October 18, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason explains why he’s extremely cautiously optimistic about the Lakers this season. Will Dennis Allen be the next NFL HC to get fired? And Troy Aikman puts the Dallas Cowboys on blast!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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we'll dive into that. I'll tell you why the Dodgers
are gonna be celebrating the NL pennant by this time
tomorrow night. They're defeating Grimace.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Uh yeah, I tell you, Grimace hawk toa it's it's it's,
it's a tall.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Order reading Grimace.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It is a tall order right now, hawk t might
as well have been twenty years ago at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's what the Dodgers just did to the Mets. Uh,
and we got to be the iron sheet kind of way.
We got a big hot take from the NFL coming
up in a couple of minutes before that. But want
to want to talk about something that happened tonight. Yeah,
you probably are not aware of, but boy was it insane.
We got to watch the vast majority of the end
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of this one. The Lakers beat the Suns tonight one
twenty two preseason Okay, that's fine, And you know, look
the game was on because Frostburg's a degenerate and he
put a lot of money on this one.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, I mean, look, it's it's sports, he's sports in
it up.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Lakers preseason Lakers, Yo. Yeah, there was no Lebron in
this game, sitting because of rest. It's okay. And Anthony
Davis had thirty five points and ten rebounds.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I mean the Big three came out and played
really well for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, so why wait, I don't understand. So preseason game, yeah,
Lakers one. Yeah, Anthony Davis thirty five and ten. That's okay,
that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's a lot of work for Anthony Davis on a
day that we're talking about his counterpoint h and counterpart
in Los Angeles, Kawhi Leonard. Why are we gonna see him?
They're gonna break it into new arena? Is he gonna play?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Was this Davis? Was it a big day by Kevin Durant?
Is that we know? Kevin Durant had nineteen points, Devin
Booker had twenty two. Wait? Wait, so why is this
game a big deal? Why are people gonna be talking
about it? Well, let's let Kevin Harlan tell you exactly
why this game is starting to get all kinds of attention.
Two point three on the clock, Lakers call cut out
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to the corner, Who's.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Let it go?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Young fellow?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Eighteen points for the Lakers. Wow, and thirty three for
the game. Washing to the fake and try trying to
squirt the two on a file. He scored the last
eighteen points. Dalton connect tas four la.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh my goodness. This So that was Reggie. He usually
could have been a not easily could have been a
four point play. Uh yes, Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller on
the call. Connect would get another bucket. He would end
the game the last twenty points of the game, scoring
thirty five and thirty two off the bench. Again, a
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guy that we didn't really talk about at all because
you know, Bronnie James is sucking all the ouction out
of the room. He played seventeen minutes the night he
had four points. But this is Dalton Connect, the first
guy the Lakers draft, and hey, and he was their
big acquisition, right because he was they didn't go get
anybody in the offseason, right. Remember there were quotes from
him during the collegiate season, and that's the guy. He's
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the guy I like, Right, He's the guy they got
in the draft, and he's you know, playing second fiddle
right now because the Lakers go get Bronnie James. Look
in a year where the Lakers know, hey, we're not
really favorites to win a title, let's stay relevant. So
we draft Bronnie James, which is the reason why. Look,
the Lakers know we want to be part of the conversation.
We gotta be relevant, We got to be talked about.
So we'll draft Bronnie and that's gonna ensure us being
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talked about.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, they're gonna talk either way because Lebron's always gonna
keep tongues flapping here.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Right, But this is something new that we've never seen here.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Something happy and yeah, certainly merch sales man, straight cash,
I mean, when it's all said done, But Connect is a.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Guy that has the pedigree coming in. And yes, Lebron
has talked about talked about him last year. He was
someone that he wanted on here, another shooter to go
along with Austin Reeves. And suddenly now things might look
a little bit rosier for the Lakers. Not that he's
gonna come off the bench and score thirty five points
a night, but you scored twenty points in a row. Okay,
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I got a feel, and he's gonna carve out a
lot of big minutes early on in the season. I
have a sneaking suspicion that we're gonna be talking more
about Dalton can I then we're gonna be talking about
Bronnie James.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, yeah, I mean it might be the what happened
to Bronni? Why is he playing? How's he doing in
the G League? But yeah, your point's well taken. I
mean Connect eight to thirteen from three point range. We've
always talked about, Hey, if you gave Lebron more shooters,
what could this team still become, especially since he is
so good as a passer. All Right, for all the
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I don't I'm not a great you know, I'm not
the score what. No, No, you're the all time leading scorer. Don't,
don't give me the humble brag. But we we've watched
him where you can get open shots. Now it's just
a question can someone hit him and connect?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Color me intrigued. Yeah, I don't know what their odds
are right now. I'm trying to bring that up as
we as we sit here. Right, we talked about it
with Todd Furman a little bit. Nick's being the third favorite,
and you got the Sixers, the favorites the Lakers. Lakers
are sitting at forty to one, okay about twelve. And
part of that's just gonna be the proximity of Los
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Angeles to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Right, I'll tell you this. Am I cautiously optimistic for
the Lakers. Yes, there's reason to be a little bit optimistic.
They do have the new energy of JJ Reddick, and
one is that gonna have a chance to succeed between
him and Lebron coaching the team. Maybe this is what
they need. You bring in a rookie light connect who
can play a role. But suddenly I'm not buying in
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it because this is all the Oh, just get Aaron
Rodgers all the weapons he needs and suddenly watch what happens.
That's kind of the whole thing with get Lebron shooting,
Get Lebron's shooting. Gout. Okay, he's got shooters, man, he's
got a d he's got reeves, he's got got he's
got shooters.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now he's got another shooter. It's like, oh, just get
Aaron Rodgers, another wide receiver, go out, go out and
go get him Nico Collins and make him healthy and
then put him on the team with Adams and Garrett Wilson.
Like it's a little bit of that. But I will
say cautious optimism for the Lakers one hundred percent. I
am all in on cautious optimism for me with you,
it's just a all right, we're gonna watch all those
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eighty two games here in the studio, right, so hopefully
they're entertaining shows now, am I banking on the fact
that you're gonna get the same number of games played
out of Lebron and Ade that you did a year ago.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, so the for the fortification of your depth and
having another guy who can score and carry a few
minutes here and there as needed, and if Lebron needs
an off day. I don't know that he's going full
on Joel embiid Of. I'm never playing another back to
back again, but we know they're gonna use his his minics,
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minutes and games sparingly. Load management under a different term,
that's going to be the case. And thinking Anthony Davis
is playing another seventy five games, come on, I mean,
that's like playing pressure luck when it's one million dollars
on the board and nothing else but ramnies.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
There's no reason to not be extremely cautiously a.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We go to a game really very extremely cautiously optimistic
about the extremely cautiously.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Very very extremely cautiously optiv.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I'm gonna put that very very not just not just
costantly optimistic, No, this is very very extremely cautious, extremely
cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay, we'll put that on a shirt. Not extremely optimistic, no,
extremely cautiously. We'll put him on bel Crow and you
cant decided right the day how you feel optimistic, feel
more optimistic. I need all the things. I put them
all on, very very very extremely It'll come with a
bonus pack of like another six or seven adjetive. I
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like that. I think that. I think that's pretty cool.
Uh So again, very very extremely cautiously optimistic about the Lakers.
Oh wild card shirt. You don't know what slogan you're
getting on it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, you know the general design because you may get
the adjective that says very very extremely cautiously because I'm
thestic or you may just get I'm boldly confident in
this Lakers squad because.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You never know when you're gonna get, like Billy Max saying.
And the Lakers now tied with the Suns one fifteen
a piece, forty five seconds left to go and lineup
change out of the game. Goes Dalton connect who's got
thirteen in the fourth quarter alone. He scored the Lakers
last twelve. Incomes Brownie James. You want a good defender,
and here.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
With the defensive finalists for the final fifty five seconds
of this one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You're trying to speak that into exist.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Look at you doing vers on our flagship a LA stores.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
How dare you very very cautiously optimist.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
On a night where they're ready to explode three to
one lead over your.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Mets cautiously optimist. We'll have more on the Dodgers. I'm right, hey, boy,
the Lakers need a three. Oh no, connect is coming out.
In comes Brownie. He might know they're inbounding to him. Okay,
the play obviously is for Brownie. Here. Uh he scored
four ton, didn't he?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
He did. He did. Thursday night football. You probably didn't watch,
and you probably just saw the score. You're better off. No,
you're thirty three ten. Somehow the over was hit. You're welcome,
I told you last night. Uh but boy, that was
a bold proclamy. It's just.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That might have been the boldest thing you've ever said
a decade. We're gonna get it over the Rattler and Nicks. Yeah,
and Ford passes at halftime. They each had one completion
over ten years. You needed to save Downfield's backup to
come in j by the way touchdown to get you
to the over.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Wow. But look, I'll tell you this. Robert Sala was
the first head coach in the NFL to get fired,
and Dennis Allen's going to be the second. This is
such a it's such a bad confluence of circumstances. The
last month for the Saints. They started out to and oh,
a lot of not even cautus optimism. We beat the
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crap out of the coucharchy, one of the best teams
in the NFL. A lot of wagers went in on that. Absolutely. Look,
I told you this is not going well. The Saints
are terrible and the Cowboys are likely terrible, and that's
why they won this game. The Carolina Panthers, we know
we're awful. The Cowboys are bet and look at what
we've seen. Yes they've had injuries, but they have not
been good. They've lost four in a row. And you
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watch the game the last couple of weeks. The defense
is only somewhat interested in tackling. The offense has no
life there. There doesn't seem to be any way this
is going to get better.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And you had Richard Sherman at halftime saying, I think
the Saints players are trying to get Dennis Allen fired,
So that conversation's front and center. But this was just
not an effort at all by the Saints. And this
is when coaches get fired, when suddenly teams look like
they're going through the motions, and especially on a night
not just the national televised game, but on a night
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where this is Sean Payton coming back. This is your
coach that won the Super Bowl. Not like you have
a bad You love everything you did. He walked away
from the game and he came back. But this is
a guy you want to stand up and say, we
got to show you, coach, we still know what's.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Going on here. And again, no life, no tackling. They
can't put any points on the board. They honor Drew
Breese before the game, and Breeze is getting the stadium
all kinds of pumped up. And they can't score a
touchdown till the end of the game. And Denver comes
in with Sean Payton and Will Nuts also the Will
LUTs revenge game. Now Sean Payton and Will LUTs, and
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they run for over two hundred and fifty yards and
they have a horrible offense. Their offense is awful. Bo
Nicks is terrible. He runs for seventy five yards. Again,
they run the ball down the Saints throat. They can't
throw the ball at all, and still they're able to
run that way, and they just slowly suffocate New Orleans
as the game goes on. And these are games that
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get coaches fired because when the when you combine the
lack of effort, the lack of tackling is there again
with this should have been the game where we were
up for this the most. Here comes Sean Payton into
our This is where we're showing up, and you guys
are dead for the neck up. I don't know if
it happens tomorrow, I don't know if it's in a week,
but the next guy to get fired is gonna wind
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up being Dennis Allen. Well, you go and get bludgeoned here.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Their next game is against the Chargers, so defense isn't
gonna get any easier coming at you. And you know
they're gonna run the ball down your throat again, So
you've got that in a flow obviously, the Chargers with
the date on Monday night football against the Cardinals before then.
But you're looking at a squad and one of the
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dangerous things. And you and I have been doing this
long enough. When you talk to current and former athletes.
Whenever you question someone's effort, that's when it gets into
that dicey area and you can see the hair stand
up on the back of the former player's neck. Of
all right, let's be honest about this. The effort looks
to be lacking.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We had the Troy Aikman cut talking on Dallas radio
talking about the effort of Ceedee Lamb and the Cowboys
receivers that we talked about a little bit earlier in
the show.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
As soon as that starts becoming part of the discussion,
you've hit a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The honey Badger Matthew had what was an easy time,
well it was an easy interception. Whether he returns it
for six I don't know. But in the end he
drops it flat out. Bo Nick's gift wraps him a
football before the half. Instead he drops it. Denver is
able to kick a field goal and extend the lead.
Just bad concentration, bad play. And I know they're banged
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up and they're hurt, But right now, Dennis Allen, who look,
I didn't think the Saints are going to be any good.
So in fact, they got those two wins off the jump.
I was as shocked as anybody. But we've talked about
the Panthers and the Cowboys and what they are at
this point, and they're not much better. They're on that
next I mean, Panthers are on the same wrong Cowboys
are clinging to on the giant ladder of success, hoping
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not to fall to the bottom floor of things. So
for Dennis Allen, yeah, it's just a matter of whether
he gets fired before Doug Peterson does after he loses
in New England on Sunday in London.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
All right, what you got Frostburg? Well, I don't know
for a fact. I just know it's true. He's gonna
get fired. Ready for this quote? Yeah, I Alvin Kamara
after the night's game. You ready, Yep. I've been here
eight years and I've never seen the dome clear out
like that. And I can't blame them. They're fed up.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, because we talked about it in game, right, anytime
they showed him on a sideline, he was chewing, he
was he was barking about whatever the meaning.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It was the same thing. Look when when Sala got fired,
what happened? You heard the Jets after the game and
some of the leaders on defense saying, Hey, we need
guys to be accountable. Yeah, and there needs to be
and there was none of that. Robert Sala got fired.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You're hearing the same thing here. The dome cleared out.
It's inexcusable. Dennis Allen's going to be like, go was
Drew Brees celebration night man until it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, coming up next, Why the Dodgers are going to
be celebrating going to the World Series by this time tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Wait?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
What?
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Look look, as a Mets fan, I'll tell you I
am always hopeful, right because I'm always The Mets have
defied the odds all season long. Everything. Every time I think, ah,
this is gonna be a little bit too much, they
have found a way to get up off the mat.
By this time tomorrow night, we're talking about the Dodgers
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in the World Series. I find it hard to believe
the Mets are suddenly going to be able to flip
this script in about fifteen hours. The Mets look like
a team that has hit the wall right. They have
overachieved this year for the talent they put on the field.
They have found a way to ride heroics of Lindore
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and Alonzo and be able to you know, make it
when they're playing better teams with more All Stars. It's
been an unbelievable magic carpet roder. This is some kind
of postseason. But I watch a team now that really
has hit the wall, that has bad at bats against
a Dodger pitching staff that knows what they need to
do to get the Mets to chase to swing it
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pitches outside the strike zone because the Mets are either
too over anxious or they're just not in with the
strategy they need to be for postseason at bats. At
this point, defensively, the Mets are not playing well, and
I see them when they finish at bats. They're going
back to the dugout. Their body language is awful. They
get a little bit of time when they put a
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couple of runners on base, and then a couple of
bad swings a bat at bat follows, and suddenly the
Dodgers are getting out of bases loaded, nobody out first
and second, nobody out. The Mets just look like they
have hit the wall, right all that is a fancy
way to say, Look, this is what happens in baseball.
The Mets have been hot, incredibly hot from the end
of the regular season, and now they're facing a team
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that is as hot as they were at their peak,
and the Mets are cooling off, and the Dodger are
simply playing their best baseball of the season. They jumped
out to a big lead in the NL West, and
then they kind of just cruised in and it looked
like things were bad against the Padres in their first
round of the playoffs, and suddenly Game four they flipped
the switch, and they have been incredibly dominant, like overly
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dominant for Major League Baseball. You're talking about the big
shutout win to beat the Padres in Game four, a
shutout win to beat the Padres in Game five, a
big shutout win to beat the Mets in Game one.
They lose Game two well to get back to a
huge shutout win to beat the Mets in Game three,
and now a ten to two win in Game four.
I mean, they have been incredibly dominant. The only game
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the Dodgers have lost, and thankfully was a game I
went to. The only game they've lost is when Dave
Roberts kind of decides, yeah, we're gonna give a bullpen game,
and I don't know if I'm gonna use the high
leverage guys and not quite sure. And I thought at
the time, what a huge, critical mistake. This is gonna
be like, you can't just give a game away. You're okay,
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give this game away and bringing in relievers. You're second
and third and fourth tier relievers in early in this game,
when it's one nothing and two nothing, this is what
you're doing. And it turned out that's the only thing
that allowed the Mets to win a game because the
Mets feasted on the Dodgers' lower relievers, and when the
high leverage guys have come in, they have done nothing
but shut the door. Everything is going the Dodger's way.
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Otani is hitting, he's hitting with runners on base. Now, Mets,
I want to pitch to him. He's walking every time
he comes up. Max Mounts, he can do no wrong.
Mookie Betts had four hits tonight. The Dodgers starting pitching,
which was the big question. They're getting it from everywhere,
whether it's a seven inning game from Jack Flaherty in
Game one, Hey, a great four innings from Walker Buller
in game in Game three, five plus innings from Yamamoto
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who still hasn't been stretched out here in Game four.
I mean, this is this has been everything the Dodgers
have hoped has gone their way. And since Game four
against the Padres, they have been playing at a level
higher than we have seen them play all year. It's
what they needed to do. They need to play their
best baseball when it matters the most. The Mets played
their best baseball. The roster is not quite as good.
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They've been playing great baseball for a long time. They
have hit the wall. The Dodgers have not. Still rolling
through they may not hit the wall because this is
the perfect time to play your best baseball, right end
of the first Round, into the NLCS, into the World Series.
Like at this point tonight we're talking about the Dodgers
World Series coming up. Is it gonna be the Yankees?
Will it be the highest rated World Series of all time? Probably?
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Will take it to be ten thousand dollars a piece. Probably,
But that's what I expect to be talking about tomorrow night.
Because of all this stuff I said, this all falls
under the umbrella of the Dodgers are hot and they're
playing their best baseball. The Mets have hit the wall.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, I think when we look at what the Mets
did in prior series, they did everything the Dodgers are
doing to them right now. You know, let's keep the
bat on the shoulder and take another pitch. Come on,
you come to me. Make the pitch all right now,
I'm hitting it hard to the gap and may or
drawing a walk because your starters can't find the strike zone,
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which obviously, as we've talked about, a bunch has been
pretty mobile. Uh in this series, umpire to umpire, So
that that's something that swirls in the background effect.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
As we get ready for our robot overload over lords.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
In all of this, but for for the Mets, Yeah,
they took care of bullpens in the past. Now suddenly
it's it's not working in the the same way. You
had the one big inning the game you attended. That's
all you got in the Padre series. Apparently I needed
to go to every game.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I needed to go downy day for the book. We
told you it. I'll go hit your road till in
dial in.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Take the Comrax with you and a long extension cord
to dial into the my fault.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It's my fault, I should I should then, and Grimas
has been a no show.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
A lot of Grimacie impostors, but no real Grimmis needs
to throw out the first pitch to the hawk to
a girl tomorrow or vice versa.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, I'll go either way on that. That's got it.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I think Grimac, I uh has to be the thro Grimace.
We're gonna be grim Grimace. That's how we're all gonna
have a catch all different Grimace, I all over.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'm pretty sure spitballs are illegal, ament not if grim
throws it. Grimace is allowed to do it because what
he does is it's not a spitball. He just dips
his hand into a shake and he puts it around
the ball and he throws it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
This has nothing to do with Grimace. That's what has
everything to do with Grimace. No, yes, do he You'll
see him when he throws it. He's got he's got
it hidden on his hip. He's got to shake, he
puts his puts his paw in on the shake, and
he throws the ball.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Ball.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Just felt inclined to put the record needles scratch in
while I'm making a salient point about Grimace and his
contribution to the series.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But all all of it to say, the Mets have.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Gone away from what brought them thicker and advantage Dodgers
in every way, shape and form, patients at the plate
patience on the mound and making your your squad act
out of sorts. From what they did, from what the
end of May, all the way through the rest of
the season, it feels like af the Game two that
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they have come into this and and not that they're.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Afraid of the of the Dodgers, because look, we've seen them.
They've had to pitch around Bryce Harper and series before
they do, so it's not like that case. But they're
trying to it's either being too cute or trying to
be too fine. But I'm done with the walks, and
it was it was something that I thought, Okay, as
the season goes on, they're gonna stop walking everybody. But
(25:25):
that's always been the Mets problem. Right. It's getting a
lot of attention now because the Dodgers have walked seven
times at least in each of the last four games,
which you can't do. But I'm telling you, Okay, yes,
the Dodgers are putting good at bats together, but it's
I could be the Dodgers hitting coach, Hey, take a
bunch of pitches. The Mets are gonna walk in. They
don't throw a lot of strikes. Tadah, look at what
we're saying, I mean, seven walks in every game, but
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this has been the big mets Acilie.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But you got to get the hitters to agree to that. Yeah,
because most guys want to go up.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But I've got to swing, just swing just deeper in
the count because they're gonna fall behind and they're gonna
have to make bad pitches. And that's what's gonna happen, right,
happen with Mookie Betts tonight, happen with a bunch of
other bats. When I watch, Okay, they're far behind Max Muncie,
they're far behind. Show Hey o Taani and I see it.
You feel happy? You should just throwing the music in
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for no reason, you feel okay, okay, uh, it's been
really tough the walks of the watch. You'd rather they
just hit you. No, no, no, no, look the walks
are difficult, and you know, and this other part of
it for the series goes back to what we talked
about the beginning of the playoffs, is that you show
me a team that has a bad series out of
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the bullpen. I'll show you a team that loses a series, sure,
because you can come back from a lot in in uh,
in the baseball playoffs. You can have a series where
you don't hit well and you can still win the series.
You can have a series where you're starting pitching doesn't
do well, you can win the series. Make a lot
of mistakes on the base path, you could. Yeah, yeah,
Yankees are showing you that we'll run the bases like
a bunch of drunk lunatics and we can still win games.
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Date it again today. But if you have a bet
head the loss, bad series out of the bullpen, you're
going to lose. You cannot overcome that. Ask the Phillies,
ask the Brewers, Ask every team that goes out. Ask
the Mets. Right now, the Mets have zero dependable relievers
right now. If you said to me, who's the guy
the Mets can bring in right if they need one out,
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regardless of the situation, Lefty right, one guy to bring it?
I would say, boy, I don't Jan Franco, I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
John Franco would be the first guy. Yes, and maybe
Billy Wagner. Maybe Billy sure, you know he was Philly.
He was like five to two. Yeah. He can throw
the ball one hundred and ten miles an hour. The
Mets have zero dependable relievers right now. Nobody. And it's
not like it's been a great bullpen. But even Diaz,
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he's in every other game. Guy, he's lamar Odom of
closers boy. One game he's really good, next game, here
come three.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Ron.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
He's sweating Diaz.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
He sunk the mantle from ken Lee Janssen and so
many others before it. Sometimes in the same game he'll
get up three but three strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In the night.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I mean kimberl had that earlier this year. Yeah, they're
sweating him.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
They have no dependable There's nobody the Mets can bring
in from the bullpen and you can say, okay, this
is this is gonna be our high leverage guy to
stop the bleeding. And the Dodgers have four or five
guys that they can bring in and say right now
to say, hey, we're pitching really well. Right Trenton's the
only guy that's probably not going to go tomorrow because
he pitched the last two days. So the bull Dodgers'
bullprind still is really rested over what they've had so far.
(28:16):
But I mean, that's the two reasons I look at
the most frustrating is that the bullpen. The Mets bullpen
is absolutely awful, and they just keep walking play and
it's so watching the walks is so frustrating. It's it
just my my stomach turns on the inside, going, can
we just I mean, make him earn his way on?
Make you can't walk a guy here just because the
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base is open. I mean, this is this is not
someding Well, I'll put the guy.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
No, if you put runners at first and side and
there's a three run homer or there's a there's an
infield single in a run scores, these are the most
frustrating parts and is what the Dodger are doing well
because they're peeking and the Mets are not excell It'll
be all over tomorrow. Yeah, they will have gotten you
to the Knicks whatever next year in the Jets.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I will say that this one bit of warning for
the Dodgers. They really want to close it out tomorrow
because they don't want to come back to LA for
what would more than likely be a bullpen game in
Game six, because what's the game the Mets won. They
won the bullpen game in Game six right, so now
and probably Sean Manie will come back for Game six,
who pitched really well against the Dodgers, so they really
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want to close it out tomorrow because if not, you
could be looking at the possibility of a Game seven
winner take all. Who knows what could happen, right, Obviously,
that's the best case scenario for the Mets. But the
Mets win tomorrow at home bullpen game for the Dodgers
in Game six, even with the chance to close it out,
the Mets bats have shown we will hit your bullpen eventually,
and we hit it in one game, maybe we'll do
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it in games.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I just watched you light nine candles and some incense
as you tried to speak that into exist.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Exist. Come on, man, now, a guy who's gonna speak
all the scores of the night into existence. It's special delivery.
Steve de Seger. He is now in his twentieth consecutive
update with all the correct scores. He is the Dalton
Connect of Fox Sports Radio. He won't get fooled by
that computer updating.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Everything is final now, including that Laker exhibition win at Phoenix.
As rookie Dalton Connect drafted number seventeen overall, scored twenty
straight points in the fourth quarter in overtime in this win,
Anthony Davis thirty five points in the victory. As for
late NHL at Saint Louis Blues in overtime beat the
Islanders one nothing, and the Kraken were released six '
(30:31):
four over the Philadelphia Flyers. You mentioned the Dodgers with
a chance to close it out tomorrow. If they do,
that would give them a full week off until hosting
Game one of the World Series, because that starts a
week from Friday on Fox TV. Tomorrow's Game five of
the NLCS is also on FS one as tonight's Game one,
but game was, I should say, but tonight it started
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later tomorrow. It's five pm Eastern Time from New York
pitcher David Peterson against l native Jack Flaherty for the Dodgers. Yes,
a Game six would be Sunday night in LA, but
the Dodgers are up three games to one after another
win at New York ten to two. Was the final
the Mets with runners in scoring position win zero for
ten the loss to Jose Kintana. Mookie Bets four hits,
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four RBIs, including a homer. Show hey Otani with a
leadoff home run in this game, and he walked three times,
scored four times Tommy Edmund three RBIs What a game.
At Cleveland, the Guardians on a tenth inning homer, beat
the Yankees in quite a comeback, seven to five. The
Yanks lead in the ALCS now two games to one.
David Pry the hero with the late two run homer
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to end it, a guy who had also homered a
week ago at Detroit in a playoff win. Tonight's loser
was Clay Holmes. The Yankee closer, Luke Weaver, allowed the
tying two run homer in the bottom of the ninth
with two outs to pin hitter John Kenzie. Noel Weaver
had allowed just one earned runs in the last six
weeks since he became the closer. And then there's the
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closer for the Major League Baseball calendar year. Emmanuel Classe
gave up back to back homers in the top of
the eighth to Aaron Judge and Gencarlos Stanton, and still
the Yankees could not secure a road win. By the
way class in the playoffs this month has allowed six
earned runs. He only allowed five earned runs the entire
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regular season this year six months worth. In the NFL
game at New Orleans, the Broncos beat the Saints thirty
three to ten. Javonte Williams two touchdown runs. In fact,
the Broncos as a team rushing two hundred twenty five yards.
Quarterback Bo Nicks had ten carries for seventy five yards.
Ex Saints kicker Will Lutz four for four on field
goals thirty three ten in the final.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
The Saints have lost five in a row. They're two
and five.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Spencer Rattler was sacked six times, two fumbles. Jacksonville running
back Travis etn was limited at practice today due to
a hamstring Tampa Bay running back Rashad White was limited
with a foot injury. Vikings running back Aaron Jones was
able to practic on a limited basis after a hamstring injury,
but Colt's running back Jonathan Taylor did not practice due
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to a bad ankle.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Back to you, thank you, Steve though The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the tyreq dot Com
Studios coming up next. There's criticism and there's what Troy
Aikman said today about one high profile NFL team that's
sext right here Jason and Mike from the Copacabana alongside Rico,
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who wore a diamond and then apparently shot Tony. Sorry
spoiler alert, he had a good run? He didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He was Just because he had a terrible end doesn't
mean he didn't have some ball.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He was probably in his twenties. Him and Lola were.
They lived their lives to the fullest. They were young.
They had each other. He was a bartender, she worked
in the bar. This guy shows up. They met a
lot of interesting people. He shoots Tony and kills him,
and then Lola spends thirty years drinking herself half blond?
How is that a good run for to think? She
probably had a lot of adventures along the way. That
(33:59):
is not a good run for Tony not know what
a bar looks like. Come on, no, no, that stop.
That's a lie.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:14):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon.
We are about thirty six hours late on this, but
we wanted to wait until we ordered pizza. Happy birthday
to the man on my left.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Happy happy birthday, you old man.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Mike Harmon celebrating another journey around the sun. Yes, he
is sixty eight years old today. All right, way, how
old are your knees?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I've taken some weight off him, so I'm getting some
of those years back.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Steve Kerr's knees.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Uh no, yeah, yeah, no, now Kurrs got mine.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I mean he had to run up and down the
hard with a bunch, although he only usually just kind
of spotted up in the corner.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Happy birthday, buddy.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well, thank you survived another one.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
They did. I almost did. What's your wish? Well, the
jets the jets killed guard. I got to tell you that,
so you never know. No, we got a lot, a
lot going on. No, I'm in god his wish. Caleb
Williams is good. He's got his wish. He's really good.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Hey man, I let you a doctor and the doctor
said you're not done yet, And I said.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, so good. I won.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I went to the doctor and the doctor said, no more.
Harmon's jumping on the bed. Wow, it's been so long
since I remembered that thing existed.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Five little Harmon's jumping on the bed fell on his head.
He had a good run. Uh, speaking of good runs,
maybe the run is ending for Mike McCarthy and Dall
at some point soon if it is, how about Troy
(35:56):
Aikman next Cowboys head? Look at that, you just want
to have a coup. Here he was on Dallas radio
earlier today. You know, a couple of days after Jerry
Jones was on the Cowboys radio saying, how fire holl
of you?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
And they just go cowboy, former cowboy to former cowboy.
That's one of Jerry Jones here. Maybe maybe take a
couple of calls of angry Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Receiver once every couple of months and then Mike Madonnall
will come on to.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
But here's Troy Aikman on Dallas radio earlier today talking
about how bad the Dallas wide receivers and Cede Lamb
have been over the course of this season.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I think the routes are terrible. I think they run
terrible routes, and I thought that beyond this year. And
I think CD's got to improve and his route running.
And as a quarterback, if you're not certain where guys
are going to be consistently, it's hard, it's hard to
play the position. And so that's that's what I see.
I see guys lazy coming off the line of scrimmage.
Sometimes they sometimes they run. Usually if they do, it's
(37:02):
because they're anticipating they're going to get the football in
that play. But if they're not, they don't, and it
all ties together, and so I'm not impressed with that
part of it. I've just finished watching the Baltimore Ravens
because I have them this week. You put out a
film of Theirs and watch their receivers run routes and
they come off the football and so to San Francisco's
(37:22):
Green Bays and others. But it's hard to play the
position if you're not certain how guys are going to
run routes or where they're going to be. And I'm
not speaking for Dak. Dak may say, hey, I think
everything's amazing, but as a former quarterback watching it, it's
got to get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
When Aikman played, he was never a shrinking violet. He
was always someone on the sideline. Hey, you guys are
blocking like blank. You guys are not playing this. You
guys are blank. You guys are horse blank. He was
that guy that's from ninety six to seven, the ticket
earlier today, not the horse blank, and whatever from him
as a player, he was, Yeah, I mean he would
say that as a player.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm surprised that Troy Aikman has not been a name
that has been a pro she had or bandied about
in potentially becoming a head coach of a team, because
now is a time when people go to the media
for their coaches.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Now someone who has been in the game, who has
continued to be a big personality in the game. His
name was in a hot second, his name was there
at UCLA. But I don't know if that Troy Aikman
is a college coach. He is, you know, would be
would be a would be a better college coach, but
NFL coach. If the Cowboys called him, would he really
(38:29):
say no? You know, because this is Troy Aikman, Cowboy legend,
Hall of Famer. And yes, Jerry Jones doesn't like when
the attention is off of him, but he also doesn't
like right now that the attention is all on him
and his team stinks. Well, he could so becoming a
UCLA coach soon. He's got he's got to do something,
and whether it's Bill Belichick at the end of this year,
because if they can't win, they want relevancy, right just
(38:51):
like the Lakers. If we can't win, we're gonna go
get Brownie James for relevancy. If we can't win, we
want relevancy, They're gonna make a move at some point.
I told you, if things are bad at Thanksgiving, then
look for Bill Belichick. But Troy Aikman certainly is one
of those names where he can come in and be
in Cowboy legend and he'd be the guy Jerry Jones
would hire. He's got to do something to make sure
this team can jump out of it. I wonder what
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Troy Aikman would say if they came and said, hey, dude,
what would you think about taking over the Cowboys? I'd
love it.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
And it's one of the things I always liked about
him in the booth is he was pretty brutally honest.
After those first couple of years, right, well, you get
a little further away from the game and you see
some trends maybe that are not your favorite. Stealing a
line that my daughter used to use when she tried
to decline something that was on her dinner plate. You
know that's not my not my favorite, Oh no, but
(39:38):
you have to eat it. Yeah, it's not my favorite.
Not my favorite. But it's a carrot. You have to
eat it. Eventually, that carrot is going down your gullet,
by hook er, by crook. But I always thought of
him as a guy that i'd see in a front
office somewhere, kind of like Steve Young was rumored to
be years ago, right, and he was around the squad
that But who knows, Maybe UCLA had coach that'd be fun.
(40:00):
I could just see him dealing with Boosters. That's a
tough thing. I mean, because he is such an NFL
guy for so long. Is he going to be the
new school guy in college football? But he'd clash with
Jerry too much?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
But I don't think that's a bad thing. And I
don't think for Jerry that's a bad thing. I think
he'd be okay with clashing with Jerry. I think Jerry
be okay with that. I'd be good TV if it
means the Cowboys are relevant and the Cowboys are winning,
because Jerry doesn't want to be blamed for what's going on,
so he knows I have to hire somebody good. I
can't just hire somebody. I can't hire Dave Campo again.
I gotta hire somebody who's good you should coach the
Mets from my gom Jason. Coming up next, my buddy
(40:38):
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(00:50):
to one over the Mets. Coming up in twenty minutes,
we'll dive into that. I'll tell you why the Dodgers
are gonna be celebrating the NL pennant by this time
tomorrow night. They're defeating Grimace.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Uh yeah, I tell you, Grimace hawk toa it's it's it's,
it's a tall.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Order reading Grimace.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It is a tall order right now, hawk t might
as well have been twenty years ago at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's what the Dodgers just did to the Mets. Uh,
and we got to be the iron sheet kind of way.
We got a big hot take from the NFL coming
up in a couple of minutes before that. But want
to want to talk about something that happened tonight. Yeah,
you probably are not aware of, but boy was it insane.
We got to watch the vast majority of the end
(01:32):
of this one. The Lakers beat the Suns tonight one
twenty two preseason Okay, that's fine, And you know, look
the game was on because Frostburg's a degenerate and he
put a lot of money on this one.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, I mean, look, it's it's sports, he's sports in
it up.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Lakers preseason Lakers, Yo. Yeah, there was no Lebron in
this game, sitting because of rest. It's okay. And Anthony
Davis had thirty five points and ten rebounds.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I mean the Big three came out and played
really well for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, so why wait, I don't understand. So preseason game, yeah,
Lakers one. Yeah, Anthony Davis thirty five and ten. That's okay,
that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's a lot of work for Anthony Davis on a
day that we're talking about his counterpoint h and counterpart
in Los Angeles, Kawhi Leonard. Why are we gonna see him?
They're gonna break it into new arena? Is he gonna play?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Was this Davis? Was it a big day by Kevin Durant?
Is that we know? Kevin Durant had nineteen points, Devin
Booker had twenty two. Wait? Wait, so why is this
game a big deal? Why are people gonna be talking
about it? Well, let's let Kevin Harlan tell you exactly
why this game is starting to get all kinds of attention.
Two point three on the clock, Lakers call cut out
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to the corner, Who's.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Let it go?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Young fellow?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Eighteen points for the Lakers. Wow, and thirty three for
the game. Washing to the fake and try trying to
squirt the two on a file. He scored the last
eighteen points. Dalton connect tas four la.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh my goodness. This So that was Reggie. He usually
could have been a not easily could have been a
four point play. Uh yes, Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller on
the call. Connect would get another bucket. He would end
the game the last twenty points of the game, scoring
thirty five and thirty two off the bench. Again, a
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guy that we didn't really talk about at all because
you know, Bronnie James is sucking all the ouction out
of the room. He played seventeen minutes the night he
had four points. But this is Dalton Connect, the first
guy the Lakers draft, and hey, and he was their
big acquisition, right because he was they didn't go get
anybody in the offseason, right. Remember there were quotes from
him during the collegiate season, and that's the guy. He's
(03:54):
the guy I like, Right, He's the guy they got
in the draft, and he's you know, playing second fiddle
right now because the Lakers go get Bronnie James. Look
in a year where the Lakers know, hey, we're not
really favorites to win a title, let's stay relevant. So
we draft Bronnie James, which is the reason why. Look,
the Lakers know we want to be part of the conversation.
We gotta be relevant, We got to be talked about.
So we'll draft Bronnie and that's gonna ensure us being
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talked about.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, they're gonna talk either way because Lebron's always gonna
keep tongues flapping here.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Right, But this is something new that we've never seen here.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Something happy and yeah, certainly merch sales man, straight cash,
I mean, when it's all said done, But Connect is a.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Guy that has the pedigree coming in. And yes, Lebron
has talked about talked about him last year. He was
someone that he wanted on here, another shooter to go
along with Austin Reeves. And suddenly now things might look
a little bit rosier for the Lakers. Not that he's
gonna come off the bench and score thirty five points
a night, but you scored twenty points in a row. Okay,
(04:52):
I got a feel, and he's gonna carve out a
lot of big minutes early on in the season. I
have a sneaking suspicion that we're gonna be talking more
about Dalton can I then we're gonna be talking about
Bronnie James.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, yeah, I mean it might be the what happened
to Bronni? Why is he playing? How's he doing in
the G League? But yeah, your point's well taken. I
mean Connect eight to thirteen from three point range. We've
always talked about, Hey, if you gave Lebron more shooters,
what could this team still become, especially since he is
so good as a passer. All Right, for all the
(05:23):
I don't I'm not a great you know, I'm not
the score what. No, No, you're the all time leading scorer. Don't,
don't give me the humble brag. But we we've watched
him where you can get open shots. Now it's just
a question can someone hit him and connect?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Color me intrigued. Yeah, I don't know what their odds
are right now. I'm trying to bring that up as
we as we sit here. Right, we talked about it
with Todd Furman a little bit. Nick's being the third favorite,
and you got the Sixers, the favorites the Lakers. Lakers
are sitting at forty to one, okay about twelve. And
part of that's just gonna be the proximity of Los
(05:58):
Angeles to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Right, I'll tell you this. Am I cautiously optimistic for
the Lakers. Yes, there's reason to be a little bit optimistic.
They do have the new energy of JJ Reddick, and
one is that gonna have a chance to succeed between
him and Lebron coaching the team. Maybe this is what
they need. You bring in a rookie light connect who
can play a role. But suddenly I'm not buying in
(06:21):
it because this is all the Oh, just get Aaron
Rodgers all the weapons he needs and suddenly watch what happens.
That's kind of the whole thing with get Lebron shooting,
Get Lebron's shooting. Gout. Okay, he's got shooters, man, he's
got a d he's got reeves, he's got got he's
got shooters.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now he's got another shooter. It's like, oh, just get
Aaron Rodgers, another wide receiver, go out, go out and
go get him Nico Collins and make him healthy and
then put him on the team with Adams and Garrett Wilson.
Like it's a little bit of that. But I will
say cautious optimism for the Lakers one hundred percent. I
am all in on cautious optimism for me with you,
it's just a all right, we're gonna watch all those
(06:56):
eighty two games here in the studio, right, so hopefully
they're entertaining shows now, am I banking on the fact
that you're gonna get the same number of games played
out of Lebron and Ade that you did a year ago.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, so the for the fortification of your depth and
having another guy who can score and carry a few
minutes here and there as needed, and if Lebron needs
an off day. I don't know that he's going full
on Joel embiid Of. I'm never playing another back to
back again, but we know they're gonna use his his minics,
(07:30):
minutes and games sparingly. Load management under a different term,
that's going to be the case. And thinking Anthony Davis
is playing another seventy five games, come on, I mean,
that's like playing pressure luck when it's one million dollars
on the board and nothing else but ramnies.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
There's no reason to not be extremely cautiously a.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We go to a game really very extremely cautiously optimistic
about the extremely cautiously.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Very very extremely cautiously optiv.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I'm gonna put that very very not just not just
costantly optimistic, No, this is very very extremely cautious, extremely
cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay, we'll put that on a shirt. Not extremely optimistic, no,
extremely cautiously. We'll put him on bel Crow and you
cant decided right the day how you feel optimistic, feel
more optimistic. I need all the things. I put them
all on, very very very extremely It'll come with a
bonus pack of like another six or seven adjetive. I
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like that. I think that. I think that's pretty cool.
Uh So again, very very extremely cautiously optimistic about the Lakers.
Oh wild card shirt. You don't know what slogan you're
getting on it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, you know the general design because you may get
the adjective that says very very extremely cautiously because I'm
thestic or you may just get I'm boldly confident in
this Lakers squad because.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You never know when you're gonna get, like Billy Max saying.
And the Lakers now tied with the Suns one fifteen
a piece, forty five seconds left to go and lineup
change out of the game. Goes Dalton connect who's got
thirteen in the fourth quarter alone. He scored the Lakers
last twelve. Incomes Brownie James. You want a good defender,
and here.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
With the defensive finalists for the final fifty five seconds
of this one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You're trying to speak that into exist.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Look at you doing vers on our flagship a LA stores.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
How dare you very very cautiously optimist.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
On a night where they're ready to explode three to
one lead over your.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Mets cautiously optimist. We'll have more on the Dodgers. I'm right, hey, boy,
the Lakers need a three. Oh no, connect is coming out.
In comes Brownie. He might know they're inbounding to him. Okay,
the play obviously is for Brownie. Here. Uh he scored
four ton, didn't he?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
He did. He did. Thursday night football. You probably didn't watch,
and you probably just saw the score. You're better off. No,
you're thirty three ten. Somehow the over was hit. You're welcome,
I told you last night. Uh but boy, that was
a bold proclamy. It's just.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That might have been the boldest thing you've ever said
a decade. We're gonna get it over the Rattler and Nicks. Yeah,
and Ford passes at halftime. They each had one completion
over ten years. You needed to save Downfield's backup to
come in j by the way touchdown to get you
to the over.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Wow. But look, I'll tell you this. Robert Sala was
the first head coach in the NFL to get fired,
and Dennis Allen's going to be the second. This is
such a it's such a bad confluence of circumstances. The
last month for the Saints. They started out to and oh,
a lot of not even cautus optimism. We beat the
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crap out of the coucharchy, one of the best teams
in the NFL. A lot of wagers went in on that. Absolutely. Look,
I told you this is not going well. The Saints
are terrible and the Cowboys are likely terrible, and that's
why they won this game. The Carolina Panthers, we know
we're awful. The Cowboys are bet and look at what
we've seen. Yes they've had injuries, but they have not
been good. They've lost four in a row. And you
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watch the game the last couple of weeks. The defense
is only somewhat interested in tackling. The offense has no
life there. There doesn't seem to be any way this
is going to get better.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And you had Richard Sherman at halftime saying, I think
the Saints players are trying to get Dennis Allen fired,
So that conversation's front and center. But this was just
not an effort at all by the Saints. And this
is when coaches get fired, when suddenly teams look like
they're going through the motions, and especially on a night
not just the national televised game, but on a night
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where this is Sean Payton coming back. This is your
coach that won the Super Bowl. Not like you have
a bad You love everything you did. He walked away
from the game and he came back. But this is
a guy you want to stand up and say, we
got to show you, coach, we still know what's.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Going on here. And again, no life, no tackling. They
can't put any points on the board. They honor Drew
Breese before the game, and Breeze is getting the stadium
all kinds of pumped up. And they can't score a
touchdown till the end of the game. And Denver comes
in with Sean Payton and Will Nuts also the Will
LUTs revenge game. Now Sean Payton and Will LUTs, and
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they run for over two hundred and fifty yards and
they have a horrible offense. Their offense is awful. Bo
Nicks is terrible. He runs for seventy five yards. Again,
they run the ball down the Saints throat. They can't
throw the ball at all, and still they're able to
run that way, and they just slowly suffocate New Orleans
as the game goes on. And these are games that
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get coaches fired because when the when you combine the
lack of effort, the lack of tackling is there again
with this should have been the game where we were
up for this the most. Here comes Sean Payton into
our This is where we're showing up, and you guys
are dead for the neck up. I don't know if
it happens tomorrow, I don't know if it's in a week,
but the next guy to get fired is gonna wind
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up being Dennis Allen. Well, you go and get bludgeoned here.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Their next game is against the Chargers, so defense isn't
gonna get any easier coming at you. And you know
they're gonna run the ball down your throat again, So
you've got that in a flow obviously, the Chargers with
the date on Monday night football against the Cardinals before then.
But you're looking at a squad and one of the
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dangerous things. And you and I have been doing this
long enough. When you talk to current and former athletes.
Whenever you question someone's effort, that's when it gets into
that dicey area and you can see the hair stand
up on the back of the former player's neck. Of
all right, let's be honest about this. The effort looks
to be lacking.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We had the Troy Aikman cut talking on Dallas radio
talking about the effort of Ceedee Lamb and the Cowboys
receivers that we talked about a little bit earlier in
the show.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
As soon as that starts becoming part of the discussion,
you've hit a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The honey Badger Matthew had what was an easy time,
well it was an easy interception. Whether he returns it
for six I don't know. But in the end he
drops it flat out. Bo Nick's gift wraps him a
football before the half. Instead he drops it. Denver is
able to kick a field goal and extend the lead.
Just bad concentration, bad play. And I know they're banged
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up and they're hurt, But right now, Dennis Allen, who look,
I didn't think the Saints are going to be any good.
So in fact, they got those two wins off the jump.
I was as shocked as anybody. But we've talked about
the Panthers and the Cowboys and what they are at
this point, and they're not much better. They're on that
next I mean, Panthers are on the same wrong Cowboys
are clinging to on the giant ladder of success, hoping
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not to fall to the bottom floor of things. So
for Dennis Allen, yeah, it's just a matter of whether
he gets fired before Doug Peterson does after he loses
in New England on Sunday in London.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
All right, what you got Frostburg? Well, I don't know
for a fact. I just know it's true. He's gonna
get fired. Ready for this quote? Yeah, I Alvin Kamara
after the night's game. You ready, Yep. I've been here
eight years and I've never seen the dome clear out
like that. And I can't blame them. They're fed up.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, because we talked about it in game, right, anytime
they showed him on a sideline, he was chewing, he
was he was barking about whatever the meaning.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It was the same thing. Look when when Sala got fired,
what happened? You heard the Jets after the game and
some of the leaders on defense saying, Hey, we need
guys to be accountable. Yeah, and there needs to be
and there was none of that. Robert Sala got fired.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You're hearing the same thing here. The dome cleared out.
It's inexcusable. Dennis Allen's going to be like, go was
Drew Brees celebration night man until it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, coming up next, Why the Dodgers are going to
be celebrating going to the World Series by this time tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Wait?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
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Speaker 6 (17:13):
Otani swings and it's a missile to right field. Marte
will turn and watch this one fly show, Hey, Oltani,
a leadoff home run, A laser beam to right field
and it's one nothing Dodgers right off to Hop. In
Game four, Munsey gets into a ball high in the
air right field. He drops the bat, Max Munsey max
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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 (17:47):
Stephen Nelson on AM five to seventy with the calls
on those home runs. Otani has been amazing. Max Munsey
has been even more impressive. Twelve at bats in a row.
Streak of reaching bays ended tonight late against the Mets,
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Look look, as a Mets fan, I'll tell you I
am always hopeful, right because I'm always The Mets have
defied the odds all season long. Everything. Every time I think, ah,
this is gonna be a little bit too much, they
have found a way to get up off the mat.
By this time tomorrow night, we're talking about the Dodgers
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in the World Series. I find it hard to believe
the Mets are suddenly going to be able to flip
this script in about fifteen hours. The Mets look like
a team that has hit the wall right. They have
overachieved this year for the talent they put on the field.
They have found a way to ride heroics of Lindore
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and Alonzo and be able to you know, make it
when they're playing better teams with more All Stars. It's
been an unbelievable magic carpet roder. This is some kind
of postseason. But I watch a team now that really
has hit the wall, that has bad at bats against
a Dodger pitching staff that knows what they need to
do to get the Mets to chase to swing it
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pitches outside the strike zone because the Mets are either
too over anxious or they're just not in with the
strategy they need to be for postseason at bats. At
this point, defensively, the Mets are not playing well, and
I see them when they finish at bats. They're going
back to the dugout. Their body language is awful. They
get a little bit of time when they put a
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couple of runners on base, and then a couple of
bad swings a bat at bat follows, and suddenly the
Dodgers are getting out of bases loaded, nobody out first
and second, nobody out. The Mets just look like they
have hit the wall, right all that is a fancy
way to say, Look, this is what happens in baseball.
The Mets have been hot, incredibly hot from the end
of the regular season, and now they're facing a team
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that is as hot as they were at their peak,
and the Mets are cooling off, and the Dodger are
simply playing their best baseball of the season. They jumped
out to a big lead in the NL West, and
then they kind of just cruised in and it looked
like things were bad against the Padres in their first
round of the playoffs, and suddenly Game four they flipped
the switch, and they have been incredibly dominant, like overly
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dominant for Major League Baseball. You're talking about the big
shutout win to beat the Padres in Game four, a
shutout win to beat the Padres in Game five, a
big shutout win to beat the Mets in Game one.
They lose Game two well to get back to a
huge shutout win to beat the Mets in Game three,
and now a ten to two win in Game four.
I mean, they have been incredibly dominant. The only game
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the Dodgers have lost, and thankfully was a game I
went to. The only game they've lost is when Dave
Roberts kind of decides, yeah, we're gonna give a bullpen game,
and I don't know if I'm gonna use the high
leverage guys and not quite sure. And I thought at
the time, what a huge, critical mistake. This is gonna
be like, you can't just give a game away. You're okay,
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give this game away and bringing in relievers. You're second
and third and fourth tier relievers in early in this game,
when it's one nothing and two nothing, this is what
you're doing. And it turned out that's the only thing
that allowed the Mets to win a game because the
Mets feasted on the Dodgers' lower relievers, and when the
high leverage guys have come in, they have done nothing
but shut the door. Everything is going the Dodger's way.
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Otani is hitting, he's hitting with runners on base. Now, Mets,
I want to pitch to him. He's walking every time
he comes up. Max Mounts, he can do no wrong.
Mookie Betts had four hits tonight. The Dodgers starting pitching,
which was the big question. They're getting it from everywhere,
whether it's a seven inning game from Jack Flaherty in
Game one, Hey, a great four innings from Walker Buller
in game in Game three, five plus innings from Yamamoto
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who still hasn't been stretched out here in Game four.
I mean, this is this has been everything the Dodgers
have hoped has gone their way. And since Game four
against the Padres, they have been playing at a level
higher than we have seen them play all year. It's
what they needed to do. They need to play their
best baseball when it matters the most. The Mets played
their best baseball. The roster is not quite as good.
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They've been playing great baseball for a long time. They
have hit the wall. The Dodgers have not. Still rolling
through they may not hit the wall because this is
the perfect time to play your best baseball, right end
of the first Round, into the NLCS, into the World Series.
Like at this point tonight we're talking about the Dodgers
World Series coming up. Is it gonna be the Yankees?
Will it be the highest rated World Series of all time? Probably?
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Will take it to be ten thousand dollars a piece. Probably,
But that's what I expect to be talking about tomorrow night.
Because of all this stuff I said, this all falls
under the umbrella of the Dodgers are hot and they're
playing their best baseball. The Mets have hit the wall.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, I think when we look at what the Mets
did in prior series, they did everything the Dodgers are
doing to them right now. You know, let's keep the
bat on the shoulder and take another pitch. Come on,
you come to me. Make the pitch all right now,
I'm hitting it hard to the gap and may or
drawing a walk because your starters can't find the strike zone,
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which obviously, as we've talked about, a bunch has been
pretty mobile. Uh in this series, umpire to umpire, So
that that's something that swirls in the background effect.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
As we get ready for our robot overload over lords.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
In all of this, but for for the Mets, Yeah,
they took care of bullpens in the past. Now suddenly
it's it's not working in the the same way. You
had the one big inning the game you attended. That's
all you got in the Padre series. Apparently I needed
to go to every game.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I needed to go downy day for the book. We
told you it. I'll go hit your road till in
dial in.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Take the Comrax with you and a long extension cord
to dial into the my fault.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It's my fault, I should I should then, and Grimas
has been a no show.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
A lot of Grimacie impostors, but no real Grimmis needs
to throw out the first pitch to the hawk to
a girl tomorrow or vice versa.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, I'll go either way on that. That's got it.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I think Grimac, I uh has to be the thro Grimace.
We're gonna be grim Grimace. That's how we're all gonna
have a catch all different Grimace, I all over.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'm pretty sure spitballs are illegal, ament not if grim
throws it. Grimace is allowed to do it because what
he does is it's not a spitball. He just dips
his hand into a shake and he puts it around
the ball and he throws it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
This has nothing to do with Grimace. That's what has
everything to do with Grimace. No, yes, do he You'll
see him when he throws it. He's got he's got
it hidden on his hip. He's got to shake, he
puts his puts his paw in on the shake, and
he throws the ball.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Ball.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Just felt inclined to put the record needles scratch in
while I'm making a salient point about Grimace and his
contribution to the series.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But all all of it to say, the Mets have.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Gone away from what brought them thicker and advantage Dodgers
in every way, shape and form, patients at the plate
patience on the mound and making your your squad act
out of sorts. From what they did, from what the
end of May, all the way through the rest of
the season, it feels like af the Game two that
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they have come into this and and not that they're.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Afraid of the of the Dodgers, because look, we've seen them.
They've had to pitch around Bryce Harper and series before
they do, so it's not like that case. But they're
trying to it's either being too cute or trying to
be too fine. But I'm done with the walks, and
it was it was something that I thought, Okay, as
the season goes on, they're gonna stop walking everybody. But
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that's always been the Mets problem. Right. It's getting a
lot of attention now because the Dodgers have walked seven
times at least in each of the last four games,
which you can't do. But I'm telling you, Okay, yes,
the Dodgers are putting good at bats together, but it's
I could be the Dodgers hitting coach, Hey, take a
bunch of pitches. The Mets are gonna walk in. They
don't throw a lot of strikes. Tadah, look at what
we're saying, I mean, seven walks in every game, but
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this has been the big mets Acilie.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But you got to get the hitters to agree to that. Yeah,
because most guys want to go up.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But I've got to swing, just swing just deeper in
the count because they're gonna fall behind and they're gonna
have to make bad pitches. And that's what's gonna happen, right,
happen with Mookie Betts tonight, happen with a bunch of
other bats. When I watch, Okay, they're far behind Max Muncie,
they're far behind. Show Hey o Taani and I see it.
You feel happy? You should just throwing the music in
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for no reason, you feel okay, okay, uh, it's been
really tough the walks of the watch. You'd rather they
just hit you. No, no, no, no, look the walks
are difficult, and you know, and this other part of
it for the series goes back to what we talked
about the beginning of the playoffs, is that you show
me a team that has a bad series out of
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the bullpen. I'll show you a team that loses a series, sure,
because you can come back from a lot in in uh,
in the baseball playoffs. You can have a series where
you don't hit well and you can still win the series.
You can have a series where you're starting pitching doesn't
do well, you can win the series. Make a lot
of mistakes on the base path, you could. Yeah, yeah,
Yankees are showing you that we'll run the bases like
a bunch of drunk lunatics and we can still win games.
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Date it again today. But if you have a bet
head the loss, bad series out of the bullpen, you're
going to lose. You cannot overcome that. Ask the Phillies,
ask the Brewers, Ask every team that goes out. Ask
the Mets. Right now, the Mets have zero dependable relievers
right now. If you said to me, who's the guy
the Mets can bring in right if they need one out,
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regardless of the situation, Lefty right, one guy to bring it?
I would say, boy, I don't Jan Franco, I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
John Franco would be the first guy. Yes, and maybe
Billy Wagner. Maybe Billy sure, you know he was Philly.
He was like five to two. Yeah. He can throw
the ball one hundred and ten miles an hour. The
Mets have zero dependable relievers right now. Nobody. And it's
not like it's been a great bullpen. But even Diaz,
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he's in every other game. Guy, he's lamar Odom of
closers boy. One game he's really good, next game, here
come three.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Ron.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
He's sweating Diaz.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
He sunk the mantle from ken Lee Janssen and so
many others before it. Sometimes in the same game he'll
get up three but three strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In the night.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I mean kimberl had that earlier this year. Yeah, they're
sweating him.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
They have no dependable There's nobody the Mets can bring
in from the bullpen and you can say, okay, this
is this is gonna be our high leverage guy to
stop the bleeding. And the Dodgers have four or five
guys that they can bring in and say right now
to say, hey, we're pitching really well. Right Trenton's the
only guy that's probably not going to go tomorrow because
he pitched the last two days. So the bull Dodgers'
bullprind still is really rested over what they've had so far.
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But I mean, that's the two reasons I look at
the most frustrating is that the bullpen. The Mets bullpen
is absolutely awful, and they just keep walking play and
it's so watching the walks is so frustrating. It's it
just my my stomach turns on the inside, going, can
we just I mean, make him earn his way on?
Make you can't walk a guy here just because the
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base is open. I mean, this is this is not
someding Well, I'll put the guy.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
No, if you put runners at first and side and
there's a three run homer or there's a there's an
infield single in a run scores, these are the most
frustrating parts and is what the Dodger are doing well
because they're peeking and the Mets are not excell It'll
be all over tomorrow. Yeah, they will have gotten you
to the Knicks whatever next year in the Jets.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I will say that this one bit of warning for
the Dodgers. They really want to close it out tomorrow
because they don't want to come back to LA for
what would more than likely be a bullpen game in
Game six, because what's the game the Mets won. They
won the bullpen game in Game six right, so now
and probably Sean Manie will come back for Game six,
who pitched really well against the Dodgers, so they really
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want to close it out tomorrow because if not, you
could be looking at the possibility of a Game seven
winner take all. Who knows what could happen, right, Obviously,
that's the best case scenario for the Mets. But the
Mets win tomorrow at home bullpen game for the Dodgers
in Game six, even with the chance to close it out,
the Mets bats have shown we will hit your bullpen eventually,
and we hit it in one game, maybe we'll do
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it in games.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I just watched you light nine candles and some incense
as you tried to speak that into exist.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
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Speaker 7 (30:08):
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four over the Philadelphia Flyers. You mentioned the Dodgers with
a chance to close it out tomorrow. If they do,
that would give them a full week off until hosting
Game one of the World Series, because that starts a
week from Friday on Fox TV. Tomorrow's Game five of
the NLCS is also on FS one as tonight's Game one,
but game was, I should say, but tonight it started
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later tomorrow. It's five pm Eastern Time from New York
pitcher David Peterson against l native Jack Flaherty for the Dodgers. Yes,
a Game six would be Sunday night in LA, but
the Dodgers are up three games to one after another
win at New York ten to two. Was the final
the Mets with runners in scoring position win zero for
ten the loss to Jose Kintana. Mookie Bets four hits,
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four RBIs, including a homer. Show hey Otani with a
leadoff home run in this game, and he walked three times,
scored four times Tommy Edmund three RBIs What a game.
At Cleveland, the Guardians on a tenth inning homer, beat
the Yankees in quite a comeback, seven to five. The
Yanks lead in the ALCS now two games to one.
David Pry the hero with the late two run homer
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to end it, a guy who had also homered a
week ago at Detroit in a playoff win. Tonight's loser
was Clay Holmes. The Yankee closer, Luke Weaver, allowed the
tying two run homer in the bottom of the ninth
with two outs to pin hitter John Kenzie. Noel Weaver
had allowed just one earned runs in the last six
weeks since he became the closer. And then there's the
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closer for the Major League Baseball calendar year. Emmanuel Classe
gave up back to back homers in the top of
the eighth to Aaron Judge and Gencarlos Stanton, and still
the Yankees could not secure a road win. By the
way class in the playoffs this month has allowed six
earned runs. He only allowed five earned runs the entire
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regular season this year six months worth. In the NFL
game at New Orleans, the Broncos beat the Saints thirty
three to ten. Javonte Williams two touchdown runs. In fact,
the Broncos as a team rushing two hundred twenty five yards.
Quarterback Bo Nicks had ten carries for seventy five yards.
Ex Saints kicker Will Lutz four for four on field
goals thirty three ten in the final.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
The Saints have lost five in a row. They're two
and five.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Spencer Rattler was sacked six times, two fumbles. Jacksonville running
back Travis etn was limited at practice today due to
a hamstring Tampa Bay running back Rashad White was limited
with a foot injury. Vikings running back Aaron Jones was
able to practic on a limited basis after a hamstring injury,
but Colt's running back Jonathan Taylor did not practice due
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to a bad ankle.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Back to you, thank you, Steve though The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the tyreq dot Com
Studios coming up next. There's criticism and there's what Troy
Aikman said today about one high profile NFL team that's
sext right here Jason and Mike from the Copacabana alongside Rico,
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who wore a diamond and then apparently shot Tony. Sorry
spoiler alert, he had a good run? He didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He was Just because he had a terrible end doesn't
mean he didn't have some ball.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He was probably in his twenties. Him and Lola were.
They lived their lives to the fullest. They were young.
They had each other. He was a bartender, she worked
in the bar. This guy shows up. They met a
lot of interesting people. He shoots Tony and kills him,
and then Lola spends thirty years drinking herself half blond?
How is that a good run for to think? She
probably had a lot of adventures along the way. That
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is not a good run for Tony not know what
a bar looks like. Come on, no, no, that stop.
That's a lie.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:14):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon.
We are about thirty six hours late on this, but
we wanted to wait until we ordered pizza. Happy birthday
to the man on my left.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Happy happy birthday, you old man.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Mike Harmon celebrating another journey around the sun. Yes, he
is sixty eight years old today. All right, way, how
old are your knees?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I've taken some weight off him, so I'm getting some
of those years back.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Steve Kerr's knees.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Uh no, yeah, yeah, no, now Kurrs got mine.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I mean he had to run up and down the
hard with a bunch, although he only usually just kind
of spotted up in the corner.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Happy birthday, buddy.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well, thank you survived another one.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
They did. I almost did. What's your wish? Well, the
jets the jets killed guard. I got to tell you that,
so you never know. No, we got a lot, a
lot going on. No, I'm in god his wish. Caleb
Williams is good. He's got his wish. He's really good.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Hey man, I let you a doctor and the doctor
said you're not done yet, And I said.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, so good. I won.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I went to the doctor and the doctor said, no more.
Harmon's jumping on the bed. Wow, it's been so long
since I remembered that thing existed.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Five little Harmon's jumping on the bed fell on his head.
He had a good run. Uh, speaking of good runs,
maybe the run is ending for Mike McCarthy and Dall
at some point soon if it is, how about Troy
(35:56):
Aikman next Cowboys head? Look at that, you just want
to have a coup. Here he was on Dallas radio
earlier today. You know, a couple of days after Jerry
Jones was on the Cowboys radio saying, how fire holl
of you?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
And they just go cowboy, former cowboy to former cowboy.
That's one of Jerry Jones here. Maybe maybe take a
couple of calls of angry Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Receiver once every couple of months and then Mike Madonnall
will come on to.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
But here's Troy Aikman on Dallas radio earlier today talking
about how bad the Dallas wide receivers and Cede Lamb
have been over the course of this season.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I think the routes are terrible. I think they run
terrible routes, and I thought that beyond this year. And
I think CD's got to improve and his route running.
And as a quarterback, if you're not certain where guys
are going to be consistently, it's hard, it's hard to
play the position. And so that's that's what I see.
I see guys lazy coming off the line of scrimmage.
Sometimes they sometimes they run. Usually if they do, it's
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because they're anticipating they're going to get the football in
that play. But if they're not, they don't, and it
all ties together, and so I'm not impressed with that
part of it. I've just finished watching the Baltimore Ravens
because I have them this week. You put out a
film of Theirs and watch their receivers run routes and
they come off the football and so to San Francisco's
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Green Bays and others. But it's hard to play the
position if you're not certain how guys are going to
run routes or where they're going to be. And I'm
not speaking for Dak. Dak may say, hey, I think
everything's amazing, but as a former quarterback watching it, it's
got to get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
When Aikman played, he was never a shrinking violet. He
was always someone on the sideline. Hey, you guys are
blocking like blank. You guys are not playing this. You
guys are blank. You guys are horse blank. He was
that guy that's from ninety six to seven, the ticket
earlier today, not the horse blank, and whatever from him
as a player, he was, Yeah, I mean he would
say that as a player.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm surprised that Troy Aikman has not been a name
that has been a pro she had or bandied about
in potentially becoming a head coach of a team, because
now is a time when people go to the media
for their coaches.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Now someone who has been in the game, who has
continued to be a big personality in the game. His
name was in a hot second, his name was there
at UCLA. But I don't know if that Troy Aikman
is a college coach. He is, you know, would be
would be a would be a better college coach, but
NFL coach. If the Cowboys called him, would he really
(38:29):
say no? You know, because this is Troy Aikman, Cowboy legend,
Hall of Famer. And yes, Jerry Jones doesn't like when
the attention is off of him, but he also doesn't
like right now that the attention is all on him
and his team stinks. Well, he could so becoming a
UCLA coach soon. He's got he's got to do something,
and whether it's Bill Belichick at the end of this year,
because if they can't win, they want relevancy, right just
(38:51):
like the Lakers. If we can't win, we're gonna go
get Brownie James for relevancy. If we can't win, we
want relevancy, They're gonna make a move at some point.
I told you, if things are bad at Thanksgiving, then
look for Bill Belichick. But Troy Aikman certainly is one
of those names where he can come in and be
in Cowboy legend and he'd be the guy Jerry Jones
would hire. He's got to do something to make sure
this team can jump out of it. I wonder what
(39:13):
Troy Aikman would say if they came and said, hey, dude,
what would you think about taking over the Cowboys? I'd
love it.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
And it's one of the things I always liked about
him in the booth is he was pretty brutally honest.
After those first couple of years, right, well, you get
a little further away from the game and you see
some trends maybe that are not your favorite. Stealing a
line that my daughter used to use when she tried
to decline something that was on her dinner plate. You
know that's not my not my favorite, Oh no, but
(39:38):
you have to eat it. Yeah, it's not my favorite.
Not my favorite. But it's a carrot. You have to
eat it. Eventually, that carrot is going down your gullet,
by hook er, by crook. But I always thought of
him as a guy that i'd see in a front
office somewhere, kind of like Steve Young was rumored to
be years ago, right, and he was around the squad
that But who knows, Maybe UCLA had coach that'd be fun.
(40:00):
I could just see him dealing with Boosters. That's a
tough thing. I mean, because he is such an NFL
guy for so long. Is he going to be the
new school guy in college football? But he'd clash with
Jerry too much?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
But I don't think that's a bad thing. And I
don't think for Jerry that's a bad thing. I think
he'd be okay with clashing with Jerry. I think Jerry
be okay with that. I'd be good TV if it
means the Cowboys are relevant and the Cowboys are winning,
because Jerry doesn't want to be blamed for what's going on,
so he knows I have to hire somebody good. I
can't just hire somebody. I can't hire Dave Campo again.
I gotta hire somebody who's good you should coach the
Mets from my gom Jason. Coming up next, my buddy
(40:38):
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