October 25, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason sells his soul to the devil. The guys throw out their official World Series picks. And Penn State HC James Franklin refuses to talk about ex-players’ rape charges.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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ID should be. You know who doesn't celebrate Thursday? Who's that?
Syrahcuse football? Well, I gotta I gotta tell you guys something.
I gotta tell you guys something because this is something
I've had to hold on to this until now. But
uh no, no, no, this is serious tight shit I've had.
I've had to hold onto this until now. I've actually
known about a lot of goings on in sports. How
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things were going to unfold Because now that it's over,
I could say, because they told me, I could say
it was midsummer, not midsummer, mid the summer s O
M M A R. I was dancing with Florence Pugh
and she won with the lie and they stuck my
leg in the ground like cheety well, fertilizer, fertilizer. I uh,
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it's tough to admit. I mean, no, I I made
a deal with the devil. I did. The devil showed
up just like Johnny showed up with that fiddle made
of gold, and he said, Okay, hey, Jason, I'm gonna
give you an incredible METS ra this year out of nowhere.
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Now I can't have them win at all, because that'd
be a little bit too crazy. But I'm going to
give you an incredible run into the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Okay, well, it doesn't get that specific in the deal
with the Devil.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well, no, it does. I had to. I said, how
far can I go? Just so I know? It said
get you running the NLCS. I said, all right, and
along the way. It's not just gonna be some generic
run where you win every game like six to one.
I'm going to give you every week or so, I'm
going to give you the biggest home run in Mets history. Like, oh, okay, okay,
so what what what? What do I get rid? All right, well,
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that's great, I'll take it, okay. And this is for
my years of of suckitude for my teams, and this
is good what I've suffered. Oh no, no, no, Devil said, no, no, no,
I don't it's not it's not account's best. Uh No,
I'm gonna take it out of you in trade and
in pounds of flesh. And I said, what, well, I'm
taking it out of you with the Jets, I said, okay,
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and the Knicks, and we're going to start early, all right.
I'm not going to mess around in this air. No,
and I'm gonna start early with you, I said, okay.
Oh in Syracuse football, wait, wait, a lot happens. Wait
to get your first big game on television and your
quarterback throws three pick sixes in the first half. And
I said, okay, okay, So that's the Jets in Syrika.
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All right, fine, it's oh no, no, I'm not done. What
do you mean You're not done? No? No, no, The
Yankees are gonna go to the World Series. Oh wow,
well that kind of sucks. Yeah, but that's part of
the deal. I said, all right, and Sam Darnald is
gonna be really good. Is there anything else? No, that's
the deal. So I got the Mets run and now
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I'm gonna deal with all this. I deal with Sam
Darnald being great. I gotta deal with Syracuse tonight and
Pittsburgh with eighty three yards of offense and they're winning
thirty one nothing. I gotta deal with the Knicks giving
up thirty threes in the first game of the year
to the Celtics. I gotta deal with the Jets just
sucking despite the fact they keep getting all NFL players. No,
I can do it. And I gotta worry about the
Yankees in the World Series. And I got that. I
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get all this stuff. No, the devil said to me,
this is the deal. I said, but I don't know
if I want the deal. They said, but this is
the deal. I said, but I don't want the deal.
I don't want to be in the You're in the will.
I don't want to be in the will. He just
got another one. This is what happens the devil come.
The devil will never let you go. He's gonna he's
gonna come. Do He's gonna come. He's never gonna say, ah,
you know what, I could get to that guy another time.
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You're never gonna say, oh, I can maybe escape from
the devil. I maybe he'll forget about me. No, no, no, no, no,
no no. Kyle McCorry just throws his fifth interception of
the game, this one on a tipball, and Pit is
leading Syracuse now thirty one six. If you play college
football fantasy and you stream the pit defense, yeah, I'm
pretty sure you're gonna win this week. Three pick six
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is in the first half.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Oh and he got eighteen plus six you got twenty
four plus. I mean they lost the shutout though, by
the way, that drive, I mean eighteen plays, seventy three yards,
taking up almost ten minutes off the clock. That's something
you could have used in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yahout thirty one nothing using ten minutes of the clock.
It's a great devil deal with the Well, what can
I do?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
This was the But that's the point is that you
you make the deal with the devil, and you always.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Come up short because he doesn't give you the end game.
No right.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Historically, in all works of fiction, we referenced the Dan
Daniel Weather This is great, three biggest home runs in
Mets history.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, but it all happened in a week. It was
all condensed.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It to me.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It's all sped up. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Now you're getting pludgeoned. James Coco went nuts in five minutes.
I mean, this is just an absolutely accurate James Coco. Really,
it was a Simpsons episode where Homer goes to Hell.
They put him on the conveyor bay olt where it's like,
all right for Attorney, he's gonna eat donuts, and they
actually run out of donuts and the devil yells. James
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Coco went nuts in five minutes. Here's your Simpsons reference
for the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For the evening. I should say tonight, it's nighttime, long day,
I know, but it's nighttime. It's still nighttime. It's daytime
in Macau. So it's been a long morning. If you
think it's the morning and it's seven o'clock at night,
now it's been a long more. How many did he
throw them? Three pick sixes? Three pick sixes, five interceptions,
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three picks. No, we're not allowed to I thought we're
not allowed to play pick sixes until football games. You
get three, it's like, well, it's like a jackar No. No, No,
the rule is you can't play pick sixes on a
Thursday night. No. No, three triggers the bone.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
The only dopey rule like that is Major League Baseball
because they don't want you to, you know, follow the excitement.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Of three triggers the bonus.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's when you know we start bringing in like the
little wood blocks and stuff to recreate the crack in
the back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
No, I think you have to look that up, Frostburg.
I think you can get fired. Actually if you, if you,
if you play more than one pick six in a
night on the radio, I think that well violates.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
All kind of like saying beetlejuice three times. You know what,
I'll take the risk of get no fire.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Motions out of the backfield. The cord looks like it's intercepted.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Touchdown.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
The cord intercepted, Coyle Lewis wis touchdown.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's just been that cut of night running the Love Place.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
He's a weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
On the third one, he didn't even have the energy
to say intercepted because the first show, I'm like Wow,
look at him.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Keep the energy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It's an interception somehow, whatever they got it, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Running back. I mean I don't look.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Offensive efficiency five to fifteen on third downs. I mean,
pit's only one of six. Uh you look at total
yards twenty five to one second they got they had
eight you got you've got four times the penalties it
was thirty one nothing and they had eighty yards of offense.
Come on and put up the halftime graphic. I didn't
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have the audio up, but all I could do was laughs, like, oh,
how about that eighty three yards?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sure? Not like winning the Heisman Trophy after the night.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No, No, all those tickets are burning. It's like everybody
that had tickets on Brownie James the score point in
his debut.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, meanwhile, okay, so so enough of Syracuse because clearly, yeah,
I mean they got five minutes too much. Oh man, uh,
Thursday Night football. We told you this is the biggest
Thursday night game of the year because this is this
is the night where the rubber hits the road for
the Rams. It is high noon. If the Rams win tonight,
watch they will continue with what they had. They'll keep
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Cooper Cup. They will keep all their players three and
four in NFC West, that is not great. That could
see the forty nine ers lose again on Sunday the Cardinals.
Of the Cardinals, that Seahawks are just okay. The Rams
will state it, but lose to fall to two and five,
and suddenly you're going to see Cooper Cup. We saw
all ril rumors about Matthew Stafford. You are going to
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see the Rams try to reload on the fly for
next year. And so far we are getting And I
told you I picked the Rams last night because they
are the more desperate team in this game. Yes, the
Vikings are coming off of bye, but the Rams are
more desperate and so far they are playing terrific and
it's a seventeen to fourteen Vikings lead. Has been a
lot of offense in this game. They just kicked the
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field goal to go up by three, six and a
half to go in the third quarter. Rams are getting
the football back.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But you got the surprise appearance from Pokin Nakua, so
that added the added value for you. There six catches
eighty seven yards thus far in his eight targets. You
did have Stafford miss Cooper Cup in the end zone
early in this one. But off the jump is who
was gonna flinch first? Because it was fourteen fourteen and
we think we're off to the races now midway through
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the third seventeen to fourteen vikings, And.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Look, let's be honest here, we'll talk about Sam Darnold Becau. Obviously,
Sam Donald is playing well tonight against the Rams, and
the two things I will say, because I give Sam
Donald a lot of credit, One thing is it is
a little bit easy because you could see how much
he defaults to Justin Jefferson. Where is Justin Jeffer. I'm
just gonna throw the ball to him. Okay, you're gonna
be successful.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, if I have a number one wide receiver, why
the hell would I not throw it twenty times?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Again?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It could be the quarterback and say, where are you
throwing this ball? I'm wherever Justin Joffer he's the best
wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But you can't fault him for the fact that they've
got an eight. Listen, But if he was throwing to
somebody else, he'd be an idiot.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But look, but what I'm saying is that it does
help when you have the best wide receiver in the game,
who is usually open, so you don't have to worry
about getting down to your secondary and tertiary reads, which
has always been Sam Donald's problem. When he looks downfield,
he doesn't know what he sees. When he looks downfield
and sees his number one option open, hey, I can
succeed because that's exactly what Donald is doing. I'm looking downfield.
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I have tunnel vision for Justin Jefferson, and no matter
what kind of coverage the defense rolls to him, he's
still able to get the ball there eight nine and
fifteen yards. I mean, really, that that's I mean that,
that's just that's how good Justin Jefferson is. But the
bigger point is this is that you don't need a
bigger example of what coaching means in the NFL more
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than this, because last year, you know, we watched Kirk
Cousins the last few years played great in Minnesota. You
watch Kevin O'Connell come in. Who knew what kind of
coach he was gonna be. He was part of the
next generation of young coaches who are gonna help light
the world on fire. And at what did Jay Glazer
tell us a couple of weeks ago the Mount Rushmore
or young coach in the NFL is O'Connell and Stefanski
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and McVeigh is on there. And what you have seen
now is here's O'Connell who has turned a guy who
has been a career backup, who didn't work with three teams.
You can make fun of the Jets and go, oh,
it's a Jets, but he didn't work with the Jets,
he didn't work with the Panthers. He was a backup
at best with the forty nine ers, and he wasn't
really getting a shot there. So now but now you
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look at where he is now at the Vikings and suddenly, whoa,
He's having the best year of his career. And and
and were any of the coaches that he had up
until this time, were they any of them good? Of
course not. Adam Gase isn't even in the league. I
told you he's never gonna coach again. It with such
a disaster, right, and his other head coach went back
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to college. I can't do it anymore. I'm gonna go
get my ass kicked in college now, because at least
at least that's I'm not on the front page of
the paper getting my ass kicked in the NFL and
and never got a chance in San franciscocause he was
only a placeholder there, And here he only gets the
chance because JJ McCarthy gets hurt in the preseason. But
you see the coaching that Kevin O'Connell does. He helped
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keep the Vikings afloat last year when they had to
go to Josh Dobbs. Josh Dobbs came in and played
some good football for the Vikings. Now eventually they figured
it out and and and the Vikings faulted and Josh
Dobbs lost his gig a bit. But you could see
whoever went out there quarterback, the Vikings were still putting
points up. And Jefferson got hurt and that that that
that kind of hurts something. They were still able to
go out there and and and Pete. And I look
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at O'Connell like I look at Kevin steffanskn go man,
no matter who he had out there when they were trying, Uh,
he's able to win with Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Now they're tanking, well, I mean, Stefansky is still trying.
His owner isn't.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And the same thing you can say for Kevin O'Connell
is that He's one of those guys where no matter
who has played quarterback for him, they have succeeded. And
this doesn't mean suddenly Sam Donald is terrific, but hey,
they figured out how to make him work in this
offense and he is playing really really was having a
big night tonight. But again, those two that when you
have Justin Jefferson helps. But this is the biggest example
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you need. Hey, what kind of difference does coaching mean?
In the NFL? Is really about game plans? About this
sometimes it's about how do I get a very important
player being the best version of himself they can be?
And that's what he has done with Sam Donald sod.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Which is why you know, I will never know what
Mac Jones might have been if you didn't put a
defensive coordinators as his OC. I mean, look at history
is littered with quarterbacks that never got to a situation
where we truly found out what they were. Right, he
gets six games with a bad coach. Sorry, that's it,
you get cycled out. I mean, we've seen it time
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and time again with Donald. Fortunately, because he was so young,
there's still that wishing, wanting, hoping. Remember we evaluated that guy,
We really liked him all right. We got him away
from the Jets and Gino Smith and his success has
helped as well because I think he's helped some quarterbacks
maybe get a second or a third look because of
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his success later on in his career.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'll tell you, really, Hey, what is coaching meaning that?
Just watch Sam Darnald Boyt. This is what coaching means.
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the eve of Game one of the World Series. We'll
tell you how it's gonna go. Who's gonna win, how
many games? Why the team that's going to win is
gonna win, who the MVP is gonna be? Cleveland is
not in the world. They were close. They were in
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the ALCS T shirt. Oh did you know? No, No,
they were they were very close. I thought you were too.
They were wearing their guardians. We were a little bit
closer than the guardians. We were a little bit close,
even closer they were just like Syracuse were close than
the game Star. Syracuse is not close. Why they were
five and one, not for five and one from other
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forty five minutes. Then that's gonna be done. So coming
up next, who's walking away? What deserving owner is walking
away with the World Series trophy? That's next. Fox.
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Speaker 3 (16:11):
Come on man in the middle of the road and
he said, it's another pick six.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The courtney or I'll eat your soul. My deal with
the devil. I'll give you that Mets of the NLCS.
But boy, Syracuse and the Knicks and the Jets are
gonna suck. The Yankees are going to the World Series
and Sam Darnold's gonna be great. That sounds excessive. No, no, no, no, no, Jason,
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that's the deal. But maybe I don't want the deal.
That's the deal. Take it. But but that's too much. No,
it's like a bad fantasy trade, yeg. But you're gonna
make it. Headed to the fourth quarter right now in
La Matthew Stafford has just thrown his third touchdown of
the night. Boom. The Rams now lead the Makings twenty
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one to seventeen. The return of Pooka Nakua seven catches
for one hundred and six yards, the return of Cooper
Cup three catches for fifteen yards and a touchdown. Flipper
Anderson has a touchdown tonight. Isaac Bruce has a touchdown tonight.
It is a pretty big deal. Oz Hakeem has a
touchdown to US teams. It's been a big night for
the Rams. Man. Why you got oz zero keem in
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Hell's done? It's God really something. So again, headed to
the fourth quarter. It is a twenty one to seventeen
lead Rams over the Vikings. I we'll keep you posting
on here and did the less being said about the
college football game on ESPN right now the better now game,
one of the World Series set to begin tomorrow night
in Los Angeles. And again you've heard all the pageantry
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about this over the course. Yes, it's the World Series. Tighten,
it always counts it, does it? The World Series counts.
Dodgers win. Yeah, uh, some deserving owner will walk away
with a big hunk of metal and be the World
Series champion. Now, first things, for a four am I
sell it before I give you my pick on the
what's gonna wind up being the highest rated World Series
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game in baseball history. People who've never watched a baseball
game will watch at least a little bit of this world.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
So do they get to include the numbers from Japan?
Of course they will. Well, it's just like Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Whatever a movie sort of disappoints domestically, they go, hey,
weekend one for Smile too globally million dollars. Look, it
all counts the same.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I'm not I'm not saying that it's definitely the cass.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But I gotta say this, all right, because I gotta
be real, right abro I told you about the meeting
with the Devil, my deal with him. I got gotta
say this. I can't have the Yankees win. I can't
I mean, I know. I love my dad. He went
to Game two of the NLCS with me and it
was a great day rooting for me everything. I'm sorry,
but I can't have the Yankees win. I can't. I
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can't have him walking over to the house every day,
walking in like he's my landlord and he owns it. Hey,
I see what I got today. I got this new
Yankee World Series. I got this, I got this, I
got this. I can't have it, man, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well, they put enough stuff acout Tremont, like little patches
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It might be better, kiddling. I can't sit here. I
can't sit here and look at well, what a great
year the Mets had and how great a run there
on the No still the number two team. Hey, look
at the great year you had we won the World Series.
Can't have it. I can't have the Yankees win. I can't. Okay,
absolutely cannot have it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
All right, So fifty to one any player to hit
a five hundred plus foot home run in the World Series, Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's never going to pay out. Because Otani hit like
a seven hundred foot one against the Meta. It was
three hundred and ninety feet. So comand Slam plus one ninety.
Never bet in that. Never bet in that one not happening.
Three or more home.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Runs in any game at a series thirty four to one.
Comet that?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh, I love that? Are you kidding? The left handed
hitters of Dodgers have it? Yankee Staddy?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Do you know what the best payout I heard was
a promotion being run on our flagship here in LA
and five seventy LA Sports with the Seasoning Company. You
get a taco party at your house and it includes
the setups for twenty not a helmet nachos.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Oh okay, anytime you put any your buddies would be
sitting there eating out of helmets.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I'm interested. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Alton was an employee at the company, but Jannet, what
a great promotion.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Not to helmets for everybody. You get a nacho helmet
and you get a nacho helmet. All right? So you
want your dad to be sad when it comes down,
he's happy. I'm happy they're in the world. So I can't.
I just can't have them, win, I can't have them.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
When do you want him to be teased like you
and your deal with the devil? Before this forty one
to six burial, even at the hands of the pit Panthers.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Your dad fought, Now, man, what are you doing? He did?
He did? He did? He did? He did. You're gonna
disrespect him, Miche he might go Walter on he did nice.
You know, Walter, I can't have the I can't have
the Yankees. I change your pick. I can't do it.
I can't have Yankees win. I got a good run, man,
I can't. I can't do it. Uh. Now, that doesn't
mean I wouldn't pick the Yankees to win if I
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thought they were going to win. I just can't have
them win. So you're saying they suck. I'm sick of
these World Series where there's a team. I really just
can't have one. Can't have anybody from the NLS win,
can't have the Yankees win. Made everybody your damn enemies.
I had the year off last year, oh, Arizona and
the Rangers. Yes, even though oh I didn't want the
Rangers to win because they had sures Are and de Grom,
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but it turned out to be okay. You didn't want
them to be getting paid by your team and they
didn't play, So it doesn't have mat still got to
celebrate and psychologically it crushed you. No, they didn't even play, said,
it's part of the extended deal with the devil. I
get over that, per a lot of stuff. I get
over that pretty fast. They didn't play. I didn't have
to watch it. Well, I didn't want to have my
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white eyes. But but but like last ye, I said, no,
I kind of had the year off last year where yeah,
that was I didn't want the Rangers to win. But
they won. But it's not that big a deal because
again sures Are and de Grom didn't play again since
not a lot of people watched count Yeah, I think
you're right.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Uh Now Dodgers are minus favorite in the series. The
two biggest things that are that hit me on this.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Look. Starting pitching is a toss up. The Dodgers are
gonna have to run with their whatever situation they have
going on with Flaherty to Yamamoto bullpen games bueller. But
the Yankee starting pitching isn't great After Garrett Cole, it's
all chances. I think it's better for Garrett Cole that
he's pitching on the road in Game one rather than
the Yankee stadium. But the starting pitching is a wash.
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The Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom. The Yankees
have mashed this postseason, but it's really been Judge and
Stanton and that's been it, right. They struggle to get
production out of other parts of the lineup. Soto had
the big home run as well, so they have the
big mashes at the top. But once you get outside
the number four spot in the batting order, yeah, you're
kind of waiting for those guys to come up again.
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The Dodgers have gotten it from everywhere. I mean Tommy
Bleep and Edmund Man. I lost my shot at the
World Series because Tommy Edmund, who's just a guy, gets
eleven hits and eleven RB in the NLCS. Right, I
lost my chance of the World Series to Tommy Bleep
and Edmund. But the Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom.
I have more confidence they're gonna hit with runners in
scoring position, and they're going to be able to manufacture
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runs at the bottom of the lineup. And I have
more confidence the Dodger bullpen is going to be able
to have a better series overall than the Yankees. The
Yankees have shown, hey, we'll give it up late right,
you think we're comd I know weavers been ogain. We'll
give it up late. It'll happen, and it doesn't need
to happen every game. It just needs to happen once.
I have more confidence the Dodger bullpen is going to
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get the job done, and their lineup is better top
to bottom. They will hit better. I feel weird about
saying it, but I really think it's going the distance.
I want to say Dodgers and five, but this is
going seven Dodgers and seven in what's gonna wind up
being a world series that we talk about for thirty
or forty years. It's gonna be that kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
World He headliner after headliner a few days off now
for Freddie Freeman. So hopefully that ankle, they can keep
the swelling under control and that he can and measure that.
We get a couple of guys back in the series overall,
Rojas and Vessia, like there's the triple Lunders and perhaps
Graderol as well.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
To bolster the bullpen. We'll see his availability.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
On the other side, Cortes coming back for the Yankees,
but I'm looking at a Dodgers in six. That's what
I've been saying all week when asked, I'll stick to
it here that the bullpen game becomes the stuff of legend.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Like as much as you hate it, you have.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
To accept that it is here to stay across Major
League Baseball. And nobody's been able to orchestrate it better
than what Dave Roberts and this staff have done and
the way these players have been used. To your point
about the lineup, I think it's gonna be imperative about
you know, when we're looking at Keik Hernandez and what
he does in October and guys like Will Smith, where
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we see the bats start to come to life a
little bit you mentioned, Edmund. One of my biggest joys
this week was watching people with all their fines in
the trading card world going down to the Commons boxes
of their twenty twenty cards that they ripped open during
the COVID and pandemic shutdown. It's like, wait, I've got
a comments box of all sorts of crap over here.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Look, it's just stacking. Tommy Edmonds, I'm rich. So all
of that to say too much for the Yankees. The
only the only part where I thought you'll get thrown
every game and the Yankees will win, and they'll tell
them to stay home for the other games. The Dodgers
played at such a high level in the NLCS, and
I'm a big believer in playoff momentum and bounces. The
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Yankees did not play great in the ALCS. They played
well enough, but they made a lot of mistakes. They've
not played their best baseball yet. The Dodgers may have
played their best baseball right with the shutouts against the Mets.
The the games they realized, hey, we're not gonna win
these couple of games because a Mets scored a bunch
of runs early, so we're gonna save our bullpen. Dave
Roberts kind of helping to give those games, not giving
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those games the Mets, but just saying we're not going
to exhaust ourselves trying to get back in this game
where we're down six nothing. So but the other games
the Dodgers played, they got it from everywhere. The bullpen
was terrific. The bottom of the order hit Key Hernandez
hit home runs, the top of the order hit. My
only fear the Dodgers get a bit of a bounce,
but there's been enough time going back. The momentum the
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the the fact that Dodgers are getting two home games
in the World Series for the first time in a while,
U and their team is just too big to fail.
It's it may be a bit of rocky going on.
It's why I said Dodgers in seven more than in
five or six. But that's the only thing I look
at where I go ooh. Gives me the tiniest bit
of doubt in the Dodgers. But everything else makes up
(26:40):
for it. They have so many guys, and it doesn't it.
Tommy Edmond may hit one seventy nine, ki Y Hernandez
might hit four to fifty, right, that that might be
how it goes, right. Uh, you might get Mookie Betts
hitting two fifty, but Tascar Hernandez might at three ninety.
So the Dodger lineup just has too many ways to
kill you. But the thing with the Yankees is we
talked about it with your Mets. You know where where
you see the tail of two types of plate discipline. Hey,
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would you guys take a damn pitch? Oh wait, they
actually now have to come to us and we can
actually mash a bit. That's the Yankees, right, first ball
swing and getting behind and counts. They're a team that
you can pile up some strikeouts against. So how much
plate discipline? How much do they show and try to
extend clarity to where in game one we're getting into
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the bullpen early, because that could set the tone for
everything else, Right, if you've got to go into high
leverage to try to get through game one, suddenly it
sets everything off. So the first inning plus when you
get the heart of the order coming through them and
Judge and Stanton, they've been known to wave the pitches
and go sit down. They've also been known to hit
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five hundred plus foot home runs, So you know, can
you get them to chase out of the zone and
get away from a little bit of the discipline. If
Flarity can do that, huge advantage Dodgers. But that's the
tail of the te He's I think four and a
half strikeouts is his game one over under, So we'll
watch from there exit. How about a fresco exit swallowing home.
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There's our picks for the World Series Dodgers and six,
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we get off the air. Meanwhile, things get a little closer.
It's so fine. Let's find out what's trending from a
guy who's been telling me all day Jason Yankees in
four Yankees and kept saying, yeah, if I could pick
the Yankees in three, I would. It's Steve de Sager, Okay, sure,
Rams twenty one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
My favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Whenever I can say something and your comeback is yeah, yeah, sure, yes,
I always know I've succeeded. When when that's your comeback.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, the whole Yankees in three humor, I'll give you that.
I know you were joking about the TV ratings. By
the way, and yes, Fox TV again as the world
series this year starting tomorrow night, Yankees at Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But while on the one.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Hand, it certainly will surpass the record low we saw
last year with Texas beating Arizona, there's no way it
approaches the Cubs finally making the World Series in twenty sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I'll take that bet with you. I'll take that bet
with you. For Yankees Dodgers, I'll take that bet.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I made sure to look up the exact numbers. The
Cubs Cleveland World Series of twenty sixteen average nearly twenty
three million viewers and the Game seven class it got
forty million viewers.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Is that from the great baseball researcher Sarah Lanx.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
No, but she should have this because it's just as accurate. Okay,
there's no way it's coming close to that. Okay, we'll
say it's gonna be quite a bit better than last year.
Need loose to say. By the way, speaking of TV ratings,
the NBA started with the TNT doubleheader last night, just
under three million viewers for them, which is actually up
compared to last year because they weren't.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Going up again. It's the baseball playoffs this time.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
We got ten minutes to go in the NFL game
in La Rams Holding on twenty one twenty over the Vikings.
Vikings lost lost left tackle Christian dearrisa early due to
a knee injury. Each team scored a touchdown on its
first two drives tonight. Sam Darnold two touchdown passes.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
He's up to two.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Hundred and fifteen yards through the air. Matthew Stafford up
to three touchdown passes, one interception. He has two hundred
and thirty three yards through the air. Pookin Acoua and
Cooper Cup each back from injuries for the Rams Tonight
Cup with the td Poka Accouah seven catches one hundred
and six yards from Minnesota Justin Jefferson eight catches for
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one fifteen And yes, there's a college football game in
the ACC Tonight's now.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
No, there is no game. There is no game.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
You got that right.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's act for that team. It's a it's a replay
of an old game. It's not a new game. That's right.
I believe. I see Mark May on the offensive line here.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
If only it is those uniforms Pitt Panthers at home
right nineteenth by by the way, trying to go to
seven and zero forty one thirteen the lead over Syracuse.
Mid fourth quarter, Kyle mccorr, the Syracuse quarterback, became the
first guy to throw three pick six is in a
game since Kyle Allen almost a decade ago for Texas
A and m.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
SO if your name is Kyle, you could potentially have
three pick sixes in a game coming your way. Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Thing is for a team in the FBS to have
three pick sixes in a half hadn't happened in almost
twenty years, and that was FIU against FAU.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And we can update that said.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Kyle has thrown a fifth interception in this game, as
Syracuse trails Big at pitch.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I have another U with an F for you, Steve.
Do you want that? You want that? You know?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Let's move on to the NBA scoreboard, shall we. We
had wins for Dallas and Boston already, and we've got
the two late games underway, and yeah, in the NHL,
we've got eleven games tonight. That includes the Hurricanes leading
second period three to one at the Flames Dallas and Detroit.
EA Charity one US Women's soccer won it's exhibition tonight
three one over Iceland in Austin, Texas with two late
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goals and a reminder with World Series Game one Friday night,
that's pitcher Garrett Cole against Jack Flaherty both their Southern
California Natives games in LA and game two there as well.
Saturday nights eight pm Eastern time, when it will be
Carlos RODWN against Joe Shinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen live from the Tirec dot Com Studios.
We'll keep you post on everything going on right now.
Seven and a half to go in the fourth quarter.
As Steve told you, Rams holding on to a one
point lead over the Minnesota Vikings. But coming up next,
how about the biggest epic fail of the day in sports.
(32:44):
That's no, it's actually it's a bigger epic fail than that.
There's no way a bigger epic fail. There's another Kyle.
That's next, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
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Speaker 1 (33:07):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Here it's fine listen to Mark McGrath. He does like
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out five weeks at number one, and then it came back,
dropping down two weeks to number two, bought a big
push on social media put it back on the top.
People think that right the waves, just like with like
old days of you, that that's how you have to broadcast.
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I need to tell you about things, and I can't
change my register. I gotta be up here and then
down here. I gotta work here. I gotta start screaming
at you and yelling at you. I can be in
the middle, but then I'm gonna be up here and
then to make my point, I'm down here. But if
I want to end on an upswing, I'll tell you, Hey,
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is that where Kevin Wyrett went to school. That all
the Frotsburg You're going to hell, Man, you're going hell.
Damn uh. The Jason Smith shows, Mike, I'm thinking of you.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
If you're going into a positive song, then you go
up the register.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
If you're dropped, can't.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
If you're breaking in the those up tempo do a
dog dying, I can't do it. And I tell you
you know, here's mister bo Jagos.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can't. I can't come out of this. Hey up
tempo signing a double do a dog die. Just can't
do it. Uh. So let's talk about the biggest epic
fail of the day in sports. No stop nods a
serious topic. Uh it stopped. Stop It's just a night
yeah Place, I know, I'm only buying that stuff from
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now on, Love Place. Three pick sixes for pitt to
and Syracuse is getting pummeled forty one to thirteen, two
minutes to go with the four thirteen. Now, the biggest
epic fail comes to us courtesy of Penn State and
head coach James Franklin press conference today. That just makes
them look absolutely awful. Now, maybe you saw this story
(35:16):
the last week or so, gaining a lot of attention.
A couple of Penn State players who have since been
booted from the team accused of sexual assault of a
seventeen year old girl earlier this summer. And this story
has gotten more attention over the course of the past
few weeks. Is more details have come out and you
see them in Really it's a tough read, just so
(35:37):
you know. But you have two players who are accused
of sexual assault a seventeen year old girl. And so
you know there's gonna be questions. And so when James
Franklin comes to the podium to answer his questions today
and the first question is about this topic, he sidesteps
and says, Oh, I'm not answering this question. Somebody else
who handles public relations is going to come in and
talk about this situation.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Hey, guys, have any questions, James point in the summer
for you where these guys are not going.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
To get into again. Yes, the university already released the statement.
If you need the statement, reach out to me or
Chris will have no further comment.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Wow, And and James Franklin backs off. Yeah, the visual
drinking water to a whole other level. I'm not here.
I'm just gonna drink some water while while you answer
this question. You know, Penn State, I'm putting out a statement.
They seem upset they're getting questions about this. Franklin goes
back to the podium, he gets another question. He backs
away again, and the guy says, guys, I told you
put out statement. You have a question to ask me? Hey,
(36:33):
look like he was Homer Simpson going into the bushes
trying to hide from this. I understand. This is Penn State.
It's the best season they've had in twenty years. The
last thing you want to do is talk about to
your players who allegedly committed sexual assault on a seventeen
year old girl. But I'm sorry you have to answer
these questions, especially if you are Penn State. I know
(36:53):
everything that happened was before James Franklin got there, but hey,
everything that went on with Penn State under Joe Paterno
and j Sandusky, that is still a big deal for
a lot of nobody's forgotten that. You can't just sit
here and say, oh, we're not gonna talk about it now.
I'm not saying you have to say and you have
to say certain things, but you got to answer the question.
Even if you say, hey, guys, I get it, this
(37:16):
is something that is really difficult. The university has taken
this very seriously and and we're not gonna have a
comment to this time. My heart goes out to the
to the victim, or whatever you want to say. You
don't have to say certain things. I'm not looking for
James Franklin to say, hey, this is what happened. This
is when I knew these guys allegedly committed this crime.
And this is when I kicked them off the team.
I understand, I understand that you want to, but you
(37:38):
got to say something. You can't sit here and just go,
oh no, no, I'm not gonna do it. You look awful.
I mean, especially Penn State, you can't do that. At
Penn State, you can't do it. It shouldn't be that, it
shouldn't be the same. It should be the same for
all schools, but this is especially at Penn State. You
can't do this.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, the prevailing considerations that I saw obviously a lot
of folks condemning from and the program, and rightfully so
in my opinion, off of this circumstance. And then I
saw those going, well, how's he gonna win it. It's like,
it's not a matter of winning this. It's not a
matter of winning.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Just you have to acknowledge it and talk about it. Anoledge.
There's no winning this. But there's a way to lose,
right We talk about it all the time.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
You don't win or lose a championship your first week
or fantasy titles in your in your first round draft pick,
but you can lose it, right, guy, doesn't perform well,
team goes asunder, gets hurt. In this case, you lose
because you look like you're just abdicating responsibility and saying
that all right, this is all through the university. I'm
(38:39):
not a leader of men. I'm not showing any bit
of leadership in this situation. I'm literally gonna step away
from the podium, say nothing, and then drink water.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
They immediately started askings like anybody have any questions about
the game, And there's this awkward silence because everybody like, Okay, yeah,
we have questions about the game, but that's not the point,
Like this needs to be addressed other than yeah, well
refer back to us. No, coach, this is in your program.
These are people associated with your program. Kids, He coached that.
(39:12):
To step away from that and not at least acknowledge
all the allegations, give it a base timeline and speaking
out as a representative of the school, saying abhorn behavior
not tolerated. Whatever statement you want to make, but sipping
your water and stepping away like you're a child.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
And because this is part of what being a head
coach is. It's not just about winning games, but this
is part of what it means to be a head coach,
and James Franklin failed at that spectacularly today.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Complete lack of leadership and gutless. Gutless is the word
that ran through my head repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Exit out about a Fresco exit. Swollendome back to what's
happening in the NFL and a Big World Series preview
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ID should be. You know who doesn't celebrate Thursday? Who's that?
Syrahcuse football? Well, I gotta I gotta tell you guys something.
I gotta tell you guys something because this is something
I've had to hold on to this until now. But
uh no, no, no, this is serious tight shit I've had.
I've had to hold onto this until now. I've actually
known about a lot of goings on in sports. How
(01:12):
things were going to unfold Because now that it's over,
I could say, because they told me, I could say
it was midsummer, not midsummer, mid the summer s O
M M A R. I was dancing with Florence Pugh
and she won with the lie and they stuck my
leg in the ground like cheety well, fertilizer, fertilizer. I uh,
(01:39):
it's tough to admit. I mean, no, I I made
a deal with the devil. I did. The devil showed
up just like Johnny showed up with that fiddle made
of gold, and he said, Okay, hey, Jason, I'm gonna
give you an incredible METS ra this year out of nowhere.
(02:01):
Now I can't have them win at all, because that'd
be a little bit too crazy. But I'm going to
give you an incredible run into the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Okay, well, it doesn't get that specific in the deal
with the Devil.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well, no, it does. I had to. I said, how
far can I go? Just so I know? It said
get you running the NLCS. I said, all right, and
along the way. It's not just gonna be some generic
run where you win every game like six to one.
I'm going to give you every week or so, I'm
going to give you the biggest home run in Mets history. Like, oh, okay, okay,
so what what what? What do I get rid? All right, well,
(02:32):
that's great, I'll take it, okay. And this is for
my years of of suckitude for my teams, and this
is good what I've suffered. Oh no, no, no, Devil said, no, no, no,
I don't it's not it's not account's best. Uh No,
I'm gonna take it out of you in trade and
in pounds of flesh. And I said, what, well, I'm
taking it out of you with the Jets, I said, okay,
(02:55):
and the Knicks, and we're going to start early, all right.
I'm not going to mess around in this air. No,
and I'm gonna start early with you, I said, okay.
Oh in Syracuse football, wait, wait, a lot happens. Wait
to get your first big game on television and your
quarterback throws three pick sixes in the first half. And
I said, okay, okay, So that's the Jets in Syrika.
(03:16):
All right, fine, it's oh no, no, I'm not done. What
do you mean You're not done? No? No, no, The
Yankees are gonna go to the World Series. Oh wow,
well that kind of sucks. Yeah, but that's part of
the deal. I said, all right, and Sam Darnald is
gonna be really good. Is there anything else? No, that's
the deal. So I got the Mets run and now
(03:38):
I'm gonna deal with all this. I deal with Sam
Darnald being great. I gotta deal with Syracuse tonight and
Pittsburgh with eighty three yards of offense and they're winning
thirty one nothing. I gotta deal with the Knicks giving
up thirty threes in the first game of the year
to the Celtics. I gotta deal with the Jets just
sucking despite the fact they keep getting all NFL players. No,
I can do it. And I gotta worry about the
Yankees in the World Series. And I got that. I
(04:00):
get all this stuff. No, the devil said to me,
this is the deal. I said, but I don't know
if I want the deal. They said, but this is
the deal. I said, but I don't want the deal.
I don't want to be in the You're in the will.
I don't want to be in the will. He just
got another one. This is what happens the devil come.
The devil will never let you go. He's gonna he's
gonna come. Do He's gonna come. He's never gonna say, ah,
you know what, I could get to that guy another time.
(04:22):
You're never gonna say, oh, I can maybe escape from
the devil. I maybe he'll forget about me. No, no, no, no, no,
no no. Kyle McCorry just throws his fifth interception of
the game, this one on a tipball, and Pit is
leading Syracuse now thirty one six. If you play college
football fantasy and you stream the pit defense, yeah, I'm
pretty sure you're gonna win this week. Three pick six
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is in the first half.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Oh and he got eighteen plus six you got twenty
four plus. I mean they lost the shutout though, by
the way, that drive, I mean eighteen plays, seventy three yards,
taking up almost ten minutes off the clock. That's something
you could have used in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yahout thirty one nothing using ten minutes of the clock.
It's a great devil deal with the Well, what can
I do?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
This was the But that's the point is that you
you make the deal with the devil, and you always.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Come up short because he doesn't give you the end game.
No right.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Historically, in all works of fiction, we referenced the Dan
Daniel Weather This is great, three biggest home runs in
Mets history.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, but it all happened in a week. It was
all condensed.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It to me.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It's all sped up. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Now you're getting pludgeoned. James Coco went nuts in five minutes.
I mean, this is just an absolutely accurate James Coco. Really,
it was a Simpsons episode where Homer goes to Hell.
They put him on the conveyor bay olt where it's like,
all right for Attorney, he's gonna eat donuts, and they
actually run out of donuts and the devil yells. James
(05:49):
Coco went nuts in five minutes. Here's your Simpsons reference
for the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For the evening. I should say tonight, it's nighttime, long day,
I know, but it's nighttime. It's still nighttime. It's daytime
in Macau. So it's been a long morning. If you
think it's the morning and it's seven o'clock at night,
now it's been a long more. How many did he
throw them? Three pick sixes? Three pick sixes, five interceptions,
(06:18):
three picks. No, we're not allowed to I thought we're
not allowed to play pick sixes until football games. You
get three, it's like, well, it's like a jackar No. No, No,
the rule is you can't play pick sixes on a
Thursday night. No. No, three triggers the bone.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
The only dopey rule like that is Major League Baseball
because they don't want you to, you know, follow the excitement.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Of three triggers the bonus.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's when you know we start bringing in like the
little wood blocks and stuff to recreate the crack in
the back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
No, I think you have to look that up, Frostburg.
I think you can get fired. Actually if you, if you,
if you play more than one pick six in a
night on the radio, I think that well violates.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
All kind of like saying beetlejuice three times. You know what,
I'll take the risk of get no fire.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Motions out of the backfield. The cord looks like it's intercepted.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Touchdown.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
The cord intercepted, Coyle Lewis wis touchdown.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's just been that cut of night running the Love Place.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
He's a weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
On the third one, he didn't even have the energy
to say intercepted because the first show, I'm like Wow,
look at him.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Keep the energy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It's an interception somehow, whatever they got it, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Running back. I mean I don't look.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Offensive efficiency five to fifteen on third downs. I mean,
pit's only one of six. Uh you look at total
yards twenty five to one second they got they had
eight you got you've got four times the penalties it
was thirty one nothing and they had eighty yards of offense.
Come on and put up the halftime graphic. I didn't
(08:06):
have the audio up, but all I could do was laughs, like, oh,
how about that eighty three yards?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sure? Not like winning the Heisman Trophy after the night.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No, No, all those tickets are burning. It's like everybody
that had tickets on Brownie James the score point in
his debut.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, meanwhile, okay, so so enough of Syracuse because clearly, yeah,
I mean they got five minutes too much. Oh man, uh,
Thursday Night football. We told you this is the biggest
Thursday night game of the year because this is this
is the night where the rubber hits the road for
the Rams. It is high noon. If the Rams win tonight,
watch they will continue with what they had. They'll keep
(08:43):
Cooper Cup. They will keep all their players three and
four in NFC West, that is not great. That could
see the forty nine ers lose again on Sunday the Cardinals.
Of the Cardinals, that Seahawks are just okay. The Rams
will state it, but lose to fall to two and five,
and suddenly you're going to see Cooper Cup. We saw
all ril rumors about Matthew Stafford. You are going to
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see the Rams try to reload on the fly for
next year. And so far we are getting And I
told you I picked the Rams last night because they
are the more desperate team in this game. Yes, the
Vikings are coming off of bye, but the Rams are
more desperate and so far they are playing terrific and
it's a seventeen to fourteen Vikings lead. Has been a
lot of offense in this game. They just kicked the
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field goal to go up by three, six and a
half to go in the third quarter. Rams are getting
the football back.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But you got the surprise appearance from Pokin Nakua, so
that added the added value for you. There six catches
eighty seven yards thus far in his eight targets. You
did have Stafford miss Cooper Cup in the end zone
early in this one. But off the jump is who
was gonna flinch first? Because it was fourteen fourteen and
we think we're off to the races now midway through
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the third seventeen to fourteen vikings, And.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Look, let's be honest here, we'll talk about Sam Darnold Becau. Obviously,
Sam Donald is playing well tonight against the Rams, and
the two things I will say, because I give Sam
Donald a lot of credit, One thing is it is
a little bit easy because you could see how much
he defaults to Justin Jefferson. Where is Justin Jeffer. I'm
just gonna throw the ball to him. Okay, you're gonna
be successful.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, if I have a number one wide receiver, why
the hell would I not throw it twenty times?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Again?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It could be the quarterback and say, where are you
throwing this ball? I'm wherever Justin Joffer he's the best
wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But you can't fault him for the fact that they've
got an eight. Listen, But if he was throwing to
somebody else, he'd be an idiot.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But look, but what I'm saying is that it does
help when you have the best wide receiver in the game,
who is usually open, so you don't have to worry
about getting down to your secondary and tertiary reads, which
has always been Sam Donald's problem. When he looks downfield,
he doesn't know what he sees. When he looks downfield
and sees his number one option open, hey, I can
succeed because that's exactly what Donald is doing. I'm looking downfield.
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I have tunnel vision for Justin Jefferson, and no matter
what kind of coverage the defense rolls to him, he's
still able to get the ball there eight nine and
fifteen yards. I mean, really, that that's I mean that,
that's just that's how good Justin Jefferson is. But the
bigger point is this is that you don't need a
bigger example of what coaching means in the NFL more
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than this, because last year, you know, we watched Kirk
Cousins the last few years played great in Minnesota. You
watch Kevin O'Connell come in. Who knew what kind of
coach he was gonna be. He was part of the
next generation of young coaches who are gonna help light
the world on fire. And at what did Jay Glazer
tell us a couple of weeks ago the Mount Rushmore
or young coach in the NFL is O'Connell and Stefanski
(11:34):
and McVeigh is on there. And what you have seen
now is here's O'Connell who has turned a guy who
has been a career backup, who didn't work with three teams.
You can make fun of the Jets and go, oh,
it's a Jets, but he didn't work with the Jets,
he didn't work with the Panthers. He was a backup
at best with the forty nine ers, and he wasn't
really getting a shot there. So now but now you
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look at where he is now at the Vikings and suddenly, whoa,
He's having the best year of his career. And and
and were any of the coaches that he had up
until this time, were they any of them good? Of
course not. Adam Gase isn't even in the league. I
told you he's never gonna coach again. It with such
a disaster, right, and his other head coach went back
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to college. I can't do it anymore. I'm gonna go
get my ass kicked in college now, because at least
at least that's I'm not on the front page of
the paper getting my ass kicked in the NFL and
and never got a chance in San franciscocause he was
only a placeholder there, And here he only gets the
chance because JJ McCarthy gets hurt in the preseason. But
you see the coaching that Kevin O'Connell does. He helped
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keep the Vikings afloat last year when they had to
go to Josh Dobbs. Josh Dobbs came in and played
some good football for the Vikings. Now eventually they figured
it out and and and the Vikings faulted and Josh
Dobbs lost his gig a bit. But you could see
whoever went out there quarterback, the Vikings were still putting
points up. And Jefferson got hurt and that that that
that kind of hurts something. They were still able to
go out there and and and Pete. And I look
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at O'Connell like I look at Kevin steffanskn go man,
no matter who he had out there when they were trying, Uh,
he's able to win with Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Now they're tanking, well, I mean, Stefansky is still trying.
His owner isn't.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And the same thing you can say for Kevin O'Connell
is that He's one of those guys where no matter
who has played quarterback for him, they have succeeded. And
this doesn't mean suddenly Sam Donald is terrific, but hey,
they figured out how to make him work in this
offense and he is playing really really was having a
big night tonight. But again, those two that when you
have Justin Jefferson helps. But this is the biggest example
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you need. Hey, what kind of difference does coaching mean?
In the NFL? Is really about game plans? About this
sometimes it's about how do I get a very important
player being the best version of himself they can be?
And that's what he has done with Sam Donald sod.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Which is why you know, I will never know what
Mac Jones might have been if you didn't put a
defensive coordinators as his OC. I mean, look at history
is littered with quarterbacks that never got to a situation
where we truly found out what they were. Right, he
gets six games with a bad coach. Sorry, that's it,
you get cycled out. I mean, we've seen it time
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and time again with Donald. Fortunately, because he was so young,
there's still that wishing, wanting, hoping. Remember we evaluated that guy,
We really liked him all right. We got him away
from the Jets and Gino Smith and his success has
helped as well because I think he's helped some quarterbacks
maybe get a second or a third look because of
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his success later on in his career.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'll tell you, really, Hey, what is coaching meaning that?
Just watch Sam Darnald Boyt. This is what coaching means.
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the eve of Game one of the World Series. We'll
tell you how it's gonna go. Who's gonna win, how
many games? Why the team that's going to win is
gonna win, who the MVP is gonna be? Cleveland is
not in the world. They were close. They were in
(15:15):
the ALCS T shirt. Oh did you know? No, No,
they were they were very close. I thought you were too.
They were wearing their guardians. We were a little bit
closer than the guardians. We were a little bit close,
even closer they were just like Syracuse were close than
the game Star. Syracuse is not close. Why they were
five and one, not for five and one from other
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forty five minutes. Then that's gonna be done. So coming
up next, who's walking away? What deserving owner is walking
away with the World Series trophy? That's next. Fox.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
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you're playing this?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Come on man in the middle of the road and
he said, it's another pick six.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The courtney or I'll eat your soul. My deal with
the devil. I'll give you that Mets of the NLCS.
But boy, Syracuse and the Knicks and the Jets are
gonna suck. The Yankees are going to the World Series
and Sam Darnold's gonna be great. That sounds excessive. No, no, no, no, no, Jason,
(16:40):
that's the deal. But maybe I don't want the deal.
That's the deal. Take it. But but that's too much. No,
it's like a bad fantasy trade, yeg. But you're gonna
make it. Headed to the fourth quarter right now in
La Matthew Stafford has just thrown his third touchdown of
the night. Boom. The Rams now lead the Makings twenty
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one to seventeen. The return of Pooka Nakua seven catches
for one hundred and six yards, the return of Cooper
Cup three catches for fifteen yards and a touchdown. Flipper
Anderson has a touchdown tonight. Isaac Bruce has a touchdown tonight.
It is a pretty big deal. Oz Hakeem has a
touchdown to US teams. It's been a big night for
the Rams. Man. Why you got oz zero keem in
(17:22):
Hell's done? It's God really something. So again, headed to
the fourth quarter. It is a twenty one to seventeen
lead Rams over the Vikings. I we'll keep you posting
on here and did the less being said about the
college football game on ESPN right now the better now game,
one of the World Series set to begin tomorrow night
in Los Angeles. And again you've heard all the pageantry
(17:45):
about this over the course. Yes, it's the World Series. Tighten,
it always counts it, does it? The World Series counts.
Dodgers win. Yeah, uh, some deserving owner will walk away
with a big hunk of metal and be the World
Series champion. Now, first things, for a four am I
sell it before I give you my pick on the
what's gonna wind up being the highest rated World Series
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game in baseball history. People who've never watched a baseball
game will watch at least a little bit of this world.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
So do they get to include the numbers from Japan?
Of course they will. Well, it's just like Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Whatever a movie sort of disappoints domestically, they go, hey,
weekend one for Smile too globally million dollars. Look, it
all counts the same.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I'm not I'm not saying that it's definitely the cass.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But I gotta say this, all right, because I gotta
be real, right abro I told you about the meeting
with the Devil, my deal with him. I got gotta
say this. I can't have the Yankees win. I can't
I mean, I know. I love my dad. He went
to Game two of the NLCS with me and it
was a great day rooting for me everything. I'm sorry,
but I can't have the Yankees win. I can't. I
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can't have him walking over to the house every day,
walking in like he's my landlord and he owns it. Hey,
I see what I got today. I got this new
Yankee World Series. I got this, I got this, I
got this. I can't have it, man, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well, they put enough stuff acout Tremont, like little patches
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It might be better, kiddling. I can't sit here. I
can't sit here and look at well, what a great
year the Mets had and how great a run there
on the No still the number two team. Hey, look
at the great year you had we won the World Series.
Can't have it. I can't have the Yankees win. I can't. Okay,
absolutely cannot have it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
All right, So fifty to one any player to hit
a five hundred plus foot home run in the World Series, Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's never going to pay out. Because Otani hit like
a seven hundred foot one against the Meta. It was
three hundred and ninety feet. So comand Slam plus one ninety.
Never bet in that. Never bet in that one not happening.
Three or more home.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Runs in any game at a series thirty four to one.
Comet that?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh, I love that? Are you kidding? The left handed
hitters of Dodgers have it? Yankee Staddy?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Do you know what the best payout I heard was
a promotion being run on our flagship here in LA
and five seventy LA Sports with the Seasoning Company. You
get a taco party at your house and it includes
the setups for twenty not a helmet nachos.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Oh okay, anytime you put any your buddies would be
sitting there eating out of helmets.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I'm interested. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Alton was an employee at the company, but Jannet, what
a great promotion.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Not to helmets for everybody. You get a nacho helmet
and you get a nacho helmet. All right? So you
want your dad to be sad when it comes down,
he's happy. I'm happy they're in the world. So I can't.
I just can't have them, win, I can't have them.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
When do you want him to be teased like you
and your deal with the devil? Before this forty one
to six burial, even at the hands of the pit Panthers.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Your dad fought, Now, man, what are you doing? He did?
He did? He did? He did? He did. You're gonna
disrespect him, Miche he might go Walter on he did nice.
You know, Walter, I can't have the I can't have
the Yankees. I change your pick. I can't do it.
I can't have Yankees win. I got a good run, man,
I can't. I can't do it. Uh. Now, that doesn't
mean I wouldn't pick the Yankees to win if I
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thought they were going to win. I just can't have
them win. So you're saying they suck. I'm sick of
these World Series where there's a team. I really just
can't have one. Can't have anybody from the NLS win,
can't have the Yankees win. Made everybody your damn enemies.
I had the year off last year, oh, Arizona and
the Rangers. Yes, even though oh I didn't want the
Rangers to win because they had sures Are and de Grom,
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but it turned out to be okay. You didn't want
them to be getting paid by your team and they
didn't play, So it doesn't have mat still got to
celebrate and psychologically it crushed you. No, they didn't even play, said,
it's part of the extended deal with the devil. I
get over that, per a lot of stuff. I get
over that pretty fast. They didn't play. I didn't have
to watch it. Well, I didn't want to have my
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white eyes. But but but like last ye, I said, no,
I kind of had the year off last year where yeah,
that was I didn't want the Rangers to win. But
they won. But it's not that big a deal because
again sures Are and de Grom didn't play again since
not a lot of people watched count Yeah, I think
you're right.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Uh Now Dodgers are minus favorite in the series. The
two biggest things that are that hit me on this.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Look. Starting pitching is a toss up. The Dodgers are
gonna have to run with their whatever situation they have
going on with Flaherty to Yamamoto bullpen games bueller. But
the Yankee starting pitching isn't great After Garrett Cole, it's
all chances. I think it's better for Garrett Cole that
he's pitching on the road in Game one rather than
the Yankee stadium. But the starting pitching is a wash.
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The Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom. The Yankees
have mashed this postseason, but it's really been Judge and
Stanton and that's been it, right. They struggle to get
production out of other parts of the lineup. Soto had
the big home run as well, so they have the
big mashes at the top. But once you get outside
the number four spot in the batting order, yeah, you're
kind of waiting for those guys to come up again.
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The Dodgers have gotten it from everywhere. I mean Tommy
Bleep and Edmund Man. I lost my shot at the
World Series because Tommy Edmund, who's just a guy, gets
eleven hits and eleven RB in the NLCS. Right, I
lost my chance of the World Series to Tommy Bleep
and Edmund. But the Dodgers lineup is better top to bottom.
I have more confidence they're gonna hit with runners in
scoring position, and they're going to be able to manufacture
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runs at the bottom of the lineup. And I have
more confidence the Dodger bullpen is going to be able
to have a better series overall than the Yankees. The
Yankees have shown, hey, we'll give it up late right,
you think we're comd I know weavers been ogain. We'll
give it up late. It'll happen, and it doesn't need
to happen every game. It just needs to happen once.
I have more confidence the Dodger bullpen is going to
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get the job done, and their lineup is better top
to bottom. They will hit better. I feel weird about
saying it, but I really think it's going the distance.
I want to say Dodgers and five, but this is
going seven Dodgers and seven in what's gonna wind up
being a world series that we talk about for thirty
or forty years. It's gonna be that kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
World He headliner after headliner a few days off now
for Freddie Freeman. So hopefully that ankle, they can keep
the swelling under control and that he can and measure that.
We get a couple of guys back in the series overall,
Rojas and Vessia, like there's the triple Lunders and perhaps
Graderol as well.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
To bolster the bullpen. We'll see his availability.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
On the other side, Cortes coming back for the Yankees,
but I'm looking at a Dodgers in six. That's what
I've been saying all week when asked, I'll stick to
it here that the bullpen game becomes the stuff of legend.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Like as much as you hate it, you have.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
To accept that it is here to stay across Major
League Baseball. And nobody's been able to orchestrate it better
than what Dave Roberts and this staff have done and
the way these players have been used. To your point
about the lineup, I think it's gonna be imperative about
you know, when we're looking at Keik Hernandez and what
he does in October and guys like Will Smith, where
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we see the bats start to come to life a
little bit you mentioned, Edmund. One of my biggest joys
this week was watching people with all their fines in
the trading card world going down to the Commons boxes
of their twenty twenty cards that they ripped open during
the COVID and pandemic shutdown. It's like, wait, I've got
a comments box of all sorts of crap over here.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Look, it's just stacking. Tommy Edmonds, I'm rich. So all
of that to say too much for the Yankees. The
only the only part where I thought you'll get thrown
every game and the Yankees will win, and they'll tell
them to stay home for the other games. The Dodgers
played at such a high level in the NLCS, and
I'm a big believer in playoff momentum and bounces. The
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Yankees did not play great in the ALCS. They played
well enough, but they made a lot of mistakes. They've
not played their best baseball yet. The Dodgers may have
played their best baseball right with the shutouts against the Mets.
The the games they realized, hey, we're not gonna win
these couple of games because a Mets scored a bunch
of runs early, so we're gonna save our bullpen. Dave
Roberts kind of helping to give those games, not giving
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those games the Mets, but just saying we're not going
to exhaust ourselves trying to get back in this game
where we're down six nothing. So but the other games
the Dodgers played, they got it from everywhere. The bullpen
was terrific. The bottom of the order hit Key Hernandez
hit home runs, the top of the order hit. My
only fear the Dodgers get a bit of a bounce,
but there's been enough time going back. The momentum the
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the the fact that Dodgers are getting two home games
in the World Series for the first time in a while,
U and their team is just too big to fail.
It's it may be a bit of rocky going on.
It's why I said Dodgers in seven more than in
five or six. But that's the only thing I look
at where I go ooh. Gives me the tiniest bit
of doubt in the Dodgers. But everything else makes up
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for it. They have so many guys, and it doesn't it.
Tommy Edmond may hit one seventy nine, ki Y Hernandez
might hit four to fifty, right, that that might be
how it goes, right. Uh, you might get Mookie Betts
hitting two fifty, but Tascar Hernandez might at three ninety.
So the Dodger lineup just has too many ways to
kill you. But the thing with the Yankees is we
talked about it with your Mets. You know where where
you see the tail of two types of plate discipline. Hey,
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would you guys take a damn pitch? Oh wait, they
actually now have to come to us and we can
actually mash a bit. That's the Yankees, right, first ball
swing and getting behind and counts. They're a team that
you can pile up some strikeouts against. So how much
plate discipline? How much do they show and try to
extend clarity to where in game one we're getting into
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the bullpen early, because that could set the tone for
everything else, Right, if you've got to go into high
leverage to try to get through game one, suddenly it
sets everything off. So the first inning plus when you
get the heart of the order coming through them and
Judge and Stanton, they've been known to wave the pitches
and go sit down. They've also been known to hit
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five hundred plus foot home runs, So you know, can
you get them to chase out of the zone and
get away from a little bit of the discipline. If
Flarity can do that, huge advantage Dodgers. But that's the
tail of the te He's I think four and a
half strikeouts is his game one over under, So we'll
watch from there exit. How about a fresco exit swallowing home.
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we get off the air. Meanwhile, things get a little closer.
It's so fine. Let's find out what's trending from a
guy who's been telling me all day Jason Yankees in
four Yankees and kept saying, yeah, if I could pick
the Yankees in three, I would. It's Steve de Sager, Okay, sure,
Rams twenty one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
My favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Whenever I can say something and your comeback is yeah, yeah, sure, yes,
I always know I've succeeded. When when that's your comeback.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, the whole Yankees in three humor, I'll give you that.
I know you were joking about the TV ratings. By
the way, and yes, Fox TV again as the world
series this year starting tomorrow night, Yankees at Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But while on the one.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Hand, it certainly will surpass the record low we saw
last year with Texas beating Arizona, there's no way it
approaches the Cubs finally making the World Series in twenty sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I'll take that bet with you. I'll take that bet
with you. For Yankees Dodgers, I'll take that bet.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I made sure to look up the exact numbers. The
Cubs Cleveland World Series of twenty sixteen average nearly twenty
three million viewers and the Game seven class it got
forty million viewers.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Is that from the great baseball researcher Sarah Lanx.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
No, but she should have this because it's just as accurate. Okay,
there's no way it's coming close to that. Okay, we'll
say it's gonna be quite a bit better than last year.
Need loose to say. By the way, speaking of TV ratings,
the NBA started with the TNT doubleheader last night, just
under three million viewers for them, which is actually up
compared to last year because they weren't.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Going up again. It's the baseball playoffs this time.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
We got ten minutes to go in the NFL game
in La Rams Holding on twenty one twenty over the Vikings.
Vikings lost lost left tackle Christian dearrisa early due to
a knee injury. Each team scored a touchdown on its
first two drives tonight. Sam Darnold two touchdown passes.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
He's up to two.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Hundred and fifteen yards through the air. Matthew Stafford up
to three touchdown passes, one interception. He has two hundred
and thirty three yards through the air. Pookin Acoua and
Cooper Cup each back from injuries for the Rams Tonight
Cup with the td Poka Accouah seven catches one hundred
and six yards from Minnesota Justin Jefferson eight catches for
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one fifteen And yes, there's a college football game in
the ACC Tonight's now.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
No, there is no game. There is no game.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
You got that right.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's act for that team. It's a it's a replay
of an old game. It's not a new game. That's right.
I believe. I see Mark May on the offensive line here.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
If only it is those uniforms Pitt Panthers at home
right nineteenth by by the way, trying to go to
seven and zero forty one thirteen the lead over Syracuse.
Mid fourth quarter, Kyle mccorr, the Syracuse quarterback, became the
first guy to throw three pick six is in a
game since Kyle Allen almost a decade ago for Texas
A and m.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
SO if your name is Kyle, you could potentially have
three pick sixes in a game coming your way. Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Thing is for a team in the FBS to have
three pick sixes in a half hadn't happened in almost
twenty years, and that was FIU against FAU.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And we can update that said.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Kyle has thrown a fifth interception in this game, as
Syracuse trails Big at pitch.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I have another U with an F for you, Steve.
Do you want that? You want that? You know?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Let's move on to the NBA scoreboard, shall we. We
had wins for Dallas and Boston already, and we've got
the two late games underway, and yeah, in the NHL,
we've got eleven games tonight. That includes the Hurricanes leading
second period three to one at the Flames Dallas and Detroit.
EA Charity one US Women's soccer won it's exhibition tonight
three one over Iceland in Austin, Texas with two late
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goals and a reminder with World Series Game one Friday night,
that's pitcher Garrett Cole against Jack Flaherty both their Southern
California Natives games in LA and game two there as well.
Saturday nights eight pm Eastern time, when it will be
Carlos RODWN against Joe Shinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen live from the Tirec dot Com Studios.
We'll keep you post on everything going on right now.
Seven and a half to go in the fourth quarter.
As Steve told you, Rams holding on to a one
point lead over the Minnesota Vikings. But coming up next,
how about the biggest epic fail of the day in sports.
(32:44):
That's no, it's actually it's a bigger epic fail than that.
There's no way a bigger epic fail. There's another Kyle.
That's next, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Here it's fine listen to Mark McGrath. He does like
a show on XM, and I feel like he went
to one of those broadcasting schools where they tell you
have to talk like this. This song was at the
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out five weeks at number one, and then it came back,
dropping down two weeks to number two, bought a big
push on social media put it back on the top.
People think that right the waves, just like with like
old days of you, that that's how you have to broadcast.
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I need to tell you about things, and I can't
change my register. I gotta be up here and then
down here. I gotta work here. I gotta start screaming
at you and yelling at you. I can be in
the middle, but then I'm gonna be up here and
then to make my point, I'm down here. But if
I want to end on an upswing, I'll tell you, Hey,
everything the Jason Roots for sucks except for the Mets. Say,
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is that where Kevin Wyrett went to school. That all
the Frotsburg You're going to hell, Man, you're going hell.
Damn uh. The Jason Smith shows, Mike, I'm thinking of you.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
If you're going into a positive song, then you go
up the register.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
If you're dropped, can't.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
If you're breaking in the those up tempo do a
dog dying, I can't do it. And I tell you
you know, here's mister bo Jagos.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can't. I can't come out of this. Hey up
tempo signing a double do a dog die. Just can't
do it. Uh. So let's talk about the biggest epic
fail of the day in sports. No stop nods a
serious topic. Uh it stopped. Stop It's just a night
yeah Place, I know, I'm only buying that stuff from
(34:56):
now on, Love Place. Three pick sixes for pitt to
and Syracuse is getting pummeled forty one to thirteen, two
minutes to go with the four thirteen. Now, the biggest
epic fail comes to us courtesy of Penn State and
head coach James Franklin press conference today. That just makes
them look absolutely awful. Now, maybe you saw this story
(35:16):
the last week or so, gaining a lot of attention.
A couple of Penn State players who have since been
booted from the team accused of sexual assault of a
seventeen year old girl earlier this summer. And this story
has gotten more attention over the course of the past
few weeks. Is more details have come out and you
see them in Really it's a tough read, just so
(35:37):
you know. But you have two players who are accused
of sexual assault a seventeen year old girl. And so
you know there's gonna be questions. And so when James
Franklin comes to the podium to answer his questions today
and the first question is about this topic, he sidesteps
and says, Oh, I'm not answering this question. Somebody else
who handles public relations is going to come in and
talk about this situation.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Hey, guys, have any questions, James point in the summer
for you where these guys are not going.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
To get into again. Yes, the university already released the statement.
If you need the statement, reach out to me or
Chris will have no further comment.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Wow, And and James Franklin backs off. Yeah, the visual
drinking water to a whole other level. I'm not here.
I'm just gonna drink some water while while you answer
this question. You know, Penn State, I'm putting out a statement.
They seem upset they're getting questions about this. Franklin goes
back to the podium, he gets another question. He backs
away again, and the guy says, guys, I told you
put out statement. You have a question to ask me? Hey,
(36:33):
look like he was Homer Simpson going into the bushes
trying to hide from this. I understand. This is Penn State.
It's the best season they've had in twenty years. The
last thing you want to do is talk about to
your players who allegedly committed sexual assault on a seventeen
year old girl. But I'm sorry you have to answer
these questions, especially if you are Penn State. I know
(36:53):
everything that happened was before James Franklin got there, but hey,
everything that went on with Penn State under Joe Paterno
and j Sandusky, that is still a big deal for
a lot of nobody's forgotten that. You can't just sit
here and say, oh, we're not gonna talk about it now.
I'm not saying you have to say and you have
to say certain things, but you got to answer the question.
Even if you say, hey, guys, I get it, this
(37:16):
is something that is really difficult. The university has taken
this very seriously and and we're not gonna have a
comment to this time. My heart goes out to the
to the victim, or whatever you want to say. You
don't have to say certain things. I'm not looking for
James Franklin to say, hey, this is what happened. This
is when I knew these guys allegedly committed this crime.
And this is when I kicked them off the team.
I understand, I understand that you want to, but you
(37:38):
got to say something. You can't sit here and just go,
oh no, no, I'm not gonna do it. You look awful.
I mean, especially Penn State, you can't do that. At
Penn State, you can't do it. It shouldn't be that, it
shouldn't be the same. It should be the same for
all schools, but this is especially at Penn State. You
can't do this.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, the prevailing considerations that I saw obviously a lot
of folks condemning from and the program, and rightfully so
in my opinion, off of this circumstance. And then I
saw those going, well, how's he gonna win it. It's like,
it's not a matter of winning this. It's not a
matter of winning.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Just you have to acknowledge it and talk about it. Anoledge.
There's no winning this. But there's a way to lose,
right We talk about it all the time.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
You don't win or lose a championship your first week
or fantasy titles in your in your first round draft pick,
but you can lose it, right, guy, doesn't perform well,
team goes asunder, gets hurt. In this case, you lose
because you look like you're just abdicating responsibility and saying
that all right, this is all through the university. I'm
(38:39):
not a leader of men. I'm not showing any bit
of leadership in this situation. I'm literally gonna step away
from the podium, say nothing, and then drink water.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
They immediately started askings like anybody have any questions about
the game, And there's this awkward silence because everybody like, Okay, yeah,
we have questions about the game, but that's not the point,
Like this needs to be addressed other than yeah, well
refer back to us. No, coach, this is in your program.
These are people associated with your program. Kids, He coached that.
(39:12):
To step away from that and not at least acknowledge
all the allegations, give it a base timeline and speaking
out as a representative of the school, saying abhorn behavior
not tolerated. Whatever statement you want to make, but sipping
your water and stepping away like you're a child.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
And because this is part of what being a head
coach is. It's not just about winning games, but this
is part of what it means to be a head coach,
and James Franklin failed at that spectacularly today.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Complete lack of leadership and gutless. Gutless is the word
that ran through my head repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Exit out about a Fresco exit. Swollendome back to what's
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