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Yankees with a nine to six lead over the Blue
Jays as they bat in the bottom of the second
and the bottom of the seventh inning. It feels like that,
I get we've been on the air a little over
an hour and they've played a little over two winnings.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, like that's that's how long this gave me. Yeah,
the Kings game is gonna end before this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ah, the King's game could go to overtime with a
shootout that goes thirty round and.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yankees the eighth. By the way, the beginning of the
final season of andse Kopitar right. Unfortunately, he announced that
the same day that Clayton kershots twenty seasons for Crazy Eyes. Yeah, unbelievable. Yeah,
you should have picked a different day to say, Hey,
I'm not going to be around anymore. It was pretty
cool that, like people dredged up, there was an SI
cover that had the two of them on it together
(01:50):
from many many years ago, many many miles. I've been
traveled by both those guys in their respective careers.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So we'll have more on the Yankees and the and
the Blue Jay as it evolves again. Nine to six,
Yankees with the lead coming back after being down six
to one to the Blue Jays early in this A
big three run homer by Aaron Judge, a home run
by Jazz Chishim, a couple more runs, and now suddenly
the Blue Jays are really in a lot of trouble. Meanwhile,
earlier tonight, the Mariners are now one game away from
(02:21):
the Alcs after thumping the Tigers eight to four. They
are up to one in the Alds and look, the
Mariners are playing extremely well. He had a big home
run by big Dumper in the ninth in the ninth inning,
that thought was just cosmetic, But hey, the Tigers finally
put some runs on the board.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And it went in sixty first to the year, and
it went into the glove of a guy wearing a
dump number sixty one here shirt. I caught it. I
wore the shirt and I caught it. He's gonna tell
that story for the every day. It's gonna tell that
story for the rest of the rest of his life. Man.
That that that's something I put on my tender page.
I was that guy. I wore the sixty one thing. Yeah,
you want to see the ball, hey, and shave the
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ball on. That just got weird.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But let's get wild. There's a couple of things from
this number one. It's you know, look, it's It's really
difficult because I talk to my wife's family every day
because all they do, all they do is sit back
like they're all locked into the baseball playoffs. Right, it's awesome,
and it's just we just can't hit. We just can't hit.
They of course, right, well, And that's the big thing
(03:23):
is that the That's why Schooble Day is such a
big deal of why when you look back and go now,
you can understand why the Dodgers lost so many series
after Clayton Kershaw got beat Because when you have an
ace that is that overwhelming, you count that as a
game you have to have, and if you don't get
that game and the other team gets it, you lose momentum.
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They start feeling great about themselves and you come to
the ballpark just feeling different. The next day, you come
it with full of more confidence. Everything is easier for you.
And that's why Game two was such a big deal.
Beating schoobl I would have pitched around Polanco, but beating
school Ball was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
All of a sudden, you saw things. Even though it
was hey, we're going back to Detroit, and Detroit can
end the series here, not going back Seattle felt like
we were in control because we beat School, but we're
not going to see him the rest of the playoffs now.
And they were free swinging early in this game. They
had home runs, They were never in trouble that mental
There is something to be said for that mental hurdle
(04:24):
of saying, when our best pitcher just lost in a
game that we're all thinking we have to have, we
know we have to have when he pitches, we lose
that game, what happens next? We are not as confident,
we're on roller skates. The other team comes in really
feeling we know how to do damage. We're feeling looser,
we're not as tight at the plate, we're not as
tight in the field. We're going out making plays, We're
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feeling good about ourselves. That's a lot of what I
saw today from Seattle in this game. Their body language
was awesome. It looked like that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And for the Tigers, it felt like they're squeezing the
sap out of their bats because they're not hitting, they're
not getting on base. They're down early, and a complete
and total change after game one, when honestly, if you're
the Tigers, you should feel like, hey, we're coming home.
We did we had to do. We won one of
the first two, right, it was great, we're coming home.
We could end the series right here, and instead it
felt like the Mariners had all of them in.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, they come out and to get that first run too,
which was a demoralizing way for a run to score.
As the ball goes through the glove and the legs
of your catcher, right, it's like, all right, you're just
gonna stop him at third. It's like nope, ball goes
through first run scores and then it rolls from there.
Raleigh hits the home run, which ends up actually having
(05:34):
some level of importance given the way that ninth inning went.
But yeah, the whenever you can beat the a's here,
you know, Flaherty can't get out of the fourth inning,
and you had opportunities and you couldn't come up with
the big hit, and that becomes a demoralizing situation. But
you thought you were going to cruise to a two
to nothing series lead. Right, here's our ace. But he
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doesn't get the run support, and that statistics bear that out. Right,
there's always a little bit of a relaxation, uh, and
the offense doesn't necessarily come grinding as they do on
when it's a third or fourth starter or whatever else.
I mean, we've seen that through through many years. What's
the run support for that guy? Well? Not great, not great, Bob.
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And in this case, in a short series, it comes
back to bite you because they come to bear four
eight to four year final made it a game. But
you know, Seattle, suddenly, all those years of us predicting
greatness for Seattle, maybe it's actually coming.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
To really here, right finally, here, finally it's never been
this good for Seattle, but here it is.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So again, just understand them. You beat the Ace, you
flip the series like that, that's how that's how easy.
And you understand, Oh, I get how the Dodgers lost
all the time. When Kershaw lost and went on to
lose a series, it couldn't come back mentally from that. Hey,
you beat our guy. You beat our guy in the
seventh inning, You beat our guy in the sixth inning.
It's a it's a hard thing. When did the Yankees
lose World Series? When Marianno Rivera got beat that's it.
You beat our guy. That changes everything. Sometimes it's the a.
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Sometimes it's not. How did how did the Red Sox
flip the series. In two thousand and three when they
came back from down three zip, they beat Rivera in
the ninth inning. When Rivera's out there to close it out,
they beat him the ninth inning. They won the next
four games. When you beat the other team's best picture
in the playoffs, and it's a must Wait, it's not
just hey, it's our best picture, Like if the Mets
trotted out Sean Maniah, like okay, no, but when you
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tried out Yeah, when you tried out a guy that's
that good and you beat him, that mental edge and
that that's just it's it's unquiet. By the way, in
the conservation equation that we've had of Gino's, Seattle kept
the right one. Yeah they did, Yes, they did with
a home run to age Geno Smith through another interception
while I uttered that state, you can't have two Gino's
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in the same city. You only one can survive. And
they made the right things like the hhlander. Yeah, yeah, boy,
Thanks Peter, Carol, thanks for taking a beat. Appreciate that.
Sam Sam Sam Sam. Now, Sam made a big mistake
that ultimately contributed to the loss to the Buccaneers, But
he's been great overall, but again this is about Geno's
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so on more Genos m cheese steak coming up in
a bit by and we get cheese steak Deliveredy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know this this basketball story today and I saw
this and when I did, I loved it. And I
all say said, oh, come on, man, don't tell me
you're this desperate. So we knew yesterday Lebron James was
gonna have a big decision coming to my big decision.
Part two, biggest decision of his career. Shows him walking
and sitting in front of the chairs and I feel bad,
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where are the kids, all the all the fans that
now bought tickets to Opening Night, like all of a
sudden and night. Yes, the price of the tickets skyrocketed
because for some reason, people thought, oh, Lebron's gonna make
some big announcement like I'm retiring after this. Meanwhile, look
I got it wrong because I thought, Okay, it's gonna
it's he's doing something for Amazon Prime Day. He's going
(08:52):
to blaze Amazon Prime Day being today it's Amazon Prime Day. No,
it's a thing for Hennessy. It's a complete and total
ad for Hennessy. That's what it was. We knew it
was nothing big lebron is talking. He's not gonna save
something crazy like I'm gonna retire from not the Lakers
would know. We would know that's not how it works.
I feel bad for everybody that spent all kinds of
(09:13):
money on the tickets. I don't feel too bad for it.
Need to be smarter than that. But quite honestly, I
feel bad for those people. But the other part of
it was I'm like, oh, don't tell me. Lebron is
in the stunt casting part of his career now, right,
like when the sitcom, Hey, we're in season six, season seven,
what do we do.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We're gonna introduce a baby. We either bring the baby
or the mother in law.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We're gonna introduce a baby or a new family character
that hasn't been around because we need something. We need
cousin Oliver to come in. We need whatever it is, right,
we need, we need a baby. Something has to happen.
He's a buddy of Ferrante. He helped to do the
music for all the Sharknados. I mean, something's got a change,
So we bring in a baby, right, We're in the
stunt casting part. When a bar can't bring people in
(09:53):
Guess what. We're gonna have a different special every day.
We're gonna have two for one on Wednesday, Ladies' Night
is Thursday, ten Wings on Friday, whatever. And I feel
like that's where Lebron is now. He's in the stunt
casting part of his career because clearly the Lakers have
shunted him aside it is all Luca all the time.
Both sides would be happy if he left. The Lakers
(10:14):
would be happy if he left because they would use
their money to go get players that would fit better
around Luca. Lebron would be happy because he would go
on a team where maybe he could be part of
the solution, like back home to Cleveland. But we see
this is a battle that is already being fought. He
sat out the first practice and first game of the season.
Why because, oh, he had a glute problem, but really
he was dancing on an Instagram live. This season is
(10:36):
just going to be so awkward with Lebron and the
Lakers because he doesn't want to be there. They don't
want him there, but they have no choice but to
work together. Because Lebron had the option, he opted Nixy.
He's not taking less money from anywhere. Right, That's the
one thing stopping Lebron from really having the end of
his career that he wants to is that, no, I'm
not taking less money. It's going to be so awkward
(10:56):
until the sides hit a breaking point, and that is
if things aren't going well for the Lakers by the deadline.
It's gonna be if we can send Lebron to Cleveland
and Cleveland sends something to us, and this is where, Okay,
we'll do it if we can, if the Mavericks are
really good and we can send Lebron to Dallas and
he goes there for two and a half months, whatever
it is, we'll do it. Right, if we have to
send Lebron, so we will do it. It's gonna be
(11:18):
a breaking point. But I just feel like Lebron is
is it the stunt casting part? Like here's how I'm
gonna get my attention this year. The Lakers aren't gonna
give it to me. So here's this right, Like if
I like Ron is like I like Lebron, Hey, how
about you you give money back to those people that
spent all the money for the first and last night
because they thought you could have a big decision now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
To be fair, by the end of the year, it
might be his final game as a Lakers, so you
still get value asolutely it's his last game as a Laker.
But is it that big a deal Lebron's last game
as all now in the pantheon of NBA history. I mean,
it might might have some valuation for you there, I
don't know. Current get in for that final game against
(11:57):
Utah three hundred and seventy four dollars for your three
hundred levels three twenty three row eight to be precise,
if you want to go there, and then it starts
getting escalating from there. There's just several pair under four
hundred dollars, but all of it look head of seas
an official partner of the NBA. So you check a
box there to your NBA overlords to get them some
(12:20):
attention as training, training camps and preseason games have begun.
We watched your knicks the other day. The Mavericks had
a game today. The aforementioned Nico was signing autographs and
people were being kind to him because Cooper Flagg just
showed up. So you know, we watched some of the
highlights from their first game yesterday. So you have that
(12:40):
going on. That's all fine and good for Lebron, it
still comes back to this, and look, I begrudge no
man or woman their money and how they go about
earning their daily bread. God bless you go get what
you're gonna get, but I'm not gonna let you have both.
Here from my bully Pulplit at Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
you opted in for fifty million, and this is your
(13:02):
situation with the Lakers. Lucas already there by the time
you opted in, right, you already knew this is the plan,
this is where we're going. You opted in to make
a lot of money, so you can't then be uh
poudy about how it plays out. You had an opportunity
to go to the marketplace, go to your friends, go
figure out what someone wants to pay you to become
a cog in the machine. Now, if I'm Cleveland or
(13:24):
I'm one of these other teams, I don't want any
part of it unless you were gonna come in for
pennies on the dollar because I'm not disrupting my team
chemistry to make salaries match to appease you, uh, and
then have to figure out how things get Like if
you're walking on eight shells over here with a situation
you already knew how it was gonna play. I'm gonna
bring you in mid season, say all right, mid season, but.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
For Lebron for and if it's not a lot, if
this allows the Lakers to make another trade, uh, to
bring somebody in and to ship Lebron out for a
couple of months, yeah, I think, Oh no, I don't
care about.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
The Lakers right now. No, I'm looking on the other side.
I think no, I think for Lebron for a couple
of months, I think that's worth it for a team
that says, Okay, look Lebron still has it. He brings X,
Y and Z. He comes to our team, whether it's
clean again, Cleveland's where he's got to go. But if
I've got to give you, but if I've got to
go be the four pieces of a cohesion. No, you're
not because you don't have to do that, because you're
(14:21):
only talking about renting the guy for I have to
make the salaries match, right, you can make But there's
what you can You can always make the salaries match
by involving other teams and salary dunts.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
We see this all the time. You see all see
all kinds of talented players. But also, but I have
a good tender. Yeah, am I bringing him in to
where I've now got a tailor, because otherwise he's gonna
be easy. Otherwise he's going to be a poudy.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Teams will fit paint in the ass if I bring
him in and he's not a focal point.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
If the Knicks want Lebron, if the Cavaliers want Lebron,
if the Mavericks want Lebron, they'll find a way to
make the money work to get him. They'll find out.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But I'm also saying, like from team chemistry, if I'm
Donovan Mitchell, if I'm Jalen Brunson and Cat and these guys,
I want him in there. If the Cavaliers are are
forty five and twenty probably not. If the Cavaliers are
thirty one and twenty nine, Lebron's doesn't want to go No, no, no,
He's a guy I'll go there, and I'll be able
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to be the guy to take the team over the top.
If you're the Cavaliers, there's nothing you can do during
the season that's gonna say we feel great about the postseason,
not after last year. So you can still have a
great record and suddenly, oh hey, well maybe Lebron's the
guy would's that's the missing thing we need for the
rest of the season into the playoffs. Like there's nothing
the Cavaliers can do. The Knicks would have to be
floundering a little bit to make a trade. But there's it.
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There's solutions out there. He's still playing at a high level,
gets his he'll fit. There's teams that can happen for
there's teams that will happen. Lakers watch.
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coming to an end. We are still in the eighth
inning of the Yankees and the Blue Jays again that
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get to the end, maybe before you get off the
air tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, Aaron Judge getting ready for his eighteenth plate appearance
of the night as well.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, I mean every time I look up, he's in
the on deck circle.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It's very strange.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, I feel like Judge has like six home runs
tonight and it's like one of those celebrity softball games.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I got six home runs and yeah, feeling pretty good.
Is he gonna get pulled by Montgomery Burns?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
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that says, can you hit the home run to me? Well,
guess what you and the guy that caught the home
run get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
First Fish to cal He swings. Here's a hard ground ball,
helps the middle in a center field. Here comes cam
Zone to third, being waved home. He scores standing. Cal
Rawley drives in another for the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So cal Rawley cal Rawley with a big home run
in the ninth inning. You thought it was cosmetic, but
instead really needed it as the Tigers mounted a bit
of a rally in the bottom of the ninth inning.
He hits the home That's why this is such a
big deal because he hits a home run and the
guy that catches it is wearing a shirt, like a
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homemade shirt. That's like says, hits sixty one here. Cal right,
that's what it says.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
A number sixty one here, number sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
One here, which is wow, Glad it was sixty one.
Glad dump number sixty one here, and the guy caught it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No good. He hit it to a guy who wanted
to catch the home run, and the guy caught the
home run. I mean, that's you can't scripted any better
than that. That is something fixed.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Again here here it is here the hear the cal
Raley home run ell Is from he sends one the
other way well, struck ball deep left field and gone.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Rawley is first of the playoffs and it's eight to
one Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
They are feeling it.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
FS one on the call.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
The guy so excited holding up a dump sixty one
here kind of looks like Dan Campbell a little bit right,
a little bit Yevin Campbell.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, he does have that gotee going, but like you've
got the Tiger fan standing behind him who's just smiling
because he can't believe what he's just seen. Hey, this
guy wearing this really, uh, that's pretty well construc it actually, Yeah,
Like I mean the logo's done pretty well. Yeah, No,
it's a it's a pretty good homemade jobs. Usually shirts
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like that will like have tape yea or or it's
magic marker. No, this was like I'm gonna have this,
I'm gonna have this at home screen printing kind of
thing going on. He did a good job, like he
had his cricket machine out and he got it done.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
The one thing I'm gonna say is it kind of
looks like a like a that's on the back and
he's wearing it on the front, Like I have the way.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
People need to see it, catch it. So I got
to wear it that and he's just stealing from crisscross
all these years later, like because it's wiggedy wiggedy wiggedy
wat you have to explain the millennials. Oh they know, Yeah,
you have to really up just so fly ty shit
has no idea jump the daddy mad make you. Yeah,
(20:52):
but yeah, he getches the ball. That's just insane. I mean,
I I don't know how that's not the highlight of
your life. Yeah you can't. I mean really, I hope
you've got other things. But I mean, dude, you okay,
I understand that, but you made a shirt that said
I don't and then you had like a gravitational pull
right and you caught.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So it's not like, Hey, I went to a game
and I caught a cal Rally home run and it's
a great story and all this is I had the shirt.
I manifested this, I put it on, I sat in
the exact right spot.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I did not even at home. I calculated this Detroit,
that jerk that comes and tries to steal home runs
had nothing on me. That Karen had nothing to do
with coming and stealing the ball. From me because it
never got anywhere button my glove. Now does the ball
and that shirt go into the Hall of fame? Oh?
I think at least, you know, for a week's time.
(21:46):
I think it's gonna go on the Mariners Hall of Fame.
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I mean that's like a foot you know, Marendith, No,
but I don't. I don't think if you're wearing a
shirt saying hit it here, you're not giving that ball
up like you are you are to whatever, like if
you have kids with high school diplomas everything. No, you're
clearing all that out and you are getting one big
table with a spotlight on it, and it's gonna sit
right there.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I remind your number sixty one. I remind you of
a basic tenet of this show and of commerce. Everybody's
got a pre Isn't that a Isn't that an oh,
by the way, home run like in the ninth inning
of an eight to one game, Yes it is. But
it's his sixty first this year in the playoffs. Much
command digging that about it? Guy's my hero digging that, man.
(22:29):
I'll tell you, look, he's spoken in new existence. It's
it's real.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Like if I could say one thing about the marriage
right of all the teams in baseball. The Dodgers are
up to zip, clearly there in control of the series
coming back home, but the bullpen is a huge major concern.
The Phillies are down to zip. Okay, the Cubs are
just about done. The Brewers are up to zip. Feeling good.
(22:54):
Blue Jays lead the Yankees two games to none, gonna
be two games to one, right, gonna be two games
to one. But the Yankees feel good, but they still
have to win the last two. The Blue Jays are
now biting their nails a little bit. Tigers are down
two to one. Scooball gets beat in Game two, and
the Manners are feeling it. If you want to talk
about right now, the two teams that I feel the
(23:14):
best about and that probably feel the best about themselves,
Brewers and the Mariners, because they both these teams feel
like we got something special happening right now, especially the Mariners,
because look, it's been so long, they finally break through,
they get in the playoffs, and now look Rawley is
continuing on to have the year that he had, and
now Julio Rodriguez, who actually had an incredible August in September.
(23:35):
But when you're a switch in and catcher and you
hit sixty home runs, guess what you're gonna get all
the headlines. But they they seem like they have that
extra bit of intangibles. They and the Brewers seem to
have that extra bit of intangibles about them to win.
And I would normally say the Dodgers, but boy Dave
Roberts said all he could last night to lose that game.
So I think there's still a push pull with the Dodgers.
(23:55):
But those two teams that I feel like have the
most going on right now, and they have just that
aura that stuff about them. Brewers in the manners seem
to have that right now.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, the Phillies are hitting for nothing in yamamotos on
the mound tomorrow, So in theory, in theory, you should
be able to spike them out of the playoffs. Here
in theory, we'll get to watch that one live and
in living color tomorrow as it rolls through. But yeah,
Milwaukee feeling good. You've got a good young core pitching
(24:24):
coming around. You saw what Misowski did with all the
topping one hundred what thirty times thirty one times yesterday Seattle.
We've talked about their depth rotation through the pen, and
then you look at that three man a juggernaut that
you've got with Rodriguez just putting up ridiculous numbers a
year after year. Eventually folks are going to open their
(24:45):
eyes and be like, wait, he's twenty six and he's done.
What right. You look at Raleigh and you look at Gino.
You've got three guys that are mashing and putting the
ball in play and doing big things. So yeah, look
for the Mariners. We've been predicted it for every Yeah,
it feels like it finally is. It's like this guy
with his sixty one shirt. It happened eventually. Now, I
(25:08):
did want to say something really nice about Milwaukee. I
wanted Okay, I wanted to is I felt I had
to because to celebrate Alice Cooper in Wayne World.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I say something really nice to Milwaukee because Jannis is
now apparently going to be a Nick at some point during.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
This Season's gonna be gone somewhere. But yes, Shamserannia had
the report earlier today that the Knicks the only team
that Jannis really wanted to go to in the off
season was the Knicks, but talks never really got to
that point and that maybe by the deadline Jannis could
be a Nick. Now, if I have to live this
craptastic reality of the Mets and the Jets and everything
(25:45):
to get Yannis to the Knicks, I'm okay with that. Man,
why I'm okay, And I'm okay not having him by
the beginning of the season because what I'm sure happened
in the off season. I get the Knicks saying, hey,
do we want to go all in for Yannis? Last
year began we we flipped the team in September to
go get Karl Anthony Towns right. It was a great
year and we should have beaten the Pacers, but we didn't,
and they had the miracle comeback that I'm never gonna
(26:06):
not be over. But coming off at the end of
the season, Halliburton's injury, Tatum's injury, even though Tatum seems
like maybe can come back a little bit sooner now
than once, it's expected the Knicks are the favorites to
get to the Eastern Conference Finals, to get to the
NBA Finals. I understand them in the offseason saying, yeah,
we love Yannis, but boy, this is gonna be a really,
(26:28):
a really expensive trade right now, and I don't know
that we want to do that. We have a new
head coach coming in. This is the team. We're gonna
give it that we've given to him. We want to
see how things go. But that's why I don't care.
That's why this is perfect for the Knicks. Is why
I feel like I gotta live this horrendousness with the
Mets and the Jets to get to this, because hey,
if things don't go well for the Knicks, Yannis is
(26:49):
there at the deadline, they'll make the move. They'll trade
Karl Anthony Towns, they'll trade an Unobi, they'll do whatever
they need to to get Yannis to the Knicks for
the deadline, because you know things aren't getting better in Noah.
You know he wants out. He talked earlier in this offseason.
I want my agent to look around and see if
there's anything else better out there. Yeah, the Knicks are interested,
but it's like, you know what, give us a little
bit of time, and if things are great with the Knicks, okay,
(27:11):
we don't make the trade. But if things are bad, okay,
guess what we're getting. Honest, So, either I'm looking at
out of February where the Knicks are great or the
Knicks are underachieving, but we're getting Yannis. I'm in such
a win win situation. Man, this is awesome. Like now
I don't care so much of the mix. We're terrible.
I mean, well the Yankees and the Phillies losing to
(27:32):
it helps, but like I don't really care so that much.
Did the Jets are I want to fight?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
No, because we're either going to be great or getting
Yannis at the deadline. Man, this is happening, man, this
is exciting. Yeah. There were two things with Yannis today.
One was the rumor that his family had gone to
move in Greece.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, yeah, I went back to Greece. So all the pride,
the kids are in private, all Greece. Yeah yeah. Yeah.
He had to refute that, Yeah, did not refute anything
about that. So we'll keep an eye. Certainly as the deadline.
You don't have to go all in right off the jump,
but certainly Milwaukee, you've got a bunch of injuries that
have beset this squad, so you're not coming full full
(28:10):
tilt to come into a season. And he's done his
run he's won his title there, it's only a matter
of time before, and it seemed inevitable that he would
be anxious and looking for something more. Now it's question
of where Nicks seemed to be the obvious front runner.
And that's the report out of here. We'll see what
other teams try to jump into the fray. But it
(28:34):
does make for an entertaining first half of the season
as we get the preseason underway and all the speculation
of how how many dance partners there are for not
just Youannis, but so many other potential stars being on
the move before the trade deadline. Already we haven't played
a single game and we're already doing this dance. Hey,
(28:55):
he'll look good in this uniform. That guy will be
looked good over there. That guy hasn't even played a
game and we're already putting them in another. So in Dallas,
you know, with with all of the the new pieces
that they've got coming out of the trade of last
year and then obviously Cooper Flagg showing up, will they
be contenders? And if they are, do they make bold
(29:18):
moves to to try to assert themselves atop the West. Yeah,
it's a curious time but yes, Giannis's name, you're already
kind of scouting. It's win win men, it's a win win.
Do you think that spikes tickets sales in New York.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And is either we're gonna be great or we're gonna
be disappointing, but we're gonna have honest, well fail spectacular.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What do we always say? I mean, as long as
Johannis hasn't bring doc with him, like oh no, wait
a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, no no, no, no, no,
hang on, hang on, hang on. That was not part
of the trade. There's no riders attached.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's like when they try to put a bill through
Congress and like different senators want to attach riders to it. Oh,
I want school vouchers at the bottom?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Does I want that? This is just johanness. That's a
lot stuff, right, I'm getting not to go political and
one way or the other, but I'm getting all the
stuff in the mail. Don't forget to vote, you know,
coming up in November. It's like, I want to see
the language on some of these things you're proposing in
terms of the specificity, and you know what the limits
(30:16):
are and time frames and whatever else. But the same
thing here, Like, what do you try to try to
put in the back end of Hey, we wanted to
stop late. Well, you also now just created three new
seats for people to mine the waterways. What do they
actually do? They go fishing everything?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen domeb I mean,
I have to go through this Mets and Jets to
get to Okay, I'm fine fun because that's the team
that I got the most at stake for.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
That's absolutely the next will suck. They're always sucked. They're
not getting honest, no, and they'll suck. No, no, no,
you on Syracuse football. You justly just threw them to
the sod quarterway.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
We have the best quarterback in the country and he
gets hurt and tears up his achilles and now we
can't win again.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I mean, come on, man, that sucks. That sucks, nor
your coach sucks. How do you not rather I'm sorry,
he's gone. Is you're that We're rept of talent the
rest of the way, We're Syracuse. We're lucky. We have
one good guy at that point, one guy.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Come on, man, it's not gonna come on, come on,
terrible exit ob out a Fresco exit, swalling Dome. Time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a guy who has been called the
Toronto Blue Jays of Fox Sports Radio. Don't know because
he was much happier three hours ago than he is
right now. It's Steve de Seger.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Gentlemen, we are gonna have four playoff games on cable
tomorrow because these series are all still alive. Even the Yankees,
who were down six to one to Toronto in the
third inning. Yankee starter Carlos Rodin lasted two and a
third inning. Yanks have just closed out a nine to
six comeback victory. Blue Jays lead the series two games
to one. When Toronto had that early advantage, well, Vladimir
(31:57):
Guerrero Junior was the star after all, lead homer for
a third straight game. He became the only guy in
the history of the postseason to start out in your
first game with not only three homers, but eight RBIs
and eight hits and five runs scored. And then Aaron
Judge eventually ties the game six to six in the
fourth with a three run shot off the left field pole.
(32:17):
Jazz Chisselm with a solo shot in the fifth to
the lead. Yankees win nine to six. The game has
just ended on FS one. By the way, in Toronto
on Sportsnet with the early lead, they posted the stat
that the Blue Jays this season when scoring six runs
or more in a game, had a record of fifty
nine to one. The Mariners lead their best to five
(32:39):
Division series two games to one after winning it Detroit
eight to four. It was eight to one in the
top of the ninth after the two run shot by
Cal Rowley. The Ems hit three home runs in this game.
That game was put on FS two for most of
the contest because there was about a three hour rain
to lay at the start. The Detroit Tigers last win
at home is still September sixth, over a month ago,
(33:02):
when Trek scoob Will beat the White Sox. Jack Flaherty
took the loss today three and a third innings, three
earned runs allowed. The two National League Division series each
resume tomorrow. Milwaukee up two games to none, plays at
the Cubs, then the Dodgers, up two games to none,
hosts the Phillies. Fox got the rights to next Springs
World Baseball Classic. Fox TV will have seven of the games,
(33:25):
including the US team's three pool play contests, two of
the quarterfinals, and the title game in Miami. There will
be twenty teams in this tournament. It'll be the sixth
World Baseball Classic next year. Japan has won three of
the first five the tourney started in two thousand and six.
The Bengals acquired quarterback Joe Flacco from Cleveland. Jacksonville tight
end Brenton Strangers on ir with a quad injury. Three
(33:48):
NHL season openers tonight in LA. The Kings are scoreless
after one against the Avalanche. Pittsburgh was up one nothing
late and won three nothing at the Rangers. Florida ed
Chicago three two. There were two NBA preseason games. Chicago
won by a point at Cleveland, Indiana in overtime, won
by a point at Minnesota. Than the best of seven
(34:09):
w NBA Finals continue with Las Vegas at Phoenix Wednesday
and Friday. Vegas leads two games to none.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Back to you Megas, Steve Oh, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next.
What athlete did more for his legacy tonight than anybody else?
We got it next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You know, I actually heard a version of this by
Marcus Mumford that is incredible.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Okay, Like, whoa, it was incredible. He sounds awesome. What
a song I was. I was stunned. I'm like, okay,
well here we are. Because there's no d d ing
ing ing ing you would expect ding ing ing ding
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding dinging. No, it wasn't.
It was really really good.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Right, Sometimes you gotta just strip it down and get
back to brass tags.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Man.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I'll tell you, uh, there is one player.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Tonight who has helped his legacy more than any other
with what he did, and that's Aaron Judge. Judge tonight,
in a game where the Yankees were facing elimination, they
were down six to one, it was over. There was
no energy in the Bronx. Aaron Boone is screaming not
getting a catcher's interference call.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
In the third. That's how Davis es, I got gotta
gotta get that. I gotta get that catcher's interference call.
And certain games, certain deeds, things you do become part
of your legacy.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And we have said over the course of the season,
by the time Aaron Judge is done as a Yankee,
he's gonna be look that as one of the top
five Yankees of all time display someone when you think
about those guys one or two, that he's gonna displace
of a group that includes Ruth Gerig, DiMaggio, Jeter, Whitey Ford,
(36:14):
I mean, think about Mantle, think about some of these Gamester,
think about some of these guys, right the Clipper, that
he's good, that he's gonna uh, that he's gonna knock off,
He's gonna have a top five all time Yankee crin.
Obviously he has a drop in the World Series, but
what he's done, his numbers are just incredible. But a
night like tonight for Aaron Judge where the Yankees are
facing elimination and he hits a home run that defies
(36:38):
logic part of a three for four night four RBIs
the Yankees come back from down six to one to
win nine to six. I mean, Aaron Judge is just
continuing to pump that legacy up. Here's his home run
from earlier tonight. Before we break it, here's the.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Pitch, heart flight ballt clift field down the left field line.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It is howks up fair ball?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Hey hey, now, hey, now touch, This game is tired.
It's six six.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Dave Simms, Yankee Radio Network on the call. It's not
just Aaron Judge hits a home run. Watch this swing.
There's no way this should be a home run.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It's kind of an excuse me swing because he gets
jammed on the inside part of the plate and obviously
a tremendous job of hitting by Judge be able to
turn on that pitch and hit it as far as
he did. But I mean it when when he hits
it and he's standing there watching him, going, why is
he watching it run? It's gonna dump in? Maybe it
dumps in over the third basement's head. Really, I mean,
and I've seen a baseball game or two I'm going,
(37:38):
where's he doing? And then to see it fly down
the line and hit off the foul pole and bank
back in for a three run home er, Like, there's
no way you should be able to swing the bat
like that and the result be a home run. Like
it doesn't seem like there's any sort of aerodynamics or mathematics.
I will say, when you kind of swing and you
(37:59):
kind of herky jerk a little bit your your you
know your swing, like that's something that should be you know,
you hit it a couple hundred feet, even if you're
Aaron Judge, and instead it's down the line and it's
off the top of.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The foul pole like that. Read. I was absolutely stunned
at that home My eyes got big like saucers when
I saw that home muscles it high and deep, and
it was funny. I mean, we're just watching this game
unfolded game that took forever, but the number of played
appearances and hey, there's Aaron Judge again.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
And then just like that on Q he hits that
home run. Steve de Sager gave us the stat earlier.
We're talking about the you know, the count, the down,
the distance, the velocity of the pitch and all of
that that we hadn't seen it. That's the first home
run in in multiple hundreds of sample size. So, I mean,
just absurd. The level of Paul Bunyan's strength for the playoffs.
(38:50):
He's now batting five hundred phenomenal three for fourmenal playoffs.
I mean really, I mean really that the home run
doesn't make any sense. Really, I keep going certain times
I see something, I go, just how is that? I
don't get it wasn't even really a full swing. No,
but that's sanity fights it up and to hit it
(39:12):
with that level of distance, and you know, then we
get into the estimated how far did it fly? It's
still just the physics of it. Or he defied logic
with that swing, and again the home of the Yankees
at the most, at that point, they tie the game.
They don't look back from there, like this is the
Aaron Judge game. This is the biggest game he has
had where the Yankees a minute, minutes or hours or
(39:35):
days from elimination, because the game went forever like you know,
you're you're six innings away from elimination, and I picked
us up and I dragged us back so we get
to play again tomorrow. Toronto's defense opened the door.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Through and here we.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Are, Oh yeah, well listen, yes they did get a
bit of a hand by the Toronto Blue Jays defense.
But let's give Judge credit.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
For no.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Credit for that home run. He the man in the
leg and legend. He went back and he petted, baiting
the blue Ox, and everybody was happy. It wouldn't have
been a three run homer if the blue Jay shortstop
didn't drop an easy pop up to put runners at
first and second. It would have been a solable. You know, hey,
let's not let's not fuck. Just commit to the bit
and do a full Jeter into the crowd. If you eat,
do and hang on to the ball instead. John John
(40:19):
Paul Maros, the MLB Network insider up next, reaction and
preview of what is next in these playoffs. Fox
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Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yankees with a nine to six lead over the Blue
Jays as they bat in the bottom of the second
and the bottom of the seventh inning. It feels like that,
I get we've been on the air a little over
an hour and they've played a little over two winnings.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, like that's that's how long this gave me. Yeah,
the Kings game is gonna end before this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ah, the King's game could go to overtime with a
shootout that goes thirty round and.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yankees the eighth. By the way, the beginning of the
final season of andse Kopitar right. Unfortunately, he announced that
the same day that Clayton kershots twenty seasons for Crazy Eyes. Yeah, unbelievable. Yeah,
you should have picked a different day to say, Hey,
I'm not going to be around anymore. It was pretty
cool that, like people dredged up, there was an SI
cover that had the two of them on it together
(01:50):
from many many years ago, many many miles. I've been
traveled by both those guys in their respective careers.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So we'll have more on the Yankees and the and
the Blue Jay as it evolves again. Nine to six,
Yankees with the lead coming back after being down six
to one to the Blue Jays early in this A
big three run homer by Aaron Judge, a home run
by Jazz Chishim, a couple more runs, and now suddenly
the Blue Jays are really in a lot of trouble. Meanwhile,
earlier tonight, the Mariners are now one game away from
(02:21):
the Alcs after thumping the Tigers eight to four. They
are up to one in the Alds and look, the
Mariners are playing extremely well. He had a big home
run by big Dumper in the ninth in the ninth inning,
that thought was just cosmetic, But hey, the Tigers finally
put some runs on the board.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And it went in sixty first to the year, and
it went into the glove of a guy wearing a
dump number sixty one here shirt. I caught it. I
wore the shirt and I caught it. He's gonna tell
that story for the every day. It's gonna tell that
story for the rest of the rest of his life. Man.
That that that's something I put on my tender page.
I was that guy. I wore the sixty one thing. Yeah,
you want to see the ball, hey, and shave the
(02:59):
ball on. That just got weird.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But let's get wild. There's a couple of things from
this number one. It's you know, look, it's It's really
difficult because I talk to my wife's family every day
because all they do, all they do is sit back
like they're all locked into the baseball playoffs. Right, it's awesome,
and it's just we just can't hit. We just can't hit.
They of course, right, well, And that's the big thing
(03:23):
is that the That's why Schooble Day is such a
big deal of why when you look back and go now,
you can understand why the Dodgers lost so many series
after Clayton Kershaw got beat Because when you have an
ace that is that overwhelming, you count that as a
game you have to have, and if you don't get
that game and the other team gets it, you lose momentum.
(03:45):
They start feeling great about themselves and you come to
the ballpark just feeling different. The next day, you come
it with full of more confidence. Everything is easier for you.
And that's why Game two was such a big deal.
Beating schoobl I would have pitched around Polanco, but beating
school Ball was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
All of a sudden, you saw things. Even though it
was hey, we're going back to Detroit, and Detroit can
end the series here, not going back Seattle felt like
we were in control because we beat School, but we're
not going to see him the rest of the playoffs now.
And they were free swinging early in this game. They
had home runs, They were never in trouble that mental
There is something to be said for that mental hurdle
(04:24):
of saying, when our best pitcher just lost in a
game that we're all thinking we have to have, we
know we have to have when he pitches, we lose
that game, what happens next? We are not as confident,
we're on roller skates. The other team comes in really
feeling we know how to do damage. We're feeling looser,
we're not as tight at the plate, we're not as
tight in the field. We're going out making plays, We're
(04:45):
feeling good about ourselves. That's a lot of what I
saw today from Seattle in this game. Their body language
was awesome. It looked like that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And for the Tigers, it felt like they're squeezing the
sap out of their bats because they're not hitting, they're
not getting on base. They're down early, and a complete
and total change after game one, when honestly, if you're
the Tigers, you should feel like, hey, we're coming home.
We did we had to do. We won one of
the first two, right, it was great, we're coming home.
We could end the series right here, and instead it
felt like the Mariners had all of them in.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, they come out and to get that first run too,
which was a demoralizing way for a run to score.
As the ball goes through the glove and the legs
of your catcher, right, it's like, all right, you're just
gonna stop him at third. It's like nope, ball goes
through first run scores and then it rolls from there.
Raleigh hits the home run, which ends up actually having
(05:34):
some level of importance given the way that ninth inning went.
But yeah, the whenever you can beat the a's here,
you know, Flaherty can't get out of the fourth inning,
and you had opportunities and you couldn't come up with
the big hit, and that becomes a demoralizing situation. But
you thought you were going to cruise to a two
to nothing series lead. Right, here's our ace. But he
(05:56):
doesn't get the run support, and that statistics bear that out. Right,
there's always a little bit of a relaxation, uh, and
the offense doesn't necessarily come grinding as they do on
when it's a third or fourth starter or whatever else.
I mean, we've seen that through through many years. What's
the run support for that guy? Well? Not great, not great, Bob.
(06:18):
And in this case, in a short series, it comes
back to bite you because they come to bear four
eight to four year final made it a game. But
you know, Seattle, suddenly, all those years of us predicting
greatness for Seattle, maybe it's actually coming.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
To really here, right finally, here, finally it's never been
this good for Seattle, but here it is.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So again, just understand them. You beat the Ace, you
flip the series like that, that's how that's how easy.
And you understand, Oh, I get how the Dodgers lost
all the time. When Kershaw lost and went on to
lose a series, it couldn't come back mentally from that. Hey,
you beat our guy. You beat our guy in the
seventh inning, You beat our guy in the sixth inning.
It's a it's a hard thing. When did the Yankees
lose World Series? When Marianno Rivera got beat that's it.
You beat our guy. That changes everything. Sometimes it's the a.
(07:02):
Sometimes it's not. How did how did the Red Sox
flip the series. In two thousand and three when they
came back from down three zip, they beat Rivera in
the ninth inning. When Rivera's out there to close it out,
they beat him the ninth inning. They won the next
four games. When you beat the other team's best picture
in the playoffs, and it's a must Wait, it's not
just hey, it's our best picture, Like if the Mets
trotted out Sean Maniah, like okay, no, but when you
(07:22):
tried out Yeah, when you tried out a guy that's
that good and you beat him, that mental edge and
that that's just it's it's unquiet. By the way, in
the conservation equation that we've had of Gino's, Seattle kept
the right one. Yeah they did, Yes, they did with
a home run to age Geno Smith through another interception
while I uttered that state, you can't have two Gino's
(07:43):
in the same city. You only one can survive. And
they made the right things like the hhlander. Yeah, yeah, boy,
Thanks Peter, Carol, thanks for taking a beat. Appreciate that.
Sam Sam Sam Sam. Now, Sam made a big mistake
that ultimately contributed to the loss to the Buccaneers, But
he's been great overall, but again this is about Geno's
(08:05):
so on more Genos m cheese steak coming up in
a bit by and we get cheese steak Deliveredy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know this this basketball story today and I saw
this and when I did, I loved it. And I
all say said, oh, come on, man, don't tell me
you're this desperate. So we knew yesterday Lebron James was
gonna have a big decision coming to my big decision.
Part two, biggest decision of his career. Shows him walking
and sitting in front of the chairs and I feel bad,
(08:30):
where are the kids, all the all the fans that
now bought tickets to Opening Night, like all of a
sudden and night. Yes, the price of the tickets skyrocketed
because for some reason, people thought, oh, Lebron's gonna make
some big announcement like I'm retiring after this. Meanwhile, look
I got it wrong because I thought, Okay, it's gonna
it's he's doing something for Amazon Prime Day. He's going
(08:52):
to blaze Amazon Prime Day being today it's Amazon Prime Day. No,
it's a thing for Hennessy. It's a complete and total
ad for Hennessy. That's what it was. We knew it
was nothing big lebron is talking. He's not gonna save
something crazy like I'm gonna retire from not the Lakers
would know. We would know that's not how it works.
I feel bad for everybody that spent all kinds of
(09:13):
money on the tickets. I don't feel too bad for it.
Need to be smarter than that. But quite honestly, I
feel bad for those people. But the other part of
it was I'm like, oh, don't tell me. Lebron is
in the stunt casting part of his career now, right,
like when the sitcom, Hey, we're in season six, season seven,
what do we do.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We're gonna introduce a baby. We either bring the baby
or the mother in law.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We're gonna introduce a baby or a new family character
that hasn't been around because we need something. We need
cousin Oliver to come in. We need whatever it is, right,
we need, we need a baby. Something has to happen.
He's a buddy of Ferrante. He helped to do the
music for all the Sharknados. I mean, something's got a change,
So we bring in a baby, right, We're in the
stunt casting part. When a bar can't bring people in
(09:53):
Guess what. We're gonna have a different special every day.
We're gonna have two for one on Wednesday, Ladies' Night
is Thursday, ten Wings on Friday, whatever. And I feel
like that's where Lebron is now. He's in the stunt
casting part of his career because clearly the Lakers have
shunted him aside it is all Luca all the time.
Both sides would be happy if he left. The Lakers
(10:14):
would be happy if he left because they would use
their money to go get players that would fit better
around Luca. Lebron would be happy because he would go
on a team where maybe he could be part of
the solution, like back home to Cleveland. But we see
this is a battle that is already being fought. He
sat out the first practice and first game of the season.
Why because, oh, he had a glute problem, but really
he was dancing on an Instagram live. This season is
(10:36):
just going to be so awkward with Lebron and the
Lakers because he doesn't want to be there. They don't
want him there, but they have no choice but to
work together. Because Lebron had the option, he opted Nixy.
He's not taking less money from anywhere. Right, That's the
one thing stopping Lebron from really having the end of
his career that he wants to is that, no, I'm
not taking less money. It's going to be so awkward
(10:56):
until the sides hit a breaking point, and that is
if things aren't going well for the Lakers by the deadline.
It's gonna be if we can send Lebron to Cleveland
and Cleveland sends something to us, and this is where, Okay,
we'll do it if we can, if the Mavericks are
really good and we can send Lebron to Dallas and
he goes there for two and a half months, whatever
it is, we'll do it. Right, if we have to
send Lebron, so we will do it. It's gonna be
(11:18):
a breaking point. But I just feel like Lebron is
is it the stunt casting part? Like here's how I'm
gonna get my attention this year. The Lakers aren't gonna
give it to me. So here's this right, Like if
I like Ron is like I like Lebron, Hey, how
about you you give money back to those people that
spent all the money for the first and last night
because they thought you could have a big decision now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
To be fair, by the end of the year, it
might be his final game as a Lakers, so you
still get value asolutely it's his last game as a Laker.
But is it that big a deal Lebron's last game
as all now in the pantheon of NBA history. I mean,
it might might have some valuation for you there, I
don't know. Current get in for that final game against
(11:57):
Utah three hundred and seventy four dollars for your three
hundred levels three twenty three row eight to be precise,
if you want to go there, and then it starts
getting escalating from there. There's just several pair under four
hundred dollars, but all of it look head of seas
an official partner of the NBA. So you check a
box there to your NBA overlords to get them some
(12:20):
attention as training, training camps and preseason games have begun.
We watched your knicks the other day. The Mavericks had
a game today. The aforementioned Nico was signing autographs and
people were being kind to him because Cooper Flagg just
showed up. So you know, we watched some of the
highlights from their first game yesterday. So you have that
(12:40):
going on. That's all fine and good for Lebron, it
still comes back to this, and look, I begrudge no
man or woman their money and how they go about
earning their daily bread. God bless you go get what
you're gonna get, but I'm not gonna let you have both.
Here from my bully Pulplit at Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
you opted in for fifty million, and this is your
(13:02):
situation with the Lakers. Lucas already there by the time
you opted in, right, you already knew this is the plan,
this is where we're going. You opted in to make
a lot of money, so you can't then be uh
poudy about how it plays out. You had an opportunity
to go to the marketplace, go to your friends, go
figure out what someone wants to pay you to become
a cog in the machine. Now, if I'm Cleveland or
(13:24):
I'm one of these other teams, I don't want any
part of it unless you were gonna come in for
pennies on the dollar because I'm not disrupting my team
chemistry to make salaries match to appease you, uh, and
then have to figure out how things get Like if
you're walking on eight shells over here with a situation
you already knew how it was gonna play. I'm gonna
bring you in mid season, say all right, mid season, but.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
For Lebron for and if it's not a lot, if
this allows the Lakers to make another trade, uh, to
bring somebody in and to ship Lebron out for a
couple of months, yeah, I think, Oh no, I don't
care about.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
The Lakers right now. No, I'm looking on the other side.
I think no, I think for Lebron for a couple
of months, I think that's worth it for a team
that says, Okay, look Lebron still has it. He brings X,
Y and Z. He comes to our team, whether it's
clean again, Cleveland's where he's got to go. But if
I've got to give you, but if I've got to
go be the four pieces of a cohesion. No, you're
not because you don't have to do that, because you're
(14:21):
only talking about renting the guy for I have to
make the salaries match, right, you can make But there's
what you can You can always make the salaries match
by involving other teams and salary dunts.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
We see this all the time. You see all see
all kinds of talented players. But also, but I have
a good tender. Yeah, am I bringing him in to
where I've now got a tailor, because otherwise he's gonna
be easy. Otherwise he's going to be a poudy.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Teams will fit paint in the ass if I bring
him in and he's not a focal point.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
If the Knicks want Lebron, if the Cavaliers want Lebron,
if the Mavericks want Lebron, they'll find a way to
make the money work to get him. They'll find out.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But I'm also saying, like from team chemistry, if I'm
Donovan Mitchell, if I'm Jalen Brunson and Cat and these guys,
I want him in there. If the Cavaliers are are
forty five and twenty probably not. If the Cavaliers are
thirty one and twenty nine, Lebron's doesn't want to go No, no, no,
He's a guy I'll go there, and I'll be able
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to be the guy to take the team over the top.
If you're the Cavaliers, there's nothing you can do during
the season that's gonna say we feel great about the postseason,
not after last year. So you can still have a
great record and suddenly, oh hey, well maybe Lebron's the
guy would's that's the missing thing we need for the
rest of the season into the playoffs. Like there's nothing
the Cavaliers can do. The Knicks would have to be
floundering a little bit to make a trade. But there's it.
(15:36):
There's solutions out there. He's still playing at a high level,
gets his he'll fit. There's teams that can happen for
there's teams that will happen. Lakers watch.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
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inning of the Yankees and the Blue Jays again that
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get to the end, maybe before you get off the
air tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, Aaron Judge getting ready for his eighteenth plate appearance
of the night as well.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, I mean every time I look up, he's in
the on deck circle.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It's very strange.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, I feel like Judge has like six home runs
tonight and it's like one of those celebrity softball games.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I got six home runs and yeah, feeling pretty good.
Is he gonna get pulled by Montgomery Burns?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Still a nine to six Yankee lead? Is the Yankees
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when you hit a big game clinching home run and
you hit it to a guy wearing a T shirt
that says, can you hit the home run to me? Well,
guess what you and the guy that caught the home
run get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
First Fish to cal He swings. Here's a hard ground ball,
helps the middle in a center field. Here comes cam
Zone to third, being waved home. He scores standing. Cal
Rawley drives in another for the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So cal Rawley cal Rawley with a big home run
in the ninth inning. You thought it was cosmetic, but
instead really needed it as the Tigers mounted a bit
of a rally in the bottom of the ninth inning.
He hits the home That's why this is such a
big deal because he hits a home run and the
guy that catches it is wearing a shirt, like a
(18:57):
homemade shirt. That's like says, hits sixty one here. Cal right,
that's what it says.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
A number sixty one here, number sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
One here, which is wow, Glad it was sixty one.
Glad dump number sixty one here, and the guy caught it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No good. He hit it to a guy who wanted
to catch the home run, and the guy caught the
home run. I mean, that's you can't scripted any better
than that. That is something fixed.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Again here here it is here the hear the cal
Raley home run ell Is from he sends one the
other way well, struck ball deep left field and gone.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Rawley is first of the playoffs and it's eight to
one Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
They are feeling it.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
FS one on the call.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
The guy so excited holding up a dump sixty one
here kind of looks like Dan Campbell a little bit right,
a little bit Yevin Campbell.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, he does have that gotee going, but like you've
got the Tiger fan standing behind him who's just smiling
because he can't believe what he's just seen. Hey, this
guy wearing this really, uh, that's pretty well construc it actually, Yeah,
Like I mean the logo's done pretty well. Yeah, No,
it's a it's a pretty good homemade jobs. Usually shirts
(20:07):
like that will like have tape yea or or it's
magic marker. No, this was like I'm gonna have this,
I'm gonna have this at home screen printing kind of
thing going on. He did a good job, like he
had his cricket machine out and he got it done.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
The one thing I'm gonna say is it kind of
looks like a like a that's on the back and
he's wearing it on the front, Like I have the way.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
People need to see it, catch it. So I got
to wear it that and he's just stealing from crisscross
all these years later, like because it's wiggedy wiggedy wiggedy
wat you have to explain the millennials. Oh they know, Yeah,
you have to really up just so fly ty shit
has no idea jump the daddy mad make you. Yeah,
(20:52):
but yeah, he getches the ball. That's just insane. I mean,
I I don't know how that's not the highlight of
your life. Yeah you can't. I mean really, I hope
you've got other things. But I mean, dude, you okay,
I understand that, but you made a shirt that said
I don't and then you had like a gravitational pull
right and you caught.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So it's not like, Hey, I went to a game
and I caught a cal Rally home run and it's
a great story and all this is I had the shirt.
I manifested this, I put it on, I sat in
the exact right spot.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I did not even at home. I calculated this Detroit,
that jerk that comes and tries to steal home runs
had nothing on me. That Karen had nothing to do
with coming and stealing the ball. From me because it
never got anywhere button my glove. Now does the ball
and that shirt go into the Hall of fame? Oh?
I think at least, you know, for a week's time.
(21:46):
I think it's gonna go on the Mariners Hall of Fame.
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I mean that's like a foot you know, Marendith, No,
but I don't. I don't think if you're wearing a
shirt saying hit it here, you're not giving that ball
up like you are you are to whatever, like if
you have kids with high school diplomas everything. No, you're
clearing all that out and you are getting one big
table with a spotlight on it, and it's gonna sit
right there.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I remind your number sixty one. I remind you of
a basic tenet of this show and of commerce. Everybody's
got a pre Isn't that a Isn't that an oh,
by the way, home run like in the ninth inning
of an eight to one game, Yes it is. But
it's his sixty first this year in the playoffs. Much
command digging that about it? Guy's my hero digging that, man.
(22:29):
I'll tell you, look, he's spoken in new existence. It's
it's real.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Like if I could say one thing about the marriage
right of all the teams in baseball. The Dodgers are
up to zip, clearly there in control of the series
coming back home, but the bullpen is a huge major concern.
The Phillies are down to zip. Okay, the Cubs are
just about done. The Brewers are up to zip. Feeling good.
(22:54):
Blue Jays lead the Yankees two games to none, gonna
be two games to one, right, gonna be two games
to one. But the Yankees feel good, but they still
have to win the last two. The Blue Jays are
now biting their nails a little bit. Tigers are down
two to one. Scooball gets beat in Game two, and
the Manners are feeling it. If you want to talk
about right now, the two teams that I feel the
(23:14):
best about and that probably feel the best about themselves,
Brewers and the Mariners, because they both these teams feel
like we got something special happening right now, especially the Mariners,
because look, it's been so long, they finally break through,
they get in the playoffs, and now look Rawley is
continuing on to have the year that he had, and
now Julio Rodriguez, who actually had an incredible August in September.
(23:35):
But when you're a switch in and catcher and you
hit sixty home runs, guess what you're gonna get all
the headlines. But they they seem like they have that
extra bit of intangibles. They and the Brewers seem to
have that extra bit of intangibles about them to win.
And I would normally say the Dodgers, but boy Dave
Roberts said all he could last night to lose that game.
So I think there's still a push pull with the Dodgers.
(23:55):
But those two teams that I feel like have the
most going on right now, and they have just that
aura that stuff about them. Brewers in the manners seem
to have that right now.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, the Phillies are hitting for nothing in yamamotos on
the mound tomorrow, So in theory, in theory, you should
be able to spike them out of the playoffs. Here
in theory, we'll get to watch that one live and
in living color tomorrow as it rolls through. But yeah,
Milwaukee feeling good. You've got a good young core pitching
(24:24):
coming around. You saw what Misowski did with all the
topping one hundred what thirty times thirty one times yesterday Seattle.
We've talked about their depth rotation through the pen, and
then you look at that three man a juggernaut that
you've got with Rodriguez just putting up ridiculous numbers a
year after year. Eventually folks are going to open their
(24:45):
eyes and be like, wait, he's twenty six and he's done.
What right. You look at Raleigh and you look at Gino.
You've got three guys that are mashing and putting the
ball in play and doing big things. So yeah, look
for the Mariners. We've been predicted it for every Yeah,
it feels like it finally is. It's like this guy
with his sixty one shirt. It happened eventually. Now, I
(25:08):
did want to say something really nice about Milwaukee. I
wanted Okay, I wanted to is I felt I had
to because to celebrate Alice Cooper in Wayne World.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I say something really nice to Milwaukee because Jannis is
now apparently going to be a Nick at some point during.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
This Season's gonna be gone somewhere. But yes, Shamserannia had
the report earlier today that the Knicks the only team
that Jannis really wanted to go to in the off
season was the Knicks, but talks never really got to
that point and that maybe by the deadline Jannis could
be a Nick. Now, if I have to live this
craptastic reality of the Mets and the Jets and everything
(25:45):
to get Yannis to the Knicks, I'm okay with that. Man,
why I'm okay, And I'm okay not having him by
the beginning of the season because what I'm sure happened
in the off season. I get the Knicks saying, hey,
do we want to go all in for Yannis? Last
year began we we flipped the team in September to
go get Karl Anthony Towns right. It was a great
year and we should have beaten the Pacers, but we didn't,
and they had the miracle comeback that I'm never gonna
(26:06):
not be over. But coming off at the end of
the season, Halliburton's injury, Tatum's injury, even though Tatum seems
like maybe can come back a little bit sooner now
than once, it's expected the Knicks are the favorites to
get to the Eastern Conference Finals, to get to the
NBA Finals. I understand them in the offseason saying, yeah,
we love Yannis, but boy, this is gonna be a really,
(26:28):
a really expensive trade right now, and I don't know
that we want to do that. We have a new
head coach coming in. This is the team. We're gonna
give it that we've given to him. We want to
see how things go. But that's why I don't care.
That's why this is perfect for the Knicks. Is why
I feel like I gotta live this horrendousness with the
Mets and the Jets to get to this, because hey,
if things don't go well for the Knicks, Yannis is
(26:49):
there at the deadline, they'll make the move. They'll trade
Karl Anthony Towns, they'll trade an Unobi, they'll do whatever
they need to to get Yannis to the Knicks for
the deadline, because you know things aren't getting better in Noah.
You know he wants out. He talked earlier in this offseason.
I want my agent to look around and see if
there's anything else better out there. Yeah, the Knicks are interested,
but it's like, you know what, give us a little
bit of time, and if things are great with the Knicks, okay,
(27:11):
we don't make the trade. But if things are bad, okay,
guess what we're getting. Honest, So, either I'm looking at
out of February where the Knicks are great or the
Knicks are underachieving, but we're getting Yannis. I'm in such
a win win situation. Man, this is awesome. Like now
I don't care so much of the mix. We're terrible.
I mean, well the Yankees and the Phillies losing to
(27:32):
it helps, but like I don't really care so that much.
Did the Jets are I want to fight?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
No, because we're either going to be great or getting
Yannis at the deadline. Man, this is happening, man, this
is exciting. Yeah. There were two things with Yannis today.
One was the rumor that his family had gone to
move in Greece.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, yeah, I went back to Greece. So all the pride,
the kids are in private, all Greece. Yeah yeah. Yeah.
He had to refute that, Yeah, did not refute anything
about that. So we'll keep an eye. Certainly as the deadline.
You don't have to go all in right off the jump,
but certainly Milwaukee, you've got a bunch of injuries that
have beset this squad, so you're not coming full full
(28:10):
tilt to come into a season. And he's done his
run he's won his title there, it's only a matter
of time before, and it seemed inevitable that he would
be anxious and looking for something more. Now it's question
of where Nicks seemed to be the obvious front runner.
And that's the report out of here. We'll see what
other teams try to jump into the fray. But it
(28:34):
does make for an entertaining first half of the season
as we get the preseason underway and all the speculation
of how how many dance partners there are for not
just Youannis, but so many other potential stars being on
the move before the trade deadline. Already we haven't played
a single game and we're already doing this dance. Hey,
(28:55):
he'll look good in this uniform. That guy will be
looked good over there. That guy hasn't even played a
game and we're already putting them in another. So in Dallas,
you know, with with all of the the new pieces
that they've got coming out of the trade of last
year and then obviously Cooper Flagg showing up, will they
be contenders? And if they are, do they make bold
(29:18):
moves to to try to assert themselves atop the West. Yeah,
it's a curious time but yes, Giannis's name, you're already
kind of scouting. It's win win men, it's a win win.
Do you think that spikes tickets sales in New York.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And is either we're gonna be great or we're gonna
be disappointing, but we're gonna have honest, well fail spectacular.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What do we always say? I mean, as long as
Johannis hasn't bring doc with him, like oh no, wait
a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, no no, no, no, no,
hang on, hang on, hang on. That was not part
of the trade. There's no riders attached.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's like when they try to put a bill through
Congress and like different senators want to attach riders to it. Oh,
I want school vouchers at the bottom?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Does I want that? This is just johanness. That's a
lot stuff, right, I'm getting not to go political and
one way or the other, but I'm getting all the
stuff in the mail. Don't forget to vote, you know,
coming up in November. It's like, I want to see
the language on some of these things you're proposing in
terms of the specificity, and you know what the limits
(30:16):
are and time frames and whatever else. But the same
thing here, Like, what do you try to try to
put in the back end of Hey, we wanted to
stop late. Well, you also now just created three new
seats for people to mine the waterways. What do they
actually do? They go fishing everything?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen domeb I mean,
I have to go through this Mets and Jets to
get to Okay, I'm fine fun because that's the team
that I got the most at stake for.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
That's absolutely the next will suck. They're always sucked. They're
not getting honest, no, and they'll suck. No, no, no,
you on Syracuse football. You justly just threw them to
the sod quarterway.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
We have the best quarterback in the country and he
gets hurt and tears up his achilles and now we
can't win again.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I mean, come on, man, that sucks. That sucks, nor
your coach sucks. How do you not rather I'm sorry,
he's gone. Is you're that We're rept of talent the
rest of the way, We're Syracuse. We're lucky. We have
one good guy at that point, one guy.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Come on, man, it's not gonna come on, come on,
terrible exit ob out a Fresco exit, swalling Dome. Time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a guy who has been called the
Toronto Blue Jays of Fox Sports Radio. Don't know because
he was much happier three hours ago than he is
right now. It's Steve de Seger.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Gentlemen, we are gonna have four playoff games on cable
tomorrow because these series are all still alive. Even the Yankees,
who were down six to one to Toronto in the
third inning. Yankee starter Carlos Rodin lasted two and a
third inning. Yanks have just closed out a nine to
six comeback victory. Blue Jays lead the series two games
to one. When Toronto had that early advantage, well, Vladimir
(31:57):
Guerrero Junior was the star after all, lead homer for
a third straight game. He became the only guy in
the history of the postseason to start out in your
first game with not only three homers, but eight RBIs
and eight hits and five runs scored. And then Aaron
Judge eventually ties the game six to six in the
fourth with a three run shot off the left field pole.
(32:17):
Jazz Chisselm with a solo shot in the fifth to
the lead. Yankees win nine to six. The game has
just ended on FS one. By the way, in Toronto
on Sportsnet with the early lead, they posted the stat
that the Blue Jays this season when scoring six runs
or more in a game, had a record of fifty
nine to one. The Mariners lead their best to five
(32:39):
Division series two games to one after winning it Detroit
eight to four. It was eight to one in the
top of the ninth after the two run shot by
Cal Rowley. The Ems hit three home runs in this game.
That game was put on FS two for most of
the contest because there was about a three hour rain
to lay at the start. The Detroit Tigers last win
at home is still September sixth, over a month ago,
(33:02):
when Trek scoob Will beat the White Sox. Jack Flaherty
took the loss today three and a third innings, three
earned runs allowed. The two National League Division series each
resume tomorrow. Milwaukee up two games to none, plays at
the Cubs, then the Dodgers, up two games to none,
hosts the Phillies. Fox got the rights to next Springs
World Baseball Classic. Fox TV will have seven of the games,
(33:25):
including the US team's three pool play contests, two of
the quarterfinals, and the title game in Miami. There will
be twenty teams in this tournament. It'll be the sixth
World Baseball Classic next year. Japan has won three of
the first five the tourney started in two thousand and six.
The Bengals acquired quarterback Joe Flacco from Cleveland. Jacksonville tight
end Brenton Strangers on ir with a quad injury. Three
(33:48):
NHL season openers tonight in LA. The Kings are scoreless
after one against the Avalanche. Pittsburgh was up one nothing
late and won three nothing at the Rangers. Florida ed
Chicago three two. There were two NBA preseason games. Chicago
won by a point at Cleveland, Indiana in overtime, won
by a point at Minnesota. Than the best of seven
(34:09):
w NBA Finals continue with Las Vegas at Phoenix Wednesday
and Friday. Vegas leads two games to none.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Back to you Megas, Steve Oh, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next.
What athlete did more for his legacy tonight than anybody else?
We got it next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You know, I actually heard a version of this by
Marcus Mumford that is incredible.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Okay, Like, whoa, it was incredible. He sounds awesome. What
a song I was. I was stunned. I'm like, okay,
well here we are. Because there's no d d ing
ing ing ing you would expect ding ing ing ding
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding dinging. No, it wasn't.
It was really really good.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Right, Sometimes you gotta just strip it down and get
back to brass tags.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Man.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I'll tell you, uh, there is one player.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Tonight who has helped his legacy more than any other
with what he did, and that's Aaron Judge. Judge tonight,
in a game where the Yankees were facing elimination, they
were down six to one, it was over. There was
no energy in the Bronx. Aaron Boone is screaming not
getting a catcher's interference call.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
In the third. That's how Davis es, I got gotta
gotta get that. I gotta get that catcher's interference call.
And certain games, certain deeds, things you do become part
of your legacy.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And we have said over the course of the season,
by the time Aaron Judge is done as a Yankee,
he's gonna be look that as one of the top
five Yankees of all time display someone when you think
about those guys one or two, that he's gonna displace
of a group that includes Ruth Gerig, DiMaggio, Jeter, Whitey Ford,
(36:14):
I mean, think about Mantle, think about some of these Gamester,
think about some of these guys, right the Clipper, that
he's good, that he's gonna uh, that he's gonna knock off,
He's gonna have a top five all time Yankee crin.
Obviously he has a drop in the World Series, but
what he's done, his numbers are just incredible. But a
night like tonight for Aaron Judge where the Yankees are
facing elimination and he hits a home run that defies
(36:38):
logic part of a three for four night four RBIs
the Yankees come back from down six to one to
win nine to six. I mean, Aaron Judge is just
continuing to pump that legacy up. Here's his home run
from earlier tonight. Before we break it, here's the.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Pitch, heart flight ballt clift field down the left field line.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It is howks up fair ball?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Hey hey, now, hey, now touch, This game is tired.
It's six six.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Dave Simms, Yankee Radio Network on the call. It's not
just Aaron Judge hits a home run. Watch this swing.
There's no way this should be a home run.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It's kind of an excuse me swing because he gets
jammed on the inside part of the plate and obviously
a tremendous job of hitting by Judge be able to
turn on that pitch and hit it as far as
he did. But I mean it when when he hits
it and he's standing there watching him, going, why is
he watching it run? It's gonna dump in? Maybe it
dumps in over the third basement's head. Really, I mean,
and I've seen a baseball game or two I'm going,
(37:38):
where's he doing? And then to see it fly down
the line and hit off the foul pole and bank
back in for a three run home er, Like, there's
no way you should be able to swing the bat
like that and the result be a home run. Like
it doesn't seem like there's any sort of aerodynamics or mathematics.
I will say, when you kind of swing and you
(37:59):
kind of herky jerk a little bit your your you
know your swing, like that's something that should be you know,
you hit it a couple hundred feet, even if you're
Aaron Judge, and instead it's down the line and it's
off the top of.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The foul pole like that. Read. I was absolutely stunned
at that home My eyes got big like saucers when
I saw that home muscles it high and deep, and
it was funny. I mean, we're just watching this game
unfolded game that took forever, but the number of played
appearances and hey, there's Aaron Judge again.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
And then just like that on Q he hits that
home run. Steve de Sager gave us the stat earlier.
We're talking about the you know, the count, the down,
the distance, the velocity of the pitch and all of
that that we hadn't seen it. That's the first home
run in in multiple hundreds of sample size. So, I mean,
just absurd. The level of Paul Bunyan's strength for the playoffs.
(38:50):
He's now batting five hundred phenomenal three for fourmenal playoffs.
I mean really, I mean really that the home run
doesn't make any sense. Really, I keep going certain times
I see something, I go, just how is that? I
don't get it wasn't even really a full swing. No,
but that's sanity fights it up and to hit it
(39:12):
with that level of distance, and you know, then we
get into the estimated how far did it fly? It's
still just the physics of it. Or he defied logic
with that swing, and again the home of the Yankees
at the most, at that point, they tie the game.
They don't look back from there, like this is the
Aaron Judge game. This is the biggest game he has
had where the Yankees a minute, minutes or hours or
(39:35):
days from elimination, because the game went forever like you know,
you're you're six innings away from elimination, and I picked
us up and I dragged us back so we get
to play again tomorrow. Toronto's defense opened the door.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Through and here we.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Are, Oh yeah, well listen, yes they did get a
bit of a hand by the Toronto Blue Jays defense.
But let's give Judge credit.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
For no.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Credit for that home run. He the man in the
leg and legend. He went back and he petted, baiting
the blue Ox, and everybody was happy. It wouldn't have
been a three run homer if the blue Jay shortstop
didn't drop an easy pop up to put runners at
first and second. It would have been a solable. You know, hey,
let's not let's not fuck. Just commit to the bit
and do a full Jeter into the crowd. If you eat,
do and hang on to the ball instead. John John
(40:19):
Paul Maros, the MLB Network insider up next, reaction and
preview of what is next in these playoffs. Fox
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