Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update Game 3 of the World Series. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the show for all the big headlines from around the league. And Jason finally put a nail in the Jets coffin. Plus, a visit from Jon Paul Morosi to recap World Series Game 3 between the Dodgers and Yankees! 

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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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(00:51):
minutes ago in the fourth quarter, the Giants have made
it close. Steelers now twenty six to eighteen. With the lead.
He has become everybody's favorite fantasy darling. Now up to
one hundred and thirty seven yards rushing on the night
with a touchdown. He is having a huge night. He
has clearly proven he's the number one running back. With

(01:11):
the Giants down, Devin Singletary just a couple of carries,
but Steelers on the board, and they get on the
board and get a two score lead early in the
second half. They've been able to keep that there. A
big night for Calvin. Austin has a punt return for
a touchdown and a twenty nine yard catch for a
score as well. So the Steelers, thanks to those big plays,
are up over the Giants, but still time left Giants

(01:33):
with the football down by a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Austin came into this game with eleven catches on the year.
There was a lot of speculation that he was just
gonna be the odd man out traded for a bucket
of balls. All of a sudden, here he is shining
on a Monday night. As we talked about with Steve
de Sager last hour and the update on the punt
return play, this game has had penalty after penalty called.

(01:56):
Punter gets absolutely obliterated. There's no call as a run
back for a touch of it. All right, We arbitrarily
let that one go. Biggest sighting play, but we got
more points out of this one than I think he anticipated.
So it's a win for the NFL.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Meanwhile, in Major League Baseball, the Dodgers will go to
the bottom of the eighth inning with at least a
four to nothing lead. They are batting right now, top
of the eighth inning, Will Smith up, nobody out facing
Clay Holmes. Dodgers lead the Yankees four to nothing, six
outs away from what basically is gonna clinch the World
Series a three games to none lead. We'll have more

(02:30):
on this game coming up in a few minutes. I
can't say that. Why not three games to none? I
get it? What am I gonna say? Yankees are still
gonna be in it? Hey, watch out here they come.
What am I gonna What am I that? Fox? Yeah,
you tune in for Game four? Anything can happen? What
am I gonna set the hell man? Yeah, Judge could
strike out seven more times. Well that's it, he gets
set all sorts of records. Yeah, Hey, tune in and

(02:52):
see if Aaron Judge makes contact with the baseball.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
They play the little can't wait play the little violin
music behind.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Maybe Rinaldi's got a story for it. I don't know.
I can't wait to see that. Uh so again, still
still a couple of innings left Yankees though, down for nothing.
Uh here in the eighth inning, Freddy Freeman with a
two run homer that got the Dodgers out to a
two to nothing lead early. And they have been throwing
zeros up Walker Buller to start a couple of dodge
relievers in after It has been a typical Dodger playoff

(03:23):
game in the postseason where no matter what relievers come in,
they've been able to get the job done. But again,
still a couple of times left to come up for
the Yankees to try to cut into this lead. Now,
let's get to a couple of big stories out of
the NFL from this weekend, and let's deal with your
Chicago Bears. Where would you like to start?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Mary is the big punctuation to Mark, which was primarily
a game of sucitude for the Bear.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It was it was just being dismissed. Look, it was
the game of the week and it's still in name.
Was the game of the week. Very odd to hear it. Yeah,
you're doing doing the Bears and the Commanders, but look
it's Williams and Daniels and the two really exciting quarterbacks
that have played really well Caleb Williams. I'm telling you

(04:11):
he's coming man. Didn't have a great day yesterday, but
still gets the Bears with a touchdown in the final
minute and they should win the game. Now here's where
I'm gonna zig. What do you think I'm gonna zag?
I think the criticism for this hail mary is way overblown.
I think there is way too much attention being spent
on this, and so many knee jerk reactions jumping up

(04:32):
and doubt about, oh, this is the worst and the
Bears should have done this, and they could have done this,
and they could have done this. Whenever a team gets
a hail mary, Okay, no matter what, you can blame
Tyree Stevenson for I'm hunking up with Bears fans and oh,
by the way, I should have been in on the play,
and by the way, it was my job to be
standing on Noah Brown. I understand this. But anytime a

(04:52):
team gets a hail mary and scores, it is because
of a defensive breakdown of some kind, whether it is
physically they're not in the right spot, they get out
muscled for the ball, they're not standing in the right position,
or how or hey, we're not marking every receiver when
we go up for the ball. Whenever a hail mary,
hail mary is never completed because a team is great.

(05:14):
A hail mary is completed because the defense doesn't do
what they should. And you know what, hail Mary's happened.
Once in a great while, we get them, we get
a couple of year, you know, not everyone at the
end of the game to decide it like this. Sometimes
the end of the first half. Look, the Jets had
one earlier in the season, the last play of the
first half. Sometimes hail Mary's happened, and it happened to

(05:35):
the Bears, and it happened on the final play, and
suddenly it's everybody should be fired and eber flu should
be gone and got you at them? You know what,
you know what it's it's a hail mary. You know,
it happens. And it was bad, right, It was bad
because you can't allow a hail mary and that and
that's bad. But there's whenever this happens, there's never this
kind of reaction to it. But oh, it's the Bears

(05:58):
and we don't like Eberflus and and I can't believe
this happened. And suddenly it's the worst miscarriage of of
of football justice you could possibly have. Oh, how do
you give up the fifteen yard pass to play before?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
All? Right?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Because I thought they were going deep? They gave them
a fifth. You still should be able to stop a
hail Mary. Right, But everything the Bears did was so
incredibly wrong. And you know what, it's an outlier. The
Bears are still really beeping good man, this this play.
This play is an outlier in their season. This play.
The Bears are still a really good team. They found
a way despite playing awful yesterday. The first half was terrible.

(06:33):
They were all they got nothing going on, and still
all they had to do was Stopahil Mary. They were
gonna beat the hottest team in the NFL on the road.
The Bears are really good and they play in a
big division. They don't get the attention as far as
wins and losses because the Lions are so good. The
Packers are really coming on now, right, I mean, that's
the toughest division in the NFL. But as time goes on,

(06:53):
we're gonna see this as Boy, how about that that
outlier loss by the Bears. Yes, they're four and three,
but they're playing extremely well every week. They're starting to
really impose their will on the game. And the fact
that they could play so poorly and still find a
way to almost gut it out. Hey, that's a testament
that this team has turned the corner and they're on
the right track. And I love I still love them
as a playoff team. Still think they're really really good.

(07:16):
It's a tough division, but I've seen nothing from them
that makes me think, Oh, the Bears are gonna stink, right.
I know Eberflus is an easy target, and I know
that Williams is an easy target. After yesterday, Oh forget
about what about the game the last three games? Yeah,
when his passer rated was like one fifteen, I get it.
I understand the Bears. It's like the Jets. It's like
other teams went all this, look look at this, let's

(07:36):
jump up and down on them the Raiders when they
blow a game. But this is really it's being overly criticized.
It's a hail Mary. It happened. It's a defensive failure.
Other teams have hail Mary's happen and we move on.
But for some reason, this is getting so much more play.
That's so much more of an epic fail. It's an outliar.
It's an out liar. I feel buddy, I feel fine

(07:57):
about your team. I'm fine. I'm glad you do.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I still think there's a problem with the man behind
the beard. Go back to that game against Indianapolis when
they called the speed option at the one and got
stopped at a game that they should have beaten the Colts.
Go back to the game against Houston. Yeah, they hurt
Joe Mixon, but they should have won that game. And yes,
they've been on a roll, and the offense came to
life against in the last couple of weeks. This game

(08:21):
listless Cole Comet calling out the effort in the practice
week and the energy all week long, and obviously, you
know it's Monday morning quarterbacking. Even from him in a
post game, but he went hard in on the squad
saying that all week it wasn't crisp, that there was
a lot of laziness in terms of their execution and

(08:42):
going through their procedurals to get ready for this game.
So that's fairly telling, right. DJ Moore was in the tent,
so he didn't get to see the debacle. What's getting
lost in all of this, the back end was so
bad that they got a reprieve when they called that
dopey handoff to Doug cray Right, that was egregious enough,
but you get the ball back, you're able to punch

(09:04):
it in and so in some ways that got forgiven
and forgotten, which to me is no, that's still a problem.
You're not good enough. You're not blowing anybody out to
get cute.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
This isn't the eighty five Bears where it's like, all right,
here's the novelty of william refrigerator Perry to flip you
off as he barrels you into the end zone. No,
we're giving it to a damn lineman in a game
you're still losing. And then yes, that play. Caleb Williams
was losing his mind on the sideline.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I was in an.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Airport bar and restaurant, screaming and my daughter's like, god, Dad,
here he goes.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
People are stopping because, sir, sorry, you're in an airport, Sir, sir,
can you please can youse? Before the hail Mary, there
was no defense. They didn't call the defense. That was
everybody's gonna stand back. We're not gonna bother to pass
rush him at all. And mclaurin's standing there doing jumping
jacks at the first down marker. Come on, that's embarrassing.
That's that's n content. But if I know, But but

(10:01):
then it sets up. But if the guy didn't have
the arm strength. But if they're throwing the seventy yard
but if they play the corners up, if they play
the corners up and they complete it pass in the
middle of the field down to the forty yard line,
it's what are you doing? How do you let them
complete that pass down of there? They have no timeouts left.
Let's see what happens. It's can he get up to
the line of scrimmage because we saw in other games
where they didn't have time on the closs. Should you

(10:22):
should have stopped the hell? Mary? I mean tell you
should have.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Started obviously, dope stand over in the corner, barking at
the fans and then deciding to come in. You should
in the field to play after the ball has been snapped.
If he didn't have a fat ass contract, they would
have cut his ass for that.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
That I'm with you, because if he and he would
have been fired immediately, he would have not no, you
will send your box a crowd to you. I know
I'll see it Tuesday or Wednesday because it's going ground.
We're not even paying for air. No, I'm with you
on that, like that's that's it. But but he's good,
So it's tough to cut. It's tough to cut. But
that used to get you cut. A play like that
used to get you cut in the NFL. But it
doesn't anymore. No, it was good enough to get your contract.

(10:57):
It doesn't like this is this is where you lose it,
lose the city. It happened. It happened, and you can
move on from it. And I the attention on this
was so insane that that was so over the top.
It it was okay if this happened and the Commanders
beat the Seahawks, or if the Commanders beat the Chargers,

(11:20):
or if they beat the Bengals, it would be Wow.
What a great play by Jaden Daniels. Look at him
keep by time. What a smart play he made the
play before getting the getting to midfield, knowing he can't
probably can't throw the ball seventy yards. What a great
play keeping it alive. What a great play throwing it
to the middle but it's the Bears. And because the Bears,

(11:40):
it's oh the Bears, they suck, They just suck it.
It's because it was the Bears. This is being made
a bigger deal because it's them.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well sure, because the expectations are much like with anything
happening with your Jets. Right, they got beaten by the
soft ass Patriots. Is how this one comes down. Right,
last week, you have the coach basically say the thing
you cannot say in public. You could say it in
the locker room, but you don't say it in public.
And look, I've heard the promo from Dan Patrick. I'll

(12:09):
vehemently disagree. A hold is a hold whenever it's whenever
it happens that it's so egregious in the field of
play that it needs to be called. I'm sorry, but
it Look, you still have to make a play, right,
They don't blow They don't blow the whistle, they don't
throw the flag in a flag happy NFL. They don't
And that's fine. It clearly dude was held, which allowed

(12:32):
Daniels to just keep dancing for another five six seconds,
and clearly he didn't have the armstrength because it didn't
go to the end zone, right, it needed the push
over the top, oh from the guy that was out
of the frame when the play started. So all of
that to say, yeah, the Bears have expectations, So this
is the stuff. You're supposed to be able to dot

(12:52):
the i's and cross the t's and finish and you didn't.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
As the season goes, it'll be an out lot. Look
at that game. Look look at how great it would
have been if they had won that game. But that's
gonna be one of those hey speed bump because the
rest of the way, the bear, the Bears are just fine.
The Bear they're they're just they should have won yesterday.
They would have beat the hottest team in the NFL.
Everything is fine, but you're.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Coming out but you're coming out of a bye week. No,
but that's the other part. You're coming out of a
bye week. In theory, during the week you refocus, So
all right, yeah, we're not getting Carolina and Jacksonville again.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
You don't get beat on a pretty good team and
if you stop the Hail Mary, you would have won.
That's a dutch. But you come back and playing the
half that they did, and they were awful, and they
were awful for a good chunk of this game. But
Washington's pretty good washing Its a lot better than people
give them credit for. Then that's fine, you know, and
just you would you maybe no? And that's the thing,
Caleb Williams, if you come away with anything on the positive,

(13:42):
is that fourth quarters don't seem to be too big,
just slow starts. You're not gonna beat good teams with
that kind of start. Well, more on this game coming
up the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from
the ti Raq dot Com Studios. Meanwhile, we may have
just witnessed the final play as Daniel Jones is the
starting quarterback of the Giants, not because he got hurt.

(14:02):
The Giants are driving down by a touchdown with about
three minutes left to go and very careless with the
ball in the pocket. TJ. Watt is able to come
in from the front side, reach out knock the ball
out of his hands. Daniel Jones is facing TJ. Watt,
He's able to knock it out of his hands. The
Steelers fall on the fumble and now they are one
first down away from potentially salting this game away and

(14:26):
winning it twenty six to eighteen. We'll have more on
this game. Coming up Agains Steelers are maybe potentially one
couple of plays away from beating the New York Giants,
and maybe maybe that's it for Daniel Jones. But coming
up next to be Tommy cut Let's oh, I don't
have to get Locke. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
it would be Drew Lock first dead will be Tommy Cukings. Yeah,

(14:47):
then it'll be Phil Simms. So that there there's your
order right there by that time. But coming up next
we'll have more in the World Series. Still a four
to nothing lead, bottom of the eighth inning, Dodgers over
the Yankees, and the big worry about a quarterback that
everybody seems to be missing coming off of yesterday. That's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Dodgers
batting in the top of the ninth inning, they lead
the Yankees for nothing. They are three outs away from
a three games to non lead in the World Series,
and it looks like the Yankee Stadium is emptying out quickly.

(15:37):
Here in the eighth inning, the upper deck behind home plate.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
I don't think there was a single soul in the
four section.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Swat. I paid one thousand dollars for these seats. I'm
gonna leave whenever. The hell I want to again is
You're right, the Dodgers will go to the bottom of
the ninth inning with at least a four to nothing lead.
They are beginning, They're at bat here in the top
of the ninth inning, still for nothing. What do you got, Rosburg?
Yankee Stadium is so quiet right now, you would think
that Joe was performing again. No, he's the postgame concert too.

(16:07):
I don't know if you know that he's gonna He's
gonna He's gonna perform.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Everybody's leaving the stands to what the eight people in
the Rats that are there, It's.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Like, what was uh, who was it moving with Jim Carrey? Yes, man,
when Zoey Deschanel's in the band and they only have
like the same five people to come see them every gig,
and they come out to go.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
Hey, thanks to Jimmy and Mickey and Leverne and Mary
for coming out. Whoo, thanks to you more for staying
at the end of this game all the way through.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
We're down three zip in the World Series. Yay, we
did it.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
He still made the World Series. My team lost one
hundred and twenty one games.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
So this is where we sit right now. Meanwhile, in
the NFL. Uh it is not the final snap for
Daniel Jones, the starting quarterback for the Giants, because the
Steelers could not get the first down to close out
the game, and so the Giants have the football down
by eight forty five seconds left to go, and they
are in Steeler territory again, down twenty six eighteen in

(17:10):
Steeler territory, the chance for a touchdown two point conversion
to tie the game and send it to overtime chaos.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Russell Wilson, on a third down play, ran in alignment
with the yard markers instead of north south.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
You know who would have got that first down? Is
that Justin Fields? Probably? Who would have run for that
first picket? For that? I think Wilson. He didn't have
to throw it, Wilson. Pickett would have run for that.
Oh nicely. He would have waited though till the midnight
hour DJ and then he would have run for the
first down. Did so again. We'll have more on both
these games again. Dodgers batting and the ninth Giants now

(17:43):
again forty seconds away from the end of the fourth quarter,
looking to try to get ah my goodness, Daniel Giants again.
That may be the last play for Daniel Jones, a
starting quarterback for the Giants. Second and ten with thirty
five seconds left to go when the game, Daniel Jones

(18:04):
tries to escape trouble. Looks to have a receiver and
looked like Devin Singletary was open. Would have been able
to get am Probably he probably was able to gain
about fifteen yards because it was it was a play
where he kept the Daniel Jones kept the play alive,
except he threw it too high. It tips off. I
think it's Singletary, Yes it is. It tips off of

(18:25):
his hands and bounces to a Steelers. Steelers get the interception.
I couldn't tell who it was. Was tipped by a
couple of players, and now they will be running out
the clock with less than a minute left to go.
It goes over Singletary's head and it's picked off, and
now the Steelers in victory formation. Will win this game
twenty six to eighteen.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Bishop was Johnny on the spot another interception for him.
That's at least three right the last couple of weeks.
I mean, I'm telling you, man, the Giants are going
to go to two and six, you know. And here's
the thing now, right, because we'll get to Anthony Richardson
in a second. All right, the Steelers win, Mike Tomlin's
gonna break his arm, patting himself on the back saying,
look at it started.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Russell Wilson. Yeah, yeah, that's great, that's great. But when
I say this is the last time that Daniel Jones
is going to start a quarterback for the Giants, the
season's over, right, The New York football season is over
for both teams. It's balo the team that plays, the
only one, the only one. The Giants are now two
and six and Daniel Jones looked awful in the final

(19:24):
few minutes of this game. He gets the ball knocked
out of his hands by TJ. Watt, and then with
a chance to potentially win the game, he makes a
bad throat at Devin Singletary and it's picked off by
Bishop and the Steelers win. He has played awful. He
is a terrible quarterback, and the Giants are on the
hook for guaranteeing I believe up the twenty five million
dollars for next year. His contract is guaranteed due to injury. So,

(19:49):
just like Russell Wilson last year, I'm sure the conversations
have already started. I'm sure it's not gonna be something
that's brand new, But how much longer is he really
going to be the Giants quarterback? Until they say, you
know what, we're gonna get a quarterback at the end
of this year. We're gonna go do something else. We're
not gonna run it back with Daniel Jones again. So
to save us that money in the off season, and

(20:10):
also to help us get a higher draft pick, to
get a quarterback, to get your door, Sanders or somebody else,
you're gonna see Drew Locke, maybe Tommy Cutt, let's start
quarterback for the Giants. There's gonna be some kind of
move that's gonna be made. I would not be surprised
if it's made after this week, because if Daniel Jones
gets dinged up and gets hurt and suddenly, hey, here's
money you gotta pay out. Look we saw Russell Wilson,

(20:30):
they saw it last year. It's gonna happen sooner rather
than later, and it's gonna happen with the Giants and
Daniel Jones again. It might happen for Sunday, Like I said,
every time we see it, that might be the last
play of the Daniel Jones.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Ever, it's funny because you watch him play and there
were a couple of balls he threw into neighbors and
a couple even on that last drives like all right,
good zip, good pace, and then he airmails the ball
to Singletary that looked like an easy throw, right, just
sit down, take your yardage and you still have thirty
five seconds on the Instead it's airmailed, tipped and you

(21:02):
get an interception. They do have an out on the
contract after this year. Believe it results in a twenty
two point two million dollar dead cap hit for next year.
But you know what, that would be a drop in
the bucket again owing to the old salary cap fund
that we hadn't drafting, which was obviously wrong talking about well,
we're drafting a rookie quarterback anyway, So you move on

(21:25):
and find your guy in the future. Because Clearly, Daniel
Jones has taken them as far as he possibly could,
and that was the playoff Berth a couple of years ago.
Injuries and gross and effectiveness should take him off the field.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
And look, we knew this was coming for the Giants
simply because coming into this year they didn't make any changes. Right,
this is a team that was crying out for a change.
The love affair we saw with the Giants potentially and
JJ McCarthy all, we're going to move up to get
JJ McCarthy. They love JJ McCarthy. Guess who didn't move
up to get JJ McCarthy the Giants. Now, why is this?

(21:58):
The Giants are dealing with the situation where they're GM,
their head coach, their quarterback are all on thin ice
right a bad year by the Giants. Dable is gone,
Shane is gone, and and and Daniel Jones is gone,
and there's a new quarterback in there. Now, when you
make these changes, teams don't want to sad. They want
to be able to say we're starting over with a
new GM, new head coach. The GM's gonna hire his

(22:19):
head coach. The head coach is gonna get together and
pick their new quarterback, and that's gonna be our next level.
You don't want a head coach to have to worry
about I'm the head coach, but now here comes a
new GM with a new quarterback, and it doesn't work.
You want to get all three of those positions on
the same page. GM head coach, quarterback. So it didn't
surprise me the Giants did nothing and they didn't move
up to JJ McCarthy because, okay, JJ McCarthy would be drafted.

(22:41):
And if the Giants stunk this year, okay, well then
Brian Dable's out and Joe Shane is out and whoever
comes in, guess what, whatever offensive system you have and everything,
you got to make it work with JJ McCarthy, he's
our guy. Whoa wait, wait wait, So that that at
least I get. And that's a smart thing to do
to say, hey, maybe our next coach has something different,

(23:02):
Maybe it's a different kind of quarterback he wants. So
let's not get locked in with a guy if we're
not one hundred percent sold on him. Because if they're
good this year, guess what, everybody will come back. The
Giants still paying Daniel Jones, and if they're good, Dable
comes back, and Shane comes back, and Daniel Jones comes back.
But if they're bad, all three of these guys are
getting fired. So this shows you why they didn't make

(23:22):
any big moves in the offseason, why they didn't get
a quarterback, because this was John Marras saying, hey, I'm
all in on this year, like Jerry Jones, I'm all
in on this year. And if we're good, everybody stays,
and if we're bad, we're starting over, and I'm not
gonna have any new people come in and big in
the top three positions there on the field that are

(23:42):
going to be leftovers or having to make arranged marriages
work because it doesn't. So that's why they didn't go
out and get anybody in the off season. Now you
can see this isn't a year where the Giants are
playing well. The season's over for them. They're two and
six now, so it's gonna be a clean sweep in
the off season. And now whoever comes in, all right, now,
the new g and the new head coach, they will

(24:02):
identify their quarterback in the draft or in free agency,
depending who they like. Maybe Kirk Cousins will be available,
if Michael Pennix Junior have to play. You don't know
how things are gonna go, but you're gonna have the
new regime come in and pick their new quarterback. So
all there, the way they acted in the offseason makes
sense coming into now because this was the scenario that
was likely the Giants weren't going to be good, so

(24:23):
let's let's start. Let's have a clean break after this year.
So now they can have that clean break.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, and you may have found a running back in
Tracy that at least makes the loss of Saquon Barkley
not as terrible because we saw that get a lot
of run in the off season. It was one of
the highlights of the off season, hard knocks run that
we saw, and it's been reiterated now that the Eagles
have seemingly righted the ship, which is you know, might

(24:48):
be just duct tape and band aids, but they're healthy
right now. Receivers are back, and they're up to five
and two record and starting to move. But with Tracy
putting up the effort he I know we were talking
about for fantasy purposes. He was a guy that a
lot of people had big hopes for today, even in
a tough spot, and he'd left the game with an injury,

(25:10):
came back and made a big play and scored the touchdown.
So at least you have a building block towards the
future who's on a rookie deal. Right, So that's great.
You'll have the quarterback next year on a rookie deal.
And to your point, we'll see what the free agent
class becomes of veteran quarterbacks. But all of it to say, yeah,
Shane's gonna be gone, Dable is going to be gone.

(25:32):
Daniel Jones the way they orchestrated his deal, which is
always why don't believe the sticker shock, right, because it's not.
It's not always a four year deal, five year deal. Yes,
it's all about whatever the signing bonus is, and then
you work from there. The money can always be worked
out your case in point, and aptly so the Russell
Wilson they swallowed eighty five million dollars. If it doesn't work,

(25:56):
you move on.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah. Well, and and I'm not saying that this is
a bad decision by the Giants. I actually agree with
all right, if you're not sold on, if you if
you have the number one pick in the draft, that's
why we love Caleb. Okay, you're drafting that guy. But
but look, but look what the did. Yeah, they bring
back Eberflus Noah, who nobody agreed was a great, good,

(26:17):
adequate head coach. But he's a good defensive coach.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
So what they did defensively the second half of last year,
he gets to stay of execution.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Why because the Bears also don't.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Pay out contracts for guys that aren't working anymore. I
would hope to think that Bear and the Giants will
be better.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
But there's the Bears way of doing business. Yes, jump
sin sometimes I really don't do that. No, the Bears
have never done.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, the point is most teams are smarter than that
and will do the full sweep.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
They are. But but this is but this is, this
is how it should have been done. And I completely
understand this by the Giants. But at some point now,
big decisions have to be made and you can't run
the risk of, hey, we gotta pay Daniel Jones at
twenty five million dollars because he's hurt. You're gonna and
it's gonna it's gonna be a season where hey, we're
just trying to make ends meet. We're just trying to

(27:02):
see how many games we can win. If we don't win,
it's gonna be easy for us to get a quarterback.
And if, like I said, if they had had the
number one pick in the draft and it's Caleb, well, okay,
what are you gonna do? Not gonna take him? But
it would have cost a lot to move up to
get JJ McCarthy. Would have cost a lot of a
lot of collateral, a lot of draft picks, and who
knows what else do we really want to do this,
knowing full after this year we could be starting over. No,

(27:24):
we don't want to do it. And so JJ McCarthy
goes to the Vikings and we move on from there.
So that's a thing that I get the Giants philosophy
of it. And it worked out well. And now you
want to talk about adding a little insult to injury.
Here is that when it looked like the Giants finally
found Tyrone, Tracy's our number one running back in New York,
had a huge night, potentially, he was lost to a

(27:45):
concussion at the end of the game. That's why Singletary
was in hit his head on the ground on a tackle.
He was brought into the medical tent. He did not
look happy being brought into the tent to be looked at.
But it could be a concussion for time. The one
big bright spot that had was, hey, this could be
our he could be our number one running got him
neighbors and you think can at least have a couple
of buildings. We've got a couple of guys. And now

(28:06):
maybe Tyron Tracey is going to be out again. I
don't know if he is a shorter week this week obviously
coming back to play, so we'll keep you updated on that. Meanwhile,
right now, the Dodgers are three outs away from a
three game to none lead in the World Series, with
us now to tell us how everything is going. A
guy who actually is pitched earlier tonight for the Dodgers.

(28:27):
He got out of the sixth inning. Okay, good, it's
uh Steve de Sager, and he's got what's trending.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
I understand that people would not remember me, because, of course,
there have been seven pitchers on the Dodgers side, and
I believe eight for the Yankees. That's why this game
is still going. After eleven thirty five in New York, is.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Eric ganne up in the bullpen? He will be tomorrow.
It's an our bullpen game. Pretty much everybody's going to
be used.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
If the trainer like through in high school, not even
a full game, I think they could probably use.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Him for tomorrow. Jump still won't hit.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
The Dodgers are up at Yankee Stadium with one out
in the bottom of the ninth inning. Michael Kopek is
on to try and close things out. Walker Bueller was
the starting pitcher. He went the first five innings, five strikeouts,
two walks. In fact, the Volts at stat Saying point
out that Buehler has started three World Series games in
his career, and in each of them he's gone at

(29:19):
least five innings with fewer than five base runners allowed.
No one else has three such starts in their World
Series careers, and this is his first three and only
three World Series starts. So a guy coming off another
surgery this year, who was one in six in the
regular season is proving himself somehow to be yet again

(29:40):
the pressure pitcher that the Dodgers had relied on years ago.
Three games to non lead is what they're on the
verge of. And yes, Fox TV will have Tuesday Night's
Game four, also at eight pm. Eastern and the Wednesday
night game if necessary. Steeve, do we know if they're
bringing fat Jill back?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
He's fired? Yeah? What do you bring out for Game four? Though?
You gotta save the season, that's right, Pat Joe probably
not good.

Speaker 6 (30:04):
Joel comes out not a good luck chair or ozembic Joe,
as he was referred to. A Monday night football game
at Pittsburgh went to the Steelers over the Giants, twenty
six to eighteen. Giants offense at least has had a
touchdown tonight, So there's that Pittsburgh six and two record.
Giants fall to two and six. But you know, the
Giants did enter averaging just fourteen points per game and

(30:26):
the Steelers were allowing just fourteen points per game. Twenty
six eighteen, Pittsburgh the final. Packers quarterback Jordan Love has
a straying groin, but test showed no significant damage. Green
Bay host Detroit Sunday on Fox TV. The Brown say
quarterback Jamis Winston will remain their starter. Cleveland defensive back
Denzel Ward is still in concussion protocol. Patriots QB Drake

(30:49):
May is in concussion protocol. New Orleans quarterback Derek Carr
is expected to return to practice on Wednesday after his
oblique injuries missed the last three games. The Seahawks are
optimistic wide receiver dec Metcalf will return to play next
weekend after a knee injury. Jacksonville wide receiver Christian Kirk
had surgery today on his broken collar bone.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
He is out for the year.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
A couple of late games in the NBA, the Lakers,
who were up by eighteen early, only lead at Phoenix
seventy two sixty eight late in the third quarter Anthony
Davis twenty five points and early third quarter at Sacramento
Kings fifty six fifty one over the Trailblazers. Denver won
in overtime. At Toronto Nicola Jokich forty points, and at
Orlando the Magic edged Indiana A Pollo Benkerra fifty points.

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Ben Caro had thirty seven in the first half. It's
now two outs, bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium,
La leads New York for nothing.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smithshow with
Mike Carmen Livethetirach dot Com Studios. We're a very nervous
and excited Justin Frosburg is ready for one more out
in the World Series. How I feel a man, what
am I nervous about? Just? You know, did you're gonna
be up three to nothing in the World Series? You're
full of nerves, nervous because you one, he's calmer than
you are, one went away from winning the World Series.

(32:03):
That wouldn't be nervous. Okay, I think every I think.
You know, that's a lifetime of Nick's jets and mets.
The worst thing is gonna happen now waiting for the
sky to fall frostbirds on the path of saying this,
this is his last question for you guys. You read
who is worse? Okay, Daniel Jones or Aaron Judge. Wow,

(32:29):
Oh that's tough, man.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
No, it's got to be Aaron Judge because I mean
he's doing nothing in meaningful games.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, but no, but Daniel Jones, I mean it's weak eight.
But you say worse though, and like Aaron Judge was
great and now he stinks and it doesn't Mdaniel Jones
stunk and he still stuck.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
He did.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay, it's not like Daniel Jones getting to the playoffs. No,
it's not like Daniel Jones. That was two years ago.
It's not like Daniel Jones is giving you things to
to you know, oh hey, wait, he might be really good. No, no,
he's he's been bad. He continues to be bad. You
shouldn't be surprised. But Baron Judge is much more surprising. Yeah,

(33:06):
it is now four to two. Anthony Rizzo has just
gone deep off of Michael Kopek. Sorry, Alex Radugo has
just gone deep off of Michael Kopek. White Sox cutting
the lead to four to two. Still two outs in
the ninth inning, Dodgers lead the Yankees one out away
from going up three zip in the World Series, but
maybe a death cry home run for the Yankees in

(33:28):
this one. Coming up next, are we breaking down a
three to nothing Dodger lead or the Yankees getting all
the way back in it? Get right here, that's next.
Jason and Mike, This is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
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 (33:51):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
live from the tire rack dot Com Studios, where we
are gonna be one game away had most from crowning
the Dodgers as World Series champions. They beat the Yankees
four to two. They take a three games to none
lead in the World Series. Alex Erdugo with a home

(34:14):
run to make a four to nothing game look closer
than it was.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
How many of the forty nine? Three sixty eight announced?
Do you think we're still there to watch it? Three
sixty eight?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Just tight it out? Minus forty nine? How do you
do that? How do you do the math? I just
crossed out the forty nine. Look not a lot of
offense tonight, each team mustering only five hits. But you know,
the life gets sucked out a Yankee stadium in the
first inning when Freddie Freeman hits another home run, He's
gonna wind up being World Series MVP. He's got a
home run in every game so far. And it was

(34:47):
the worst possible start for the Yankees. Okay, they're home now.
They had two games in LA where they potentially could
have won that big bullpen question that they'll be asking
themselves forever about Game one? Why was Cortesan? Why wasn't
Tim hillin? They have a chance in Game two? And
the Dodgers win, and now here they are back at home. Okay,

(35:07):
let's put it all. Let's put it all aside. We
have three games here. Let's get right back in it.
We love where we play, we love playing in front
of the fans. The Dodgers have their worst starting pitcher
going and it doesn't matter. Walker Buehler throws zeros for
five plus innings and the Dodgers' bullpen is able to
get it done. But just an absolute demoralizing start, the
worst possible start to the game for the Yanks. Before

(35:29):
they come up to bat, they're already down to nothing.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, I mean you already lost the pregame because the
fat Joe thing just didn't It fell flat.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, had.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Its issues with his appearance there, and then he gave
up the homer to Freeman.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
So everything you had, the feel good, the excitement, You're.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Finally playing a home World Series game and bam, it's
Freddie Freeman again. Just really, this is how it starts.
And look, opportunities. You know, Stanton rounding third, that image
is gonna be etched in your brain. The Dodgers also
had an opportunity, right, you have the bunt, you go
for the squeeze play, and I still think he was safe,

(36:09):
but he's called out and it's upheld on review. You know,
you don't have enough evidence to overturn whatever, but a
couple of near misses at the plate. But for the Yankees,
the decision to send Stanton and ta Oscar just you know,
a strike to home plate and that's the end of
what could have been potentially at least an inning to
kind of stretch maybe mess up Dave Roberts bullpen architect.

(36:32):
I just got a wonder, is he got it in
sharpie at this point?

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Is he that bold god?

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Because it's no longer intensils or the grease pen, It's
it's all in sharpie, Like, nope, this is how it's.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Gonna six relievers tonight win. But you know, but look
but more the first inning of this game, like Clark
Schmidt is the guy that's charged with keeping the Yankee
season going. All the money, all the money they're spending,
and it's on Clark's Clark smidt exactly. He didn't have control.
He didn't have you know, he was behind hitters all night.
And I keep going back to this, you don't know

(37:04):
how healthy show Heyotani is, And clearly, as we saw
the game go on, he had a tough time swing
in the bat. He wasn't quite the same. He had
a couple of really awkward swings, you know, the the
the shoulders subluxation and a separation you know is affecting it.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
He looked really uncomfortable when he hit that pop up
his last at bet. Right he stood at home play,
It's like, it's not good.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, you wonder, you wonder what it is for him.
You wonder if he's gonna get the next game off.
But for me, I come at it like this. Schmid
walked him on four pitches. So Freddie Freeman's home run
is a two run homer. You have to challenge him
so you know what he can or can't do. Like
he's the leadoff batter of the game, and Schmid walked
him on four pitches. Come at Otani. It's one thing
to see a guy hitting batting practice. So you gotta

(37:45):
be able to know is he gonna be able to
turn on a fastball? Is he gonna be behind? Is
his swing gonna be awkward when suddenly he tries to
get out in front? Can can he pull something? Is
he gonna you don't know what he's capable of, mean
as you saw the game go on. Oh maybe he's
not the same, but they were afraid of him like
he is when he is healthy. And I'm sorry, but
you gotta throw straight. You gotta go after Otani as
the first battle around a leadoff battery, and instead, I

(38:08):
don't care if he's healthy. I don't care if he's
you know, thirteen feet tall. No, he's still the firs
the game. No, but I get it, well you see that,
but I get it if he's healthy. But you gotta
see what kind of guy he is, Kenny, really, you know,
he's you know, he's struggling. What's he going to be?
You want to know what he can be for the game,
and instead you put him on like ay, he's Otani,

(38:28):
and as a result, Freddie Freeman's two run homer could
have been a solo home run. I mean, just part
of the mistakes, part of the things the Yankees did
tonight that make me scratch my head and go, why
would they do that? Why would they send Stanton around
third when he was when he was going to be
a dead duck at the plate? Wh why would you
throw four balls wide, not even close to Otani. When
just throw it over and see what he can do.
I mean, obviously you see his way.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
He wasn't able to hit a home and then he
disappear into the clubhouse. Yeah, I'm running Joka in the
Twitter verse was we will find out the treatment of
Otani in twenty thirty four.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
That'll be three snip. If he's not going to play tomorrow,
he's not going to be Maybe Edmond will lead off
and they'll do something. Look, that's the one thing the
Dodgers have is there. They can cover different things, but
they have a lot of guys can play multiple positions.
But you still want Otani in the line there him
the automatic bass. Why not? I don't understand why When

(39:21):
When When When Clark Smi went around, I'm like, you
have to see what he's gone and you can see
after one swing, oh hey, Otan, he's not the same
and you can get him out and and who knows,
maybe it's a different pitch after that, because that's the
thing about baseball. With nobody out and nobody out, maybe
Freddie Freeman gets a different pitch, does and get that pitch,

(39:41):
So maybe there's no runs in the first inning. But
I don't know what, how do you not go after
Otani open and you got to see what he has
and how he can be because this is the whole game,
because he's going to be up three, four, five times
and and Clarksmi walks him on four pitch.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well, once again, as we've talked about with the Dodgers
doing well to work counts. I mean, Schmid didn't finish
three innings. He had what sixty eight pitches thrown.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, LIFROMTHTIREC dot Com Studios. Coming up next,
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Speaker 4 (40:20):
This is Fox estimated the Lions offense and I underestimated
the Dodgers entirely. Before this postseason began. I thought that
that first round series against the Podreys would be tough
for them. I actually thought the Padres might win it.
But shows you what I know, because right now the
Dodgers one win away. And the point was made. I

(40:44):
think aj Casslevell, my friend from MLB dot com, made
this point that the Dodgers have not been truly tested
to the brink since the Padres series. That was the
team that has played them the toughest. The Padres were
really good, the Mets were I think game as much
as they could be, and the Yankees were still waiting

(41:04):
for them to fully check into this series. It just
seems like Game one, and we can talk about the
momentum swing of Game one, and certainly that easily could
have been a Yankee victory. But the Dodgers have been
the better team clearly over the last three games. And
it's not as though this comes down to one managerial
decision or one swing of the bat from Freddie. The

(41:27):
Dodgers have been the better team. And if we're being honest,
there's just not a whole lot of signs on the
field right now that it's about to swing around of
the Yankees favor John Paul.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
If I said to you, okay, the Dodger up three
to nothing, you talked about what the Dodgers have done. Look,
they've been the better team top to bottom. As you said,
Freddie Freeman's had a home run in every game. The
Dodger bullpen has been great, They're starting pitching has been great.
If I say, if I asked you the flip side, Hey,
the Yankees are down three, what would be the biggest
thing you would point to for the Yankees?

Speaker 4 (41:57):
I think it's it's number one. I will say number one.
It's the inability of the starting pitching to take them
deeper into games. And it's it's forced Aaron Boone to
make moves with his bullpen that he hasn't wanted to do.
I think that what had to happen after Game one,
and it's heartbreaking as that conclusion was, is Rodin had

(42:19):
to give them a quality start in Game two. Didn't
happen after falling down oh two, still a winnable series.
What has to happen tonight is Clark Schmid's got to
get them five or six quality innings. Didn't happen, So
there is momentum. I think that when a game is
like Game one, much like Game six and twenty eleven

(42:42):
in the World Series, there there was some carryover I
think to Game two, but just the starting pitching execution
just hasn't been there. Yamamoto way better in Game two
than Rodan tonight, Bueler way better than Schmidt. I mean,
that's the story this series as much as as much
as we talk about the dramatics of Game one, as

(43:04):
much as we talk about the struggles of Judge, which
are real, the you know, the Yankees have. They've not
clicked offensively, and they've left themselves no margin for air,
and they've made errors. They've made defensive errors, they've put
guys on base. They just haven't played crisp fundamental baseball.
And then I'm surprised. I thought the Yankees were at

(43:27):
least the equal of the Dodgers, and I think in
some ways I expect them to be better in this
World Series, but clearly they just have not been up
to the task. And then the Dodgers right now have
all the belief, all the momentum, and all the expectation
of winning this World Series.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
You know, for me, John Paul, it comes down to
Mike and I talk to this a few minutes ago.
Is that I thought, Okay, this is going to be
Game three. The Yankees get to flush everything that happened
in LA and start over again. And then I watched
Clark Schmidt walk show Hey Otani on four pitches, and Otani,
who clearly has a shoulder injury, and you got to
find out what he's got. How can he swing the bat?

(44:02):
As you saw the game go on, you could tell
he grimaced, He was not swinging the bat like he
normally was, And yet Schmid was afraid of him, like, Hey,
here's a time in the middle of a heater, like
you have to see what he's got and see if
you can overpower him. Can he turn in a fastball?
Is he going to be late? What kind of swing
does he have? And instead you put him on with
four pitches and Freddie Freeman's two run home And it's

(44:23):
the worst possible start you could have for the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
That's exactly right. And and every starting pitcher in every
playoff series that's ever happened has had the chance to
set the tone for his team every single time. And
and to your point, the tone that was set tonight
was not at all the one the Yankees wanted. And
by the way, I did notice, and I'm sure Mike
did too. How you work the word grimace into that? Sure,

(44:49):
the Mets, the Mets are still alive, and this in
this conversation at least, but you're right, and and I
think not being able to locate to show, hey, I
think foreshadowed the ability to not place the ball to
Freddy that he wanted. And it's interesting the Dodgers, it

(45:09):
seems they're so good and so deep that they've been
able to operate effectively with with some significant diminishment to
a superstar player. Freeman was playing on one leg for
the first two weeks. Told he told Ken Rosenthal tonight
that the time off did him a lot of good.
He was able to get his ankle to a better

(45:32):
place and actually work on his swing more. And so
we've now seen Freddie come back to being himself, while
show A is now playing hurt. But it's they're so
deep that it almost that almost equals out. And Mookie
is still great. To ask her at a big defensive
play key k another clutch. Rbi wus is contributing, Edmunds

(45:53):
had some big games. This is what it looks like
when you win the World series, exactly what you're seeing
right now, and these have not been It's interesting that
the Mets series was sort of weaving back and forth
between these lopsided scores. Obviously the Dodgers won four of them,
but this series it's been tighter, of course with the scores,

(46:16):
but it felt as though the Dodgers, except for when
it looked like the Yankees might win Game one, they've
really been in control, in control of the series for
what seems like twenty three or twenty four of the
twenty seven innings. I mean, they've just been the better team.
And it could be two to one. You could say
maybe if the Yankees had won Game one, but it

(46:37):
wouldn't change the fact that the Dodgers have been decidedly
the better baseball team win this World Series.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
JP three nothing and owing to Jason's Mets. Some wondering
if Luis Rojas is a double agent because in the
fourth inning he sends Stanton rounding third and Hernandez guns
him down at the plate an active desperation. I mean,
it's only a three to nothing game, it's the fourth roll.
You got potential for something, I know.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
And and to Oscar, he actually throws pretty well, and
that was a strike. I mean he threw his ninety
four miles an hour. I believe it was a stackass
number on it. I actually didn't have an issue with
it because you're you're trying just to get something going.
You're the Yankee rallies. I think Joe Davis made this
point during the broadcast. They just haven't even had that

(47:25):
many threats. And when you don't have threats, you need
to just just get something on the board, try to
just change the look in the field of the game,
and who knows, if you know, if he scores there,
it changes that inning, and who knows what happens late
with Radugo if he still it's the same kind of pitch,
if it's the tighter game. But they're they're just hoping

(47:46):
right now. I mean that they're they're not they're not
stringing together good hits in good baseball. Can it change,
cure to change? Will it change? Probably not, based on
what we've seen so far, and and it just seems
like based on the way things are going, it is
a matter of time before the Dodgers are are the

(48:07):
World Series champions, because they're just they're the better, deeper team.
And also, by the way, as a consequence of this,
as you start to think about how do you come
back if you can, well, who's got the more rested
bullpen right now? The Dodgers, the Yankees that you know,
they've had to be creative the last two games. Of course,
the quartetes thing in Game one. They're just not you know,

(48:29):
they've been competitive, They've actually the bullpen's did a pretty
good job of keeping games close, but they've never really
been able to use their bullpen the way they want
to because they've been playing from behind so much the
last two games, because the starting pitchers just simply have
not been good enough for the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
John Paul Obviously, there's gonna be a lot of tension
on Aaron Judge and the series he is having or
is not having. At this point, he's hitting one forty.
He has not hit at all. Struck out again tonight,
did walk tonight, So there is that, but he just
has not all this series. Is he being too aggressive?
Are you not seeing good at batsman? What do you

(49:06):
see for Aaron Judge? Why he is struggling so much?

Speaker 4 (49:10):
A couple things there. I think that Aaron Judge is
someone who is susceptible to maybe getting out of rhythm
whenever he doesn't play for a while. It happened at
the start of the season, it happened before the start
of the series against the Royals, that bat's got a
little bit better against Cleveland, and now he's back on
the funk. He's clearly is feeling the pressure here of

(49:33):
what of what is in front of him, whether it's
the contract, whether it's anything else. He can handle pressure.
He can he can handle the pressure. He hits sixty
two home runs with everybody in the world following that
home run pursuit. So the notion that he can't handle pressure,
I think is stilly. He's not succeeding right now, I

(49:55):
think because he maybe is pressing a little bit. He
doesn't seem to be on time right now. And also
he's facing a team that is not making mistakes. They
are pitching him very well. He is getting i think,
a lot of the focus, and when it comes to
I think the way they're approaching him, they're realizing that often.

(50:15):
I think there was almost the case when he walks
is they don't have to give him quality pitches right
now to get him out. They can have him chase,
they can test them up high, whatever it might be.
You're not feeling like there's pressure because when Judge is
in this mode where he's swinging a lot at pitches

(50:35):
out of the zone, you don't feel like you have
that pressure of putting in that one little spot of
the strike zone. That is his one cold zone. Now
it's a much wider area. So I just think he's
he's not on time. He's getting pitched really tough, the
Dodgers are executing. It's all of the above. But I

(50:56):
want to stress like he can handle pressure, like he
handled he gets that map, the home run against the
Guardians a week ago, he hit sixty two hovers, then
another more than fifty this year, Like he's he can
handle it. He's just not. He's not having success right now.
There's not much the Keys can do about it because
for them to have a heartbeat in this series, he's

(51:16):
got a hit and right now he's not hitting.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Take it back to the to the other side.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
The pitching for the Dodgers, Walker Bueller with another gem
today is postseason reputation takes another bounce up. And the
happiest guy in the world's got to be Dave Roberts.
But you know a guy that struggled when he came
back from injury JP and pitching a gem and an
extended innings once again.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
He did. And it's interesting, he basically said on the
postgame show There with with Kevin Burkhard and company. There
in Fox Sports that he basically said, and I'm parapsing,
I'm paraphrasing here, that he basically said, I was awful
this year and during the regular season, and then you
get to the playoffs and a lot of that stuff
melts away. It's just about what you can do in

(51:58):
front of him. And his first start against San Diego
was certainly rocky. He got torched early in that game,
but settled in and then a much better start against
the Mets, and now another really great start, I thought,
against the Yankees. So he loves the big moment. He
has had a history of doing it, and it was
interesting if you listen to what he said after the
game to Kevin, it's almost as though he's saying, I

(52:23):
abandoned the strategy of just throwing as hard as I could,
and I worked on becoming a better pitcher. He's basically saying,
I'm a better pitcher now, even though my sheer, velocity
and stuff aren't what they used to be. And I
really hope that a lot of young pitchers, older pitchers,
pitching coaches, executives, agents, everybody, and we listen to that

(52:48):
because there is wisdom and what he said, you don't
have to throw a hundred and then blow out your
elbow to have success in this game. He is saying
that after the ups and downs of his career, he
likes it better. He seems to be more comfortable now
operating at a little bit of a slower speed with
better movement and the results tonight, guys didn't speak for themselves.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
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Speaker 4 (53:22):
As long as they're playing ball, we're gonna talk. And
then when the when the premiere twelve gets going in
TYPEI City and Tokyo next month, you can call me
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evening time. It'll be breakfast for me. It'll be perfect.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
It's breakfast with John Paul Morosi. Thanks going, Yeah, all right,
John Paul.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
The nice, nice ring to it. I appreciate it. Guys,
Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
We'll talk to you buddy. Thanks buddy. All right, there
goes John PAULM.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Moros