October 19, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike preview some of Week 8 CFB’s big games. MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the guys for all things Dodgers, Yankees, Mets and Guardians. And is this the week the 49ers find their winning ways?
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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we'll have more baseball on the way, an absolute thriller
between the Yankees and the Guardians, the Mets fors Game
six with the Dodgers, and a big weekend of college football.
Ay have two tremendously big Top twenty five games coming
your way, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Texas. We'll get to
those games in a couple of minutes, but we could
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see a new number one team in the country after tomorrow,
because if Georgia finds a way to beat Texas, well,
I'm pretty sure Oregon will be the new number one
team in the land. They are the number two team
right now and they just shellacked Purdue thirty five to nothing.
Another big night. Dylan Gabriel twenty one out of twenty five,
two hundred and ninety yards and a couple of touchdowns.
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Oregon ran for one hundred and thirty yards on the day.
Was this falls under the category of one of those
workmanlike victories where hey, the higher ranked team, it's a
business trip and you see their brilliance and their excellence,
and against a team like Purdue struggling one in five,
this is the kind of win you expect.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, when you look at coming off the emotion of
last week, all of the discourse that followed the win
over Ohio State, right twelfth man and the penalty and
all that, and not being able to get down and
get the extra play on the Ohio State side, so
you get the w short week Friday night football on
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the road. Purdue that has had a couple of games
where the offense has come and put up points only
to take an l Would you be satisfied? Are you
looking ahead at the schedule all of those things. Nope,
first three possessions. Let's just take care of business and
then roll from there.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So again, it is a really big game by Oregon.
And this is you know, coming into this year, Oregon
was one of those teams where where Okay, coming off
a year ago, things are fantastic. Bo Nix is great.
How do they follow it up? Dan Lannings become a
superstar head coach in college football, and there were still questions,
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are they really this good? I'm not sure. There's big changes.
You know, you lose a guy to the NFL. How
are you going to replace him? Dylan Gabriel comes, Hey,
I'm ready to go. He keeps just moving up. College
football started in Central Florida, Oklahoma Oregon, Like I just
keep moving up the standings and the rankings. A couple
of years.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
After today, if my fuzzy math is correct, he is
one hundred and nine yards from becoming the number two
all time yardage leader. Yeah, fifteen thousand, right now, he's
well over. He's almost at seventeen fifteen thous so he's
he's one hundred nine yards away from Timmy Chang sitting
at number two, number one man.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, case Keenum, Case Keenum. Wow. Oh yeah, okay, yeah
that was that. You know, that was back when college
football first saw the Hey, they're gonna run four wide
receivers and everything winging around. They're gonna throw the football
seventy five times. Yeah, that's not college football. Well that's
how we do it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, But it's funny because right we watch Oregon take
down Perdue. I mean, remember what Purdue did with Joe Tiller,
Drew Brees and and ushered in a whole new era
of Big ten football. And obviously here we sit in
twenty twenty four. It don't look like the three yards
and a cloud of dust that I remember as a child.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So will Oregon be number one? Let's take a look
now at the two biggest games of the day tomorrow.
Everybody's going to be a glue to their televisions. For
Georgia and Texas. I break it down like this. Texas
has been waiting for this game for a long time.
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They had the big statement game against Michigan. They are loaded,
they've been beating teams exactly how he thought they would
beat teams. Quinn Ewers was hurt, it doesn't matter. Arch
Manning comes in. He's faster than Tyreek Hill. They go
back to quinn Eewers. Everything is fine, but this is
gonna be the quinn Ewers game. This will be the game.
And they look this year and go, oh, that's a
game where he went for three point fifty and four
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touchdowns and they beat Georgia. College football is still sleeping
on him. When I watch him play, he kind of
reminds me of Justin Herbert a little bit. The way
he can see the field, the way he can use
his arm and get the ball outside of the hash
marks when he's when he's to the other side of
the field, Like he just he has that kind of
calm and and effortless way to throw the football and
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to get it in there at a pretty good rate.
That's kind of who he reminds me of. And but
with all the attention to guys like Jalen Miler, who
is an unbelievable quarterback who's a dual threat, we see
guys like this putting up putting up numbers where they
run and throw. A guy like yours kind of gets
lost in the shuffle bit like he's more of your
traditional hey drop back in the pocket pass again, it
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reminds me a lot of Justin Herbert, maybe a little
more mobile than than Herbert a little bit, but this
is this is exactly who he is. Tex has been
waiting for this game for a long time. They want
to show college football they're the best. Georgia is still
quite not the same. It's it's too early. It's too
early to say there's something wrong, that not the team
they were. But obviously, look, you lose guys year Georgia.
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But Georgia at times looks incredible and at times they
look like, boy, were they ready for this? Are they
sleep walking a little bit? Are they a little flat?
There's just so one thing not right about Georgia, and
it's it's different from the year's past. I don't know
if the lost last year Alabama, if that hurt them
and that puts them on this path. But just seeing
them a little bit, they're not quite the same team.
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And we saw them barely escape the Kentucky game and
then up and down and how they got boat raced
by Alabama in the first half. They've been much more
inconsistent than I would expect Georgia to be and especially
the fact that you were talking about ut at home
in this game. Yeah, give me Texas thirty to twenty
seven to win this game. And Quinn Eewers has a
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three hundred and fifty yard game and suddenly as well,
maybe this guy is gonna be a Heisman Trophy finalist. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The curiosity, right is I mean Carson back remember in
that game against Alabama, the Tale of Two Halves, right,
he looked like he had no business or like, wait,
he's a Heisman Oh, this guy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Could be the first pick in the draft. And it's
like that. Also now I see obvious a couple of
throws to.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
The second half, they get back into the game, it
becomes this shootouts like, oh, he's that guy and that's.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The one thing.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh, side show Bob. Okay, but that's you're talking.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's Texas hasn't seen yet, right in terms of an opponent.
For the most part, it's been run games getting after
him and side show Bob. Not side show Bob. That's exactly,
and I think that's the nice way to put it.
I think that's really it. And look, they're bludgeoning teams,
so you know, it's it's probably the first real test
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that they've had on the schedule, right because Michigan at
that point quarterback no quarterback yet, right, that game was
just a surprise. Let's just grind out the clock and
just be done with this and just go on like
Oklahoma is not Oklahoma whatsoever. Conversely, you know, Georgia, you
go back through their schedule, remember when they boat raised Clemson.
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Well that loss actually looks pretty good now because Clemson,
right there, they're five and one.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Clubic's like, hey, I know you don't like me, Jason Smith,
but I could be a high Trophy finalist.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
But they after that it was like all right, dabbo
and we we had our yucks with it of what
do you want to do and whatever. Well, all of
a sudden they've turned things around, so that win looks.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
A lot better.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Alabama lost the Kentucky game, all right, you can chalk
that up to looking ahead. You still only score thirteen points.
So the inconsistency and the aptitude to this point of
being able and giving up points, like, the defense is
not the Georgia defense that we're used to, and I
think that's what spells doom in this one. I think
it's a five and a half point number. The over
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under sitting or four and a half. It's down to
fifty six and a half is your total in this one.
I'll take the over, but yeah, I'll take the Tech
Texas Longhorns to roll up here.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So we got Georgia and and Uga not making the
trip for this No, that's a big one. Not making
the Uga not feeling it. So Uga will not be
making the trip to tack So no Uga Bevo. We
won't see Uga and Bevo.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We don't get to get one of those photo ops. No,
they put out a fake. Now someone else brings a bulldog.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No bevo. When you see Uga, you eat him or
kick it, whatever you need, you eat him.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Okay, that's open casting bulldogs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Uh, this is like, this is UGA eleven? I think
is that what it is? Got eleven? I think that
they said they go to eleven. I think this is
UGA eleven. If I'm not. If I'm not, I'm gonna
look that up though. Uh. Meanwhile, the other game of
the week Alabama and Tennessee. And look, it's the same
philosophy I have looking back at at at the Georgia
Texas game. Jaln Milroe is the best player on the field,
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and both Alabama and Tennessee have been up and down
and inconsistent. There's times I thought, wow, this is this
is final the year to believe in Tennessee. Tennessee is
really good. They everything, and then oh boy, Tennessee struggles
a little bit. And then Alabama, Oh man, this year
to believe in Alabama, they're back. Look at what they're
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doing in Georgia. And then it's oh wow. So both
teams really have not played up to expectation. And I
know Alabama's on the road, but I've seen Alabama win
big games like this. I've seen them beat Tennessee in
every single circumstance possible. And I'm gonna go with the
best player on the field. Yes, they'll give mill Row problems,
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but he's still gonna get out of the pocket and
make plays. He's still going to throw the ball down
the field. He is a dynamic, phenomenal quarterback. He's the
next Lamar Jackson and maybe a guy that can throw
the ball a little bit better than Lamar Jackson coming
out of college. Like this kid is it, man, He
is so incredibly good, and somebody is going to be
so lucky when they get him as a quarterback. So, yeah,
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if the teams are both kind of the same, and
that's Alabama and Tennessee, I know Tennessee's defense will give
a little bit of problem here. Yeah, but Milroe will
make enough plays give me Alabama in this one. I'll
go thirty four to thirty Alabama with the victory. Look
at you.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I look at the Tennessee and I go, who you beat?
I mean, just just to be real about it, buddy,
can you play who's on the schedule?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
They're not. Yeah, but you're sitting there going where's the
where's the test? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
To this point in the season, it's like I don't
see it. So that's the curiosity here, kind of like
going into the Georgia Texas game. Same thing of all right,
have you seen a complete offense like this?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No you haven't.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
So it's running a little bit on faith in curiosity,
but certainly personnel wise and what they've been able to
do offensively in spurts. You know what, I'm gonna take
the volunteers who go opposite and say that this is there.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
We have to make a stand and show we're for real.
But it's like, but the last three weeks have trended
so poorly for Tennessee. Look, they beat Oklahoma, Okay, great,
but now how good is all?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's exactly always, I have no idea what they are
because you've kind of maintained and won.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, but then they but then they lose to Arkansas,
and Arkansas is oh K, but they're not great. And
you beat Florida that you had to go to overtime
four in Florida's three and free. So I mean, like,
the last three weeks have not trended great for Tennessee.
And you know, look, it's not not that I'm saying, Okay,
you're not gonna get well against Alabama, but this is
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the best team you played so far coming in and
the best quarterback that you played. So I mean, it's
it's like both and I'm not saying Alabama's a world beater,
but if I'm seeing both teams look the same, I'm
gonna take the guy the quarterback. I believe it's.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Certainly pretty much. That's simply the guy that got a
lot of headlines today. He signed some new NIL deals.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh that's gonna go buy your official trading cards. He
signed with Panini so you can get your autographs. Hey,
he has a big performance. I guarantee you a Panini
instant saying, hey, get your limited edition autograph after we
kick their ass.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Do you think he would sign for my wife? Because
I gotta get my wife. I got to do something
for her, because she bought tickets for me for the
game six. She took care of it. Oh, by the way,
my wife bought tickets for me for Game six after
Alonzo's home running the first inning tonight, which is a
baller skeptical blooded move. Uh no, no, you kidding it,
Iby what Either she really loves you or not so
much by new tickets to.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
A loss she wants to watch you suffer. It's really Uh,
it's a giant work from Frostburg. Well, he orchestrated this,
and Pam will be chronicling it, and there'll be like
a shadow figure hanging around with a parabolic microphone to
pick up everything you mutter under your.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Boston Kutcher's gonna pop out of a bush and say punked. Okay,
all right, all right now, if that happens, it happened.
But let me just say this because my original point
is that, uh, do you think to do that? For
Pat Hey? I got Jaylen Milroe to sign a picture
of the final play of the Rose Bowl when he
got tackled a three yards short of the goal. Jayla,
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will you sign this? What is it? Is this the
last play against Michigan? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We signed.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That would be interesting though, because when they do public signings,
oftentimes people walk up and it always has the line
saying we athlete re iss the right to not sign
so sure, and I've seen that get very contentious. I
would love to see if suddenly he got fired up,
or if he just kind of chuckled and said thank
you for the one hundred and fifty dollars.
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Speaker 4 (14:26):
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where Dodgers Mets did not go how we thought it
was gonna go, Yankees Guardians well went about how we
thought it was gonna go. Well, not quite the ending, no,
but the Yankees were gonna play sloppy, make mistakes and
still win. They did stick to the script, Yese exactly
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what happened. Yankees beat the Guardians eight six. Yankees lead
the Alcs three games to one. Instead of a coronation
and the pennant for the Dodgers, it's a trip back
to Los Angeles. The Mets put twelve on the board
against Jack Flaherty and company. So now it's game six
Sean Minea. That's Ace bullpen game for the Dodgers on
Sunday at Chavez Ravine. Nobody better to break down what
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we saw and what is next than baseball insider MLB Network.
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. Check him out of
the data cast right now for Turner covering the Alcs.
And I guarantee you if you gave him a glove,
he would look better in the field than a lot
of the guys we saw tonight and the Yankees and
the Guardians. John Paul, welcome inside.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Good evening, my friends, Good morning here in the Eastern
time zone. It is it is Saturday. What a night.
We've had two back to back just riveting games that
we can share on the MLB Data Cast on Thrue TV,
which has been a lot of fun to do with
Mike Petriello and Dexter Fowler. But I thought, and with
that one camera angle, I thought we might have had
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another big home run from John Kenzie. No, well, but
instead the Yankees find a way to hold on and
they've got that three one series lead.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, listen, if you talk to the camera guy, tell
him he's a jerk, and punch him because my dad
had a heart attack thinking that was going to be
a home run. My dad's a Yankee fan. Hey, hey, no,
KA mean not literally, but my dad's a Yankee fans.
I said, we all thought it was a home run.
I don't know what the cameraman was doing. It was
a flyout to the wall.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
We were in our and I think he wins an
award on the game.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Of course, we were calling it off of monitors, so
I think my call was something like that, it's a
deep drive that left, it's not a home run. I was.
I was thinking right along with everybody else. I mean,
it looked like the ball was going up to the moon,
and all of a sudden, Verdugo was there. And listen,
you got a credit, Alex because he very easily could
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have lost track of that. And listen, there have been
plenty of defensive misadventures in this series already. There were
a couple more tonight, but that that wasn't under the radar.
Really good play by Verdugo to be there and to
not lose track with all the noise and everything else
going on and find a way to play what's a
pretty tough left field there in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'll tell you what, John Paul, you know what the
most frustrating part is like being a Mets fan. What
the most frustrating part is is to watch the Yankees
run the bases like a bunch of drunks make errors
in the field like they did tonight. We almost had
their version of the Buckner play in the eighth inning,
and yet they still win games and they're still going
to the World Series. It is maddening to watch them
play loose baseball and they shrug and they still win,
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and they still move on.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
They've got some superstars. I mean. The difference tonight's John
Carlos Stanton The difference tonight is I suppose Steven Vote
decided to finish it. John Carlos stand which I've sill with.
All three of us were on the dusk saying you
gotta walk him here, you gotta walk it to Walker,
what's going on? You gotta walk them and I listen.
I understand the confidence in Smith's that spot, but that
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was not that was not the right call. And the
Guardians have made their name on the bullpen so much
that when both Cade Smith and Emmanuel class A are
giving up runs in key spots, it's not going to
be your night. And that's exactly what happened to the
Guardians tonight. And I think when you look to the
big picture here of the Yankees, they've got superstars who
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are proven performers who have been through October before. Even
in the case of Judge, who has been criticized at
different times, he's still, I think, having a very solid postseason.
He had a huge moment last night, obviously a game
they lost, but that back quality has been very high.
Torres at that quality has been very high. Shotos at
that quality has been really high. So when you go
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down the list of all those players, and even Rizzo
had a huge hit tonight, so they you know, defensively
he hasn't been very good, but I think a huge
hit for Rizzo tonight. The value of experienced stars. The
value of experienced stars matters still at this time of year,
and I think the Yankees right now are one win
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away from their first World Series and nine as a
result of that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Take us back in the clause the discussion you were having,
obviously Smith and I being on air as we talked
about it JP, the familiarity and seeing a guy another time,
sequencing everything else. He's given up more runs in the
postseason than he did for an entire regular season.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
How do you explain it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I think he's I think his location is off. I
think the finish on his pitches doesn't seem to be there.
And maybe today he lacked a little bit of theviction
that's made him special. You know, there was he made
the Instagram post where he was showing off his award.
Maybe and maybe and in his fairness, you know, maybe
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maybe that was how he was kind of psyching himself
back up to go out there tonight. But maybe maybe
it's not that easy. And you know what, he's not
the only high profile closer who has struggled in the postseason.
This what Mariano Rivera did for so many years, closing
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out forty two postseason games, forty two postseason staves, that
is the exception. Mo is special. There is no one
like him. And and you go down the list of
the modern closers, all all the different teams that have
that have been involved in the playoffs, Basically they've all
had high profile closers give up big home runs. And
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that to me just underscores the value of what Mo
did for so long. And those closers like papal Bonds
and other one from a name from a different era
who seemed to have a lot of success. And and
I think, however, you're going to do it however you're
going to do it, you have to learn how to move,
move past a tough outing, and then twenty four hours
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later be back out there in the mount and deliver.
And I just think I think class. Honestly, I think
his stuff was better last night than it was tonight.
He was it was Mike Petrella made this point on
our set tonight. You know, last night it was the
long ball, and tonight it was more just like solid,
repeated contacts, short swings, simple, straightforward at bats. And that
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was what got class in the Guardians tonight, which in
my opinion, is even more demoralizing than what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And they'll be Network Insider Sideline reporter John Paul Morosi
with us to Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live
from the tirec dot Com studios. All right, let's head
to the National League now, where things certainly didn't go
as we thought they were going to go. Today. The
Mets pummel Jack Flaherty, they stay alive, they go back
to LA. And I'm going to tell you this, John Paul. Yes,
it's very uphill for the Mets having to come to
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LA and win two games. I get this. The Dodgers
are hitting well. However, the Mets are not gonna see
either of the Dodgers' best two pitchers the rest of
the series. Flaherty has done, Yamamoto's not coming back on
three days rest. The Dodger bullpen is pretty good, but
the Mets are going to be seeing these guys the
third and fourth time they have their two best starters
lined up. I feel like this is almost like a
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toss up at this point. Obviously Mets have to get
Game six, but the advantage they have in the pitching
department coming to these last two games, I think it's
a big equalizer.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, it's a great point. I think that the Dodgers
probably still have the advantage. In my mind, if you
had to really look at it and say, Okay, what
has the best chance to happen? I still think the
Dodgers find a way to win one of the two.
But when you look at it, you win Game six,
and then we've seen it so many times before. Anything
can happen in Game seven, and even last year, let's
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think about this. Game seven was in Houston, Texas. Game
seven was in Philly, won by Arizona. We had road
teams winning both Game sevens last year, and in the
same situation that you're describing, we didn't expect that the
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Diamondbacks would come back and go to Philly and win
two games in a row. They did, so we can
be surprised. And I think that what has me feeling
like it could happen is that I think Alonso is
still due to do more. He certainly has shown some
signs of life today, but they need him in a
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massive way. Pet Alonzo, He's going to have to show up,
I think going forward, and it be does. Listen, the
Dodgers now have some questions about Freddy Freeman. Is he
going to be available? Still kind of waiting on some
of their other other key bats to emerge. All the
Edmund's been fantastic and really impactful for the Dodgers. So
the Mets have a chance. And to be honest, Jason,
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you know this, you can speak for all Mets fans.
Here were the odds in March that we would say, hey,
you've got a chance to play Game six of the
National Championship Series against the Dodgers the Dodgers Stadium. You
would take that a million times out of a million.
And that's exactly where your mats find themselves against Justice
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Dodgers this weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Look at that he's not smiling like that? Your cat ready.
But you know, since I need to be Joe.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Negative negativity, I'm going to take it back to the
decision to allow Jack Flaherty to keep pitching. Do you
think when do you think was the exact moment that
Dave Roberts just said this is, uh, we're not going
to do a bullpen game and try to salvage this one.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I think that's exactly what happened, and and basically the Dodgers,
And to be honest with you, I am okay with that.
I know that sounds crazy to say, but and it's
not as though he was he was trying to concede anything.
I think you didn't really have a choice. You can't
you can't expend your resources when you know that you're
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limited with your ability to bring guys back on short
rest or to have guys coming out and let's say,
yamamoda all of a sudden pitching the seventh and eighth
the night benning on Game seven. If you don't have
that kind of a staff, you can't chase the game
like today, if you've got a bullpen game in game six.
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You can't use your bullpen that extensively in game five.
That's just the reality of where he's at, and Blairty
just didn't have it. It looked ugly by the end
of his outing, but I think that was the decision
that was made. You just got to let him soak
up the inning and live to fight another day. If
you were if that was your last home game and
you were going on the road, I might have had
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a different recommendation. But if you can't, if the Dodgers
can't win one out of two games at home against
the Mets, they don't deserve to play for the World Series.
That's it. So I think that was him leaning into
the reality of what his current roster makeup is. And
I think Dave Roberts made the right decision. Tough decision,
(26:02):
but the right decision today.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Now, John Paul, I know you know listen all year
long like you and I say, hey, if you have
something note that I can send to David Sterens, your
former college roommate. I've been sending you notes.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
You said, I'm not roommates but friends, Yes, friend not roommates,
but you know teammates.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yes, okay, all right, Well I thought like there was
a thing where like like you stole his wallet once
or something. I've heard that story you telling it. Didn't
that happen? So what a fever dream? JP? No, What
I want. What I want to tell you is do
you have because.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
So I am. I am happy to be the conveyor
of glad tidings, but only if you feel like it's
additive to his process of getting ready to game sick.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh well this is more for and after the season.
But but but it makes it, but makes for it now.
It makes for it now because my wife was asked
me today, we're talking about pe A Lonzo's situations contract
for next year, and I said, how do you not
bring him back? After the home runs of what he's
done this postseason? She was yeah, but is he gonna
want a long term deal? And I said, you know,
he's a Boris client and Boris clients stay out there longest.
So I want to say, is this? I said, Oh,
(27:05):
you know what I'll tell John Paul Morosi this tonight,
tell Sternsey. I'm looking forward to the two year, seventy
five million dollar contract that Pete Alonso is going to
get in the off season. That's going to make both
sides happy.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Two for seventy five. Well, then what's what's your deal
going to be for Sodo?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh, soda doesn't matter. SODA's going to be I don't
know at ten years, five hundred million dollars. No, that's
what'll be for there's that'll be fine. Let's see what
Alonzo first. Let's see with Alonzo first, and then we'll
get to Loon Soto.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
So, but you realize they're both represented by the same agent. Right,
you're familiar with this.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Right, But if we make it, if we make Boris
happy with Sodo by giving them five, oh, okay, he'll
be okay with Alonzo. Hella, John Paul, I'm playing I'm
playing chess here man, I'm playing chess. Getting Sodo to
the Mets.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Jason spit this out here the night before or two
nights before Game six of the NLCS, planning the three
dimensional chess. Yes, that he's gonna recommend David Searns to
play with Scott Borris at the winter meetings in two months.
I mean, I I you know, my humble, my humble
approach in life is to try to win win one
(28:15):
game at time, especially when that one game is the
Game six the NLCS. But I will when I believe
that it's the right time to convey Jason Smith's viewpoints.
I promise you, I will tell him that I'm not
sure if he wants Pete to be thinking about his
contract before he's about to hit against against the Dodgers,
(28:36):
in against Daniel Hudson in the eighth or ninth inning
of Game six.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, that makes sense because I'll save my pivot
to Anthony Santander for another time. Then, Okay, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I'm trying, Jason. I'm trying to help you, buddy, trying
to help you. I'm trying to help you, help the Mets. Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
H don't forget check out John Paul on the data cast,
or out the rest of the ALCS and his interview
with Marioana Rivera where he talks about a lot of things,
but specifically the save he didn't get in the World
Series against the Diamondbacks. It's right there on John Paul's
Twitter page at John Morosi. John Paul is always buddy,
appreciate it, man, enjoy the games. This weekend, we'll talk
(29:14):
to you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Thank you. You guys are the greatest. I appreciate the
phone called two conversations this week that the Lions will
win on Sunday twenty eight to seventeen, and I'm feeling
really good about that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Twenty eight. Wow, it's a hot John Pike.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
You don't even know who they're playing, but that's it's
the Vikings and the over Arders fifty one and I
don't even know who they're playing, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
You're the best. J Pink, See you, buddy, have fun.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Thank you to you, buddy. They're going into who are
they playing? I don't care the guys twenty eight points,
they'll score twenty eight. The other team Vikings in Minnesota, Minnesota, Yes,
they'll score seventeen. Who's the quarterback for them? Tarkenton? Tarkenton, Okay, Tarkenton, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, twenty Someone's get a line up and they're gonna dominate.
That's all that's really when it comes down. Here, here's
your final score. Who are they playing? It doesn't matter
who they're playing. It just hold to the final score.
As an ode to John Paul Morosi. Now, Steve Desager
is only going to give you the scores for the
winning teams and not mention who they play as intelligen
(30:19):
what's trending in the wide world of sports in the
National League twelve.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Twelve for the Mets as they win.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
By the way, I do appreciate that John Bolvarossi is
that deep into baseball at this type of the year,
unaware of his.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Own team of who they're playing.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
And it happens to be, you know, the undefeated Vikings
running back Aaron Jones is likely to play against Detroit
after a hamstring entry. Although you didn't mention Fran Tarkenton
is an MVP. Jared Goff, how many MVPs.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Ah, you're right, You're okay, you're right, You're right about
And Fran likes to scramble sp He's gonna get, He's
gonna get outside the pocket.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Frant arkans when it happens there Mets twelve to six
over the Dodgers today to take Game five at the
NL Championship Series. He referenced some of the Dodgers are
actually slumping at the plate, Freddie Freeman among them, one
for fifteen in his last three games and no extra
base hits in this postseason with the bad ankle. He
may or may not start the next game, Game six
in Los Angeles Sunday night on FS one, again the
(31:16):
Dodgers taoscar Hernandez Oh for four today. In this series
is Oh for eighteen with nine strikeouts, and Will Smith
of La oh for three today, and in the playoffs
this month, he is five for thirty five at the plate.
The Mets led eight to one in the third inning,
ten to two in the fourth, Pete Alonzo with an
early three run homer. The loss to Jack Flaherty, who
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did something that no other starter in postseason history has
done today. He did not strike anybody out while giving
up eight runs, eight hits, and walking for batters that
had never happened before.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Steve, they struck nobody out. That's the amazing thing to me.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
You need to beat mister Mets aware of what a
special thing happened with the Mets batting order today that
Dodger pitching did not strike out a single batter. Because
I found a list of the last four seasons, full
seasons of Major League Baseball, that's only happened five times
that a team had zero strikeouts for a full game.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Usually a game where the Mets had eighteen at batch.
With runners in scoring position, you're not going to have
a lot of strikeouts. You're not gonna have a one.
They had twelve last night. Yeah, yeah, last night.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
But it this way, it's the last four years. It's
only happened five times. The last four years, we've had
twenty one no hitters. So this is slightly more rare
than that. The Yankees won at Cleveland eight six tonight
with two runs in the top of the ninth. The
Yankees lead the Alcs three games to one. The Guardians
will host again on Saturday night. In college football, Oregon
(32:49):
ranked number two one in shutout fashion at Purdue thirty
five nothing. Florida State's record now one and six after
it lost it due twenty three to sixteen, thirteenth ranked.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
BYU at home home.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Has taken the lead on Oklahoma State twenty eight twenty
one late in the third and in the third at
Nevada it is the wolf Pack ahead of Fresno State
twenty one seventeen.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. Now, I'll give you
guys real quick. Fran Tarkenton Trivia's bench Fran targets and
that's incredible. Nineteen seventy five, he won the MVP through
twenty five touchdowns? How old was he when he won
the MVP? What year nineteen seventy five? When NFL MVP
is a quarterback? Thirty thirty four five thirty Mary Mack
(33:31):
just completely guessing? Thirty five years old, fran Target. I
guessed right? Yes, Oh sorry, Justin, I'm sorry about that.
Way to jump it there. Sorry, but she got it.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Right, didn't Aaron Rodgers win a thirty five?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I've gotten it right as well, all right, last one,
last one? Two years later, his final year in the NFL,
he also threw twenty five touchdowns. He led the league
in interceptions. How many interceptions did he throw seventeen seventeen
nineteen nineteen. I'm gonna say less than the Jets that year.
Twenty three, twenty three, you have all severely underbid. Oh wow,
(34:04):
you have severely forty seven? Okay, twenty nine, don't laugh
at me, thirty one justin? Oh, I don't care. He
threw twenty five touchdowns and thirty two interception challenge go
James Tarkenton threw thirty two interceptions that year. How about that?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Somehow?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
That year doesn't get brought up for Mistra Tarkin, Friend
Target and Trivia coming up next day. Speaking of NFL,
we picked two of the biggest games on the weekend.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike. This is Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
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Got more baseball coming up in a few minut You
want to know what woke the Mets up today against
the Dodgers, I will tell you. But an alarm clock,
big sharpie, Sure, sure, alarm on my phone. Okay, great
went off. That's perfect. But this weekend in the NFL,
(35:15):
large action coming your way. We'll get to the Jets
and the Steelers coming up next hour, because oh boy,
maybe that's the game of the week after what happened today.
But the previous game of the week, the Chiefs and
the forty nine Ers, right, super Bowl win that sure?
Here come the Chiefs feeling great five and oh the
Niners are Hey, wait a minute, what is happening to us.
(35:38):
The Niners win this game, I'll take them, and I
feel pretty comfortable about it. And I'll tell you why
Kansas City has been winning. They've been flawed. They are
not the dominant dynastic team they have been. They're a
really good team with a clutch quarterback that has a
really good defense. They're not mystic, They're not. If we
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get behind them fourteen, nothing, the game is over. They're
just not that team anymore. And I think we've seen
that over the course of the last year and a half.
Doesn't mean they're not a great team, but they're much
more gettable. And this is a game where the forty
nine Ers defense exposes that Kandisity's gonna have trouble moving
the ball. The forty nine Ers are looking for a
springboard game, and for them, as far as they've gotten
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the last couple of years, to not get there and
not win the Super Bowl. Eventually, you have starts like this.
Why are they starting so slow? Well, in games, they're
really motivated. They've played well. They were motivated as hell
to beat the crap out of the Jets in Game one,
and they look terrific. Jordan Mason runs all over them,
and they didn't miss Christian McCaffrey at all. But since
then they've kind of been up and down. It's getting
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to the midway point of the season. They're looking for
a springboard game. I am sure this is it. This
is the game where they're gonna get their edge back.
For a team that goes all the way in just
short sometimes the beginning of the season becomes a little
bit more of a slog and you don't know why
you're struggling, even though you have all kinds of talent.
And sure enough, you know they've had injuries. They've been
able to overcome them because Mason's been really good. But
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this is the game the forty nine ers are looking for.
Nothing is wrong with them other than they got to
get out of these early season doldrums. This is the
game they're gonna do it at. Gimme San Francisco to
win this game. Over it, Waite, I like it.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Chiefs coming out of the bye week trying to figure
out offensively whether they want to get into the mix.
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Speaker 3 (37:25):
We talked about that very topic got some run in
the Facebook world, you can follow us all over the place.
But talking about whether the Chiefs decide that they need
to bolster the offense beyond the receivers that they have,
where you get hag your hat a bit. Is the
defense no Jennings for the forty nine ers, Mason's banged
up Guerndo basically fell forward except for that jail break
(37:48):
seventy six yard run other when they just brought everybody
on a play and then folks were mad he didn't
score the touchdown. But all of that to say, Amy
Mahomes coming out of bye week, spread the ball around,
Kareem Haunt back in for another week. I think they
still need to make some moves, but the defense keeps it,
keeps them in the game. I'm concerned about how they
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covered George Kittle. They've been terrible against opposing tight end,
and right now he's about as healthy uh and playing
as well as we've seen him for a stretch in
a while. So that's the one area concern that I
do have there. But close game, gimme butker for the finish.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well, here's the thing is his tight end has been
such a vast barren wasteland. This year across the NFL Kittle, Yes,
you have Bowers and how much is he helping? But
when you have Kittle, when he becomes that because well
he's the only thing they got. Remember the Ponte Adams quit. Yeah,
well that's true. Yes, that that is true. Yes, he
decided not to puy and Jacoby Myers is going to
(38:46):
play this week, so good luck. Like sucks with the Jets.
Mike Kittle. Stop, he's gonna gets on something and may.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Or hopefully he's okay, but he's away from the team,
like all these things they thought they had, you know,
they have no nice things.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
But Kittle is such a huge weapon that the the
Niners are eventually going to unearth because so much of
it has been getting the ball to Ayuk, getting the
ball to Deebo. How are we going to do this?
And eventually it's going to be you know what, he's
our bread and butter, and once they when they get
back to that, as he becomes a bigger and starts
carving out a larger role in the offense because Ayuk
is kind of gamed a game. He's up and down.
(39:19):
When Deebo is healthy, he's a big weapon. But can
you really give him the ball. As much as you
can't do that anymore, it's really still going to be killed.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's great Ricky Piersol is making his debuty welcome back.
Get a little different there, a little bit different dynamic
they have, but no, I'm with you. Kittle is the
big X factor that look, he can wind up having
the best year of any tight end in the league.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
And congratulations to Tom Brady and his team.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
They finally get to call Ann count this game exit
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we'll have more baseball on the way, an absolute thriller
between the Yankees and the Guardians, the Mets fors Game
six with the Dodgers, and a big weekend of college football.
Ay have two tremendously big Top twenty five games coming
your way, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Texas. We'll get to
those games in a couple of minutes, but we could
(01:11):
see a new number one team in the country after tomorrow,
because if Georgia finds a way to beat Texas, well,
I'm pretty sure Oregon will be the new number one
team in the land. They are the number two team
right now and they just shellacked Purdue thirty five to nothing.
Another big night. Dylan Gabriel twenty one out of twenty five,
two hundred and ninety yards and a couple of touchdowns.
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Oregon ran for one hundred and thirty yards on the day.
Was this falls under the category of one of those
workmanlike victories where hey, the higher ranked team, it's a
business trip and you see their brilliance and their excellence,
and against a team like Purdue struggling one in five,
this is the kind of win you expect.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, when you look at coming off the emotion of
last week, all of the discourse that followed the win
over Ohio State, right twelfth man and the penalty and
all that, and not being able to get down and
get the extra play on the Ohio State side, so
you get the w short week Friday night football on
(02:12):
the road. Purdue that has had a couple of games
where the offense has come and put up points only
to take an l Would you be satisfied? Are you
looking ahead at the schedule all of those things. Nope,
first three possessions. Let's just take care of business and
then roll from there.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So again, it is a really big game by Oregon.
And this is you know, coming into this year, Oregon
was one of those teams where where Okay, coming off
a year ago, things are fantastic. Bo Nix is great.
How do they follow it up? Dan Lannings become a
superstar head coach in college football, and there were still questions,
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are they really this good? I'm not sure. There's big changes.
You know, you lose a guy to the NFL. How
are you going to replace him? Dylan Gabriel comes, Hey,
I'm ready to go. He keeps just moving up. College
football started in Central Florida, Oklahoma Oregon, Like I just
keep moving up the standings and the rankings. A couple
of years.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
After today, if my fuzzy math is correct, he is
one hundred and nine yards from becoming the number two
all time yardage leader. Yeah, fifteen thousand, right now, he's
well over. He's almost at seventeen fifteen thous so he's
he's one hundred nine yards away from Timmy Chang sitting
at number two, number one man.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, case Keenum, Case Keenum. Wow. Oh yeah, okay, yeah
that was that. You know, that was back when college
football first saw the Hey, they're gonna run four wide
receivers and everything winging around. They're gonna throw the football
seventy five times. Yeah, that's not college football. Well that's
how we do it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, But it's funny because right we watch Oregon take
down Perdue. I mean, remember what Purdue did with Joe Tiller,
Drew Brees and and ushered in a whole new era
of Big ten football. And obviously here we sit in
twenty twenty four. It don't look like the three yards
and a cloud of dust that I remember as a child.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So will Oregon be number one? Let's take a look
now at the two biggest games of the day tomorrow.
Everybody's going to be a glue to their televisions. For
Georgia and Texas. I break it down like this. Texas
has been waiting for this game for a long time.
(04:23):
They had the big statement game against Michigan. They are loaded,
they've been beating teams exactly how he thought they would
beat teams. Quinn Ewers was hurt, it doesn't matter. Arch
Manning comes in. He's faster than Tyreek Hill. They go
back to quinn Eewers. Everything is fine, but this is
gonna be the quinn Ewers game. This will be the game.
And they look this year and go, oh, that's a
game where he went for three point fifty and four
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touchdowns and they beat Georgia. College football is still sleeping
on him. When I watch him play, he kind of
reminds me of Justin Herbert a little bit. The way
he can see the field, the way he can use
his arm and get the ball outside of the hash
marks when he's when he's to the other side of
the field, Like he just he has that kind of
calm and and effortless way to throw the football and
(05:05):
to get it in there at a pretty good rate.
That's kind of who he reminds me of. And but
with all the attention to guys like Jalen Miler, who
is an unbelievable quarterback who's a dual threat, we see
guys like this putting up putting up numbers where they
run and throw. A guy like yours kind of gets
lost in the shuffle bit like he's more of your
traditional hey drop back in the pocket pass again, it
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reminds me a lot of Justin Herbert, maybe a little
more mobile than than Herbert a little bit, but this
is this is exactly who he is. Tex has been
waiting for this game for a long time. They want
to show college football they're the best. Georgia is still
quite not the same. It's it's too early. It's too
early to say there's something wrong, that not the team
they were. But obviously, look, you lose guys year Georgia.
(05:50):
But Georgia at times looks incredible and at times they
look like, boy, were they ready for this? Are they
sleep walking a little bit? Are they a little flat?
There's just so one thing not right about Georgia, and
it's it's different from the year's past. I don't know
if the lost last year Alabama, if that hurt them
and that puts them on this path. But just seeing
them a little bit, they're not quite the same team.
(06:12):
And we saw them barely escape the Kentucky game and
then up and down and how they got boat raced
by Alabama in the first half. They've been much more
inconsistent than I would expect Georgia to be and especially
the fact that you were talking about ut at home
in this game. Yeah, give me Texas thirty to twenty
seven to win this game. And Quinn Eewers has a
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three hundred and fifty yard game and suddenly as well,
maybe this guy is gonna be a Heisman Trophy finalist. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The curiosity, right is I mean Carson back remember in
that game against Alabama, the Tale of Two Halves, right,
he looked like he had no business or like, wait,
he's a Heisman Oh, this guy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Could be the first pick in the draft. And it's
like that. Also now I see obvious a couple of
throws to.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
The second half, they get back into the game, it
becomes this shootouts like, oh, he's that guy and that's.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The one thing.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh, side show Bob. Okay, but that's you're talking.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's Texas hasn't seen yet, right in terms of an opponent.
For the most part, it's been run games getting after
him and side show Bob. Not side show Bob. That's exactly,
and I think that's the nice way to put it.
I think that's really it. And look, they're bludgeoning teams,
so you know, it's it's probably the first real test
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that they've had on the schedule, right because Michigan at
that point quarterback no quarterback yet, right, that game was
just a surprise. Let's just grind out the clock and
just be done with this and just go on like
Oklahoma is not Oklahoma whatsoever. Conversely, you know, Georgia, you
go back through their schedule, remember when they boat raised Clemson.
(07:49):
Well that loss actually looks pretty good now because Clemson,
right there, they're five and one.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Clubic's like, hey, I know you don't like me, Jason Smith,
but I could be a high Trophy finalist.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
But they after that it was like all right, dabbo
and we we had our yucks with it of what
do you want to do and whatever. Well, all of
a sudden they've turned things around, so that win looks.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
A lot better.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Alabama lost the Kentucky game, all right, you can chalk
that up to looking ahead. You still only score thirteen points.
So the inconsistency and the aptitude to this point of
being able and giving up points, like, the defense is
not the Georgia defense that we're used to, and I
think that's what spells doom in this one. I think
it's a five and a half point number. The over
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under sitting or four and a half. It's down to
fifty six and a half is your total in this one.
I'll take the over, but yeah, I'll take the Tech
Texas Longhorns to roll up here.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So we got Georgia and and Uga not making the
trip for this No, that's a big one. Not making
the Uga not feeling it. So Uga will not be
making the trip to tack So no Uga Bevo. We
won't see Uga and Bevo.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We don't get to get one of those photo ops. No,
they put out a fake. Now someone else brings a bulldog.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No bevo. When you see Uga, you eat him or
kick it, whatever you need, you eat him.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Okay, that's open casting bulldogs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Uh, this is like, this is UGA eleven? I think
is that what it is? Got eleven? I think that
they said they go to eleven. I think this is
UGA eleven. If I'm not. If I'm not, I'm gonna
look that up though. Uh. Meanwhile, the other game of
the week Alabama and Tennessee. And look, it's the same
philosophy I have looking back at at at the Georgia
Texas game. Jaln Milroe is the best player on the field,
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and both Alabama and Tennessee have been up and down
and inconsistent. There's times I thought, wow, this is this
is final the year to believe in Tennessee. Tennessee is
really good. They everything, and then oh boy, Tennessee struggles
a little bit. And then Alabama, Oh man, this year
to believe in Alabama, they're back. Look at what they're
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doing in Georgia. And then it's oh wow. So both
teams really have not played up to expectation. And I
know Alabama's on the road, but I've seen Alabama win
big games like this. I've seen them beat Tennessee in
every single circumstance possible. And I'm gonna go with the
best player on the field. Yes, they'll give mill Row problems,
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but he's still gonna get out of the pocket and
make plays. He's still going to throw the ball down
the field. He is a dynamic, phenomenal quarterback. He's the
next Lamar Jackson and maybe a guy that can throw
the ball a little bit better than Lamar Jackson coming
out of college. Like this kid is it, man, He
is so incredibly good, and somebody is going to be
so lucky when they get him as a quarterback. So, yeah,
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if the teams are both kind of the same, and
that's Alabama and Tennessee, I know Tennessee's defense will give
a little bit of problem here. Yeah, but Milroe will
make enough plays give me Alabama in this one. I'll
go thirty four to thirty Alabama with the victory. Look
at you.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I look at the Tennessee and I go, who you beat?
I mean, just just to be real about it, buddy,
can you play who's on the schedule?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
They're not. Yeah, but you're sitting there going where's the
where's the test? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
To this point in the season, it's like I don't
see it. So that's the curiosity here, kind of like
going into the Georgia Texas game. Same thing of all right,
have you seen a complete offense like this?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No you haven't.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
So it's running a little bit on faith in curiosity,
but certainly personnel wise and what they've been able to
do offensively in spurts. You know what, I'm gonna take
the volunteers who go opposite and say that this is there.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
We have to make a stand and show we're for real.
But it's like, but the last three weeks have trended
so poorly for Tennessee. Look, they beat Oklahoma, Okay, great,
but now how good is all?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's exactly always, I have no idea what they are
because you've kind of maintained and won.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, but then they but then they lose to Arkansas,
and Arkansas is oh K, but they're not great. And
you beat Florida that you had to go to overtime
four in Florida's three and free. So I mean, like,
the last three weeks have not trended great for Tennessee.
And you know, look, it's not not that I'm saying, Okay,
you're not gonna get well against Alabama, but this is
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the best team you played so far coming in and
the best quarterback that you played. So I mean, it's
it's like both and I'm not saying Alabama's a world beater,
but if I'm seeing both teams look the same, I'm
gonna take the guy the quarterback. I believe it's.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Certainly pretty much. That's simply the guy that got a
lot of headlines today. He signed some new NIL deals.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh that's gonna go buy your official trading cards. He
signed with Panini so you can get your autographs. Hey,
he has a big performance. I guarantee you a Panini
instant saying, hey, get your limited edition autograph after we
kick their ass.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Do you think he would sign for my wife? Because
I gotta get my wife. I got to do something
for her, because she bought tickets for me for the
game six. She took care of it. Oh, by the way,
my wife bought tickets for me for Game six after
Alonzo's home running the first inning tonight, which is a
baller skeptical blooded move. Uh no, no, you kidding it,
Iby what Either she really loves you or not so
much by new tickets to.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
A loss she wants to watch you suffer. It's really Uh,
it's a giant work from Frostburg. Well, he orchestrated this,
and Pam will be chronicling it, and there'll be like
a shadow figure hanging around with a parabolic microphone to
pick up everything you mutter under your.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Boston Kutcher's gonna pop out of a bush and say punked. Okay,
all right, all right now, if that happens, it happened.
But let me just say this because my original point
is that, uh, do you think to do that? For
Pat Hey? I got Jaylen Milroe to sign a picture
of the final play of the Rose Bowl when he
got tackled a three yards short of the goal. Jayla,
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will you sign this? What is it? Is this the
last play against Michigan? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We signed.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That would be interesting though, because when they do public signings,
oftentimes people walk up and it always has the line
saying we athlete re iss the right to not sign
so sure, and I've seen that get very contentious. I
would love to see if suddenly he got fired up,
or if he just kind of chuckled and said thank
you for the one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Exit out by to Fresco Exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We are
live from the tire Rack and dot Com Studios. Coming
up next. Do the Guardians still have a shot or
the Yankees going to the World Series? Do the Mets
have a shot?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Or the Dodgers take it? On Sunday or Monday Monday,
John Paul Morosi stops by next MLB Network inside all
the latest on a huge Friday in Major League baseball,
keep it right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (14:53):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the tirag dot com studios
where Dodgers Mets did not go how we thought it
was gonna go, Yankees Guardians well went about how we
thought it was gonna go. Well, not quite the ending, no,
but the Yankees were gonna play sloppy, make mistakes and
still win. They did stick to the script, Yese exactly
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what happened. Yankees beat the Guardians eight six. Yankees lead
the Alcs three games to one. Instead of a coronation
and the pennant for the Dodgers, it's a trip back
to Los Angeles. The Mets put twelve on the board
against Jack Flaherty and company. So now it's game six
Sean Minea. That's Ace bullpen game for the Dodgers on
Sunday at Chavez Ravine. Nobody better to break down what
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we saw and what is next than baseball insider MLB Network.
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. Check him out of
the data cast right now for Turner covering the Alcs.
And I guarantee you if you gave him a glove,
he would look better in the field than a lot
of the guys we saw tonight and the Yankees and
the Guardians. John Paul, welcome inside.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Good evening, my friends, Good morning here in the Eastern
time zone. It is it is Saturday. What a night.
We've had two back to back just riveting games that
we can share on the MLB Data Cast on Thrue TV,
which has been a lot of fun to do with
Mike Petriello and Dexter Fowler. But I thought, and with
that one camera angle, I thought we might have had
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another big home run from John Kenzie. No, well, but
instead the Yankees find a way to hold on and
they've got that three one series lead.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, listen, if you talk to the camera guy, tell
him he's a jerk, and punch him because my dad
had a heart attack thinking that was going to be
a home run. My dad's a Yankee fan. Hey, hey, no,
KA mean not literally, but my dad's a Yankee fans.
I said, we all thought it was a home run.
I don't know what the cameraman was doing. It was
a flyout to the wall.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
We were in our and I think he wins an
award on the game.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Of course, we were calling it off of monitors, so
I think my call was something like that, it's a
deep drive that left, it's not a home run. I was.
I was thinking right along with everybody else. I mean,
it looked like the ball was going up to the moon,
and all of a sudden, Verdugo was there. And listen,
you got a credit, Alex because he very easily could
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have lost track of that. And listen, there have been
plenty of defensive misadventures in this series already. There were
a couple more tonight, but that that wasn't under the radar.
Really good play by Verdugo to be there and to
not lose track with all the noise and everything else
going on and find a way to play what's a
pretty tough left field there in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'll tell you what, John Paul, you know what the
most frustrating part is like being a Mets fan. What
the most frustrating part is is to watch the Yankees
run the bases like a bunch of drunks make errors
in the field like they did tonight. We almost had
their version of the Buckner play in the eighth inning,
and yet they still win games and they're still going
to the World Series. It is maddening to watch them
play loose baseball and they shrug and they still win,
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and they still move on.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
They've got some superstars. I mean. The difference tonight's John
Carlos Stanton The difference tonight is I suppose Steven Vote
decided to finish it. John Carlos stand which I've sill with.
All three of us were on the dusk saying you
gotta walk him here, you gotta walk it to Walker,
what's going on? You gotta walk them and I listen.
I understand the confidence in Smith's that spot, but that
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was not that was not the right call. And the
Guardians have made their name on the bullpen so much
that when both Cade Smith and Emmanuel class A are
giving up runs in key spots, it's not going to
be your night. And that's exactly what happened to the
Guardians tonight. And I think when you look to the
big picture here of the Yankees, they've got superstars who
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are proven performers who have been through October before. Even
in the case of Judge, who has been criticized at
different times, he's still, I think, having a very solid postseason.
He had a huge moment last night, obviously a game
they lost, but that back quality has been very high.
Torres at that quality has been very high. Shotos at
that quality has been really high. So when you go
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down the list of all those players, and even Rizzo
had a huge hit tonight, so they you know, defensively
he hasn't been very good, but I think a huge
hit for Rizzo tonight. The value of experienced stars. The
value of experienced stars matters still at this time of year,
and I think the Yankees right now are one win
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away from their first World Series and nine as a
result of that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Take us back in the clause the discussion you were having,
obviously Smith and I being on air as we talked
about it JP, the familiarity and seeing a guy another time,
sequencing everything else. He's given up more runs in the
postseason than he did for an entire regular season.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
How do you explain it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I think he's I think his location is off. I
think the finish on his pitches doesn't seem to be there.
And maybe today he lacked a little bit of theviction
that's made him special. You know, there was he made
the Instagram post where he was showing off his award.
Maybe and maybe and in his fairness, you know, maybe
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maybe that was how he was kind of psyching himself
back up to go out there tonight. But maybe maybe
it's not that easy. And you know what, he's not
the only high profile closer who has struggled in the postseason.
This what Mariano Rivera did for so many years, closing
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out forty two postseason games, forty two postseason staves, that
is the exception. Mo is special. There is no one
like him. And and you go down the list of
the modern closers, all all the different teams that have
that have been involved in the playoffs, Basically they've all
had high profile closers give up big home runs. And
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that to me just underscores the value of what Mo
did for so long. And those closers like papal Bonds
and other one from a name from a different era
who seemed to have a lot of success. And and
I think, however, you're going to do it however you're
going to do it, you have to learn how to move,
move past a tough outing, and then twenty four hours
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later be back out there in the mount and deliver.
And I just think I think class. Honestly, I think
his stuff was better last night than it was tonight.
He was it was Mike Petrella made this point on
our set tonight. You know, last night it was the
long ball, and tonight it was more just like solid,
repeated contacts, short swings, simple, straightforward at bats. And that
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was what got class in the Guardians tonight, which in
my opinion, is even more demoralizing than what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And they'll be Network Insider Sideline reporter John Paul Morosi
with us to Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live
from the tirec dot Com studios. All right, let's head
to the National League now, where things certainly didn't go
as we thought they were going to go. Today. The
Mets pummel Jack Flaherty, they stay alive, they go back
to LA. And I'm going to tell you this, John Paul. Yes,
it's very uphill for the Mets having to come to
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LA and win two games. I get this. The Dodgers
are hitting well. However, the Mets are not gonna see
either of the Dodgers' best two pitchers the rest of
the series. Flaherty has done, Yamamoto's not coming back on
three days rest. The Dodger bullpen is pretty good, but
the Mets are going to be seeing these guys the
third and fourth time they have their two best starters
lined up. I feel like this is almost like a
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toss up at this point. Obviously Mets have to get
Game six, but the advantage they have in the pitching
department coming to these last two games, I think it's
a big equalizer.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, it's a great point. I think that the Dodgers
probably still have the advantage. In my mind, if you
had to really look at it and say, Okay, what
has the best chance to happen? I still think the
Dodgers find a way to win one of the two.
But when you look at it, you win Game six,
and then we've seen it so many times before. Anything
can happen in Game seven, and even last year, let's
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think about this. Game seven was in Houston, Texas. Game
seven was in Philly, won by Arizona. We had road
teams winning both Game sevens last year, and in the
same situation that you're describing, we didn't expect that the
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Diamondbacks would come back and go to Philly and win
two games in a row. They did, so we can
be surprised. And I think that what has me feeling
like it could happen is that I think Alonso is
still due to do more. He certainly has shown some
signs of life today, but they need him in a
(23:36):
massive way. Pet Alonzo, He's going to have to show up,
I think going forward, and it be does. Listen, the
Dodgers now have some questions about Freddy Freeman. Is he
going to be available? Still kind of waiting on some
of their other other key bats to emerge. All the
Edmund's been fantastic and really impactful for the Dodgers. So
the Mets have a chance. And to be honest, Jason,
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you know this, you can speak for all Mets fans.
Here were the odds in March that we would say, hey,
you've got a chance to play Game six of the
National Championship Series against the Dodgers the Dodgers Stadium. You
would take that a million times out of a million.
And that's exactly where your mats find themselves against Justice
(24:18):
Dodgers this weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Look at that he's not smiling like that? Your cat ready.
But you know, since I need to be Joe.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Negative negativity, I'm going to take it back to the
decision to allow Jack Flaherty to keep pitching. Do you
think when do you think was the exact moment that
Dave Roberts just said this is, uh, we're not going
to do a bullpen game and try to salvage this one.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I think that's exactly what happened, and and basically the Dodgers,
And to be honest with you, I am okay with that.
I know that sounds crazy to say, but and it's
not as though he was he was trying to concede anything.
I think you didn't really have a choice. You can't
you can't expend your resources when you know that you're
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limited with your ability to bring guys back on short
rest or to have guys coming out and let's say,
yamamoda all of a sudden pitching the seventh and eighth
the night benning on Game seven. If you don't have
that kind of a staff, you can't chase the game
like today, if you've got a bullpen game in game six.
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You can't use your bullpen that extensively in game five.
That's just the reality of where he's at, and Blairty
just didn't have it. It looked ugly by the end
of his outing, but I think that was the decision
that was made. You just got to let him soak
up the inning and live to fight another day. If
you were if that was your last home game and
you were going on the road, I might have had
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a different recommendation. But if you can't, if the Dodgers
can't win one out of two games at home against
the Mets, they don't deserve to play for the World Series.
That's it. So I think that was him leaning into
the reality of what his current roster makeup is. And
I think Dave Roberts made the right decision. Tough decision,
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but the right decision today.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Now, John Paul, I know you know listen all year
long like you and I say, hey, if you have
something note that I can send to David Sterens, your
former college roommate. I've been sending you notes.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
You said, I'm not roommates but friends, Yes, friend not roommates,
but you know teammates.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yes, okay, all right, Well I thought like there was
a thing where like like you stole his wallet once
or something. I've heard that story you telling it. Didn't
that happen? So what a fever dream? JP? No, What
I want. What I want to tell you is do
you have because.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
So I am. I am happy to be the conveyor
of glad tidings, but only if you feel like it's
additive to his process of getting ready to game sick.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh well this is more for and after the season.
But but but it makes it, but makes for it now.
It makes for it now because my wife was asked
me today, we're talking about pe A Lonzo's situations contract
for next year, and I said, how do you not
bring him back? After the home runs of what he's
done this postseason? She was yeah, but is he gonna
want a long term deal? And I said, you know,
he's a Boris client and Boris clients stay out there longest.
So I want to say, is this? I said, Oh,
(27:05):
you know what I'll tell John Paul Morosi this tonight,
tell Sternsey. I'm looking forward to the two year, seventy
five million dollar contract that Pete Alonso is going to
get in the off season. That's going to make both
sides happy.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Two for seventy five. Well, then what's what's your deal
going to be for Sodo?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh, soda doesn't matter. SODA's going to be I don't
know at ten years, five hundred million dollars. No, that's
what'll be for there's that'll be fine. Let's see what
Alonzo first. Let's see with Alonzo first, and then we'll
get to Loon Soto.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
So, but you realize they're both represented by the same agent. Right,
you're familiar with this.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Right, But if we make it, if we make Boris
happy with Sodo by giving them five, oh, okay, he'll
be okay with Alonzo. Hella, John Paul, I'm playing I'm
playing chess here man, I'm playing chess. Getting Sodo to
the Mets.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Jason spit this out here the night before or two
nights before Game six of the NLCS, planning the three
dimensional chess. Yes, that he's gonna recommend David Searns to
play with Scott Borris at the winter meetings in two months.
I mean, I I you know, my humble, my humble
approach in life is to try to win win one
(28:15):
game at time, especially when that one game is the
Game six the NLCS. But I will when I believe
that it's the right time to convey Jason Smith's viewpoints.
I promise you, I will tell him that I'm not
sure if he wants Pete to be thinking about his
contract before he's about to hit against against the Dodgers,
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in against Daniel Hudson in the eighth or ninth inning
of Game six.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, that makes sense because I'll save my pivot
to Anthony Santander for another time. Then, Okay, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I'm trying, Jason. I'm trying to help you, buddy, trying
to help you. I'm trying to help you, help the Mets. Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
H don't forget check out John Paul on the data cast,
or out the rest of the ALCS and his interview
with Marioana Rivera where he talks about a lot of things,
but specifically the save he didn't get in the World
Series against the Diamondbacks. It's right there on John Paul's
Twitter page at John Morosi. John Paul is always buddy,
appreciate it, man, enjoy the games. This weekend, we'll talk
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to you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Thank you. You guys are the greatest. I appreciate the
phone called two conversations this week that the Lions will
win on Sunday twenty eight to seventeen, and I'm feeling
really good about that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Twenty eight. Wow, it's a hot John Pike.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
You don't even know who they're playing, but that's it's
the Vikings and the over Arders fifty one and I
don't even know who they're playing, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
You're the best. J Pink, See you, buddy, have fun.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Thank you to you, buddy. They're going into who are
they playing? I don't care the guys twenty eight points,
they'll score twenty eight. The other team Vikings in Minnesota, Minnesota, Yes,
they'll score seventeen. Who's the quarterback for them? Tarkenton? Tarkenton, Okay, Tarkenton, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, twenty Someone's get a line up and they're gonna dominate.
That's all that's really when it comes down. Here, here's
your final score. Who are they playing? It doesn't matter
who they're playing. It just hold to the final score.
As an ode to John Paul Morosi. Now, Steve Desager
is only going to give you the scores for the
winning teams and not mention who they play as intelligen
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what's trending in the wide world of sports in the
National League twelve.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Twelve for the Mets as they win.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
By the way, I do appreciate that John Bolvarossi is
that deep into baseball at this type of the year,
unaware of his.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Own team of who they're playing.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
And it happens to be, you know, the undefeated Vikings
running back Aaron Jones is likely to play against Detroit
after a hamstring entry. Although you didn't mention Fran Tarkenton
is an MVP. Jared Goff, how many MVPs.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Ah, you're right, You're okay, you're right, You're right about
And Fran likes to scramble sp He's gonna get, He's
gonna get outside the pocket.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Frant arkans when it happens there Mets twelve to six
over the Dodgers today to take Game five at the
NL Championship Series. He referenced some of the Dodgers are
actually slumping at the plate, Freddie Freeman among them, one
for fifteen in his last three games and no extra
base hits in this postseason with the bad ankle. He
may or may not start the next game, Game six
in Los Angeles Sunday night on FS one, again the
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Dodgers taoscar Hernandez Oh for four today. In this series
is Oh for eighteen with nine strikeouts, and Will Smith
of La oh for three today, and in the playoffs
this month, he is five for thirty five at the plate.
The Mets led eight to one in the third inning,
ten to two in the fourth, Pete Alonzo with an
early three run homer. The loss to Jack Flaherty, who
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did something that no other starter in postseason history has
done today. He did not strike anybody out while giving
up eight runs, eight hits, and walking for batters that
had never happened before.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Steve, they struck nobody out. That's the amazing thing to me.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
You need to beat mister Mets aware of what a
special thing happened with the Mets batting order today that
Dodger pitching did not strike out a single batter. Because
I found a list of the last four seasons, full
seasons of Major League Baseball, that's only happened five times
that a team had zero strikeouts for a full game.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Usually a game where the Mets had eighteen at batch.
With runners in scoring position, you're not going to have
a lot of strikeouts. You're not gonna have a one.
They had twelve last night. Yeah, yeah, last night.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
But it this way, it's the last four years. It's
only happened five times. The last four years, we've had
twenty one no hitters. So this is slightly more rare
than that. The Yankees won at Cleveland eight six tonight
with two runs in the top of the ninth. The
Yankees lead the Alcs three games to one. The Guardians
will host again on Saturday night. In college football, Oregon
(32:49):
ranked number two one in shutout fashion at Purdue thirty
five nothing. Florida State's record now one and six after
it lost it due twenty three to sixteen, thirteenth ranked.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
BYU at home home.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Has taken the lead on Oklahoma State twenty eight twenty
one late in the third and in the third at
Nevada it is the wolf Pack ahead of Fresno State
twenty one seventeen.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. Now, I'll give you
guys real quick. Fran Tarkenton Trivia's bench Fran targets and
that's incredible. Nineteen seventy five, he won the MVP through
twenty five touchdowns? How old was he when he won
the MVP? What year nineteen seventy five? When NFL MVP
is a quarterback? Thirty thirty four five thirty Mary Mack
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just completely guessing? Thirty five years old, fran Target. I
guessed right? Yes, Oh sorry, Justin, I'm sorry about that.
Way to jump it there. Sorry, but she got it.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Right, didn't Aaron Rodgers win a thirty five?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I've gotten it right as well, all right, last one,
last one? Two years later, his final year in the NFL,
he also threw twenty five touchdowns. He led the league
in interceptions. How many interceptions did he throw seventeen seventeen
nineteen nineteen. I'm gonna say less than the Jets that year.
Twenty three, twenty three, you have all severely underbid. Oh wow,
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you have severely forty seven? Okay, twenty nine, don't laugh
at me, thirty one justin? Oh, I don't care. He
threw twenty five touchdowns and thirty two interception challenge go
James Tarkenton threw thirty two interceptions that year. How about that?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Somehow?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
That year doesn't get brought up for Mistra Tarkin, Friend
Target and Trivia coming up next day. Speaking of NFL,
we picked two of the biggest games on the weekend.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike. This is Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm PACIFICO.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Got more baseball coming up in a few minut You
want to know what woke the Mets up today against
the Dodgers, I will tell you. But an alarm clock,
big sharpie, Sure, sure, alarm on my phone. Okay, great
went off. That's perfect. But this weekend in the NFL,
(35:15):
large action coming your way. We'll get to the Jets
and the Steelers coming up next hour, because oh boy,
maybe that's the game of the week after what happened today.
But the previous game of the week, the Chiefs and
the forty nine Ers, right, super Bowl win that sure?
Here come the Chiefs feeling great five and oh the
Niners are Hey, wait a minute, what is happening to us.
(35:38):
The Niners win this game, I'll take them, and I
feel pretty comfortable about it. And I'll tell you why
Kansas City has been winning. They've been flawed. They are
not the dominant dynastic team they have been. They're a
really good team with a clutch quarterback that has a
really good defense. They're not mystic, They're not. If we
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get behind them fourteen, nothing, the game is over. They're
just not that team anymore. And I think we've seen
that over the course of the last year and a half.
Doesn't mean they're not a great team, but they're much
more gettable. And this is a game where the forty
nine Ers defense exposes that Kandisity's gonna have trouble moving
the ball. The forty nine Ers are looking for a
springboard game, and for them, as far as they've gotten
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the last couple of years, to not get there and
not win the Super Bowl. Eventually, you have starts like this.
Why are they starting so slow? Well, in games, they're
really motivated. They've played well. They were motivated as hell
to beat the crap out of the Jets in Game one,
and they look terrific. Jordan Mason runs all over them,
and they didn't miss Christian McCaffrey at all. But since
then they've kind of been up and down. It's getting
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to the midway point of the season. They're looking for
a springboard game. I am sure this is it. This
is the game where they're gonna get their edge back.
For a team that goes all the way in just
short sometimes the beginning of the season becomes a little
bit more of a slog and you don't know why
you're struggling, even though you have all kinds of talent.
And sure enough, you know they've had injuries. They've been
able to overcome them because Mason's been really good. But
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this is the game the forty nine ers are looking for.
Nothing is wrong with them other than they got to
get out of these early season doldrums. This is the
game they're gonna do it at. Gimme San Francisco to
win this game. Over it, Waite, I like it.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Chiefs coming out of the bye week trying to figure
out offensively whether they want to get into the mix.
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Speaker 3 (37:25):
We talked about that very topic got some run in
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But talking about whether the Chiefs decide that they need
to bolster the offense beyond the receivers that they have,
where you get hag your hat a bit. Is the
defense no Jennings for the forty nine ers, Mason's banged
up Guerndo basically fell forward except for that jail break
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seventy six yard run other when they just brought everybody
on a play and then folks were mad he didn't
score the touchdown. But all of that to say, Amy
Mahomes coming out of bye week, spread the ball around,
Kareem Haunt back in for another week. I think they
still need to make some moves, but the defense keeps it,
keeps them in the game. I'm concerned about how they
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covered George Kittle. They've been terrible against opposing tight end,
and right now he's about as healthy uh and playing
as well as we've seen him for a stretch in
a while. So that's the one area concern that I
do have there. But close game, gimme butker for the finish.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well, here's the thing is his tight end has been
such a vast barren wasteland. This year across the NFL Kittle, Yes,
you have Bowers and how much is he helping? But
when you have Kittle, when he becomes that because well
he's the only thing they got. Remember the Ponte Adams quit. Yeah,
well that's true. Yes, that that is true. Yes, he
decided not to puy and Jacoby Myers is going to
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play this week, so good luck. Like sucks with the Jets.
Mike Kittle. Stop, he's gonna gets on something and may.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Or hopefully he's okay, but he's away from the team,
like all these things they thought they had, you know,
they have no nice things.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
But Kittle is such a huge weapon that the the
Niners are eventually going to unearth because so much of
it has been getting the ball to Ayuk, getting the
ball to Deebo. How are we going to do this?
And eventually it's going to be you know what, he's
our bread and butter, and once they when they get
back to that, as he becomes a bigger and starts
carving out a larger role in the offense because Ayuk
is kind of gamed a game. He's up and down.
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When Deebo is healthy, he's a big weapon. But can
you really give him the ball. As much as you
can't do that anymore, it's really still going to be killed.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's great Ricky Piersol is making his debuty welcome back.
Get a little different there, a little bit different dynamic
they have, but no, I'm with you. Kittle is the
big X factor that look, he can wind up having
the best year of any tight end in the league.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
And congratulations to Tom Brady and his team.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
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