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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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I mean, unless you're a Phillies fan, because.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Really again excited for a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, because I gotta say it's a happy Monday for me,
because honestly, the Yankees losing and the Phillies losing is
like a Mets win. It's almost like equal to the
Mets winning and both of them being down to zip. Okay,
It's like it's it's like the Mets one. It's like
they're still playing.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And nicely done.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And I have another one of those, one of my
guys doing things for other teams, Andrew Vaughn with a
three run over, as.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Comes everybody, everybody from this White Sock. We're gonna need
to thirty for thirty odd. Just hey, how did all
of these guys play for the White Sox go elsewhere?
And now we're great?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, but that's it we got.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We were building the algorithm to find out exactly what
the proper mathematical formula is of how far you need
to be roomed for the Jets or the Browns to
become really good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh it's okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And then obviously all of these ex White Sox players
were having big moments in the playoffs. You know me,
I love some Andrew Vaughn somewhere along the line in
his time in Chicago and the man was broken and
he goes to Milwaukee and well he goes and makes
big pivotal hits. So yeah, so much going on in
the sporting universe. It's just a fantastic what forty eight
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seventy two hours. Some hiccups along the way, but here
we are on a Monday Night ready to recap and
break it all down.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Let's start with what's happening right now Monday night football.
Chiefs and the Jaguars tied at fourteen a piece. Midway
through the third quarter. Xavier Worthy has just gone down
on but now it looks like he's getting up and
jogging off the field does not look great. He goes
down after an incomplete passor after completed pass that he catches, runs,
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kind of makes a cut a little bit, so he's
not really touched and he kind of just falls down
a little bit. So the good news is that he's
able to get up and jog off. The bad news
is he wasn't really touched. He's trying to stay up
on the sideline right now. So this just happened seconds ago.
But she and the Jaguars tied at fourteen apiece. It's
been a big night for both quarterbacks so far. Mahomes
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has been incredible and finally Trevor Lawrence showing that, Hey,
you know what, I'm on National TV. I'll make a
player too now. And I mean I'm a complete and
total jag. And I don't mean like the team I
play for. I mean I'm a league average quarterback, but hey,
give me the bright lights once in a while, I
can make a couple of plays. He runs for a
touchdown a few minutes ago to tie the game up
at fourteen.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Big Spots also had that big goal line play where
they were going in until they weren't on the big
dive bolted with the punch out at the goal line
as Lawrence tried to go over the top. He also
had a play where he tried to throw the ball
about three yards past the line of scrimmage. Yeah, totally
the lost track of where he was. He's drifting and
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he starts running forward. It wasn't like just one step
where oh he's clearly over this. Oh no, no, you
are just you're past everybody. This isn't even in the well,
you know. And he doesn't have the benefit of the
imaginary line. No, no, no, you see where the down marker
is and he's well beyond. And you even see the
guy that's that's holding the flag looking at him like, really,
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you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Throw the ball.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
They are winning the uniform battle.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They are the uniform. They are winning the uniform battles.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Although I got to say, I don't know if.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Anybody looking, Mark Burnell, I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Anybody's winning the uniform battle that we had yesterday between
the Seahawks and the Bucks like that. That's Hall of Fame.
Yeah there, that was some kind of uniform matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
What a game that was? To man, you want you
want to talk about fireworks from pillar to post?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Good?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Lord, So we'll have more football on the way again.
The Chiefs have the football driving right now again. Fourteen fourteen.
Midway through the third quarter, Zavia Worthy has come back
on the field. Look good, just brought a pass, jumped
out of bound, so it looks like he's okay. Bought
that pass on Travis Hunter. So you know, hey, little
bit of a little delliance there by Xavier Worthy in
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front of Trevor in front somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Wow, wait, a lot of controversy. Wait, there hasn't the
pick play there. There hasn't been any roughing the passer
penalties yet. Just wait, yeah, just wait for rough I've
said this movie way. We had the Kelsey touchdown that
Patrick Mahomes ran to the official to explain how a
pick plays has to be.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Hey, yeah, you can't throw a flag, hear yea, yeah, yeah, Yeah,
that's like the youth coach that yells at that that
when something happens in soccer or softball and they have
to run to the official to tell them how it's
legal before they make the ruling on the play.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Unless if it's legal, if you look in the rules,
it's a legal play. It's a legal play. Belichick used
to have that power once upon a time. But again, uh,
fourteen fourteen, midway through the third quarter. Meanwhile, Cubs and
Brewers tied at three apiece. Masarowski is in. Remember when
he was great?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Uh, he was a big deal for he was really
good for a second. However, all the drama coming from
Dodgers Phillies Game two, I just want to say this
first of all, you know, because because Nick Costeano's kind
of you know, brings us out to me, you know,
not to talk blank or anything about other teams, but
usually a team that has a buy and home field
advantage wins one of the first two games at home.
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You know, usually that happened. Yes, wow, I feel good
about saying that what you're doing, but uh, at home
bringing the Mets back, it doesn't matter, No, it doesn't. Now,
all castiatas to say, hey, not to talk blank or
anything about the Mets, but you know when usually you
had a player like Juan Soto, you do better this season.
Like That's what he's saying going into the series. Like
I'm like, why are you so focused on the Mets?
So I figured, okay, I just want to you know,
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get that out there too. You're so worried about the
metal my.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Internet sy was he safe?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well yeah, technically he was safe because the tag should
have been a little bit closer.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The Dodgers hold off the Phillies for to three and
there are there. There's so many things from this game,
but there's two big ones to get to for the
first couple of minutes here. First thing is the Dodgers
hold on despite the fact Dave Roberts waits until the
last possible moment to bring in Roki Sasaki in the
ninth inning. A four to one lead going to the
ninth inning and Dave Roberts brings in, brings in Blake Trinon,
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who we have seen, yes, got a couple of outs
versus the Reds, but Dodger bullpen. It is the great
equalizer of these playoffs. What if we said the Dodger
bullpen is gonna have a lot to say about who
wins and who loses, and not from a positive perspective,
Dodger bullpen is the big Achilles.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Heel of this team. Yeah, I wouldn't feel great about it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You're up for one in the ninth and Tryning comes
in and he gets hit, and then not only okay, well, now,
Rokie Sasaki's coming in because clearly he has shown he's
the best pitcher you can bring in. That's not a starter,
and no, Alex Vesia comes in and I get that. Okay,
you had left handed hitters coming up, but come on, man,
you gotta go to your best pitcher. And Sasaki has
been electric. I know he's only had four innings pitch,
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but this is how bad the Dodger bullpen is. And
I'm watching this going If the Dodgers blow this game,
Dave Roberts is gonna get fired on the bus going
back to LA. How do you not go to your
best You have a day off tomorrow. Sasaki's picked one inning,
one inning, awesome, right, you go to him in the
ninth inning to close this thing out, and instead it's
Blake Trinon who gets ripped to shreds that she comes
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in barely holds on and thanks to a play we'll
get to because the Phillies decided to want to hand
you this game. But really, I mean with Dave, I'm like,
is Dave Roberts trying.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
To get fired? I don't know what he's doing here?
Not going you go?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I know you love your guys, and I get it.
I get he loves his guys. And watch the show
that he's confident, but that's not how you do it here, man,
and I'm watch just going, man, he really might not
make it back to La on the flight if the
Dodgers blow this game.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
In the ninth thing, you have another monster start for
Blake Snell, who's been everything they could have wanted. And
then some six innings pitched, one hit aloud, nine strikeouts,
absolutely dominant in his ninety nine pitches, and then you
know they have the great debate of whether they bringing
back out. Well, they got two good innings out of
Shean gave up one earn run, but goes two innings,
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two hits, a strikeout, twenty seven pitches done. Then the
ninth inning comes and I synced it up, so I
had the video synced up with our guys locally A
five seven E LA Sports and immediately there was no
second guessing that was ab Where's Sasaki? As soon as
trying it makes the the way to the mound and
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they're talking about him coming in there immediately on the
All right, he had that off day.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
He's young. Why isn't he on the mountain?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, yeah, it's criminal, right, like no questions asked, Like
we've talked about it last week. As soon as you
got proof of concept that the kid was gonna come
in and the the circumstances were not too big from
that's your guy. And then you you saw him do
it again and again, and it's why why you would
go and and go back out of the formula that
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is currently working for you, uh and and bring trying
and in absolutely beyond belief.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I really I don't he if you if they fired
him on the plane ride back home, I would have said, well, yeah,
when you do something like that, like right, I mean,
I get you love your I get you love your guys,
but this is this is not you know, this is
not middle of June, and I gotta make sure we
have to we have to make sure these guys can
go and give us innings and build confidence. This is
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this is winner go home time. Man, you could have
potentially given the series away. And it's not like you
didn't know, Like absolutely he knows this. I've seen this bullpen,
I've seen.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
What's happened over the past, We've watched it from I'm
going to go to them. But that's the thing, right, whatever,
whatever your formulas say, whatever your brain trust has come through.
If here's the game plan, you're up one one nill
on the on the Phillies and you have a chance
to come back to Los Angeles up to to Oh
why are you adding anything to that equation? Right, there's
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no need you put the ball in Sasaki's head and
guess what if he doesn't have it, then you have
to break golass and figure so you also lose with
your best you want to you want to lose having
him sit in the bullpen and go yeah, Now, I mean,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't understand, like, what do you what are you?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What are you doing with that?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The fact that these jails that they had success in
prior years, and the congratulations and thank you for what
you did in the current state of things, the current
way you're pitching, and what each outing has been, and
you can go through the game logs. It's not This
is not hyperbole. We have watched it on a nightly basis.
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It is not worked, which means just skip from A
to C. We don't need We don't need a bunch
of middle relievers just because you got your two innings
out of shean go to the ninth, clean, clean inning,
nobody on base, Let the kid go to work.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Now that being said, do we really need to put
forth any more evidence? How I tell you how useless
and awful a strategy bunting is in Major League Baseball?
Now do I need to see anything more than the
ninth inning where the Dodgers are up by three, The
Phillies come out, put two on right away, Castiano's with
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that half swing double down the left field line. The
park is going crazy. Runner at second, nobody out, and
the Phillies decide we're going to try to bunch Costellanos
over to third base. Yeah, the fans that stayin, we're
now raucus.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Because I told you the bunt is an awful play
it You people don't understand that it's a play that
has to be executed that not everybody can execute in
a fundamental way. Oh it's fundamental. Yeah it should be
the but that's not major League baseball anymore. And bunting,
you're just giving the other teaman out at best. At worst,
you are bunting yourself out of an inning. And in
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this case, the Phillies bunted themselves out of the NLDS.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Bessie A kicks and fire Stott gets the bunt down
to third, picked up by Muncie.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He goes to third and Castianos is gonna be out.
They execute the play to perfection.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
There was Dodgers Radio Network on the call. I'm telling you,
Stott bunts and they throw out Castianos at third.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Not only did you?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Did you?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Not only?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Is it ridiculous that you're okay saying we're okay putting
the game on the next at with a runner on
third and one out, We're okay. You put in that
we're gonna get a ground ball or a flyout or something.
You're going one. You're going one when baseball's about failure, right,
You're okay going one on one with that. But now
you don't even have that, and you have the runner
at first and oh, by the way, hey, you had
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another base hit could have.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Tied the game.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Maybe the ground ball would have brought in the game
tying run too, if the guy's still out there right,
that ground ball to Freddy Freeman could have brought in
the run. All of these things could have happened. But instead, no,
the Phillies decide to bunt, and as you see what happens.
I really I don't think I need any more evidence
in what I talk about how bunting is. There is
a by gone strategy that it does much more worse
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than good. It does because the percentage play of trying
to pull it off, and then what you have after.
I mean it, Billy Bean had to write and moneyball,
don't be a hero. Pick up the ball, dude, you're
giving us anut.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Pick up the ball.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Throw out the first This was so easy. Yeah, Castanos
out by a mile at third base, Like I'm wondering
if he even knew the bunt was on, which again
is part of the thing. It's one thing to try
a bunt in the ninth inning of a game in
May and June it's another thing to do it. Game
two of the NLDS with a raucous crowd and all
kinds of pressure, you have to be able to execute.
Bunting is awful. Five hundred and fifty played appearance. How
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many bunt attempts you think he had on the air?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Two?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Three?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
So clutch?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You thought Max Munsey was slow? Oh fucker, exit hobout
of Fresca, Exit Swallen. On the Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon, I like, congratulations, Dave Roberts.
The Phillies bunt you out so much, Hey, Jason, Yeah,
what do you got Frostburg?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Good team's find ways to win?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeh, by the way, And also on the final play,
the absolute savagery of the AM five seventy call from
the booth when Tommy had been through the ball in
the dirt that had to be picked by Freddy Freeman fragmant.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's why you have a gold glover. But that was
the worst throat. That was atrocious.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
That was Yeah, I didn't I didn't recognize the play
by play guy. I don't know who who that was.
Somebody must have been sick or something.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We're just starting our breakd Now we have a huge
take coming off of this from the Phillies, Bryce Harper,
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twenty one to fourteen lead early in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile,
Brewers lead the Cubs four to three. Swanson up now
for the Cubs big home run giving the Brewers the lead.
Here again, still a waste to go in this one. Misrowski.
When he was good, he was great, and now here
he is pitching because the Brewers have nobody.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Else, so we will have more baseball on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But joining us now on the hotline, nobody better to
break down Week five in the NFL Longtime NFL Insider
Odyssey one oh five seven and the fan in Baltimore,
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Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, Well, unlike the Muku actually does the job. I'm
not sitting here at night in sunglasses in an Armani
suit like some sort of men in black cos player.
I'm not dressed like a total blanker on the sidelines
where I have no business day. That's just me.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So look, obviously we'll get to a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
But you know the big loss by the Ravens, and
I know that they well they say a lot of talents,
have a lot of talent.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Honestly, I don't know that they haven't gotten over that
week one loss to the Bills, like you talk about
mentally and stuff like. I don't know that that their
season didn't end that game against Buffalo.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
It was an absolutely brutally ridiculous way to start a season,
coming off a brutally way ridiculous way to end the season,
and a brutally ridiculous way to end the season before that. Yeah,
I think it's absolutely the last thing they could afford.
It will be part of what Callsack or the defensive
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coordinator his job during the bye week, buying some sort
of miraculous blowing up against the Rams offense that's got
a lot to prove, that's left a lot of meat
on the boat that cast them games against the Eagles
and the forty nine ers. They should have walk. Yeah,
they've got issues on offense, defense and special teams here,
but the defense is as object failure. I mean, they've
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allowed twenty more points than the Jets. Like, They've allowed
the most posting touchdowns in the league and the second
most rushing touchdowns. It's the worst fourth quarter defense in
the league, the last of the league in sack rate,
their twenty eighth in pressure rate. They have no playmakers.
Like before he was healthy, Cala Hamilton, he wasn't making
play this year, hasn't really made play since Mike McDonald
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left town to go run piano Roquwand Smith's the most
overpaid linebacker in modern NFL history. He's worth probably four
or five million to do. I really don't know what
I mean. He's hurting now too. They refuse to pay
for pass rush. They can't identify pass rush in the draft.
They have no idea how to cultivate pass rush. And
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Kyle van Noy's thirty six and he's beat up, but
he's not really a pass rusher anyway, you know, a
versatile edge defender. So no, there, it's crude, and it
was the most overhyped roster in NFL is two. A
lot of people who just were like falling all over
this roster, and I'm like, well, who's the backup left
(20:33):
tackle when Ronnie Stanley gets hurt? Not if, but when?
Because Ronnie Stanley's on far of time, and like, who
are the pass rushers? And what has something happened to that?
A BK? But Michael Pierce retired? What the hell are
they going to do there? And now they're paying for it?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
So does Jerry end up looking like the smartest guy alive?
If Dak Prescott keeps playing to this level and backs
up that defense, maybe gets us slightly better.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
No, No, I mean we've seen this drill before, right,
I mean, look at who they're beating up on. This
is what they do. I mean, and they're gonna do
it again this week against Carolina. But it's Carolina's not
new Free apparently is not a record of the playoffs.
Like I mean, no, they've got major, major issues defensively.
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What Dak is doing is really impressive. They need more
bite on defense and they traded that bite. So no,
they'll be you know, they'll be marginally interesting. They'll beat
some bad teams. They'll lose to some bad teams. They'll
score thirty five some weeks, it won't be enough. That's
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just I kind of feel like I've seen this before.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, but I mean, at least now Jerry Jones is
flipping off fans, like when he's flipping off Jets fans
after the game yesterday, Like there's.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
That at least we have, Yeah, I mean the small victories, I.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Guess, yes, Jason locking for with us Fox Sports Radio
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Okay,
so if I had to say to you who had
the most embarrassing loss yesterday, the Dolphins, the Raiders, or
the Cardinals. I mean the Jets are in a category
all by themselves. But Dolphins, Raiders, Cardinals. Who had the
worst loss?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I mean, I think the Ravens had the worst loss.
They lost forty four ten at home. I mean they
didn't force C. J. Stroud to punt. I mean they
didn't punt. So it was Damian Pearson, the backup quarterback
like Stroud, completed eighty six percent of his passes in
the NFL football and through to whoever he wanted. I
mean the worst. I think the Cardinals might have to
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kind of be the worst. Uh, that's what you get,
Lilliam Cone. I'll take the interception, but wow, why are
they not just running the ball? Oh my god, Hey,
I'm on the interception, Rob, I had one of that.
We have homes and numb nuts to throw a pick
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that hit. We got the under and numb nuts to
throw a pick. So let's see about that one. You
can't make this stuff up. And William Cohen know what
he's doing. I mean, how about the how about the
end of the first half?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
What were they trying to accomplish there? Yeah? How about
the Cardinals. I just they were lucky to survive a
weird one against Carolina. Like they just seem dead set
on playing bonkers football. I just don't know really what
they're good at. Uh, I really don't. And yet there's
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a lot of bad football teams. I mean, the Jets,
it's hard to say who's the worst from week to week.
I mean, the Jets are really horrible, but god, the
Dolphins are really horrible, and the Bengals are really horrible,
and obviously the Titans and the Raiders are really horrible.
The Ravens are really horrible. There's plenty of that to
go around.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You know, that's a lot of bad on the other
on the other end, did you ever think that we'd say, Wow,
I want five more shootouts between Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
How about both those guys beating Carolina at the same time,
and I'm not thinking either one was good.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's why Matt Rule was not of Carolina anymore. Some
of the greatest photos ever remember.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
When Yeah, We'll always have that. Yeah, I mean that.
That what a game. I mean, look, I thought Seattle
was turning the corner, and I do think they're pretty
decent defense, but they just can't get out of their
own way at home. And Baker, I think Baker is
the top covering road quarterback since he got the Tampa.
(24:44):
I know he leaves the league in touchdown passes if
he had the Tampa. And I'm pretty serious about the
best road ats cover percentage since he got for Tampa.
And they've been really beat up. I mean, people talk
about injuries and winding and crying. Tampa has had a
lot of injury. Is they just keep finding ways to
win injurs to the offense finds in the defensive find
(25:04):
injuries the key wide receivers. Yeah, I mean I think
Baker's got a real shot at the MVP.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
All right, Uh, you know, let's go back. You mentioned
Arizona real fast, and but you've been waiting to ask
you this all day, J because you people ask me
and I go, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I don't know the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
How do plays like Mary Demricado dropping the football before
the goal line? How does that still happen in the NFL?
We had it last week with with Adni Mitchell. I
don't understand how those plays still happen.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
In the NFL.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
It's it's really hard to fathom. I don't know if
people used, you know, the Aby Mitchell thing as like
a teaching tool and showed that to guys. I I mean,
Deshaun Jackson, I remember you used to do it like
kind of like not like quite all the time, but
like way more than any one guy should. I really
(25:52):
don't know, man, It's it's it's just it's like a
brain cramp. It's a man, it's just so the stating though,
I don't know, I don't know how to explain it.
I'm sure we haven't seen the last of it. I
don't know. I mean, I tend to think I would
hug that thing and credit it like my life depended
(26:15):
on it, to make sure I was five yards deep
into the end ze. So I parted with it. But
I also know I have no business even thinking like that,
and I will never experience that, nor do I deserve
to experience that. But it's bizarre.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, but bizarre can convergence. We've got over a half
dozen of those in the last couple of years. All right,
let's talk injury, Let's talk chaos. Let's talk Jim Harball
wearing weird hats in his post game. But they lose
on Marion Ampton, You're already down Alton Slater. Just the
injury bug afflicting the brothers Harball in a major way.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Yeah, they look completely on their mind. Like I've wrote
about this with the Washington Post, of all the injuries
that happened so far this season, all wanted in real time,
just seem to like be an absolute soul crusher. And
I never liked the interior of their offensive line. And
now you take both tackles away, and those guys look
like a total book show. And then you lose the
run and so it's like, okay, well what's the answer. Well,
(27:15):
we're going to ride you know, multiplicity in the run game,
and then you know, you lose your rookie back. I
think they're in a bad way many they're kind of
back to chargering. I mean, they look like they're going
to go up maybe three scores in that game and
get themselves back right, and they blow that endpoint lead
and then they can't get out of their own way.
(27:35):
But I don't think they're going to be able to
do the things that Greg Roman and Harball want to
do because I don't think they have the offensive line
to do it. And Herbert all of a sudden, you
look at how often that kid's getting hit. Yeah, I
think I think looked out for the den. The Broncos
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in the NFC left. I think brocas or winning that provision.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Did they solve their problems with the win yesterday? I
mean they're down two touchdowns, you think, okay, that's going
to be it, and instead they call their way back
and find a way to win.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I don't think. I don't know that they have these problems.
They've allowed six offensive touchdowns so far this year. That's
do it. In the NFL. I mean they're right back
to being in the top three and points allowed per drive.
I think, you know, the quarterback came into the year
a little maybe full of just press clickings, try to
do too much the first couple of weeks, but sel
mcday is the perfect guy to knock that out of
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the system. Run game is better than it was last year.
There's still room for improvement, but no, I think that's
pretty good football for.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You can followhim on Twitter at Jason lock and four.
That is at Jason lock and for Odyssey one oh
five seven the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post and brand
New Ravens gm uh. Jay is always buddy, appreciate it, man,
we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
To you next week. Have fun. That was good games, guys, Jason,
he goes, Jay's looking for it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, you look of all the crazy things right with it,
you know, coming off yesterday, I mean really, the Jerry
Jones flipping off Jets fans.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, that's good.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I mean come on, I'm like, wow, did I really
need more of that in my week than anymore?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
No, it's not enough that this happened. But here's a
day later.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You're getting Jael, you get some of this, and then
you get some of this, I'll blank you and blank you.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
How about this?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, yeah, I've not r mad about that.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Correctly, isn't that like two hundred fifty grand per per bird?
Speaker 5 (29:27):
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That's Adams right, Well Bud Adams stood up and kind
of what yes, but but but this is out the same.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, people know this is worse.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Oh no, it is.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Nobody knew who, Like he just said, who's that crazy
old man? People, I'm just trying to slide. This is
Jerry Jones. I'm just trying to slyly get you know,
give somebody the finger. I mean, he just knows that way.
They can't. They can't.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You can't can't get me for that. I meant to
put out my first finger because what I was saying is, hey,
look at the scoreboard. But instead I put out my
second finger, so because I had a cramp. Jason your face,
I mean, just like, did I really? I mean, of
all the things that happened, honestly, yesterday the Jets played
that was probably in and I'm I'm not being you know,
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being overly so with this. In fifty years of being
a Jets fan, that's probably one of the five most
embarrassing losses I have ever seen, because you could pick
any part four belt four backup offensive lineman doesn't matter.
Constantly giving up fourteen points in the final two minutes
of the first half when you call time out to
get the ball back incredibly embarrassing. Worst defense in the
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NFL that you can't do anything on until your garbage
time with five minutes to go in the game. Like
you you cut up so many things. It was so
unbelievably embarrassing yesterday and now hey, I gotta get Hey,
Jerry Jones is also a flipping off Jets fans. Oh, like,
come on, Jerry, that's a little low hanging fruit. Okay,
Jet fan, you understand where we're at, just fifteen years
plus and no playoffs.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Man, Just just take it easy, Jerry.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I think some of it goes to if you were
doing a sorting system of your losses, you got five
five items, like, what are those the five games?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
No, these are the folders, and this is where I've
sorted them all so much. Folder would you like to show.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Like the swords?
Speaker 7 (31:10):
And he moved tumbled you, except with his middle finger
in your face. This is This is how many wins
you haven't gotten yet this year? There guy, that guy there,
fireman Joe, whatever your name is, how many turnovers you
for us this year?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
This is how many games you're over under for wins
rest of the season. Right here here, here you go there,
fireman John. That you gave that call?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
You that right?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Okay? That's gay.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Really I did not need that, but that was part
of my week. Okay, Jets, you wear it? Uh time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a guy who's been called the Dave
Roberts of Fox Sports Radio. Sometimes the decisions he makes
you gotta ask him about.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's deed to say. There, oh, not quite like this.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
The Dodgers are up two games to none in the
best of five NL Division series after holding on at
Philadelphia four to three tonight. The key player in the
ninth inning the Phillies bunted into an out at third base.
The third baseman, Max Munsey of LA was asked about
the wheel play that they used defensively that as Munsey
did a good job of charging in from third base
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and the shortstop Mookie Bets behind him rotated over and
covered third for the putout, he said they don't practice
such a play, and in fact, when manager Dave Roberts
was asked about it, did you practice this in spring training?
He literally said not once. Max Mounsey on Dodger's postgame
on Sportsnet LA.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
As soon as as soon as we got in the situation, me,
Moot and Tommy immediately started talking about, Hey, we gotta
we gotta try something different here. We can't just play
standard bump play. And when when that came out made
the pitching change, we talked to him about it and
he was all on board, and yeah, I'm gonna credit
Mook was his idea.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
We got to go.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
You know, he's saying, we gotta go wheel player, we
gotta go wheel play.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And so we talk, so credit Mookie bets during a
pitching SI idea, how about that everything's coming up?
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Dodgers way to go, skip, Will Smith to run single,
Oscar Hernandez two hits in a walk show, Hey Otani
and RBI single Aaron Nola. Philadelphia will be starting Game
three in LA Wednesday against Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and the Brewers
have just scored again. They have three home runs after
surrendering a three run shot top of the first of
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the Cubs. Brewers are ahead seven to three over Chicago.
In the bottom of the fourth, Jackson Churio has just
hit a three run homer. He returned tonight after being
removed from the opener Saturday due to hamstring Titaness Milwaukee
the top overall seed, trying to go up two games
to none. You guys mentioned the Charger injuries. They are
placing first round running back Omar and Hampton on injury
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reserve with a bad ankle, so he'll miss at least
four games, and running back Najie Harris is already out
for the year with the torn achilles Currently out for
LA's Chargers, linebacker Kahalil Mack tackled Joe Alt tackle Rashawn
Slater is out for the year. And our beloved guests
mentioned about all the hits that Justin Herbert is taking
with this offensive line. In fact, just the last three
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games Herbert has hit been thirty five times.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
He is on pace.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
This is a sixth pro season. He's on pace to
be hit over six hundred times in his first six
years in this league.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right now, ten minutes, Randall Cunningham when he first came
into the NFL, Like, yeah, SAARs, it's kind.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Of like the David Carr first year times five more years.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, But they've actually tried to address the offensive line.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
He yes, didn't, Yes, exactly. That was an expansion team.
That was kind of Currently the offensive line is looking
like an expansion team. The Monday night football game at
Jacksonville has under ten minutes ago and the Jags are
tied with the Kansas City Chiefs twenty one to all.
Interception thrown by Trevor Lawrence, Casey marches the other way
for the tying score. Kareem hunting a five yard TD.
(34:44):
You mentioned earlier the key play of the night Trevor
Lawrence on a fourth and goal at the one trying
the quarterback sneak over the top and the ball was
knocked away for him for a fumble. Chiefs took over
possession and march ninety seven yards down the field for
a score.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I will say most.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
Exciting play is a ninety nine yard interception return for
a TD from Devin Lloyd of Jacksonville, cutting in front
of the receiver at the goal line and picking off
Patrick Mahomes and returning it. In fact, that is the
longest interception returned by a linebacker in regular season history,
longest in the postseason. You might remember James Harris, James Harrison,
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the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Spoke to you.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Love from the
Fox Sports Radio Studio has got more NFL on the
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Speaker 2 (35:39):
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Speaker 4 (35:58):
Wait, the Phillies lost.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
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Speaker 2 (36:04):
Guys are favored.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And at home.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Usually you know, not to talk blank or anything, but
usually teams that have that advantage win a couple of games.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
See what happens that went right? Historically that is the case.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Fourth quarter Chiefs will have to come from behind to
win this game. The Jaguars have taken a twenty four
to twenty one lead right now, six minutes left to go,
Kansas City has the ball. Meanwhile, the Brewers have opened
up a seven to three lead over the Cubs. Right now,
Mazerowski is still on I believe it's his ninth inning
of relief tonight for the Brewers. But it's time now
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game and everything is on the table and runners at
first and second, nobody out, and a guy making thirty
million dollars at the plate, well, this is where the
play of the day comes from, except it's not the
result you thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
The best start of the outfield is in the center
field with Kajes turn a great speed at second base
and Harper a swing.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
At him mess he struck him out. Snell goes back
to the slider. What a big ky that was.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
TBS on the call the Phillies in the bottom of
the sixth inning, a game which they could not get
to Blake Snell, who had an incredible game tonight. You
put runners at first and second, and here comes Bryce Harper. Right,
this is it, right, this is when he's coming up. Now,
you got you one out, runners at first and second.
This is what you're paying him thirty million dollars for. Right,
(37:53):
this is where we need a hit. We need something.
And Harper waves at a cutter far out of the
strike zone, which he's been doing far more too much
of the last couple of years. You can get him
to open up his swing and he waves at that
pitch much more often than he used to. He also
came up later on with a runner in scoring position,
didn't get the run in. Bryce Harper is pretty good.
(38:19):
That's as far as I'm gonna go for Bryce Harper.
He's a pretty good player. He's not the superstar the
Phillies think he is. It's not a contract that's gonna
age really well. But Bryce Harper for his career is
a twenty five and seventy five player who has a
problem staying healthy. Yes, he walks a lot, and he
gives you that great image and optic that yeah mean,
(38:40):
and I can hit anything, and once upon a time
that's what he was. But for a guy that's knocked
in one hundred runs twice in his career, and really,
when you hit third in the batting order, knocking in
runs is the only stat that matters. Ops is great
and all of a sudden, but knocking in runs is
the only stat that matters. Bryce Harper, I'm sorry, he's
pretty good. He's not the guy up in that sit
(39:01):
I'd rather have Kyle Schwarber up in that situation if
I'm the Phillies and Bryce Harper, because Bryce Harper, he
is much more human than you think he is. You
have this image of Harper, Oh my god, he's so
scared of I don't think teams are scared of Bryce
Harper anymore. I think they know we pitch them the
right way, we get him out just like a lot
of other good hitters. Great because Harper is pretty good, right,
but he's not someone that overwhelmingly is It's not like
(39:21):
when Judge comes up, or Otani comes up, or Freddie Freeman.
It's not one of those guys gonna be oh man,
this is gonna be really tough. No, you can get
him out, and you get him out in clutch spots.
Bryce Harper is pretty good, but really the image of
him and the optic that he's still a big superstar
guy can carry teams. Forget it, man, The Phillies needed
a hit in that situation. Not that you always have
(39:41):
to get a hit, but this is thirty million dollars
for you not to wave at a pitch out of
the strike zone with two on and one out when
you kind of have to have that at bad. Next
batter up hits the ground ball, the third ross makes
that great play diving to third base to get the
third out of the inning.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Dodgers go on to win the game. Bryce Harper is
not that guy anymore. I like that you're harping on
is see what they did there? His salary a lot.
It's like that's inconsequential at this point, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
He's batting where he is in the batting order of
reputation history, all of that nice career, but two to
eighty career hitter, three hundred and sixty three career home runs,
over a thousand rbi. All of that, that's all fine
and good. He's not the guy that he was five
years ago, and that that's noted right. You look at Turner,
you look at Schwarber. You got other guys in that
(40:31):
lineup that on a on in every at bat circumstance.
They're better, they're more consistent. At this point, Schwarber's gonna
wave at more pitches. But you know, Harper's no slouch
in the strikeout column either. But yeah, he's he's certainly
not that guy at this point in his career. You'd
like a better at bat, certainly, But that's that's the
(40:53):
story of a lot of the the greats that we
remember from certainly our time on air together and since
our childhood. How many guys that were monsters in the
regular season got to the postseason and he went and yeah, okay,
because they get pitched differently. The situation's bigger all of
those things. And maybe maybe the regular season guys, I
(41:16):
don't know, But for Bryce Harper, he seems like an
awful old thirty two. That's the problem with becoming the
guy that he was because we knew about him before
he ever set foot. Yeah, all right, we knew about
the contract stuff, all of that fun and representation and all,
and we watched him since he was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That body is the body of a thirty eight year
old at this point. Yeah, I mean, eventually he's gonna
have to be a full time DH probably sooner rather
than later. But again he doesn't, he doesn't hit it again.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
He's pretty good. That's Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
He's pretty good. He goes to the Hall of pretty Good.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
The Dodgers pitching's good too.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Exit about a fresca ex least one was. We got
more baseball on the way. But straight ahead. The football
story that has all our attention the last couple of days,
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I mean, unless you're a Phillies fan, because.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Really again excited for a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, because I gotta say it's a happy Monday for me,
because honestly, the Yankees losing and the Phillies losing is
like a Mets win. It's almost like equal to the
Mets winning and both of them being down to zip. Okay,
It's like it's it's like the Mets one. It's like
they're still playing.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And nicely done.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And I have another one of those, one of my
guys doing things for other teams, Andrew Vaughn with a
three run over, as.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Comes everybody, everybody from this White Sock. We're gonna need
to thirty for thirty odd. Just hey, how did all
of these guys play for the White Sox go elsewhere?
And now we're great?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, but that's it we got.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We were building the algorithm to find out exactly what
the proper mathematical formula is of how far you need
to be roomed for the Jets or the Browns to
become really good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh it's okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And then obviously all of these ex White Sox players
were having big moments in the playoffs. You know me,
I love some Andrew Vaughn somewhere along the line in
his time in Chicago and the man was broken and
he goes to Milwaukee and well he goes and makes
big pivotal hits. So yeah, so much going on in
the sporting universe. It's just a fantastic what forty eight
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seventy two hours. Some hiccups along the way, but here
we are on a Monday Night ready to recap and
break it all down.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Let's start with what's happening right now Monday night football.
Chiefs and the Jaguars tied at fourteen a piece. Midway
through the third quarter. Xavier Worthy has just gone down
on but now it looks like he's getting up and
jogging off the field does not look great. He goes
down after an incomplete passor after completed pass that he catches, runs,
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kind of makes a cut a little bit, so he's
not really touched and he kind of just falls down
a little bit. So the good news is that he's
able to get up and jog off. The bad news
is he wasn't really touched. He's trying to stay up
on the sideline right now. So this just happened seconds ago.
But she and the Jaguars tied at fourteen apiece. It's
been a big night for both quarterbacks so far. Mahomes
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has been incredible and finally Trevor Lawrence showing that, Hey,
you know what, I'm on National TV. I'll make a
player too now. And I mean I'm a complete and
total jag. And I don't mean like the team I
play for. I mean I'm a league average quarterback, but hey,
give me the bright lights once in a while, I
can make a couple of plays. He runs for a
touchdown a few minutes ago to tie the game up
at fourteen.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Big Spots also had that big goal line play where
they were going in until they weren't on the big
dive bolted with the punch out at the goal line
as Lawrence tried to go over the top. He also
had a play where he tried to throw the ball
about three yards past the line of scrimmage. Yeah, totally
the lost track of where he was. He's drifting and
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he starts running forward. It wasn't like just one step
where oh he's clearly over this. Oh no, no, you
are just you're past everybody. This isn't even in the well,
you know. And he doesn't have the benefit of the
imaginary line. No, no, no, you see where the down marker
is and he's well beyond. And you even see the
guy that's that's holding the flag looking at him like, really,
(04:05):
you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Throw the ball.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
They are winning the uniform battle.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They are the uniform. They are winning the uniform battles.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Although I got to say, I don't know if.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Anybody looking, Mark Burnell, I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Anybody's winning the uniform battle that we had yesterday between
the Seahawks and the Bucks like that. That's Hall of Fame.
Yeah there, that was some kind of uniform matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
What a game that was? To man, you want you
want to talk about fireworks from pillar to post?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Good?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Lord, So we'll have more football on the way again.
The Chiefs have the football driving right now again. Fourteen fourteen.
Midway through the third quarter, Zavia Worthy has come back
on the field. Look good, just brought a pass, jumped
out of bound, so it looks like he's okay. Bought
that pass on Travis Hunter. So you know, hey, little
bit of a little delliance there by Xavier Worthy in
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front of Trevor in front somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Wow, wait, a lot of controversy. Wait, there hasn't the
pick play there. There hasn't been any roughing the passer
penalties yet. Just wait, yeah, just wait for rough I've
said this movie way. We had the Kelsey touchdown that
Patrick Mahomes ran to the official to explain how a
pick plays has to be.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Hey, yeah, you can't throw a flag, hear yea, yeah, yeah, Yeah,
that's like the youth coach that yells at that that
when something happens in soccer or softball and they have
to run to the official to tell them how it's
legal before they make the ruling on the play.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Unless if it's legal, if you look in the rules,
it's a legal play. It's a legal play. Belichick used
to have that power once upon a time. But again, uh,
fourteen fourteen, midway through the third quarter. Meanwhile, Cubs and
Brewers tied at three apiece. Masarowski is in. Remember when
he was great?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Uh, he was a big deal for he was really
good for a second. However, all the drama coming from
Dodgers Phillies Game two, I just want to say this
first of all, you know, because because Nick Costeano's kind
of you know, brings us out to me, you know,
not to talk blank or anything about other teams, but
usually a team that has a buy and home field
advantage wins one of the first two games at home.
(05:55):
You know, usually that happened. Yes, wow, I feel good
about saying that what you're doing, but uh, at home
bringing the Mets back, it doesn't matter, No, it doesn't. Now,
all castiatas to say, hey, not to talk blank or
anything about the Mets, but you know when usually you
had a player like Juan Soto, you do better this season.
Like That's what he's saying going into the series. Like
I'm like, why are you so focused on the Mets?
So I figured, okay, I just want to you know,
(06:16):
get that out there too. You're so worried about the
metal my.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Internet sy was he safe?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well yeah, technically he was safe because the tag should
have been a little bit closer.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The Dodgers hold off the Phillies for to three and
there are there. There's so many things from this game,
but there's two big ones to get to for the
first couple of minutes here. First thing is the Dodgers
hold on despite the fact Dave Roberts waits until the
last possible moment to bring in Roki Sasaki in the
ninth inning. A four to one lead going to the
ninth inning and Dave Roberts brings in, brings in Blake Trinon,
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who we have seen, yes, got a couple of outs
versus the Reds, but Dodger bullpen. It is the great
equalizer of these playoffs. What if we said the Dodger
bullpen is gonna have a lot to say about who
wins and who loses, and not from a positive perspective,
Dodger bullpen is the big Achilles.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Heel of this team. Yeah, I wouldn't feel great about it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You're up for one in the ninth and Tryning comes
in and he gets hit, and then not only okay, well, now,
Rokie Sasaki's coming in because clearly he has shown he's
the best pitcher you can bring in. That's not a starter,
and no, Alex Vesia comes in and I get that. Okay,
you had left handed hitters coming up, but come on, man,
you gotta go to your best pitcher. And Sasaki has
been electric. I know he's only had four innings pitch,
(07:31):
but this is how bad the Dodger bullpen is. And
I'm watching this going If the Dodgers blow this game,
Dave Roberts is gonna get fired on the bus going
back to LA. How do you not go to your
best You have a day off tomorrow. Sasaki's picked one inning,
one inning, awesome, right, you go to him in the
ninth inning to close this thing out, and instead it's
Blake Trinon who gets ripped to shreds that she comes
(07:54):
in barely holds on and thanks to a play we'll
get to because the Phillies decided to want to hand
you this game. But really, I mean with Dave, I'm like,
is Dave Roberts trying.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
To get fired? I don't know what he's doing here?
Not going you go?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I know you love your guys, and I get it.
I get he loves his guys. And watch the show
that he's confident, but that's not how you do it here, man,
and I'm watch just going, man, he really might not
make it back to La on the flight if the
Dodgers blow this game.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
In the ninth thing, you have another monster start for
Blake Snell, who's been everything they could have wanted. And
then some six innings pitched, one hit aloud, nine strikeouts,
absolutely dominant in his ninety nine pitches, and then you
know they have the great debate of whether they bringing
back out. Well, they got two good innings out of
Shean gave up one earn run, but goes two innings,
(08:39):
two hits, a strikeout, twenty seven pitches done. Then the
ninth inning comes and I synced it up, so I
had the video synced up with our guys locally A
five seven E LA Sports and immediately there was no
second guessing that was ab Where's Sasaki? As soon as
trying it makes the the way to the mound and
(09:01):
they're talking about him coming in there immediately on the
All right, he had that off day.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
He's young. Why isn't he on the mountain?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, yeah, it's criminal, right, like no questions asked, Like
we've talked about it last week. As soon as you
got proof of concept that the kid was gonna come
in and the the circumstances were not too big from
that's your guy. And then you you saw him do
it again and again, and it's why why you would
go and and go back out of the formula that
(09:32):
is currently working for you, uh and and bring trying
and in absolutely beyond belief.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I really I don't he if you if they fired
him on the plane ride back home, I would have said, well, yeah,
when you do something like that, like right, I mean,
I get you love your I get you love your guys,
but this is this is not you know, this is
not middle of June, and I gotta make sure we
have to we have to make sure these guys can
go and give us innings and build confidence. This is
(10:00):
this is winner go home time. Man, you could have
potentially given the series away. And it's not like you
didn't know, Like absolutely he knows this. I've seen this bullpen,
I've seen.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
What's happened over the past, We've watched it from I'm
going to go to them. But that's the thing, right, whatever,
whatever your formulas say, whatever your brain trust has come through.
If here's the game plan, you're up one one nill
on the on the Phillies and you have a chance
to come back to Los Angeles up to to Oh
why are you adding anything to that equation? Right, there's
(10:32):
no need you put the ball in Sasaki's head and
guess what if he doesn't have it, then you have
to break golass and figure so you also lose with
your best you want to you want to lose having
him sit in the bullpen and go yeah, Now, I mean,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't understand, like, what do you what are you?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What are you doing with that?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The fact that these jails that they had success in
prior years, and the congratulations and thank you for what
you did in the current state of things, the current
way you're pitching, and what each outing has been, and
you can go through the game logs. It's not This
is not hyperbole. We have watched it on a nightly basis.
(11:12):
It is not worked, which means just skip from A
to C. We don't need We don't need a bunch
of middle relievers just because you got your two innings
out of shean go to the ninth, clean, clean inning,
nobody on base, Let the kid go to work.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Now that being said, do we really need to put
forth any more evidence? How I tell you how useless
and awful a strategy bunting is in Major League Baseball?
Now do I need to see anything more than the
ninth inning where the Dodgers are up by three, The
Phillies come out, put two on right away, Castiano's with
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that half swing double down the left field line. The
park is going crazy. Runner at second, nobody out, and
the Phillies decide we're going to try to bunch Costellanos
over to third base. Yeah, the fans that stayin, we're
now raucus.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Because I told you the bunt is an awful play
it You people don't understand that it's a play that
has to be executed that not everybody can execute in
a fundamental way. Oh it's fundamental. Yeah it should be
the but that's not major League baseball anymore. And bunting,
you're just giving the other teaman out at best. At worst,
you are bunting yourself out of an inning. And in
(12:29):
this case, the Phillies bunted themselves out of the NLDS.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Bessie A kicks and fire Stott gets the bunt down
to third, picked up by Muncie.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He goes to third and Castianos is gonna be out.
They execute the play to perfection.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
There was Dodgers Radio Network on the call. I'm telling you,
Stott bunts and they throw out Castianos at third.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Not only did you?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Did you?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Not only?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Is it ridiculous that you're okay saying we're okay putting
the game on the next at with a runner on
third and one out, We're okay. You put in that
we're gonna get a ground ball or a flyout or something.
You're going one. You're going one when baseball's about failure, right,
You're okay going one on one with that. But now
you don't even have that, and you have the runner
at first and oh, by the way, hey, you had
(13:17):
another base hit could have.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Tied the game.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Maybe the ground ball would have brought in the game
tying run too, if the guy's still out there right,
that ground ball to Freddy Freeman could have brought in
the run. All of these things could have happened. But instead, no,
the Phillies decide to bunt, and as you see what happens.
I really I don't think I need any more evidence
in what I talk about how bunting is. There is
a by gone strategy that it does much more worse
(13:40):
than good. It does because the percentage play of trying
to pull it off, and then what you have after.
I mean it, Billy Bean had to write and moneyball,
don't be a hero. Pick up the ball, dude, you're
giving us anut.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Pick up the ball.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Throw out the first This was so easy. Yeah, Castanos
out by a mile at third base, Like I'm wondering
if he even knew the bunt was on, which again
is part of the thing. It's one thing to try
a bunt in the ninth inning of a game in
May and June it's another thing to do it. Game
two of the NLDS with a raucous crowd and all
kinds of pressure, you have to be able to execute.
Bunting is awful. Five hundred and fifty played appearance. How
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many bunt attempts you think he had on the air?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Two?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Three?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
So clutch?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You thought Max Munsey was slow? Oh fucker, exit hobout
of Fresca, Exit Swallen. On the Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon, I like, congratulations, Dave Roberts.
The Phillies bunt you out so much, Hey, Jason, Yeah,
what do you got Frostburg?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Good team's find ways to win?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeh, by the way, And also on the final play,
the absolute savagery of the AM five seventy call from
the booth when Tommy had been through the ball in
the dirt that had to be picked by Freddy Freeman fragmant.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's why you have a gold glover. But that was
the worst throat. That was atrocious.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
That was Yeah, I didn't I didn't recognize the play
by play guy. I don't know who who that was.
Somebody must have been sick or something.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We're just starting our breakd Now we have a huge
take coming off of this from the Phillies, Bryce Harper,
Side but straight ahead Jason lockinfora NFL Insider Extraordinarrow drops
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
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twenty one to fourteen lead early in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile,
Brewers lead the Cubs four to three. Swanson up now
for the Cubs big home run giving the Brewers the lead.
Here again, still a waste to go in this one. Misrowski.
When he was good, he was great, and now here
he is pitching because the Brewers have nobody.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Else, so we will have more baseball on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But joining us now on the hotline, nobody better to
break down Week five in the NFL Longtime NFL Insider
Odyssey one oh five seven and the fan in Baltimore,
Washington Post and I'm gonna let the cat out of
the bag. Brand New Ravens general manager as given the
position today it is Jason Locking for congratulations Jay.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, Well, unlike the Muku actually does the job. I'm
not sitting here at night in sunglasses in an Armani
suit like some sort of men in black cos player.
I'm not dressed like a total blanker on the sidelines
where I have no business day. That's just me.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So look, obviously we'll get to a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
But you know the big loss by the Ravens, and
I know that they well they say a lot of talents,
have a lot of talent.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Honestly, I don't know that they haven't gotten over that
week one loss to the Bills, like you talk about
mentally and stuff like. I don't know that that their
season didn't end that game against Buffalo.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
It was an absolutely brutally ridiculous way to start a season,
coming off a brutally way ridiculous way to end the season,
and a brutally ridiculous way to end the season before that. Yeah,
I think it's absolutely the last thing they could afford.
It will be part of what Callsack or the defensive
(19:08):
coordinator his job during the bye week, buying some sort
of miraculous blowing up against the Rams offense that's got
a lot to prove, that's left a lot of meat
on the boat that cast them games against the Eagles
and the forty nine ers. They should have walk. Yeah,
they've got issues on offense, defense and special teams here,
but the defense is as object failure. I mean, they've
(19:29):
allowed twenty more points than the Jets. Like, They've allowed
the most posting touchdowns in the league and the second
most rushing touchdowns. It's the worst fourth quarter defense in
the league, the last of the league in sack rate,
their twenty eighth in pressure rate. They have no playmakers.
Like before he was healthy, Cala Hamilton, he wasn't making
play this year, hasn't really made play since Mike McDonald
(19:50):
left town to go run piano Roquwand Smith's the most
overpaid linebacker in modern NFL history. He's worth probably four
or five million to do. I really don't know what
I mean. He's hurting now too. They refuse to pay
for pass rush. They can't identify pass rush in the draft.
They have no idea how to cultivate pass rush. And
(20:13):
Kyle van Noy's thirty six and he's beat up, but
he's not really a pass rusher anyway, you know, a
versatile edge defender. So no, there, it's crude, and it
was the most overhyped roster in NFL is two. A
lot of people who just were like falling all over
this roster, and I'm like, well, who's the backup left
(20:33):
tackle when Ronnie Stanley gets hurt? Not if, but when?
Because Ronnie Stanley's on far of time, and like, who
are the pass rushers? And what has something happened to that?
A BK? But Michael Pierce retired? What the hell are
they going to do there? And now they're paying for it?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
So does Jerry end up looking like the smartest guy alive?
If Dak Prescott keeps playing to this level and backs
up that defense, maybe gets us slightly better.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
No, No, I mean we've seen this drill before, right,
I mean, look at who they're beating up on. This
is what they do. I mean, and they're gonna do
it again this week against Carolina. But it's Carolina's not
new Free apparently is not a record of the playoffs.
Like I mean, no, they've got major, major issues defensively.
(21:27):
What Dak is doing is really impressive. They need more
bite on defense and they traded that bite. So no,
they'll be you know, they'll be marginally interesting. They'll beat
some bad teams. They'll lose to some bad teams. They'll
score thirty five some weeks, it won't be enough. That's
(21:48):
just I kind of feel like I've seen this before.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, but I mean, at least now Jerry Jones is
flipping off fans, like when he's flipping off Jets fans
after the game yesterday, Like there's.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
That at least we have, Yeah, I mean the small victories, I.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Guess, yes, Jason locking for with us Fox Sports Radio
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Okay,
so if I had to say to you who had
the most embarrassing loss yesterday, the Dolphins, the Raiders, or
the Cardinals. I mean the Jets are in a category
all by themselves. But Dolphins, Raiders, Cardinals. Who had the
worst loss?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I mean, I think the Ravens had the worst loss.
They lost forty four ten at home. I mean they
didn't force C. J. Stroud to punt. I mean they
didn't punt. So it was Damian Pearson, the backup quarterback
like Stroud, completed eighty six percent of his passes in
the NFL football and through to whoever he wanted. I
mean the worst. I think the Cardinals might have to
(22:44):
kind of be the worst. Uh, that's what you get,
Lilliam Cone. I'll take the interception, but wow, why are
they not just running the ball? Oh my god, Hey,
I'm on the interception, Rob, I had one of that.
We have homes and numb nuts to throw a pick
(23:05):
that hit. We got the under and numb nuts to
throw a pick. So let's see about that one. You
can't make this stuff up. And William Cohen know what
he's doing. I mean, how about the how about the
end of the first half?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
What were they trying to accomplish there? Yeah? How about
the Cardinals. I just they were lucky to survive a
weird one against Carolina. Like they just seem dead set
on playing bonkers football. I just don't know really what
they're good at. Uh, I really don't. And yet there's
(23:41):
a lot of bad football teams. I mean, the Jets,
it's hard to say who's the worst from week to week.
I mean, the Jets are really horrible, but god, the
Dolphins are really horrible, and the Bengals are really horrible,
and obviously the Titans and the Raiders are really horrible.
The Ravens are really horrible. There's plenty of that to
go around.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You know, that's a lot of bad on the other
on the other end, did you ever think that we'd say, Wow,
I want five more shootouts between Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
How about both those guys beating Carolina at the same time,
and I'm not thinking either one was good.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's why Matt Rule was not of Carolina anymore. Some
of the greatest photos ever remember.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
When Yeah, We'll always have that. Yeah, I mean that.
That what a game. I mean, look, I thought Seattle
was turning the corner, and I do think they're pretty
decent defense, but they just can't get out of their
own way at home. And Baker, I think Baker is
the top covering road quarterback since he got the Tampa.
(24:44):
I know he leaves the league in touchdown passes if
he had the Tampa. And I'm pretty serious about the
best road ats cover percentage since he got for Tampa.
And they've been really beat up. I mean, people talk
about injuries and winding and crying. Tampa has had a
lot of injury. Is they just keep finding ways to
win injurs to the offense finds in the defensive find
(25:04):
injuries the key wide receivers. Yeah, I mean I think
Baker's got a real shot at the MVP.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
All right, Uh, you know, let's go back. You mentioned
Arizona real fast, and but you've been waiting to ask
you this all day, J because you people ask me
and I go, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I don't know the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
How do plays like Mary Demricado dropping the football before
the goal line? How does that still happen in the NFL?
We had it last week with with Adni Mitchell. I
don't understand how those plays still happen.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
In the NFL.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
It's it's really hard to fathom. I don't know if
people used, you know, the Aby Mitchell thing as like
a teaching tool and showed that to guys. I I mean,
Deshaun Jackson, I remember you used to do it like
kind of like not like quite all the time, but
like way more than any one guy should. I really
(25:52):
don't know, man, It's it's it's just it's like a
brain cramp. It's a man, it's just so the stating though,
I don't know, I don't know how to explain it.
I'm sure we haven't seen the last of it. I
don't know. I mean, I tend to think I would
hug that thing and credit it like my life depended
(26:15):
on it, to make sure I was five yards deep
into the end ze. So I parted with it. But
I also know I have no business even thinking like that,
and I will never experience that, nor do I deserve
to experience that. But it's bizarre.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, but bizarre can convergence. We've got over a half
dozen of those in the last couple of years. All right,
let's talk injury, Let's talk chaos. Let's talk Jim Harball
wearing weird hats in his post game. But they lose
on Marion Ampton, You're already down Alton Slater. Just the
injury bug afflicting the brothers Harball in a major way.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Yeah, they look completely on their mind. Like I've wrote
about this with the Washington Post, of all the injuries
that happened so far this season, all wanted in real time,
just seem to like be an absolute soul crusher. And
I never liked the interior of their offensive line. And
now you take both tackles away, and those guys look
like a total book show. And then you lose the
run and so it's like, okay, well what's the answer. Well,
(27:15):
we're going to ride you know, multiplicity in the run game,
and then you know, you lose your rookie back. I
think they're in a bad way many they're kind of
back to chargering. I mean, they look like they're going
to go up maybe three scores in that game and
get themselves back right, and they blow that endpoint lead
and then they can't get out of their own way.
(27:35):
But I don't think they're going to be able to
do the things that Greg Roman and Harball want to
do because I don't think they have the offensive line
to do it. And Herbert all of a sudden, you
look at how often that kid's getting hit. Yeah, I
think I think looked out for the den. The Broncos
(27:58):
in the NFC left. I think brocas or winning that provision.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Did they solve their problems with the win yesterday? I
mean they're down two touchdowns, you think, okay, that's going
to be it, and instead they call their way back
and find a way to win.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I don't think. I don't know that they have these problems.
They've allowed six offensive touchdowns so far this year. That's
do it. In the NFL. I mean they're right back
to being in the top three and points allowed per drive.
I think, you know, the quarterback came into the year
a little maybe full of just press clickings, try to
do too much the first couple of weeks, but sel
mcday is the perfect guy to knock that out of
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the system. Run game is better than it was last year.
There's still room for improvement, but no, I think that's
pretty good football for.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You can followhim on Twitter at Jason lock and four.
That is at Jason lock and for Odyssey one oh
five seven the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post and brand
New Ravens gm uh. Jay is always buddy, appreciate it, man,
we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
To you next week. Have fun. That was good games, guys, Jason,
he goes, Jay's looking for it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, you look of all the crazy things right with it,
you know, coming off yesterday, I mean really, the Jerry
Jones flipping off Jets fans.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, that's good.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I mean come on, I'm like, wow, did I really
need more of that in my week than anymore?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
No, it's not enough that this happened. But here's a
day later.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You're getting Jael, you get some of this, and then
you get some of this, I'll blank you and blank you.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
How about this?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, yeah, I've not r mad about that.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Correctly, isn't that like two hundred fifty grand per per bird?
Speaker 5 (29:27):
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That's Adams right, Well Bud Adams stood up and kind
of what yes, but but but this is out the same.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, people know this is worse.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Oh no, it is.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Nobody knew who, Like he just said, who's that crazy
old man? People, I'm just trying to slide. This is
Jerry Jones. I'm just trying to slyly get you know,
give somebody the finger. I mean, he just knows that way.
They can't. They can't.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You can't can't get me for that. I meant to
put out my first finger because what I was saying is, hey,
look at the scoreboard. But instead I put out my
second finger, so because I had a cramp. Jason your face,
I mean, just like, did I really? I mean, of
all the things that happened, honestly, yesterday the Jets played
that was probably in and I'm I'm not being you know,
(30:14):
being overly so with this. In fifty years of being
a Jets fan, that's probably one of the five most
embarrassing losses I have ever seen, because you could pick
any part four belt four backup offensive lineman doesn't matter.
Constantly giving up fourteen points in the final two minutes
of the first half when you call time out to
get the ball back incredibly embarrassing. Worst defense in the
(30:36):
NFL that you can't do anything on until your garbage
time with five minutes to go in the game. Like
you you cut up so many things. It was so
unbelievably embarrassing yesterday and now hey, I gotta get Hey,
Jerry Jones is also a flipping off Jets fans. Oh, like,
come on, Jerry, that's a little low hanging fruit. Okay,
Jet fan, you understand where we're at, just fifteen years
plus and no playoffs.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Man, Just just take it easy, Jerry.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I think some of it goes to if you were
doing a sorting system of your losses, you got five
five items, like, what are those the five games?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
No, these are the folders, and this is where I've
sorted them all so much. Folder would you like to show.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Like the swords?
Speaker 7 (31:10):
And he moved tumbled you, except with his middle finger
in your face. This is This is how many wins
you haven't gotten yet this year? There guy, that guy there,
fireman Joe, whatever your name is, how many turnovers you
for us this year?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
This is how many games you're over under for wins
rest of the season. Right here here, here you go there,
fireman John. That you gave that call?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
You that right?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Okay? That's gay.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Really I did not need that, but that was part
of my week. Okay, Jets, you wear it? Uh time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a guy who's been called the Dave
Roberts of Fox Sports Radio. Sometimes the decisions he makes
you gotta ask him about.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's deed to say. There, oh, not quite like this.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
The Dodgers are up two games to none in the
best of five NL Division series after holding on at
Philadelphia four to three tonight. The key player in the
ninth inning the Phillies bunted into an out at third base.
The third baseman, Max Munsey of LA was asked about
the wheel play that they used defensively that as Munsey
did a good job of charging in from third base
(32:13):
and the shortstop Mookie Bets behind him rotated over and
covered third for the putout, he said they don't practice
such a play, and in fact, when manager Dave Roberts
was asked about it, did you practice this in spring training?
He literally said not once. Max Mounsey on Dodger's postgame
on Sportsnet LA.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
As soon as as soon as we got in the situation, me,
Moot and Tommy immediately started talking about, Hey, we gotta
we gotta try something different here. We can't just play
standard bump play. And when when that came out made
the pitching change, we talked to him about it and
he was all on board, and yeah, I'm gonna credit
Mook was his idea.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
We got to go.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
You know, he's saying, we gotta go wheel player, we
gotta go wheel play.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And so we talk, so credit Mookie bets during a
pitching SI idea, how about that everything's coming up?
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Dodgers way to go, skip, Will Smith to run single,
Oscar Hernandez two hits in a walk show, Hey Otani
and RBI single Aaron Nola. Philadelphia will be starting Game
three in LA Wednesday against Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and the Brewers
have just scored again. They have three home runs after
surrendering a three run shot top of the first of
(33:16):
the Cubs. Brewers are ahead seven to three over Chicago.
In the bottom of the fourth, Jackson Churio has just
hit a three run homer. He returned tonight after being
removed from the opener Saturday due to hamstring Titaness Milwaukee
the top overall seed, trying to go up two games
to none. You guys mentioned the Charger injuries. They are
placing first round running back Omar and Hampton on injury
(33:38):
reserve with a bad ankle, so he'll miss at least
four games, and running back Najie Harris is already out
for the year with the torn achilles Currently out for
LA's Chargers, linebacker Kahalil Mack tackled Joe Alt tackle Rashawn
Slater is out for the year. And our beloved guests
mentioned about all the hits that Justin Herbert is taking
with this offensive line. In fact, just the last three
(33:58):
games Herbert has hit been thirty five times.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
He is on pace.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
This is a sixth pro season. He's on pace to
be hit over six hundred times in his first six
years in this league.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right now, ten minutes, Randall Cunningham when he first came
into the NFL, Like, yeah, SAARs, it's kind.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Of like the David Carr first year times five more years.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, But they've actually tried to address the offensive line.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
He yes, didn't, Yes, exactly. That was an expansion team.
That was kind of Currently the offensive line is looking
like an expansion team. The Monday night football game at
Jacksonville has under ten minutes ago and the Jags are
tied with the Kansas City Chiefs twenty one to all.
Interception thrown by Trevor Lawrence, Casey marches the other way
for the tying score. Kareem hunting a five yard TD.
(34:44):
You mentioned earlier the key play of the night Trevor
Lawrence on a fourth and goal at the one trying
the quarterback sneak over the top and the ball was
knocked away for him for a fumble. Chiefs took over
possession and march ninety seven yards down the field for
a score.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I will say most.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
Exciting play is a ninety nine yard interception return for
a TD from Devin Lloyd of Jacksonville, cutting in front
of the receiver at the goal line and picking off
Patrick Mahomes and returning it. In fact, that is the
longest interception returned by a linebacker in regular season history,
longest in the postseason. You might remember James Harris, James Harrison,
(35:20):
the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Spoke to you.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Love from the
Fox Sports Radio Studio has got more NFL on the
way and straight ahead the play of the day and
it comes with a great pipe and hot take on
what is allegedly one of the best players in baseball.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Bunting bunting bunting time. Never bunt bunting, bunting
bunting time. It'll cost you the game.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Wait, the Phillies lost.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Guys are favored.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And at home.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Usually you know, not to talk blank or anything, but
usually teams that have that advantage win a couple of games.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
See what happens that went right? Historically that is the case.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Fourth quarter Chiefs will have to come from behind to
win this game. The Jaguars have taken a twenty four
to twenty one lead right now, six minutes left to go,
Kansas City has the ball. Meanwhile, the Brewers have opened
up a seven to three lead over the Cubs. Right now,
Mazerowski is still on I believe it's his ninth inning
of relief tonight for the Brewers. But it's time now
(36:39):
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(37:01):
game and everything is on the table and runners at
first and second, nobody out, and a guy making thirty
million dollars at the plate, well, this is where the
play of the day comes from, except it's not the
result you thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
The best start of the outfield is in the center
field with Kajes turn a great speed at second base
and Harper a swing.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
At him mess he struck him out. Snell goes back
to the slider. What a big ky that was.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
TBS on the call the Phillies in the bottom of
the sixth inning, a game which they could not get
to Blake Snell, who had an incredible game tonight. You
put runners at first and second, and here comes Bryce Harper. Right,
this is it, right, this is when he's coming up. Now,
you got you one out, runners at first and second.
This is what you're paying him thirty million dollars for. Right,
(37:53):
this is where we need a hit. We need something.
And Harper waves at a cutter far out of the
strike zone, which he's been doing far more too much
of the last couple of years. You can get him
to open up his swing and he waves at that
pitch much more often than he used to. He also
came up later on with a runner in scoring position,
didn't get the run in. Bryce Harper is pretty good.
(38:19):
That's as far as I'm gonna go for Bryce Harper.
He's a pretty good player. He's not the superstar the
Phillies think he is. It's not a contract that's gonna
age really well. But Bryce Harper for his career is
a twenty five and seventy five player who has a
problem staying healthy. Yes, he walks a lot, and he
gives you that great image and optic that yeah mean,
(38:40):
and I can hit anything, and once upon a time
that's what he was. But for a guy that's knocked
in one hundred runs twice in his career, and really,
when you hit third in the batting order, knocking in
runs is the only stat that matters. Ops is great
and all of a sudden, but knocking in runs is
the only stat that matters. Bryce Harper, I'm sorry, he's
pretty good. He's not the guy up in that sit
(39:01):
I'd rather have Kyle Schwarber up in that situation if
I'm the Phillies and Bryce Harper, because Bryce Harper, he
is much more human than you think he is. You
have this image of Harper, Oh my god, he's so
scared of I don't think teams are scared of Bryce
Harper anymore. I think they know we pitch them the
right way, we get him out just like a lot
of other good hitters. Great because Harper is pretty good, right,
but he's not someone that overwhelmingly is It's not like
(39:21):
when Judge comes up, or Otani comes up, or Freddie Freeman.
It's not one of those guys gonna be oh man,
this is gonna be really tough. No, you can get
him out, and you get him out in clutch spots.
Bryce Harper is pretty good, but really the image of
him and the optic that he's still a big superstar
guy can carry teams. Forget it, man, The Phillies needed
a hit in that situation. Not that you always have
(39:41):
to get a hit, but this is thirty million dollars
for you not to wave at a pitch out of
the strike zone with two on and one out when
you kind of have to have that at bad. Next
batter up hits the ground ball, the third ross makes
that great play diving to third base to get the
third out of the inning.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Dodgers go on to win the game. Bryce Harper is
not that guy anymore. I like that you're harping on
is see what they did there? His salary a lot.
It's like that's inconsequential at this point, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
He's batting where he is in the batting order of
reputation history, all of that nice career, but two to
eighty career hitter, three hundred and sixty three career home runs,
over a thousand rbi. All of that, that's all fine
and good. He's not the guy that he was five
years ago, and that that's noted right. You look at Turner,
you look at Schwarber. You got other guys in that
(40:31):
lineup that on a on in every at bat circumstance.
They're better, they're more consistent. At this point, Schwarber's gonna
wave at more pitches. But you know, Harper's no slouch
in the strikeout column either. But yeah, he's he's certainly
not that guy at this point in his career. You'd
like a better at bat, certainly, But that's that's the
(40:53):
story of a lot of the the greats that we
remember from certainly our time on air together and since
our childhood. How many guys that were monsters in the
regular season got to the postseason and he went and yeah, okay,
because they get pitched differently. The situation's bigger all of
those things. And maybe maybe the regular season guys, I
(41:16):
don't know, But for Bryce Harper, he seems like an
awful old thirty two. That's the problem with becoming the
guy that he was because we knew about him before
he ever set foot. Yeah, all right, we knew about
the contract stuff, all of that fun and representation and all,
and we watched him since he was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That body is the body of a thirty eight year
old at this point. Yeah, I mean, eventually he's gonna
have to be a full time DH probably sooner rather
than later. But again he doesn't, he doesn't hit it again.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
He's pretty good. That's Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
He's pretty good. He goes to the Hall of pretty Good.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
The Dodgers pitching's good too.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Exit about a fresca ex least one was. We got
more baseball on the way. But straight ahead. The football
story that has all our attention the last couple of days,
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