October 19, 2024 • 40 mins
The New York Yankees now have their own Bill Buckner play. The guys breakdown and tell you exactly how Jets/Steelers is going to go. And Jason really thinks his Mets have a good shot at beating the Dodgers in the NLCS.
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Baseball The Guardians just will not go away runner at second,
Nobody out, Mark Leider Junior in the game for the
Yankees and his second of relief. Let's just say Yankee
(01:03):
fans a tiny bit nervous as the Guardians trying to
push the tying run across the plate again bottom the
eighth Nobody out runner at second and the Yankees anticipating
the bunt because Anthony Rizzo was actually going through the
pockets of the home plate umpire waiting for the pitch
to come.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
He found some lint and a stick of gum, three
tops cards.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He's got nothing in here. Come on, throw the ball,
Come on, got nothing in, are nothing out. There's a
new baseball, new baseball. I got it right here. So again,
we'll keep you updated on this.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But boy, the Yankees just trying to hold on with
their fingernails for a three games away.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Crazy right now.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Man, the intensity I hear your phone keep going bleep bleep,
bleep bleep, all those Yankee fans gripping.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, my dad especially. But you think is awake, Oh,
absolutely awake for this? Yeah, you know. I actually I
talked him the other night. He's got the bed come
of like a seven year old. But he said, he said,
you know what, I will. I am up to the
end of games all the time. So he said, listen,
So if after a Yankee game or after a football game,
if you want me to come on and talk fantasy
(02:03):
or the Yankees if they stink. That's what he said
to me, talk fantasy or the Yankees if they stink.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'll be awake.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'm like, oh, okay, all right, So he did say that,
all right, yeah, but let me tell you this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You want to know who the.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Most cold blooded boss of the day is, I'll tell
you the most cold blooded boss of the day is
my wife, Pam.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So we watched the game today and you know, just
an incredible never say die moment for the Mets, who
you know, come into this. And we talked about last hour,
the back and forth, the chippiness of the game and
maybe what the Dodgers had said or done upset the Mets,
and the Mets then getting it back back at the
Dodgers or in the game, but after the game is over,
(02:45):
and you know, excise me a hugs, Oh congratulations.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
She's very excited for me.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
She goes, you got an early birthday present And I
said what, And I'm holding my dinner in my hand.
I'm like, dinner like early brother feels. We're going to
the game Sunday, I said, what, goes? I bought tickets
for the game Sunday And I said, and you said,
do you have to go? We're going to Game six?
I said, so we're going against I go, when did
you buy these tickets, you're the boss, cold blooded move.
(03:12):
She goes, I bought them after Alonzo's home run in
the first inning.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, the price went down. Yeah it was free, no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
But the price on the secondary market had depressed greatly.
The opportunity was there, and then Alonso but and then
all of a sudden, you know, you get the home
run and you see the market recorrect. The the Mets
carried that lead forward and Dave Roberts inexplicably let Flarity
come out again.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Good job by Pam anticipating the market.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, ticket, Yeah, I don't think Pam would have bought
top dec for you go ahead, two three.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's actually better than I saw earlier. Yeah, I think
it's around there. I think I think it's around something
like that. The birds.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
No, no, no, no, no no, I mean that when
she bought them, she bought them.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I think it was around there. But we're sitting with
kind of where we got.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
No, no, we bought him kind of where we sat
last time, which was behind the Mets dugout with all
the other Mets fans who were who were.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, so uh it was I think it was. I
think it was, like she said, total with everything was
like a little bit over five.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I think for everything. I think that's what it was
bought him in the game. Is she bought she bought him.
That's gonna hurt five?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Up?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Stop five? What what do you think five? I got
five on it? Five?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Five?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I'm just saying? Five is crazy? What do you think
it's five?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Though? Five? What?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Because you said she paid five for five thousand dollars? No,
five hundred thousand.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Five bans is crazy, but five hundred is crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Eth five hundred million dollars League championship game, League champion games?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Five hundred bucks is not unreasy championship game? Smoky? What
you're willing to pass a thousand dollars day?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Easy?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And I said, yeah, because we got hundred. It's also
five hundred for parking, so there is no forget about that.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
It's really five hundred thousand million.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think parking is No, parking is going to be
sixty bucks. I think that's gonna be parking for that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But I said, oh my god, she goes, ah, this
is but how often are you going to get to
do this?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
How often?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I said, you said that before the last game when
we when my dad and I went, But like, again,
when am I ever going to live at Angeles?
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, she and I are going. She and I are
going to go. Yeah, that's walt out. Yeah, well, my
dad we went to the last game. We went to
the last game.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
He doesn't mean he doesn't want to go again. I know.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But she bought she bought tickets for her. She really
want to watch you do that? Oh yeah, well, because
I look, I went to the her. She got a
chronicle it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know, I'm just gonna take video.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You turn that camera off a national personality.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Then we get a Ralph Wiga moment. This is where
his heart breaks.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Uh so yeah, no so and I was like, wow,
I can't believe she goes.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But yeah, I mean how often.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, look, World Series, are you ever going to
get to go? And I said no, probably not.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
She goes?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Okay, and NLCS unless they play out here, When are
you gonna get to go? I said no, you're right,
And I said, okay, okay, So that's pretty sweet.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
A lot of money to wear an al though, but
but buying them. After Alonzo's home run in the first inning,
I was like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
You found why he had someone who had decided, Hey,
you know what, why I get them done. I'll take
whatever profit I had on my my face value.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
M I was like, wow, you're you are cold blooded,
you are a baller. I was like, that was really something.
So I was like, I don't know what to say.
I'm like, oh, my goodness. And my first thought was,
how's my dad?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We went to the game last week, went to the
other It's it's fine, it's fine. You know, it's okay,
it's nighttime anyway, my dad will go to sleep early,
so yeah, it'll be okay.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He's he's definitely plotting to take Pam out. Oh yeah, yeah,
maybe so or me. Maybe it's me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Maybe suddenly he's gonna say, good point, Hey can you
come over and it'll hit me over the head with
a broom you might take.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, there's that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Come on, get in we're going to the game, grap
but what do you mean just get in the car
all right?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Real record scratch?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So uh so that I wanted to say, because that
was a that was a big ball every I'm just
thinking about that, going wow. Even when we bought tickets
for the Rose bull. He wait until after uh you
know the Hey, okay, they beat Ohio.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Say now let's get the tickets. Well, yeah, now we'll
get after the big ten seats.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, got plenty of opportunity, and you can do what
I I've done. And this is the old strategy for
big events like this, folks. Is uh, if weather could
potentially keep one or both teams from finding their way
to the destination, you know, like Midwest or East Coast
teams finding their way to the Rose Bowl, opportunity is
that a bunch of frat boys don't get out here
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and suddenly they're desperate for beer money. So they're selling
off the remnants of the ticket block that they bought.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And that's one to grow on.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Now, speaking of my dad, if I want I want
you to, I want well sit down because we got
to tell you what just happened.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And the Yankees in the Guardians game.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, uh as when when we last left the Yankees
and the Guardians. Guardians had runner at second, nobody out
Mark Lighter Junior on the mount a couple of batters
after runners at third. Fry is up right, Fry did
not hit a home run. I know you're thinking Fry
late innings home run. No, no, no, no, David Fried did
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not hit a home run. Wow, it's a really, it's
it's a very it's a it's if you're a Yankee fan,
you're gonna look at this play and you're gonna say,
oh my goodness, I never.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Want to see it again.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
If you hate the Yankees, you're gonna want to watch
it on a loo because you're gonna say, this is
this is the Yankee baseball right here. This is worse
than the base running. There's two outs and Fry is
up and it looks like the Yankees might get out
of it and Fry it's a little dribbler down the
first base line to Mark Lighter Junior. Mark Lighter Junior
(09:00):
grabs the ball as he's running towards the first base
line and he chucks it to Anthony Rizzo. Now it's
a really good play by Lighter, and it's it's a
I mean, it's it's gonna be a play where the
runners out by three steps. Right, the runners out by
three steps, Yankees are gonna go to the ninth with
(09:20):
a lead. The New York Yankees could potentially now have
their version of the Buckner play because Lighter tosses it
to Anthony Rizzo, and Rizzo puts his glove up like
he's expecting it to be high. And I don't know
why he.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Would do that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I think he's he's guarding the fact that here is
Fry running and he's gonna flip and it's gonna go
high and flip right. So he's got his glove up
at about shoulder level, expecting the ball that you know,
you just if you can envision the play with me.
Lighter's running to the first base line, he scoops it
and and just kind of turns to throw it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You're expecting that maybe the ball is.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Gonna go high, So he's got his glove about it
eye level, except Lighter has a little bit more control,
and the flip is right at Rizzo's mid section, belt high,
and the ball goes right between Rizzo's legs and I
don't mean on the ground, I mean it just misses
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his groin area, going between his legs. Rizzo can't get
the glove down in time, can't get the glove there
to catch it, and it goes between his legs right
by again right below the groin area, behind the bag
behind the grind, there comes the run and so as
a result, now instead of getting out of the inning
behind the grind, the Guardians tie the game at the
(10:43):
city behind the ground because it was behind the groin.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
And talked about this a slow rolling down the front
behind his grind and lets it go. You don't have
to celebrate it, but I gotta do it, like Scully called,
behind the bag.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
You've done.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, I've seen that and it's it's incredible and
I want to be the first person on Twitter to
a secondngratulations nankees. Now you have your Buckner play. Oh
but that's I think I'm last to that. No, no, no,
but but here the here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Four gold gloves in his career and he was a
finalist this year. Anthony Rizzo. For his career, Bill Buckner
was a nine to ninety one fielder. Yeah, yet that
is the play. He'll always be just saying that. You know,
everybody's got their one. Anthony Rizzo. There's your way.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I mean right between his legs, right belt high, right again,
right below the groin, right below the groin and the
athletic supporter area of your body. That's where the ball goes.
And so the Guardians tie it up. Now Lighter does
get out of the inning a bat or later. So
it is six ' six going to the ninth. But
now the Yankees have their buckner.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, the ball dropped. Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Like, what is it gonna take for you to send
that highlight to your dad right now with an laughing emoji.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Or that little hippo that everybody keeps sending memes on,
send him that just the giggles.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Why are there all these eggs all over the house. Well,
I decided to show up at your house while you
were gone. Oh yeah, now I was warming up in
the bullpen. Now I don't know that I can call him.
I don't know that I can call him now.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
You know what, no longer matters in your dad's eyes
or brain.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Stanton stands. Yeah that's a lifetime ago. Now, yeah, Dad,
how do you think about stand? Home run didn't matter?
We couldn't make it stand. If Judge hit the home run,
they would have made it stand up. They wouldn't have
they wouldn't have made that play of Judged hit the
home run. Rizzo would have caught it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I mean, it's stunning, I really and I I can't
I can't I can't express to you how stunningly bad
of a play this is by the Yankees, with it
going through Rizzo's legs. I really can't. It's it's crazy.
Now he did make up for it. He just singled
to lead off the ninth inning for the Yankees. I
believe he's coming out of the game for a pinch runner.
(12:54):
But wow, I mean it's stunningly bad. And the Yankees
have their bucket to play.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
There you have it.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
If it holds up behind the grind, you know, no,
it's still going to be a JYF forever. If Santa
comes behind the ground, well still behind the grind. Really,
it looks the hashtag behind the grin, hashtag behind the ground.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'll put that on Twitter. I bet you. I don't
think that that'll take off you. Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Coming up next? All right, we wanted to bring you
that bit of news here from this game. Absolutely incredible.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But coming up next, Yes, more baseball and maybe the
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Speaker 3 (13:30):
That's next.
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
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get to the new NFL Game of the Week in
a minute. But uh, maybe not quickly. Anthony Rizzo is
off the hook, you mean, behind the groin. He's not
gonna take take off for you.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Maybe not.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
When we last left you, the Yankees and the Guardians, a.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Really bad error by Anthony Rizzo allowed the Guardians to
tie the game in the bottom of the eighth. However,
he leads off the ninth with a single. He is
pinched run four. An Emmanuel Classe, who has been as
unhittable as a closer has been the last couple of
years and into this postseason, has giving up three it's
two runs as the Yankees taken eight to six lead
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over the Guardians in the ninth inning.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He is not head of the class. No, Hey, TJ
clearly inspector Class A. Bungling the ninth inning for the Guardians.
Big errors shortstop contributed to the second of the Yankee runs.
But right now it is an eight to six lead
for the Yankees. Two outs, runners at the corners in
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the top of the ninth inning and Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
At bat for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Wow, it really thought this is dovetailing into this is
gonna be a worse loss for the Yankees and last night.
But no, no, no, Instead we got the Yankees with
two and the ninth inning off of Class A.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
So far.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, just convergence of events. I mean, look, keep you
on the edge of your seats. Right Oftentimes you say
the guy that makes the great play, Hey, look he
comes up and that takes that momentum to the plate.
This is the exact opposite good piece of hitting. My
Rizzo shake it off first and third with Aaron Judge
coming up. The Guardian said, yeah, no, thank you. They
(16:12):
walk Aaron Judge intentionally to load the bases. So now
it's Jazz Chisholm facing Class a two run.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Lead for the Yankees. They're looking to go up three
to one in the ALCS. We'll have more on this game,
Steve de Saga will have more coming up in a
few minutes. But wow, what a reversal of fortune and
just a half inning for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
They can personally, I'm telling you, man, that's again what
I said last night.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's so tough to watch the Yankees just play and
run the bases and feel like a bunch of drunks
to go my best John sterling and to see them, hey,
we're still gonna win this game. We're gonna make really
bad mistakes and play really loose baseball and this guy
and we're still gonna win. It is so frustrating to
watch that happen.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Now, that particular play. Now, the base running has been
a deal all year. Anthony Rizzo again four time gold
Glover are. Yeah, it's right, qualified for the uh the
award this year.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Tun Uh, So we're gonna go to the bottom of
the ninth inning. Class gets out of the inning, chishom
grounds out to first. Uh the Guardians chasing two there,
Jack Torres to r uh huh suh. The game of
the week in the NFL up until this point had
really been the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers, right
(17:28):
super Bowl rematch her We're going to see, But very
quickly the Jets and the Steelers just saying.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Ah ah, we're gonna be the game of the week. Yes,
you have the drama of DeVante Adams, who is gonna
make his debut for the Jets. The Jets say he's
looked great since they got him. Uh what hamstring injury
for Divide?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He never had a hamstring injury.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
They say, he looks really, really good.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And now potentially the cat has been let out of
the bag for who's gonna play quarterback for the Steelers
on Sunday. Mike Tomlin has to be banging his head, going,
do I really have to deal with stuff like this
with my players every year? So, you know, all week
has been we don't know who's gonna start, right, Is
it Justin Field, is it Russell Wilson. They're both practicing
with the ones, and you know, part of it is
(18:11):
gamesman ships, so the Jets have to practice and plan
for both players.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you know that they.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Wouldn't be doing this if they didn't really think Russell
Wilson was going to start. Mike Tomlin's not going to
go down this road with the guy that he obviously
has an itch to see scratch and some reason we
have to see Russell Wilson play. I don't know why
you're doing it when you're four and two and Justin
Fields is playing somewhat well and he's just started getting reps.
He said, you're winning your four and two Justin Fields
(18:37):
is ten touchdowns, one turnover. Everything is okay. No, you're
not at the top offensively, but when are you ever
at the top offensively? You're playing well, he's running the
ball well, he's making some good throws. Yes, some throws
are something left to be desired, but you're winning. But no, no,
we got to get Russell Wilson out there.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Whether it's a promise to Russell Wilson, I don't know
what it is, but he's met the obvious.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Itch to scratch is out there. But still we didn't
know until this afternoon when the Steelers did their normal
uh post practice Friday press conference. Every microphones into the
locker room about stuff, and they asked George Pickens. Reporters asked,
George Pickens, Steelers wide receiver. Uh, hey, what's it like
playing with Russell Wilson, you know, because he's getting rapped
(19:19):
with the ones first time you see him, and wise, Oh,
it's important for us to get on the same page,
you know, russ is you know, he's looking good, he's
been practicing it. But but it's good for us to
get on the same page, you know, considering he's starting Sunday.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, well wait, talking about throwing with him after workouts
after what Wait, so he's starting.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So of course Steeler reporters run to the Mike Tomlin
press conference after saying, hey, dude, George Pickens just said
and told us that Russell's starting on Sunday, And you know,
in his head, Mike Thomas going, I am gonna kill
that dude. I am gonna just kill him until he's dead,
and then I'm gonna kill him again. And then when
I think he's down, I'm gonna kill him again. I'm
gonna kill this guy. I can't get him to practice
(19:55):
and run hard. I can't get him to play hard
on the field. I can't get him to run off
the line of scrimmage hard. And now he's ruining. Any's
surprised we have a quarterback. I'm gonna kill him, and
I'm gonna kill him dead. But instead, Mike Tomlin said,
says the media, Hey haven't made my decision yet.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We're still waiting to figure this out.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You just had one of those full moments where the
person staring blankly and in their head, yeah, I'm kidding killed.
Then it goes back to stowing from Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I would have been you know what I would I
would have said, you know, can you give me one second?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Sure, and I'd turn away from Mike and I would
go by getting bye, Okay, ask ask your question again.
Mike is Russell Wilson starting Sunday. We haven't made that
decision yet. We are gonna continue that. We'll get that
closer to game time.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I want to give you a sit down with Tomlin
at some point. All right, good to see a coach.
Let me ask you a question about the you know,
construction of a roster of the way football was played,
if you could, would you abolish the wide receiver position
given the way that's gone for you?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And just I just have a question from the single
wing offense. And that's all. It is. No why some
of the characters that have come through your locker room.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
George Pickens, who you had to say a couple of
weeks ago you called it a uh snap count management
or something like that to try to push aside any
controversy about his effort, and.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Then you get this, Oh yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
His first start. Let's go yeah, yeah, who said that?
Who told you? I don't want to tell you, tell
me who told you that? I'm gonna see that. I
don't want to see it on X. I don't want to.
I want to tell you. You're gonna tell me if
you want access to you tell.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Me you don't like those meals we serve at the hall.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
George Pickens, Okay, all right, I gotta I gotta imagine
the reporter just went, you know, and that's all he
would add to say.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know, George, you already know.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Who do you think was sorry, was it Pickens? Was
Was it Pickens? I don't want to say it was Antonio.
I'm saying he was Pickts. Let me know, you gotta
tell me what's Pickens? You gotta tell me. Uh Now, look,
let's look because now suddenly this game takes on extra
importance with it being Demante adams first game. Now likely
again according to head coach George Pickens, this will be
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Russell Wilson's first.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Start thirty eight and a half into total, Jets a
two point favorite.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Now before I picked this game, I'll tell you this
because I have good news for Justin Fields all week.
Look for the last couple of months, I've told you
and and I think everybody knows Field is a better quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Right. Albert Breer had a.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Bit today, I think he was on with Dan Patrick
and he said that, Hey, there's lots of people in
the Steelers' locker room that don't want to see a
quarterback change. But for some reason, Tomlin is bent on this.
And I don't know why. This itch just scratches there
because I don't know what he thinks. Russell Wilson's going
to give the Steelers that Justin Fields does it. This
is not Russell Wilson looking in the back of his
football card. This is not Russell Wilson in twenty thirteen
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or twenty nineteen. This is Russell Wilson coming off an injury.
He hasn't played, he doesn't have the escapability. What do
you think he's gonna bring you that Justin Fields doesn't?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
I told you you gotta stick with the guy because
Justin Field is the better choice. But this is good
news for Justin Fields, because Russell Wilson's gonna start and
the Jets defense is gonna eat him alive, and then
he's gonna get that position back maybe middle of the
game or for the next game. Where boy, we put
Russell Wilson out there, he can't get away from anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
And you know that Justin Sorry, go back. This is
your team now, because that's exactly what's gonna happen. This
is not me Jets fan telling you. This is me knowing.
I know what the Jets defense is, I know what
they're gonna do. I know how they're gonna get after
Russell Wilson. And the fact that you want to say, well,
they don't have a sign Reddick, They're still getting after
the quarterback and this is still an elite defense. I
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don't know where he's gonna find the windows to throw
the football. I don't know how he's gonna be able
to throw the ball accurately. It is going to be
a Jets frenzy feeding frenzy on Russell Wilson, and they're
gonna see, oh wow, Okay, well, Russ, maybe maybe we
look at things again next week and we see who
can start this weekend. Don't tell anybody, I'm going back
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to Justin Fields. So the best news for Justin Fields
is he's probably a half or maybe one game from
getting back to being a starting quarterback.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I can understand where people want to try to fool
themselves into the Russell Wilson. We've talked about this the
entirety of the offseason and up into this week. You
can fool yourself into looking at his stats because if
you look at the back of the baseball card, football
card in this state that it looked good.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
The touchdown interception ratio is great, yardage was great. He
played terribly last year. He was immobile, he was indecisive.
He took a number of big sacks that absolutely murdered
anything they were trying to do of being on schedule offensively,
Why do you think they took the right down and
said forget it, we're done with this, and Sean Payton
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was like, all right, I want to move on from this.
It was terrible, as good as the statistics may have looked,
and it helped you out a couple of times for
fantasy if you had the guts to play him. But
that was foolhardy.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He got lucky.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You won in spite of yourself, you know, kind of
like the Yankees as you were arguing with their base
running and defensive plays. But for this, if you're trying
to say, all right, it's suddenly gonna unlock Pickens, it's
gonna unlock Friarmooth, all that stuff. Sure, wishing and hoping
is a strategy you can take. I don't think it's
wise against this particular defense. And that's the thing, right,
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you want to make this change, and you've decided that,
you know you're drawing the line in the sand because
once upon a time, Russell Wilson was QB one on
your depth chart, and all of that fun and excitement
I get. You can get yourself into that discussion. But
against the Jets, the way they get after it. To
your point, they don't have Reddick, they don't need him
right now, and they won't need him against this squad
right Their offensive line played for the Steelers has not
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been great, The run game has not been great, but
what has been the dynamism and the playmaking ability.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
With his legs of justin fields.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We could talk about the passing yard age and we
can do that with a number of quarterbacks. Right, he
just becomes the guy that everybody wants to hate. There
they're four and two. They're four and two, should be
five and one because the one of those losses was
certainly not on him. So you look at it where
you stand and the playmaking ability, you're running backs getting healthy,
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all of those things to say, you lose a huge
element of what has made your offense work to this point,
for Arthur Smith, by putting Russell Wilson in, what do
you think you're suddenly unleashing with a depleted Russell Wilson.
That's a decade ago, right, because I kept being it, Oh,
he's got to the Super super Bowl, medal, super Bowl, like,
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that's a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So Peyton Manning want to decade ago five yards.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I don't know if there was a promise or that that, hey,
I will sign with you, but I am the starting
quarterback when I'm at like some kind of paper where
I will sign with you, I will come here and everything,
but I am the starter as long as it for whatever,
and and and there's some kind of agreement, because it
doesn't make sense because you only change quarterbacks when you
have to, right and the other part of it that
I look, I know how that's gonna go. Defensively, I
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know they're gonna eat Russell Wilson alive and the Jets
are gonna win this game, and not not because I'm
always a believer of Boy, this looks like a trap game.
But is there any reason why the Jets should be
favored on the road at Pittsburgh in this game? There's
no reason. There's no reason. So what you're saying is
on a neutral field, the Jets to be five point
favorites over over the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Why is this a two point?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
People are gonna jump on the Steelers and the Jets
are gonna win like this?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
This looks like a track.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I don't always believe in that, but it's gonna be
Devonte adams debut.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
They're gonna use him.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
The Steelers are not gonna be able to look back
at a lot of tape and say this is what
the Jets like to do. There's only one game with
the new offense the Jets had. This is kind of
a it's not a do or die game, but this
is Hey, we've done everything we could built towards this game.
Short week, last week, new head coach, a lot of
new things. But here's Devonte Adams. Everybody's happy. We're in
a positive frame of mind. We should go win. We
are the more talented team and we should win. It's
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a very very big game for the Jets and they're
gonna come in. The defense is gonna dominate. I'm not
thinking there's not gonna be a lot of points. I'm
definitely taking the under. It's gonna be one of those,
you know, twenty to thirteen kind of games. But this
is a game where the.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Jets win and the defense carries the way and it's boy,
it's gonna look real ugly for Russell Wilson. I will
say this, this is the one, the one thing about
this game that is really going to be interesting to
watch is how the offensive line and the rhythm of
the Jets offense works, because that defensive line for Pittsburgh
will own own your offensive line. So you want to
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talk about one to one thousand and two to one thousand,
get the ball out. That's what we're gonna see. A
lot of which goes back to where the Jets have
been operating a bunch. So I can't wait to see
what kind of wrinkles that they try to put in
because TJ. Watt is the guy featured out all the
promos again knowing that they were gonna have quarterback issues.
By the way, Russell Wilson's been a lot more active
on social media in the last ten days.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Did you notice that?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yeah, yeah, everything he's been doing appearances and being out
in the community and all that. All of a sudden
that kind of ratcheted up as well as if it
was a long lead into a movie exit out about
a Fresco exit Swellen Dome. That's how that game of
the week, Sunday Night Football, that's how that's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Mean.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, remember a few minutes ago and I said, boy,
it's tough watching the Yankees bungle their way and still
wind up winning and they're gonna go to the World Series.
Guardians put two on with nobody out in the bottom
of the ninth inning, down eight six to the Yankees.
They get a flyout, and with two outs, John Birdie
boots a ground ball to second base. However, he is
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able to pick it up and throw the runner out
at first. The Yankees taken eight six victory over the
Guardians and a three games to one lead in the ALCS.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Was that more cruel than the cameraman shot of Papa
NOA very cool.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It's all crowd.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
My dad had another heart attack watching Birdie boot that
ball but then pick it up with plenty of time
to throw the runner out at first. For more details
on this game and the rest of the day, it's
Steve Desager with what's trending?
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Has d so eight to six Yankees the final with
the two runs in the top of the ninth at Cleveland,
it's a three games to one.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Lead in the ALCS.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
The Guardians will host again in Saturday night's Game five.
Gen Carlos stand with a three run homer in the sixth.
The loss tonight to the best closer in baseball this year,
Emmanuel Classe. His era is ten this postseason. In fact, tonight,
yet again, he gives up at least three hits in
an outing, third time this postseason he's done that. He
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did not give up three hits or more in any
outing during the regular season.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, this game not really as class A as other
games were. When he's pitching in the postseason, he's like
school on Saturday, class Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
No class.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
If there's a game six, it'll be Monday, Yankee Stadium
in the NLCS. We know there's a game six back
in Los Angeles Sunday night. It'll be on FS one.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Again.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
The Dodgers lead in the series is three games to
two after the Mets pounded LA twelve to six today.
Mets led eight to one in the third inning, ten
to two in the fourth. The loss to Jack Flaherty
Pete Alonzo with a three run homer in the first.
Alonzo with four runs scored in this game. Dodger pitching
did not strike out a batter in the entire game.
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That's a postseason first. In the last twenty plus years,
LA's number nine hitter, Andy paj has hit two home runs.
He went three for four. Four RBIs Mookie Betts a
solo homer in the loss. Freddie Freeman, with the bad
ankle win zero for five. It is not a guarantee.
The Dodgers say that he will be starting the next game.
He's won for fifteen at the plate in his last
three games, and in fact, Freeman has one RBI this
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postseason and no extra base hits. The WNBA Finals will
conclude with a Game five of the best of five
Sunday in New York. Minnesota at home beat New York
with two late free throws tonight eighty two eighty, tying
up the series. Brianna Stewart of New York five of
twenty shooting from the floor, eleven points, eleven rebounds. The
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NBA preseason ends tonight. The regular season starts Tuesday. Three
NHL games. Winnipeg is four to oh after whipping San
Jose eight to three. Carolina a four to one winner
at Pittsburgh, and the Ducks have tied the late game.
It's three to three in the final seconds regulation at Colorado.
The Cleveland Browns running back from last year's knee injuries
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to this year. He starts Sunday. Nick Chubb is back
ready to make his season debut. Cleveland running back Jerome
Ford out this weekend with a hamstring injury. Bill's running
back James Cook will play Sunday after a tow injury.
It's a final in college football. Number two Oregon now
seven to zero wins at Purdue thirty five nothing, Duke
over Florida State twenty three to sixteen. The Seminoles committed
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turnovers on three straight in the first half, including a
pick six. There are two late night games in college football,
late first half at thirteenth ranked BYU Cougar's tied with
Oklahoma State fourteen fourteen, and late first half Fresno State
leads at Nevada seventeen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the
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Speaker 3 (33:21):
We'll have more football coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
We'll give you our picks to some of our other
big games this weekend in both college and the pros.
But straight ahead, Wow, there is one word you can
use to describe everything we've seen so far. In the
baseball playoffs, the Mets extend the series. The Yankees are
one game away from going to the series. What's that word?
We'll tell you next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, and boy, we to see a thriller
and not the Metsman of the Dodge as well.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
More on that.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
The Yankees hold off the Guardians eight to six. The
Yankees make base running errors they feel horrendously, but they're
able to hold on and win because they beat a
manual class A, the best closer in baseball the last
couple of years, his second meltdown outing in this series
and seeing both nlcs and alcs. Now the Mets have
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sent the series back.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
To La m h.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
The Yankees are going to go for the closer on Saturday.
Just had to put the word closer for the closer.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
He's just like waving your middle finger at clause right.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I mean, it's come on, there's As the playoffs unfold,
there gets to be a lot of questions. Boy, why
suddenly our bullpen was so good and now it's getting hit.
Class A has been so good and now he's getting hit.
There is one word at the heart of each of
the these series and the playoffs in general. Once you
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get to a seven game series, and the word is familiarity.
In a short series, you only see relievers once or twice.
It's not a series where hey, all right, you see
guys a ton hey. In a three game series, you
probably see relievers once. If it's a really good reliever,
maybe you see him twice. But you get to a
seven game series, and with the amount of times the
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bullpen is used, you see guys four times in a series.
And the more you see relievers over a series. In
a baseball playoff round, the advantage goes to the team
that swing in the bats, because there's a reason why
these guys are relievers and they're not starting pitchers. The
reason why they're not closers and they're not starting pitchers
because they're there because hey, I can get a few
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outs for a very short amount of time. But when
you start seeing these guys four times in a series,
guess what you are locked in. Sure, it's why I
feel great about the Mets, ah, but the Dodgers bullpen.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
It's a bullpen game. And guys. Okay, yeah, bullpen is
one thing. Dodgers bullpen is really really good.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
But now you're talking about Game six, the Mets are
be seeing these guys are the third and fourth time.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That's a big advantage.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, Freddy Freeman may not play it, it does help.
Dave Robert said he's gonna have a conversation with him tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But the Mets are now very special conversation.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Now you say, okay, wait a minute, but the Mets
bullpen is bet Yes, Mets bullpen is bad. I'm not
saying it's not. But the Mets have starting pitchers now
for the last two games that potentially are gonna go
longer than what the Dodgers are gonna have, which is
gonna be a bullpen game and walker builder. So now
the Mets are seeing these Dodger are relievers third and
fourth time in the series. Doesn't matter how good you are. Hey,
we're locked in. We know what you're throwing, right. So
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that's why I feel great about the Mets, And the
same thing for the Yankees is that they obviously feel
great the amount of times they have seen Clause he
blows the game the other night. You get Judge and
so do the big three guys in the lineup. Just
mash the ball off of him, and he gives it
up tonight as well. They obviously feel good against him.
They've seen him a lot. Clause A pitch a lot
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against the Tigers, pitching four games there had a couple
of really bad games in mixed in with a couple
of games that he closed out. But when you're a closer,
you're expecting, hey, we're gonna save the game nine out
of ten times, not one out of two times. Which
is why I say Edwin Diaz is the lamar Odom
of closers. Every other game he's good, but it gets
this way in the playoffs, and so class A now
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has become that guy where you bring him in.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
He's not automatic.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's this might be a night he doesn't have it,
and we know what he throws, and we like what
he throws, and we feel comfortable up there against him.
They felt comfortable in game one, They felt comfortable here,
and they beat him again.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
When you beat a team's best closer, you beat their closer.
Who is who is the best closer in the game.
That's a big mental hurdle that it's tough to come
back from lose a game in the ninth tenth inning
walk off home. Look, the Yankees come found a way
to win today after the most heartbreaking of losses they
had the other night. But when you are.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Familiar with the other team's bullpen, you are going to
get better licks. As a season goes on, and as
the series goes on, and the deeper you get, the
more advantage goes to those teams. That's why the Mets
are in it against the Dodgers and why the Yankees
are one game away from the series.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Well, we start to see the equaling out of all
the algorithms, all of the back door planning of how
you're going to pitch players as well, Right, and so
you know, what are their trends and the analysis and
all that data comes to bear here in these situations.
And yeah, and a seven game series, especially when games
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are contested, you know, in this series where they are
in the Dodgers series. Every once in a while, we've
seen it with the Mets where it's like, all right,
it's an anxious moment and then it dissipates and we
continue on our path towards blowouts. But for here, yeah,
high leverage situations and like the human emotion comes in
recent history, and as much as you think your closer
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has the memory of a cornerback to Mix sports for
a moment of Hey, I got I gotta go back
and I got.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
To make the next play. Right, that's I just got.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Burned for a fifty yard touchdown, pa, or I got
called for passing ifear it doesn't matter. You gotta line
up against a cross against the guy the next time out.
Same thing with the closer. But we see that carryover effect,
especially if there's a pitch that you're seeing in the
sequencing that isn't having the same pop, the same break.
I mean, you saw it with the Mets against Flaherty. Right,
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he owned them the first time they saw him in
the series. Come back today, bat on the shoulder, all right,
come to me. Oh wait, his velocity is also down
three miles an hour advantage us. Right, So play the
waiting game. Not that you get that same kind of
luxury with a closer, but familiarity, big moments, big opportunities,
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everybody clenching a little bit because it's a one run game. Yeah,
you add a bunch of variables that create chaos.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
No, I mean familiarity.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
I don't know where you thought I was gonna say,
but when you are familiar with that bullpen, the longer
it goes man, the more advantage goes to the en.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Think about all the dopey Thursday night football games that
you lamented years about. In division, it always takes something
special to walk away with a W because of familiarity.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
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Baseball The Guardians just will not go away runner at second,
Nobody out, Mark Leider Junior in the game for the
Yankees and his second of relief. Let's just say Yankee
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fans a tiny bit nervous as the Guardians trying to
push the tying run across the plate again bottom the
eighth Nobody out runner at second and the Yankees anticipating
the bunt because Anthony Rizzo was actually going through the
pockets of the home plate umpire waiting for the pitch
to come.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
He found some lint and a stick of gum, three
tops cards.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He's got nothing in here. Come on, throw the ball,
Come on, got nothing in, are nothing out. There's a
new baseball, new baseball. I got it right here. So again,
we'll keep you updated on this.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But boy, the Yankees just trying to hold on with
their fingernails for a three games away.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Crazy right now.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Man, the intensity I hear your phone keep going bleep bleep,
bleep bleep, all those Yankee fans gripping.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, my dad especially. But you think is awake, Oh,
absolutely awake for this? Yeah, you know. I actually I
talked him the other night. He's got the bed come
of like a seven year old. But he said, he said,
you know what, I will. I am up to the
end of games all the time. So he said, listen,
So if after a Yankee game or after a football game,
if you want me to come on and talk fantasy
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or the Yankees if they stink. That's what he said
to me, talk fantasy or the Yankees if they stink.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'll be awake.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'm like, oh, okay, all right, So he did say that,
all right, yeah, but let me tell you this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You want to know who the.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Most cold blooded boss of the day is, I'll tell
you the most cold blooded boss of the day is
my wife, Pam.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So we watched the game today and you know, just
an incredible never say die moment for the Mets, who
you know, come into this. And we talked about last hour,
the back and forth, the chippiness of the game and
maybe what the Dodgers had said or done upset the Mets,
and the Mets then getting it back back at the
Dodgers or in the game, but after the game is over,
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and you know, excise me a hugs, Oh congratulations.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
She's very excited for me.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
She goes, you got an early birthday present And I
said what, And I'm holding my dinner in my hand.
I'm like, dinner like early brother feels. We're going to
the game Sunday, I said, what, goes? I bought tickets
for the game Sunday And I said, and you said,
do you have to go? We're going to Game six?
I said, so we're going against I go, when did
you buy these tickets, you're the boss, cold blooded move.
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She goes, I bought them after Alonzo's home run in
the first inning.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, the price went down. Yeah it was free, no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
But the price on the secondary market had depressed greatly.
The opportunity was there, and then Alonso but and then
all of a sudden, you know, you get the home
run and you see the market recorrect. The the Mets
carried that lead forward and Dave Roberts inexplicably let Flarity
come out again.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Good job by Pam anticipating the market.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, ticket, Yeah, I don't think Pam would have bought
top dec for you go ahead, two three.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's actually better than I saw earlier. Yeah, I think
it's around there. I think I think it's around something
like that. The birds.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
No, no, no, no, no no, I mean that when
she bought them, she bought them.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I think it was around there. But we're sitting with
kind of where we got.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
No, no, we bought him kind of where we sat
last time, which was behind the Mets dugout with all
the other Mets fans who were who were.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, so uh it was I think it was. I
think it was, like she said, total with everything was
like a little bit over five.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I think for everything. I think that's what it was
bought him in the game. Is she bought she bought him.
That's gonna hurt five?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Up?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Stop five? What what do you think five? I got
five on it? Five?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Five?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I'm just saying? Five is crazy? What do you think
it's five?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Though? Five? What?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Because you said she paid five for five thousand dollars? No,
five hundred thousand.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Five bans is crazy, but five hundred is crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Eth five hundred million dollars League championship game, League champion games?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Five hundred bucks is not unreasy championship game? Smoky? What
you're willing to pass a thousand dollars day?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Easy?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And I said, yeah, because we got hundred. It's also
five hundred for parking, so there is no forget about that.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
It's really five hundred thousand million.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think parking is No, parking is going to be
sixty bucks. I think that's gonna be parking for that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But I said, oh my god, she goes, ah, this
is but how often are you going to get to
do this?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
How often?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I said, you said that before the last game when
we when my dad and I went, But like, again,
when am I ever going to live at Angeles?
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, she and I are going. She and I are
going to go. Yeah, that's walt out. Yeah, well, my
dad we went to the last game. We went to
the last game.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
He doesn't mean he doesn't want to go again. I know.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But she bought she bought tickets for her. She really
want to watch you do that? Oh yeah, well, because
I look, I went to the her. She got a
chronicle it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know, I'm just gonna take video.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You turn that camera off a national personality.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Then we get a Ralph Wiga moment. This is where
his heart breaks.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Uh so yeah, no so and I was like, wow,
I can't believe she goes.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But yeah, I mean how often.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, look, World Series, are you ever going to
get to go? And I said no, probably not.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
She goes?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Okay, and NLCS unless they play out here, When are
you gonna get to go? I said no, you're right,
And I said, okay, okay, So that's pretty sweet.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
A lot of money to wear an al though, but
but buying them. After Alonzo's home run in the first inning,
I was like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
You found why he had someone who had decided, Hey,
you know what, why I get them done. I'll take
whatever profit I had on my my face value.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
M I was like, wow, you're you are cold blooded,
you are a baller. I was like, that was really something.
So I was like, I don't know what to say.
I'm like, oh, my goodness. And my first thought was,
how's my dad?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We went to the game last week, went to the
other It's it's fine, it's fine. You know, it's okay,
it's nighttime anyway, my dad will go to sleep early,
so yeah, it'll be okay.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He's he's definitely plotting to take Pam out. Oh yeah, yeah,
maybe so or me. Maybe it's me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Maybe suddenly he's gonna say, good point, Hey can you
come over and it'll hit me over the head with
a broom you might take.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, there's that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Come on, get in we're going to the game, grap
but what do you mean just get in the car
all right?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Real record scratch?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So uh so that I wanted to say, because that
was a that was a big ball every I'm just
thinking about that, going wow. Even when we bought tickets
for the Rose bull. He wait until after uh you
know the Hey, okay, they beat Ohio.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Say now let's get the tickets. Well, yeah, now we'll
get after the big ten seats.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, got plenty of opportunity, and you can do what
I I've done. And this is the old strategy for
big events like this, folks. Is uh, if weather could
potentially keep one or both teams from finding their way
to the destination, you know, like Midwest or East Coast
teams finding their way to the Rose Bowl, opportunity is
that a bunch of frat boys don't get out here
(07:46):
and suddenly they're desperate for beer money. So they're selling
off the remnants of the ticket block that they bought.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And that's one to grow on.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Now, speaking of my dad, if I want I want
you to, I want well sit down because we got
to tell you what just happened.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And the Yankees in the Guardians game.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, uh as when when we last left the Yankees
and the Guardians. Guardians had runner at second, nobody out
Mark Lighter Junior on the mount a couple of batters
after runners at third. Fry is up right, Fry did
not hit a home run. I know you're thinking Fry
late innings home run. No, no, no, no, David Fried did
(08:26):
not hit a home run. Wow, it's a really, it's
it's a very it's a it's if you're a Yankee fan,
you're gonna look at this play and you're gonna say,
oh my goodness, I never.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Want to see it again.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
If you hate the Yankees, you're gonna want to watch
it on a loo because you're gonna say, this is
this is the Yankee baseball right here. This is worse
than the base running. There's two outs and Fry is
up and it looks like the Yankees might get out
of it and Fry it's a little dribbler down the
first base line to Mark Lighter Junior. Mark Lighter Junior
(09:00):
grabs the ball as he's running towards the first base
line and he chucks it to Anthony Rizzo. Now it's
a really good play by Lighter, and it's it's a
I mean, it's it's gonna be a play where the
runners out by three steps. Right, the runners out by
three steps, Yankees are gonna go to the ninth with
(09:20):
a lead. The New York Yankees could potentially now have
their version of the Buckner play because Lighter tosses it
to Anthony Rizzo, and Rizzo puts his glove up like
he's expecting it to be high. And I don't know
why he.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Would do that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I think he's he's guarding the fact that here is
Fry running and he's gonna flip and it's gonna go
high and flip right. So he's got his glove up
at about shoulder level, expecting the ball that you know,
you just if you can envision the play with me.
Lighter's running to the first base line, he scoops it
and and just kind of turns to throw it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You're expecting that maybe the ball is.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Gonna go high, So he's got his glove about it
eye level, except Lighter has a little bit more control,
and the flip is right at Rizzo's mid section, belt high,
and the ball goes right between Rizzo's legs and I
don't mean on the ground, I mean it just misses
(10:19):
his groin area, going between his legs. Rizzo can't get
the glove down in time, can't get the glove there
to catch it, and it goes between his legs right
by again right below the groin area, behind the bag
behind the grind, there comes the run and so as
a result, now instead of getting out of the inning
behind the grind, the Guardians tie the game at the
(10:43):
city behind the ground because it was behind the groin.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
And talked about this a slow rolling down the front
behind his grind and lets it go. You don't have
to celebrate it, but I gotta do it, like Scully called,
behind the bag.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
You've done.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, I've seen that and it's it's incredible and
I want to be the first person on Twitter to
a secondngratulations nankees. Now you have your Buckner play. Oh
but that's I think I'm last to that. No, no, no,
but but here the here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Four gold gloves in his career and he was a
finalist this year. Anthony Rizzo. For his career, Bill Buckner
was a nine to ninety one fielder. Yeah, yet that
is the play. He'll always be just saying that. You know,
everybody's got their one. Anthony Rizzo. There's your way.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I mean right between his legs, right belt high, right again,
right below the groin, right below the groin and the
athletic supporter area of your body. That's where the ball goes.
And so the Guardians tie it up. Now Lighter does
get out of the inning a bat or later. So
it is six ' six going to the ninth. But
now the Yankees have their buckner.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, the ball dropped. Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Like, what is it gonna take for you to send
that highlight to your dad right now with an laughing emoji.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Or that little hippo that everybody keeps sending memes on,
send him that just the giggles.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Why are there all these eggs all over the house. Well,
I decided to show up at your house while you
were gone. Oh yeah, now I was warming up in
the bullpen. Now I don't know that I can call him.
I don't know that I can call him now.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
You know what, no longer matters in your dad's eyes
or brain.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Stanton stands. Yeah that's a lifetime ago. Now, yeah, Dad,
how do you think about stand? Home run didn't matter?
We couldn't make it stand. If Judge hit the home run,
they would have made it stand up. They wouldn't have
they wouldn't have made that play of Judged hit the
home run. Rizzo would have caught it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I mean, it's stunning, I really and I I can't
I can't I can't express to you how stunningly bad
of a play this is by the Yankees, with it
going through Rizzo's legs. I really can't. It's it's crazy.
Now he did make up for it. He just singled
to lead off the ninth inning for the Yankees. I
believe he's coming out of the game for a pinch runner.
(12:54):
But wow, I mean it's stunningly bad. And the Yankees
have their bucket to play.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
There you have it.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
If it holds up behind the grind, you know, no,
it's still going to be a JYF forever. If Santa
comes behind the ground, well still behind the grind. Really,
it looks the hashtag behind the grin, hashtag behind the ground.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'll put that on Twitter. I bet you. I don't
think that that'll take off you. Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Coming up next? All right, we wanted to bring you
that bit of news here from this game. Absolutely incredible.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But coming up next, Yes, more baseball and maybe the
best game of the week in the NFL has changed.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That's next.
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire Rack dot com studios. And we'll
get to the new NFL Game of the Week in
a minute. But uh, maybe not quickly. Anthony Rizzo is
off the hook, you mean, behind the groin. He's not
gonna take take off for you.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Maybe not.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
When we last left you, the Yankees and the Guardians, a.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Really bad error by Anthony Rizzo allowed the Guardians to
tie the game in the bottom of the eighth. However,
he leads off the ninth with a single. He is
pinched run four. An Emmanuel Classe, who has been as
unhittable as a closer has been the last couple of
years and into this postseason, has giving up three it's
two runs as the Yankees taken eight to six lead
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over the Guardians in the ninth inning.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He is not head of the class. No, Hey, TJ
clearly inspector Class A. Bungling the ninth inning for the Guardians.
Big errors shortstop contributed to the second of the Yankee runs.
But right now it is an eight to six lead
for the Yankees. Two outs, runners at the corners in
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the top of the ninth inning and Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
At bat for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Wow, it really thought this is dovetailing into this is
gonna be a worse loss for the Yankees and last night.
But no, no, no, Instead we got the Yankees with
two and the ninth inning off of Class A.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
So far.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, just convergence of events. I mean, look, keep you
on the edge of your seats. Right Oftentimes you say
the guy that makes the great play, Hey, look he
comes up and that takes that momentum to the plate.
This is the exact opposite good piece of hitting. My
Rizzo shake it off first and third with Aaron Judge
coming up. The Guardian said, yeah, no, thank you. They
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walk Aaron Judge intentionally to load the bases. So now
it's Jazz Chisholm facing Class a two run.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Lead for the Yankees. They're looking to go up three
to one in the ALCS. We'll have more on this game,
Steve de Saga will have more coming up in a
few minutes. But wow, what a reversal of fortune and
just a half inning for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
They can personally, I'm telling you, man, that's again what
I said last night.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's so tough to watch the Yankees just play and
run the bases and feel like a bunch of drunks
to go my best John sterling and to see them, hey,
we're still gonna win this game. We're gonna make really
bad mistakes and play really loose baseball and this guy
and we're still gonna win. It is so frustrating to
watch that happen.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Now, that particular play. Now, the base running has been
a deal all year. Anthony Rizzo again four time gold
Glover are. Yeah, it's right, qualified for the uh the
award this year.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Tun Uh, So we're gonna go to the bottom of
the ninth inning. Class gets out of the inning, chishom
grounds out to first. Uh the Guardians chasing two there,
Jack Torres to r uh huh suh. The game of
the week in the NFL up until this point had
really been the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers, right
(17:28):
super Bowl rematch her We're going to see, But very
quickly the Jets and the Steelers just saying.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Ah ah, we're gonna be the game of the week. Yes,
you have the drama of DeVante Adams, who is gonna
make his debut for the Jets. The Jets say he's
looked great since they got him. Uh what hamstring injury
for Divide?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He never had a hamstring injury.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
They say, he looks really, really good.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And now potentially the cat has been let out of
the bag for who's gonna play quarterback for the Steelers
on Sunday. Mike Tomlin has to be banging his head, going,
do I really have to deal with stuff like this
with my players every year? So, you know, all week
has been we don't know who's gonna start, right, Is
it Justin Field, is it Russell Wilson. They're both practicing
with the ones, and you know, part of it is
(18:11):
gamesman ships, so the Jets have to practice and plan
for both players.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you know that they.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Wouldn't be doing this if they didn't really think Russell
Wilson was going to start. Mike Tomlin's not going to
go down this road with the guy that he obviously
has an itch to see scratch and some reason we
have to see Russell Wilson play. I don't know why
you're doing it when you're four and two and Justin
Fields is playing somewhat well and he's just started getting reps.
He said, you're winning your four and two Justin Fields
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is ten touchdowns, one turnover. Everything is okay. No, you're
not at the top offensively, but when are you ever
at the top offensively? You're playing well, he's running the
ball well, he's making some good throws. Yes, some throws
are something left to be desired, but you're winning. But no, no,
we got to get Russell Wilson out there.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Whether it's a promise to Russell Wilson, I don't know
what it is, but he's met the obvious.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Itch to scratch is out there. But still we didn't
know until this afternoon when the Steelers did their normal
uh post practice Friday press conference. Every microphones into the
locker room about stuff, and they asked George Pickens. Reporters asked,
George Pickens, Steelers wide receiver. Uh, hey, what's it like
playing with Russell Wilson, you know, because he's getting rapped
(19:19):
with the ones first time you see him, and wise, Oh,
it's important for us to get on the same page,
you know, russ is you know, he's looking good, he's
been practicing it. But but it's good for us to
get on the same page, you know, considering he's starting Sunday.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, well wait, talking about throwing with him after workouts
after what Wait, so he's starting.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So of course Steeler reporters run to the Mike Tomlin
press conference after saying, hey, dude, George Pickens just said
and told us that Russell's starting on Sunday, And you know,
in his head, Mike Thomas going, I am gonna kill
that dude. I am gonna just kill him until he's dead,
and then I'm gonna kill him again. And then when
I think he's down, I'm gonna kill him again. I'm
gonna kill this guy. I can't get him to practice
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and run hard. I can't get him to play hard
on the field. I can't get him to run off
the line of scrimmage hard. And now he's ruining. Any's
surprised we have a quarterback. I'm gonna kill him, and
I'm gonna kill him dead. But instead, Mike Tomlin said,
says the media, Hey haven't made my decision yet.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We're still waiting to figure this out.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You just had one of those full moments where the
person staring blankly and in their head, yeah, I'm kidding killed.
Then it goes back to stowing from Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I would have been you know what I would I
would have said, you know, can you give me one second?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Sure, and I'd turn away from Mike and I would
go by getting bye, Okay, ask ask your question again.
Mike is Russell Wilson starting Sunday. We haven't made that
decision yet. We are gonna continue that. We'll get that
closer to game time.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I want to give you a sit down with Tomlin
at some point. All right, good to see a coach.
Let me ask you a question about the you know,
construction of a roster of the way football was played,
if you could, would you abolish the wide receiver position
given the way that's gone for you?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And just I just have a question from the single
wing offense. And that's all. It is. No why some
of the characters that have come through your locker room.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
George Pickens, who you had to say a couple of
weeks ago you called it a uh snap count management
or something like that to try to push aside any
controversy about his effort, and.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Then you get this, Oh yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
His first start. Let's go yeah, yeah, who said that?
Who told you? I don't want to tell you, tell
me who told you that? I'm gonna see that. I
don't want to see it on X. I don't want to.
I want to tell you. You're gonna tell me if
you want access to you tell.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Me you don't like those meals we serve at the hall.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
George Pickens, Okay, all right, I gotta I gotta imagine
the reporter just went, you know, and that's all he
would add to say.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know, George, you already know.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Who do you think was sorry, was it Pickens? Was
Was it Pickens? I don't want to say it was Antonio.
I'm saying he was Pickts. Let me know, you gotta
tell me what's Pickens? You gotta tell me. Uh Now, look,
let's look because now suddenly this game takes on extra
importance with it being Demante adams first game. Now likely
again according to head coach George Pickens, this will be
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Russell Wilson's first.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Start thirty eight and a half into total, Jets a
two point favorite.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Now before I picked this game, I'll tell you this
because I have good news for Justin Fields all week.
Look for the last couple of months, I've told you
and and I think everybody knows Field is a better quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Right. Albert Breer had a.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Bit today, I think he was on with Dan Patrick
and he said that, Hey, there's lots of people in
the Steelers' locker room that don't want to see a
quarterback change. But for some reason, Tomlin is bent on this.
And I don't know why. This itch just scratches there
because I don't know what he thinks. Russell Wilson's going
to give the Steelers that Justin Fields does it. This
is not Russell Wilson looking in the back of his
football card. This is not Russell Wilson in twenty thirteen
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or twenty nineteen. This is Russell Wilson coming off an injury.
He hasn't played, he doesn't have the escapability. What do
you think he's gonna bring you that Justin Fields doesn't?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
I told you you gotta stick with the guy because
Justin Field is the better choice. But this is good
news for Justin Fields, because Russell Wilson's gonna start and
the Jets defense is gonna eat him alive, and then
he's gonna get that position back maybe middle of the
game or for the next game. Where boy, we put
Russell Wilson out there, he can't get away from anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
And you know that Justin Sorry, go back. This is
your team now, because that's exactly what's gonna happen. This
is not me Jets fan telling you. This is me knowing.
I know what the Jets defense is, I know what
they're gonna do. I know how they're gonna get after
Russell Wilson. And the fact that you want to say, well,
they don't have a sign Reddick, They're still getting after
the quarterback and this is still an elite defense. I
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don't know where he's gonna find the windows to throw
the football. I don't know how he's gonna be able
to throw the ball accurately. It is going to be
a Jets frenzy feeding frenzy on Russell Wilson, and they're
gonna see, oh wow, Okay, well, Russ, maybe maybe we
look at things again next week and we see who
can start this weekend. Don't tell anybody, I'm going back
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to Justin Fields. So the best news for Justin Fields
is he's probably a half or maybe one game from
getting back to being a starting quarterback.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I can understand where people want to try to fool
themselves into the Russell Wilson. We've talked about this the
entirety of the offseason and up into this week. You
can fool yourself into looking at his stats because if
you look at the back of the baseball card, football
card in this state that it looked good.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
The touchdown interception ratio is great, yardage was great. He
played terribly last year. He was immobile, he was indecisive.
He took a number of big sacks that absolutely murdered
anything they were trying to do of being on schedule offensively,
Why do you think they took the right down and
said forget it, we're done with this, and Sean Payton
(24:55):
was like, all right, I want to move on from this.
It was terrible, as good as the statistics may have looked,
and it helped you out a couple of times for
fantasy if you had the guts to play him. But
that was foolhardy.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He got lucky.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You won in spite of yourself, you know, kind of
like the Yankees as you were arguing with their base
running and defensive plays. But for this, if you're trying
to say, all right, it's suddenly gonna unlock Pickens, it's
gonna unlock Friarmooth, all that stuff. Sure, wishing and hoping
is a strategy you can take. I don't think it's
wise against this particular defense. And that's the thing, right,
(25:32):
you want to make this change, and you've decided that,
you know you're drawing the line in the sand because
once upon a time, Russell Wilson was QB one on
your depth chart, and all of that fun and excitement
I get. You can get yourself into that discussion. But
against the Jets, the way they get after it. To
your point, they don't have Reddick, they don't need him
right now, and they won't need him against this squad
right Their offensive line played for the Steelers has not
(25:55):
been great, The run game has not been great, but
what has been the dynamism and the playmaking ability.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
With his legs of justin fields.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We could talk about the passing yard age and we
can do that with a number of quarterbacks. Right, he
just becomes the guy that everybody wants to hate. There
they're four and two. They're four and two, should be
five and one because the one of those losses was
certainly not on him. So you look at it where
you stand and the playmaking ability, you're running backs getting healthy,
(26:24):
all of those things to say, you lose a huge
element of what has made your offense work to this point,
for Arthur Smith, by putting Russell Wilson in, what do
you think you're suddenly unleashing with a depleted Russell Wilson.
That's a decade ago, right, because I kept being it, Oh,
he's got to the Super super Bowl, medal, super Bowl, like,
(26:44):
that's a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So Peyton Manning want to decade ago five yards.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I don't know if there was a promise or that that, hey,
I will sign with you, but I am the starting
quarterback when I'm at like some kind of paper where
I will sign with you, I will come here and everything,
but I am the starter as long as it for whatever,
and and and there's some kind of agreement, because it
doesn't make sense because you only change quarterbacks when you
have to, right and the other part of it that
I look, I know how that's gonna go. Defensively, I
(27:12):
know they're gonna eat Russell Wilson alive and the Jets
are gonna win this game, and not not because I'm
always a believer of Boy, this looks like a trap game.
But is there any reason why the Jets should be
favored on the road at Pittsburgh in this game? There's
no reason. There's no reason. So what you're saying is
on a neutral field, the Jets to be five point
favorites over over the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Why is this a two point?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
People are gonna jump on the Steelers and the Jets
are gonna win like this?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
This looks like a track.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I don't always believe in that, but it's gonna be
Devonte adams debut.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
They're gonna use him.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
The Steelers are not gonna be able to look back
at a lot of tape and say this is what
the Jets like to do. There's only one game with
the new offense the Jets had. This is kind of
a it's not a do or die game, but this
is Hey, we've done everything we could built towards this game.
Short week, last week, new head coach, a lot of
new things. But here's Devonte Adams. Everybody's happy. We're in
a positive frame of mind. We should go win. We
are the more talented team and we should win. It's
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a very very big game for the Jets and they're
gonna come in. The defense is gonna dominate. I'm not
thinking there's not gonna be a lot of points. I'm
definitely taking the under. It's gonna be one of those,
you know, twenty to thirteen kind of games. But this
is a game where the.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Jets win and the defense carries the way and it's boy,
it's gonna look real ugly for Russell Wilson. I will
say this, this is the one, the one thing about
this game that is really going to be interesting to
watch is how the offensive line and the rhythm of
the Jets offense works, because that defensive line for Pittsburgh
will own own your offensive line. So you want to
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talk about one to one thousand and two to one thousand,
get the ball out. That's what we're gonna see. A
lot of which goes back to where the Jets have
been operating a bunch. So I can't wait to see
what kind of wrinkles that they try to put in
because TJ. Watt is the guy featured out all the
promos again knowing that they were gonna have quarterback issues.
By the way, Russell Wilson's been a lot more active
on social media in the last ten days.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Did you notice that?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yeah, yeah, everything he's been doing appearances and being out
in the community and all that. All of a sudden
that kind of ratcheted up as well as if it
was a long lead into a movie exit out about
a Fresco exit Swellen Dome. That's how that game of
the week, Sunday Night Football, that's how that's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Mean.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, remember a few minutes ago and I said, boy,
it's tough watching the Yankees bungle their way and still
wind up winning and they're gonna go to the World Series.
Guardians put two on with nobody out in the bottom
of the ninth inning, down eight six to the Yankees.
They get a flyout, and with two outs, John Birdie
boots a ground ball to second base. However, he is
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able to pick it up and throw the runner out
at first. The Yankees taken eight six victory over the
Guardians and a three games to one lead in the ALCS.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Was that more cruel than the cameraman shot of Papa
NOA very cool.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It's all crowd.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
My dad had another heart attack watching Birdie boot that
ball but then pick it up with plenty of time
to throw the runner out at first. For more details
on this game and the rest of the day, it's
Steve Desager with what's trending?
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Has d so eight to six Yankees the final with
the two runs in the top of the ninth at Cleveland,
it's a three games to one.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Lead in the ALCS.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
The Guardians will host again in Saturday night's Game five.
Gen Carlos stand with a three run homer in the sixth.
The loss tonight to the best closer in baseball this year,
Emmanuel Classe. His era is ten this postseason. In fact, tonight,
yet again, he gives up at least three hits in
an outing, third time this postseason he's done that. He
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did not give up three hits or more in any
outing during the regular season.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, this game not really as class A as other
games were. When he's pitching in the postseason, he's like
school on Saturday, class Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
No class.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
If there's a game six, it'll be Monday, Yankee Stadium
in the NLCS. We know there's a game six back
in Los Angeles Sunday night. It'll be on FS one.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Again.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
The Dodgers lead in the series is three games to
two after the Mets pounded LA twelve to six today.
Mets led eight to one in the third inning, ten
to two in the fourth. The loss to Jack Flaherty
Pete Alonzo with a three run homer in the first.
Alonzo with four runs scored in this game. Dodger pitching
did not strike out a batter in the entire game.
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That's a postseason first. In the last twenty plus years,
LA's number nine hitter, Andy paj has hit two home runs.
He went three for four. Four RBIs Mookie Betts a
solo homer in the loss. Freddie Freeman, with the bad
ankle win zero for five. It is not a guarantee.
The Dodgers say that he will be starting the next game.
He's won for fifteen at the plate in his last
three games, and in fact, Freeman has one RBI this
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postseason and no extra base hits. The WNBA Finals will
conclude with a Game five of the best of five
Sunday in New York. Minnesota at home beat New York
with two late free throws tonight eighty two eighty, tying
up the series. Brianna Stewart of New York five of
twenty shooting from the floor, eleven points, eleven rebounds. The
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NBA preseason ends tonight. The regular season starts Tuesday. Three
NHL games. Winnipeg is four to oh after whipping San
Jose eight to three. Carolina a four to one winner
at Pittsburgh, and the Ducks have tied the late game.
It's three to three in the final seconds regulation at Colorado.
The Cleveland Browns running back from last year's knee injuries
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to this year. He starts Sunday. Nick Chubb is back
ready to make his season debut. Cleveland running back Jerome
Ford out this weekend with a hamstring injury. Bill's running
back James Cook will play Sunday after a tow injury.
It's a final in college football. Number two Oregon now
seven to zero wins at Purdue thirty five nothing, Duke
over Florida State twenty three to sixteen. The Seminoles committed
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turnovers on three straight in the first half, including a
pick six. There are two late night games in college football,
late first half at thirteenth ranked BYU Cougar's tied with
Oklahoma State fourteen fourteen, and late first half Fresno State
leads at Nevada seventeen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the
tirach dot com studios.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
We'll have more football coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
We'll give you our picks to some of our other
big games this weekend in both college and the pros.
But straight ahead, Wow, there is one word you can
use to describe everything we've seen so far. In the
baseball playoffs, the Mets extend the series. The Yankees are
one game away from going to the series. What's that word?
We'll tell you next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
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Speaker 1 (33:54):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, and boy, we to see a thriller
and not the Metsman of the Dodge as well.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
More on that.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
The Yankees hold off the Guardians eight to six. The
Yankees make base running errors they feel horrendously, but they're
able to hold on and win because they beat a
manual class A, the best closer in baseball the last
couple of years, his second meltdown outing in this series
and seeing both nlcs and alcs. Now the Mets have
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sent the series back.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
To La m h.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
The Yankees are going to go for the closer on Saturday.
Just had to put the word closer for the closer.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
He's just like waving your middle finger at clause right.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I mean, it's come on, there's As the playoffs unfold,
there gets to be a lot of questions. Boy, why
suddenly our bullpen was so good and now it's getting hit.
Class A has been so good and now he's getting hit.
There is one word at the heart of each of
the these series and the playoffs in general. Once you
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get to a seven game series, and the word is familiarity.
In a short series, you only see relievers once or twice.
It's not a series where hey, all right, you see
guys a ton hey. In a three game series, you
probably see relievers once. If it's a really good reliever,
maybe you see him twice. But you get to a
seven game series, and with the amount of times the
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bullpen is used, you see guys four times in a series.
And the more you see relievers over a series. In
a baseball playoff round, the advantage goes to the team
that swing in the bats, because there's a reason why
these guys are relievers and they're not starting pitchers. The
reason why they're not closers and they're not starting pitchers
because they're there because hey, I can get a few
(35:46):
outs for a very short amount of time. But when
you start seeing these guys four times in a series,
guess what you are locked in. Sure, it's why I
feel great about the Mets, ah, but the Dodgers bullpen.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
It's a bullpen game. And guys. Okay, yeah, bullpen is
one thing. Dodgers bullpen is really really good.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
But now you're talking about Game six, the Mets are
be seeing these guys are the third and fourth time.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That's a big advantage.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, Freddy Freeman may not play it, it does help.
Dave Robert said he's gonna have a conversation with him tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But the Mets are now very special conversation.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Now you say, okay, wait a minute, but the Mets
bullpen is bet Yes, Mets bullpen is bad. I'm not
saying it's not. But the Mets have starting pitchers now
for the last two games that potentially are gonna go
longer than what the Dodgers are gonna have, which is
gonna be a bullpen game and walker builder. So now
the Mets are seeing these Dodger are relievers third and
fourth time in the series. Doesn't matter how good you are. Hey,
we're locked in. We know what you're throwing, right. So
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that's why I feel great about the Mets, And the
same thing for the Yankees is that they obviously feel
great the amount of times they have seen Clause he
blows the game the other night. You get Judge and
so do the big three guys in the lineup. Just
mash the ball off of him, and he gives it
up tonight as well. They obviously feel good against him.
They've seen him a lot. Clause A pitch a lot
(37:00):
against the Tigers, pitching four games there had a couple
of really bad games in mixed in with a couple
of games that he closed out. But when you're a closer,
you're expecting, hey, we're gonna save the game nine out
of ten times, not one out of two times. Which
is why I say Edwin Diaz is the lamar Odom
of closers. Every other game he's good, but it gets
this way in the playoffs, and so class A now
(37:21):
has become that guy where you bring him in.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
He's not automatic.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's this might be a night he doesn't have it,
and we know what he throws, and we like what
he throws, and we feel comfortable up there against him.
They felt comfortable in game one, They felt comfortable here,
and they beat him again.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
When you beat a team's best closer, you beat their closer.
Who is who is the best closer in the game.
That's a big mental hurdle that it's tough to come
back from lose a game in the ninth tenth inning
walk off home. Look, the Yankees come found a way
to win today after the most heartbreaking of losses they
had the other night. But when you are.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Familiar with the other team's bullpen, you are going to
get better licks. As a season goes on, and as
the series goes on, and the deeper you get, the
more advantage goes to those teams. That's why the Mets
are in it against the Dodgers and why the Yankees
are one game away from the series.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Well, we start to see the equaling out of all
the algorithms, all of the back door planning of how
you're going to pitch players as well, Right, and so
you know, what are their trends and the analysis and
all that data comes to bear here in these situations.
And yeah, and a seven game series, especially when games
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are contested, you know, in this series where they are
in the Dodgers series. Every once in a while, we've
seen it with the Mets where it's like, all right,
it's an anxious moment and then it dissipates and we
continue on our path towards blowouts. But for here, yeah,
high leverage situations and like the human emotion comes in
recent history, and as much as you think your closer
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has the memory of a cornerback to Mix sports for
a moment of Hey, I got I gotta go back
and I got.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
To make the next play. Right, that's I just got.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Burned for a fifty yard touchdown, pa, or I got
called for passing ifear it doesn't matter. You gotta line
up against a cross against the guy the next time out.
Same thing with the closer. But we see that carryover effect,
especially if there's a pitch that you're seeing in the
sequencing that isn't having the same pop, the same break.
I mean, you saw it with the Mets against Flaherty. Right,
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he owned them the first time they saw him in
the series. Come back today, bat on the shoulder, all right,
come to me. Oh wait, his velocity is also down
three miles an hour advantage us. Right, So play the
waiting game. Not that you get that same kind of
luxury with a closer, but familiarity, big moments, big opportunities,
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everybody clenching a little bit because it's a one run game. Yeah,
you add a bunch of variables that create chaos.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
No, I mean familiarity.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
I don't know where you thought I was gonna say,
but when you are familiar with that bullpen, the longer
it goes man, the more advantage goes to the en.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Think about all the dopey Thursday night football games that
you lamented years about. In division, it always takes something
special to walk away with a W because of familiarity.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Exit I bouta Fresca, exits falling down. Coming up next,
we get in to the biggest stories ahead in a
few hours.
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