
pressure the same way. Outcomes could have been better, but yeah,
the opportunity knocks once again for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
So debating stats on that, by the way, okay, because
important people that are in control of the stats are
saying it's Muncie's record, not Reggie Jackson's.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Okayst him once it was eleven.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I believe, Okay, Okay, I'm going off with a couple
of Dodger things. Okay, so he now he is twelve times.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
I'm not saying you're wrong, Okay, saying there's conflicting reports
right now?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Which is the lead?
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Oh, you know what, You're right, You're right? Did there
are conflicting reports?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You know what they should do? They should call Reggie. Hey, dude,
well how many times you get did you did you
reach base? How many times you read?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
It could be Steve? The saga brings up a brilliant point.
Reggie was two years combined.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh so that's probably why you know what, Steve, Why
don't you call the great statistician Sarah Langs and see
what Sarah Langs has for you on this.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Sarah Langs is the one who points out that Reggie did.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It all right, So we'll wait till we'll wait to
see if it's which.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
It is, if he has tied the record or if
he is he's tied that record, but he has the
single postseason mark.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Why story Halloween season based on Steve? That matters? Sure?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Okay, all right, so once he's got the month, he
has the record for one.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
Reggie's leftover was from the three homer game against the Dodgers.
Oh okay, and then all of the getting on base
to start the next.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Postseason leftovers unless it's Thanksgiving, I leftovers, all the time
you can, you know, leftovers. I'm gonna I'm gonna kill tonight,
being down three one to the Dodgers. My entire, my
entire refriger is going to get cleaned out when I
get home. The hell sitting there, whatever's left and whatever's
open on the way back. This is a double chicken,
big man, mate. I don't now we have.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
A big story about the cowboys coming up in the cupments.
But I want to tell you this. This is how
I know we've been talking about Jerry Jones way too much,
is because I had an incredibly long dream about Jerry
Jones last night. Really okay, I woke up, I won nervous. No,
I woke up and it was Jerry Jones was coming
on the show. And we were interviewing the Panther run
(37:33):
and we were interviewing Jerry Jones and it was the
first interview after he got mad at all the radio
hosts in Dallas, who that's been the big story this
week obviously, And he came on the show and we
were interviewing him and he said, and he said, I
heard you do an impression, Nubby, so let me hear
your impression. So I was doing my impression of Jerry
Jones to him.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
I ain't got time to jack with you, Jerry, and
Jerry Jones said, and Jerry said, see, this is the
kind of interviews I should be doing.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
When when this is going on here, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
This is so great, and what a great interview that
says we're having fun with Jerry Jones. And then I
said to him, I said, you don't need to do Jerry.
Is you need to go on a tour like you
see now when everybody is waiting to see whether Kamala
Harris or Donald Trump is going to do an interview,
they're going to talk a lot like if you went
on a tour like with somebody else, like another NFL owner,
and you had like a like a debate, and said,
he would be so cool. And I said, like, I
(38:22):
could be like Bob Kraft and you would be Jerry
and I would say something like, hey, you know, we
can't have any more expansion teams, And Jerry Jones said, no,
can't have enough of them, need more expansion teams. There
there's your there's your headline for you, there's your there's
a thing that can go viral for you. Yeah, more
I'm gonna bring more expansion teams to the NFL. That
was the dream I had. I don't know why it
(38:42):
went that way. Me doing my impression to Jerry Jones
and he liked it and then giving me the you know,
giving us the the scoop. Hey, he's gonna have more
expansion teams in the NFL. This is how I know.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
We've been talking about Jerry Jones just way too much. No,
that's good, just way too much. I like that.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
The show absolutely consumes you. I don't have any memory
of dreams.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Oh, I just don't.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
I don't know that I get deep enough into sleep
to where I hit dream state.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Well you have to. You got to get to rem
sleep at some point. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
If not, you're like a bear. But not after the
White Sox season. It's been a long, long, long road
for me. Here a lot of angst.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Exit up about of Fresca exit swollen down. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike car Got that big Cowboys story,
big updates, baseball and football straight head, keep it right here,
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