October 19, 2024 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, welcome in side, final hour tonight. Have an incredibly
great Friday, nearly Friday, incredibly great Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, because yeah, I don't care. It's just over there.
I don't care. I'll worry about the Yankees Guardians after
the Mets Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
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tire buying should be. I'm laughing because we'll get to
the Mets Dodgers in a second. The Yankees win tonight
over the Guardians eight to six, a huge three run
jack by Jim Carlos Stanton. He has been incredible this postseason.
They hold on to win some bungling plays defensively, but
the Yankees get to Emmanuel Classe again, second time.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
In the series.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So now they're one game away from the World Series.
Now I told you my dad's dislike for Jim Crum.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He's not a fan.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
No, he is not. Clearly, Judge is his guy. Chisholm
is his guy. Cole is his guy, right, but he
has just never had anything. Well, sorry, and Clay Holmes too.
He hates Clay Holmes.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
But it's funny. I mean, Stanton's creeping.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What does he He's gotta be near five home runs,
it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, he's been a Yankee longer than Jazz. Chisholm
just showed up yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's like Jeter called my dad and said, hey, I
got Stanton for us. My dad said, cool, he said,
but I need you to chip into pay for him
and my dad has to send the Yankees money every
week to help pay for gen Carlo stan It does
sound like that. There's a lot of that's how much
he doesn't like stamp So every strikeout actually costs him money.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That is really what.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Every time Stanton does something, he's had an incredible postseason,
I send my dad a text and he has something
to just discount what gen Carlo Stanton does, Right, it's great.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I like, Dad, you would have been a great sports
talk radio host in the day. Man, Like I just say,
whatever Johnny Bench does is terrible. He stinks. I came
up with the first clutch formula. He's the best hitting.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He stinks, but the Big Red Machine is the best.
Here they steak, They're overrated. If Don Gully should have
done they should have done more, winning all all these things.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Ah, So every time Stanton does something, I text my dad.
So we text about the game tonight and at this
his you know, his hatred for Clay Holmes. That game
was a lot closer that needed to be blanking Clay Holmes, right,
So I said, okay, I said, did you have any
heart attacks at any point? I was worried I'd have to
do a wellness check on you. And he wrote back,
heart was fine, temper that's another matter. I'm like, oh, okay,
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so he's still hot, like you know, the Yankees won,
but it wasn't good enough. He can't just be happy
that one, right, Sure? So I said, how do you
feel that Stanton's your best player now? So I waited
and he just texted me back.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
He waited for it. How do you feel that Stanton's
your best player now?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Right's back, you.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Wouldn't say that if he had to field. It's the
beauty of it. He didn't have to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And then you wrote back, that's that four times old
Glover work it out for you because he doesn't have
to fit. If he had to feel, he would be
saying that, oh my day. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Stanton hit a Grand Slam to win the World Series
and the ninth in against the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
In a game that my dad.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Is at, Stanton could cross home plate, run to my dad,
give him a high five, and take a picture and
my dad would say, hey, can you introduce me to Judge?
That's what that's what my dad would do.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Ye part of the show history, Shoot your shot you
have no idea. It's just I don't even know what
to say to me this point.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I don't even know. It's like I'm trolling him when
I asked her about Stanton that. But Yankee fans were
more welcoming of Rodriguez. Yes, even after everything like in
the moment, it wasn't as bad.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
As it is now. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Matter of fact that he was the better shortstop and
acquiesced and played third base, Jeter keep the roll probably
helped a.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Little bit, even though it probably shouldn't have happened, but
they did so. Okay, But yeah, but he is he
is just like that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I'll tell you, you know, just anger it's watching
this is that. Yes, baseball, is there such a thing
as momentum. There is, but it's it's not quite like
football or basketball. It's a little bit different. You know,
the old phrases, momentum is always as good as the
next day starting pitcher.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I subscribe to that in some ways and some ways
I don't. Because the Yankees and the Guardians. Right, you
watch Yankees come back from a game in which the
Yankees were one strike away from going up threes. I
the Guardians hit a home run, a pinch hit home run.
Big Christmas hits a home run to tie it, and
then Fry It's to run home in.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The tenth to win it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Right, you think that's a devastating game for the Yankees,
But what happens. They come back, They play pretty well,
they get a big home run from Stanton, and they win.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
They be Class A again. For the Guardians.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's so incredibly difficult because when you have your closer
out there and he gets beat, that affects you incredibly mentally.
I can't tell you it just does. It's hard to say, Okay,
we lost, we got beat. Let's put this game away
and come back, come back again, because when this is
the second time that's happened this series that he has
got lit up, when he has been automatic, and that's
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a tough thing, you know. You know, go back to
all big postseason losses and teams that have lost series
where they were favored or had a chance to win,
and if you see their closer getting beat, especially a
couple of times, mentally, it's really hard to come back from.
I know the Guardians have another game coming out tomorrow,
but I feel like this is where the Yankees come
out and they throw the hammer down and they win
this game pretty easily, because these are two devastating things
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to come back from. Where the Guardians had two games
and instead the guy anybody in the league would want
on the mount, you could have not only your closer,
but anybody from the thirty teams on the mount.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I want class on the mount.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And he gets beat, Well, ye're back back to even
and you're thinking, all right, we get Class A. He's
gonna steady it and we're gonna be able to steal
a run and steal another win. You had the big
fly We talked about it earlier. It's now making the
rounds the New York Post and others writing about the
you know, big Christmas fly ball home run that wasn't
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But yeah, I mean we know the closer role. I mean,
history is littered with guys that one or two bad
outings sent them into a spiral to where they couldn't
be used for a week or two. Had to work
themselves back into it mentally pitching a couple of low
stress situations, mop up kind of things before they were
able to be reinserted into a closer role. I mean,
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for Class a It's just a tale of two seasons, right,
how dominant he was all season long. Now you get
to the postseason, he's given up more runs than he
did with all of those appearances for the Guardians this
season where he was just.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
All right, it's done, turn the light out on the
way out. We're done.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Instead, now you got guys taken better at bats familiarity.
We spoke of that earlier in the show. But yeah,
it's it's not the lockdown position. I mean, we've been
joking about sweating relief pitcher x Y Z fore because
they've taken to the brink and maybe they save most
of them, but guess what, they don't get them all
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the postseason. In the postseason, that's the thing. I mean,
we had plenty of times where Janson would perfect for
a month, but you sweat it out every appearance.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, two runners on, let's go. He's been perfect
for a month, doesn't matter. Now perfect is a relative turn.
He gets to say finishes the job, but he does
not make it easy on your heart and your wits.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And right now Cleveland's in that space, and'd be curious
to see in a situation tomorrow, do you just immediately
just said, well, this is what we've always done, and
this is what he does. I don't know that it's
automatic that clause it would get the goal.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Now, speaking of not making it easy, the Mets, they
beat the Dodgers today in a game in which the
bats wake up all at once and Jack Flaherty, who
was unhittable game one, doesn't make it out of the
third inning in game two, and in game.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Five should it was he should have been done after
that third out.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Alonzo hits a three run homer in the first inning
off a really good pitch. The Mets just continue to
bat him around. They sit on his fastball. They did
a great job today not chasing his secondary pitches, which
was really the key when I saw them, Okay, they're
not nearly chasing as much as they did extend.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I felt really good.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
They took a page out of what the Dodgers have
done the first four games of this series. Mendoza even
alluded to it in Game three. Wow, they're doing a
great job of taking pitches, almost as if to say
to his dugout, Hey, guys, you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Hear that, And they're doing a good job of extending
it past.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, I'm gonna the micro they're interviewing me. Now, let's
go to broadcast this to the rest of the locker room.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But is that enough? Is that enough to wake up
the Mets?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now, when you get to this point in the season,
you can always use a little extra And what I
guarantee you made its way back to the Mets in
the locker room. Was last night's game that the Dodgers
win in a laugher. Right, it's every every inning it's
a run or two. The Dodgers celebrated a lot last
night in game. You saw a lot of big smiles,
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a big time celebration, which happens, right, and you see
it now, vote posting everybody, you know, somebody gets out
of the fourth inning, one, two, three, they're screaming like
they just closed the game. But the Dodgers are really
enjoying themselves. And a lot of their quotes after the
game were very self congratulatory. Not that they were bad quotes,
but they were things that you hear a team say
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when a series actually is over, not when you're up
three to one. And I think the Dodgers came off
that game last night thinking we won the series. Right,
We're up three to one. We got it right. Mookie
Betts is laughing with the guys on Fox after and
then I hear quotes like Freddie Freeman say, what are
you gonna do with our offense? We have two Hall
of Fame guys at the top of the lineup, right,
Max Munsey saying when we're on, we're impossible to beat.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know, we are guys hitting all this.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
These are not horrible things to say, but these are
things you say when the series is over and it's hey,
how are you able to beat the Mets at four
out of five? And then it's our batting, Our order
is fantastic. We pick each other up. You can't stop us.
We have two Hall of Fame guys at the top
of the lineup. That stuff you say when the series
is actually over.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
So you're really paraphrasing the Gambler in the vein of
the Dodgers and their.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Postgame comings at DJ You have to know when to
hold them, know when to fold them. But I guarantee
you the Dodgers speaking acting, hey, this series is over,
I guarantee you that got its way back to the Mets,
and that was part of what motivated them today.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Because really, I thought about that last night.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm like, boy, Dodgers, they're just rolling right now, but
they really seem to be talking and acting like the
series is over, even to the point where in the
beginning of the game today, right like, how does Otani
not go home? Like, the Dodgers start out and this
is an awful start for the Mets. Right Otani gets
on base to start the game, and then a line
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out to right field by Mookie Betts is dropped by
Starling Marte and the Dodgers have second and third, nobody out.
It's already a disaster for the Mets, and I'm going,
this is how we're really is how we're starting.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And then a.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Ground ball to short and Lindora is playing back because
the Mets just want to get an out and get
out of the inning. And Otani doesn't score, and the
Mets get the out at first, they get a pop
up strikeout, they get out of the inning. Alonzo it's
the home run and they're off. When Flaherty doesn't have
it after the first inning, the Dodgers decide we're gonna
leave him out there and you're gonna absorb some some
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hits and ad bats here because we need to save
the bullpen for some innings. Like this is the second
time in the series that the Dodgers really didn't come
into a game with the we're throwing the hammer down
to try to win Game two when they lost, it
was a bullpen game, and we're bringing in non high
leverage guys when they're down one nothing in the second inning.
Like I get that you're managing your bullpen, but if
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you're bringing everybody in in every game, okay, how you
do it? And it's like I felt, the Dodgers didn't
play Game two with the one hundred percent we're out
to win and control this game. It was more, we're
playing so we can control our pitching situation the rest
of the series. And then that worked the next couple
of nights because Buler was able to go four innings
and then you had Yamamoto. But now Flaherty tonight and
he looks bad. So now it's okay, when we're down
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three to nothing in the second inning, that's it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
We are not going to bring in our high leverage guys.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Flowery's gonna assume some innings here, and we're gonna be
okay losing this game and going back so we can
set up the Game six of being able to have
our bullpen guys go Meanwhile, okay, you have a day off,
but okay, but again, this is two games in a
row where I felt like in the early going the
Dodgers were not nearly as aggressive as.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They needed to be. And that surprises me. What team that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I don't know if they thought, well, we're hitting and
we're gonna eventually gonna do it, but to come in
with that bit of a take the foot off the
pedal attitude and approach towards the game, I mean, they've
given helped give the Mets two wins here. And now
the Mets go into game Game six and Game seven,
Guess who's got the big pitching advantage the Mets to
The Mets have two pretty good starts, including Sean ma Anda,
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who just baffled the Dodgers in Game two, and the
Dodgers are coming with a bullpen game. And then it's
gonna be Walker Buehler, who I'm sure the Mets would
love to face again. Because they chased all those pitchers
of first game, they'll have more discipline. The big pitching
advantage goes to the Mets. I mean, it's still the
Dodgers series to lose. They got to win one game.
The Mets have to win too, they're playing at home,
but the pitching, the pitching advantage is now to the
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Mets side. And I thought the Dodgers would come out
today and say, we're not even gonna give you life.
We're gonna come out, we're gonna throw the hammer down early,
and it's gonna be three, four to nothing US early
and it's just gonna be a steady march to the
World Series and the two games. Now, I felt the
Dodgers kind of backed off the throttle on that, and
that really is puzzling.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
At this point in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
We had the Dave Roberts response Ken Rosenthal asking him
about the sequencing in the first inning and about Otani
not breaking for home on the ground ball to short
and just said, well, he had a brain freeze, and
it's like, wow, all right, he basically said contact play
on obviously, not if it's a sharply hit ball back
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to the mound or third base.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But he didn't get a really good lead.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
All of that to say, all right, there should have
been a scoring opportunity instead, you.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Know, you go down and then Alonso hits the three
run home run.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Great pitch like that was one of the best pitches
I thought Flaherty had actually thrown in that inning.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
There was the only good hitch.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
There were thirty of them, right, thirty or thirty also
put it anyway, and he went down, He goes down
and gets it and it absolutely hammers it. Yeah, so
it's a lot less not not as complicated as Jason
you made it out to be.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It's a lot less simple. How is it?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's a lot more you mean, it's more simple, day
less simple? It's more complicated, That's all it is. What
is it?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's a lot simpler than what you're saying? Okay, what
does this say? All that?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Why is it made up half of the stuff he said,
it made up half the stuff I say.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
You did? Got a radio show to you till Sunday?
How about it? Boss?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Okay, I kind of dig it's a lot simpler. It
already sucked you guys live to see another day. No,
but but that was that was Game five.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
But we do need to.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Explain the Dave Roberts side of it, right when we
when we get down to it, is that you're only
down three nothing, right, Your team then puts a bunch
of run opportunities are there, they don't hit with runners
in scoring position, a lot of left on base. You
guys had nineteen odd opportunities with runners in scoring posiness
pretty good. You had twenty nine in the first four games.
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So and obviously we talked with Steve about it before.
Very rarely do you go through a game where there's
no strikeouts like all of that, uh to say, you know,
down three nothing, there's the game's gettable, and then the
third starts to unfold and there's nobody up and throwing.
There's nothing to hey, you know, we should stop the
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bleeding and try to win this one. That's the only
I think I raised my hand on It's like still
a gettable game until.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
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Speaker 3 (16:57):
But is there actually a better series going on right
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Speaker 2 (17:04):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 2 (17:25):
You?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Literally?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
How dare you? I'm not don't even play in New York, Man,
What do you mean they don't play in New York?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What are you talking about? Exactly what I mean? Queens
is New York barely. Okay, that's true. It is New York.
It is in New York. Ah. Look, while we have
an incredible NLCS that is still going on, the ALCS
thrilling Yankees now went away after all the twists and
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turns tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
There may be a better series going on right now,
is it? Penguin? It's nice. Penguin is good. Man Bad
Monkey was very good. Wow. The new season of frum
is really good.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Uh at the moment, I'm very much out on shrinking
after the first two episodes of the second season.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah we can. We will talk about it.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I will think the Mets are good in the NLC
across your your show, You've won one more game than
we have.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You've won more games in signs.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But Sunday night, okay, we'll see how the Jets lose
and the mats Man.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's gonna that's gonna be fun. That would be a rough,
that would be a rough Sunday. I don't I can't
make it go. I don't feel so good.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I was I was in first, I was hurt by
Judson Frostburg's words, and then I suffered an injury. Uh,
he'll be covering Monday night football with the Chargers playing
the Cardinals. Sure, yeah, you'll be Jay's again, but you'll
also be calling into the show if that double header
on Sunday happens.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
US left us a note. Yeah it's twenty eight minutes long.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But maybe, just maybe, the WNBA Finals is better than
both of these series. It has been outstanding. We get
Game five Sunday Night, Liberty and the Links because the
Links pull out an eighty two eighty win tonight thanks
to two free throws with a second left to go
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from Bridget Carlton to win it eighty two eighty. Now
here's part of the deal, Sabrina I Andesku, you're getting
a lot of credit.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Look the big time three.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
She hit that looked like she was putting the liberty
in to win the WNBA finals. Incredible shot, incredible shot,
But you want to be fair, she has cost them
two games now with her fouling at the end of games. Right,
you add game one where she has the panic foul
on Courtney Williams with the four point play in the
final seconds of regulation. That okay, she hits the three,
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she ties the game, but instead with a four point play.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Gives her the lead. That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's an inexcusable foul. And now here she's the one
that fouled Carlton on a on a rebound play because
the shot is taken and the ball comes off the
rim over Sabrina Eescu's head and Carlton kind of rises
up to grab it and chuck it up real fast,
and Irones You just reaches around behind her like grabs
two handfuls of Carlton's butt, like that's kind of what
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it was. She like grabs two handfuls right in from
the referenda. Of course, that's gonna get called in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Like, you're not You're not stopping that play. She's she's
taller than you. She goes up, she gets the ball,
and you you know how the game is being officiated
because both head coaches have been very upset about the officiator,
right chere. Reeve was upset last night. Both coaches extremely
upset this one. Oh, she was nuts tonight. We're getting hit.
It's a bloody Cheryl Reeve was upset after Game three.
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Now she's upset tonight. I can't believe this. And but
you watch, I'm like, what are you doing on that?
Why are you reaching around and grabbing her? There's so
many things you can do defensively that is not gonna
draw a foul, but you decide to reach and like,
they're not gonna see it. Those are two fouls at
the end of games that you your team potentially could
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have won, right Like you're talking about both those games
likely going overtime if you don't foul, those games are
going to overtime. But I fouled, and now we're going
to game five. Like much of it here when she was,
she's keeping both teams in the series, and much of
her here she was for Game three. I mean she's
on the hook for those plays a Game one and Game.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Four, great throw of disparity twenty to nine in this one. Yeah,
just crazy sequencing down the stretch. But you take all
the glory off of the big shot and do the
press conference about how many text messages you had to
respond to and how it was keeping you up and
whatever else.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
But also decision making in the final seconds of games.
And we've talked about this with hell every word at
this point. Some of the clock management or lack thereof
in the NFL and certainly college football, some of the
chaos that ensues, and here you have stretches and I
get it. Both coaches are salty, just like in the NLCS.
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I mean, both managers are not exactly thrilled with what's
going on, uh in terms of umpiring behind the plate.
But you gotta play through, you gotta play smart, and
in the final seconds of a game where they're blowing
the whistle repeatedly, because that was the biggest complaint.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Hey, there's a lot of falls, a lot of tiki tags.
Yeah that's a fall. Yeah, No, it's absolutely if she
just if she just keeps her hands out straight straight out,
why are you grab see penguin both head panty down?
If you pay penguin no foul when you I don't
know what would be clutching grab?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
If clutch and grab, like that'd be something else. I
don't know. It starts getting into a weird plate on
a Friday. But you start talking about kind of animals
that not penguins. They can't beause they can't crag because
they don't have they just have flippers.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But uh, but I mean really, it's like all you
just keep your hands out, Like, how is great? I get,
I get the philosophy and look, Bruce Bowen was always right.
Bruce Bowen is one of the best defensive players in
the history of the NBA. Also one of the dirtiest players. Yeah,
he'd always do the whole stick my foot so your
landing spot is bad.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
He was always part of the reason that rule exists on.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
His best thing that was always if someone's going in
for a layup, I will reach down and grab the
offhand and and they miss a light because someone's grabbing
their hand and the referees don't see it because they're
looking up at the ball going up and I'm not found.
And I remember sometime in the playoffs when Steve Nash
going absolutely crazy because it was a big mislayup he
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had near the end of the series against the Spurs, Like,
how do you not see that?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
And you see the replay and Bruce Bowen just.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yanks on his off arm right, and this is a
play where I bet she was thinking the same thing,
Are they really going to cause it?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
When you reach.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Around and grab, When you reach around and grab and
it's right in front of the referee, it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
The thing is, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The thing that why sabrin Escue is on the hook
for this is that I don't know what she thought
she was going to be getting extra by reaching around
and grabbing. Was that like, oh I'm gonna feel this,
so I'm gonna look down, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Gonna get the shot. I mean, these are professional players,
but like, I don't know that the risk was worth it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
The risk is not worth it at that point when
she's got to grab something and put it up right away,
and her shot was and Carlton shot was didn't even
draw iron, and all of a sudden you're going to
the free throw line to shoot twice and win like that.
Those are the plays that drive me crazy as a fan.
And I'm like, hey, it's great you wit that shot
to win Game three, but wow, that's one for you
in near your call and two in the anti column
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because the fouls you gofed us in game one. In
game four, now, at the end of the game, they
did get the time out advance the ball down two
and I'd ask you got a shot, and you had
everybody holding their breath, and you could see the countenance
of everybody shift on the court and thinking, oh, no,
she did it again. No, off the off the backboard
and it falls harmlessly to the ground. Game five will
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come up Sunday night. But she wasn't particularly good on
the course of this game either, right, zero for five.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
From three point range, ten rebounds. She did have our
ten points, and she did have four turnovers in addition
to the foul that sent the winning free throws to
the line.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
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few years. Coming up in ninety seconds, we'll continue our
breakdown and take a look at one of the huge
NFL games from this coming Sunday.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
But first special delivery.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Steve Disager has a recap of every one of the
mets twelve.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Runs they scored today against the Dodgers, So we got
to get him played like yesterday. Yeah, exactly, that was
the show yesterday. I think that was the first two
hours of the four.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
We would but we don't roll on the Mets. Oh well,
they're playing the Dodgers. Yeah, we have every Dodger run.
Oh okay, oh good, you have all six of urs.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You want to hear the Bookie Bets home run.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
The score was ten to two in the fourth. We
will get to that in a moment because in late
night college football, Oklahoma State has just scored with just
over a minute left at thirteenth ranked BYU to retake
the League Cowboys thirty five thirty one leaders at BYU
late in the game, and Fresno State with about two
minutes left leads at Nevada twenty four to twenty one.
Earlier on Fox TV, Number two, Oregon won at Purdue
(26:27):
thirty five nothing. Dylan Gabriel twenty one of twenty five
passing two hundred and ninety yards, two touchdowns, one interception.
Perdue has lost six in a row, and Duke, now
six and one, got a home win against Florida State
twenty three to sixteen. The Seminoles committed turnovers on three
straight plays in the first half, including a pick six. Yes,
they lost by a touchdown. Florida State is one and
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six next weekend. Florida State's at Miami. Duke's defense tonight
was six sacks the Seminoles only td came on a
kickoff return, and Duke's offense just wasn't there. Nine punts,
ten first downs, only one hundred and eighty total yards,
and they still beat the Seminoles. Duke with its first
ever win against Florida State in twenty three ACC meetings.
A reminder tomorrow at noon Eastern time on Fox TV,
(27:11):
Nebraska five and one at Indiana six and oh 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.
Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior practice fully today after
a concussion. Jacoby Myers, Raiders wide receiver, listed as doubtful
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for the game against the Rams Sunday due to an
ankle injury. Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson returns Sunday against the Dolphins.
He'd missed a couple games with the oblique injury, but
Colt's running back Jonathan Taylor is out again this weekend
with his ankle injury. Yes in the WNBA Finals, Minnesota
at home with two late free throws, beat New York
eighty two to eighty. Game five of the best of
(27:52):
five is Sunday in New York. Brianna Stewart of New
York tonight five of twenty shooting from the floor. The
NBA preseason ended tonight. Regular season starts Tuesday. NHL wins
for Carolina, Colorado went overtime and four and oh Winnipeg
beat San Jose eight to three. Sharks have lost all
five games.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Why did you get you say another win for the Jets?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Why can't you just say that the undefeated Jets another winnie.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, you just want to clip that and make people
think that we're talking about Yeah, come on, put that
karma out there for the Jets. Jets are undefeated. That's
never gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
At least the Mets season is still alive. They pounded
the Dodgers today twelve to six, led eight one in
the third inning the loss to Jacks Flaterday. Mets closer
Edwin Diez pitched the last two innings, no runs, one hit,
allowed just twenty three pitches, and Saturday is an off
day in the series. Game six is Sunday night in
La on FS one again. Cleveland Guardians will be hosting
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the Yankees again Saturday night. But the Yanks are up
three games to one now in the ALCS thanks to
two runs top of the ninth. They beat Cleveland eight
to six and the loss to Emmanuel Classe, the best
closer in the regular season, but this postseason he has
allowed eight runs in seven innings. Gencarlo stand a three
run homer in the win, and Juan Soto first inning
(29:12):
had a two run shot back to you.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Thank you, Steve O. Now, before we get to a
big NFL game. This is the lowest point in the
history of Florida State football. I don't know, you're going
back to like when Bobby Bowden got high, before Bobby
Bowden got hired. I mean this is they lose to
Duke right and dud Duke six and one, and they're
having a nice little year and Manny Diaz is always
a really good defensive coach, and Duke's defense is pretty good.
(29:37):
But they have one hundred and eighty yards of total
offense and they lose, and Florida State had turnovers on
three plays in a row. Every game continues to get worse,
and for a it's this fall that doesn't seem possible.
You know, ten months ago, they were the best team
in college football, and he was complaining that they got
left out. Yere, Jordan Travis was great. Jets sho maybe
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he was the difference, but Jordan Travis was incredible. Florida
State was the best team in college football. He gets
hurt they get left out of the playoff. Ten months later, Yeah, okay,
I expect a little bit of a drop off. Michigan's
had a little bit of a drop off from last
year to this year, but this has gone from, Hey,
we're the best team in college football, and now we're
one of the absolute worst. And they're looking at a
(30:21):
season where if they win three games that's a success.
At this point, I mean, they got one win so far.
They're gonna lose next week against Miami. It's stunning that
a team can go from we are the best team
in college football and ten months later we look like
one of the ten worst teams in all Division one.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Did they somehow figure out how to beat Miami because
they've had their share of narrow business, yet there they
are sitting at number six. You go back to that
game against Georgia Tech and get things started, twenty four
to twenty one loss, as like, all right, Sky's falling
a bit. But it's like, all right, twelve team playoff,
you can lose a game early whatever else. And that
was the last time they scored twenty points in a game.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, uh so again just a bit for Florida.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Say it really is stunning for Florida. Did they kick
them out of the conference?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Now, I know they were trying to ah, trying to
find loopholes and outs or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I know we're going to charge you like two hundred
million dollars to leave. You can just go. Yeah, if
you want to go.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Just go, just scout right, just come up with a
hundred million.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We got to save the money to keep Miami and Clemson,
but well, you know, we'll get that. Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the tirec dot Com Studios. Coming up
next is the NFL Game of the Week, still the
game we thought it was? Or has another game gotten
even bigger after what's happened today? That's next, Jason, Mike.
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Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, Sir, fireworks going off in provo.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That means BYU continues to stay undefeated. Oklahoma State thirty
eight thirty five. Oklahoma State tried one of those crazy
lateral plays.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
At the end. It did not work. The Cougars shades
of Robbie Bosco.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Wow, look at you seven and oh number thirteen in
the country looking for a spot in the college football
About that score that touchdown though, what with eleven seconds remaining. Yeah,
you want to talk about chaos thinking, Hey, Oklahoma State's
got the lead.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It's thirty five to thirty one. There's a little over
a minute left. Not so fast.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, so the night of college football is over. We
have the big day tomorrow, Mike Nay. We gave you
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Coming into this week, Kansas City and San Francisco seemed
like it was going to be the game week.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Right, super Bowl? Here it is Mahomes the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well after today, maybe Jet Steelers is the game of
the week. You have DeVante Adams who is set to
play Jets. Say he looks good, ready to go to
make his debut on Sunday. So, hey, seeing Devanta Adams
now with this offense, how's this gonna go? And it
looks like we're gonna see Russell Wilson starting at quarterback
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for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
How do we know this?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Have the Steelers made announcement? No, but Mike Tomlin, who
I'm sure is is pulling out all the hair on
his head. The Steelers have spent all week not saying
who's gonna be the quarterback? Is it Justin Fields? Is
it Russell Wilson? What's gonna happen? And look, we've told
you stick with Justin Fields. He's the better player. Russell
Wilson is not the same guy. He's not gonna give
you anything more than Justin Fields is, and Justin Fields
(33:49):
has more of a ceiling. But find someone who loves
you as much as for some reason, Mike Tomlin loves
Russell Wilson. Wilson was getting reps with the Ones, and
certainly he was trending towards starting. I would say he
would start anyway, because as much gamesmanship as the Steelers
want to want to prove and use with the Jets,
they're not going to do this to Russell Wilson and say, Okay, suddenly,
now Justin Field is starting a quarterback. But the reason
(34:14):
it looks like we're getting Russell Wilson is because after
practice today, Steelers.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Doing their interviews getting ready for Sunday. How did everything go?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
How did Russell Wilson look at a lot of reps
with the ones now at practice? And George Pickens was
asked about, Hey, what's it look getting your your timing
down with him? And he said, oh, yeah, very important,
you know, getting our timing down together. You know, we
haven't practiced a lot together, and you know, since he's
starting Sunday, it's important.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Wait wait what? But oh? Was I not supposed to
say that?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So of course all the reporters run to Mike Tomlin. Hey,
so we heard that Russell Wilson starting on Sunday. Who
told you? I don't want to tell you, who told you.
I don't want to tell you. You're never gonna trust this again?
Who told you?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Pickens? I knew it. I know it now know it.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
To just bring it back to the reality of it,
Tomlin had made the statement of hey, it's a decision
and we know in house, but we'll see you on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
But in his head that entire scenario, I know who
it is. Don't say I'm gonna kill him. I'm just
gonna kill him dead. And I'm gonna kill him again.
I can't get him to give an honest effort during
the games. Now he's giving away our plans? Am I
coaching Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell again? What is going on?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But think about the history of wide receivers in Pittsburgh,
some ultra talented guys that one after another has like
something popped up on the.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Radar just suddenly. It took a giant left turn. It is.
Go back to Wallace, go back to.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Brown, Gump, oh, Chase, Claypool, you name it. How'd you
feel about your coaching tenure in Pittsburgh, Mike, I couldn't
get away from the guys that were just getting in
my way. If I could have not coach Brown and
Belle and Wallace. Remember Jerome Bennis, you know, if he
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didn't have to coach those guys like right now, we'd
watch him do press conferences and he would be like
Ned Flanders hy, Hey, then how you do it? Oh,
golly g the Jets are going to be a tough
game on Sunday. I'll tell you I might just have
to pray extra hard. Rod Todd, how about you? I mean,
that's that's nicely done. He would be the nicest guy
(36:30):
in the world. Yeah, idly, hey, he would be. But
now I got to deal with this Russell Wilson. But
I have good news for Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
You do believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
This is why these good news for Justin Fields. If
Russell Wilson starts Sunday, and according to head coach George Pickens,
he is If Russell Wilson starts Sunday, Justin Fields will
get that job back halftime or at the very latest
next week because the Jets defense is going to eat
him alive. And I'm not saying this is Jets fan.
I'm saying this as a team with a top five
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defense that is going to have Russell Wilson for lunch.
It's not the same guy as he was even five
years ago. He's lim unlimited yet, but now he's more
limp limp, more limp limited. You don't know that he's
more limited, and I guarantee you he's more limited. I
(37:23):
guarantee he's more limited. Uh, the Jets, the Jets defense
is going to clamp down on.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
The Steelers and they're gonna show you.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
This is why Justin Fields needs to be the quarterback
and maybe they go back to him a halftime. Now again,
maybe it's next week, but when he plays, he's gonna
show you he's not the same guy. And then Mike
Tomlin's gonna have no choice but to go back to him.
Albert Breer Monday Morning quarterback. Already, when I think when
a Dan Patrick show today and said, hey, there's a
lot of people in the locker room that don't want
to change to Justin Fields, But for some reason, Mike
(37:53):
Tomlin has this. It's just scratch to go to Russell Wilson. Okay,
you're gonna see on Sunday. You're gonna see on Sunday.
It'll be a low scoring game. The Jets will make
enough plays offensively, DeVonta Adams will make plays. They'll beat
the Steelers, and suddenly the Steelers are a game over
five hundred. Had we played Justin Fields, had he been
we played a guy who's more athletic and able to
get out and make plays with his legs and make
(38:14):
plays on the Jets defense, Oh maybe we should have
done that. That's how the game is gonna go. I
have no doubt that they are gonna eat Russell Wilson
for lunch. I wonder what the odds are that Jordan
Travis has to take a snap? Taking a snap In
other words, tj wis he's not even healthy yet, He's
not gonna take a snap. Garrett Wilson we play quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Before it was more of the.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Joke of, hey, you got a defense on the other
side that can get after it as well. So that's
the curiosity of how do you neutralize that Pittsburgh front.
But to your point about Russell Wilson, he was awful
last year and folks can look at the stats and
go look what he was able to put up, go
back and actually watch how those sequences played out. There's
a lot of bad sacks take and a lot of
(38:55):
bad decisions. There's a reason Denver said we really we're
okay eating what was it, eighty five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
It's a lot. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Million.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
You said billion, but it's his million dollars.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
But by the way, eighty five million dollars to go away.
I might have just, you know, swallowed the word. But
the point being they they wanted to move on. Sean
Payton wanted his guy, and whether he gets along with
bo Nicks, they're still having growing pains there, even despite
the giant beatdown of the Saints and their four and
three record. But all that said, Russell Wilson of twenty
(39:30):
thirteen got carried by a defense in Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
We seem to forget that. If it was he got
some of that here, but he ain't the same guy.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
If it was Wilson of even a few years ago,
I would say, yeah, but the Jets aren't going to
get embarrassed by him.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yes they are. No, They're not gonna happen. It's like
the Mets are gonna get a Look.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Hey, I was upset when when Poppy predicted today on
the on the Fox pregame show, Mets are gonna win
ten two.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I'm like, yeah, that's great. I'm like, oh wow, Mets
are up ten two. Well, Bobby looks like a genius.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Song and how about a Fresco watch him die a
little bit with each pitch. I'm sure his uh, his
wife will be giving us updates from the game.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Jets should not Jets should not be favored, yet they are.
Is this a trap game?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Jets? You exit?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
How about a Fresco exit swollen dome for Mike im
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, because yeah, I don't care. It's just over there.
I don't care. I'll worry about the Yankees Guardians after
the Mets Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
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an hour for you?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
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tire buying should be. I'm laughing because we'll get to
the Mets Dodgers in a second. The Yankees win tonight
over the Guardians eight to six, a huge three run
jack by Jim Carlos Stanton. He has been incredible this postseason.
They hold on to win some bungling plays defensively, but
the Yankees get to Emmanuel Classe again, second time.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
In the series.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So now they're one game away from the World Series.
Now I told you my dad's dislike for Jim Crum.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He's not a fan.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
No, he is not. Clearly, Judge is his guy. Chisholm
is his guy. Cole is his guy, right, but he
has just never had anything. Well, sorry, and Clay Holmes too.
He hates Clay Holmes.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
But it's funny. I mean, Stanton's creeping.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What does he He's gotta be near five home runs,
it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, he's been a Yankee longer than Jazz. Chisholm
just showed up yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's like Jeter called my dad and said, hey, I
got Stanton for us. My dad said, cool, he said,
but I need you to chip into pay for him
and my dad has to send the Yankees money every
week to help pay for gen Carlo stan It does
sound like that. There's a lot of that's how much
he doesn't like stamp So every strikeout actually costs him money.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That is really what.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Every time Stanton does something, he's had an incredible postseason,
I send my dad a text and he has something
to just discount what gen Carlo Stanton does, Right, it's great.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I like, Dad, you would have been a great sports
talk radio host in the day. Man, Like I just say,
whatever Johnny Bench does is terrible. He stinks. I came
up with the first clutch formula. He's the best hitting.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He stinks, but the Big Red Machine is the best.
Here they steak, They're overrated. If Don Gully should have
done they should have done more, winning all all these things.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Ah, So every time Stanton does something, I text my dad.
So we text about the game tonight and at this
his you know, his hatred for Clay Holmes. That game
was a lot closer that needed to be blanking Clay Holmes, right,
So I said, okay, I said, did you have any
heart attacks at any point? I was worried I'd have to
do a wellness check on you. And he wrote back,
heart was fine, temper that's another matter. I'm like, oh, okay,
(03:19):
so he's still hot, like you know, the Yankees won,
but it wasn't good enough. He can't just be happy
that one, right, Sure? So I said, how do you
feel that Stanton's your best player now? So I waited
and he just texted me back.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
He waited for it. How do you feel that Stanton's
your best player now?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Right's back, you.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Wouldn't say that if he had to field. It's the
beauty of it. He didn't have to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And then you wrote back, that's that four times old
Glover work it out for you because he doesn't have
to fit. If he had to feel, he would be
saying that, oh my day. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Stanton hit a Grand Slam to win the World Series
and the ninth in against the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
In a game that my dad.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Is at, Stanton could cross home plate, run to my dad,
give him a high five, and take a picture and
my dad would say, hey, can you introduce me to Judge?
That's what that's what my dad would do.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Ye part of the show history, Shoot your shot you
have no idea. It's just I don't even know what
to say to me this point.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I don't even know. It's like I'm trolling him when
I asked her about Stanton that. But Yankee fans were
more welcoming of Rodriguez. Yes, even after everything like in
the moment, it wasn't as bad.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
As it is now. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Matter of fact that he was the better shortstop and
acquiesced and played third base, Jeter keep the roll probably
helped a.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Little bit, even though it probably shouldn't have happened, but
they did so. Okay, But yeah, but he is he
is just like that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I'll tell you, you know, just anger it's watching
this is that. Yes, baseball, is there such a thing
as momentum. There is, but it's it's not quite like
football or basketball. It's a little bit different. You know,
the old phrases, momentum is always as good as the
next day starting pitcher.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I subscribe to that in some ways and some ways
I don't. Because the Yankees and the Guardians. Right, you
watch Yankees come back from a game in which the
Yankees were one strike away from going up threes. I
the Guardians hit a home run, a pinch hit home run.
Big Christmas hits a home run to tie it, and
then Fry It's to run home in.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The tenth to win it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Right, you think that's a devastating game for the Yankees,
But what happens. They come back, They play pretty well,
they get a big home run from Stanton, and they win.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
They be Class A again. For the Guardians.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's so incredibly difficult because when you have your closer
out there and he gets beat, that affects you incredibly mentally.
I can't tell you it just does. It's hard to say, Okay,
we lost, we got beat. Let's put this game away
and come back, come back again, because when this is
the second time that's happened this series that he has
got lit up, when he has been automatic, and that's
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a tough thing, you know. You know, go back to
all big postseason losses and teams that have lost series
where they were favored or had a chance to win,
and if you see their closer getting beat, especially a
couple of times, mentally, it's really hard to come back from.
I know the Guardians have another game coming out tomorrow,
but I feel like this is where the Yankees come
out and they throw the hammer down and they win
this game pretty easily, because these are two devastating things
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to come back from. Where the Guardians had two games
and instead the guy anybody in the league would want
on the mount, you could have not only your closer,
but anybody from the thirty teams on the mount.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I want class on the mount.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And he gets beat, Well, ye're back back to even
and you're thinking, all right, we get Class A. He's
gonna steady it and we're gonna be able to steal
a run and steal another win. You had the big
fly We talked about it earlier. It's now making the
rounds the New York Post and others writing about the
you know, big Christmas fly ball home run that wasn't
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But yeah, I mean we know the closer role. I mean,
history is littered with guys that one or two bad
outings sent them into a spiral to where they couldn't
be used for a week or two. Had to work
themselves back into it mentally pitching a couple of low
stress situations, mop up kind of things before they were
able to be reinserted into a closer role. I mean,
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for Class a It's just a tale of two seasons, right,
how dominant he was all season long. Now you get
to the postseason, he's given up more runs than he
did with all of those appearances for the Guardians this
season where he was just.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
All right, it's done, turn the light out on the
way out. We're done.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Instead, now you got guys taken better at bats familiarity.
We spoke of that earlier in the show. But yeah,
it's it's not the lockdown position. I mean, we've been
joking about sweating relief pitcher x Y Z fore because
they've taken to the brink and maybe they save most
of them, but guess what, they don't get them all
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the postseason. In the postseason, that's the thing. I mean,
we had plenty of times where Janson would perfect for
a month, but you sweat it out every appearance.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, two runners on, let's go. He's been perfect
for a month, doesn't matter. Now perfect is a relative turn.
He gets to say finishes the job, but he does
not make it easy on your heart and your wits.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And right now Cleveland's in that space, and'd be curious
to see in a situation tomorrow, do you just immediately
just said, well, this is what we've always done, and
this is what he does. I don't know that it's
automatic that clause it would get the goal.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Now, speaking of not making it easy, the Mets, they
beat the Dodgers today in a game in which the
bats wake up all at once and Jack Flaherty, who
was unhittable game one, doesn't make it out of the
third inning in game two, and in game.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Five should it was he should have been done after
that third out.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Alonzo hits a three run homer in the first inning
off a really good pitch. The Mets just continue to
bat him around. They sit on his fastball. They did
a great job today not chasing his secondary pitches, which
was really the key when I saw them, Okay, they're
not nearly chasing as much as they did extend.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I felt really good.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
They took a page out of what the Dodgers have
done the first four games of this series. Mendoza even
alluded to it in Game three. Wow, they're doing a
great job of taking pitches, almost as if to say
to his dugout, Hey, guys, you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Hear that, And they're doing a good job of extending
it past.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, I'm gonna the micro they're interviewing me. Now, let's
go to broadcast this to the rest of the locker room.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But is that enough? Is that enough to wake up
the Mets?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now, when you get to this point in the season,
you can always use a little extra And what I
guarantee you made its way back to the Mets in
the locker room. Was last night's game that the Dodgers
win in a laugher. Right, it's every every inning it's
a run or two. The Dodgers celebrated a lot last
night in game. You saw a lot of big smiles,
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a big time celebration, which happens, right, and you see
it now, vote posting everybody, you know, somebody gets out
of the fourth inning, one, two, three, they're screaming like
they just closed the game. But the Dodgers are really
enjoying themselves. And a lot of their quotes after the
game were very self congratulatory. Not that they were bad quotes,
but they were things that you hear a team say
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when a series actually is over, not when you're up
three to one. And I think the Dodgers came off
that game last night thinking we won the series. Right,
We're up three to one. We got it right. Mookie
Betts is laughing with the guys on Fox after and
then I hear quotes like Freddie Freeman say, what are
you gonna do with our offense? We have two Hall
of Fame guys at the top of the lineup, right,
Max Munsey saying when we're on, we're impossible to beat.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know, we are guys hitting all this.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
These are not horrible things to say, but these are
things you say when the series is over and it's hey,
how are you able to beat the Mets at four
out of five? And then it's our batting, Our order
is fantastic. We pick each other up. You can't stop us.
We have two Hall of Fame guys at the top
of the lineup. That stuff you say when the series
is actually over.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
So you're really paraphrasing the Gambler in the vein of
the Dodgers and their.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Postgame comings at DJ You have to know when to
hold them, know when to fold them. But I guarantee
you the Dodgers speaking acting, hey, this series is over,
I guarantee you that got its way back to the Mets,
and that was part of what motivated them today.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Because really, I thought about that last night.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm like, boy, Dodgers, they're just rolling right now, but
they really seem to be talking and acting like the
series is over, even to the point where in the
beginning of the game today, right like, how does Otani
not go home? Like, the Dodgers start out and this
is an awful start for the Mets. Right Otani gets
on base to start the game, and then a line
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out to right field by Mookie Betts is dropped by
Starling Marte and the Dodgers have second and third, nobody out.
It's already a disaster for the Mets, and I'm going,
this is how we're really is how we're starting.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And then a.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Ground ball to short and Lindora is playing back because
the Mets just want to get an out and get
out of the inning. And Otani doesn't score, and the
Mets get the out at first, they get a pop
up strikeout, they get out of the inning. Alonzo it's
the home run and they're off. When Flaherty doesn't have
it after the first inning, the Dodgers decide we're gonna
leave him out there and you're gonna absorb some some
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hits and ad bats here because we need to save
the bullpen for some innings. Like this is the second
time in the series that the Dodgers really didn't come
into a game with the we're throwing the hammer down
to try to win Game two when they lost, it
was a bullpen game, and we're bringing in non high
leverage guys when they're down one nothing in the second inning.
Like I get that you're managing your bullpen, but if
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you're bringing everybody in in every game, okay, how you
do it? And it's like I felt, the Dodgers didn't
play Game two with the one hundred percent we're out
to win and control this game. It was more, we're
playing so we can control our pitching situation the rest
of the series. And then that worked the next couple
of nights because Buler was able to go four innings
and then you had Yamamoto. But now Flaherty tonight and
he looks bad. So now it's okay, when we're down
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three to nothing in the second inning, that's it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
We are not going to bring in our high leverage guys.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Flowery's gonna assume some innings here, and we're gonna be
okay losing this game and going back so we can
set up the Game six of being able to have
our bullpen guys go Meanwhile, okay, you have a day off,
but okay, but again, this is two games in a
row where I felt like in the early going the
Dodgers were not nearly as aggressive as.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They needed to be. And that surprises me. What team that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I don't know if they thought, well, we're hitting and
we're gonna eventually gonna do it, but to come in
with that bit of a take the foot off the
pedal attitude and approach towards the game, I mean, they've
given helped give the Mets two wins here. And now
the Mets go into game Game six and Game seven,
Guess who's got the big pitching advantage the Mets to
The Mets have two pretty good starts, including Sean ma Anda,
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who just baffled the Dodgers in Game two, and the
Dodgers are coming with a bullpen game. And then it's
gonna be Walker Buehler, who I'm sure the Mets would
love to face again. Because they chased all those pitchers
of first game, they'll have more discipline. The big pitching
advantage goes to the Mets. I mean, it's still the
Dodgers series to lose. They got to win one game.
The Mets have to win too, they're playing at home,
but the pitching, the pitching advantage is now to the
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Mets side. And I thought the Dodgers would come out
today and say, we're not even gonna give you life.
We're gonna come out, we're gonna throw the hammer down early,
and it's gonna be three, four to nothing US early
and it's just gonna be a steady march to the
World Series and the two games. Now, I felt the
Dodgers kind of backed off the throttle on that, and
that really is puzzling.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
At this point in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
We had the Dave Roberts response Ken Rosenthal asking him
about the sequencing in the first inning and about Otani
not breaking for home on the ground ball to short
and just said, well, he had a brain freeze, and
it's like, wow, all right, he basically said contact play
on obviously, not if it's a sharply hit ball back
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to the mound or third base.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But he didn't get a really good lead.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
All of that to say, all right, there should have
been a scoring opportunity instead, you.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Know, you go down and then Alonso hits the three
run home run.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Great pitch like that was one of the best pitches
I thought Flaherty had actually thrown in that inning.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
There was the only good hitch.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
There were thirty of them, right, thirty or thirty also
put it anyway, and he went down, He goes down
and gets it and it absolutely hammers it. Yeah, so
it's a lot less not not as complicated as Jason
you made it out to be.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It's a lot less simple. How is it?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's a lot more you mean, it's more simple, day
less simple? It's more complicated, That's all it is. What
is it?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's a lot simpler than what you're saying? Okay, what
does this say? All that?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Why is it made up half of the stuff he said,
it made up half the stuff I say.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
You did? Got a radio show to you till Sunday?
How about it? Boss?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Okay, I kind of dig it's a lot simpler. It
already sucked you guys live to see another day. No,
but but that was that was Game five.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
But we do need to.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Explain the Dave Roberts side of it, right when we
when we get down to it, is that you're only
down three nothing, right, Your team then puts a bunch
of run opportunities are there, they don't hit with runners
in scoring position, a lot of left on base. You
guys had nineteen odd opportunities with runners in scoring posiness
pretty good. You had twenty nine in the first four games.
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So and obviously we talked with Steve about it before.
Very rarely do you go through a game where there's
no strikeouts like all of that, uh to say, you know,
down three nothing, there's the game's gettable, and then the
third starts to unfold and there's nobody up and throwing.
There's nothing to hey, you know, we should stop the
(16:36):
bleeding and try to win this one. That's the only
I think I raised my hand on It's like still
a gettable game until.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It wasn't exit out about a Fresco exit swelling down
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
So Yes, an incredible NLCS A nip tuck game four
of the ALCS.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But is there actually a better series going on right
now than that? That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
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Speaker 1 (17:15):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel
of songs about New York. WHOA, how dare you?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Literally?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
How dare you? I'm not don't even play in New York, Man,
What do you mean they don't play in New York?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What are you talking about? Exactly what I mean? Queens
is New York barely. Okay, that's true. It is New York.
It is in New York. Ah. Look, while we have
an incredible NLCS that is still going on, the ALCS
thrilling Yankees now went away after all the twists and
(17:52):
turns tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
There may be a better series going on right now,
is it? Penguin? It's nice. Penguin is good. Man Bad
Monkey was very good. Wow. The new season of frum
is really good.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Uh at the moment, I'm very much out on shrinking
after the first two episodes of the second season.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah we can. We will talk about it.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I will think the Mets are good in the NLC
across your your show, You've won one more game than
we have.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You've won more games in signs.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But Sunday night, okay, we'll see how the Jets lose
and the mats Man.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's gonna that's gonna be fun. That would be a rough,
that would be a rough Sunday. I don't I can't
make it go. I don't feel so good.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I was I was in first, I was hurt by
Judson Frostburg's words, and then I suffered an injury. Uh,
he'll be covering Monday night football with the Chargers playing
the Cardinals. Sure, yeah, you'll be Jay's again, but you'll
also be calling into the show if that double header
on Sunday happens.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
US left us a note. Yeah it's twenty eight minutes long.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But maybe, just maybe, the WNBA Finals is better than
both of these series. It has been outstanding. We get
Game five Sunday Night, Liberty and the Links because the
Links pull out an eighty two eighty win tonight thanks
to two free throws with a second left to go
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from Bridget Carlton to win it eighty two eighty. Now
here's part of the deal, Sabrina I Andesku, you're getting
a lot of credit.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Look the big time three.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
She hit that looked like she was putting the liberty
in to win the WNBA finals. Incredible shot, incredible shot,
But you want to be fair, she has cost them
two games now with her fouling at the end of games. Right,
you add game one where she has the panic foul
on Courtney Williams with the four point play in the
final seconds of regulation. That okay, she hits the three,
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she ties the game, but instead with a four point play.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Gives her the lead. That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's an inexcusable foul. And now here she's the one
that fouled Carlton on a on a rebound play because
the shot is taken and the ball comes off the
rim over Sabrina Eescu's head and Carlton kind of rises
up to grab it and chuck it up real fast,
and Irones You just reaches around behind her like grabs
two handfuls of Carlton's butt, like that's kind of what
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it was. She like grabs two handfuls right in from
the referenda. Of course, that's gonna get called in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Like, you're not You're not stopping that play. She's she's
taller than you. She goes up, she gets the ball,
and you you know how the game is being officiated
because both head coaches have been very upset about the officiator,
right chere. Reeve was upset last night. Both coaches extremely
upset this one. Oh, she was nuts tonight. We're getting hit.
It's a bloody Cheryl Reeve was upset after Game three.
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Now she's upset tonight. I can't believe this. And but
you watch, I'm like, what are you doing on that?
Why are you reaching around and grabbing her? There's so
many things you can do defensively that is not gonna
draw a foul, but you decide to reach and like,
they're not gonna see it. Those are two fouls at
the end of games that you your team potentially could
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have won, right Like you're talking about both those games
likely going overtime if you don't foul, those games are
going to overtime. But I fouled, and now we're going
to game five. Like much of it here when she was,
she's keeping both teams in the series, and much of
her here she was for Game three. I mean she's
on the hook for those plays a Game one and Game.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Four, great throw of disparity twenty to nine in this one. Yeah,
just crazy sequencing down the stretch. But you take all
the glory off of the big shot and do the
press conference about how many text messages you had to
respond to and how it was keeping you up and
whatever else.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
But also decision making in the final seconds of games.
And we've talked about this with hell every word at
this point. Some of the clock management or lack thereof
in the NFL and certainly college football, some of the
chaos that ensues, and here you have stretches and I
get it. Both coaches are salty, just like in the NLCS.
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I mean, both managers are not exactly thrilled with what's
going on, uh in terms of umpiring behind the plate.
But you gotta play through, you gotta play smart, and
in the final seconds of a game where they're blowing
the whistle repeatedly, because that was the biggest complaint.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Hey, there's a lot of falls, a lot of tiki tags.
Yeah that's a fall. Yeah, No, it's absolutely if she
just if she just keeps her hands out straight straight out,
why are you grab see penguin both head panty down?
If you pay penguin no foul when you I don't
know what would be clutching grab?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
If clutch and grab, like that'd be something else. I
don't know. It starts getting into a weird plate on
a Friday. But you start talking about kind of animals
that not penguins. They can't beause they can't crag because
they don't have they just have flippers.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But uh, but I mean really, it's like all you
just keep your hands out, Like, how is great? I get,
I get the philosophy and look, Bruce Bowen was always right.
Bruce Bowen is one of the best defensive players in
the history of the NBA. Also one of the dirtiest players. Yeah,
he'd always do the whole stick my foot so your
landing spot is bad.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
He was always part of the reason that rule exists on.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
His best thing that was always if someone's going in
for a layup, I will reach down and grab the
offhand and and they miss a light because someone's grabbing
their hand and the referees don't see it because they're
looking up at the ball going up and I'm not found.
And I remember sometime in the playoffs when Steve Nash
going absolutely crazy because it was a big mislayup he
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had near the end of the series against the Spurs, Like,
how do you not see that?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
And you see the replay and Bruce Bowen just.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yanks on his off arm right, and this is a
play where I bet she was thinking the same thing,
Are they really going to cause it?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
When you reach.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Around and grab, When you reach around and grab and
it's right in front of the referee, it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
The thing is, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The thing that why sabrin Escue is on the hook
for this is that I don't know what she thought
she was going to be getting extra by reaching around
and grabbing. Was that like, oh I'm gonna feel this,
so I'm gonna look down, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Gonna get the shot. I mean, these are professional players,
but like, I don't know that the risk was worth it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
The risk is not worth it at that point when
she's got to grab something and put it up right away,
and her shot was and Carlton shot was didn't even
draw iron, and all of a sudden you're going to
the free throw line to shoot twice and win like that.
Those are the plays that drive me crazy as a fan.
And I'm like, hey, it's great you wit that shot
to win Game three, but wow, that's one for you
in near your call and two in the anti column
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because the fouls you gofed us in game one. In
game four, now, at the end of the game, they
did get the time out advance the ball down two
and I'd ask you got a shot, and you had
everybody holding their breath, and you could see the countenance
of everybody shift on the court and thinking, oh, no,
she did it again. No, off the off the backboard
and it falls harmlessly to the ground. Game five will
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come up Sunday night. But she wasn't particularly good on
the course of this game either, right, zero for five.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
From three point range, ten rebounds. She did have our
ten points, and she did have four turnovers in addition
to the foul that sent the winning free throws to
the line.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
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few years. Coming up in ninety seconds, we'll continue our
breakdown and take a look at one of the huge
NFL games from this coming Sunday.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
But first special delivery.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Steve Disager has a recap of every one of the
mets twelve.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Runs they scored today against the Dodgers, So we got
to get him played like yesterday. Yeah, exactly, that was
the show yesterday. I think that was the first two
hours of the four.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
We would but we don't roll on the Mets. Oh well,
they're playing the Dodgers. Yeah, we have every Dodger run.
Oh okay, oh good, you have all six of urs.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You want to hear the Bookie Bets home run.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
The score was ten to two in the fourth. We
will get to that in a moment because in late
night college football, Oklahoma State has just scored with just
over a minute left at thirteenth ranked BYU to retake
the League Cowboys thirty five thirty one leaders at BYU
late in the game, and Fresno State with about two
minutes left leads at Nevada twenty four to twenty one.
Earlier on Fox TV, Number two, Oregon won at Purdue
(26:27):
thirty five nothing. Dylan Gabriel twenty one of twenty five
passing two hundred and ninety yards, two touchdowns, one interception.
Perdue has lost six in a row, and Duke, now
six and one, got a home win against Florida State
twenty three to sixteen. The Seminoles committed turnovers on three
straight plays in the first half, including a pick six. Yes,
they lost by a touchdown. Florida State is one and
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six next weekend. Florida State's at Miami. Duke's defense tonight
was six sacks the Seminoles only td came on a
kickoff return, and Duke's offense just wasn't there. Nine punts,
ten first downs, only one hundred and eighty total yards,
and they still beat the Seminoles. Duke with its first
ever win against Florida State in twenty three ACC meetings.
A reminder tomorrow at noon Eastern time on Fox TV,
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Nebraska five and one at Indiana six and oh 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.
Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior practice fully today after
a concussion. Jacoby Myers, Raiders wide receiver, listed as doubtful
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for the game against the Rams Sunday due to an
ankle injury. Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson returns Sunday against the Dolphins.
He'd missed a couple games with the oblique injury, but
Colt's running back Jonathan Taylor is out again this weekend
with his ankle injury. Yes in the WNBA Finals, Minnesota
at home with two late free throws, beat New York
eighty two to eighty. Game five of the best of
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five is Sunday in New York. Brianna Stewart of New
York tonight five of twenty shooting from the floor. The
NBA preseason ended tonight. Regular season starts Tuesday. NHL wins
for Carolina, Colorado went overtime and four and oh Winnipeg
beat San Jose eight to three. Sharks have lost all
five games.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Why did you get you say another win for the Jets?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Why can't you just say that the undefeated Jets another winnie.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, you just want to clip that and make people
think that we're talking about Yeah, come on, put that
karma out there for the Jets. Jets are undefeated. That's
never gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
At least the Mets season is still alive. They pounded
the Dodgers today twelve to six, led eight one in
the third inning the loss to Jacks Flaterday. Mets closer
Edwin Diez pitched the last two innings, no runs, one hit,
allowed just twenty three pitches, and Saturday is an off
day in the series. Game six is Sunday night in
La on FS one again. Cleveland Guardians will be hosting
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the Yankees again Saturday night. But the Yanks are up
three games to one now in the ALCS thanks to
two runs top of the ninth. They beat Cleveland eight
to six and the loss to Emmanuel Classe, the best
closer in the regular season, but this postseason he has
allowed eight runs in seven innings. Gencarlo stand a three
run homer in the win, and Juan Soto first inning
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had a two run shot back to you.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Thank you, Steve O. Now, before we get to a
big NFL game. This is the lowest point in the
history of Florida State football. I don't know, you're going
back to like when Bobby Bowden got high, before Bobby
Bowden got hired. I mean this is they lose to
Duke right and dud Duke six and one, and they're
having a nice little year and Manny Diaz is always
a really good defensive coach, and Duke's defense is pretty good.
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But they have one hundred and eighty yards of total
offense and they lose, and Florida State had turnovers on
three plays in a row. Every game continues to get worse,
and for a it's this fall that doesn't seem possible.
You know, ten months ago, they were the best team
in college football, and he was complaining that they got
left out. Yere, Jordan Travis was great. Jets sho maybe
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he was the difference, but Jordan Travis was incredible. Florida
State was the best team in college football. He gets
hurt they get left out of the playoff. Ten months later, Yeah, okay,
I expect a little bit of a drop off. Michigan's
had a little bit of a drop off from last
year to this year, but this has gone from, Hey,
we're the best team in college football, and now we're
one of the absolute worst. And they're looking at a
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season where if they win three games that's a success.
At this point, I mean, they got one win so far.
They're gonna lose next week against Miami. It's stunning that
a team can go from we are the best team
in college football and ten months later we look like
one of the ten worst teams in all Division one.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Did they somehow figure out how to beat Miami because
they've had their share of narrow business, yet there they
are sitting at number six. You go back to that
game against Georgia Tech and get things started, twenty four
to twenty one loss, as like, all right, Sky's falling
a bit. But it's like, all right, twelve team playoff,
you can lose a game early whatever else. And that
was the last time they scored twenty points in a game.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, uh so again just a bit for Florida.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Say it really is stunning for Florida. Did they kick
them out of the conference?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Now, I know they were trying to ah, trying to
find loopholes and outs or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I know we're going to charge you like two hundred
million dollars to leave. You can just go. Yeah, if
you want to go.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Just go, just scout right, just come up with a
hundred million.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We got to save the money to keep Miami and Clemson,
but well, you know, we'll get that. Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the tirec dot Com Studios. Coming up
next is the NFL Game of the Week, still the
game we thought it was? Or has another game gotten
even bigger after what's happened today? That's next, Jason, Mike.
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Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, Sir, fireworks going off in provo.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That means BYU continues to stay undefeated. Oklahoma State thirty
eight thirty five. Oklahoma State tried one of those crazy
lateral plays.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
At the end. It did not work. The Cougars shades
of Robbie Bosco.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Wow, look at you seven and oh number thirteen in
the country looking for a spot in the college football
About that score that touchdown though, what with eleven seconds remaining. Yeah,
you want to talk about chaos thinking, Hey, Oklahoma State's
got the lead.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It's thirty five to thirty one. There's a little over
a minute left. Not so fast.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, so the night of college football is over. We
have the big day tomorrow, Mike Nay. We gave you
our picks of the big games earlier Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee.
If you missed them. Our best of podcast goes up
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Coming into this week, Kansas City and San Francisco seemed
like it was going to be the game week.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Right, super Bowl? Here it is Mahomes the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well after today, maybe Jet Steelers is the game of
the week. You have DeVante Adams who is set to
play Jets. Say he looks good, ready to go to
make his debut on Sunday. So, hey, seeing Devanta Adams
now with this offense, how's this gonna go? And it
looks like we're gonna see Russell Wilson starting at quarterback
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for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
How do we know this?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Have the Steelers made announcement? No, but Mike Tomlin, who
I'm sure is is pulling out all the hair on
his head. The Steelers have spent all week not saying
who's gonna be the quarterback? Is it Justin Fields? Is
it Russell Wilson? What's gonna happen? And look, we've told
you stick with Justin Fields. He's the better player. Russell
Wilson is not the same guy. He's not gonna give
you anything more than Justin Fields is, and Justin Fields
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has more of a ceiling. But find someone who loves
you as much as for some reason, Mike Tomlin loves
Russell Wilson. Wilson was getting reps with the Ones, and
certainly he was trending towards starting. I would say he
would start anyway, because as much gamesmanship as the Steelers
want to want to prove and use with the Jets,
they're not going to do this to Russell Wilson and say, Okay, suddenly,
now Justin Field is starting a quarterback. But the reason
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it looks like we're getting Russell Wilson is because after
practice today, Steelers.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Doing their interviews getting ready for Sunday. How did everything go?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
How did Russell Wilson look at a lot of reps
with the ones now at practice? And George Pickens was
asked about, Hey, what's it look getting your your timing
down with him? And he said, oh, yeah, very important,
you know, getting our timing down together. You know, we
haven't practiced a lot together, and you know, since he's
starting Sunday, it's important.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Wait wait what? But oh? Was I not supposed to
say that?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So of course all the reporters run to Mike Tomlin. Hey,
so we heard that Russell Wilson starting on Sunday. Who
told you? I don't want to tell you, who told you.
I don't want to tell you. You're never gonna trust this again?
Who told you?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Pickens? I knew it. I know it now know it.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
To just bring it back to the reality of it,
Tomlin had made the statement of hey, it's a decision
and we know in house, but we'll see you on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
But in his head that entire scenario, I know who
it is. Don't say I'm gonna kill him. I'm just
gonna kill him dead. And I'm gonna kill him again.
I can't get him to give an honest effort during
the games. Now he's giving away our plans? Am I
coaching Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell again? What is going on?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But think about the history of wide receivers in Pittsburgh,
some ultra talented guys that one after another has like
something popped up on the.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Radar just suddenly. It took a giant left turn. It is.
Go back to Wallace, go back to.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Brown, Gump, oh, Chase, Claypool, you name it. How'd you
feel about your coaching tenure in Pittsburgh, Mike, I couldn't
get away from the guys that were just getting in
my way. If I could have not coach Brown and
Belle and Wallace. Remember Jerome Bennis, you know, if he
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didn't have to coach those guys like right now, we'd
watch him do press conferences and he would be like
Ned Flanders hy, Hey, then how you do it? Oh,
golly g the Jets are going to be a tough
game on Sunday. I'll tell you I might just have
to pray extra hard. Rod Todd, how about you? I mean,
that's that's nicely done. He would be the nicest guy
(36:30):
in the world. Yeah, idly, hey, he would be. But
now I got to deal with this Russell Wilson. But
I have good news for Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
You do believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
This is why these good news for Justin Fields. If
Russell Wilson starts Sunday, and according to head coach George Pickens,
he is If Russell Wilson starts Sunday, Justin Fields will
get that job back halftime or at the very latest
next week because the Jets defense is going to eat
him alive. And I'm not saying this is Jets fan.
I'm saying this as a team with a top five
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defense that is going to have Russell Wilson for lunch.
It's not the same guy as he was even five
years ago. He's lim unlimited yet, but now he's more
limp limp, more limp limited. You don't know that he's
more limited, and I guarantee you he's more limited. I
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guarantee he's more limited. Uh, the Jets, the Jets defense
is going to clamp down on.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
The Steelers and they're gonna show you.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
This is why Justin Fields needs to be the quarterback
and maybe they go back to him a halftime. Now again,
maybe it's next week, but when he plays, he's gonna
show you he's not the same guy. And then Mike
Tomlin's gonna have no choice but to go back to him.
Albert Breer Monday Morning quarterback. Already, when I think when
a Dan Patrick show today and said, hey, there's a
lot of people in the locker room that don't want
to change to Justin Fields, But for some reason, Mike
(37:53):
Tomlin has this. It's just scratch to go to Russell Wilson. Okay,
you're gonna see on Sunday. You're gonna see on Sunday.
It'll be a low scoring game. The Jets will make
enough plays offensively, DeVonta Adams will make plays. They'll beat
the Steelers, and suddenly the Steelers are a game over
five hundred. Had we played Justin Fields, had he been
we played a guy who's more athletic and able to
get out and make plays with his legs and make
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plays on the Jets defense, Oh maybe we should have
done that. That's how the game is gonna go. I
have no doubt that they are gonna eat Russell Wilson
for lunch. I wonder what the odds are that Jordan
Travis has to take a snap? Taking a snap In
other words, tj wis he's not even healthy yet, He's
not gonna take a snap. Garrett Wilson we play quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Before it was more of the.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Joke of, hey, you got a defense on the other
side that can get after it as well. So that's
the curiosity of how do you neutralize that Pittsburgh front.
But to your point about Russell Wilson, he was awful
last year and folks can look at the stats and
go look what he was able to put up, go
back and actually watch how those sequences played out. There's
a lot of bad sacks take and a lot of
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bad decisions. There's a reason Denver said we really we're
okay eating what was it, eighty five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
It's a lot. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Million.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
You said billion, but it's his million dollars.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
But by the way, eighty five million dollars to go away.
I might have just, you know, swallowed the word. But
the point being they they wanted to move on. Sean
Payton wanted his guy, and whether he gets along with
bo Nicks, they're still having growing pains there, even despite
the giant beatdown of the Saints and their four and
three record. But all that said, Russell Wilson of twenty
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thirteen got carried by a defense in Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
We seem to forget that. If it was he got
some of that here, but he ain't the same guy.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
If it was Wilson of even a few years ago,
I would say, yeah, but the Jets aren't going to
get embarrassed by him.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yes they are. No, They're not gonna happen. It's like
the Mets are gonna get a Look.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Hey, I was upset when when Poppy predicted today on
the on the Fox pregame show, Mets are gonna win
ten two.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I'm like, yeah, that's great. I'm like, oh wow, Mets
are up ten two. Well, Bobby looks like a genius.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Song and how about a Fresco watch him die a
little bit with each pitch. I'm sure his uh, his
wife will be giving us updates from the game.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Jets should not Jets should not be favored, yet they are.
Is this a trap game?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Jets? You exit?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
How about a Fresco exit swollen dome for Mike im
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