October 19, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason’s Mets send the NLCS back to Los Angeles for a Game 5. Our most trusted College Football Insider Pete Fiutak drops by to preview all the big Week 8 games. Pete also tells us if the Florida Seminoles have completely hit rock bottom!
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no record scratch,
Let's have it. Yeah, buddy, yeah, buddy, freestyle coming. We
were down three games to one. No, keep it going.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
The show is in here. The show is in here.
The show is in here. You play that now where
you're all fired. You're fired, and you're fired, and you're
fired to to Sagar and you're fired to Harmon.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, no, no, the show is in here. On the show,
you want to play the song from a team that
lost today, had lost today. No, no, give me that
I was freestyling. Give it back, give it back right now,
or I'll fire every one of you, every single one
of you, fired, fired, fired, fired, all of you. I
just need right here, just keep the microphone on. It's
all I need fire all of you, everybody here, even
(01:16):
everybody editing in the back. Fire all of them, all
of them, fire everybody, just like Jack flared. He got
fired today in the middle of the game. Fired. The
Mets fired him. Dave Roberts isn't arrested. The second up
Plane Lands fired him. Now I got a new freestyle.
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That was the old three. I gonna do it now.
I can do anything. For four hours. Here we go,
all right. We would down three games to one last night.
The Dodgers were talking like the series is already over.
Then Alonso came up in the first hit a three
run bomb. That ball was out of sight and we
just kept in scoring. Tonight, there's your game one hero,
(02:04):
Jack Flaherty giving up a fistful of runs, and baby,
you better believe we're going back back to Los Angele
Lisz Game six, going back back to Los Angele Liz
Game six.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, buddy, only three hours fifty to six minutes left.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. We're just gonna play these songs, the dueling songs.
It's like dueling banjos. I have a horrible sinus headache.
I can honestly say, this is not helping. I'm not
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Mo Shemp, quiet numb skulls. We're broadcast. That's like a
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Okay you Jason, Okay, okay, dude, is wow calmer than
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you are.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
That's but here's the thing that ended a long long time.
But it doesn't matter, no, no, but just in terms
of you know, timelines and riding highs those whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It doesn't matter. We're adult. I'm already prere Dodgers. Oh
are you okay? All right, that's that's fine, that's fine.
Mets just scored again. Mets just scored again.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And I had all my ranting against Dave Roberts as
Frostburg alluded to he wants him arrested.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I have question, did you see the report on Flaherty
that he was bad today? I saw that. I watch
it live. I watch it live. Yes, he was under
the weather. Andy and Dave Roberts still didn't pull Yeah,
what was he three miles an hour less on his
fastball today? Look, the first thing I'll say about the
game is this, is that for coming in coming into
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this game from last night till today? What woke the
Mets up? Right? What woke the Mets up? They had
not scored? It was done. I guarantee you it was
this last night. And we saw a little bit of
it in the post game, but really didn't see it
till till all the quotes started coming out. The Dodgers
kind of celebrated during the game and then talked after
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how you do it when the series is actually over,
when you eliminate a team, you say things like, what
are you gonna do? We have two Hall of Famers
at the top of the line of Freddie Freeman talking
after the game. Boy, when we're on, you can't stop us,
that's our lineup, Max Munsey. The Dodgers really they had
a good time play and look when you're scoring runs
and having fun, that's great. And then after the game
they it was really it was really a way where
(05:05):
they they talked about their team, very self congratulatory before
the series is over. Not that you don't talk this way,
but you say it when you've if that was the
last game and the Dodgers beat the Mets and you're saying, wow,
look at what happened. The Dodgers then can say, hey,
you can't stop our lineup. It's this good. What are
you gonna do? Show hey at the top and then
Mookie bets. But the way the Dodgers carried themselves last
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night and what they said after, you know, that made
its way back to the Mets. Because the Mets came
out today, think, okay, they one of two things is
gonna happen. Either the Mets are gonna roll over the
season's over, or they're gonna fight and say we're going
back to La and we'll see a bullpend game in
game six. And they came out and they were on
fire today. And I guarantee you that is what got
into today which turned the game chippy as we watch
(05:49):
it go on. But what woke the Mets up? I
guarantee you that's what it was.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
As soon as your guys started acting like an ass,
things got interesting too.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Way to go, Peterson.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But the just the idea that you need someone to
go to a media member and go, oh, yeah, we're
feeling good. Our top guys are hitting really well right now.
I'm not hitting worth anything, but the top guys if
that's the thing they need to like in the human ego,
you know, getting your levels right and getting motivated.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
However, it takes it.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
The idea that it's just an elimination game should be enough.
I would hope as a professional in anything, you're doing right.
Every time we open the microphones, it's not, hey, you
know what, we're gonna get through it. It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be eleven o'clock soon. And then there's a sandwich.
I know we're gonna try to entertain it to wait
until the show is over to have a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
We can have a sandwich. Ever we want to game
sandwiches on you.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But just the idea that you know we're coming in,
entertain and form, find some angles, have some fun with it,
dissect this game, and roll through that. It's it's not
a Hey, you know what, when this is over, it's
the week so let's get to the weekend. No, likewise,
the Mets, I would really hope that as a squad
they were pissed off. Now I was glad that it
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actually got a little tense for a moment. Freddie Freeman,
who you you know, gave credit to as the author
of the quote about the Hall of Famers up front, Uh,
bases loaded, like all right, this is about to get spicy,
and Adie did nothing stood there. I mean, that was
that was the bat of the game.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That's where's there's a game. Okay, it's eight to two
and instead of now eight three and we're still hitting,
we're rolling through the line at.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
The conga line. Mean he takes one deep. I mean
because I was a pitch to hit. I was, that
was a pitch to drive. Watched it across the plate.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Uh, you know, started way outside and you know, looked
like he try to take the walk. But clearly that
was a strike. That was a big one because the.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Old rule of thumb is never go up there and
show the umpire. Hey, I know you're calling this the ball.
At least look like you're still locked in on the pitch,
which he did not. I mean, look, the Mets never
make it easy. They need ds for two winnings in
a six and how it goes.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
But I'll tell you the game was so chippy today.
And to make the second, but we will take a
lot of points. But to make the second big point
about this is that, like I said, that's what woke
the Mets up. I am sure the Dodgers very much
self congratulatory. The way they talked after the game. You know,
that's what got into them the Mets today and they
came out like a house of fire, like we're not down.
We we can still make this happen. I was really
(08:21):
surprised at the broadcast and Fox Sports won and Fox
Sport they do a great job on the games, and
watching the pregame shows them. Poppy said, Poppy said that
the Mets were gonna win ten two. I'm like, Poppy,
I can, but you got every game wrong so far,
he said. And I'm like, oh, now the Mets are
gonna win ten. But he made out what missus Met
he did stands yeah. I mean, well, look, missus Met
(08:41):
has been linked with Grimace. Now she's just linked with Poppy.
I mean, missus med has had a year around, so
I get around this is missus Mets been having fun
the last I think they're yeh link that's it. They
are linked in question. But I was really surprised the
game didn't spend more or time on how chippy it
(09:02):
got and and the level of of hate between them
one or two.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Lines, like not really a lot of a build to it,
Like what what look I told coming in from last night?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So the Mets are the Mets are kind of pissed.
I'm sure about how the Dodgers said, Well, basically the
series is over. They come into this game and the
Mets put a bunch of runs on the board, and
then Mounsey grounds out to Alonzo in the third inning,
and at this point the Dodgers are happy to go home.
Flarerty is out there taking a beating. Dave Roberts wants
to save his bullpen. I don't know what kind of
(09:33):
impetus the Dodgers even came into this game with to win,
because that's part of it, like, boy, you really you
want to finish the Mets are down three to one,
you want to be aggressive in it. And they came
in this game flarity where just confound. It's like I
felt like when it was three to one, when there's
three nothing, Dave Roberts, Okay, well let's let the.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Next ye labored he had no zip like you talked
about it, three miles an hour off his fastball, no dip, nothing,
no like to strikeout pitch. They they didn't strike out
in a single Mets hitter today. No, I mean where
they've been chasing all series long, and today all of
a sudden discipline focus and extending. Flarety's saying all right,
(10:12):
we're gonna do it, and Dave Roberts bought into it. Yeah,
look you kept bringing him back, but now you're down
eight to one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
When the Mets are When the Mets are up eight one,
I'm like, okay, they're cruising to this game because the
Dodgers are done. The Dodgers are done. They are packing up,
They've already got their stuff packed up. They're ready to
come back to LA for Game six. Right, didn't work
out for them, They didn't. The Mets got a lot
of runs, and that's played like their season was on
the line, and it was. But then the Dodgers woke up,
and they woke up because David Peterson on this ground
out that that Max Munsey had. Alonzo flips to Peterson.
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He makes a great play, right, and the great play
by Peterson to make the grab and he turns to
Muncie and he says, sit down blank. But you can
see it. I'm like, as soon as I said, oh,
he just barked at Unsie, what did he say on
Reada's lips going, Oh, he said sit down blank. And
since then at that moment, then the Dodgers started having
better bats and they really kind of try to leak
back into it. Paez hits the home run. He bat
(11:04):
flips and then he comes he crosses the plate and
Alvarez kind of barks at him and pisses with whatever, man,
I'm not even listening, Like, dude, okay, you know you
want you want to peacock your down eight one with
a home run. Okay, right, But then he peacock's again.
He had another big backflip. Then Alonso gets hit right
after the home run. He gets hit on the arm,
(11:26):
and then uh he saw another hit by pitch in
the same inning. Then the Mets hit one of the
Dodgers and the game was chippy and it was really
that's like the story of the game was wow, Like
if the Mets are up big late, is Otani gonna
get hit? Like I said, Otani's gonna get thrown at,
like or Mookie Bets or somebody is gonna is gonna
get thrown at, Because I honestly thought the game was
(11:47):
gonna start the first pitch to Watani was gonna be
a fastball high and end. Like you think you're comfortable.
You guys are all comfortable against our pitching stat the
last couple of days, We're gonna back you off the
plate a little bit. But when the game started getting
that point, like, if this game gets out of hand,
somebody's getting thrown out at the end, somebody is because
this is the Mets are not going to sit here
and let this go back and forth and and and
(12:07):
and have them end the game this way, especially hitting
Alonso and and the couple hit by pitches. It went on.
I'm like, boy, this is really gonna be it. And
the broadcast never talked about it, and I'm like, this
is the story of the game. Like very briefly they said, hey,
look at this kind of barking back and front. No,
that's part of the game. That's part of it. And
and and that was that was a big missing moment
(12:27):
that I thought like, hey, man, this is this game
is still going like that if you if you want
to keep people watching in a blowout game, it's Hey,
the Dodgers decided we're gonna start having good at bats. Right,
they're down eight to two when they're playing the infield
in on on on in the fifth inning of a game,
they're thinking, we're coming, We're gonna hit the ball. We're
gonna come back and eliminate you.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So the Mets woke the Dodgers up in this game.
And I said, I'm like, why is Peterson doing it?
Why a you yelling sit the black? But your point,
why are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
There was a pitch during uh I think it was
the fifth inning Otani at bat that came high and in,
but it wasn't. The sequence was working away, yeah, and
he came inside and it just got dismissed. I'm like, no, no, no,
that that he's pitching in one.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Way for a reason.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
And you detailed time and time again as to what
he does at trying to hit the ball on the
outer part of the plate. So that pitch is just
in congress to everything they're doing. To your point about
all right, there's there's one in a little little purpose.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, like that traded within like and that that's how
you had to dig storylines.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, And when a game is a blow, it's like,
wait a minute, the Dodgers did. The Dodgers started out
asleep and then the Mets woke them up, and I'm like,
the Mets never make things easy. This this should be
a game where the Dodgers go to sleep and guys
sit out and they get rest and we go back
to La for game six and all of that, like
that should have been it like that that but no, no, no,
that's getting No, No, We're gonna wake the Dodgers up.
And I'm sweating. I go, it's eight to one. I'm
(13:50):
sweating this game. Why am I sweating this game out?
Because you know it's over? Oh man, I'll tell you
that was something.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
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not Happy.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, there's only like three and a half hours. A
little bit, it seemed longer than it was. Only like
three hours in like five minutes, I think. But yeah,
but these games do seem a lot longer when you
get that, that's how long it felt like Flaherty was pitching.
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the way. Gen Carlos Stanton has hit a big three
run homer. The Yankees lead the Guardian six to two.
They're looking to go up three games to one. My
dad is probably happy the Yankees are winning, not happy
(14:43):
that Stanton hit the home run. So that's where Yeah,
you know, so we'll have more baseball on the way.
But a huge football weekend. We are about to kick
off our most trusted college football winsider stops by with
us next breaks down and previews the big games of
the weekend. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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posted right after we get off the air. Yankee still
with a big lead over the Guardians. And college football,
Oregon got out to an early lead against Purdue and
they are maintaining that lead. Late in the third quarter.
Ducks have a twenty one to zero lead over Perdue.
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Dylan Gabriel seventeen out of twenty one two point fifty
nine in a touchdown so far for Oregon. We are
set to talk to him following the games.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
About that challenge. On the play as well. Derek Harmon
trying to corral a fumble Boilers, but it looked like
he was out of mountains. Harmon was too slow.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Harmon hard step too slow to get into the ball step,
too slow in those purple shorts. I'll tell you what.
He's a big way, but too slow. But before we
talked to Dylan Gabriel, We're gonna talk to this man.
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It is Pete feuw Tech who now is planning ten
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what's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Uh? I get my walk up music back.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That's awesome, let's go, let's play awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I come on. The playoffs are here, man, it's baseball
players here. You walk up music?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh beautiful? Can you ask still a Gabriel why they're
not like, let's say thirty and a half to nothing
right now? Can you can you?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Can you do that?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Or is that just wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You can't you bounce that extra two points? Dylan? You
failed to cover? Is that something you talked about after
the game.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, so this is obvious is a disappointment for you.
So what can you do to do better to make
the rest of the world who best on your game?
Like it's stronger and halfier people?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
How do you feel about letting down all those games?
Really saw you against a one in five for New
boiler Maker team and said, well, this is an easy
night for Oregon.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, exactly, No, it's yeah, Look it's the fine that's
the hangover game after Ohio State. You go across, you know,
halfway across the country, and you know it's a little
bit of a trap and you put your there. Fine,
so you get get in, enjoy West Lafayette, get out.
Good job by Arty.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
All right, Well we have a huge slate tomorrow. We
got big Top two twenty five games, and hey, none bigger.
I mean I feel like every week now with everything
going on with the with all the change, the change teams,
with who's come from from the Pac twelve to the
Big ten, we get big games all the time. But
we got Georgia Texas tomorrow, Pete, and that's a huge
one here, especially for Georgia. You know, I look at
(18:17):
this game and I go, I think this is the
quin Newers game. If we're gonna like, I think we're
gonna look back and say this season A when we
name games, this is gonna be the quinn Ewers game.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We've had them though, And it's the crazy part about
Quineers is he's been under the radar for a top
fifteen overall pick. I mean the Michigan game was kind
of a Quinewers game. He was pretty sharpened that. The
Oklahoma game was a little that too. And like you mentioned,
like last week it was Big ten week, this week
it is SEC week because like you kind of alluded
to it, it is a big game for Georgia. Yeah,
(18:49):
well no, but seriously, now it's getting real. You know,
It's this This is not like you know, an NBA
or NHL season that goes, you know, thirteen months before
it's over. You know, this is a three month sprint
and we're halfway through it. Georgia has two losses or
Alabama has two losses. All of a sudden, you know,
all these SEC teams like, oh of course, you know,
(19:09):
oh this is going to be in the Expanded College
Football Playoff and LSU is gonna get in and Missouri
is going to get in and you know, look, all
of a sudden, there's gonna be a lot of they're
gonna start running out of room here. You know, so
this is a big game because we might have an
expanded college FOOTBA playoffs like Georgia and or Alabama. This
weekend might kind of be with that moment like, yeah,
(19:30):
that might actually happen.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I'm gonna have to do an extension of the political season,
a lot more debates and candidacy and ad campaigns that'll float.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You're saying more Iowa state is basically what you're saying with.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That, that's exactly right. And I approved this message. Hey,
big ten battle out.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Not often we get to call the fighting a line
a top twenty five team, but they've got a battle
against Michigan.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Is Beilama's team got something for real.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Here because next week they get these Oregons, but in
the interim they've got Michigan.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This is one of those it's a fishfowl team under Bilmoks.
That's if they're playing for due, they're gonna go to overtime.
If they're playing Michigan, you're gonna see this team kind
of come out and ruin.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But the thing about this Beal and the team though,
is it can throw. It is not like you kind
of think of the Wisconsination where they run for seven
hundred yards against Nebraska and oh they're just brash and
tough and you know they you know, make everyone mad.
And I'm like, no, this is this is kind of
a mid range passing team with a decent enough defense
that just sort of keeps things moving. It's not exactly
(20:35):
the most physical team youalty, but they're here. You know,
they get they get their shot at Michigan, and this
is really just you know, we kind of Michigan's quietly
been okay, you know, if you kind of look at
what they got going ahead. Okay, they don't have a
passing game, but their lines are still good, the running
game is still solid. You still have talent in the
backfield there. So it's there's still hope for this Michigan team.
(20:58):
But I kind of think Illinois I pulled off like
a like a two to one win somehow where nobody.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They get a rouge. Oh look at that ruge. You
thought that ruge is gonna stand up. But Michigan wins
with a safety.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Is it the way you could do that where you
didn't fluty do this, or can't you like drop kickers? Something.
Isn't there some kind of bizarre, quirky one point play
out there? I should know this, but yeah it's I
this is not I would be shocked if this is
some sort of you know, massive shootout back and forth.
I think both teams are gonna take the air out
of the ball. One team's gonna throw it a little bit,
the other team's gonna keep running it a little bit.
(21:32):
And if if I could just pulled up to the
drip drip drip of that Michigan running game, I think
they might pull us off.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
College Footballnews dot Com inside of Pete fu Tech our
guest The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from
the Tireck dot Com studios. All right, we talk Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee.
Another huge one. And again I look at this and
I go, boy, both teams are the same. Both teams
are pretty good, but they really haven't figured it out.
But I'll go with Jaln Milroe in.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
This game, which to the amanatizy, yes, uh yeah, I
mean they're both kind of are you for really. I
mean Alabama just they remember last year, every time I
came on, I was they had the same kind of
comment every USC game. They would take about a like
a like a twenty minute coffee break where they decide,
(22:20):
you know what, we're gonna We're gonna take a little knap.
We're just gonna, you know, maybe have a scone or something.
We're just gonna chill it out for a little while.
And that'sman, Alabama. I mean, I mean, it's crazy. You
had that when the greatest first halfs in the history
at college football against Georgia and then they just sort
of stopped and then they turned it on when they
had to. And the same thing with with Vanderbilt, they
just they just kind of didn't theydn't run the ball
(22:42):
with an odd game plan. And then the same thing
with South Carolina they won and they decided to start.
So this game, you know, they have to keep running
through the tape because Tennessee at some point that offense
is gonna start to work again. They've got a pass rush,
they're gonna bother mil Row. But the Tennessee offense just
has sort of stalled over the last few weeks, where
the first few weeks looked like a mirage. So I
(23:04):
don't know if they're gonna be Alabama style is going
to bring it out of them. I'm hoping for a
big shootout, but I still proven otherwise. I still kind
of think that Alabama really is that good. They just
kind of have to play like it already.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
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where you find them in the Twitter verse. It's the
Jason Smith Show with my Garmin Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Pete, go back. You mentioned the keyword.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Where we're located USC on the road against Maryland seven
and a half point favorites. Maryland's offense can go up
and down with the best of them. Is this going
to be another Hey? We were one or two plays
away press conference from Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh it hit better not be. Look, I'm a Lincoln
Riley apologist. I am one of those people. It's like, look,
is this offense does work? Look at his work and
the body of work it will be if you lose
like Riley, he might be the Dallas Cowboys head coach
next week. So like, you know, be careful of what
you wish for USC type people. But it can't you
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can't lose this one Maryland. If you look at the
rest of the Maryland schedule, they're they're in trouble. They
might not go bowling. I mean, the big thing for
them is they just don't seem to be consistent in turnovers. Turnovers.
Turnovers seem to be a problem with them. So I
do think USC pulls us up, but it's not just
that it pulls up. They need to win a game
a little bit emphatically and start looking the part again,
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because that LSU game is starting to look more and
more like a like a kind of Week one mirage.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, Pete, let's end here, because I mean, it's hard,
but it's a it's a big deal. Tonight Douke had
less than a two hundred yards total offense and they
beat Florida State. Florida State turned them right, Yeah, first
time they beat him, and Florida State turned the ball
over on three consecutive plays. I don't want to say
as this rock bottom for Florida State because they keep
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proving that it's not. But is there a way out
for them at some point like this is this is
kind of unprecedent what we're seeing happen to them.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I never want to say a team quit. It's I
don't think that's what this is. I've seen it on
Twitter and stuff where it's been in for Oh this
team just full of it. It's just it seems like
though that they just got the stuff stuck. They're so
sucked out of them in that Georgia Tech loss. I mean,
after all the offseason, all the stuff that happened, you know,
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if they're wanting to leave the ACC everything about this program,
it just it's kind of went wrong right away and
they just never quite got it back. They just can't
kind of make their own break. There's no energy on
this team because if you're at Florida State right now,
you came here thinking last year you were you had
a shot to maybe play the national for the national
title last year at this time, and now look what's happening.
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I mean, you're not even gonna make a bowl game.
But let's flip this around and say, wow, Duke, you
know many das, you know this is Duke, you know
this is You're not supposed to win there and he
is playing a tough defense. Well, yes, Florida State turning
it over three straight times is bad. This defense is
balled out all year, and so you know, many give
him a little credit for stepping in and keeping what
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Mike Elcho started and keeping that thing rolling.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You can follow on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is
at Pete Feutech. Checkout college Footballnews dot com. You are
one stop shopping for everything college football, all the picks,
all the analysis. Pete is always buddy. Appreciate your time, man,
Congratulations on your walk up. Music back.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We'll talk to you absolutely.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's go get enjoy the games. Brother, We'll talk to
you next week. Yeah, I mean, you think about Florida
State just for a second because obviously, oh I didn't
know they played tonight. Like that's where you got for Florida.
That's just it was. It was eight months ago. It
was how are they not in the playoff? How is
an undefeated team?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Not?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yes, I know they loved me. Maybe maybe maybe Jordan
Travis was the best player in college football. Got you,
but like you know, you just think about where they
were just a handful of months ago, right, not not
even a full year they were this good. They were
undefeated and and all of a sudden, now here they
are one win on the season, and it just keeps
getting worse. I mean, this is a team that was
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that was, you know, the number five team in the country,
or you know, should have been in the top four,
should have been in the playoff, and to fall this
much like Michigan, is one team where I say to myself, boy,
I don't know how they're not. They didn't have a
quarterback ready for this year. Sure, why you're starting your
third guy already. I don't understand that. How you didn't
have somebody ready to succeed JJ McCarthy. But it's another
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thing for an entire team to be this bad just
a year, eight months removed from potentially playing for the
national championship. This is this is as bad as it's
ever been at Florida State.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Yeah, we talk about changeouts and players. You go back
that game against Georgia Tech to start things off overseas, kickoff,
front and center, right, isolated game and you lose that
one and it's just been downhill since all off season.
The speculational We've covered it a couple of times, the
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hey are they going to strong arm their way out
out of conference right looking at other opportunities, and right
now it's you want to beg to be kept in
because it's gone south. And you wonder internally how that's
that switch gets flipped, right, because you know personnel changes,
right with.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
All of those with all of those people you.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Know, and and players that transfer out, players that graduate,
all of those things. We know that teams are going
to fluctuate and that the preseason rankings are not really
reflective of what's to come, right, it's based on the
past and and maybe a little bit of the personnel.
Why you every year it's like why were they the
number one? Why was Notre Dame always a top five team?
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They were no good? It's like, well you didn't know
that right at the time. Reputation, history, all that stuff.
For Florida State, it's it's just been a train wreck.
And you've watched it, and you watched them blues in
every type of Fashioncause.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's the other part.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
It's like it's not just consistently, hey we we can't
do this that or the other. It's like week to
week it has just been merciful Mersey. There's no mercy
for their fame. Merciless, merciless. That's all right, King, the
merse merciless.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Did you ever use the word merciless without using ming
in front of it?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
No, No, it's in mercilesses, which is why it didn't
flow off the tongue.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But now there's the But Madison and Jefferson are merciless. Hey, righty,
little deeper speaking of merciless, Well, that's kind of what
Oregon's doing right now to Purdue and kind of what
the Mets did to Jack Flaherty. Tonight special Delivery Steve
de Seger has what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports as D.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Talking about college football with the Florida State loss. It
was twenty three sixteen Duke the final Florida State, the
first preseason Top ten to start one and six in
thirty five years, and an acc note from the SEC
Network that Florida State has now been held under twenty
points in six straight games for the first time since
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before they hired Bobby Bowden as head coach nineteen seventy five.
And next weekend it's Florida State at Miami, So stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There is a game.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Yes, no, no, no, how about them PRESCA on Fox
TV right now. Number two ranked Oregon try to go
to seven and O is leading twenty seven nothing at
Purdue early in the fourth quarter. Cleveland Brown's running back
Nick Chubb is due to make his season debut Sunday
after last year's knee injuries. Bill's running back James Cook
(30:23):
will play Sunday after a tow injury. The WNBA Finals
will have a game five of the best of five
on Sunday in New York is Minnesota at home beat
New York eighty two eighty tonight with two late free throws.
In the AL Championship Series, boy Gencarlo Stanton in the
postseason unbelievable six ' three the Yankees lead at Cleveland
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in the bottom of the seven Stanton with a three
run homer in the top of the sixth. How about
this stat from the folks north of the border. At Sportsnet,
I saw a list of the highest career slugging percentage
career in MLB postseason history. Ruth and garreg Are won two,
and then Randy A. Rosarin. Gencarlo Stanton is fourth. Lenny
Dykster at number five.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow. Career slugging. I would think at this point I
thought I would say, Wow, Randy Rose Rain is not
first like I thought at this point he would have
passed Ruth and Garrett. I thought he would have got.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
The minimum hundred plate appearances. He's on the list. Oh,
we can update. Cleveland has scored its bottom of playing
these bullpens. Bottom of the seventh. It is Yankee six,
Guardians five, hardly over bottom of the seventh.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Taylor just doubled to the wall to bring in two runs. Goodness.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
The Guardians will be hosting again Saturday night in Game five.
By the way, the Mets season still going. They beat
up the Dodgers twelve six today. Mets led eight to
one in the third inning the loss to Jack Flaherty,
who in three innings allowed the eight runs, eight hits,
no strikeouts, four walks. He threw seventy five pitches. This
NLCS matchup Dodgers Mets the first postseason series in decades
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where each of the first five games is decided by
at least four runs. The last time this was the
case was when the Dodgers were in the nineteen sixty
five World Series against the Twins, and in that series,
all of the games were decided by at least four
runs until Game seven, when Sandy Kofex on two days
rest beat Jim Cutt on two days rest two to nothing.
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The Dodgers will be back home on AFS one again
for Game six on Sunday night. A Game seven would
be on Monday night. And yes, Virginia basketball coach Tony
Bennett officially retired today. He had signed a contract extension
through twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the
tyreck dot Com Studios. We'll have more baseball on the
way again. Cleveland now just trailing by a run runner
at second, one out in the bottom of the seventh,
but coming up next, got we got an explanation for
the most surprising story of the day yesterday. Does the
(32:54):
explanation hold water? That's next right here, Jason and Mike,
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Speaker 3 (33:00):
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Speaker 1 (33:08):
You know, Blank, you Yankees guardian's cameraman, Blank you forgiving
all of us hope and giving my dad a heart attack.
Come on that was great drama.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
You want to talk about an Award for cinematography right
there for production.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So the Yankees lead the Guardian six ' five Guardians
batting in the bottom of the seventh inning. Big Christmas
is up. He had the big game time home run yesterday,
and he takes Mark Lighter Junior deep and the cameraman
takes that big home run angle. We're yelling, oh my god,
Big Christmas did it again, except that it's a flyout to
(33:42):
the wall. Yeah, Papa, Noel was just a bit you jerk,
You're a joe. That was Jim We did that. That
was great drama. You know what he did to my
dad watching this game at home. You know what he
probably thought made him alive. Oh my dad, No, no, no,
come on, you did that to my dad, Like it's
one thing for us. You know we're all young. I'm okay,
it's fine. My dad's seventy seven. Man. You can't show
(34:03):
him a home run that's a fly out to the
warning track. You can't do that. Is he already calling
an injury at you? I know, I got to make
a wellness check now and make sure you're all right.
I gotta call him in a few minutes ago, Dad,
are you okay? Because it just happened. I can't call him.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I can't call him live oncause I'm gonna get a
curse word or two and I'd have to say, dadd
are you okay?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That if people get into his his his uh, his
building and into his unit and everything, so you know,
it's a lot of really screwed cameraman. Who are you fooling? Jay?
He's not picking up your car? Come on, I mean no,
he will. Of course he'll pick up my car and
if he if he does, because I can just dump
it out, okay handed in what if he calls somebody
the worst word ever? We might just have to end
the show alsome. What if he calls one of us Stanton, Oh,
(34:42):
I'm gonna say, right the worst words ever? Even though
a Big three run home tonight, in home or tonight,
I will say, dad, boy, Stanton's been so good he goes,
you know once in a while. Okay, that's yeah, he
is just not still doesn't. But may now if they
win tonight, I'll call him and I'll see how do
you feel about Stanton now? Because really Stanton is he
(35:04):
just doesn't like too.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Long thought May getting ready for Christmas season. It's a
long thawing process.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's like my dad had to pay out of his
pocket Stanton's salary and he's like, that's what he's mad about.
But anyway, that's where we are right now. The Yankees
get out of the inning, so it's a one run
game going to the eighth with the Yankees looking to
take a three games to one lead, seeing as the
Guardians were involved. It's too high, too high, too high
for home money. It was too high, big Christmas, too high.
(35:32):
But you know, we had the Tony Bennett story yesterday,
the Virginia head coach who retired abruptly yesterday, won the
national title back in twenty nineteen. Former college basketball Coach
of the Year hadn't won in the tournament in the
last few years, but was still one of the best
head coaches. His style of play was never a favorite
because he liked to slow it down and win games
(35:53):
fifty to forty nine. But defensively he was a wizard.
He was a great head coach. He's young, he's fifty five.
Why was he ever? And we hoped last night that
we were going to say, okay, we'll talk about it.
Today and he will say something along the lines of
I'm just not cut out, I'm burned out, I need
time away. And we saw the reason that he gave today.
He talked about how the NIL the translporter era is
(36:14):
not his thing. He says, I'm too old school, yeah,
and this is a new way that I just I
can't do it anymore. He quit like Devontae Adams. And
the thing is is, here's the thing is that I'm
glad that's what it was. I'm glad it's not anything
health wise or anything Else's family is all right. But wow, man,
I'm sorry, but you quit three weeks before the season starts,
(36:36):
when this is gonna be the last fun part right now?
He said, when I went away for fall break, there
was fall break. My wife and I went away, and
I realized the fire still wasn't there. Because he thought
about retiring at the end of last year, decided to
come back, right and there's video of him coaching the
Midnight Madness game and the scrimmage games and everything else.
But he goes away for a weekend and decides, Okay, no,
(36:59):
I'm going to retire right now. I understand that, I
understand the whole thing. But again, this should be the
fun part. You want one of your assistants to succeed you.
You could have made this your last year, right because
what I look at, what I think is this, Yes,
I believe that Tony Bennett. This is one hundred percent
what he was thinking. Boy, it's tough for me to
(37:19):
get through this. It's very, very difficult. And he looked
at his team this year and they're not ranked. I
think they're they're ranked like in the in the fifties,
and they're they're not predicted to do well. I wonder
if he saw his team this year and said, boy,
we're gonna get boat raced. I don't want this to
be my last year. People are gonna think I'm walking
away or I'm gonna get fired. I haven't won an
(37:39):
NCAA tournament game, so yeah, I'm gonna walk away now
then get drubbed over the next few months like this.
This timing is ridiculously bet because now all these young
your players get the portal. They can all hit the
portal now for thirty days. So now you're screwing the
team walking away like this. Now you want to think
the guys are gonna stay but you don't know. This
is a different era of college basketball where a guy
(37:59):
gets oh, yeah, you're leaving, coach. Well I'm leaving too,
but wait you're no, no, sorry, I'm leaving Like this
is this is really a This is a move that
I go, Wow, you walk down on your team. If
you can't do it anymore, do one more season? Do
it this year. You should have done it, should have
walked out, should have done it a few months ago,
but you didn't. So now staying on this season, help recruit,
help set things up, and then you walk away. But
(38:20):
I feel like he got a look at his team
and said, we're really not going to be any good.
Yeah I'm walking away now. I'm not going to put
a thirteen and twenty one season at the end of
my resume. I'm gonna walk away at least a little
bit higher than that.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Does that mean it would be a harder interview when
he suddenly has the fire to get back in the
game in a year or two's time, or maybe when
he drives to go to work at a desk he
thinks the last year on the resume isn't going to
look so good. All of that to say they're not
even in the others receiving votes. That's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
No, I think they're Yeah, I think I think they're
they're they're right somewhere in the fifties or sixties to
start the sex. That's a long tail, but it's the
timing of it. Right.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
You did all the nonsense in theory of any of
the complaints about the new way of doing college basketball,
the NIL all that. That doesn't mean they're not still
getting calls during the year whatever. But the coaching is
supposed to be the best part, right, like the other stuff.
I understand administrative and dealing with.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Hey, I just know you're still doing it season, but
still yeah, you're still doing during the season to a point,
but this is still the fun part. Three weeks before
the season, like you committed, like you got kids to commit,
You got your assistant coaches there, So now all of
a sudden, they're looking around going what the hell is happening.
You put everybody in a bad spot, and it's it's
just a terrible look. You want to quit because of
(39:39):
the NIL and you don't like the new rules of engagement.
At least give the rest of the kids and your
your school a chance exit out about a Fresco exit
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no record scratch,
Let's have it. Yeah, buddy, yeah, buddy, freestyle coming. We
were down three games to one. No, keep it going.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
The show is in here. The show is in here.
The show is in here. You play that now where
you're all fired. You're fired, and you're fired, and you're
fired to to Sagar and you're fired to Harmon.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, no, no, the show is in here. On the show,
you want to play the song from a team that
lost today, had lost today. No, no, give me that
I was freestyling. Give it back, give it back right now,
or I'll fire every one of you, every single one
of you, fired, fired, fired, fired, all of you. I
just need right here, just keep the microphone on. It's
all I need fire all of you, everybody here, even
(01:16):
everybody editing in the back. Fire all of them, all
of them, fire everybody, just like Jack flared. He got
fired today in the middle of the game. Fired. The
Mets fired him. Dave Roberts isn't arrested. The second up
Plane Lands fired him. Now I got a new freestyle.
(01:41):
That was the old three. I gonna do it now.
I can do anything. For four hours. Here we go,
all right. We would down three games to one last night.
The Dodgers were talking like the series is already over.
Then Alonso came up in the first hit a three
run bomb. That ball was out of sight and we
just kept in scoring. Tonight, there's your game one hero,
(02:04):
Jack Flaherty giving up a fistful of runs, and baby,
you better believe we're going back back to Los Angele
Lisz Game six, going back back to Los Angele Liz
Game six.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, buddy, only three hours fifty to six minutes left.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. We're just gonna play these songs, the dueling songs.
It's like dueling banjos. I have a horrible sinus headache.
I can honestly say, this is not helping. I'm not
(02:49):
sure this is street legal. In the immortal words of
Mo Shemp, quiet numb skulls. We're broadcast. That's like a
game fight Rand he would hit him over the head
with his guitar and he would win. I think I
would take a free in that newman has all the
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(03:32):
you are.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
That's but here's the thing that ended a long long time.
But it doesn't matter, no, no, but just in terms
of you know, timelines and riding highs those whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It doesn't matter. We're adult. I'm already prere Dodgers. Oh
are you okay? All right, that's that's fine, that's fine.
Mets just scored again. Mets just scored again.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And I had all my ranting against Dave Roberts as
Frostburg alluded to he wants him arrested.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I have question, did you see the report on Flaherty
that he was bad today? I saw that. I watch
it live. I watch it live. Yes, he was under
the weather. Andy and Dave Roberts still didn't pull Yeah,
what was he three miles an hour less on his
fastball today? Look, the first thing I'll say about the
game is this, is that for coming in coming into
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this game from last night till today? What woke the
Mets up? Right? What woke the Mets up? They had
not scored? It was done. I guarantee you it was
this last night. And we saw a little bit of
it in the post game, but really didn't see it
till till all the quotes started coming out. The Dodgers
kind of celebrated during the game and then talked after
(04:44):
how you do it when the series is actually over,
when you eliminate a team, you say things like, what
are you gonna do? We have two Hall of Famers
at the top of the line of Freddie Freeman talking
after the game. Boy, when we're on, you can't stop us,
that's our lineup, Max Munsey. The Dodgers really they had
a good time play and look when you're scoring runs
and having fun, that's great. And then after the game
they it was really it was really a way where
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they they talked about their team, very self congratulatory before
the series is over. Not that you don't talk this way,
but you say it when you've if that was the
last game and the Dodgers beat the Mets and you're saying, wow,
look at what happened. The Dodgers then can say, hey,
you can't stop our lineup. It's this good. What are
you gonna do? Show hey at the top and then
Mookie bets. But the way the Dodgers carried themselves last
(05:29):
night and what they said after, you know, that made
its way back to the Mets. Because the Mets came
out today, think, okay, they one of two things is
gonna happen. Either the Mets are gonna roll over the
season's over, or they're gonna fight and say we're going
back to La and we'll see a bullpend game in
game six. And they came out and they were on
fire today. And I guarantee you that is what got
into today which turned the game chippy as we watch
(05:49):
it go on. But what woke the Mets up? I
guarantee you that's what it was.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
As soon as your guys started acting like an ass,
things got interesting too.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Way to go, Peterson.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But the just the idea that you need someone to
go to a media member and go, oh, yeah, we're
feeling good. Our top guys are hitting really well right now.
I'm not hitting worth anything, but the top guys if
that's the thing they need to like in the human ego,
you know, getting your levels right and getting motivated.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
However, it takes it.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
The idea that it's just an elimination game should be enough.
I would hope as a professional in anything, you're doing right.
Every time we open the microphones, it's not, hey, you
know what, we're gonna get through it. It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be eleven o'clock soon. And then there's a sandwich.
I know we're gonna try to entertain it to wait
until the show is over to have a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
We can have a sandwich. Ever we want to game
sandwiches on you.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But just the idea that you know we're coming in,
entertain and form, find some angles, have some fun with it,
dissect this game, and roll through that. It's it's not
a Hey, you know what, when this is over, it's
the week so let's get to the weekend. No, likewise,
the Mets, I would really hope that as a squad
they were pissed off. Now I was glad that it
(07:09):
actually got a little tense for a moment. Freddie Freeman,
who you you know, gave credit to as the author
of the quote about the Hall of Famers up front, Uh,
bases loaded, like all right, this is about to get spicy,
and Adie did nothing stood there. I mean, that was
that was the bat of the game.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That's where's there's a game. Okay, it's eight to two
and instead of now eight three and we're still hitting,
we're rolling through the line at.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
The conga line. Mean he takes one deep. I mean
because I was a pitch to hit. I was, that
was a pitch to drive. Watched it across the plate.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Uh, you know, started way outside and you know, looked
like he try to take the walk. But clearly that
was a strike. That was a big one because the.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Old rule of thumb is never go up there and
show the umpire. Hey, I know you're calling this the ball.
At least look like you're still locked in on the pitch,
which he did not. I mean, look, the Mets never
make it easy. They need ds for two winnings in
a six and how it goes.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
But I'll tell you the game was so chippy today.
And to make the second, but we will take a
lot of points. But to make the second big point
about this is that, like I said, that's what woke
the Mets up. I am sure the Dodgers very much
self congratulatory. The way they talked after the game. You know,
that's what got into them the Mets today and they
came out like a house of fire, like we're not down.
We we can still make this happen. I was really
(08:21):
surprised at the broadcast and Fox Sports won and Fox
Sport they do a great job on the games, and
watching the pregame shows them. Poppy said, Poppy said that
the Mets were gonna win ten two. I'm like, Poppy,
I can, but you got every game wrong so far,
he said. And I'm like, oh, now the Mets are
gonna win ten. But he made out what missus Met
he did stands yeah. I mean, well, look, missus Met
(08:41):
has been linked with Grimace. Now she's just linked with Poppy.
I mean, missus med has had a year around, so
I get around this is missus Mets been having fun
the last I think they're yeh link that's it. They
are linked in question. But I was really surprised the
game didn't spend more or time on how chippy it
(09:02):
got and and the level of of hate between them
one or two.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Lines, like not really a lot of a build to it,
Like what what look I told coming in from last night?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So the Mets are the Mets are kind of pissed.
I'm sure about how the Dodgers said, Well, basically the
series is over. They come into this game and the
Mets put a bunch of runs on the board, and
then Mounsey grounds out to Alonzo in the third inning,
and at this point the Dodgers are happy to go home.
Flarerty is out there taking a beating. Dave Roberts wants
to save his bullpen. I don't know what kind of
(09:33):
impetus the Dodgers even came into this game with to win,
because that's part of it, like, boy, you really you
want to finish the Mets are down three to one,
you want to be aggressive in it. And they came
in this game flarity where just confound. It's like I
felt like when it was three to one, when there's
three nothing, Dave Roberts, Okay, well let's let the.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Next ye labored he had no zip like you talked
about it, three miles an hour off his fastball, no dip, nothing,
no like to strikeout pitch. They they didn't strike out
in a single Mets hitter today. No, I mean where
they've been chasing all series long, and today all of
a sudden discipline focus and extending. Flarety's saying all right,
(10:12):
we're gonna do it, and Dave Roberts bought into it. Yeah,
look you kept bringing him back, but now you're down
eight to one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
When the Mets are When the Mets are up eight one,
I'm like, okay, they're cruising to this game because the
Dodgers are done. The Dodgers are done. They are packing up,
They've already got their stuff packed up. They're ready to
come back to LA for Game six. Right, didn't work
out for them, They didn't. The Mets got a lot
of runs, and that's played like their season was on
the line, and it was. But then the Dodgers woke up,
and they woke up because David Peterson on this ground
out that that Max Munsey had. Alonzo flips to Peterson.
(10:42):
He makes a great play, right, and the great play
by Peterson to make the grab and he turns to
Muncie and he says, sit down blank. But you can
see it. I'm like, as soon as I said, oh,
he just barked at Unsie, what did he say on
Reada's lips going, Oh, he said sit down blank. And
since then at that moment, then the Dodgers started having
better bats and they really kind of try to leak
back into it. Paez hits the home run. He bat
(11:04):
flips and then he comes he crosses the plate and
Alvarez kind of barks at him and pisses with whatever, man,
I'm not even listening, Like, dude, okay, you know you
want you want to peacock your down eight one with
a home run. Okay, right, But then he peacock's again.
He had another big backflip. Then Alonso gets hit right
after the home run. He gets hit on the arm,
(11:26):
and then uh he saw another hit by pitch in
the same inning. Then the Mets hit one of the
Dodgers and the game was chippy and it was really
that's like the story of the game was wow, Like
if the Mets are up big late, is Otani gonna
get hit? Like I said, Otani's gonna get thrown at,
like or Mookie Bets or somebody is gonna is gonna
get thrown at, Because I honestly thought the game was
(11:47):
gonna start the first pitch to Watani was gonna be
a fastball high and end. Like you think you're comfortable.
You guys are all comfortable against our pitching stat the
last couple of days, We're gonna back you off the
plate a little bit. But when the game started getting
that point, like, if this game gets out of hand,
somebody's getting thrown out at the end, somebody is because
this is the Mets are not going to sit here
and let this go back and forth and and and
(12:07):
and have them end the game this way, especially hitting
Alonso and and the couple hit by pitches. It went on.
I'm like, boy, this is really gonna be it. And
the broadcast never talked about it, and I'm like, this
is the story of the game. Like very briefly they said, hey,
look at this kind of barking back and front. No,
that's part of the game. That's part of it. And
and and that was that was a big missing moment
(12:27):
that I thought like, hey, man, this is this game
is still going like that if you if you want
to keep people watching in a blowout game, it's Hey,
the Dodgers decided we're gonna start having good at bats. Right,
they're down eight to two when they're playing the infield
in on on on in the fifth inning of a game,
they're thinking, we're coming, We're gonna hit the ball. We're
gonna come back and eliminate you.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So the Mets woke the Dodgers up in this game.
And I said, I'm like, why is Peterson doing it?
Why a you yelling sit the black? But your point,
why are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
There was a pitch during uh I think it was
the fifth inning Otani at bat that came high and in,
but it wasn't. The sequence was working away, yeah, and
he came inside and it just got dismissed. I'm like, no, no, no,
that that he's pitching in one.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Way for a reason.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
And you detailed time and time again as to what
he does at trying to hit the ball on the
outer part of the plate. So that pitch is just
in congress to everything they're doing. To your point about
all right, there's there's one in a little little purpose.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, like that traded within like and that that's how
you had to dig storylines.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, And when a game is a blow, it's like,
wait a minute, the Dodgers did. The Dodgers started out
asleep and then the Mets woke them up, and I'm like,
the Mets never make things easy. This this should be
a game where the Dodgers go to sleep and guys
sit out and they get rest and we go back
to La for game six and all of that, like
that should have been it like that that but no, no, no,
that's getting No, No, We're gonna wake the Dodgers up.
And I'm sweating. I go, it's eight to one. I'm
(13:50):
sweating this game. Why am I sweating this game out?
Because you know it's over? Oh man, I'll tell you
that was something.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Uh the James Longshow game Pay some play man for
not Happy.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, there's only like three and a half hours. A
little bit, it seemed longer than it was. Only like
three hours in like five minutes, I think. But yeah,
but these games do seem a lot longer when you
get that, that's how long it felt like Flaherty was pitching.
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They're looking to go up three games to one. My
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(14:43):
that Stanton hit the home run. So that's where Yeah,
you know, so we'll have more baseball on the way.
But a huge football weekend. We are about to kick
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with a big lead over the Guardians. And college football,
Oregon got out to an early lead against Purdue and
they are maintaining that lead. Late in the third quarter.
Ducks have a twenty one to zero lead over Perdue.
(15:57):
Dylan Gabriel seventeen out of twenty one two point fifty
nine in a touchdown so far for Oregon. We are
set to talk to him following the games.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
About that challenge. On the play as well. Derek Harmon
trying to corral a fumble Boilers, but it looked like
he was out of mountains. Harmon was too slow.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Harmon hard step too slow to get into the ball step,
too slow in those purple shorts. I'll tell you what.
He's a big way, but too slow. But before we
talked to Dylan Gabriel, We're gonna talk to this man.
He is the owner, editor, proprietor Grand Pooba of College
Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping for everything college football,
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It is Pete feuw Tech who now is planning ten
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what's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Uh? I get my walk up music back.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That's awesome, let's go, let's play awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I come on. The playoffs are here, man, it's baseball
players here. You walk up music?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh beautiful? Can you ask still a Gabriel why they're
not like, let's say thirty and a half to nothing
right now? Can you can you?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Can you do that?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Or is that just wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You can't you bounce that extra two points? Dylan? You
failed to cover? Is that something you talked about after
the game.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, so this is obvious is a disappointment for you.
So what can you do to do better to make
the rest of the world who best on your game?
Like it's stronger and halfier people?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
How do you feel about letting down all those games?
Really saw you against a one in five for New
boiler Maker team and said, well, this is an easy
night for Oregon.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, exactly, No, it's yeah, Look it's the fine that's
the hangover game after Ohio State. You go across, you know,
halfway across the country, and you know it's a little
bit of a trap and you put your there. Fine,
so you get get in, enjoy West Lafayette, get out.
Good job by Arty.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
All right, Well we have a huge slate tomorrow. We
got big Top two twenty five games, and hey, none bigger.
I mean I feel like every week now with everything
going on with the with all the change, the change teams,
with who's come from from the Pac twelve to the
Big ten, we get big games all the time. But
we got Georgia Texas tomorrow, Pete, and that's a huge
one here, especially for Georgia. You know, I look at
(18:17):
this game and I go, I think this is the
quin Newers game. If we're gonna like, I think we're
gonna look back and say this season A when we
name games, this is gonna be the quinn Ewers game.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We've had them though, And it's the crazy part about
Quineers is he's been under the radar for a top
fifteen overall pick. I mean the Michigan game was kind
of a Quinewers game. He was pretty sharpened that. The
Oklahoma game was a little that too. And like you mentioned,
like last week it was Big ten week, this week
it is SEC week because like you kind of alluded
to it, it is a big game for Georgia. Yeah,
(18:49):
well no, but seriously, now it's getting real. You know,
It's this This is not like you know, an NBA
or NHL season that goes, you know, thirteen months before
it's over. You know, this is a three month sprint
and we're halfway through it. Georgia has two losses or
Alabama has two losses. All of a sudden, you know,
all these SEC teams like, oh of course, you know,
(19:09):
oh this is going to be in the Expanded College
Football Playoff and LSU is gonna get in and Missouri
is going to get in and you know, look, all
of a sudden, there's gonna be a lot of they're
gonna start running out of room here. You know, so
this is a big game because we might have an
expanded college FOOTBA playoffs like Georgia and or Alabama. This
weekend might kind of be with that moment like, yeah,
(19:30):
that might actually happen.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I'm gonna have to do an extension of the political season,
a lot more debates and candidacy and ad campaigns that'll float.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You're saying more Iowa state is basically what you're saying with.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That, that's exactly right. And I approved this message. Hey,
big ten battle out.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Not often we get to call the fighting a line
a top twenty five team, but they've got a battle
against Michigan.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Is Beilama's team got something for real.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Here because next week they get these Oregons, but in
the interim they've got Michigan.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This is one of those it's a fishfowl team under Bilmoks.
That's if they're playing for due, they're gonna go to overtime.
If they're playing Michigan, you're gonna see this team kind
of come out and ruin.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But the thing about this Beal and the team though,
is it can throw. It is not like you kind
of think of the Wisconsination where they run for seven
hundred yards against Nebraska and oh they're just brash and
tough and you know they you know, make everyone mad.
And I'm like, no, this is this is kind of
a mid range passing team with a decent enough defense
that just sort of keeps things moving. It's not exactly
(20:35):
the most physical team youalty, but they're here. You know,
they get they get their shot at Michigan, and this
is really just you know, we kind of Michigan's quietly
been okay, you know, if you kind of look at
what they got going ahead. Okay, they don't have a
passing game, but their lines are still good, the running
game is still solid. You still have talent in the
backfield there. So it's there's still hope for this Michigan team.
(20:58):
But I kind of think Illinois I pulled off like
a like a two to one win somehow where nobody.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They get a rouge. Oh look at that ruge. You
thought that ruge is gonna stand up. But Michigan wins
with a safety.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Is it the way you could do that where you
didn't fluty do this, or can't you like drop kickers? Something.
Isn't there some kind of bizarre, quirky one point play
out there? I should know this, but yeah it's I
this is not I would be shocked if this is
some sort of you know, massive shootout back and forth.
I think both teams are gonna take the air out
of the ball. One team's gonna throw it a little bit,
the other team's gonna keep running it a little bit.
(21:32):
And if if I could just pulled up to the
drip drip drip of that Michigan running game, I think
they might pull us off.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
College Footballnews dot Com inside of Pete fu Tech our
guest The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from
the Tireck dot Com studios. All right, we talk Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee.
Another huge one. And again I look at this and
I go, boy, both teams are the same. Both teams
are pretty good, but they really haven't figured it out.
But I'll go with Jaln Milroe in.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
This game, which to the amanatizy, yes, uh yeah, I
mean they're both kind of are you for really. I
mean Alabama just they remember last year, every time I
came on, I was they had the same kind of
comment every USC game. They would take about a like
a like a twenty minute coffee break where they decide,
(22:20):
you know what, we're gonna We're gonna take a little knap.
We're just gonna, you know, maybe have a scone or something.
We're just gonna chill it out for a little while.
And that'sman, Alabama. I mean, I mean, it's crazy. You
had that when the greatest first halfs in the history
at college football against Georgia and then they just sort
of stopped and then they turned it on when they
had to. And the same thing with with Vanderbilt, they
just they just kind of didn't theydn't run the ball
(22:42):
with an odd game plan. And then the same thing
with South Carolina they won and they decided to start.
So this game, you know, they have to keep running
through the tape because Tennessee at some point that offense
is gonna start to work again. They've got a pass rush,
they're gonna bother mil Row. But the Tennessee offense just
has sort of stalled over the last few weeks, where
the first few weeks looked like a mirage. So I
(23:04):
don't know if they're gonna be Alabama style is going
to bring it out of them. I'm hoping for a
big shootout, but I still proven otherwise. I still kind
of think that Alabama really is that good. They just
kind of have to play like it already.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
A long time friend of the show on the hotline
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Speaker 1 (23:31):
Pete, go back. You mentioned the keyword.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Where we're located USC on the road against Maryland seven
and a half point favorites. Maryland's offense can go up
and down with the best of them. Is this going
to be another Hey? We were one or two plays
away press conference from Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh it hit better not be. Look, I'm a Lincoln
Riley apologist. I am one of those people. It's like, look,
is this offense does work? Look at his work and
the body of work it will be if you lose
like Riley, he might be the Dallas Cowboys head coach
next week. So like, you know, be careful of what
you wish for USC type people. But it can't you
(24:08):
can't lose this one Maryland. If you look at the
rest of the Maryland schedule, they're they're in trouble. They
might not go bowling. I mean, the big thing for
them is they just don't seem to be consistent in turnovers. Turnovers.
Turnovers seem to be a problem with them. So I
do think USC pulls us up, but it's not just
that it pulls up. They need to win a game
a little bit emphatically and start looking the part again,
(24:31):
because that LSU game is starting to look more and
more like a like a kind of Week one mirage.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, Pete, let's end here, because I mean, it's hard,
but it's a it's a big deal. Tonight Douke had
less than a two hundred yards total offense and they
beat Florida State. Florida State turned them right, Yeah, first
time they beat him, and Florida State turned the ball
over on three consecutive plays. I don't want to say
as this rock bottom for Florida State because they keep
(24:57):
proving that it's not. But is there a way out
for them at some point like this is this is
kind of unprecedent what we're seeing happen to them.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I never want to say a team quit. It's I
don't think that's what this is. I've seen it on
Twitter and stuff where it's been in for Oh this
team just full of it. It's just it seems like
though that they just got the stuff stuck. They're so
sucked out of them in that Georgia Tech loss. I mean,
after all the offseason, all the stuff that happened, you know,
(25:26):
if they're wanting to leave the ACC everything about this program,
it just it's kind of went wrong right away and
they just never quite got it back. They just can't
kind of make their own break. There's no energy on
this team because if you're at Florida State right now,
you came here thinking last year you were you had
a shot to maybe play the national for the national
title last year at this time, and now look what's happening.
(25:47):
I mean, you're not even gonna make a bowl game.
But let's flip this around and say, wow, Duke, you
know many das, you know this is Duke, you know
this is You're not supposed to win there and he
is playing a tough defense. Well, yes, Florida State turning
it over three straight times is bad. This defense is
balled out all year, and so you know, many give
him a little credit for stepping in and keeping what
(26:09):
Mike Elcho started and keeping that thing rolling.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You can follow on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is
at Pete Feutech. Checkout college Footballnews dot com. You are
one stop shopping for everything college football, all the picks,
all the analysis. Pete is always buddy. Appreciate your time, man,
Congratulations on your walk up. Music back.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We'll talk to you absolutely.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's go get enjoy the games. Brother, We'll talk to
you next week. Yeah, I mean, you think about Florida
State just for a second because obviously, oh I didn't
know they played tonight. Like that's where you got for Florida.
That's just it was. It was eight months ago. It
was how are they not in the playoff? How is
an undefeated team?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Not?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yes, I know they loved me. Maybe maybe maybe Jordan
Travis was the best player in college football. Got you,
but like you know, you just think about where they
were just a handful of months ago, right, not not
even a full year they were this good. They were
undefeated and and all of a sudden, now here they
are one win on the season, and it just keeps
getting worse. I mean, this is a team that was
(27:06):
that was, you know, the number five team in the country,
or you know, should have been in the top four,
should have been in the playoff, and to fall this
much like Michigan, is one team where I say to myself, boy,
I don't know how they're not. They didn't have a
quarterback ready for this year. Sure, why you're starting your
third guy already. I don't understand that. How you didn't
have somebody ready to succeed JJ McCarthy. But it's another
(27:26):
thing for an entire team to be this bad just
a year, eight months removed from potentially playing for the
national championship. This is this is as bad as it's
ever been at Florida State.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Yeah, we talk about changeouts and players. You go back
that game against Georgia Tech to start things off overseas, kickoff,
front and center, right, isolated game and you lose that
one and it's just been downhill since all off season.
The speculational We've covered it a couple of times, the
(27:57):
hey are they going to strong arm their way out
out of conference right looking at other opportunities, and right
now it's you want to beg to be kept in
because it's gone south. And you wonder internally how that's
that switch gets flipped, right, because you know personnel changes,
right with.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
All of those with all of those people you.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Know, and and players that transfer out, players that graduate,
all of those things. We know that teams are going
to fluctuate and that the preseason rankings are not really
reflective of what's to come, right, it's based on the
past and and maybe a little bit of the personnel.
Why you every year it's like why were they the
number one? Why was Notre Dame always a top five team?
(28:41):
They were no good? It's like, well you didn't know
that right at the time. Reputation, history, all that stuff.
For Florida State, it's it's just been a train wreck.
And you've watched it, and you watched them blues in
every type of Fashioncause.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's the other part.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
It's like it's not just consistently, hey we we can't
do this that or the other. It's like week to
week it has just been merciful Mersey. There's no mercy
for their fame. Merciless, merciless. That's all right, King, the
merse merciless.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Did you ever use the word merciless without using ming
in front of it?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
No, No, it's in mercilesses, which is why it didn't
flow off the tongue.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But now there's the But Madison and Jefferson are merciless. Hey, righty,
little deeper speaking of merciless, Well, that's kind of what
Oregon's doing right now to Purdue and kind of what
the Mets did to Jack Flaherty. Tonight special Delivery Steve
de Seger has what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports as D.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Talking about college football with the Florida State loss. It
was twenty three sixteen Duke the final Florida State, the
first preseason Top ten to start one and six in
thirty five years, and an acc note from the SEC
Network that Florida State has now been held under twenty
points in six straight games for the first time since
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before they hired Bobby Bowden as head coach nineteen seventy five.
And next weekend it's Florida State at Miami, So stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There is a game.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Yes, no, no, no, how about them PRESCA on Fox
TV right now. Number two ranked Oregon try to go
to seven and O is leading twenty seven nothing at
Purdue early in the fourth quarter. Cleveland Brown's running back
Nick Chubb is due to make his season debut Sunday
after last year's knee injuries. Bill's running back James Cook
(30:23):
will play Sunday after a tow injury. The WNBA Finals
will have a game five of the best of five
on Sunday in New York is Minnesota at home beat
New York eighty two eighty tonight with two late free throws.
In the AL Championship Series, boy Gencarlo Stanton in the
postseason unbelievable six ' three the Yankees lead at Cleveland
(30:43):
in the bottom of the seven Stanton with a three
run homer in the top of the sixth. How about
this stat from the folks north of the border. At Sportsnet,
I saw a list of the highest career slugging percentage
career in MLB postseason history. Ruth and garreg Are won two,
and then Randy A. Rosarin. Gencarlo Stanton is fourth. Lenny
Dykster at number five.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow. Career slugging. I would think at this point I
thought I would say, Wow, Randy Rose Rain is not
first like I thought at this point he would have
passed Ruth and Garrett. I thought he would have got.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
The minimum hundred plate appearances. He's on the list. Oh,
we can update. Cleveland has scored its bottom of playing
these bullpens. Bottom of the seventh. It is Yankee six,
Guardians five, hardly over bottom of the seventh.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Taylor just doubled to the wall to bring in two runs. Goodness.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
The Guardians will be hosting again Saturday night in Game five.
By the way, the Mets season still going. They beat
up the Dodgers twelve six today. Mets led eight to
one in the third inning the loss to Jack Flaherty,
who in three innings allowed the eight runs, eight hits,
no strikeouts, four walks. He threw seventy five pitches. This
NLCS matchup Dodgers Mets the first postseason series in decades
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where each of the first five games is decided by
at least four runs. The last time this was the
case was when the Dodgers were in the nineteen sixty
five World Series against the Twins, and in that series,
all of the games were decided by at least four
runs until Game seven, when Sandy Kofex on two days
rest beat Jim Cutt on two days rest two to nothing.
(32:16):
The Dodgers will be back home on AFS one again
for Game six on Sunday night. A Game seven would
be on Monday night. And yes, Virginia basketball coach Tony
Bennett officially retired today. He had signed a contract extension
through twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the
tyreck dot Com Studios. We'll have more baseball on the
way again. Cleveland now just trailing by a run runner
at second, one out in the bottom of the seventh,
but coming up next, got we got an explanation for
the most surprising story of the day yesterday. Does the
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explanation hold water? That's next right here, Jason and Mike,
this is Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
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Speaker 1 (33:08):
You know, Blank, you Yankees guardian's cameraman, Blank you forgiving
all of us hope and giving my dad a heart attack.
Come on that was great drama.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
You want to talk about an Award for cinematography right
there for production.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So the Yankees lead the Guardian six ' five Guardians
batting in the bottom of the seventh inning. Big Christmas
is up. He had the big game time home run yesterday,
and he takes Mark Lighter Junior deep and the cameraman
takes that big home run angle. We're yelling, oh my god,
Big Christmas did it again, except that it's a flyout to
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the wall. Yeah, Papa, Noel was just a bit you jerk,
You're a joe. That was Jim We did that. That
was great drama. You know what he did to my
dad watching this game at home. You know what he
probably thought made him alive. Oh my dad, No, no, no,
come on, you did that to my dad, Like it's
one thing for us. You know we're all young. I'm okay,
it's fine. My dad's seventy seven. Man. You can't show
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him a home run that's a fly out to the
warning track. You can't do that. Is he already calling
an injury at you? I know, I got to make
a wellness check now and make sure you're all right.
I gotta call him in a few minutes ago, Dad,
are you okay? Because it just happened. I can't call him.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I can't call him live oncause I'm gonna get a
curse word or two and I'd have to say, dadd
are you okay?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That if people get into his his his uh, his
building and into his unit and everything, so you know,
it's a lot of really screwed cameraman. Who are you fooling? Jay?
He's not picking up your car? Come on, I mean no,
he will. Of course he'll pick up my car and
if he if he does, because I can just dump
it out, okay handed in what if he calls somebody
the worst word ever? We might just have to end
the show alsome. What if he calls one of us Stanton, Oh,
(34:42):
I'm gonna say, right the worst words ever? Even though
a Big three run home tonight, in home or tonight,
I will say, dad, boy, Stanton's been so good he goes,
you know once in a while. Okay, that's yeah, he
is just not still doesn't. But may now if they
win tonight, I'll call him and I'll see how do
you feel about Stanton now? Because really Stanton is he
(35:04):
just doesn't like too.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Long thought May getting ready for Christmas season. It's a
long thawing process.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's like my dad had to pay out of his
pocket Stanton's salary and he's like, that's what he's mad about.
But anyway, that's where we are right now. The Yankees
get out of the inning, so it's a one run
game going to the eighth with the Yankees looking to
take a three games to one lead, seeing as the
Guardians were involved. It's too high, too high, too high
for home money. It was too high, big Christmas, too high.
(35:32):
But you know, we had the Tony Bennett story yesterday,
the Virginia head coach who retired abruptly yesterday, won the
national title back in twenty nineteen. Former college basketball Coach
of the Year hadn't won in the tournament in the
last few years, but was still one of the best
head coaches. His style of play was never a favorite
because he liked to slow it down and win games
(35:53):
fifty to forty nine. But defensively he was a wizard.
He was a great head coach. He's young, he's fifty five.
Why was he ever? And we hoped last night that
we were going to say, okay, we'll talk about it.
Today and he will say something along the lines of
I'm just not cut out, I'm burned out, I need
time away. And we saw the reason that he gave today.
He talked about how the NIL the translporter era is
(36:14):
not his thing. He says, I'm too old school, yeah,
and this is a new way that I just I
can't do it anymore. He quit like Devontae Adams. And
the thing is is, here's the thing is that I'm
glad that's what it was. I'm glad it's not anything
health wise or anything Else's family is all right. But wow, man,
I'm sorry, but you quit three weeks before the season starts,
(36:36):
when this is gonna be the last fun part right now?
He said, when I went away for fall break, there
was fall break. My wife and I went away, and
I realized the fire still wasn't there. Because he thought
about retiring at the end of last year, decided to
come back, right and there's video of him coaching the
Midnight Madness game and the scrimmage games and everything else.
But he goes away for a weekend and decides, Okay, no,
(36:59):
I'm going to retire right now. I understand that, I
understand the whole thing. But again, this should be the
fun part. You want one of your assistants to succeed you.
You could have made this your last year, right because
what I look at, what I think is this, Yes,
I believe that Tony Bennett. This is one hundred percent
what he was thinking. Boy, it's tough for me to
(37:19):
get through this. It's very, very difficult. And he looked
at his team this year and they're not ranked. I
think they're they're ranked like in the in the fifties,
and they're they're not predicted to do well. I wonder
if he saw his team this year and said, boy,
we're gonna get boat raced. I don't want this to
be my last year. People are gonna think I'm walking
away or I'm gonna get fired. I haven't won an
(37:39):
NCAA tournament game, so yeah, I'm gonna walk away now
then get drubbed over the next few months like this.
This timing is ridiculously bet because now all these young
your players get the portal. They can all hit the
portal now for thirty days. So now you're screwing the
team walking away like this. Now you want to think
the guys are gonna stay but you don't know. This
is a different era of college basketball where a guy
(37:59):
gets oh, yeah, you're leaving, coach. Well I'm leaving too,
but wait you're no, no, sorry, I'm leaving Like this
is this is really a This is a move that
I go, Wow, you walk down on your team. If
you can't do it anymore, do one more season? Do
it this year. You should have done it, should have
walked out, should have done it a few months ago,
but you didn't. So now staying on this season, help recruit,
help set things up, and then you walk away. But
(38:20):
I feel like he got a look at his team
and said, we're really not going to be any good.
Yeah I'm walking away now. I'm not going to put
a thirteen and twenty one season at the end of
my resume. I'm gonna walk away at least a little
bit higher than that.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Does that mean it would be a harder interview when
he suddenly has the fire to get back in the
game in a year or two's time, or maybe when
he drives to go to work at a desk he
thinks the last year on the resume isn't going to
look so good. All of that to say they're not
even in the others receiving votes. That's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
No, I think they're Yeah, I think I think they're
they're they're right somewhere in the fifties or sixties to
start the sex. That's a long tail, but it's the
timing of it. Right.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
You did all the nonsense in theory of any of
the complaints about the new way of doing college basketball,
the NIL all that. That doesn't mean they're not still
getting calls during the year whatever. But the coaching is
supposed to be the best part, right, like the other stuff.
I understand administrative and dealing with.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Hey, I just know you're still doing it season, but
still yeah, you're still doing during the season to a point,
but this is still the fun part. Three weeks before
the season, like you committed, like you got kids to commit,
You got your assistant coaches there, So now all of
a sudden, they're looking around going what the hell is happening.
You put everybody in a bad spot, and it's it's
just a terrible look. You want to quit because of
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the NIL and you don't like the new rules of engagement.
At least give the rest of the kids and your
your school a chance exit out about a Fresco exit
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