October 26, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Steve DeSaegher update you on everything going on in Game 1 of the World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees. And our College Football Insider Pete Fiutak drops in to preview all of Week 9’s biggest games.
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of anticipation for this Steve all week long, building from
the beginning of the week, and now we're being exactly
what we thought we were going to get. The Knicks
are rolling over the Pacers in their home opener tonight.
(01:05):
Ye up, by twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I would have been let the go. I walked.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That's the breaker when the next game was on, and
I thought, even in New York, they are not watching this.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, it's not even televised, not even televid to New York.
It's not even on like when you had closed circuit
TV back in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Not even on that this.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You had to buy a ticket link to the movie theater,
like watching the old boxing to see. Then.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, there's people outside MSG going free tickets, free court side,
free court side tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Just for the record, that hasn't been a game for
a while. The Knicks are going to win this by twenty.
It's about a minute to go against Indy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But yes, the World Series game one underway, bottom of
the sixth inning. It has been everything we thought it
was going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The Yankees lead the Dodgers two to one.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Right now, Freddy Freeman batting with a runner at third
and two outs, sho Heo Tani and Mookie Betts unable
to get the runner in. So it's up to Freddy
Freeman to try to tie this game, a game that
the Dodgers were one nothing after a sacrifice fly, but
gin Carlos Stanton with a large mammoth to run Homer
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off of Jack Flaherty gives the Yankees the two to
one lead, and Garrett.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Cole get whatever out of this. I gotta tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Frousburger their deep fly ball for LA for an out.
A lot of those tonight it looks.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So the top three hitters in the Dodgers lineup, runner
at second, nobody out. They do not come through, and
the Yankees will take a two to one lead into
the seventh inning of this game. And you know, begin
this way, this game is unfolded, Steve as I said, Okay,
Garrett Cole is not gonna be around very long and
Jack Flaherty is because Jack Flaherty was rolling. But this
is how baseball goes. The Dodger were getting great at
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bats against against him. They just missed the first inning.
Their first three at bats were all terrific. Otani just
missed a home run. Bets just missed a home run.
Freddy Freeman the legs out of triple down the line.
But as the game goes on, one mistake Jack fired,
He makes one mistake.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
He makes one bad pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He throws something that Stanton can handle, that that gets
a little too much of the plate. And now it's
two to one Yankees when he was dominating, rolling through
the lineup like the only the only hitter that he
really seemed like he didn't want anything to have anything
to do with was Juan Soto. But everybody else he
was attacking, he was getting outs, and then all of
a sudden, bang that one swing, and that flipped the game.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
And it was Soto who led off the top of
the six with the single. That's why it was a
two run homer for the lead, and on a solo
shot to tie it. You mentioned it got a little
bit of the plate, might have actually been low to
Stanton and he golfed it out here. I know we
have the distance on the home runs. I would like
to know the height on that one because it was
straight down the left field and seemingly hit the moon
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on the way out, four hundred and twelve feet in distance.
It went deep, deep into the cheap Look me, I'll.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Tell you one thing. I knew it was gone because
he stood at the plate for a long time and
watched it. He knew like that that was one of
those oh he got it, and you know, and they're
still staying on that. They're and I'm going, okay, are
they staying on the shot because they want to because
he's standing there, or they can't find the ball yet
because it's too high.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't know. We gotta wait for the ball to
come down. We gotta wait ball to come down.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I like what John Spoltz comment was on the Fox
telecast is that the pitch before that was essentially one
of those Michael Kopek fastballs to the backstop, you know,
And as Schmoltz put it, it was a non competitive
pitch which kind of allowed Stanton to reset. Okay, he's
really got to be around the strike zone and then
he golfed it out.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean, really, this has been This has been the
tight game we thought it was going to be for
both teams. You have to say it's going according to plan.
The Dodgers got five and third good innings out of
Jack Flaherty. The relievers have come in and done fine.
For the Yankees, hey, we want length out of Garrett
Cole and they're getting that. And look there's still you
were talking about three frames left to go in this game,
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and the Yankees had the two to one lead. But
right now you can say both teams are saying, yeah,
this is This is kind of how we hoped it
would go at least pitching wise, and and the Yankees
with the one run lead.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
But we are going to find something out right now
from the Dodger bullpen, because the guy that's coming in
for the seventh inning is Bruce dark Graderol who has
barely pitched this year, but he is on the World
Series roster because apparently the shoulder is healthy enough, so
he's in. And keep in mind the lefty Alex Vessia
has returned from injury to be on the World Series roster,
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and Vessia was a guy with a microscopic era during
the regular season. And we will have at some point
in the series and maybe multiple times a late inning
lefty Vessia versus lefty Sodo matchup. Can't wait to see it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, Look, we talked about the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
When I picked the Dodgers in seven last night, I said,
two things are tilting me towards the Dodgers. Number one,
Frostburg would keep my car if I didn't pick the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Nut number two, I actually prefer you don't. I had more.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Confidence in the Dodger lineup top to bottom to make
things happen than the Yankee lineup.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
However, if you get.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Good pitchings, sometimes you just need one swing from one
of your top four hitters. The other part was the bullpen,
because I felt that the Dodgers top to bottom, they
have more length, they have more options. The Yankees, we've
seen them sort of meander their way through and give
up big hits late. Not like it's going to be
three or four games where the bullpen gives it up,
but sometimes you just need a bullpen to give it
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up once late, and that could flip the series.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Cleveland. That was a little bit of a surprising adventure
for the Yankee pin.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But you know, you talk about Graderol coming in for
the Dodgers, and he's on the roster, and then look,
they had to make a lot of different changes, go
through a lot of hoops because Evan Phillips, who's one
of their top three relievers, is not on the roster,
got hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
In Game six against the Mets, so he gets.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Replaced by Graderol, who, Yeah, as you said, this season,
we haven't seen a lot of them, but in the playoffs,
what's his era under one and a half?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, Okay, on a few years ago. It's Evan Phillips
with the arm injury that's out, and he had yet
to allow a run in this postseason, nearly seven innings
of work. He was very much depended on, and earlier
the year was the Dodger closer. So Phillips is out,
I'm losing count. I believe it's seven starting pitchers and
five relievers that are injured for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, and they're and they came into the World Series
with three starting pitchers and fourteen relievers.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
On the field pregame guys. One thing about the starter
for the Yankees today, Garrett Cole is his pitch count
has been pretty good all night. Not a lot of
pitches in the first three innings and only eighty pitches
thrown for six Jack Flaherty through ninety in his five
and a third by the time he was pulled for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And when it comes to this is another reason why
I like the advantage of the Dodger bullpen is that
you get to this point in the season, and what
is not talked about enough in baseball is you can
have really good starters, right, and you can have starters
that are healthy all year, and you think, okay, these
are our guys. But because they don't pitch enough anymore
and they don't have the the arm build up of
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pitchers in years past, when you get to October, everybody
is cooked, and they're cooked early. Is you can't rely
on people say Okay, hey, you made thirty two starts
all year. He's been hell yeah, by the time you
got to October, They're only gonna throw so many innings.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They're only gonna throw so many pitches. Right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sean Maniah was unbeatable for the Mets in the playoffs,
and then he even said Game two when he came out,
I hit a wall. And then what happ when he
had to go back out in Game six? The Dodgers
knocked him all over Chevez Ravine and they.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Wound up winning the series.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So, you know, for a guy like Flaherty and Cole I,
even though Cole's pitch count is low, I don't think
he's gonna be in the game much longer. Eighty pitches
for him at this point is a lot in octo.
Even if you have guys who miss a little bit
of time, you get this late in the season, it's
gonna be really really difficult, and for the Dodgers, it's
okay to keep throwing these relievers out here.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And a guy like Graderol who hasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Pitched, because how long is he really gonna go like
he's gonna pitch an inning?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Like that's it. Like it's not like, hey, you're gonna
be our long.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Guy said, no, you're gonna come in and pitch an inning,
and then somebody else, and then somebody else, and then
somebody else and somebody else, depending on where the lineup's at.
So it's not like it's a huge chance. It's okay. Yeah,
we think Graderol can take an inning. He's been really
good in the playoffs. He knows what the performance is
like on the field, and I just watched him field
a groundball back to the mouth with his bare hand
and wait to throw the runner out at first, So
I think he's feeling it a little bit, So I
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think he'll be okay for an inning here. Although Aaron
Judge just singles to put a run around with two outs.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And Judge had struck out his first three times, and
you knew that was going to be a story. And
then well, of course Stanton comes through and nobody remembers
what Judge done. It is first at bet Stanton's two
run homer in the sixth has the Yankees up two
to one. Top of the seventh, I have already seen
LA's alex Vesia warming up in the bullpen. I know
we just had Soto in this inning at the plate,
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and yes he was retired on a pop up to shortstop,
but you know he's coming back, probably in the ninth inning.
There still is a chance of the lefty lefty. And
I bring that up because you remember that great five
game series where it was Padres Dodgers. The Padres acquired
a lefty at the trade deadline, Tanner Scott, who I'm
sure they were thinking in the back of their mind,
we're gonna have to face Sho Heo Tani to get
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where we want to go, and this is a lefty
who can battle him. And in a five game series,
they had this lefty come in against Otani four times
in the five games and he struck out Otani all
four times. Teams do think about this in advance.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Otani and Betts tonight are both zero for three. Freddy
Freeman has a hit that is the only hit of
the top five batters in the Dodger line if they
only have three overall. Uh so this has been a
pitcher's duel kind of like an old school World Series game.
You know, you and I growing up, where every first
couple of games were like this, like it was always
one one.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In the sixth pitching that type of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, it's one one in the six or it's two
to one in the eighth, and then you know the
oh there's a ton of runs, Like what was the
final score?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Five to four? Oh? Yeah, we had so many runs
in that game.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You know that X Swiss pitch and it was gonna
be you know, by the way. I saw one article
on MLB going into this series that it's possible about
seven Hall of Famers wind up on the rosters that
we're watching in this World series. The last time we
had more than that was a Braves Yankees World Series
nineteen ninety six, when you had the Braves pitchers that
all wound up in the Hall of Fame, Smoldsmattox and
(11:04):
Glavin and Chipper Jones got in. Fred McGriff was on
that team, and the Yankees you had Mariano rivera, Derek
Cheater and also Tim Rain's Wade Boggs were on that team.
Who knows how many Hall of Famers were seeing this
next week. By the way, Gradarol has gotten out of
the inning seventh inning stretchy in La he struck out
Stanton t in the top of the seventh two to one.
Yankee Steve, you say seven Hall of famers, it is possible.
(11:26):
Who are the seven? Well, we're not seeing also Kershaw pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
By the way, Tommy Edmund coming off the NLCS, Tommy
Edmund clearly is a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I think that's on the Mets. I think it's pretty
safe to say Sodo, this young in his career, has
a chance for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Sodo, Judge and potentially Stanton and has had a long career. Right,
So you have those four, then you have Otani and Betts. Definitively,
I'm start going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
And there's a chance Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Could go to the Hall of Fame too. I mean
he could go.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Freddy Freeman's career three hundred hitter. What about he will
go in the season?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know, I did you know? What's something? You want?
The cre score?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
There one run watching by the way he's Robert or
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I didn't know this about keyk hern I really didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And and it's it's crazy, but now everybody I talked
to alsos oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, like all
the all the the when we talk about the games
with a bunch of different people, with our friends and
and and every every woman I know my loves keyk Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
They think he is so good looking, like, oh my god,
Key k he's my husband, he's my husband. I'm like,
he's really that good look Key k Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Really you're correct that. I'm like, really, I used to
cover the Dodgers and it used to be those types
of screams when Andre Ethier came to the Plague. When
key k was acquired, he replaced because Ethier about twenty
sixteen seventeen, was ending his career. Key k Hernandez replaced that.
You can tell what I mean, it's more like the
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high school girl level of pitch of people cheering. It's
not the men, and it's not the clapping, it's the screams.
Absolutely or correct.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I was like, I had no idea about that. I
didn't know. So I told a couple of friends to go.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Hey, just you know, I know you really have gone
too far when when like I see you next to
the barbecue or get together and you make your husband
wear his his sunglasses.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You know, to look as much like him as possible
because he.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Wears those big wrap around shades when he plays, Like, ah,
I got my husband dressing like Key k Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
K k Hernandez, a two thirty hitter who playoffs is
a two eighty hitters. Yeah, there's no explaining this.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I mean, it's it's really it has been. It's some
kind of game.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So far again, Yankees and Dodgers two to one, going
to the bottom of the seventh inning. The Dodgers will
at least turn the top of the lineup over one
more time. We'll get to see Otani, Bets and Freeman.
But maybe sooner, maybe the ninth inning. But again, Yankees
leading two to one right now, going to the bottom
of the seventh and yes, in front of friends and
family and wonderful people in New York City, the New
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York Knicks are back on their championship.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Paths Stevo, what are one?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
They beat the Pacers one twenty three to ninety eight
on oh, no threes from Mbar tonight. No, close my
eyes and.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Throw them up all it's in all Millar didn't play yo.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Uh, let me just tell.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You of the stat line tonight in this game, this
is the big NBA game of the night.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well on obvious All Knicks game.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
All Knicks five starters were in double figures. Karl Anthony
Towns twenty one and fifteen, Jalen Brunson at twenty six.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
The Knick starters were fantastic, what you expect.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But how about this line Olympian tyresee Halliburton twenty six minutes,
oh for eight from the floor, no points minus twenty three.
That is your that is your Olympian point guard. Twenty
six minutes. He does not score oh for seven from
three point range. The Pacers shoot three for thirty from
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behind the arch overall.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And this shows you that the starters were the ones
who got beat at New York because they had three
starters that were a minus twenty three on the court
and the Pacers lost by twenty five in New Yorkah, yeah,
that was a big one.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And of course we have Phoenix send the Lakers just
tipping off right now in early three nothing.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Let's not forget well that's going on in downtown LA.
People are tailgating for USC football, which is on Fox
TV after the Dodger home game to thieve. Yeah, kid,
you not. There are more people in this studio tonight
than out the USC game.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well that's good. What's USC?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They're like four and fourteen in their last eighteen games.
Come on, I mean, I mean, you can only underachieve
so much.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I think that's the record. When they're up fourteen points,
I think you're mistaken.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Exit out about of Fresco.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon's team de seger in for Harmon tonight.
We're live from the Tyraq dot Com studios. Coming up next,
we'll continue to keep you posting on what's happening with
the Yankees and the Dodge again two to one in
the bottom of the seventh. But we have a huge
slate at top twenty five games in college football tomorrow,
four games involving top twenty five teams against each other.
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Nobody better to break it down than our next guest
with us right here, Jason Smith, Steve de Sager.
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the Yankees and the Dodgers right now. The Dodgers put
the first two runners on a single by Hernandez, hit
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by pitch after.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Clay Holmes comes in wild.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And then my least favorite play in all of baseball,
the sacrifice bunt, A great bunt by Key k Hernandez
puts runners at second and third, but Will Smith a
week pop up to short two outs, runners at second
and third. Now Clay Holmes one batter away from escaping
this inning.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
The interesting thing about this bunt and they are taking
homes out. Perhaps right now with two outs and two on,
it looks like Tommy Kinley is done warming up and
ready to come in for the Yanks. But you're bunting
guys over for what the seven and eight hitters, neither
of whom have hit consistently at all this postseason. It's
not like for the top of the order.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
As are right.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Tommy Cainley is coming in so we'll have more on
this game coming up with a bit.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But joining us now the hot line. You know what
we play poison. It is one man and one man only.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He is the owner, editor, proprietor of College Footballnews dot Com.
You're one stop shopping for college football. All the picks,
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few Tech. Pete, what's happening bout?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I'll be that guy who says this to myself to
quote stick to college football. But I am that guy
that over the one hundred and sixty two games, yes
you do not sacrifice fun. But in the World Series
when runs are everything. Yeah, situational baseball, yes you pivot
a little. You pivot I know over the long haul
and the numbers that have a few averages out, But situationally,
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I don't hate the sacrifice. Butt here.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I want eight hundred words on that on College Footballnews
dot Com. I want that to be on the banner
above all the games. I want that to be.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I will tell you this, it is my Mandarin life
in the analytics world. It drives me absolutely up a
wall when a team scores a touchdown to go up
seven and doesn't go for two to go up two scores.
I know that all the data analytics like during the
time and things like oh well this doesn't work. Yeah
it does. If you have a chance to go up nine,
you do it, especially late in the game. If you
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can put a game away, you do it. And for
some reason that get go really mad at me and
then they throw numbers at me and I'm like, yes,
but if my team hits two points, I win. So
that's that's my I'm done for that. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Have a good one, all right, So let's take a look.
We have some big games tomorrow on the slatey a
lot of top twenty five games playing teams playing against
each other. Number one has a big one. But I
gotta say, pete. Every time I look at the slate
and I see the game I'm most excited to see.
I don't know why, but I am just fascinated by
Notre dameon Navy. It's I mean, just because I feel
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like it's nineteen forty three again and here's Notre Dame
Navy when it means everything. Two undefeated team, you know,
are two big teams, the top twenty five middle of
the season. Like, is Navy really this good? Like they
haven't played anybody. They get Notre Dame at home, Like
all my eyes go, I want to see this game
more than anyone tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You and I love what this is.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
You've gone full beat o cook no Tre Dame. Like
maybe you like you really say it out loud and
make it rumble.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Look, first of all, I think historically I could be
really really wrong on this. I think Navy always sucked.
I think you're thinking Army. I think I think back
to back in the nineteen forties, especially nineteen forty five
and the odd tie, when I think when we were
watching that together, then that was Army. But I think
Navy has traditionally been absolutely obliterated by Notre Dame over
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the years. Look, if you're Notre Dame, I get it.
You're you're playing against the team throwing the curveball. You
get this. Now you get Army in a couple of weeks,
and it's fun. You know, you can come up with
crazy scenarios. All right, If Navy pulled this off, you know,
it's got a shot to reasonably say, okay, there, they
might be in the mix for something large. Army's gonna
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be even the other interesting one because Army's played absolutely
nobody so far. At least at least Navy's got a
good loss under its belt, whereas Army in that one.
But yeah, you know, I think that's kind of the fear.
After you lose to Northern Illinois, you kind of lose
the oh, the automatic. Of course Not Dame is just
gonna roll on this. But look, you know you're gonna
get that kind of us just said, the knuckleball coming
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your way? Can you can you hit it? You know
it's coming. You just got to be able to stop it.
But I do think that this Notre Dame team, the
starting twenty two that's going to be out there. They're
not deep anymore. They stuff a ton of injuries, but
this is a very, very good team.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I looked up the Navy and so by the way,
Tommy Candley did get a ground out go to the
eighths with a two to one lead in LA And yes,
Navy football as soon as World War Two ended won
three games in the next three years, and they did
until and I remember this in my lifetime, until about
fifteen years ago or so, they had lost over forty
consecutive games head to head against Nodame.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm going back.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They finished third and forty three, they were ranked second
and forty four second and forty five.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I'm back in the right era. I'm back in the
right ara.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah. In the war.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Sure, not to go history Wesson here, but here on
the north side of Chicago, north shore of Chicago, I'm
a you know, driver three went away from the Great
Lakes Naval Academy, which is now just an army base.
But that's what you want to talk about, like hoarding
all the in the transfer portal. Back in the wartime
you had all these like Iowa pre flight stuff and
Navy an army which would take all the good players.
And so historically some of the greatest teams of all
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time were there and Notre Dame. Nor Dame somehow escaped
pretty good during the nineteen forties. But yeah, it should
be a fucking but it's right out of the gate tomorrow,
so it's you know, we get to see this pretty
early on, and it will be a tone center because
right now, if you look at Nor Dame and what
they got left on the slate. USC's looks beatable. Florida
State obviously very beautiful. Crazy to think that Army and
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Navy might be the most difficult test to rest away
from the Irish.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
That is in the early window, and it is in
New Jersey, not Annapolis Navy against Notre Dame. I wanted
to talk about the ACC and not about Miami Florida
State tomorrow night. And by the way, Louisville has taken
the lead. Louisville and the fourth now leads at BC.
But there's a small small team called the Syracuse Orange
in the ACC. I don't know if you saw them
play last night.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Wait wait wait wait wait quit wait I wait, mcquick,
you just do another picksick. I waited for it. I'm sorry,
too soon.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Too soon. So they just fooled us with the early wins. Uh.
And by us, I mean, Jason, this is so good.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
I mean it's it's the accad you know, bad night.
But look it has flown way under the radar. And
I know we I know, we kind of blew past
the Miami Florida State game for for good reason. Uh.
But Miami they're shaky. I mean, that is a shaky
seven and oh they they You could really point the
three specific calls, including a real fun one a few
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weeks ago when I was on the phone with you
guys and you were punking me on the Virginia Tech
finale there but no, no, that's.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
How it went on the tvp They punked us first,
then we had to tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Then we had to go back until it was happening.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
That was hilarious. But yeah, they're good. But they're just
that's a team that's not gonna happen this week. But
they're at the team just begging to get tagged at
some point. And Pits Pit's the real deal. You know,
they're they've been really good. They're just sound there their
secondary gets torched. Look, they might have you know, I
want to talk about risk and biscuits. I mean, they
obviously did that against of Court. Didn't work the cord
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fish for like seven hundred and fourteen passing yards or
something crazy like that with the but you know a
lot of them were going the other way.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I think.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The secondary phe be burned. And then you go Clemson,
the pop which got you know, just planted in the
first game by Georgia and has ruled everyone else. So
it's an interesting conference, even though everyone's sort of already
anointed Clemson as the winner in the three seed in
the college football playoffs.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That just on the last ag Kyle McCord's final stats.
It was thirty five of sixty four passing last night,
no touchdowns, five interceptions.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You're talking about minus if you if you were playing
college football fantasy and you had Kyle quarters your quarterback,
I don't think you're.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Winning this week.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
No, you never know. It depends on your league of courts.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
But yeah, because the pick.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Six is we're about one hundred and thirty yards the
other way.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So if you stream the Pitt defense last night, you
probably won the week. You probably already clinch because you
got like eighty points out of the Pit defense. Uh
if you tech our guest Jason Smith, Steve de Seger
here at Fox Sports Radio. All right, so we have
a Big Ten battle from a team that's kin you
talking about under the radar. I would say Illinois is
the pitch of the Big Ten, kind of under the radar,
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not getting the ink of the other teams, but they have.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Shown they're pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
They got Oregon tomorrow, newly minted number one team.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Any shot the aligne I have the upset here? Is
this going to be Oregon?
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah, maybe a shot. I think we're gonna wins. But
I do think Illinois has a shot. It's that's just
a strange Illinois team. This is not the Brett Field
and the team of past years where two years ago
where they just had an attitude or they just came
in and said, you know, they had Devon Willerdspoon, you
had Newton up front, you had a whole bunch of
really good players left over from the lovely Smith era.
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Uh and that defense was just a killer. That's not
this team. It's not the most physical of teams upfront,
but they just make a lot of nice plays. It
just it's kind of a boring mid range passing team
that just sort of controls the clock and hangs around
and all of a sudden they've got a shot to
win something. But look, they held up great against the
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Wolverines last week. I mean that was I picked him
to win it, but I didn't think it was going
to be quite quite bad. And now look you know
they've got a chance against Oregon where you know it depends,
is Oregon gonna still be physical like they were against
Ohio State because that they were able to power over
the buck guys a little bit. But now it's for
real you now it's you're the number one team in
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the country, and Illinois under that coach usually brings a
little bit of an attude. So again, I do think
it'll be an interesting game.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
At organ with I can't let you go without saying
out loud that Vanderbilt and Texas have the exact same
record in the Southeastern Conference Settler tomorrow. Is it a chance?
I mean, Vandy is a team that legitimately had that
upset of bad but it wasn't a lucky play at
the end. Do they have a chance with like Texas
on the rebound and not had their head straight early
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or something. The game's at Vandy on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I will get I watch me fight you on this one,
because Vandy got the got the huge, massive break that
Kayling to Borr and the Alabama offense for got to
run the ball they ran. There's a crazy easy stats
that you have to go back to like two thousand
and like nine back when Alabama was giving up like
four rushing yards the game, when they hadn't run the
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ball that few times, and they just stopped and it
was just a bad overall game plan and Brandy took advantage.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, the point is they were up by about ten
in every quarter throughout the game.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Bandy.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, but yeah, it was just a bad game. But
that's that's Alabama. Alabama just takes a break. They just
they were all last year. I kept saying about usc
where they see what twenty minute nap every single game.
They just chill out a little bit. That's Bama. I'm
just like, oh my gosh, it seems awesome on their
way and then they just you know, take you know,
just kind of go get a sandwich and relax for
a little bit. It's just they have not been able
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to keep their foot down the wole way. But that's
not why you call it. It's about Texas. So I
am not a blaev in Texas. I did. I'm the
only person on the planet who thought Georgia was going
to win, and win relatively that easily. I missed everything
else last week except Illinois and Georgia. But okay, but
I do think that Texas. You know, they're just too fast,
too good. Vanderbilt is doing this with a duct tape
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and a couple of prayers in Diego Pavilla, and it's
been fun. Eventually, it's going to catch him. But he's
been able to be competitive against just about everyone so far,
so I do think this is going to be a close,
fun game for a while, and then Texas just turns
it up a few notches.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
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Pete feu Tech. Everything you need college football is at
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and don't forget that special eight hundred words on the
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appreciate it, man, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Absolutely have it going, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Great stuff from Pete feu Tech.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
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Speaker 3 (29:05):
Off the air.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Well, how are things going at Chavez Ravine right now?
Game one of the World Series? Steve de Saga as
the latest Mets and the Yankee Steve?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
What I must have missed that? By the way, Can
I just say we called it in advance that the
Dodgers in the bottom of the seventh after they got
the first two men on base and sacrifice them over
to second and third, Not saying that's automatically a bad play,
but they sacrifice them over when the next two hitters
are the seven and eight hitters, who are each slumping
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in the postseason, and you've got a power fresh round out.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You are preaching to the choir the bunt it should be.
I don't know why people still do it it. Will
I go all the way back to my It's this simple.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
As you do it with the eight hitter when Edmund
and Otani are coming.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You're not doing it when the bottom of the order
is coming up.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Ye, Will you already have a guy in scoring position
for the bottom end of your lineup. Give them as
many chances as possible to get the run in, right,
because I just keep thinking back to Brett Pitt going,
don't be a hero, pick it up and throw it
the first base. We'll take the out, because then you
put all the pressure on the next batter who has
to get the run in. And it's someone hitting seven,
eight nine in the order that is not hitting well.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And look at that at bat.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Will Smith gets jammed and can't even get the ball
out of the infield like that. Like I never understand
the bunt. I think it's outdated and people default to
it way too much. At that point, it looks like
how many runs are you really playing for? And you
wound up getting none. Right, She would have loved to
have another chance with somebody on base, right and have
another guy up, maybe turn.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Around at the top of the order.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
But the Dodgers, you put it all on Will Smith's
at bat, And because baseball is a game of failure
where even the best players are going to fail three
out of four times, two out of three times, that's
what you wind up getting. I can't stand the bunt.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, I want to be specific. I'm not against the
bunt ever, but in this case, no, you could just
as easily move a runner over with a fly ball
from Will Smith and then ask the eight hitter to
do something, because that's essentially what you're asking two guys
that are batting one fifty in the playoffs to do something.
You're giving it out to give those two guys bet
and the Dodgers still trail two to one as they
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go to the bottom of the eighth inning. The Yankees
are leading because of a long home run down the
left field line by La and of Guencarlos Stanton. It
was literally the only mistake that Jack flerd he made
as Dodger pitcher tonight. He gave up the long ball,
lasted into the sixth inning, five and a third pitched,
ninety pitches thrown. Garrett Cole threw six innings with eighty
(31:26):
eight pitches thrown for New York and now three relievers
have been used for the Dodgers and two relievers since
for the Yankees, and it's still anybody's game two to one.
With La batting bottom of the eighth, They're in a
commercial break now on Fox TV, and yes, Fox has
all the games. They all start at eight pm Eastern time,
including game two from LA tomorrow night. By the way,
(31:48):
we were talking college football that ACC game tonight, Louisville
is leading with two minutes to go at Boston College,
coming back for the lead thirty one twenty seven over BC.
The Louisville Cardinals were down twenty to nothing late in
the first half Underway. There are two late games tonight Underway,
number seventeen Boise State at UNLV and coming up on
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Fox TV in about a half an hour right after
the World Series game is Rutgers at USC. Meanwhile, there
is a downtown La NBA game the Lakers are in action,
hosting the Phoenix Suns. That one is mid first quarter
with the Suns up twelve eleven. The Knicks did get
a win earlier, easily over the Pacers one twenty three
to ninety eight. Victories at home also for Cleveland, Atlanta
(32:32):
and Toronto, and for two and Oho Orlando, which beat
Brooklyn one sixteen to one oh one. In the NHL,
Nashville starts the third with a two to two tie
at Chicago. The Islanders won in overtime at New Jersey
for three bottom of the eighth underway back to you
question for you got them?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
If there's nobody there to witness, the USC game doesn't count.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
If there's media there to report it, I think they
can go in like, but you don't show any highlights.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
It's says you report the score.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I'm pretty sure they offered a free meal, so there's
got to be some media there.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Oh oh yeah, Oh come, it will be only media,
that's all that. There be no fans and it's only
only in the media.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Can I say, as a media member who's covered this,
it's a private school, so the meal's probably gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yes, Exit out, bout of Fresca.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Jason Smith, Steve de Sager Tonight again, Yankees up to
one over the Dodgers. Dodgers coming about here in the
bottom of the eighth inning. We'll keep you updated on
this and coming up next, we have a big NBA
story that everybody just has to chill out about. What
is it that's next? This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
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 (33:46):
Wooo, do we got Dramn Chavez, Ravine, Jason Smith, Steve
de Sager in for Mike Harmon. Dodgers have just tied
the game with the Yankees at to apiece in the
eighth inning. And oh boy, what's been a big theme
for the Yankees this postseason? Yes, big home runs by
Soto and stet Yaya, but sloppy play in the field,
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sloppy base running. And it's what we just saw show
Haotani with one out, doubles off the wall. It's a
clear double throw, comes into Volpi in the infield, takes
his eye off the ball for some reason, maybe looking
to see if Otani was gonna go for third, but
he had stopped at second. Now the ball ticks off
his glove, bounces into no man's land. Otani's able to
(34:33):
take third, and then Mookie Betts tags one to the
wall in center field. Aaron Judge makes the play, but
way deep enough to bring Otani in on a sacrifice
fly that has tied the game at eight apiece. Luke
Weaver getting the two two out, two apiece, Luke Weaver
getting the final two outs of the inning to and
the eighth. But wow, you're you're talking about what a
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what a huge error by the Yankees, and this has
been their hallmark Steve is that you know, look, yes
they're in the World Series, but it's so tough watching
them because, as I say, I watch them, they play
so badly fundamentally, and they make stupid mistakes and still
they get one big swing and they're in the World Series.
And I watched the Mets just look at a ball
wrong and suddenly, oh it's before running and we give
it up. It's so frustrating watching the Yankees succeed despite themselves.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
No, you are not wrong, because once they got the
closer thing figured out, which wasn't until the last month
of the season, there was the other thing that for
a contender, and I'm talking about that standard, they just
weren't that sharp consistently defensively, and Mike Goodness, did it
rear its ugly head. There's no way the Dodgers should
have just scored the tying run in the bottom of
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the eighth and Otani double and two fly balls afterwards,
and Otani gets left on base just like the Dodgers
left the couple on base the inning before. The Yankee
should still be leading.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So instead we have a two to two, game of
the ninth the Yankees bringing Luke Weaver, their best reliever,
of their best high leverage guy. He does get the
final two out, so then he gets two fly balls.
Bets really tagged it. For a second.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I thought it was going to go over Judge's head.
He was playing in really.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Shallow but he got a great jump on it, and
because he's nine feet tall, he's able to reach up
and catch it without too much difficulty. But that easily
brings the run in this game is tied to Pete
to a piece going to the night.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I will say about Weaver when he was named the
closer in the six weeks between that moment about the
start of September until the Cleveland series recently in six weeks,
see it allowed only one earned run and then he
allowed that ninth inning home run to a pinch hitter
and people going wild in Cleveland, and then Clay Holmes
in that series gave up a game and lost. And
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you're right, they got bailed out of the fire more
than once by home runs. And that's what this team has,
and that's what's still sitting there ready to come up,
because you know the Yankees are going to have the touch,
just like the Dodgers just had the type of the lineup.
You know, the Yankees are going to have the type
of lineup coming up. And guess what, Michael Kopek throwing
one hundred miles an hour but straight is the guy
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coming in to face the eight, nine and one hitters.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
about ten minutes. Are going to go to the ninth
to a piece. Everything you would want Game one of
the World Series to be, it has been so far. Meanwhile,
a big story out of the NBA that everybody just
has to really chill out about. Right now, the Suns
are thumping the Lakers right now, fifty three thirty five,
midway through the second quarter. It has not been a
(37:26):
great night for LA. They're not shooting well, not really
doing anything well. No Bronnie James, he has not entered
the game yet for the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Again, still lotsways they're playing real basketball to that.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, and they're losing, Like, hey, we can't put you
in what we're losing. The announcement comes today from the
Lakers that hey, look when the G League starts coming
up in about twelve days, Bronnie James is gonna shuttle
back and forth between.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
The Lakers and the G League team.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
But Jane, it's easy for the Lakers because the G
League team is here in Los Angeles. So that's kind
of the plan. And I hope everybody just calms the
blank down.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Nowk you this story? Yes, I get it.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
It's a difficult optics where anything with Lebron is going
to be polarizing. Does Bronnie James deserve to be in
the league? Should he be there? Should he be playing?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Shot?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
The Lakers understand how delicate of a story this is
Lebron understands how delicate of a story. This is Lebron's thinking,
my work is done. I got my son to the NBA.
Now he's got to figure it out for himself. We
had the moment where we got to play together. It
was great. The Lakers were able to figure it out.
It was perfect for them. They were up nineteen. They
bring Bronny in for three minutes. The lead gets cut
(38:31):
down to twelve, but it doesn't matter. They bring Bronny
in for three minutes. He gets to play with Lebron.
It's a big headline and now you're going to see
him only play when it's a blowout or for a
minute here, and you can do that as long as
he plays okay defensively. And now you're going to see
that this is going to be less of a story
because he's going to get most of his time in
the G League. He's going to come up and sit
on the bench. This is not going to be something
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that gets out of control. I get how upset people are,
and I get the always taking a job away from somebody.
I understand you're talking about a guy at the bottom
of the bench. And it's a big story. And the
Lakers did it to stay relevant. If they're not going
to championship, they got to find a way to stay relevant.
So hey, we'll go draft Bronnie James. Here he comes,
he's going to play a little bit for us, but
mainly if he shows he's good in the G League
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and he's able to get time there because that's what
he needs. Hey, maybe he'll get a couple more minutes
here and there. But the Lakers know when it comes
down to it, they know who's gonna play, and he's
not gonna be on the floor. It happened. The moment happened.
He got the contract he wanted. It's not a two
way deal. He's getting paid as an NBA draft pick,
which is which is what Rich Paul wanted. Everything out
of this, Everything is going to be fine. There is
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no reason to go crazy over the story anymore.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
You know, as soon as you mentioned Bronnie James, it's
like a dog whistle, isn't it all you can think of?
It's a negative reaction. Do you just think of some
of the comments that have been around. Hey, you're right, people,
just back off. This is really it wasn't a story
then and it's certainly not a story now. It was,
as many people rightly said the next day after the opener,
(39:57):
a manufactured Hey, father and son are coming into the
game in the first half at the game time, and
then someone like Kenny Smith on a normally good basketball
show actually makes the comment of, yeah, but he was
a high school All American browny, which means he's one
of the twenty back. No, I'm not sure he was
one of the best in Los Angeles, much less in
the country. His last name is James.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
You know, Steve.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
When I was ten years old, I hit like six
thirty in Little League. I was one of the best
players on Staten Island. And then and then kids started
throwing curveballs, and then all of a sudden, I was.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Hitting two hundred.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
The original Rizzler.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Exit out Vata Fresca. The Jason Smith Show is Steve
de Segar And for Mike Harmon, still too. Two Yankees
batting in the top of the ninth inning. We'll have
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what we thought we were going to get. The Knicks
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Ye up, by twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I would have been let the go. I walked.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That's the breaker when the next game was on, and
I thought, even in New York, they are not watching this.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, it's not even televised, not even televid to New York.
It's not even on like when you had closed circuit
TV back in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Not even on that this.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You had to buy a ticket link to the movie theater,
like watching the old boxing to see. Then.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, there's people outside MSG going free tickets, free court side,
free court side tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Just for the record, that hasn't been a game for
a while. The Knicks are going to win this by twenty.
It's about a minute to go against Indy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But yes, the World Series game one underway, bottom of
the sixth inning. It has been everything we thought it
was going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The Yankees lead the Dodgers two to one.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Right now, Freddy Freeman batting with a runner at third
and two outs, sho Heo Tani and Mookie Betts unable
to get the runner in. So it's up to Freddy
Freeman to try to tie this game, a game that
the Dodgers were one nothing after a sacrifice fly, but
gin Carlos Stanton with a large mammoth to run Homer
(02:07):
off of Jack Flaherty gives the Yankees the two to
one lead, and Garrett.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Cole get whatever out of this. I gotta tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Frousburger their deep fly ball for LA for an out.
A lot of those tonight it looks.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So the top three hitters in the Dodgers lineup, runner
at second, nobody out. They do not come through, and
the Yankees will take a two to one lead into
the seventh inning of this game. And you know, begin
this way, this game is unfolded, Steve as I said, Okay,
Garrett Cole is not gonna be around very long and
Jack Flaherty is because Jack Flaherty was rolling. But this
is how baseball goes. The Dodger were getting great at
(02:45):
bats against against him. They just missed the first inning.
Their first three at bats were all terrific. Otani just
missed a home run. Bets just missed a home run.
Freddy Freeman the legs out of triple down the line.
But as the game goes on, one mistake Jack fired,
He makes one mistake.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
He makes one bad pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He throws something that Stanton can handle, that that gets
a little too much of the plate. And now it's
two to one Yankees when he was dominating, rolling through
the lineup like the only the only hitter that he
really seemed like he didn't want anything to have anything
to do with was Juan Soto. But everybody else he
was attacking, he was getting outs, and then all of
a sudden, bang that one swing, and that flipped the game.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
And it was Soto who led off the top of
the six with the single. That's why it was a
two run homer for the lead, and on a solo
shot to tie it. You mentioned it got a little
bit of the plate, might have actually been low to
Stanton and he golfed it out here. I know we
have the distance on the home runs. I would like
to know the height on that one because it was
straight down the left field and seemingly hit the moon
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on the way out, four hundred and twelve feet in distance.
It went deep, deep into the cheap Look me, I'll.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Tell you one thing. I knew it was gone because
he stood at the plate for a long time and
watched it. He knew like that that was one of
those oh he got it, and you know, and they're
still staying on that. They're and I'm going, okay, are
they staying on the shot because they want to because
he's standing there, or they can't find the ball yet
because it's too high.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't know. We gotta wait for the ball to
come down. We gotta wait ball to come down.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I like what John Spoltz comment was on the Fox
telecast is that the pitch before that was essentially one
of those Michael Kopek fastballs to the backstop, you know,
And as Schmoltz put it, it was a non competitive
pitch which kind of allowed Stanton to reset. Okay, he's
really got to be around the strike zone and then
he golfed it out.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean, really, this has been This has been the
tight game we thought it was going to be for
both teams. You have to say it's going according to plan.
The Dodgers got five and third good innings out of
Jack Flaherty. The relievers have come in and done fine.
For the Yankees, hey, we want length out of Garrett
Cole and they're getting that. And look there's still you
were talking about three frames left to go in this game,
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and the Yankees had the two to one lead. But
right now you can say both teams are saying, yeah,
this is This is kind of how we hoped it
would go at least pitching wise, and and the Yankees
with the one run lead.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
But we are going to find something out right now
from the Dodger bullpen, because the guy that's coming in
for the seventh inning is Bruce dark Graderol who has
barely pitched this year, but he is on the World
Series roster because apparently the shoulder is healthy enough, so
he's in. And keep in mind the lefty Alex Vessia
has returned from injury to be on the World Series roster,
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and Vessia was a guy with a microscopic era during
the regular season. And we will have at some point
in the series and maybe multiple times a late inning
lefty Vessia versus lefty Sodo matchup. Can't wait to see it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, Look, we talked about the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
When I picked the Dodgers in seven last night, I said,
two things are tilting me towards the Dodgers. Number one,
Frostburg would keep my car if I didn't pick the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Nut number two, I actually prefer you don't. I had more.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Confidence in the Dodger lineup top to bottom to make
things happen than the Yankee lineup.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
However, if you get.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Good pitchings, sometimes you just need one swing from one
of your top four hitters. The other part was the bullpen,
because I felt that the Dodgers top to bottom, they
have more length, they have more options. The Yankees, we've
seen them sort of meander their way through and give
up big hits late. Not like it's going to be
three or four games where the bullpen gives it up,
but sometimes you just need a bullpen to give it
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up once late, and that could flip the series.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Cleveland. That was a little bit of a surprising adventure
for the Yankee pin.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But you know, you talk about Graderol coming in for
the Dodgers, and he's on the roster, and then look,
they had to make a lot of different changes, go
through a lot of hoops because Evan Phillips, who's one
of their top three relievers, is not on the roster,
got hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
In Game six against the Mets, so he gets.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Replaced by Graderol, who, Yeah, as you said, this season,
we haven't seen a lot of them, but in the playoffs,
what's his era under one and a half?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, Okay, on a few years ago. It's Evan Phillips
with the arm injury that's out, and he had yet
to allow a run in this postseason, nearly seven innings
of work. He was very much depended on, and earlier
the year was the Dodger closer. So Phillips is out,
I'm losing count. I believe it's seven starting pitchers and
five relievers that are injured for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, and they're and they came into the World Series
with three starting pitchers and fourteen relievers.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
On the field pregame guys. One thing about the starter
for the Yankees today, Garrett Cole is his pitch count
has been pretty good all night. Not a lot of
pitches in the first three innings and only eighty pitches
thrown for six Jack Flaherty through ninety in his five
and a third by the time he was pulled for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And when it comes to this is another reason why
I like the advantage of the Dodger bullpen is that
you get to this point in the season, and what
is not talked about enough in baseball is you can
have really good starters, right, and you can have starters
that are healthy all year, and you think, okay, these
are our guys. But because they don't pitch enough anymore
and they don't have the the arm build up of
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pitchers in years past, when you get to October, everybody
is cooked, and they're cooked early. Is you can't rely
on people say Okay, hey, you made thirty two starts
all year. He's been hell yeah, by the time you
got to October, They're only gonna throw so many innings.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They're only gonna throw so many pitches. Right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sean Maniah was unbeatable for the Mets in the playoffs,
and then he even said Game two when he came out,
I hit a wall. And then what happ when he
had to go back out in Game six? The Dodgers
knocked him all over Chevez Ravine and they.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Wound up winning the series.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So, you know, for a guy like Flaherty and Cole I,
even though Cole's pitch count is low, I don't think
he's gonna be in the game much longer. Eighty pitches
for him at this point is a lot in octo.
Even if you have guys who miss a little bit
of time, you get this late in the season, it's
gonna be really really difficult, and for the Dodgers, it's
okay to keep throwing these relievers out here.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And a guy like Graderol who hasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Pitched, because how long is he really gonna go like
he's gonna pitch an inning?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Like that's it. Like it's not like, hey, you're gonna
be our long.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Guy said, no, you're gonna come in and pitch an inning,
and then somebody else, and then somebody else, and then
somebody else and somebody else, depending on where the lineup's at.
So it's not like it's a huge chance. It's okay. Yeah,
we think Graderol can take an inning. He's been really
good in the playoffs. He knows what the performance is
like on the field, and I just watched him field
a groundball back to the mouth with his bare hand
and wait to throw the runner out at first, So
I think he's feeling it a little bit, So I
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think he'll be okay for an inning here. Although Aaron
Judge just singles to put a run around with two outs.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And Judge had struck out his first three times, and
you knew that was going to be a story. And
then well, of course Stanton comes through and nobody remembers
what Judge done. It is first at bet Stanton's two
run homer in the sixth has the Yankees up two
to one. Top of the seventh, I have already seen
LA's alex Vesia warming up in the bullpen. I know
we just had Soto in this inning at the plate,
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and yes he was retired on a pop up to shortstop,
but you know he's coming back, probably in the ninth inning.
There still is a chance of the lefty lefty. And
I bring that up because you remember that great five
game series where it was Padres Dodgers. The Padres acquired
a lefty at the trade deadline, Tanner Scott, who I'm
sure they were thinking in the back of their mind,
we're gonna have to face Sho Heo Tani to get
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where we want to go, and this is a lefty
who can battle him. And in a five game series,
they had this lefty come in against Otani four times
in the five games and he struck out Otani all
four times. Teams do think about this in advance.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Otani and Betts tonight are both zero for three. Freddy
Freeman has a hit that is the only hit of
the top five batters in the Dodger line if they
only have three overall. Uh so this has been a
pitcher's duel kind of like an old school World Series game.
You know, you and I growing up, where every first
couple of games were like this, like it was always
one one.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In the sixth pitching that type of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, it's one one in the six or it's two
to one in the eighth, and then you know the
oh there's a ton of runs, Like what was the
final score?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Five to four? Oh? Yeah, we had so many runs
in that game.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You know that X Swiss pitch and it was gonna
be you know, by the way. I saw one article
on MLB going into this series that it's possible about
seven Hall of Famers wind up on the rosters that
we're watching in this World series. The last time we
had more than that was a Braves Yankees World Series
nineteen ninety six, when you had the Braves pitchers that
all wound up in the Hall of Fame, Smoldsmattox and
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Glavin and Chipper Jones got in. Fred McGriff was on
that team, and the Yankees you had Mariano rivera, Derek
Cheater and also Tim Rain's Wade Boggs were on that team.
Who knows how many Hall of Famers were seeing this
next week. By the way, Gradarol has gotten out of
the inning seventh inning stretchy in La he struck out
Stanton t in the top of the seventh two to one.
Yankee Steve, you say seven Hall of famers, it is possible.
(11:26):
Who are the seven? Well, we're not seeing also Kershaw pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
By the way, Tommy Edmund coming off the NLCS, Tommy
Edmund clearly is a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I think that's on the Mets. I think it's pretty
safe to say Sodo, this young in his career, has
a chance for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Sodo, Judge and potentially Stanton and has had a long career. Right,
So you have those four, then you have Otani and Betts. Definitively,
I'm start going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
And there's a chance Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Could go to the Hall of Fame too. I mean
he could go.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Freddy Freeman's career three hundred hitter. What about he will
go in the season?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know, I did you know? What's something? You want?
The cre score?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
There one run watching by the way he's Robert or
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I didn't know this about keyk hern I really didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And and it's it's crazy, but now everybody I talked
to alsos oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, like all
the all the the when we talk about the games
with a bunch of different people, with our friends and
and and every every woman I know my loves keyk Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
They think he is so good looking, like, oh my god,
Key k he's my husband, he's my husband. I'm like,
he's really that good look Key k Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Really you're correct that. I'm like, really, I used to
cover the Dodgers and it used to be those types
of screams when Andre Ethier came to the Plague. When
key k was acquired, he replaced because Ethier about twenty
sixteen seventeen, was ending his career. Key k Hernandez replaced that.
You can tell what I mean, it's more like the
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high school girl level of pitch of people cheering. It's
not the men, and it's not the clapping, it's the screams.
Absolutely or correct.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I was like, I had no idea about that. I
didn't know. So I told a couple of friends to go.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Hey, just you know, I know you really have gone
too far when when like I see you next to
the barbecue or get together and you make your husband
wear his his sunglasses.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You know, to look as much like him as possible
because he.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Wears those big wrap around shades when he plays, Like, ah,
I got my husband dressing like Key k Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
K k Hernandez, a two thirty hitter who playoffs is
a two eighty hitters. Yeah, there's no explaining this.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I mean, it's it's really it has been. It's some
kind of game.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So far again, Yankees and Dodgers two to one, going
to the bottom of the seventh inning. The Dodgers will
at least turn the top of the lineup over one
more time. We'll get to see Otani, Bets and Freeman.
But maybe sooner, maybe the ninth inning. But again, Yankees
leading two to one right now, going to the bottom
of the seventh and yes, in front of friends and
family and wonderful people in New York City, the New
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York Knicks are back on their championship.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Paths Stevo, what are one?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
They beat the Pacers one twenty three to ninety eight
on oh, no threes from Mbar tonight. No, close my
eyes and.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Throw them up all it's in all Millar didn't play yo.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Uh, let me just tell.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You of the stat line tonight in this game, this
is the big NBA game of the night.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well on obvious All Knicks game.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
All Knicks five starters were in double figures. Karl Anthony
Towns twenty one and fifteen, Jalen Brunson at twenty six.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
The Knick starters were fantastic, what you expect.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But how about this line Olympian tyresee Halliburton twenty six minutes,
oh for eight from the floor, no points minus twenty three.
That is your that is your Olympian point guard. Twenty
six minutes. He does not score oh for seven from
three point range. The Pacers shoot three for thirty from
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behind the arch overall.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And this shows you that the starters were the ones
who got beat at New York because they had three
starters that were a minus twenty three on the court
and the Pacers lost by twenty five in New Yorkah, yeah,
that was a big one.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And of course we have Phoenix send the Lakers just
tipping off right now in early three nothing.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Let's not forget well that's going on in downtown LA.
People are tailgating for USC football, which is on Fox
TV after the Dodger home game to thieve. Yeah, kid,
you not. There are more people in this studio tonight
than out the USC game.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well that's good. What's USC?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They're like four and fourteen in their last eighteen games.
Come on, I mean, I mean, you can only underachieve
so much.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I think that's the record. When they're up fourteen points,
I think you're mistaken.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Exit out about of Fresco.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon's team de seger in for Harmon tonight.
We're live from the Tyraq dot Com studios. Coming up next,
we'll continue to keep you posting on what's happening with
the Yankees and the Dodge again two to one in
the bottom of the seventh. But we have a huge
slate at top twenty five games in college football tomorrow,
four games involving top twenty five teams against each other.
(15:57):
Nobody better to break it down than our next guest
with us right here, Jason Smith, Steve de Sager.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
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Sager in and uh, we'll get to the latest and
the Yankees and the Dodgers right now. The Dodgers put
the first two runners on a single by Hernandez, hit
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by pitch after.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Clay Holmes comes in wild.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And then my least favorite play in all of baseball,
the sacrifice bunt, A great bunt by Key k Hernandez
puts runners at second and third, but Will Smith a
week pop up to short two outs, runners at second
and third. Now Clay Holmes one batter away from escaping
this inning.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
The interesting thing about this bunt and they are taking
homes out. Perhaps right now with two outs and two on,
it looks like Tommy Kinley is done warming up and
ready to come in for the Yanks. But you're bunting
guys over for what the seven and eight hitters, neither
of whom have hit consistently at all this postseason. It's
not like for the top of the order.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
As are right.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Tommy Cainley is coming in so we'll have more on
this game coming up with a bit.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But joining us now the hot line. You know what
we play poison. It is one man and one man only.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He is the owner, editor, proprietor of College Footballnews dot Com.
You're one stop shopping for college football. All the picks,
all the analysis, all the prognostications, all the previews by
our man, Pete few Tech. He's on Twitter at Pete
few Tech. Pete, what's happening bout?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I'll be that guy who says this to myself to
quote stick to college football. But I am that guy
that over the one hundred and sixty two games, yes
you do not sacrifice fun. But in the World Series
when runs are everything. Yeah, situational baseball, yes you pivot
a little. You pivot I know over the long haul
and the numbers that have a few averages out, But situationally,
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I don't hate the sacrifice. Butt here.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I want eight hundred words on that on College Footballnews
dot Com. I want that to be on the banner
above all the games. I want that to be.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I will tell you this, it is my Mandarin life
in the analytics world. It drives me absolutely up a
wall when a team scores a touchdown to go up
seven and doesn't go for two to go up two scores.
I know that all the data analytics like during the
time and things like oh well this doesn't work. Yeah
it does. If you have a chance to go up nine,
you do it, especially late in the game. If you
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can put a game away, you do it. And for
some reason that get go really mad at me and
then they throw numbers at me and I'm like, yes,
but if my team hits two points, I win. So
that's that's my I'm done for that. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Have a good one, all right, So let's take a look.
We have some big games tomorrow on the slatey a
lot of top twenty five games playing teams playing against
each other. Number one has a big one. But I
gotta say, pete. Every time I look at the slate
and I see the game I'm most excited to see.
I don't know why, but I am just fascinated by
Notre dameon Navy. It's I mean, just because I feel
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like it's nineteen forty three again and here's Notre Dame
Navy when it means everything. Two undefeated team, you know,
are two big teams, the top twenty five middle of
the season. Like, is Navy really this good? Like they
haven't played anybody. They get Notre Dame at home, Like
all my eyes go, I want to see this game
more than anyone tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You and I love what this is.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
You've gone full beat o cook no Tre Dame. Like
maybe you like you really say it out loud and
make it rumble.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Look, first of all, I think historically I could be
really really wrong on this. I think Navy always sucked.
I think you're thinking Army. I think I think back
to back in the nineteen forties, especially nineteen forty five
and the odd tie, when I think when we were
watching that together, then that was Army. But I think
Navy has traditionally been absolutely obliterated by Notre Dame over
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the years. Look, if you're Notre Dame, I get it.
You're you're playing against the team throwing the curveball. You
get this. Now you get Army in a couple of weeks,
and it's fun. You know, you can come up with
crazy scenarios. All right, If Navy pulled this off, you know,
it's got a shot to reasonably say, okay, there, they
might be in the mix for something large. Army's gonna
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be even the other interesting one because Army's played absolutely
nobody so far. At least at least Navy's got a
good loss under its belt, whereas Army in that one.
But yeah, you know, I think that's kind of the fear.
After you lose to Northern Illinois, you kind of lose
the oh, the automatic. Of course Not Dame is just
gonna roll on this. But look, you know you're gonna
get that kind of us just said, the knuckleball coming
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your way? Can you can you hit it? You know
it's coming. You just got to be able to stop it.
But I do think that this Notre Dame team, the
starting twenty two that's going to be out there. They're
not deep anymore. They stuff a ton of injuries, but
this is a very, very good team.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I looked up the Navy and so by the way,
Tommy Candley did get a ground out go to the
eighths with a two to one lead in LA And yes,
Navy football as soon as World War Two ended won
three games in the next three years, and they did
until and I remember this in my lifetime, until about
fifteen years ago or so, they had lost over forty
consecutive games head to head against Nodame.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm going back.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They finished third and forty three, they were ranked second
and forty four second and forty five.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I'm back in the right era. I'm back in the
right ara.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah. In the war.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Sure, not to go history Wesson here, but here on
the north side of Chicago, north shore of Chicago, I'm
a you know, driver three went away from the Great
Lakes Naval Academy, which is now just an army base.
But that's what you want to talk about, like hoarding
all the in the transfer portal. Back in the wartime
you had all these like Iowa pre flight stuff and
Navy an army which would take all the good players.
And so historically some of the greatest teams of all
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time were there and Notre Dame. Nor Dame somehow escaped
pretty good during the nineteen forties. But yeah, it should
be a fucking but it's right out of the gate tomorrow,
so it's you know, we get to see this pretty
early on, and it will be a tone center because
right now, if you look at Nor Dame and what
they got left on the slate. USC's looks beatable. Florida
State obviously very beautiful. Crazy to think that Army and
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Navy might be the most difficult test to rest away
from the Irish.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
That is in the early window, and it is in
New Jersey, not Annapolis Navy against Notre Dame. I wanted
to talk about the ACC and not about Miami Florida
State tomorrow night. And by the way, Louisville has taken
the lead. Louisville and the fourth now leads at BC.
But there's a small small team called the Syracuse Orange
in the ACC. I don't know if you saw them
play last night.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Wait wait wait wait wait quit wait I wait, mcquick,
you just do another picksick. I waited for it. I'm sorry,
too soon.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Too soon. So they just fooled us with the early wins. Uh.
And by us, I mean, Jason, this is so good.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
I mean it's it's the accad you know, bad night.
But look it has flown way under the radar. And
I know we I know, we kind of blew past
the Miami Florida State game for for good reason. Uh.
But Miami they're shaky. I mean, that is a shaky
seven and oh they they You could really point the
three specific calls, including a real fun one a few
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weeks ago when I was on the phone with you
guys and you were punking me on the Virginia Tech
finale there but no, no, that's.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
How it went on the tvp They punked us first,
then we had to tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Then we had to go back until it was happening.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
That was hilarious. But yeah, they're good. But they're just
that's a team that's not gonna happen this week. But
they're at the team just begging to get tagged at
some point. And Pits Pit's the real deal. You know,
they're they've been really good. They're just sound there their
secondary gets torched. Look, they might have you know, I
want to talk about risk and biscuits. I mean, they
obviously did that against of Court. Didn't work the cord
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fish for like seven hundred and fourteen passing yards or
something crazy like that with the but you know a
lot of them were going the other way.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I think.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The secondary phe be burned. And then you go Clemson,
the pop which got you know, just planted in the
first game by Georgia and has ruled everyone else. So
it's an interesting conference, even though everyone's sort of already
anointed Clemson as the winner in the three seed in
the college football playoffs.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That just on the last ag Kyle McCord's final stats.
It was thirty five of sixty four passing last night,
no touchdowns, five interceptions.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You're talking about minus if you if you were playing
college football fantasy and you had Kyle quarters your quarterback,
I don't think you're.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Winning this week.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
No, you never know. It depends on your league of courts.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
But yeah, because the pick.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Six is we're about one hundred and thirty yards the
other way.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So if you stream the Pitt defense last night, you
probably won the week. You probably already clinch because you
got like eighty points out of the Pit defense. Uh
if you tech our guest Jason Smith, Steve de Seger
here at Fox Sports Radio. All right, so we have
a Big Ten battle from a team that's kin you
talking about under the radar. I would say Illinois is
the pitch of the Big Ten, kind of under the radar,
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not getting the ink of the other teams, but they have.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Shown they're pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
They got Oregon tomorrow, newly minted number one team.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Any shot the aligne I have the upset here? Is
this going to be Oregon?
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah, maybe a shot. I think we're gonna wins. But
I do think Illinois has a shot. It's that's just
a strange Illinois team. This is not the Brett Field
and the team of past years where two years ago
where they just had an attitude or they just came
in and said, you know, they had Devon Willerdspoon, you
had Newton up front, you had a whole bunch of
really good players left over from the lovely Smith era.
(25:35):
Uh and that defense was just a killer. That's not
this team. It's not the most physical of teams upfront,
but they just make a lot of nice plays. It
just it's kind of a boring mid range passing team
that just sort of controls the clock and hangs around
and all of a sudden they've got a shot to
win something. But look, they held up great against the
(25:58):
Wolverines last week. I mean that was I picked him
to win it, but I didn't think it was going
to be quite quite bad. And now look you know
they've got a chance against Oregon where you know it depends,
is Oregon gonna still be physical like they were against
Ohio State because that they were able to power over
the buck guys a little bit. But now it's for
real you now it's you're the number one team in
(26:18):
the country, and Illinois under that coach usually brings a
little bit of an attude. So again, I do think
it'll be an interesting game.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
At organ with I can't let you go without saying
out loud that Vanderbilt and Texas have the exact same
record in the Southeastern Conference Settler tomorrow. Is it a chance?
I mean, Vandy is a team that legitimately had that
upset of bad but it wasn't a lucky play at
the end. Do they have a chance with like Texas
on the rebound and not had their head straight early
(26:43):
or something. The game's at Vandy on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I will get I watch me fight you on this one,
because Vandy got the got the huge, massive break that
Kayling to Borr and the Alabama offense for got to
run the ball they ran. There's a crazy easy stats
that you have to go back to like two thousand
and like nine back when Alabama was giving up like
four rushing yards the game, when they hadn't run the
(27:10):
ball that few times, and they just stopped and it
was just a bad overall game plan and Brandy took advantage.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, the point is they were up by about ten
in every quarter throughout the game.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Bandy.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, but yeah, it was just a bad game. But
that's that's Alabama. Alabama just takes a break. They just
they were all last year. I kept saying about usc
where they see what twenty minute nap every single game.
They just chill out a little bit. That's Bama. I'm
just like, oh my gosh, it seems awesome on their
way and then they just you know, take you know,
just kind of go get a sandwich and relax for
a little bit. It's just they have not been able
(27:41):
to keep their foot down the wole way. But that's
not why you call it. It's about Texas. So I
am not a blaev in Texas. I did. I'm the
only person on the planet who thought Georgia was going
to win, and win relatively that easily. I missed everything
else last week except Illinois and Georgia. But okay, but
I do think that Texas. You know, they're just too fast,
too good. Vanderbilt is doing this with a duct tape
(28:04):
and a couple of prayers in Diego Pavilla, and it's
been fun. Eventually, it's going to catch him. But he's
been able to be competitive against just about everyone so far,
so I do think this is going to be a close,
fun game for a while, and then Texas just turns
it up a few notches.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
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appreciate it, man, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Absolutely have it going, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
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Speaker 1 (28:43):
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Speaker 3 (29:05):
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Speaker 1 (29:06):
Well, how are things going at Chavez Ravine right now?
Game one of the World Series? Steve de Saga as
the latest Mets and the Yankee Steve?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
What I must have missed that? By the way, Can
I just say we called it in advance that the
Dodgers in the bottom of the seventh after they got
the first two men on base and sacrifice them over
to second and third, Not saying that's automatically a bad play,
but they sacrifice them over when the next two hitters
are the seven and eight hitters, who are each slumping
(29:34):
in the postseason, and you've got a power fresh round out.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You are preaching to the choir the bunt it should be.
I don't know why people still do it it. Will
I go all the way back to my It's this simple.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
As you do it with the eight hitter when Edmund
and Otani are coming.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You're not doing it when the bottom of the order
is coming up.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Ye, Will you already have a guy in scoring position
for the bottom end of your lineup. Give them as
many chances as possible to get the run in, right,
because I just keep thinking back to Brett Pitt going,
don't be a hero, pick it up and throw it
the first base. We'll take the out, because then you
put all the pressure on the next batter who has
to get the run in. And it's someone hitting seven,
eight nine in the order that is not hitting well.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And look at that at bat.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Will Smith gets jammed and can't even get the ball
out of the infield like that. Like I never understand
the bunt. I think it's outdated and people default to
it way too much. At that point, it looks like
how many runs are you really playing for? And you
wound up getting none. Right, She would have loved to
have another chance with somebody on base, right and have
another guy up, maybe turn.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Around at the top of the order.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
But the Dodgers, you put it all on Will Smith's
at bat, And because baseball is a game of failure
where even the best players are going to fail three
out of four times, two out of three times, that's
what you wind up getting. I can't stand the bunt.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, I want to be specific. I'm not against the
bunt ever, but in this case, no, you could just
as easily move a runner over with a fly ball
from Will Smith and then ask the eight hitter to
do something, because that's essentially what you're asking two guys
that are batting one fifty in the playoffs to do something.
You're giving it out to give those two guys bet
and the Dodgers still trail two to one as they
(31:04):
go to the bottom of the eighth inning. The Yankees
are leading because of a long home run down the
left field line by La and of Guencarlos Stanton. It
was literally the only mistake that Jack flerd he made
as Dodger pitcher tonight. He gave up the long ball,
lasted into the sixth inning, five and a third pitched,
ninety pitches thrown. Garrett Cole threw six innings with eighty
(31:26):
eight pitches thrown for New York and now three relievers
have been used for the Dodgers and two relievers since
for the Yankees, and it's still anybody's game two to one.
With La batting bottom of the eighth, They're in a
commercial break now on Fox TV, and yes, Fox has
all the games. They all start at eight pm Eastern time,
including game two from LA tomorrow night. By the way,
(31:48):
we were talking college football that ACC game tonight, Louisville
is leading with two minutes to go at Boston College,
coming back for the lead thirty one twenty seven over BC.
The Louisville Cardinals were down twenty to nothing late in
the first half Underway. There are two late games tonight Underway,
number seventeen Boise State at UNLV and coming up on
(32:09):
Fox TV in about a half an hour right after
the World Series game is Rutgers at USC. Meanwhile, there
is a downtown La NBA game the Lakers are in action,
hosting the Phoenix Suns. That one is mid first quarter
with the Suns up twelve eleven. The Knicks did get
a win earlier, easily over the Pacers one twenty three
to ninety eight. Victories at home also for Cleveland, Atlanta
(32:32):
and Toronto, and for two and Oho Orlando, which beat
Brooklyn one sixteen to one oh one. In the NHL,
Nashville starts the third with a two to two tie
at Chicago. The Islanders won in overtime at New Jersey
for three bottom of the eighth underway back to you
question for you got them?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
If there's nobody there to witness, the USC game doesn't count.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
If there's media there to report it, I think they
can go in like, but you don't show any highlights.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
It's says you report the score.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I'm pretty sure they offered a free meal, so there's
got to be some media there.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Oh oh yeah, Oh come, it will be only media,
that's all that. There be no fans and it's only
only in the media.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Can I say, as a media member who's covered this,
it's a private school, so the meal's probably gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yes, Exit out, bout of Fresca.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Jason Smith, Steve de Sager Tonight again, Yankees up to
one over the Dodgers. Dodgers coming about here in the
bottom of the eighth inning. We'll keep you updated on
this and coming up next, we have a big NBA
story that everybody just has to chill out about. What
is it that's next? This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Wooo, do we got Dramn Chavez, Ravine, Jason Smith, Steve
de Sager in for Mike Harmon. Dodgers have just tied
the game with the Yankees at to apiece in the
eighth inning. And oh boy, what's been a big theme
for the Yankees this postseason? Yes, big home runs by
Soto and stet Yaya, but sloppy play in the field,
(34:10):
sloppy base running. And it's what we just saw show
Haotani with one out, doubles off the wall. It's a
clear double throw, comes into Volpi in the infield, takes
his eye off the ball for some reason, maybe looking
to see if Otani was gonna go for third, but
he had stopped at second. Now the ball ticks off
his glove, bounces into no man's land. Otani's able to
(34:33):
take third, and then Mookie Betts tags one to the
wall in center field. Aaron Judge makes the play, but
way deep enough to bring Otani in on a sacrifice
fly that has tied the game at eight apiece. Luke
Weaver getting the two two out, two apiece, Luke Weaver
getting the final two outs of the inning to and
the eighth. But wow, you're you're talking about what a
(34:56):
what a huge error by the Yankees, and this has
been their hallmark Steve is that you know, look, yes
they're in the World Series, but it's so tough watching
them because, as I say, I watch them, they play
so badly fundamentally, and they make stupid mistakes and still
they get one big swing and they're in the World Series.
And I watched the Mets just look at a ball
wrong and suddenly, oh it's before running and we give
it up. It's so frustrating watching the Yankees succeed despite themselves.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
No, you are not wrong, because once they got the
closer thing figured out, which wasn't until the last month
of the season, there was the other thing that for
a contender, and I'm talking about that standard, they just
weren't that sharp consistently defensively, and Mike Goodness, did it
rear its ugly head. There's no way the Dodgers should
have just scored the tying run in the bottom of
(35:40):
the eighth and Otani double and two fly balls afterwards,
and Otani gets left on base just like the Dodgers
left the couple on base the inning before. The Yankee
should still be leading.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So instead we have a two to two, game of
the ninth the Yankees bringing Luke Weaver, their best reliever,
of their best high leverage guy. He does get the
final two out, so then he gets two fly balls.
Bets really tagged it. For a second.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I thought it was going to go over Judge's head.
He was playing in really.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Shallow but he got a great jump on it, and
because he's nine feet tall, he's able to reach up
and catch it without too much difficulty. But that easily
brings the run in this game is tied to Pete
to a piece going to the night.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I will say about Weaver when he was named the
closer in the six weeks between that moment about the
start of September until the Cleveland series recently in six weeks,
see it allowed only one earned run and then he
allowed that ninth inning home run to a pinch hitter
and people going wild in Cleveland, and then Clay Holmes
in that series gave up a game and lost. And
(36:39):
you're right, they got bailed out of the fire more
than once by home runs. And that's what this team has,
and that's what's still sitting there ready to come up,
because you know the Yankees are going to have the touch,
just like the Dodgers just had the type of the lineup.
You know, the Yankees are going to have the type
of lineup coming up. And guess what, Michael Kopek throwing
one hundred miles an hour but straight is the guy
(37:01):
coming in to face the eight, nine and one hitters.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
about ten minutes. Are going to go to the ninth
to a piece. Everything you would want Game one of
the World Series to be, it has been so far. Meanwhile,
a big story out of the NBA that everybody just
has to really chill out about. Right now, the Suns
are thumping the Lakers right now, fifty three thirty five,
midway through the second quarter. It has not been a
(37:26):
great night for LA. They're not shooting well, not really
doing anything well. No Bronnie James, he has not entered
the game yet for the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Again, still lotsways they're playing real basketball to that.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, and they're losing, Like, hey, we can't put you
in what we're losing. The announcement comes today from the
Lakers that hey, look when the G League starts coming
up in about twelve days, Bronnie James is gonna shuttle
back and forth between.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
The Lakers and the G League team.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
But Jane, it's easy for the Lakers because the G
League team is here in Los Angeles. So that's kind
of the plan. And I hope everybody just calms the
blank down.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Nowk you this story? Yes, I get it.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
It's a difficult optics where anything with Lebron is going
to be polarizing. Does Bronnie James deserve to be in
the league? Should he be there? Should he be playing?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Shot?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
The Lakers understand how delicate of a story this is
Lebron understands how delicate of a story. This is Lebron's thinking,
my work is done. I got my son to the NBA.
Now he's got to figure it out for himself. We
had the moment where we got to play together. It
was great. The Lakers were able to figure it out.
It was perfect for them. They were up nineteen. They
bring Bronny in for three minutes. The lead gets cut
(38:31):
down to twelve, but it doesn't matter. They bring Bronny
in for three minutes. He gets to play with Lebron.
It's a big headline and now you're going to see
him only play when it's a blowout or for a
minute here, and you can do that as long as
he plays okay defensively. And now you're going to see
that this is going to be less of a story
because he's going to get most of his time in
the G League. He's going to come up and sit
on the bench. This is not going to be something
(38:53):
that gets out of control. I get how upset people are,
and I get the always taking a job away from somebody.
I understand you're talking about a guy at the bottom
of the bench. And it's a big story. And the
Lakers did it to stay relevant. If they're not going
to championship, they got to find a way to stay relevant.
So hey, we'll go draft Bronnie James. Here he comes,
he's going to play a little bit for us, but
mainly if he shows he's good in the G League
(39:13):
and he's able to get time there because that's what
he needs. Hey, maybe he'll get a couple more minutes
here and there. But the Lakers know when it comes
down to it, they know who's gonna play, and he's
not gonna be on the floor. It happened. The moment happened.
He got the contract he wanted. It's not a two
way deal. He's getting paid as an NBA draft pick,
which is which is what Rich Paul wanted. Everything out
of this, Everything is going to be fine. There is
(39:34):
no reason to go crazy over the story anymore.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
You know, as soon as you mentioned Bronnie James, it's
like a dog whistle, isn't it all you can think of?
It's a negative reaction. Do you just think of some
of the comments that have been around. Hey, you're right, people,
just back off. This is really it wasn't a story
then and it's certainly not a story now. It was,
as many people rightly said the next day after the opener,
(39:57):
a manufactured Hey, father and son are coming into the
game in the first half at the game time, and
then someone like Kenny Smith on a normally good basketball
show actually makes the comment of, yeah, but he was
a high school All American browny, which means he's one
of the twenty back. No, I'm not sure he was
one of the best in Los Angeles, much less in
the country. His last name is James.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
You know, Steve.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
When I was ten years old, I hit like six
thirty in Little League. I was one of the best
players on Staten Island. And then and then kids started
throwing curveballs, and then all of a sudden, I was.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Hitting two hundred.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
The original Rizzler.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Exit out Vata Fresca. The Jason Smith Show is Steve
de Segar And for Mike Harmon, still too. Two Yankees
batting in the top of the ninth inning. We'll have
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