Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason’s Mets send the NLCS back to Los Angeles for a Game 5. Our most trusted College Football Insider Pete Fiutak drops by to preview all the big Week 8 games. Pete also tells us if the Florida Seminoles have completely hit rock bottom. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the program for all things NLCS/ALCS.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no record scratch,
Let's have it. Yeah, body, yeah, buddy, freestyle coming. We
were down three games to one. No, keep it going
to show. The show is in here all the way.
The show is in here. You play that now where
you're all fired. You're fired, and you're fired, and you're

(00:54):
fired too, to Sager and you're fired to Harmon. No, no, no,
the show is in here. On the show. You want
to play the song from a team that lost today,
that lost today, No, no, give me that I was freestyling.
Give it back, give it back right now, or I'll
fire every one of you, every single one of you, fired, fired, fired, fired,
all of you. I just need right here, just keep

(01:15):
the microphone on. It's all I need. Fire all of you,
everybody here, even everybody editing in the back. Fire all
of them, all of them, Fire everybody, just like Jack flared.
He got fired today in the middle of the game. Fired.
The Mets fired him. Dave Roberts isn't arrested. The second

(01:36):
up Plane Lands fired him. Now I got a new freestyle.
That was the old three. I gotta know it. Now
I can do anything for four hours. Here we go,
all right. We would down three games to one last night.
The Dodgers were talking like the series is already over.
Then Alonso came up in the first hit a three

(01:59):
run bomb. That ball was out of sight and we
just kept in scoring. Tonight, there's your game one hero,
Jack Flaherty giving up a fistful of runs, and baby,
you better believe we're going back back to Los Angele
Lisz Game six, going back back to Los Angele Liz

(02:24):
Game six. Yeah, buddy, only three hours, fifteen to six
minutes left. Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. We're just gonna play these songs,
the dueling songs. It's like dueling Banjos, I have a

(02:47):
horrible sinus headache. I can honestly say this is not helping.
I'm not sure this is street legal. In the immortal
words of Mo Shemp, numb skulls, we're broadcast. That's that's
like a game fight. Randy would hit him over the

(03:09):
head with his guitar and he would win. I think
I would take a free in that.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
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Speaker 1 (03:16):
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Okay you Jason, Okay, okay, dude, is wow calmer than

(03:37):
you are? That's just a but here's the thing that
ended a long long time. But it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, but just in terms of you know, timelines and
riding highs those whatever.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
It doesn't matter. We're adult. I'm already prereading Dodgers. How
are you okay? All right, that's that's fine, that's fine.
Mets just scored again.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Mets just scored again, And I had all my ranting
against Dave Roberts, as Prosberg alluded to, he wants him arrested.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I have questions. Did you see the report on Flaherty
that he was bad today? I saw that. I watch
it live. I watch it live. Yes, he was under
the weather and Dave Roberts still didn't pull Yeah, what
was he three miles an hour lest on his fastball today? Look,
the first thing I'll say about the game is this
is that for coming in coming into this game from

(04:29):
last night till today? What woke the Mets up? Right?
What woke the Mets up? They had not scored? It
was done. I guarantee you it was this last night.
And we saw a little bit of it in the
post game, but really didn't see it till till all
the quotes started coming out. The Dodgers kind of celebrated
during the game and then talked after how you do

(04:50):
it when the series is actually over, when you eliminate
a team, You say things like, what are you gonna do?
We have two Hall of Famers at the top of
the line of Freddie Freeman talking after the game. Boy,
when we're all you can't stop us, that's our lineup.
Max Muncy and the Dodgers. Really they had a good
time playing and look when you're scoring runs and having fun,
that's great. And then after the game they it was
really it was really a way where they they talked

(05:12):
about their team very self congratulatory before the series is over.
Not that you don't talk this way, but you say
it when you've if that was the last game and
the Dodgers beat the Mets and you're saying, wow, look
at what happened. The Dodgers then can say, hey, you
can't stop our lineup. It's this good. What are you
gonna do? Show hey at the top and then Mookie bets.
But the way the Dodgers carried themselves last night and

(05:34):
what they said after, you know, that made its way
back to the Mets. Because the Mets came out today, Think, okay,
they one of two things is gonna happen. Either the
Mets are gonna roll over the season's over, or they're
gonna fight and say we're going back to LA and
we'll see a bullpen game in Game six. And they
came out and they were on fire today and I
guarantee you that is what got into today which turned
the game chippy as we watch it go on. But

(05:55):
what woke the mets up? I guarantee you that's what
it was.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
As soon as your guys started acting like things got
interesting too.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Way to go, Peterson.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
But the just the idea that you need someone to
go to a media member and go, oh, yeah, we're
feeling good. Our top guys are hitting really well right now.
I'm not hitting worth anything, but the top guys if
that's the thing they need to like in the human ego,
you know, getting your levels right and getting motivated. However

(06:26):
it takes it. The idea that it's just an elimination
game should be enough. I would hope as a professional
in anything, you're doing right. Every time we open the microphones,
it's not hey, you know what, we're gonna get through it.
It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be eleven o'clock soon.
And then there's a sandwich.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
I know we're.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Gonna try to entertain to wait until the show is
over to have a sandwich. We can have a sandwich
ever we want.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
To game sandwiches on you.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
But just the idea that you know we're coming in
entertain and form, find some angles, have some fun with
it dissect this game and rolling through that it's it's
not a hey, you know what, when this is over,
it's the weekend.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
So let's get to the weekend.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
No, likewise, the Mets, I would really hope that as
a squad they were pissed off. Now I was glad
that it actually got a little tense for a moment.
Freddie Freeman, who you you know, gave credit to as
the author of the quote about the Hall of Famers
up front, Uh, bases loaded, like all right, this is
about to get spicy, and Andy did nothing stood there.

(07:28):
I mean, that was that was the bat of the game.
That's where's the kind of here's a game.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay, it's eight to two and instead of now eight
three and we're still hitting, we're rolling through the line
of the congo line. Or he takes one deep. I mean,
because I was a pitch to hit. I was, that
was a pitch to drive. He watched it across the plate.
Uh you know, started way outside and you know, looked
like you try to take the walk. But clearly that
was a strike. That was a big one.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Because the old rule of thumb is never go up
there and show the umpire. Hey, I know you're calling
this a ball at least look like you're still locked
in on the pitch when he did not. I mean, look,
the Mets never make it easy. They need ds for
two winnings in a six That's just kind of how
it goes. But I'll tell you the game was so
chippy today. And to make the second, but we will
take a lot of points. But to make the second.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Big point about this is that, like I said, that's
what woke the Mets up. I am sure the Dodgers
very much self congratulatory. The way they talked after the game.
You know, that's what got into them the Mets today
and they came out like a house of fire, like
we're not down. We can still make this happen. I
was really surprised at the broadcast and Fox Sports won
and Fox Sport they do a great job on the games,

(08:31):
and watching the pregame shows them. Poppy said. Poppy said
that the Mets were gonna win ten two. I'm like, Poppy,
I can, but you got every game wrong so far,
he said. And I'm like, oh, now the Mets are
gonna win ten. But he made out what missus Met
he did stands. Yeah, I mean, well, look, missus Met
has been linked with Grimace. Now it's just linked with Poppy.
I mean, missus Med has had a year around, so

(08:53):
I get around. This is missus Met's been having fun
the last I think they're link. That's it. They are
LinkedIn question. But I was really surprised the game didn't
spend more time on how chippy it got and the
level of of hate between them. There were one or
two lines like not really a lot of a build

(09:15):
to it, Like what look I told coming in from
last night. So the Mets are the Mets are kind
of pissed. I'm sure about how the Dodgers said, well,
basically the series is over. They come into this game
and the Mets put a bunch of runs on the board,
and then Muncy grounds out to Alonzo in the third inning,
and at this point the Dodgers are happy to go home.
Flaherty is out there taking a beating. Dave Roberts wants

(09:36):
to save his bullpen. I don't know what kind of
impetus the Dodgers even came into this game with to win,
because that's part of it, Like, boy, you really you
want to finish? The Mets are down three to one.
You want to be aggressive, and they came into this
game flarity were just confound. It's like I felt like
when it was three to one, when there's three nothing,
Dave Roberts, Okay, well let's let's the next labored.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
He had no zip like you talked about it, three
miles an hour off his fastball, no dip, nothing, no
like to strikeout pitch.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
They didn't strike out in a single Mets hitter today.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, right, I mean where they've been chasing all series long,
and today all of a sudden discipline focus and extending.
Flarety's saying all right, we're gonna do it, and Dave
Roberts bought into it.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Look he kept bringing him back. Ye, but now you're
down eight one, when the.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Mets are When the Mets are up eight one, I'm like, okay,
they're cruising to this game because the Dodgers are done.
The Dodgers are done. They are packing up, They've already
got their stuff packed up. They're ready to come back
to LA for Game six. Right, didn't work out for them,
They didn't. The Mets got a lot of runs, and
that's played like their season was on the line, and
it was. But then the Dodgers woke up, and they
woke up because David Peterson on this ground out that
that Max Munsey had. Alonzo flips to Peterson a great play, right,

(10:48):
and the great plays to make the grab and he
turns to Muncie and he says, sit down blank. But
you can see it. I'm like, as soon as I said, oh,
he just barked Atmunsie, what did he say on Rena's
lips going, Oh, he said sit and blank. And since
then at that moment, then the Dodgers started having better
at bats and they really kind of try to leak
back into it. Paez hits the home run. He bat

(11:09):
flips and then he comes he crosses the plate and
Alvarez kind of barks at him and pisses with whatever, man,
I'm not even listening, Like, dude, okay, you know you
want you want to peacock your down eight one with
a home run, Okay, right, But then he peacock's again.
He had another big bat flip. Then Alonso gets hit
right after the home run. He gets hit on the arm,

(11:31):
and then uh, he saw another hit by pitch in
the same inning. Then the Mets hit one of the Dodgers,
and the game was chippy, and it was really that's
like the story of the game was wow, Like if
the Mets are up big late, is Otani gonna get hit?
Like I said, Otani's gonna get thrown at, like or
Mookie Bets or somebody is gonna is gonna get thrown at,
Because I honestly thought the game was gonna start the

(11:52):
first pitch to Watani was gonna be a fastball high
and end. Like you think you're comfortable. You guys are
all comfortable against our pitching staff the last couple of days,
We're gonna back you off the play a little bit.
But when the game started getting that point, like, if
this game gets out of hand, somebody's getting thrown out
at the end. Somebody is because this is the Mets
are not going to sit here and let this go
back and forth and and and and have them end

(12:13):
the game this way, especially hitting Alonso and and the
couple hit by pitches. It went on. I'm like, boy,
this is really gonna be it. And the broadcast never
talked about it, and I'm like, this is the story
of the game. Like very briefly they said, hey, look
at this kind of barking back and no, that's part
of the game. That's part of it. And and and
that was that was a big missing moment that I
thought like, hey man, this is this game is still

(12:36):
going like that if you if you want to keep
people watching in a blowout game, it's Hey, the Dodgers
decided we're going to start having good at bats. Right,
they're down eight to two when they're playing the infield
in on a on a on in the fifth inning
of the game, They're thinking, we're coming, We're going to
hit the ball. We're gonna come back and eliminate you. Now.
So the Mets woke the Dodgers up in this game.
And I said, I'm like, why is Peterson doing it?
Why are you yelling sit the black? But your point,

(12:57):
why are you doing that?

Speaker 3 (12:58):
There was a pitch during uh it was the fifth
inning o Tani at bat that came high and in,
but it wasn't like the sequence was working away. Yeah,
and he came inside and it just got dismissed. I'm like, no, no, no,
that that he's pitching in one way for a reason.
And you detailed time and time again as to what
he does at trying to hit the ball on the

(13:20):
outer part of the plate, so that pitch is just
in congress to everything they're doing. To your point about
all right, there's there's one in a little little purpose.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, like that's trading within like and that that's how
you had to dig storylines, man. Yeah, And when a
game is a blow, it's like, wait a minute, the
Dodgers did. The Dodgers started out asleep and then the
Mets woke them up, and I'm like, the Mets never
make things easy. This gay, this should be a game
where the Dodgers go to sleep and guys sit out
and they get rest and we go back to La
for Game six and all of that, Like that should
have been it like that that. But no, no, no,

(13:51):
that's getting no. No, We're gonna wake the Dodgers up,
and I'm sweating. I go, it's eight to one. I'm
sweating this guy. Why am I sweating this game out?
Because you know it's over? Oh man, I'll tell you
that was something the Jason Long Game. Pay some play
man for not happy. Yeah, it's only like three and
a half hours. A little bit, it seemed longer than

(14:13):
it was, only like three hours in like five minutes,
I think. But yeah, but these games do seem a
lot longer when you get that. That's how long it
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(14:36):
have more baseball on the way. Gen Carlos Stanton has
hit a big three run homer. The Yankees lead the
Guardian six to two. They're looking to go up three
games to one. My dad is probably happy the Yankees
are winning, not happy that Stanton hit the home run.
So that's where yeah, you know, so we'll have more
baseball on the way. But a huge football weekend. We
are about to kick off our most trusted college football

(14:59):
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the big games of the weekend. That's next right here,
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Speaker 2 (15:07):
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Oregon got out to an early lead against Purdue and
they are maintaining that lead. Late in the third quarter.
Ducks have a twenty one nothing lead over Perdue. Dylan

(16:02):
Gabriel seventeen out of twenty one two point fifty nine
in a touchdown so far for Oregon. We are set
to talk to him following the game about that challenge
on the play as well. Derek Harmon trying to corral
a fumble Boilers, but it looked like he was out
of bountains. Harmon was too slow, Harmon harms step too

(16:24):
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(16:45):
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the Oregon Ducks. Pete, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (17:01):
I get my walk up music backed. That's awesome. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Let's playoffs, man, can want the playoffs?

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Here?

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Here? Man, it's baseball players here, you walk up music?

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Beautiful? Can you ask still a Gabriel why they're not like,
let's say thirty and a half to nothing right now?

Speaker 1 (17:16):
You can?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
You can you do that? Or is that just wrong?

Speaker 1 (17:18):
You can't you bounce that extra two points Dylan you
failed to cover. Is that something you talked about after
the game?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, so this is obvious. He's a disappointment for you.
So what can you do to do better to make
the rest of the world who best on your game?
Like it is stronger and halfier people?

Speaker 1 (17:34):
How do you feel about letting down all those games?
Saw you against the one and five for new boiler
Maker team and said, well, this is an easy night
for Oregon.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Okay, exactly, No, it's yeah, look it's the fine that's
the hangover game after Ohio State. You go across, you know,
halfway across the country, and you know it's a little
bit of a trap, and you put your they're fine,
so you get get in, enjoy West Lafayette, get out.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Good job by arguing, all right, well we have a
huge slate tomorrow. We got big Top twenty five games,
and hey, none bigger. I mean I feel like every
week now with everything going on with the with all
the change, the change teams, with who's come from from
the Pac twelve to the Big ten, we get big
games all the time. But we got Georgia Texas tomorrow, Pete,
and that's a huge one here, especially for Georgia. You know,

(18:21):
I look at this game and I go, I think
this is the quinn Ewers game. If we're gonna like,
I think we're gonna look back and say this season
A when we name games, this is gonna be the
quinn Ewers game.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
We've had them though, And it's the crazy part about
Quineers is he's been under the radar for a top
fifteen overall pick. I mean the Michigan game was kind
of a Quinnewers game. He was pretty sharpened that. The
Oklahoma game was a little that too. And like you mentioned,
like last week it was Big ten week, this week
it is SEC week because like you kind of alluded
to it, it is a big game for Georgia. Yeah,

(18:53):
well no, but seriously, now it's getting real. You know,
It's this This is not like you know, an NBA
or NHL season that goes, you know, thirteen months before
it's over. You know, this is a three month sprint
and we're halfway through it. Georgia has two losses or
Alabama has two losses, all of a sudden, you know,
all these SEC teams like oh of course, you know,

(19:14):
oh this is going to be in the expanded college
football playoff and LSU is going to get in and
Missouri is going to get in, and you know, look,
all of a sudden, there's gonna be a lot of
they're gonna start runing out of room here.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
You know.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
So this is a big game because we might have
an expanded college football playoffs like Georgia and or Alabama.
This weekend might kind of be with that moment like, yeah,
that might actually happen.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
I'm gonna have to do an extension of the political season,
a lot more debates and candidacy and ad campaigns that'll float.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
You're saying more Iowa state. It's basically what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
With that, that's exactly right. And I approved this message. Hey,
big ten battle out. Not often we get to call
the fighting a line a top twenty five team, but
they've got a battle against Michigan. Is Belama's team got
something for real here because next week they get these
Oregon Ducks. But in the interim they've got Michigan.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
This is one of those it's a fish bowl team
under Bilmox. That's if they're playing for due, they're gonna
go to overtime. If they're playing Michigan, you're gonna see
this team kind of come out ruin, you know. But
the thing about this being the team, though, is it
can throw. It is not like you kind of think
of the Wisconsin Dash. They run for seven hundred yards
against Nebraska and oh they're just brash and tough and

(20:29):
you know they you know, make everyone mad. And I'm like, no,
this is this is kind of a mid range passing
team with a decent enough defense that just sort of
keeps things moving. It's not exactly the most physical team youalty,
but they're here. You know, they get they get their
shot at Michigan, and this is really just you know,
wed Michigan's quietly been okay, you know, if you kind

(20:50):
of look at what they got going ahead.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
Okay, they don't have a.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Passing game, but their lines are still good, the running
game is still solid. You still have talent in the
backfield there. So it's they're still hope for this Michigan team.
But I kind of think Illinois pulled off like a
like a two to one win somehow where nobody were one.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
They get a rouge. Oh look at that ruge. You
thought that ruge is going to stand up. But Michigan
wins with a safety.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Is it the way you could do that where you
didn't fluty do this? Or can't you like drop kickers?

Speaker 5 (21:20):
Something?

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Isn't there some kind of bizarre, quirky one point play
out there? I should know this, but yeah, it's I
this is not I would be shocked if this is
some sort of you know, massive shootout back and forth.
I think both teams are going to take the air
out of the ball. One team's gonna throw it a
little bit, the other team's going to keep running it
a little bit. And if if Illinois could just pulled
up to the drip drip drip of that Michigan running game,

(21:41):
I think they might pull us off.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
College Footballnews dot Com inside of Pete fu Tech our
guest The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon, live from
the Tireck dot Com studios. All right, we talk Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee.
Another huge one. And again I look at this and
I go boy, both teams are the same. Both teams
are pretty good, but they really haven't figured it out.
But I'll go with Jalen Milroe in this game.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
We WHI Joe they albamatazay yes, uh yeah, I mean
they're both kind of are you for really? I mean,
Alabama just remember last year every time I came on,
I was had the same kind of comment. Every USC game.
They would take about a like a like a twenty
minute coffee break where they decide, you know what, we're

(22:24):
gonna We're gonna take a little nap. We're just gonna,
you know, maybe have a scone or something. We're just
gonna chill it out for a little while. And that's
in Alabama. I mean, I mean it's crazy. You had
that when the greatest first half in the history of
college football against Georgia and then they just sort of
stopped and then they turned it on when they had to.
And the same thing with with Vanderbilt, they just they
just kind of didn't they didn't run the ball with

(22:46):
an odd game plan. And then the same thing with
South Carolina they won, they decided to st So this game,
you know, they have to keep running through the tape
because Tennessee at some point that offense is going to
start to work again. They've got a pass rush, they're
gonna bothermil Row. But the Tennessee offense just has sort
of stalled over the last few weeks, where the first
few weeks looked like a mirage. So I don't know

(23:09):
if they're gonna be Alabama style is going to bring
it out of them. I'm hoping for a big shootout,
but I still proven otherwise. I still kind of think
that Alabama really is that good. They just kind of
have to play like it already.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
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Speaker 1 (23:36):
Pete, go back. You mentioned the keyword.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Where we're located USC on the road against Maryland seven
and a half point favorites. Maryland's offense can go up
and down with the best of them. Is this going
to be another Hey? We were one or two plays
away press conference from Lincoln Riley.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Oh it hit better not be. Look I'm a Lincoln
Riley apologist. I am one of those people. It's like, look,
is this offense does work? Look at his you know
work and the body of work. It will be if
you lose Lincoln Riley. He might be the Dallas Cowboys
head coach next week. So, like, you know, be careful
of what you wish for USC type people. But it

(24:12):
can't you can't lose this one Maryland. If you look
at the rest of the Maryland schedule, they're they're in trouble.
They might not go bowling. I mean, the big thing
for them is they just don't seem to be consistent
in turnovers. Turnovers, turnovers seems to be a problem with them.
So I do think USC pulls us up, but it's
not just that it pulls up. They need to win
a game a little bit emphatically and start looking the

(24:34):
part again, because that LSU game is starting to look
more and more like a like a kind of Week
one mirage.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
All right, Pete, let let's end here, because I mean,
it's hard, but it's a it's a big deal. Tonight
do had less than a two hundred yards total offense
and they beat Florida State. Florida State turn remember right, Yeah,
first time they beat him and Florida State turned the
ball over on three consecutive plays. I don't want to say,
is this rock bottom for Florida State because they keep

(25:02):
proving that it's not. But is there a way out
for them at some point? Like this is this is
kind of unprecedent what we're seeing happen to them.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
I never want to say a team quit. It's I
don't think that's what this is. I've seen it on
Twitter and stuff. It's been in for Oh. This team
just full of it. It just it seems like though
that they just got the stuff stuck. They're so sucked
out of them in that Georgia Tech lost. I mean,
after all the offseason, all the stuff that happened, you know,

(25:31):
if they're wanting to leave the ACC everything about this program,
it just it kind of went wrong right away and
they just never quite got it back. They just can't
kind of make their own break. There's no energy on
this team. Because if you're at Florida State right now,
you came here thinking last year you were you had
a shot to maybe play the national for the national
title last year at this time, and now look what's happening.

(25:52):
I mean, you're not even gonna make a bowl game.
But let's flip this around and say, wow, Duke, you
know many Daz, you know this is Duke. You know
this is you're not supposed to win there, and he
is playing a tough defense. While yes, Florida State turning
it over three straight times is bad, this defense is
balled out all year and so you know, many give
him a little credit for stepping in and keeping what

(26:14):
Mike Elcho started and keeping that thing rolling.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
You can follow on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is
at Pete Feutech. Checkout college Footballnews dot com. You are
one stop shopping for everything college football, all the picks,
all the analysis. Pete is always buddy. Appreciate your time, man,
Congratulations on your walk up music back.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
We'll talk to you absolutely.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Let's go get enjoy the games. Brother, We'll talk to
you next week. Yeah, I mean, you think about Florida
State just for a second because obviously, oh I didn't
know they played tonight, Like that's where you're at for Florida.
That's just it was. It was eight months ago. It
was how are they not in the playoff? How is
an undefeated team not? Yes, I know they loved me.
Maybe maybe maybe Jordan Travis was the best player in
college football. Got you, but like you know, you just

(26:55):
think about where they were just a handful of months ago, right,
not not even a full year. They were this good.
They were undefeated and and all of a sudden, now
here they are one win on the season, and it
just keeps getting worse. I mean, this is a team
that was that was, you know, the number five team
in the country, or you know, should have been in
the top four, should have been in the playoff, and

(27:16):
to fall this much like Michigan is one team where
I say to myself, boy, I don't know how they're
not They didn't have a quarterback ready for this year. Sure,
why you're starting your third guy already. I don't understand that.
How you didn't have somebody ready to succeed JJ McCarthy.
But it's another thing for an entire team to be
this bad just a year, eight months removed from potentially

(27:37):
playing for the national championship like this is this is
as bad as it's ever been at Florida State.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, we talk about changeouts and players. You go back
that game against Georgia Tech to start things off overseas, kickoff,
front and center, right, isolated game and you lose that one,
and it's just been downhill since all off season. The
speculation should have we've covered it a couple of times,
the hey are they going to strong arm their way

(28:04):
out of conference?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Right?

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Looking at other opportunities, and right now it's you want
to beg to be kept in because it's gone south.
And you wonder internally how that's that switch gets flipped, right,
because you know personnel changes, right with all of those
with all of those people you know, and and players
that transfer out, players that graduate, all of those things.

(28:29):
We know that teams are going to fluctuate and that
the preseason rankings are not really reflective of what's to come, right,
it's based on the past and and maybe a little
bit of the personnel.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Why you every year it's like why were they the
number one? Why Why was Notre Dame always a top
five team? They were no good?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's like, well, you didn't know that right at the time.
Reputation history, all that stuff. For Florida State, it's it's
just been a train wreck. And you've watched it, and
you watched them blues in every type of fashion, because
that's the other thing. It's like, it's not just consistently, hey,
we we can't do this that or the other. It's
like week to week it has just been mercy. There's
no mercy for their fame.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Merciless, merciless, that's all right, being the mer merciless. Did
you ever use the word merciless without using ming in
front of it. No, No, it's in mercilesses, which is
why it didn't flow off the tongue. But now there's
the But Madison and Jefferson are merciless. Hey, y a
little deeper. Speaking of merciless, Well, that's kind of what
Oregon's doing right now to Purdue and kind of what
the Mets did to Jack Flaherty. Tonight special Delivery, Steve

(29:29):
de Seger has what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports as D.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
Talking about college football with the Florida State Laws. It
was twenty three sixteen Duke the final Florida State, the
first preseason Top ten to start one and six in
thirty five years, and an acc note from the SEC
Network that Florida State has now been held under twenty
points in six straight games for the first time since

(29:54):
before they hired Bobby Bowden as head coach nineteen seventy five.
Next weekend it's Florida State at Miami, So stay tuned.
There is a game yes, no, no, no? How about
in Presca on Fox TV right now, Number two ranked

(30:14):
Oregon try to go to seven and o is leading
twenty seven nothing at Purdue early in the fourth quarter.
Cleveland Brown's running back Nick Chubb is due to make
his season debut Sunday after last year's knee injuries. Bill's
running back James Cook will play Sunday after a toe injury.
The WNBA Finals will have a game five and the
best of five on Sunday in New York is Minnesota

(30:35):
at home beat New York eighty two eighty tonight with
two late free throws in the AL Championship Series. Boy
Gencarlo Stanton in the postseason unbelievable six ' three the
Yankees lead at Cleveland in the bottom of the seven,
Stanton with a three run homer in the top of
the six. How about this stat from the folks north
of the border. At sportsnet, I saw a list of

(30:56):
the highest career slugging percentage career in MLB post season history.
Ruth and garreg Are won two, and then Randy A.
Rose Raina third. Gencarlo Stanton is fourth, Lenny Dykster at
number five. Wow career is lugging.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I would think at this point, I thought I would say, Wow,
Randy Roserain is not first. Like I thought at this
point he would have passed Ruth and Garrett. I thought
he would have got the minimum hundred plate appearances. He's
on the list. Oh, we can update.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
Cleveland has scored its bottom of playing these bullpens. Bottom
of the seventh. It is Yankee six, Guardians five hardly
over bottom of the seventh.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Nailor just doubled to the wall to bring in two runs. Goodness.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
The Guardians will be hosting again Saturday night in Game five.
By the way, the Mets season still going. They beat
up the Dodgers twelve six today. Mets led eight to
one in the third inning the loss to Jack Flaherty,
who in three innings allowed the eight runs, eight hits,
no strikeouts, four walks. He threw seventy five pitches. This
NLCS matchup Dodgers Mets the first postseason series in decades

(31:59):
where each of the first five games is decided by
at least four runs. The last time this was the
case was when the Dodgers were in the nineteen sixty
five World Series against the Twins, and in that series.
All of the games were decided by at least four
runs until Game seven, when Sandy Kofex on two days
rest beat Jim Cutt on two days rest two to nothing.

(32:20):
The Dodgers will be back home on ALFSS one again
for Game six on Sunday night. A Game seven would
be on Monday night. And yes, Virginia basketball coach Tony
Bennett officially retired today. He had signed a contract extension
through twenty thirty.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the
tyreck dot Com Studios. We'll have more baseball on the
way again. Cleveland now just trailing by a run runner
at second, one out in the bottom of the seventh,
but coming up next, got we got an explanation for
the most surprising story of the day yesterday. Does the

(32:58):
explanation hold wall? That's next right here, Jason and Mike,
this is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
You know, Blank, you Yankees Guardian's cameraman, Blank you forgiving
all of us hope and giving my dad a heart attack.
Come on, that was great drama.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
You want to talk about an Award for cinematography right
there for production.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
So the Yankees lead the Guardian six ' five Guardians
batting in the bottom of the seventh inning. Big Christmas
is up. He had the big game time home run yesterday,
and he takes Mark Lighter Junior deep and the cameraman
takes that big home run angle. We're yelling, oh my god,
Big Christmas did it again, except it's a flyout to

(33:47):
the wall. Yeah, Papa Noel was just a bitchy jerk.
You're a joe. That was y We did that. That
was great drama. You know what he did to my
dad watching this game at home. You know what he
probably thought made him alive? My dad? No, no, no,
come on, you did that to my dad, Like it's
one thing for us. You know we're all young. Okay,
it's fine. My dad's seventy seven. Man, you can't show

(34:08):
him a home run that's a fly out to the
warning track. You can't do that.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Is he already calling an injury at your I know,
I gotta make a wellness check now and make sure
you're all right.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
I gotta call him in a few minutes ago, Dad,
are you okay? Because it just happened. I can't call him.
I can't call him. I'm gonna get a curse word
or two, and i'd have to say, Dad, are you okay?
Then if people get into his his his uh, his
building and into his unit and everything, so you know,
it's a lot of really screwed cameraman, who are you fooling? Jay?
He's not picking up your car? Come on, I mean no,
he would.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Of course I'll pick up my car and if he
if he does, because I can just dump it out, okay, handed.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
If he calls somebody the worst word ever, then we
might just have to end the show. Awesome. What if
he calls one of us Stanton? Oh, I was gonna
say rank the worst words ever? Even though a Big
Three run home tonight home or tonight, I will say, dad, boy,
Stanton's been so good. He goes, you know once in
a while. Okay, that's yeah, he is just not still doesn't.

(35:02):
But may now if they win tonight, I'll call him
and I'll see how do you feel about Stanton? Now?
Because really Stanton is he just doesn't like still.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Long thoughts Mariah Carey getting ready for Christmas season. It's
a long thawing process.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
It's like my dad had to pay out of his
pocket Stanton salary and he's like, that's what he's mad about.
But anyway, that's where we are right now. The Yankees
get out of the inning, so it's a one run
game going to the eighth with the Yankees looking to
take a three games to one lead, seeing as the
Guardians were involved. It's too high, too high, too high
for home rune. It was too high, big Christmas, too high.

(35:37):
But you know, we had the Tony Bennett story yesterday,
the Virginia head coach who retired abruptly yesterday, won the
national title back in twenty nineteen. Former college basketball Coach
of the Year hadn't won in the tournament in the
last few years, but was still one of the best
head coaches. His style of play was never a favorite
because he'd liked to slow it down and win games

(35:57):
fifty to forty nine. But defense, he was a wizard.
He was a great head coach. He's young, he's fifty five.
Why was he retiring? We hoped last night that we
were gonna say, okay, we'll talk about it today and
he will say something along the lines of I'm just
not cut out, I'm burned out, I need time away.
And we saw the reason that he gave today. He
talked about how the nil the translporter era is not

(36:19):
his thing. He says, I'm too old school, yeah, and
this is a new way that I just I can't
do it anymore. He quit like DeVante Adams, and the
thing is is here. The thing is that I'm glad
that's what it was. I'm glad. It's not anything health
wise or anything Else's family is all right. But wow, man,
I'm sorry, but you quit three weeks before the season starts,

(36:41):
when this is gonna be the last fun part right now?
He said, when I went away for fall break, there
was fall break. My wife and I went away, and
I realized the fire still wasn't there. Because he thought
about retiring at the end of last year, decided to
come back, right and there's video of him coaching the
Midnight Madness game and the scrimmage games and everything else.
But he goes away way for a weekend and decides, Okay, no,

(37:03):
I'm gonna retire right now. I understand that I understand
the whole thing. But again, this should be the fun part.
You want one of your assistants to succeed you. You
could have made this your last year, right because what
I look at, what I think is this, Yes, I
believe that Tony Bennett. This is one hundred percent what
he was thinking. Boy, it's tough for me to get

(37:24):
through this. It's very, very difficult. And he looked at
his team this year and they're not ranked. I think
they're they're they're ranked like in the in the fifties,
and they're not They're not predicted to do well. I
wonder if he saw his team this year and said, boy,
we're gonna get boat raced. I don't want this to
be my last year. People are gonna think I'm walking
away or I'm gonna get fired. I haven't won an
NCAA tournament game, so yeah, I'm gonna walk away now

(37:48):
then get drubbed over the next few months like this.
This timing is ridiculously bed because now all these younger
players get the portal. They can all hit the portal
now for thirty days. So now you're screwing the team
walking away like this. Now you want to think the
guys are going to stay, but you don't know. This
is a different era of college basketball where a guy
can say, oh, yeah, you're leaving, coach, Well I'm leaving too,
but wait you're no, no, sorry, I'm leaving Like this

(38:10):
is this is really a This is a move that
I go, Wow, you walked down on your team. If
you can't do it anymore, do one more season? Do
it this year. You should have done it, should have
walked out, should have done it a few months ago,
but you didn't. So now staying on this season, help recruit,
help set things up, and then you walk away. But
I feel like he got a look at his team
and said, we're really not going to be any good.
Yeah I'm walking away now. I'm not going to put

(38:31):
a thirteen and twenty one season at the end of
my resume. I'm gonna walk away at least a little
bit higher than that.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Does that mean it would be a harder interview when
he suddenly has the fire to get back in the
game in a year or two's time, or maybe when
he dries to go to work at a desk he
thinks the last year on the resume isn't going to
look so good all of that to say they're not
even in the others receiving votes.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
That's where we're at. No, I think they're Yeah, I
think I think they're they're they're right somewhere in the
fifties or sixties to start the sea. That's a long tail,
but it's the timing of it.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Right.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
You did all the nonsense in theory of any of
the complaints about the new way of doing college basketball,
the NIL all that. That doesn't mean they're not still
getting calls during the year whatever. But the coaching is
supposed to be the best part, right, like the other stuff.
I understand the administrative and dealing with Hey, I don't
know you're still doing, but still.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah, you're still doing during the season to a point,
but this is still the fun part.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
New weeks before the season, like you committed, like you
got kids to commit, you got your assistant coaches there,
So now all of a sudden they're looking around going
what the hell is happening? You put everybody in a
bad spot, and it's it's just a terrible look. You
want to quit because of the NIL and you don't
like the new rules of engagement. At least give the
rest of the kids and your your school, a Chance.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swelling Dome, The Jason
Smiths Or with Mike Carmon, Lifromthtirec dot Com Studios. Coming
up next, Left More in the Night in Major League Baseball,
and suddenly there may be a new Best Game of
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Speaker 2 (40:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from theti rag dot Com Studios. Where Dodgers Mets
did not go how we thought it was gonna go,
Yankees Guardians Well went about how we thought it was
gonna go. Well, not quite the ending, no, but the
Yankees were going to play sloppy, make mistakes and still win.
They did stick to the script. Yes, exactly what happened.

(40:37):
Yankees beat the Guardians eight six. Yankees lead the Alcs
three games to one. Instead of a coronation and the
pennant for the Dodgers, it's a trip back to Los Angeles.
The Mets put twelve on the board against Jack Flaherty
and company. So now it's game six Sean Mineham. That's
Ace bullpen game for the Dodgers on Sunday at Chavez Ravine.

(41:00):
A breakdown what we saw and what is next. Then
Baseball Insider MLB Network. He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
Check him out on the data cast right now for
Turner covering the Alcs, and I guarantee you if you
gave him a glove, he would look better in the field.
And a lot of the guys we saw tonight and
the Yankees and the Guardians, John Paul, welcome inside.

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Good evening, my friends, Good morning here in the Eastern
time zone. It is it is Saturday. What a night.
We've had two back to back just riveting games that
we can share on the MLB Data Cast on Thrue TV,
which has been a lot of fun to do with
Mike Petriello and Dexter Fowler. But I thought, and with
that one camera angle, I thought we might have had

(41:46):
another big home run from John Kenzie. No. Well, but
instead the Yankees find a way to hold on and
they've got that three one series lead.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, listen, if you talk to the camera guy, tell
him he's a jerk and punch him because my dad
had a heart attack thinking that was going to be
a home run. My dad's a Yankee. Hey, hey, no, ka,
I mean not literally, but my dad's a Yankee fans.
I said, we all thought it was a home run.
I don't know what the cameraman was doing. It was
a flyout to the wall. We were in our and

(42:13):
I think he wins an award.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
On the game.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
Of course, we were calling it off of monitors, so
I think my my call was something like that, it's
a deep drive to left and it's not a home
run because I was I was thinking right along with
everybody else. I mean, it looks like the ball was
going up to the moon and all of a sudden,
Verdugo was there. And listen, you got a credit, Alex

(42:36):
because he very easily could have lost lost track of that.
And listen, there have been plenty of defensive misadventures in
this series already. There were a couple more tonight, but
that that wasn't under the radar. Really good play by
Dugo to be there and to not lose track with
all the noise and everything else going on and find
a way to play what's a pretty tough left field

(42:57):
there in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
I'll tell you what, John Paul, you know what the
most frustrating part is like being a Mets fan. What
the most frustrating part is is to watch the Yankees
run the bases like a bunch of drunks, make errors
in the field like they did tonight. We almost had
their version of the Buckner play in the eighth inning.
And yet they still win games, and they're still going
to the World Series. It is maddening to watch them

(43:18):
play loose baseball and they shrug and they still win,
and they still move on.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
They've got some superstars. I mean. The difference tonight's John
Carlos stanton the difference tonight is I suppose Stephen Vogue
decided to fish it. John Carlos stand which I hill
with all three of them. We're on the dust saying
you gotta walk them here, you gotta walk the walk them.
What's going on? You gotta walk them? And I listen,
I understand the confidence in Smith's that spot, but that

(43:44):
was not that was not the right call. And and
the Guardians have made their name on the bullpen so
much that when both Kid Smith and Emmanuel class A
are giving up runs in key spots, it's not going
to be and that's exactly what happened to the Guardians tonight.
And I think when you look to the big picture
here of the Yankees, they've got superstars who are proven performers,

(44:09):
who have been through October before. Even in the case
of Judge, who has been criticized at different times, he's
still I think having a very solid postseason. He had
a huge moment last night, obviously a game they lost,
but his that back quality has been very high. Torres
at that quality has been very high. Shotos at back
quality has been really high.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
So when you go down the list.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
Of all those players, and even Rizzo had a huge
hit tonight, so they you know, defensively he hasn't been
very good, but I think a huge hit for Rizzo tonight.
The value of experienced stars. The value of experienced stars
matters still at this time of year, and I think
the Yankees right now are one win away from their

(44:50):
first World Series and nine.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
As a result of that, take us back in the
clause the discussion you were having, obviously Smith and I
being on air as we talk about it, JP the
familiarity and seeing a guy another time, sequencing everything else.
He's given up more runs in the postseason than he
did for an entire regular season. How do you explain it.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
I think he's I think his location is off. I
think the finish on his pitches doesn't seem to be there.
And maybe today he lacked a little bit of the
conviction that's made him special. You know, there was he
made the Instagram post where he was showing off his award.
Maybe and in his fairness, you know, maybe that was

(45:33):
how he was kind of psyching himself back up to
go out there tonight. But maybe maybe it's not that easy.
And you know what, he's not the only high profile
closer who has struggled in the postseason. This what Mariano
Rivera did for so many years, closing out forty two

(45:53):
postseason games, forty two postseason staves.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
That is the exception.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
Moe is special. There was no one like him.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
And and you go down the.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
List of the modern closers, all all the different teams
that have that have been involved in the playoffs, basically
they've all had high profile closers give up big home runs,
and that to me just underscores the value of what
Mo did for so long, and those closers like papal
Bond's another one from a name from a different era

(46:24):
who seem to have a lot of success, and and
I think, however you're going to do it, however you're
going to do it, you have to learn how to move,
move past a tough outing and then twenty four hours
later be back out there on the mount and deliver.
And I just think I think class honestly, I think
his stuff was better last night than it was tonight.
He was it was Mike Petrella made this point on

(46:46):
our set tonight. You know, last night it was the
long ball, and tonight it was more just like solid,
repeated contacts, short swings, simple, straightforward at bats, and that
was what got class in the Guardians tonight, which, in
my opinion, in is even more demoralized to what happened yesterday.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
MLB Network insider sideline reporter John Paul Morosi with us
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
Tireck dot Com studios. All right, let's head to the
National League now, where things certainly didn't go as we
thought they were gonna go. Today, the Mets pummel Jack Flaherty,
they stay alive, they go back to LA and I'm
gonna tell you this, John Paul. Yes, it's very uphill
for the Mets having to come to LA and win

(47:26):
two games. I get this. The Dodgers are hitting well. However,
the Mets are not going to see either of the Dodgers'
best two pitchers the rest of the series. Flaherty is done,
Yamamoto's not coming back on three days rest. The Dodger
bullpen is pretty good, but the Mets are going to
be seeing these guys the third and fourth time they
have their two best starters lined up. I feel like
this is almost like a toss up at this point.

(47:48):
Obviously Mets have to get Game six, but the advantage
they have in the pitching department coming to these last
two games, I think it's a big equalizer.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Yeah, it's a great point. I think that the Dodgers
probably still have the advantage it. In my mind, if
you had to really look at it and say, Okay,
what has the best chance to happen, I still think
the Dodgers find a way to win one of the two.
But when you look at it, you win Game six,
and then we've seen it so many times before. Anything
can happen in game seven, and even last year, let's

(48:17):
think about this. Game seven was in Houston, won by Texas.
Game seven was in Philly, won by Arizona. We had
road teams winning both Game sevens last year, and in
the same situation that you're describing, we didn't expect that

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the Diamondbacks would come back and go to Philly and
win two games in a row. They did, so we
can be surprised. And I think that what has me
feeling like it could happen is that I think Alonso
is still due to do more. He certainly has shown
some signs of life today, but they need him in

(48:59):
a massive way. He's going to have to show up,
I think going forward, and if he does. Listen, the
Dodgers now have some questions about Freddie Freeman. Is he
going to be available? Still kind of waiting on some
of their other other key bats to emerge, although Edmund's
been fantastic and really impactful for the Dodgers. So the
Mets have a chance. And to be honest, Jason, you

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know this, you can speak for all Mets fans here.
What were the odds in March that we would say, hey,
you've got a chance to play Game six of the
National Championship Series against the Dodgers the Dodgers Stadium. You
would take that a million times out of a million.
And that's exactly where your Mets find themselves against Justice

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Dodgers this weekend.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Look at that he's not smiling like that. Yes, your
cat ready.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
But you know, since I need to be Joe negativity,
I'm going to take it back to the decision to
allow Jack Flaherty to keep pitching. Do you think when
do you think was the exact moment that Dave Roberts
just said this is uh, we're not going to do
a bullpen game and try to salvage this one.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
I think that's exactly what happened, and basically the Dodgers,
And to be honest with you, I am okay with that.
I know that sounds crazy to say, but and it's
not as though he was he was trying to concede anything.
I think you didn't really have a choice. You can't
expend your resources when you know that you're limited with

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your ability to bring guys back on short rest or
to have guys coming out and let's say Yamamoda all
of a sudden pitching the seventh and eighth and ninth
benning on Game seven. If you don't have that kind
of a staff, you can't chase the game like today.
If you've got a bullpen game in game six, you
can't use your bullpen that extensively in game five. That's

(50:45):
just the reality of where he's at, and Blairty just
didn't have it. It looked ugly by the end of
his outing, but I think that was the decision that
was made. You just got to let him soak up
the inning and live to fight another day. If you
were if that was your last home game and you
were going on the road, I might have had a
different recommendation. But if you can't, if the Dodgers can't

(51:07):
win one out of two games at home against the Mets,
they don't deserve to play for the World Series. That's it.
So I think this that was him leaning into the
reality of what his current roster makeup is. And I
think Dave Roberts made the right decision. Tough decision, but
the right decision today.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Now, John Paul, I know you know listen all year
long like you and I say, hey, if you have
something note that I can send to David Sterns, your
former college roommate. I've been sending you notes. You said,
I'm not roommates but friends.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
Yes, not roommates, but you know teammates.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Yes, okay, all right, Well I thought like there was
a thing where, like like you stole his wallet once
or something. I've heard that story you're telling it didn't
that happen?

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Tell me so.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
A fever dream, JP, No, what I want? What I
want to tell you?

Speaker 5 (51:57):
Do you have?

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Because so I am.

Speaker 5 (51:59):
I am happy to be the conveyor of glad tidings,
but only if you feel like it's additive to his
process of getting great.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
At Game six, oh well, this is more for and
after the season, but but it makes it, but makes
for it now. It makes for it now because my
wife was asked me today, we're talking about pee Alonzo's
situations contract for next year, and I said, how do
you not bring him back? After the home runs of
what he's done this postseason? She was yeah, but is
he gonna want a long term deal? And I said,
you know, he's a Boris client, and Boris clients stay
out there longest, So I want to say is this?

(52:27):
I said, Oh, you know what I'll tell John Paul
Morosi this tonight tell Sternsey. I'm looking forward to the
two year, seventy five million dollar contract that ped Alonso
is going to get in the off season. That's gonna
make both sides happy.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
Two for seventy five.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
Well, then, what's what's your deal going to be for Sodo?

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Oh, Soda doesn't matter. SODA's gonna be I don't know
at ten years, five hundred million dollars. No, that's what'll
be for there's that'll be fine. Let's see what Alonzo first.
Let's see with Alonzo first, and then we'll get to
won Soda.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
But you realize they're both represented by the same agent. Right,
you're familiar with this.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
But if we make it, if we make Boris happy
with Soto by giving him five, oh okay, he'll be
okay with Alonso.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
Hello, pact, John Paul.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
I'm playing I'm playing chess here, man, I'm playing chess.
Getting soda to the Mets.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
Jason Smith is out here the night before or two
nights before Game six of the NLCS planning the three
dimensional chess yes that he's going to recommend David Searns
to play with Scott Boris at the Winter Meetings in
two months.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
I mean, I you know, my.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
Humble, my humble approach in life is to try to win,
win one game at time, especially when that one game
is Game six the NLCS. But I will, when I
believe that it's the right time to convey Jason Smith's viewpoints.
I promise you, I will tell him that I'm not
sure if he wants Pete to be thinking about his
contract before he's about to hit against against the Dodgers,

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in against Daniel Hudson in the eighth or ninth inning
of Game six.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
All right, that makes sense because I'll save my pivot
to Anthony Santander for another time. Then, Okay, that's right,
that's how okay good.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
I'm trying, Jason. I'm trying to help you, buddy, trying
to help you. I'm trying to help you, help the Mets.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Okay, there you go, don't forget. Check out John Paul
on the data cast there out the rest of the
ALCS and his interview with Marianna Rivera, where he talks
about a lot of things, but specifically the save he
didn't get in the World Series against the Diamondbacks. It's
right there on John Paul's Twitter page at John Morosi.
John Paul is always buddy, appreciate it, man, enjoy the

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games this weekend. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
You guys are the greatest. I appreciate the poone call,
two conversations this week that the Lions will win on
Sunday twenty eight to seventeen. And I'm feeling really good
about that. Wow, it's a hot I don't even know
who they're playing, but.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
That's it's the Vikings and the over Arders fifty one
and I don't even know who party, but that's okay.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
You're the best. J P. See you, buddy, have fun.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
I love you guys.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Thank you you buddy.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Here going into who are they playing? I don't care
the guys twenty eight points, they'll score twenty eight. The
other team Vikings in Minnesota, Minnesota, Yes, they'll score seventeen.
Who's the quarterback for them? Tarkenton. Tarkenton, Okay, Tarkenton, Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
twenty Someone's get a line up and they're gonna dominate.
That's all that's really when it comes down there. Here's
your final score. Who are they playing? It doesn't matter

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who they're playing. It just does it matter. Told you
the final score.