October 2, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon discuss why the Baltimore Ravens may have blown their season after losing their first game in week one. Plus, the guys talk more of Playoff Baseball, react to the Dodgers vs Reds wildcard, and more!
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:57):
Mike and I love putting this content out for you
every single night, and there will be a lot of
content about Bunting tonight, because yeah, you nothing boils my
blood about, but you know I feel about bunting and
I just watched The Red Sox give game to a
way to the Yankees, partly because oh no, no, we're
gonna try to bunt.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
We have first and second.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Nobody that's bunt base running and the inability to go
back to the hallmark of my eighties and early nineties wrestling,
the excellence of execution fail.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll get to that game in a second, but quick
update from Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Right now, middle of the fourth inning. Again, this game,
like last night, this game is flying.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Wait for it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Reds lead the Dodgers two to one right now, middle
of the fourth. The Reds have the lead mainly because
ti Oscar Hernandez dropped an easy pop up in right
feel that led to two runs by the Reds as
they put two up in the top of the first inning,
which is the exact start the Reds needed coming off
of last night. The Dodgers just bludgeoning them into submission. Hey,
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they hit the bullpen late. Can we keep it going here?
They get two runs off the top and Hernandez it's
a ball that he should have caught. It's a ball
that he was standing on both feet for. This was
not something that was really hard. It's not something that
was he had to dive for it, Duran. This was
something that he needed to make a play on, and
he just dropped. Arnold Schwarzenegger's character was called the Butcher
(02:24):
a Baker's field in total in Running Man, people.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They just want to eat down. Now let them get food.
This eliminate everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
No, the Butcher might be well applied here to what
Taoscar Hernandez did, because he also then caused an extra
ten pitches in that inning for Yamamoto, which, as we know,
hastens the arrival of the bullpen. You don't want the Yeah,
you don't want the bullpen arriving at all. You want
you eighting was over? You want done.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
We want to push that arrival of the bullpen as
far off as you can. Can I get it to
not happen tonight? Probably not? Can I delay it longer? Well,
now that's something we can talk about.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know. That's the holidays are rapidly approaching.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That is, you're you're tracking family members that you may
or may not want at the dinner table and around
your house. Oh they're gonna be delayed. That's too bad. Uh,
that's that's it. That's what you want for the bullpen
scalelay this all right, Gret Now, but here's the thing, right,
and I get it, and Taskarnandas is the top of
social media trending. I understand. But here's the thing is
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that I get that people are upset Dodger fans said,
but I shrugged my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I give you, what are you gonna do? No, that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The guy has to play somewhere. His bat stays. He's
a middle of the order guy. He's been great for
things about a great career. He's RBI yesterday, he's awful
in the field. Show hal Tani's your designated hitter. He's
gotta play somewhere. This is not college softball where he
can have a DP and someone can play and just
hit and Sid can't have that.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Man can't have it. Now, I mean the Dodgers might
want to push her that with.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, I mean, look, we're making a lot of rule
changes in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Can I play with eight fielders in seven and I
have two?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You think the Dodgers will be better off playing with
one lesson the yes, or with Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Actually in the field one fewer.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Okay, all right, now we have to get around those
pesky shift rules in terms of how we position our infield.
But I think we can figure that out. Well, that's
that story. That's a that's a story for another day.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But I mean, really, I mean, what else do you want? Like, oh,
her Nandi is what is he doing in the field?
Because he hits well.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Even the Dodgers radio broadcast started going at him. Why
is he two runs gifted? And he's gotta play? I mean,
he's gotta play somewhere? Well, where else do you want
him to play? Can't play first base? That's Freddie Freeman.
You want to play left field? Okay, it's still in
the outfilla.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Still.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You can only hide him so much. But that's there.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But this is the thing about the Dodgers is that
and this gets into a big it's not just about
toausk carnandas, but this is a Dodger team that is
going to try to win the World Series and they
are awful defensively right because they've decided we're moving Mookie Betts,
who was a goal glove right field or into the infield.
They've still never replaced because I'm sure they thought their
succession plan was Okay, well we have our shortstop and
(05:20):
Corey Seegers our guy. Looks like we're not going to
pay for him. They make the trade for trade Turner,
He's gonna be our guy. Nope, Nope, they don't have
either of them, so they move Mookie Bets. Mookie Betts
who is not great at shortstop. He's a goal glove
in the outfield. So now you're taking a guy who
is a goal glove in the outfield, moving a shortstop
where he's not nearly as strong as some other guys,
and you're replacing him with a guy who really can't
field at all. So understand that you got to get
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you know, there's give and take here. This is not
just well, I mean, the Dodgers have decided we are
going through with a defense that is really subpar, and
there's many players you can hit the ball to, and hey,
I'll take my chances, you know, because Max Muncy is
not as mobile as you'd like to be at third base,
and that left side of the infield is not quite
where it is. You have and you have task Garanhandas
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and right field. I mean it, you are sacrificing your
defense for the lineup you are putting out there, and
that's something you have to accept.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I see that. Can't complain about it. Don't complain.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Be upset, I get, but don't complain, No, because this
is what you do, because this is what you have
to do.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
To get your best lineup out.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh, you made the calculated risk right and decided that
the coefficients to all the variables offensively outweighed those of
what could go wrong defensively. Unfortunately, when the margins and
your opponents are better, you don't have quite the difference
in those coefficients. And we get too closer to a
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balance in that equation because we saw it almost last night, right,
based on the inability of the Dodger relievers to put
the ball over the plate. Just look, the guy put
it in play, although to this point I don't know
that I want to put it in play either. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean we'll look at that. But look that that's
(07:00):
how it goes, right. That that's the that's the trade
you make, right, that's the trade. Be upset about him dropping.
I'm not saying, you know what he's said, But don't
sit here and say, oh, what do we know?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You know you know on a field. No, that's just
guys on the field. What else do you want? Right?
No other place to hide him. I just want to
I just want to keep playing that that Brad Pitt moneyball.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
His defense does not matter. Defense, but Haddleberg can't play first,
but his defense does not matter. So the Dodgers trailing
right now two to one, although it looks like it's
gonna wind up being two to two. Uh, Key k
a Hernandez with a double to the right field wall,
and I love how.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
The f you got his bubblehead? This is this is
now like you know, year, This is like year eight
or nine. And then Key Hernandez is still playing the
outfit for the Dodgers in big games.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, you just think about that.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You put him in balls and then in September first
say are you ready? Keiky Hernandez is still gonna play
left He's still when it comes down to it, no
matter what changes we make, Key k Hernandez is gonna
be playing left field for the Dodgers in big playoffs. Well,
what's your You're running? Joke is does the Guardians Kenny
Lofton still play some It doesn't matter. He's gonna be
fifty five years old still playing left field. When they
(08:08):
start paying Otani's contract, he's gonna be in left field.
He'll start in left field and Otani's retirement. Dad, that's
all right, I'm here. So you get the big hit
from Hernandez and the first guy they show waving the
rally towel.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No magic Johnson, Well, of.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Course, uh so again to two here, but you know
that there's your drama with the Dodgers and the Reds
right now again, maybe we get another game three because
right now we have three games tomorrow and Major League Baseball,
which is so bampin football.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But let me just say this. Let me say this.
This shows you how managers can have good and bad
games from game to game. Right, all Eric Alex Kora
got yesterday, Red Sox manager was all the plaudits for
making all the right decisions, pushing the right butts right,
leaving Garret Crochet out there, Hey out manage Aaron Boone. Okay,
Aaron Boone had a bad day managing right.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Crochet came just shy of saying that he threatened him. Yeah,
well yeah, game, let's cool though he once Blake Snell
did that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Man, He's like, hey, it's open season, man, on all
you mattered, doesn't want to take us.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Out of game. People were like, oh, look at the Huberts.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I'm like, no, it is I read into that that
he threatened if he came out before the eighth, he
was going to take him down.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We're gonna now it's gonna be like rookies in there
in their first start. Hey coming out, now you'll come
get me. Man were talking about been in this game
for thirty five years. I'm a Hall of Famer. I
don't care what you are. You're coming out of this game.
So the Red Sox did all they could, and congratulations
to them because they apparently weren't happy enough today until
(09:39):
they gave the Yankees the game they gave they were
the Yankees. And this is why I say, you know
managers have good games from game to game is because
Alex Korra, all of a sudden got so incredibly conservative
in this game. Everything I can point to for for
the Red Sox, well outside Duran's error in left field,
which was just I went, but you talk about not scoring,
(10:02):
uh not scoring on the infield single.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Ye eating as that ball gets away, great play by
uh you great players keep it in the infield comes
up throwing the ball squirts away. How he wasn't already
aggressively rounding third and just a full head of steam.
By the way, congratulations to Aaron Boone realized he needed
to play both Rice and today.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I don a good job by him.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I think I I think I could have managed the
team today and put them put them both in.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, to be fair, you've been saying that for one
hundred and sixty four games could have been managed under
sixty five. But the other part is, and this was
the big turning point of the game, right seventh inning,
All of a sudden, your guy, and I call him
your guy because now again another another former White Sox
player who was pitching for good teams that have.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Like, how do you guys suck so bad? Every day?
It's hey, here's a former White side guy. This guy
is actually my guy. I love this guy.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Here's a former White Sox player doing great things in
the play.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Last night, it was crochet tonight. It's throat dot. You
wouldn't have set the bleeping record if you. I'm onto
these guys. I still go back and forth with he
and his wife everyone while media.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Your guy all of a sudden loses it right, he
can't throw a strike, go to the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Red Sox have first and second. Yankees are on their heels,
nobody out and Rafaela tries to bunt and you see them
in a surprise and he pops it up and I
just see that, and I just I have to count
to ten because, first of all, you know how much
I hate the bunt, right as much of an old
school baseball guy as I am. Bunting is terrible, right,
(11:38):
Bunting is, Yes, it's a lost art. And I see
the same complaints on social media. How players can't bunt
in this era of Major League baseball is ridiculous. It's
the fundamental place.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Sorry, I'm sorry you don't like that, and I agree
with you, but you know what not happening if a
guy can't bunt, and it's a situation now. And it
sound like Raphael hasn't bunted before, But is he a
good bunter? No?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
You see how he was reaching for that ball.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And sometimes it's one thing to bunt in the seventh
inning of Game eighty seven of one hundred and sixty two.
It's quite another thing to bunt in the top of
the seventh with two on and nobody out a Yankee stadium,
when you can send these guys home, it becomes much
more difficult to butt. And he bunts it a bad pitch,
doesn't really try to get his body in at it,
and he pops up and the Yankees wind up getting
out of the inning right, two batters later, out of
(12:23):
the inning, first and second, nobody out, and you go conservative,
We're gonna try to.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Play for a run. What are you doing? What are
you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I mean I understand, yeah, should be able to butnt Yeah,
players show, but if they can't, they can't, and you
can't just to say.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That, well, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, you have to know your players and know how
difficult it is to place a bunt down because it's
not like the bunt is automatic. And that's another thing
that gets me from people who want to talk about
bunting and how great bunting is. Is like, yeah, if
you can get the bunt down, you execute it right.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I still don't like the outcome. Now again, Billy Bean, moneyball,
they're giving us an out. Don't be a hero. Pick
up the ball, throw at the first base, right, that's
what it. Pick a ball throat to first base. If
they're playing for a run, the most they're gonna get
as a run, but you have to be able to execute it.
And as people forget about the execution part of it,
that hey, yeah, laying that bunt down in this kind
of situation is really hard. It's going for it on
(13:14):
fourth down in the NFC Championship game when say we've
done it all year. Well, it's a different thing to
do it on the road in the third quarter, when
you're trying to put a team away and all of
a sudden things get jittery. It's a different thing to
ask a guy to do. And so when that bunt
popped up, I said the Red Size, I turned, I
turned to my wife and I said, the Red Sox
just lost this game. They just lost this game because
(13:34):
now they're not gonna get a run. And this is
a mistake you don't come back from. The Yankees will
get a run. They scratch out a run in the
eighth inning, they get a big single by Wells that
take him the lead, and they win the game for
to three, and now they go to play tomorrow. The
Red Sox blew it tonight. No matter how you want
to cut.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It, up.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The Red Sox blew it and they handed the Yankees
This game tonight should have been the Red Sox going
on the Yankees going home, and Aaron Boone is giving
away all his Yankee gear at the end, going they're
firing me. Here, take my cleats, here's my pants, I'll
sign them for you. Look, here's my here's my EyeBlack
take it right here, here's my hat.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Here be fair.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
He may want to keep the jersey and stirrups and
everything because he will come back for old timers.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Well yeah, because well you hit the home run. He's
kind of a big dale, so I mean he still
has that going for this. That's where we should be. Instead,
we're talking about Game three.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Raphaela in his career. I guess how many sacrifice buns
he had two? Five to them five?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Okay, that's more than I thought. Yeah, no, a couple more.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But but the point being outside, I think there was
a data point about how frequently the Padres played some
small ball in the middle of the summer. Otherwise, how
many teams do you do you really know that's how
they're playing. You don't play for one run your Red
Sox Yankees, You think that one run is going to
(14:54):
solve everything against the Yankees. Yeah, in three years, when
you've got like six guys in that line, if home runs,
you play for one run, you'll get one run. Maybe,
like that's the whole thing you play, you'll get one
Maybe you get one run. You got the Yankees on
their heels. Man, Yeah, rodn was was was was dealing.
He was pitching pretty well, right, he wasn't. He wasn't
pitching like get but into all of a sudden he
(15:18):
lost it, right, he lost it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You're like, whoa, Now the Yankees are wounded and vulnerable,
and then you come in, Yeah, we're gonna bunt like
I don't get it. I don't get all of a
sudden where the Red Sox just got incredibly concertive. You
got the drop fly ball they handed the Yankees this game.
They gave it to them. If they go home tomorrow,
they just have themselves to blame for tonight, because tonight
tonight we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The Yankees are out, they lose two games, Aaron Boone's
getting fired. Derek Jeter is gonna manage them all these days.
That's what we should be saying, But instead we're not.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Three three, Game two on Nobody out pitching change bunt Man.
I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
This guy's coming in coming in cold in a huge situation.
Layoff heat and you bail them out.
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Speaker 1 (18:17):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour two of the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Harmon Today's Friday. It's not, It's it's only Wednesday. Ty Shirt.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
How do you know that's ty Shirt telling you he
ain't coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He's done, and he ain't coming in Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
A selfish bathtard.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No, he's telling us this is his Friday. But do
you have what I mean, but your schedule two more days?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Not if I don't come in day, all right, all right,
it's your Wednesday. Okay, it's not. It's not Friday. It's not,
it's not it's it's.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
There's people who are off Wednesdayesday.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Pretty soon, for Bill Belichick, every day is going to
be Friday. I actually had that schedule for a while
way back in the day, when every day was Friday.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
No, no, no Wednesday and Thursday's off. Oh really yeah, well
that was.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
The starting you know, Yahoo's sports. As we were doing
you kind of needed all hands on day.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Right, Well that was always at the worst part, Like
when I first started coming out of college, I worked
at ESPN right as a production assistant a producer.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Was like, oh, my gods is great. And I worked
every weekend because obviously and nobody was off week Like.
If you were off on the weekends, it was like, whoa,
you're off on You're either really a big shot yeah,
or you didn't matter at all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But nobody who did any kind of studio production was
off on Saturday or Sunday. You were never off, and
and the only people that were And it was really
weird because people who were off Saturday said, well, what's
it like, they go, what do you think? It's like
nobody else is I can't do anything like you have
to be if there's only like three or four people
that are off on Saturday and Sundays.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
This is where you go find the townies.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeahs no, you go go away get wild na. But
you worked every like and I was like used to
for a long time, like my day's off for Thursday,
Friday or Tuesday Wednesday or Monday Tuesday, Monday Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I was like, this is what it is my days.
I'm okay. And I was okay with that for a
long time because I get out and get stuff done
dog during the day everything.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So I didn't get stuff done. Then I'm going to
movies by myself. I got my own private.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Screenings for movies. Like, yeah, I go ahead, rolling up here,
it's one o'clock, got a Tuesday. I may stay for
the next movie. All right, let's go. It's exciting, man, exciting.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So I get I like day movies now and some
of my favorite stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Uh now, pretty much every day is gonna be Friday
for the Reds. Pretty soon things started out well for them,
and uh well, they have not gotten better. No, the
Dodgers now lead this over the Reds seven to two.
An explosion of runs here in the sixth inning, you
get a Otani single that brings in the fourth run.
(20:45):
Mookie Bets double brings in the fifth run Toascar Hernandez,
making up for the runs he gave up in the
first inning with a big double the center field to
bring in two runs. So he's operating a zero sum
number four tonight, I cost you two runs in the
first I get you too, run.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Back in the sixth. We're all even now.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Okay, So the Dodgers right now are nine outs away
from the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Had their chance, had their chance in the six runners on,
but then you get back to back strikeouts. Yeah, and
Elie Dela Cruz trying to check his swing and that look,
oh no, the slow motion like that'll be a gift.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I mean Yamamoto just had that curve working. I mean
was he He wasn't even throwing it for he was
throwing it at the knees and it was just diving
to the dirt like it really was impressive.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Uh. And I will say this now as bad as
I told you. I felt bad a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Man, I just got upset about the Mets when I
watched the Guardians and they're no hitting having lineup.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Yeah, getting this far three series will get you angry tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, no, no, I don't care about the other ones, right,
but I will feel better if the Reds get knocked
out like okay. Like if the Dodgers scored ten runs
in the first two gown like okay, they probably would
have done that to the Mets anyway, because the Mets
had absolutely no pitching, they probably would have done it
to Nolan McClean. He's the only one who was any good,
like real. They had no other pitchers, nobody else besides
Nolan McLain. So, okay, maybe they win the first game.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Maybe maybe he just leaves Game one with a one
to one tie and then when the bullpen comes in,
the Dodgers win eleven to one. But I'm like, Okay,
if this is what happens, I feel a lot better. Yeah,
but bullpen on bullpen, that could have been fun.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, I will feel a lot better if the reds loose.
I'm like, okay, I feel like I'll be I'll feel
a lot better.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, now that ta Oscar made up for the air,
we'll see if he Yamamoto's back out for the seven
ninety three pitches after those back to back strikeouts to
end the sixth and now stake to an even larger lead,
whether he's free and breezy or yeah, he comes out
to start the start the seventh. Here four hits, two runs,
neither earned of course, because of your old friend, no height,
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strikeout zero Watch.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Again, just to put this.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You told think about this, right, we talk about, Hey,
this MLB Playoffs isn't going to go without the Dodger
bullpen saying, hey, we have something to say about this, right,
we got something as you think the dog, we got
something to say. We can't get anybody out, we got
you're gonna see us, You're we're gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
The other part is this, the Dodgers defense is not good. Right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
They gave the two runs of the Reds early on
in this game with a flyball of the flyball right
field toask has to catch. You have a guy playing
right field that's not good. Mookie Betts is not good.
You're not This is not a really strong defensive team.
And just to put in her, just to put that
away and think about a play against the Phillies or
whoever it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Where they go. Oh man, that defensive play really hurt
them there. It's a couple of things of the Dodgers,
just to think about. It's time going Joey funny.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Though yesterday obviously we're on air, we're breaking the games
down and talking up everything in sports, sports, sports. It's
one time that I thought about going back and finding
the podcast of the Dodgers post just to see how
negative the callers were, even though the offense was great
with five home runs and everything else, that it was
gonna be all about the bullpen because I guarant Dann
(23:59):
Tee it was an hour of calls lamenting the fate
of the even with what Snell did as the starter
and even what that offense did, it became about the
fifty nine pitch eighth inning. Now, speaking of bullpens, I
gotta tell you this quick story before we get to
the big NFL story. I call my dad on the
way in and at this point it's three three three three, okay,
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three three, and I asked him, you know what's going
he asked, Phoney goes hello, I go hey, what's up?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Daddy goes hey, Uh what does he have?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Caller ID?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Well, no, yeah, he knows it's me.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
No, my dad's hip with that kind of technology. He's
just kind of when.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
When you did the oh, I didn't know if it's
not like a game relater or realized it was.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You know, it's not like he's got one of those
flip phones that from from a crime movie where it's
just hey, I flipp and it just you know, just
shows the phone number or unknown caller.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
No, no, no, my dad's dad's got an iPhone. He's
all good, everything is okay. He's fine with that.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
This guy. But he answered the phone and he says hello.
I go, hey, what's going on? He goes, hey, guesh.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I go what?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He goes, ah, the bullpen. And it was when the
Red Sox were, you know, in the seventh inning. All
the drama was a big threature And here here's how
fatal it like.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You think I'm a fatalist baseball fan. My dad when
I said, I said, yeah, I said, I'll tell you
what I said. He goes, oh, this bullpen. Ah, man,
I can't. I said, well, rodn just he goes yeah,
he lost it. He lost it, And I said yeah,
I said, and before I can see, my dad goes, well,
next year.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
He was, and he was already done.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Next year.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It's three three in the seventh inning and you stay
on and with the long enough for that inning.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Day he was done. No, no, no, I said, listen,
I'll call you back after the inning. So I want
to miss it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So I called him after they got out of the inning.
And then and then we talked for a few minutes.
But like he just the way he's like, yeah, next year,
like seventh he was.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
He was already done. I'm done. I'm moving on. Ye hey,
you compartmentalize it, put it on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's all.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But Dad, it's the seventh inning. It's it's a tie
game if you win this. I mean what Okay, Okay,
I'm done. I'm done. Next year, next year, next year.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh well, so in a classic character you're written a sitcom,
he would.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Be in it, though I would have to put my
dad in. I don't know who would play him, though,
I'm trying to think he would play my dad. I
mean maybe because time for Michael Richards to make a come.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Wow, Michael Richards is.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah, you just gotten some great reviews, some back and forth.
Michael Richards could be able to pull off being my dad.
But you know what you know from a physical resemblance though, Yeah,
who playing my dad is?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Michael Kane?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I know, because he was My dad looks like if
if Michael Caine and Art Garfunkel had a child, Like
that's what my dad looks like. Like, I mean Art
Garfunkel from the seventies, shot like now, like because that's
the kind of hair my dad had, like the loose
blonde hair.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
But he looks. But also so if Michael Kane.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Art Garfunkel out of Dad a baby, that would be
so I'd like see Michael Caine playing my dad would
actually be really fun.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But coming out of retirement, he could he not do it.
I don't think he can't not do an English act.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I don't think he.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I don't think he'd want him to. I don't think
how Walt is suddenly British. Your dad's from Britain.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
No, he's not. Why the you know what, Just go
with it. That's fine, don't worry about it. We don't
need quality. You were only supposed to blow the bloody
doors off. I never said that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're not doing it the way that he speaks, so right,
you got more nasily and you don't do the broken
voice what he gets very emotional. She was ondly sixteen. Yeah,
the Yankee bullpen. You were only supposed to blow the
bloody doors off?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Right then? That was the name of his autobiography, for
what it's worth, was it really?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I don't know that, okay, but you don't do the
broken voice?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
What. He gets very emotional, so he gets loudly indeed again.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Dodger's Red seven to I will feel better if the
Red's get knocked out.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, I'm amono, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Here's a Here's a Big Bull prediction for you for
the NFL season. Off of Big News Today, Lamar Jackson
and the Ravens. We talked to Jason Locking for a
last hour on the show, facing as big of a
must win Game five as you could because of what
they are projected for this year. This is a super
(28:15):
Bowl or bust year for the Ravens and here they
are one in three. Lamar Jackson is hurt. The Texans
finally get a win last week against a really, really
bad team, but the Ravens have said absolutely nothing about
Jackson's chances to play this weekend against the Texans. Still
didn't practice because of a hamstring injury, not doing anything
at practice that. I can't believe they got blown out
(28:37):
of Kansas City the way they did, but they did.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And looking back at this now here he is Lamar
Jackson and Jason Locking for you know. Baltimore Guy Radio
in Baltimore says, look, I don't think he's playing, not
doing anything at practice. It's going to be Cooper Rush
for a couple of weeks, and this is out. This
is where the season comes down to. And I'll give
you this Bowl prediction because it's not about Lamar Jackson
getting hurt. It's not a out that is that at
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the end of the season, we're going to look back
and say the Raven season ended week one. Sometimes that happens.
Sometimes it sucks to say that because you want to
think after week one. But sometimes a team loses a
game Week one that they never get back from. And
it could be. It could be from the perspective of
(29:23):
we're a new team, everything is going our way. Everything
we had hoped we're going to do in the summer
we're getting to do, and we blow the game, and
now we go on a tailspin, which should be the
New York Jets right losing that game again, their season
ended week one when they lost that game with the
Steelers and gave the game away when everything was how
they looked at things, wanted to be offensively, and they
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give the game away turnovers to the Steelers. Sometimes when
you have a great vision for the season and you're
supposed to be one of the best, and you gack
away a game like that to the Bills, which has
been the game of the year in the NFL, you
gat that game away. They still haven't come back from that.
They still have not. They had some big plays to
beat the Browns, and the Browns offense is absolutely Look
(30:05):
they went to Dylan gabriel Man. That tells you how
bad the Browns offense is. And still that game was
a little bit closer than than that forty one to
seventeen score was. The Ravens still have not recovered from
that game. And at the end of the season, when
we're talking about John Harbaugh getting fired and a new
head coach coming in, because that's what's gonna happen, because
coming into this season to fail like this, John Harbaugh
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is the one common denominator all the way through. Can
you really go to next year and say, now we
got it, this year was a bad year, Harbaugh? No,
John Harbaugh is the guy, because there's gonna have to
be some sort of responsibility laid at someone's feet for
the way this season is gone and the way it's
going for the Ravens. They're not coming back from this.
Lamar Jackson hurt. The next couple of weeks, they could
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wind it being one and five, one and six before
they start winning games again, and again you're running out
of real estate. At the end of the season, we're
gonna look back and say week one doom the Ravens,
and the Ravens are gonna be looking for a new
head coach because they will have said, we got as
far as we can with John Harbaugh.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
We need a new voice.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We need to do something going on, because there's all
kinds of different reasons why we could say why we
haven't gone further in the playoffs, Right, Lamar turns the
ball over more, Mark Andrews drops a pass, we miss
a kick, all of these things you can say. But
the one thing for this year, Okay, he's been the
common denominator and in a year where things were difficult,
we never got out of it. So we can't change
these players because Lamar is the MVP. We got great
(31:27):
guys in here. So it's gonna be a new head
coach and it's going to be we have to change
just because we can't waste any more time. We need
to try to get to that next level.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, the hard part is now that you're you're walking
through and if you look at their injury list beyond
Lamar Jackson, Ronnie Stanley, who was fantastic for them a
year ago and stayed healthy, a big cog in the
machine that helped Derek Henry have the year and Lamar
to take that next step forward protecting blind side and
(31:57):
pass pro and all that fun stuff. So he put
up the pinball numbers. But you've got defensively, Metabueka is
off the defensive line, roquand Smith's gonna miss several weeks,
probably all the way through that battle against Chicago at
the end of the month, and then Humphrey's hurt as well.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
So you're losing.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
A ton of your starting players on what was supposed
to be the best roster. Now it's a very compromise roster,
just that fast and Dereck Henry the last three weeks
has looked like just a guy, especially as that offensive
line continues to crumble. Something Jason locking for A pointed
out as well, how trying to mix and match to
get to some semblance of consistency on the right side
(32:40):
has been a disaster as well. This week you got
Houston your help by the fact that they are offensively
how should we say, challenged?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
And then the following week, oh no, wait, what do
you got?
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You got the Rams before your bye week, and then
a date with the good luck right and so right now,
and a day.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
With the Bears.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Man that the way they're and the way Caleb Williams
that offense is playing man look out look. And then
after the after the Bears, you get a road game
at Miami, a road game at Minnesota, a road game
at Cleveland, and then you're in New York Jets come
to call, so uh in another way game, you have
a four game stretch, and then you're back in division
(33:20):
with a game at home against Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Who the hell knows who their quarterback is by that point.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But all of it to say, Harbaugh probably avoids the
sort of damnacles because they can point to the fact
that the roster is now so woefully depleted. But that
week one loss, Yeah, I agree. There's there's a lot
that you take away from gacking away that kind of
game in the fourth quarter to your chief rival. Right,
(33:48):
this wasn't a team that jumped up in bitch you,
because we see that every year or most years. This
year we had the first couple of weeks where the
spread of any quote upset was three or less. Every
other year you've had that. Wow, I had double digit.
You know, underdog came up and won a game. Uh,
this was not it. This was made for TV prime
(34:11):
time Battle of the heavyweights, and you gagged it away
in the fourth quarter. Couldn't finish on either side. Tell
him the end of the season. When John Harbaugh's out,
he walks away. We're gonna say week one, they never
got over Week one.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Do he and Mike Tomlin exchange hats and just go
to the other locker room. Oh, just a trade, that's
just a trade. Yeah, just walk right. Here's my hat.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, they take pictures at midfield, like the players with
the jerseys when they swap at the end of my after.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
We keep their rivalry alive and now they have to
coach the other.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Mike Tomin hands them the puffy coat. I like to
wear this and big playoff games. We haven't had that,
and that's why I'm That's why I'm over in the
new locker room. But here's the puffy coat.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You also inherit that really giant sized picture of Hines
Ward running through Hines field from Batman that we love
so much.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down the Jason's
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Dodgers get
out of the top of the seventh Blake Troning comes in,
shuts down the Red seven to two. Going to the
bottom of the seventh inning. The dodh six outs away
from being the first team to qualify for the next
round of the playoffs. We got more baseball on the
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Speaker 4 (36:59):
Dodge your Bullpen.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Sweet Dodger Bullpen.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Top of the eighth inning.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Dodgers lead the Reds to four, they had bases loaded,
nobody out.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Hayes with a sacrifice fly. That's a week for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And Emmitt Chen comes out of the game mid count.
He almost hit Benson with a pitch, and Benson, you
have to lean into that, man, Come on, when you're
zero and two, you got to lean into that.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
You empty, babe.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And Sheen comes out of the game mid count. So
one and two, one out, eighth inning, Dodgers trying to hold.
I told you eight too. I wasn't coughing. No, if
you got to ten, I'd feel okay for the Dodgers.
But eight four, one out two one.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
When you have to score ten runs a game to
feel kind of secure, yeah, yeah, yeah, But I mean
look at this back to back days, the efforts you
got from Blake Snell and then what you got from Yamamoto. Yeah,
and both nights people are getting gray hairs and aging
a little bit. I mean Dave Roberts, I mean, how
(38:19):
many an acids is he downed in the last twenty four.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Oh he's eating tombs out of a candy dish. You
can't use this balloule. Yeah, but you got thats no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not of m's.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
But that's is that checks mixed? No, no, no, you
just just have one. Just have one, you'll be fine.
Uh So again, here we are Dodgers trying to hold
on in the eighth inning. In this series. They have
thrown eighty six pitches, given up five runs, six walks,
and four hits. So the eighth inning for the Dodgers' bullpen,
not great, Bob. Not great for those keeping dragging at home.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That's twenty seven pitches already in this one, because they
had fifty.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Nine a night ago. So we ate.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
We'll have more on this game coming up in a
couple minutes. Again, pitching change going on in LA tomorrow
night TNF. We get the Niners in the Rams.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I'd love to be able to find a way where
I can tell you, yeah, this is gonna be a
close game, but likely it's No Brock Purty, no, Ricky Piersoll,
Jowan Jennings, no, Montana Young is out. Steve Bono is out,
John Taylor is out, Brent Jones is out.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Is Haley with the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Now? I don't remember Hailey is out? No, he's not
with the Cowboys. They have no pass rusher. Gary Plummer
is out. Yeah, they're all at Merton Hanks is out.
Everybody is out the Rams. Merton Hanks by the Rams
are going to smoke the forty nine ers. They're gonna
be exposed by the better team. The Rams are loaded.
(39:45):
They're stacking wins early party, which is all they need
to do because they're the best version of themselves at
the end of the end of the season. But this
is not just gonna be a Rams win, but the
Rams are gonna win huge. Their passing game is eating up.
You saw what they were like last week. Pretty soon,
this offense is gonna be absolutely unstoppable and they're gonna
be able to run on San Francisco as well, because
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you watched the Jaguars do it last game. This is
gonna be a week where everything the Rams can do
is on display. The Rams win, they cover, they take,
would take the over, and tomorrow night we're gonna talk
about are the Rams the best team in the NFC?
Remember I have the Rams in the NFC Championship game,
so you know what I'm gonna say. But if this,
I'll be the most surprised guy in the world. If
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this isn't a Rams runaway victory tomorrow on Tiamailly Hope
you got your bets in early in the week. Back
when this opened, it was the Rams minus one and
a half, and bit by bit all the information coming
to light. Mac Jones playing with a depleted roster, you're
looking at Christian McCaffrey, who's been more effective as a receiver.
(40:49):
And even then you're not getting the big explosive plays.
No Pearcel, no Jennings, and of course defensively Bosa out
and no George Kittle not coming back just yet. So
it all lines up for one of those games for
Kyra and Williams and for Blake Korum to have themselves.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
A day telling you, man, this is the Rams are.
Everybody's going to get to see it tomorrow night, right
because they escaped on Sunday the ad Ni Mitchell play.
The Rams have had a really difficult schedule the first
four weeks, and they're sitting at three and one, right,
they should be four And if they could have executed
blocking a field goal they beat the Eagles, they're four
and oh and then maybe at the end of the season,
(41:28):
that NFC Championship game is in La and not in Philadelphia, and.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
If Mitchell doesn't drop the ball going in, we don't
have that plays right.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
You want to talk about changing a game, it's not
just that play right.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
It's seven points, but that is that might as well
be twenty one.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
But they're not one in four, which is what normally
the Rams are, and they're usually hurt and wishing and
hoping that they they're coming back into play, like right now.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
The division is there to create distance, just stack wins,
and that's what's going to happen tomorrow night. Rams. They
cover the over. What's the spread? The spread was a half.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I thought you're gonna say, like it's a twenty uh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
This is not you know, pick one of your lesser
than teams, have some fight.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
I take one of those super Teas games for the
for the What am I gonna do? I gotta give
twenty Yeah, I'll tell all the way there. It's out
to eight and a half in a couple of books.
We got more NFL on the way. But coming up next,
what baseball team feels the best after tonight Matt's Fox
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Mike and I love putting this content out for you
every single night, and there will be a lot of
content about Bunting tonight, because yeah, you nothing boils my
blood about, but you know I feel about bunting and
I just watched The Red Sox give game to a
way to the Yankees, partly because oh no, no, we're
gonna try to bunt.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
We have first and second.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Nobody that's bunt base running and the inability to go
back to the hallmark of my eighties and early nineties wrestling,
the excellence of execution fail.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll get to that game in a second, but quick
update from Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Right now, middle of the fourth inning. Again, this game,
like last night, this game is flying.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Wait for it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Reds lead the Dodgers two to one right now, middle
of the fourth. The Reds have the lead mainly because
ti Oscar Hernandez dropped an easy pop up in right
feel that led to two runs by the Reds as
they put two up in the top of the first inning,
which is the exact start the Reds needed coming off
of last night. The Dodgers just bludgeoning them into submission. Hey,
(02:02):
they hit the bullpen late. Can we keep it going here?
They get two runs off the top and Hernandez it's
a ball that he should have caught. It's a ball
that he was standing on both feet for. This was
not something that was really hard. It's not something that
was he had to dive for it, Duran. This was
something that he needed to make a play on, and
he just dropped. Arnold Schwarzenegger's character was called the Butcher
(02:24):
a Baker's field in total in Running Man, people.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They just want to eat down. Now let them get food.
This eliminate everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
No, the Butcher might be well applied here to what
Taoscar Hernandez did, because he also then caused an extra
ten pitches in that inning for Yamamoto, which, as we know,
hastens the arrival of the bullpen. You don't want the Yeah,
you don't want the bullpen arriving at all. You want
you eighting was over? You want done.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
We want to push that arrival of the bullpen as
far off as you can. Can I get it to
not happen tonight? Probably not? Can I delay it longer? Well,
now that's something we can talk about.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know. That's the holidays are rapidly approaching.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That is, you're you're tracking family members that you may
or may not want at the dinner table and around
your house. Oh they're gonna be delayed. That's too bad. Uh,
that's that's it. That's what you want for the bullpen
scalelay this all right, Gret Now, but here's the thing, right,
and I get it, and Taskarnandas is the top of
social media trending. I understand. But here's the thing is
(03:29):
that I get that people are upset Dodger fans said,
but I shrugged my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I give you, what are you gonna do? No, that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The guy has to play somewhere. His bat stays. He's
a middle of the order guy. He's been great for
things about a great career. He's RBI yesterday, he's awful
in the field. Show hal Tani's your designated hitter. He's
gotta play somewhere. This is not college softball where he
can have a DP and someone can play and just
hit and Sid can't have that.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Man can't have it. Now, I mean the Dodgers might
want to push her that with.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, I mean, look, we're making a lot of rule
changes in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Can I play with eight fielders in seven and I
have two?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You think the Dodgers will be better off playing with
one lesson the yes, or with Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Actually in the field one fewer.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Okay, all right, now we have to get around those
pesky shift rules in terms of how we position our infield.
But I think we can figure that out. Well, that's
that story. That's a that's a story for another day.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But I mean, really, I mean, what else do you want? Like, oh,
her Nandi is what is he doing in the field?
Because he hits well.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Even the Dodgers radio broadcast started going at him. Why
is he two runs gifted? And he's gotta play? I mean,
he's gotta play somewhere? Well, where else do you want
him to play? Can't play first base? That's Freddie Freeman.
You want to play left field? Okay, it's still in
the outfilla.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Still.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You can only hide him so much. But that's there.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But this is the thing about the Dodgers is that
and this gets into a big it's not just about
toausk carnandas, but this is a Dodger team that is
going to try to win the World Series and they
are awful defensively right because they've decided we're moving Mookie Betts,
who was a goal glove right field or into the infield.
They've still never replaced because I'm sure they thought their
succession plan was Okay, well we have our shortstop and
(05:20):
Corey Seegers our guy. Looks like we're not going to
pay for him. They make the trade for trade Turner,
He's gonna be our guy. Nope, Nope, they don't have
either of them, so they move Mookie Bets. Mookie Betts
who is not great at shortstop. He's a goal glove
in the outfield. So now you're taking a guy who
is a goal glove in the outfield, moving a shortstop
where he's not nearly as strong as some other guys,
and you're replacing him with a guy who really can't
field at all. So understand that you got to get
(05:42):
you know, there's give and take here. This is not
just well, I mean, the Dodgers have decided we are
going through with a defense that is really subpar, and
there's many players you can hit the ball to, and hey,
I'll take my chances, you know, because Max Muncy is
not as mobile as you'd like to be at third base,
and that left side of the infield is not quite
where it is. You have and you have task Garanhandas
(06:04):
and right field. I mean it, you are sacrificing your
defense for the lineup you are putting out there, and
that's something you have to accept.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I see that. Can't complain about it. Don't complain.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Be upset, I get, but don't complain, No, because this
is what you do, because this is what you have
to do.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
To get your best lineup out.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh, you made the calculated risk right and decided that
the coefficients to all the variables offensively outweighed those of
what could go wrong defensively. Unfortunately, when the margins and
your opponents are better, you don't have quite the difference
in those coefficients. And we get too closer to a
(06:40):
balance in that equation because we saw it almost last night, right,
based on the inability of the Dodger relievers to put
the ball over the plate. Just look, the guy put
it in play, although to this point I don't know
that I want to put it in play either. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean we'll look at that. But look that that's
(07:00):
how it goes, right. That that's the that's the trade
you make, right, that's the trade. Be upset about him dropping.
I'm not saying, you know what he's said, But don't
sit here and say, oh, what do we know?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You know you know on a field. No, that's just
guys on the field. What else do you want? Right?
No other place to hide him. I just want to
I just want to keep playing that that Brad Pitt moneyball.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
His defense does not matter. Defense, but Haddleberg can't play first,
but his defense does not matter. So the Dodgers trailing
right now two to one, although it looks like it's
gonna wind up being two to two. Uh, Key k
a Hernandez with a double to the right field wall,
and I love how.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
The f you got his bubblehead? This is this is
now like you know, year, This is like year eight
or nine. And then Key Hernandez is still playing the
outfit for the Dodgers in big games.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, you just think about that.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You put him in balls and then in September first
say are you ready? Keiky Hernandez is still gonna play
left He's still when it comes down to it, no
matter what changes we make, Key k Hernandez is gonna
be playing left field for the Dodgers in big playoffs. Well,
what's your You're running? Joke is does the Guardians Kenny
Lofton still play some It doesn't matter. He's gonna be
fifty five years old still playing left field. When they
(08:08):
start paying Otani's contract, he's gonna be in left field.
He'll start in left field and Otani's retirement. Dad, that's
all right, I'm here. So you get the big hit
from Hernandez and the first guy they show waving the
rally towel.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No magic Johnson, Well, of.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Course, uh so again to two here, but you know
that there's your drama with the Dodgers and the Reds
right now again, maybe we get another game three because
right now we have three games tomorrow and Major League Baseball,
which is so bampin football.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But let me just say this. Let me say this.
This shows you how managers can have good and bad
games from game to game. Right, all Eric Alex Kora
got yesterday, Red Sox manager was all the plaudits for
making all the right decisions, pushing the right butts right,
leaving Garret Crochet out there, Hey out manage Aaron Boone. Okay,
Aaron Boone had a bad day managing right.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Crochet came just shy of saying that he threatened him. Yeah,
well yeah, game, let's cool though he once Blake Snell
did that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Man, He's like, hey, it's open season, man, on all
you mattered, doesn't want to take us.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Out of game. People were like, oh, look at the Huberts.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I'm like, no, it is I read into that that
he threatened if he came out before the eighth, he
was going to take him down.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We're gonna now it's gonna be like rookies in there
in their first start. Hey coming out, now you'll come
get me. Man were talking about been in this game
for thirty five years. I'm a Hall of Famer. I
don't care what you are. You're coming out of this game.
So the Red Sox did all they could, and congratulations
to them because they apparently weren't happy enough today until
(09:39):
they gave the Yankees the game they gave they were
the Yankees. And this is why I say, you know
managers have good games from game to game is because
Alex Korra, all of a sudden got so incredibly conservative
in this game. Everything I can point to for for
the Red Sox, well outside Duran's error in left field,
which was just I went, but you talk about not scoring,
(10:02):
uh not scoring on the infield single.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Ye eating as that ball gets away, great play by
uh you great players keep it in the infield comes
up throwing the ball squirts away. How he wasn't already
aggressively rounding third and just a full head of steam.
By the way, congratulations to Aaron Boone realized he needed
to play both Rice and today.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I don a good job by him.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I think I I think I could have managed the
team today and put them put them both in.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, to be fair, you've been saying that for one
hundred and sixty four games could have been managed under
sixty five. But the other part is, and this was
the big turning point of the game, right seventh inning,
All of a sudden, your guy, and I call him
your guy because now again another another former White Sox
player who was pitching for good teams that have.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Like, how do you guys suck so bad? Every day?
It's hey, here's a former White side guy. This guy
is actually my guy. I love this guy.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Here's a former White Sox player doing great things in
the play.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Last night, it was crochet tonight. It's throat dot. You
wouldn't have set the bleeping record if you. I'm onto
these guys. I still go back and forth with he
and his wife everyone while media.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Your guy all of a sudden loses it right, he
can't throw a strike, go to the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Red Sox have first and second. Yankees are on their heels,
nobody out and Rafaela tries to bunt and you see them
in a surprise and he pops it up and I
just see that, and I just I have to count
to ten because, first of all, you know how much
I hate the bunt, right as much of an old
school baseball guy as I am. Bunting is terrible, right,
(11:38):
Bunting is, Yes, it's a lost art. And I see
the same complaints on social media. How players can't bunt
in this era of Major League baseball is ridiculous. It's
the fundamental place.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Sorry, I'm sorry you don't like that, and I agree
with you, but you know what not happening if a
guy can't bunt, and it's a situation now. And it
sound like Raphael hasn't bunted before, But is he a
good bunter? No?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
You see how he was reaching for that ball.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And sometimes it's one thing to bunt in the seventh
inning of Game eighty seven of one hundred and sixty two.
It's quite another thing to bunt in the top of
the seventh with two on and nobody out a Yankee stadium,
when you can send these guys home, it becomes much
more difficult to butt. And he bunts it a bad pitch,
doesn't really try to get his body in at it,
and he pops up and the Yankees wind up getting
out of the inning right, two batters later, out of
(12:23):
the inning, first and second, nobody out, and you go conservative,
We're gonna try to.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Play for a run. What are you doing? What are
you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I mean I understand, yeah, should be able to butnt Yeah,
players show, but if they can't, they can't, and you
can't just to say.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That, well, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, you have to know your players and know how
difficult it is to place a bunt down because it's
not like the bunt is automatic. And that's another thing
that gets me from people who want to talk about
bunting and how great bunting is. Is like, yeah, if
you can get the bunt down, you execute it right.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I still don't like the outcome. Now again, Billy Bean, moneyball,
they're giving us an out. Don't be a hero. Pick
up the ball, throw at the first base, right, that's
what it. Pick a ball throat to first base. If
they're playing for a run, the most they're gonna get
as a run, but you have to be able to execute it.
And as people forget about the execution part of it,
that hey, yeah, laying that bunt down in this kind
of situation is really hard. It's going for it on
(13:14):
fourth down in the NFC Championship game when say we've
done it all year. Well, it's a different thing to
do it on the road in the third quarter, when
you're trying to put a team away and all of
a sudden things get jittery. It's a different thing to
ask a guy to do. And so when that bunt
popped up, I said the Red Size, I turned, I
turned to my wife and I said, the Red Sox
just lost this game. They just lost this game because
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now they're not gonna get a run. And this is
a mistake you don't come back from. The Yankees will
get a run. They scratch out a run in the
eighth inning, they get a big single by Wells that
take him the lead, and they win the game for
to three, and now they go to play tomorrow. The
Red Sox blew it tonight. No matter how you want
to cut.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It, up.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The Red Sox blew it and they handed the Yankees
This game tonight should have been the Red Sox going
on the Yankees going home, and Aaron Boone is giving
away all his Yankee gear at the end, going they're
firing me. Here, take my cleats, here's my pants, I'll
sign them for you. Look, here's my here's my EyeBlack
take it right here, here's my hat.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Here be fair.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
He may want to keep the jersey and stirrups and
everything because he will come back for old timers.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Well yeah, because well you hit the home run. He's
kind of a big dale, so I mean he still
has that going for this. That's where we should be. Instead,
we're talking about Game three.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Raphaela in his career. I guess how many sacrifice buns
he had two? Five to them five?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Okay, that's more than I thought. Yeah, no, a couple more.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But but the point being outside, I think there was
a data point about how frequently the Padres played some
small ball in the middle of the summer. Otherwise, how
many teams do you do you really know that's how
they're playing. You don't play for one run your Red
Sox Yankees, You think that one run is going to
(14:54):
solve everything against the Yankees. Yeah, in three years, when
you've got like six guys in that line, if home runs,
you play for one run, you'll get one run. Maybe,
like that's the whole thing you play, you'll get one
Maybe you get one run. You got the Yankees on
their heels. Man, Yeah, rodn was was was was dealing.
He was pitching pretty well, right, he wasn't. He wasn't
pitching like get but into all of a sudden he
(15:18):
lost it, right, he lost it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You're like, whoa, Now the Yankees are wounded and vulnerable,
and then you come in, Yeah, we're gonna bunt like
I don't get it. I don't get all of a
sudden where the Red Sox just got incredibly concertive. You
got the drop fly ball they handed the Yankees this game.
They gave it to them. If they go home tomorrow,
they just have themselves to blame for tonight, because tonight
tonight we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The Yankees are out, they lose two games, Aaron Boone's
getting fired. Derek Jeter is gonna manage them all these days.
That's what we should be saying, But instead we're not.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Three three, Game two on Nobody out pitching change bunt Man.
I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
This guy's coming in coming in cold in a huge situation.
Layoff heat and you bail them out.
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Speaker 1 (18:17):
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Show with my best friend Mike.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Harmon Today's Friday. It's not, It's it's only Wednesday. Ty Shirt.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
How do you know that's ty Shirt telling you he
ain't coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He's done, and he ain't coming in Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
A selfish bathtard.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No, he's telling us this is his Friday. But do
you have what I mean, but your schedule two more days?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Not if I don't come in day, all right, all right,
it's your Wednesday. Okay, it's not. It's not Friday. It's not,
it's not it's it's.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
There's people who are off Wednesdayesday.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Pretty soon, for Bill Belichick, every day is going to
be Friday. I actually had that schedule for a while
way back in the day, when every day was Friday.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
No, no, no Wednesday and Thursday's off. Oh really yeah, well
that was.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
The starting you know, Yahoo's sports. As we were doing
you kind of needed all hands on day.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Right, Well that was always at the worst part, Like
when I first started coming out of college, I worked
at ESPN right as a production assistant a producer.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Was like, oh, my gods is great. And I worked
every weekend because obviously and nobody was off week Like.
If you were off on the weekends, it was like, whoa,
you're off on You're either really a big shot yeah,
or you didn't matter at all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But nobody who did any kind of studio production was
off on Saturday or Sunday. You were never off, and
and the only people that were And it was really
weird because people who were off Saturday said, well, what's
it like, they go, what do you think? It's like
nobody else is I can't do anything like you have
to be if there's only like three or four people
that are off on Saturday and Sundays.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
This is where you go find the townies.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeahs no, you go go away get wild na. But
you worked every like and I was like used to
for a long time, like my day's off for Thursday,
Friday or Tuesday Wednesday or Monday Tuesday, Monday Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I was like, this is what it is my days.
I'm okay. And I was okay with that for a
long time because I get out and get stuff done
dog during the day everything.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So I didn't get stuff done. Then I'm going to
movies by myself. I got my own private.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Screenings for movies. Like, yeah, I go ahead, rolling up here,
it's one o'clock, got a Tuesday. I may stay for
the next movie. All right, let's go. It's exciting, man, exciting.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So I get I like day movies now and some
of my favorite stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Uh now, pretty much every day is gonna be Friday
for the Reds. Pretty soon things started out well for them,
and uh well, they have not gotten better. No, the
Dodgers now lead this over the Reds seven to two.
An explosion of runs here in the sixth inning, you
get a Otani single that brings in the fourth run.
(20:45):
Mookie Bets double brings in the fifth run Toascar Hernandez,
making up for the runs he gave up in the
first inning with a big double the center field to
bring in two runs. So he's operating a zero sum
number four tonight, I cost you two runs in the
first I get you too, run.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Back in the sixth. We're all even now.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Okay, So the Dodgers right now are nine outs away
from the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Had their chance, had their chance in the six runners on,
but then you get back to back strikeouts. Yeah, and
Elie Dela Cruz trying to check his swing and that look,
oh no, the slow motion like that'll be a gift.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I mean Yamamoto just had that curve working. I mean
was he He wasn't even throwing it for he was
throwing it at the knees and it was just diving
to the dirt like it really was impressive.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Uh. And I will say this now as bad as
I told you. I felt bad a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Man, I just got upset about the Mets when I
watched the Guardians and they're no hitting having lineup.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Yeah, getting this far three series will get you angry tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, no, no, I don't care about the other ones, right,
but I will feel better if the Reds get knocked
out like okay. Like if the Dodgers scored ten runs
in the first two gown like okay, they probably would
have done that to the Mets anyway, because the Mets
had absolutely no pitching, they probably would have done it
to Nolan McClean. He's the only one who was any good,
like real. They had no other pitchers, nobody else besides
Nolan McLain. So, okay, maybe they win the first game.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Maybe maybe he just leaves Game one with a one
to one tie and then when the bullpen comes in,
the Dodgers win eleven to one. But I'm like, Okay,
if this is what happens, I feel a lot better. Yeah,
but bullpen on bullpen, that could have been fun.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, I will feel a lot better if the reds loose.
I'm like, okay, I feel like I'll be I'll feel
a lot better.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, now that ta Oscar made up for the air,
we'll see if he Yamamoto's back out for the seven
ninety three pitches after those back to back strikeouts to
end the sixth and now stake to an even larger lead,
whether he's free and breezy or yeah, he comes out
to start the start the seventh. Here four hits, two runs,
neither earned of course, because of your old friend, no height,
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strikeout zero Watch.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Again, just to put this.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You told think about this, right, we talk about, Hey,
this MLB Playoffs isn't going to go without the Dodger
bullpen saying, hey, we have something to say about this, right,
we got something as you think the dog, we got
something to say. We can't get anybody out, we got
you're gonna see us, You're we're gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
The other part is this, the Dodgers defense is not good. Right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
They gave the two runs of the Reds early on
in this game with a flyball of the flyball right
field toask has to catch. You have a guy playing
right field that's not good. Mookie Betts is not good.
You're not This is not a really strong defensive team.
And just to put in her, just to put that
away and think about a play against the Phillies or
whoever it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Where they go. Oh man, that defensive play really hurt
them there. It's a couple of things of the Dodgers,
just to think about. It's time going Joey funny.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Though yesterday obviously we're on air, we're breaking the games
down and talking up everything in sports, sports, sports. It's
one time that I thought about going back and finding
the podcast of the Dodgers post just to see how
negative the callers were, even though the offense was great
with five home runs and everything else, that it was
gonna be all about the bullpen because I guarant Dann
(23:59):
Tee it was an hour of calls lamenting the fate
of the even with what Snell did as the starter
and even what that offense did, it became about the
fifty nine pitch eighth inning. Now, speaking of bullpens, I
gotta tell you this quick story before we get to
the big NFL story. I call my dad on the
way in and at this point it's three three three three, okay,
(24:21):
three three, and I asked him, you know what's going
he asked, Phoney goes hello, I go hey, what's up?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Daddy goes hey, Uh what does he have?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Caller ID?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Well, no, yeah, he knows it's me.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
No, my dad's hip with that kind of technology. He's
just kind of when.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
When you did the oh, I didn't know if it's
not like a game relater or realized it was.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You know, it's not like he's got one of those
flip phones that from from a crime movie where it's
just hey, I flipp and it just you know, just
shows the phone number or unknown caller.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
No, no, no, my dad's dad's got an iPhone. He's
all good, everything is okay. He's fine with that.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
This guy. But he answered the phone and he says hello.
I go, hey, what's going on? He goes, hey, guesh.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I go what?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He goes, ah, the bullpen. And it was when the
Red Sox were, you know, in the seventh inning. All
the drama was a big threature And here here's how
fatal it like.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You think I'm a fatalist baseball fan. My dad when
I said, I said, yeah, I said, I'll tell you
what I said. He goes, oh, this bullpen. Ah, man,
I can't. I said, well, rodn just he goes yeah,
he lost it. He lost it, And I said yeah,
I said, and before I can see, my dad goes, well,
next year.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
He was, and he was already done.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Next year.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It's three three in the seventh inning and you stay
on and with the long enough for that inning.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Day he was done. No, no, no, I said, listen,
I'll call you back after the inning. So I want
to miss it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So I called him after they got out of the inning.
And then and then we talked for a few minutes.
But like he just the way he's like, yeah, next year,
like seventh he was.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
He was already done. I'm done. I'm moving on. Ye hey,
you compartmentalize it, put it on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's all.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But Dad, it's the seventh inning. It's it's a tie
game if you win this. I mean what Okay, Okay,
I'm done. I'm done. Next year, next year, next year.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh well, so in a classic character you're written a sitcom,
he would.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Be in it, though I would have to put my
dad in. I don't know who would play him, though,
I'm trying to think he would play my dad. I
mean maybe because time for Michael Richards to make a come.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Wow, Michael Richards is.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah, you just gotten some great reviews, some back and forth.
Michael Richards could be able to pull off being my dad.
But you know what you know from a physical resemblance though, Yeah,
who playing my dad is?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Michael Kane?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I know, because he was My dad looks like if
if Michael Caine and Art Garfunkel had a child, Like
that's what my dad looks like. Like, I mean Art
Garfunkel from the seventies, shot like now, like because that's
the kind of hair my dad had, like the loose
blonde hair.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
But he looks. But also so if Michael Kane.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Art Garfunkel out of Dad a baby, that would be
so I'd like see Michael Caine playing my dad would
actually be really fun.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But coming out of retirement, he could he not do it.
I don't think he can't not do an English act.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I don't think he.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I don't think he'd want him to. I don't think
how Walt is suddenly British. Your dad's from Britain.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
No, he's not. Why the you know what, Just go
with it. That's fine, don't worry about it. We don't
need quality. You were only supposed to blow the bloody
doors off. I never said that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're not doing it the way that he speaks, so right,
you got more nasily and you don't do the broken
voice what he gets very emotional. She was ondly sixteen. Yeah,
the Yankee bullpen. You were only supposed to blow the
bloody doors off?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Right then? That was the name of his autobiography, for
what it's worth, was it really?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I don't know that, okay, but you don't do the
broken voice?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
What. He gets very emotional, so he gets loudly indeed again.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Dodger's Red seven to I will feel better if the
Red's get knocked out.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, I'm amono, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Here's a Here's a Big Bull prediction for you for
the NFL season. Off of Big News Today, Lamar Jackson
and the Ravens. We talked to Jason Locking for a
last hour on the show, facing as big of a
must win Game five as you could because of what
they are projected for this year. This is a super
(28:15):
Bowl or bust year for the Ravens and here they
are one in three. Lamar Jackson is hurt. The Texans
finally get a win last week against a really, really
bad team, but the Ravens have said absolutely nothing about
Jackson's chances to play this weekend against the Texans. Still
didn't practice because of a hamstring injury, not doing anything
at practice that. I can't believe they got blown out
(28:37):
of Kansas City the way they did, but they did.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And looking back at this now here he is Lamar
Jackson and Jason Locking for you know. Baltimore Guy Radio
in Baltimore says, look, I don't think he's playing, not
doing anything at practice. It's going to be Cooper Rush
for a couple of weeks, and this is out. This
is where the season comes down to. And I'll give
you this Bowl prediction because it's not about Lamar Jackson
getting hurt. It's not a out that is that at
(29:01):
the end of the season, we're going to look back
and say the Raven season ended week one. Sometimes that happens.
Sometimes it sucks to say that because you want to
think after week one. But sometimes a team loses a
game Week one that they never get back from. And
it could be. It could be from the perspective of
(29:23):
we're a new team, everything is going our way. Everything
we had hoped we're going to do in the summer
we're getting to do, and we blow the game, and
now we go on a tailspin, which should be the
New York Jets right losing that game again, their season
ended week one when they lost that game with the
Steelers and gave the game away when everything was how
they looked at things, wanted to be offensively, and they
(29:44):
give the game away turnovers to the Steelers. Sometimes when
you have a great vision for the season and you're
supposed to be one of the best, and you gack
away a game like that to the Bills, which has
been the game of the year in the NFL, you
gat that game away. They still haven't come back from that.
They still have not. They had some big plays to
beat the Browns, and the Browns offense is absolutely Look
(30:05):
they went to Dylan gabriel Man. That tells you how
bad the Browns offense is. And still that game was
a little bit closer than than that forty one to
seventeen score was. The Ravens still have not recovered from
that game. And at the end of the season, when
we're talking about John Harbaugh getting fired and a new
head coach coming in, because that's what's gonna happen, because
coming into this season to fail like this, John Harbaugh
(30:27):
is the one common denominator all the way through. Can
you really go to next year and say, now we
got it, this year was a bad year, Harbaugh? No,
John Harbaugh is the guy, because there's gonna have to
be some sort of responsibility laid at someone's feet for
the way this season is gone and the way it's
going for the Ravens. They're not coming back from this.
Lamar Jackson hurt. The next couple of weeks, they could
(30:48):
wind it being one and five, one and six before
they start winning games again, and again you're running out
of real estate. At the end of the season, we're
gonna look back and say week one doom the Ravens,
and the Ravens are gonna be looking for a new
head coach because they will have said, we got as
far as we can with John Harbaugh.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
We need a new voice.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We need to do something going on, because there's all
kinds of different reasons why we could say why we
haven't gone further in the playoffs, Right, Lamar turns the
ball over more, Mark Andrews drops a pass, we miss
a kick, all of these things you can say. But
the one thing for this year, Okay, he's been the
common denominator and in a year where things were difficult,
we never got out of it. So we can't change
these players because Lamar is the MVP. We got great
(31:27):
guys in here. So it's gonna be a new head
coach and it's going to be we have to change
just because we can't waste any more time. We need
to try to get to that next level.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, the hard part is now that you're you're walking
through and if you look at their injury list beyond
Lamar Jackson, Ronnie Stanley, who was fantastic for them a
year ago and stayed healthy, a big cog in the
machine that helped Derek Henry have the year and Lamar
to take that next step forward protecting blind side and
(31:57):
pass pro and all that fun stuff. So he put
up the pinball numbers. But you've got defensively, Metabueka is
off the defensive line, roquand Smith's gonna miss several weeks,
probably all the way through that battle against Chicago at
the end of the month, and then Humphrey's hurt as well.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
So you're losing.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
A ton of your starting players on what was supposed
to be the best roster. Now it's a very compromise roster,
just that fast and Dereck Henry the last three weeks
has looked like just a guy, especially as that offensive
line continues to crumble. Something Jason locking for A pointed
out as well, how trying to mix and match to
get to some semblance of consistency on the right side
(32:40):
has been a disaster as well. This week you got
Houston your help by the fact that they are offensively
how should we say, challenged?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
And then the following week, oh no, wait, what do
you got?
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You got the Rams before your bye week, and then
a date with the good luck right and so right now,
and a day.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
With the Bears.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Man that the way they're and the way Caleb Williams
that offense is playing man look out look. And then
after the after the Bears, you get a road game
at Miami, a road game at Minnesota, a road game
at Cleveland, and then you're in New York Jets come
to call, so uh in another way game, you have
a four game stretch, and then you're back in division
(33:20):
with a game at home against Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Who the hell knows who their quarterback is by that point.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But all of it to say, Harbaugh probably avoids the
sort of damnacles because they can point to the fact
that the roster is now so woefully depleted. But that
week one loss, Yeah, I agree. There's there's a lot
that you take away from gacking away that kind of
game in the fourth quarter to your chief rival. Right,
(33:48):
this wasn't a team that jumped up in bitch you,
because we see that every year or most years. This
year we had the first couple of weeks where the
spread of any quote upset was three or less. Every
other year you've had that. Wow, I had double digit.
You know, underdog came up and won a game. Uh,
this was not it. This was made for TV prime
(34:11):
time Battle of the heavyweights, and you gagged it away
in the fourth quarter. Couldn't finish on either side. Tell
him the end of the season. When John Harbaugh's out,
he walks away. We're gonna say week one, they never
got over Week one.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Do he and Mike Tomlin exchange hats and just go
to the other locker room. Oh, just a trade, that's
just a trade. Yeah, just walk right. Here's my hat.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, they take pictures at midfield, like the players with
the jerseys when they swap at the end of my after.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
We keep their rivalry alive and now they have to
coach the other.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Mike Tomin hands them the puffy coat. I like to
wear this and big playoff games. We haven't had that,
and that's why I'm That's why I'm over in the
new locker room. But here's the puffy coat.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You also inherit that really giant sized picture of Hines
Ward running through Hines field from Batman that we love
so much.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down the Jason's
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Dodgers get
out of the top of the seventh Blake Troning comes in,
shuts down the Red seven to two. Going to the
bottom of the seventh inning. The dodh six outs away
from being the first team to qualify for the next
round of the playoffs. We got more baseball on the
way straight ahead. The most bizarre sports moment of the day.
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Speaker 4 (36:59):
Dodge your Bullpen.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Sweet Dodger Bullpen.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Top of the eighth inning.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Dodgers lead the Reds to four, they had bases loaded,
nobody out.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Hayes with a sacrifice fly. That's a week for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And Emmitt Chen comes out of the game mid count.
He almost hit Benson with a pitch, and Benson, you
have to lean into that, man, Come on, when you're
zero and two, you got to lean into that.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
You empty, babe.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And Sheen comes out of the game mid count. So
one and two, one out, eighth inning, Dodgers trying to hold.
I told you eight too. I wasn't coughing. No, if
you got to ten, I'd feel okay for the Dodgers.
But eight four, one out two one.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
When you have to score ten runs a game to
feel kind of secure, yeah, yeah, yeah, But I mean
look at this back to back days, the efforts you
got from Blake Snell and then what you got from Yamamoto. Yeah,
and both nights people are getting gray hairs and aging
a little bit. I mean Dave Roberts, I mean, how
(38:19):
many an acids is he downed in the last twenty four.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Oh he's eating tombs out of a candy dish. You
can't use this balloule. Yeah, but you got thats no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not of m's.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
But that's is that checks mixed? No, no, no, you
just just have one. Just have one, you'll be fine.
Uh So again, here we are Dodgers trying to hold
on in the eighth inning. In this series. They have
thrown eighty six pitches, given up five runs, six walks,
and four hits. So the eighth inning for the Dodgers' bullpen,
not great, Bob. Not great for those keeping dragging at home.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That's twenty seven pitches already in this one, because they
had fifty.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Nine a night ago. So we ate.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
We'll have more on this game coming up in a
couple minutes. Again, pitching change going on in LA tomorrow
night TNF. We get the Niners in the Rams.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I'd love to be able to find a way where
I can tell you, yeah, this is gonna be a
close game, but likely it's No Brock Purty, no, Ricky Piersoll,
Jowan Jennings, no, Montana Young is out. Steve Bono is out,
John Taylor is out, Brent Jones is out.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Is Haley with the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Now? I don't remember Hailey is out? No, he's not
with the Cowboys. They have no pass rusher. Gary Plummer
is out. Yeah, they're all at Merton Hanks is out.
Everybody is out the Rams. Merton Hanks by the Rams
are going to smoke the forty nine ers. They're gonna
be exposed by the better team. The Rams are loaded.
(39:45):
They're stacking wins early party, which is all they need
to do because they're the best version of themselves at
the end of the end of the season. But this
is not just gonna be a Rams win, but the
Rams are gonna win huge. Their passing game is eating up.
You saw what they were like last week. Pretty soon,
this offense is gonna be absolutely unstoppable and they're gonna
be able to run on San Francisco as well, because
(40:06):
you watched the Jaguars do it last game. This is
gonna be a week where everything the Rams can do
is on display. The Rams win, they cover, they take,
would take the over, and tomorrow night we're gonna talk
about are the Rams the best team in the NFC?
Remember I have the Rams in the NFC Championship game,
so you know what I'm gonna say. But if this,
I'll be the most surprised guy in the world. If
(40:28):
this isn't a Rams runaway victory tomorrow on Tiamailly Hope
you got your bets in early in the week. Back
when this opened, it was the Rams minus one and
a half, and bit by bit all the information coming
to light. Mac Jones playing with a depleted roster, you're
looking at Christian McCaffrey, who's been more effective as a receiver.
(40:49):
And even then you're not getting the big explosive plays.
No Pearcel, no Jennings, and of course defensively Bosa out
and no George Kittle not coming back just yet. So
it all lines up for one of those games for
Kyra and Williams and for Blake Korum to have themselves.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
A day telling you, man, this is the Rams are.
Everybody's going to get to see it tomorrow night, right
because they escaped on Sunday the ad Ni Mitchell play.
The Rams have had a really difficult schedule the first
four weeks, and they're sitting at three and one, right,
they should be four And if they could have executed
blocking a field goal they beat the Eagles, they're four
and oh and then maybe at the end of the season,
(41:28):
that NFC Championship game is in La and not in Philadelphia, and.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
If Mitchell doesn't drop the ball going in, we don't
have that plays right.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
You want to talk about changing a game, it's not
just that play right.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
It's seven points, but that is that might as well
be twenty one.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
But they're not one in four, which is what normally
the Rams are, and they're usually hurt and wishing and
hoping that they they're coming back into play, like right now.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
The division is there to create distance, just stack wins,
and that's what's going to happen tomorrow night. Rams. They
cover the over. What's the spread? The spread was a half.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I thought you're gonna say, like it's a twenty uh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
This is not you know, pick one of your lesser
than teams, have some fight.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
I take one of those super Teas games for the
for the What am I gonna do? I gotta give
twenty Yeah, I'll tell all the way there. It's out
to eight and a half in a couple of books.
We got more NFL on the way. But coming up next,
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