October 8, 2025 • 40 mins
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the Yankees snatch victory from the jaws of defeat a
six to one deficit in the third inning, it looked
like it was over nine six is your final? Aaron
Judges three run Homer big solo home run by Jazz
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Chisholm to give the Yankees the lead, and they turned
that six to one deficit into a nine to six win.
Joining us down the hot line for everything major League
Baseball playoffs? What to expect next? A man who once
again is joining us in a very difficult day. He
may have actually stolen cal Rawley's home run ball. No
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guy that wanted the ball hit to him and maybe
giving it to his dad as a souvenir to say, Hey, Dad,
I'm sorry the Tigers lost, but Dad, here's a cal
Raley home run ball. You want to go blow it
up in the backyard. You can. It is MLB Network
insider extraordinaire, longtime front of the Show, John Paul Morossi,
John Paul, what's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Man, Jason and Mike. I am doing great, my friends,
Yes I am. Indeed, in Michigan, I was able to
cover a season baseball game myself as a broadcaster for
the first time in my home state. Actually, the last
game that I covered, the last postseason game I actually
covered in Detroit was in twenty twelve. I realized there
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have been postseason games in Detroit since then, but I
was not actually at any of them. Since twenty twelve,
so I feel very grateful. And I watched this game
with my dad actually, so I was pre imposted, but
during the game I was getting Actually watched the game
with my dad at the ballparks. That was pretty cool,
cool father son moment. Not a great result of the Tigers,
but the Mariners a very likable team cal Riley, Logan
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Gilbert where our postgame interview guests. So a very fun
night at the ballpark despite the loss of the home team.
And now we see what I really am excited about tomorrow,
which is, my friend, a game, A day of four
different games, still all pretending up, all potential clinchers. Now
that's the really interesting part. Now on the nationally side,
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of course, for all to be clear, which is what
it would involve sweeps. But on the al side, you
could see both the Jays and the Mariners move on.
But the Yankees might have a little bit of momentum
tonight after that come from behind victory.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, So let's start there, Yankees with the big
come from behind. When what do you expect to see tomorrow?
Is it the Blue Jays hammering the Yankees pitching again,
or are we going to get the Cam Schlitzler that
we saw a week ago.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I think that Cam Schlitller is equal to the moment. Man,
he has elite stuff. And think about what a difference
we have here in that the Jays will be going
with something of a bullpen game that they'll will lately
see a lot of Eric Lawer tomorrow. But there's no
question that started pitching matchup favors the Yankees. And then
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on top of that you add the fact that Aaron
Judge has now had what I would describe as his
biggest postseason moment in a Yankee uniform, bas saving saving
their season, tying the game with an epic playoff home run.
This is now the stage is set for just what
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I think is going to be a really compelling game.
Of course, that the game i'llbe it will be the
early one Tigers Mariners three o'clock, but man, that's seven
o'clock game. We're about to find out if Cam Schlitzler
is now a certifiable Yankee icon. He had one iconic
performance already, but but now pretty student, guys, if he
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can send this series back to Toronto with the performance
tomorrow night, my goodness, start start start shizzling. The Monument
Park right now.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
No, it's just the crazy thing is we're sitting there
watching this game unfold it. One, it seemed like it
took like nine hours to get to our finish for one.
But even we're watching as Rodn is getting beat up,
is like, why why have we not gone to the
to the showers? Why are we not on to the pen?
It ends up working out JP but as we're first
guessing it first blush on both sides, managers were a
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little load to make the changes today.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's a hard job, my friends. It's a hard job.
And this is where again sign me up for watching
these games tomorrow, because when you're in a situation where
Rodin goes only two and a third and then on
the Jays side, Bieber goes two and two thirds, and
you were thinking that he was going to be able
to get a lot deeper in the game, yep, when
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he had that comfortable lead, but of course he wasn't
able to do it. So now for tomorrow, you do
like the Yankees overall setup because they've got a true
starting pitcher, whereas the Jays have to go with this
combination plan for tomorrow. And I just think that going
I think to answer your question why Boone and the
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Yankees waited to make the decision on Rodan, I think
had a lot to do with just not wanting to
tax the bullpen too much too early, especially in an
elimination game, and realized that you might not be able
to go quite as long with Schlittler tomorrow as you did,
and to start against the Red Sox. But I just
think that every decision that you see managers make, it's
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not just about the guy on the mound. It's managing
for the rest of the series. And I just think
at this point in time, Boone wanted to be a
little extra careful. Didn't work out in the moment, but
in the end worked out just fine. And now I
think the big question when everybody shows up the Yankee
Stadium tomorrow is just with it? After all the believers
were used on both sides, who's available? How are they feeling?
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And you're now deep enough into the series to where
you've had multiple looks at relievers and the advantage starts
to swing out to the offensive players in a situation
like this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You know that's the thing, John Paul, is that the
one common bond for this playoffs is that how much
managers stick with their guys for too long? Right, Like
the Blue Jays needed to make a move earlier, the
Yankees need to make a move earlier. It's a winner,
go home game, and and Dave Roberts needed to go
right to Roki Sasaki last night. And it's like they
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still are managing, like, hey, I'm managing this game, and
what's going on after? It's this is a send you
home game, or this is a stay alive game, or
this is a we're taking control of the series and
not giving it back game. And still I see, you know,
Aaron Boone managing like, hey, you know, we still have
another week of baseball left, and Dave Roberts managing like
he wants to give the game away. Like I don't
understand how managers aren't a little bit more quicker to say, hey,
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this guy doesn't have it. We can't afford to wait
any longer. Like you said, it worked out for Aaron
Boone tonight, but wow, was that a big mistake? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And I think on the on the Toronto side, it
really was a bummer for them that that biab couldn't
go deeper because they I think their whole schematic for
how they were were going to manage these games was
that Biab was gonna take them deep and that if
they even if they lost, it's the game that it
would least be with with Beaver throwing five or six
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innings and then and then having a fresh and rest
at ten to support Lower tomorrow. Uh, It's it's not
that at all. And remember there's no bass, there's no
shirts around the on the roster, and they had to
use one half a dozen relievers to get through the
rest of the game. So I think that when when
you see managers make decisions that you don't think are
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are all that logical, there's usually a reason that has
to do with how a certain reliever that the other
option is feeling, or or maybe they don't like the
way that our reliever's pitch profile and spin sets up
against a particular lane in the lineup. I think there's
often extenuating circumstances. But I get what you're saying, and
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that in the moment you're seeing Rodin give up all
those runs early and you're wondering, Okay, Aaron, this is
your season. You're down six to one, what are we
doing here? Uh? And and I think that ultimately Boone
was bailed out in a big way by Aaron Judge,
and that, by the way, what you expect an MVP
player to do. I thought it was interesting Judge Homers tonight,
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Raley Homers tonight, Laddie Junior Homers tonight. There's there's big
moments and massive swings all around the American League playoffs,
except from the Tigers until the ninth inning when they
made a little bit of a rally. But the Tigers
have some serious work to do tomorrow against Bryce Miller,
the very impressive young Texan right handed JAP.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Before we get to the other two series, let's go
back to that Seattle Detroit. You need a little more
from Casey Meies. Is your dad gonna go or is
he can now convinced he's bad luck?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
No? No, no, it has nothing new bad luck. He's uh.
I don't think Dad to be able to make it
to tomorrow's game in person, but that has more to
do with his schedule than his lack of faith. I
think he remains very optimistic. I also think that when
you look at these two lineups, Seattle just has more
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firepower and Miz is going to have to have a
legacy start to be able to win this game. It's
certainly possible. Miller is on the Seattle side, it's giving
up some home runs, so it's plausible the Tigers can
find a way to win this game and then get
Scooble one more start there in Seattle and potentially win
Game five. But uh, there's I think you look at
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Seattle's lineup, probably the best three or four offensive players
so far in this series are all playing for the
Seattle Mariners, and usually when that's the case, when it's
that imbalance, uh, it's just going to be really hard
for the Tigers to come up unless unless Miz just
deals tomorrow, which is possible. Is a former number one
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overall pick. If that's some great starts, he's been an
All Star this season. Casey Mize needs to have just
a really great, really great start to keep the ball down. Obviously,
with those splitters against against cal Rawley, I think that's
the matchup I'm gonna watch carefully. What does he do
against Jay? What did you do against Raleigh Suarez? Homer tonight,
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Crawford Homer tonight. There's just a lot of really good
vibes up and down the Mariner lineup and not at
all the same story for the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Henely Network insider John Paul Morosi with US Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
let's head to the Dodgers Phillies. Dodgers go for the closer.
The Phillies. Bryce Harper's not hitting, Kyle Schwarber's not hitting.
Dave Roberts has found a way to move on despite
the fact he brings in every reliever and they can't
get any outs. Does the script change at all tomorrow
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or are we talking about the Dodgers moving on in
a sweep.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I think the Dodgers in the series tomorrow. I really do.
I like the pitching matchup favorite the Dodgers. Those relievers
who have thrown a ton of innings are now getting
a day of rest. It looks like the Socki's gonna
be their guy light in the game. The Phillies still
have a plenty of talent, and on some level, you
gotta wait and see how it plays out. I love
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the way the Harper answers the question about the Philly
fans and the way that this has become a kind
of a complicated and rather negative scenario all of a
sudden in what I always consider to be the best
playoff environment in baseball, which is Philly. But you look
at the way that he talked about and Bryce basically said,
it's the passion of the fans, It's what's fueling you,
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and and the Phillies just are not able to meet
the moment right now. It's I don't think that's anything
to do with the fans or any anything else beyond
just a few of their key hitters are not hitting.
They were not able to execute in a big spot,
and with the wheel plays, the Dodgers executed really well.
And so I just think that the Dodgers are playing
better baseball. They're they're hitting their stride at the right time.
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The Phillies are going into a funk at the absolute
worst time. And my big question is do they do
anything different? Does the lineups look look different at all? Obviously,
would they contemplate having shore we play in the outfit
the ability to get Vater's bat in there, because the
way that baters has hit the ball really well, But
of course that the injury that's crept up. If I'm
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Rob Thompson, I'm thinking about anything and everything I can
do just to shake this team up a little bit.
There's still plenty of talent in there. They just have
not clicked at this point in the season. So it's
to me. I still think the Dodgers find a way
to win this game, but I do not expect the Phillies,
with all that professionalism, to go quietly into that good night.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Finally, the other series two to oh Milwaukee over Chicago
tie on trying to stop and give an extra fun
day in Wrigleyville.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Can they stave off elimination?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
They can, but I think the Brewers are the better team.
Whether the Cubs find a way to win Game three,
I think it's inevitable right now that the Brewers are
going to win this series. They're just they're so athletic.
They've got Yellich who they didn't have at this time
last year. Their young players have emerged. Curio was able
to avoid any sort of injury, and he comes back
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and has a great swing in Game two. I just
I like the way this this Brewers team sets up.
They're just so athletic, and they're relentless. Pretty sure has been.
The guys just won a ton of games for them
this season. I think I have a men's respect for
James and ty On and I just think that at
the end of the day, the Brewers have have the
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better team, the more athletic team. Uh and and when
you consider all the talent that they've lost and and
having a Domins leaving free agency and trading Devin Williams
for them to be I think even better collective team
this year than they were last year is just a
tremendous tribute to Pat Murphy, Matt Arnold. This, this Brewers
team is very very special.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Finally, in the well, we we love to play with words,
Jason is writing a treatise on outlawing the bunt?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Would you sign on to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Of that the bund is an important play and if
the Phillies that executed it better or differently, and that
they might have won game too. I love the bunch.
We got to keep the bunch in play and maybe
if the if the Mets had done a little more
fun thaing, they'd still be playing. Right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Oh, Josh okay, you and I are going to do
a podcast about the bunt and how out of date
it is and the team shouldn't do it anymore. We're
gonna do a podcast on that at some point.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You gotta be able to execute sometimes and go to
the bun. We don't see it often enough. I'm a
big fan of it, and my hope is that we
see the bunch come back, bring back the fund. Let's
let's make that a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
He's MLB Network gettings out of John Palmer, Rosie. John
paul Is always appreciate this time, Bible. We'll talk to
you later on this week as we got more baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Looking forward to you guys, call me anytime, my friends,
and I gotta give you the prediction. I believe it
is lions and cheese on Sunday. Right, A good tick
on that one later in the week.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
All right, all right, we'll.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Get that from you next and more baseball. He's John
Palmer ROSI have a good goal tomorrow, brother and consoling
his dad right now.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, you know coming up next.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, we'll have more baseball, but a huge football story
from today that really makes you scratch your head. That's next,
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
Here comes to Snowman. Snowman call look out, leam Meason
and Pam and olaf was made and he's hanging with them.
I like warm hugs. Gonna take your inhaler and waste
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it all Outiler alert, oiler alert, Jason, how do you
feel about three ways? With or without a snowman?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
With a snowman?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
With a snowman? Sure, little chili though, little cold, A
little cold, It's okay, you can warm up. I have asthma,
so I'm a little scared. I would I would go
back to the original Frosty having a sauna.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Close the door.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Good luck, Frosty. Oh, boy, that got dark. You know,
you know, here's here's how Frosty the Snowman hasn't aged?
Is that happy?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
No? No room?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Do you remember? Okay? So Frosty the snome obviously naked
gun references which the whole thing with a snowman in
the three way? Okay, naked gun, naked gun, the new one. Uh,
it's holiday. The little girl right? Who is with Frosty
the whole time? What's her name? I Hamerson? Karen?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Is there? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It's Karen, so it really? Every time he says, oh,
but I don't feel good, Karen, Karen.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That was all the money we have about Karen. Like
every time I've watched that a million times, it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Karen gets like, oh man, you need you need to
put a new Uh you need to put a new
name in there. Your voiceover? What's wrong? Melissa? I don't understand,
but kess.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The train continues northward.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Karen starts to get hypothermia, and Frosty realizes she cannot
withstand the extreme cold.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Frosty, I'm cold. Quit being such a Karen. We're gonna
be there soon. What do you want a blanket? I'm
a snowman he'll carry a blanket. Just be quiet, sniffle
over there?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What about me?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Think about me when the sun comes out? I could die.
You're just a little cold here because we're on a
train that we hopped like we're hobos. How about trying
to get some place? What do you think, Karen? Yeah?
Not not not not aging, not not aging.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Well, you know, the the woman that did the voice
for for Karen was uh ultimately grandmother.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Fa In Mulan. Okay, and a.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Bunch of other voice acting work through the years, but
some pretty big roles and are all started with Karen Karen.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Then she got to be on be uh Mulan with
Donnie Osmond somehow. Ah, make a man.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Tell you what.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You go to any karaoke joint in the Greater Los
Angeles area at some point later on at the night,
you are going to find a bunch of theater kids
that that breaks out mulan.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, wow, wow, because I would do Soldier of Love
like a thief and whoever you know Donnie Osmond who
can't get enough clap? I I am willing to fight
because I'm a soldier of Depending on the bar, it's
bigger than Sweet Caroline or any of the other states.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Really sometimes it becomes like a Disney Hour and it
just goes into oblivion. Oh now, Disney Hour, I'd like
to see like that that it starts going into it soon,
like like bikers.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Hey, let's get a Mama Odie song going yeah, yeah,
you gotta dag a little deeper. Still disappointed that they
needed a better story. Eh, you know what I mean,
You've had a lot of stories.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You killed off the shadow Man and they wanted to
go part of the voodoo or anything.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's been a minute. I told you when I saw
Keith David and restaurant on was right. That was so cool.
That was what I want to have a beer with.
That one of the coolest. Uh So, look, one of
the biggest football stories of the day. We'll get to
Joe Flacco's trade in a few minutes, but can't he
be elite again? Eight seven seven, Cardinal's head coach Jonathan
Gannon was fined one hundred thousand dollars for his interaction
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with running back and Marry Demricado after Demarcado's horrendously bad
decision to drop the football before crossing the goal line
Sunday in what turned out to be the Cardinals loss
to the then winless Tennessee Titans. The video you've probably
seen this. He gets really in Demricado's face and yells
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at him and then kind of bumps him on the
way out as he's being consoled by a teammate. Okay,
he gets one hundred thousand dollars fine again and apologize
to Demricado. Now something different about this, right, Just something
different because I look at this and yet do I
see things from a coaching perspective. I kind of do
now after being a youth coach for so long and
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understanding this is that I know in this situation right here,
I get how mad you are. I really do. I
get how mad you are at this point. I'm not
gonna try to say I'm putting myself position of an
NFL coach, but I get how mad you are. I
get that you had a touchdown that really would have
put the game away, but instead your guy decides I'm
gonna flip the ball, and again, it makes no sense.
This keeps happening in the NFL. I have no answer
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for you. I don't know why players who do this
are stupid. I don't know why they do it, but
they do. I really don't know why. I don't know
if something comes over them, if they feel like they
need to have this cool celebration. I don't know what
it is. I don't know what it is, but it
still happens. And I don't know how coaches can't tamp
down on this and say, you know what, guys, no
one do this anymore. I don't know why you do this. Right,
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it's two weeks in a row. We've seen it now.
Ad Nai Mitchell barely played last week because his whole Hey,
I'm going to drop the football before he crossed the
goal line, costing the game against the Rams. Right, this
costing the game against the Titans. This is not stuff
that happens over the course. Again, well, no, these two
players cost your team's games, and I don't get why
it happens. So I get being mad. I get being
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mad at players. I understand this, But when you walk over,
you're the head coach for a reason, right this, You're
the head coach. You're not the OC, you're not the
running backs coach. You're you're the head coach. And you
see how your player is standing, and you see he's
got his shoulders slumped and it's teammate has his arm
around him. At that point, you have to realize he
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knows what he did was wrong, and I can deal
with this later. I do not need to deal with
this and make this more emotional or a worse situation now,
because I may need this guy the rest of the game,
or I could just very simply bench him and talk
to him after out of sight, and that's we really
address this. Okay, those are all things that could have
even should have happened in the moment. I get that
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some coaches get mad. I get that it's the running
backs coach's job to get mad when the head coach can't,
or the offense coordinator's job to get mad, whatever it is.
But the head coach, when you're the head coach coming
over doing this, like what's happening here, all this sideline
has completely lost it when the head coach is the
one going over here, so you know the fine, I
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don't think it's necessary, I really, because you know, all
of a sudden, now, hey, he did this horrible thing
cause a team a game, and the coach is the
guy getting fined for it. But I understand that this
is not something that hey, it's a bad optic, especially
when you make contact with the player. I get that
part of it, but the whole overwhelming arch to me
is is not the fine and what he should get it.
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It's that you're the guy that needs to move past
this moment and get the team. Hey, okay, it happened.
We'll deal with it after. We'll deal it after and
let's go on and let's figure things out for the
rest of this game. I can be as mad as
I want to you after the game, when the cameras
aren't on. You're in my office, we talk or you know,
me and a couple of coaches and you are there
and we talk about this, or maybe you get bench.
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Maybe I'm cutting you and I'm gonna yell at you.
But right now, at this point, to get there, that
doesn't help anybody. It doesn't help you, it doesn't help
the team. And all it does is so chaos on
the sideline. And what happened after this, Arizona gave away
the game and they lost. So that's more. I look
at this as I see this as Jonathan Gannon's got
to know better than to even get in this situation.
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It's not the first time he's seen a player make
a really bad play. First time you've seen something like
this is a head coach. Yeah, okay, I get that,
But that's why you're the head coach. This is what
you get paid the big money for. You're the guy
that says, okay when bad things happen. I got to
make sure we are still going towards the end goal,
which is to win this football game. And that's what
I disagree with on this, the whole money thing in
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the fine. Yeah, okay, I see it. But that's the
part that really gets me. That's what he needs to
know better about.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
It's the making example of him with the fine. And
you know, the the optics of it were awful, and
certainly folks took it to the extreme of how does
he punch a guy like you're like punch a guy
more a forum? Sure, if he'd come up and he'd
done a tell him big man kind of thing and
slapped his shoulder pads, is that better? Is it's the
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same end is that you've lost your composure on the sideline. Yeah,
And I mean, because look, football is a physical gap
and you can't you know, look, you can't you can't
just completely blow off when someone makes contact with somebody
else in assilment. But it is it is a very
emotional game, and it's not like he threw a punch
at him. But I also get that it's a bad
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optic that a coach is making and he's he's on
purpose bumping a player as he goes by, screams it
was like, I need you, come on, let's go. But
unfortunately that's not that's not what it is. That's not
what you did.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
It's kind of a punk move, like when like when
you don't want to fight somebody and and you're in
a bar or something, you're in a parking lot. You're like, yeah, yeah,
you're not gonna do anything to me, and and the
guy walks by and gives him the and gives them
that shot with a shoulder, knowing that the other guy's
not gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
What it is he's doing his I mean, trying to
figure out what the hell he just did, uh, and
what it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Means he's not gonna Chad powers him. I mean, that's
not gonna happen. Got to get his program under control. Man,
things have gone to hell or happening in Oregon.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Chad powers go watch it, you'll understand what I'm talking about.
But when when it comes down to it, you've got
a roster and and I get a Gannon's feeling the
heat because you've had an off season. They went heavy
on the defensive side of things, expectations that Murray and
Marvin Harrison Junior were gonna step forward.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You gotta a.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Find and McBride, who's become one of the best tight
ends in the game. And at running back, you thought
you were set right you had Connor and then you
had Benson and guess what, they're both gone. So all
of a sudden, you're going down to Michael Carter, ex
Jet and de Mercado. So his opportunity and he didn't
have many of them, didn't have many carries in that game,
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and it has the big breakout moment. It's like, that's
what he is. He's a home run hitter. And he
made the play and then didn't finish the play. That
game would have essentially iced it. You might have had
the absolute quit on the other side. Instead, you're energized
and then you have the other nonsensical play of the
(27:37):
day from the defensive interception followed by a fumble falling
on in the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I mean, you.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Can't script it anymore than maybe on Chad Powers. But
when it gets down to it for again, and you're
feeling the heat because there were expectations for this season
in the past that have not been There's been the
wishing and hoping that you creep towards five hundred. But
here you are in year three. The referendum out on
on Kyler Murray and what he can and can't do.
(28:03):
Limitations as a player at this point in terms of
the passing game and whether he's slowing down a little
bit as a runner, so that element of his game
starting to be compromised a little bit. The defense has
played its role for the most part this year. They've
been pretty good so the but the margins aren't there.
So when you have a.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Mistake of that magnitude, I get it. The frustration is there.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
However, however, you've got to you gotta keep it together,
as you said, whether it's halftime, whether it's the set
you know, the end of game, whether he just sits
in isolation on a bench for a while, Yeah, you
got a game to coach.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, because there's certain mistakes that go along with this
happened in the game, and afterwards, we'll correct them, right,
Like he a lot of that from Aaron Glenn last
we go, oh, whatever is wrong, we'll correct them. Yeah, okay,
but then you start making all new ones or or
you keep making the same old ones. So really that's
the thing. Okay, mistakes are made. How do we correct
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it after right? And so this is a mistake that's
made that you need to correct after right, of course,
But the biggest thing is that this is something where
you have to be better in the moment. And again,
this is why you're a head coach. You have to
be better in a moment here, in that moment, because
there's lots of things that can happen right at that moment. Right,
you can either you can either find a way to
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galvanize a team, keep them focused and go win the game,
or you could continue to so chaos on the sideline,
which is what happened here, and no surprise, they went
on to give the game away.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Sometimes it's like okay, I know, oh, you know, don't
judge it. No, Sometimes you have to be judging the
moment when this is your job, when you're the head coach,
you have to be judged in the moment to make
those decisions. What makes great head coaches and what makes
bad head coaches. Oh you know I'm learning. I'm learning. Yeah,
but you can't keep learning. You have to know instinctually
what to do and how to react to a situation.
And this you're seeing, this was just like a million
(29:56):
like coming down the tunnel, you know, like a fastball
down the middle. Like he's got a no walking over there.
See the body language, See the situation that Demriccatto was
there with his head slumped. He knows he screwed up.
You can still yell at him. Later he's got a
teammate with his arm around him. That is like, I
just I see where he is, right. You have to
know in that moment, Okay, Demricado's in one place mentally,
(30:17):
and it's a really bad place because one of the
players has his arm around him as is talking to him,
so I know is yelling at him. Gonna do what's
it gonna do other than make me feel and get
that that that upset and that anger out of me
out right, That's all that's going to do. That helped
him in the moment. That must have that must have
felt great for Jonathan again and say, oh, I'm so
mad and now I'm gonna go find him on the
(30:38):
sideline and do it. But it's quite anoh thing to go. Okay,
I guess you felt great about that, But did that
help the team at all? Right? It's it's like when
you say something snide to a friend or something because
you really want a one line you're met and you
say something's like, b I can't take it. Felt good
at the moment, but man, I probably shouldn't have said that, right.
I probably shouldn't have said that I got a whole
book text or something else.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You got a really good or so.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But this is but there's a time where he had
to be better in the moment, and he was not
better in the moment.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Expectations great power comes great responsibility.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Spider Man exit out about a Fresca exit swolling down
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios, tiy not to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports with someone who's
been called the Amari Demricado of Fox Sports Radio. I've
seen him walk down the hall and drop things. Early
as well. It's Steve de Sega.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Some of us had him on the fantasy team and
we're like a yard short of six points for the
touchdown by the way from.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
To win and I lost that one too.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Now I made it up, made up for it with
the garbage touchdown from Jaydon Daniels at the end of
the game. Fantasy football, you can always get a garbage
touchdown and then winning lose. What a night for baseball playoffs.
As the Yankees come back to beat Toronto nine to six,
they're still alive. That means not only do we have
four games on the baseball schedule for tomorrow, we could
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have all four series end on the same day tomorrow.
That has not happened all on the same day since
nineteen ninety six. But here the Yankees win nine to
six this series. After all, the Toronto offense at home
sees Yankees offense at home. This is the first series
in postseason history where one of the teams scored at
least nine runs each of the first three games. It's
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Blue Jays two games to one and Toronto was up
six to one early. Vladimir Guerrero Junior homewred for a
third straight game, but Aaron Judge, who had three hits
four RBIs tied at six to six in the fourth
with a three run shot off the left field foul pool.
Yankees are still alive amazingly in the last thirty years
of Yankee playoffs, when they're down five runs or more,
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they've still won four different times, not just tonight, but
famously in the nineteen ninety six World Series come back
at Atlanta as well. Seattle is up two games to
one in its best of five Division series after winning
it Detroit eight to four. That was an eight to
one lead in the top of the ninth after a
two run homer by Cal Rawley. Mariners hits three home runs.
(33:00):
That game was on FS two after about a three
hour rain delay at the start. Game four on FS
one Wednesday three pm Eastern Time, and then FS one
will have the Yankees hosting Toronto in a Game four
on Wednesday night. The two NL Division series each resume tomorrow.
Fox got the rights to the next Springs World Baseball Classic,
by the way, including the final on Fox TV. In March.
(33:23):
From Miami, the Bengals acquired quarterback Joe Flacco from Cleveland.
Cincinnati's lost three straight games with quarterback Jake Browning. Joe
Burrow is injured, Cincinnati cut quarterback Brett Rippon. Rookie Shodour
Sanders is now listed as the Browns back at quarterback,
and the Colt sign kicker Michael Badgeley Andie Spencer Schraders
out for the year with two torn knee ligaments. Cowboys
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owner Jerry Jones was fined two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for what he called an inadvertent gesture to fans.
Dallas could appeal this week. There are three NHL season
openers Tonight, end of two at La Colorado leads the
Kings three to nothing, Pittsburgh three nothing winner at the Rangers,
and Florida edge Chicago three to two. The best of
(34:05):
seven WNBA finals continue with Las Vegas at Phoenix Wednesday
and Friday. Vegas leads two games to none.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next.
We had a big quarterback trade today in the NFL,
and yeah we got a hot take to go along
with it. That's next right here, Jason, Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
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Speaker 1 (34:33):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. I'm your poppy Chulo. Wow, we got
more baseball coming up. At twelve minutes. Aaron Judges Aaron
Judges World, everybody else is just living in it gone.
My dad is very excited. Your dad wasn't awake now, No,
he just texted me. He is so excited. He goes,
(34:54):
I'm gonna be up until eleven. Why isn't he calling in? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Why is he called in?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Oh, come on, it's my dad. No, my dad can't
call in right now. My dad cannot call in. He
used to call all the time. Well that relationship. It's
a Yankee game. My dad has been watching the game
(35:20):
for the last seven hours that it went on. My
dad cannot come on the air right now and talk
to us.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Was your dad hanging out with one of the official
sponsors of the NBA that was brought and put to prominence.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Stead Maybe on another night, but right now is not
a time for my dad to come all right, Just
to let you know, there's other times with good morn hey,
that could be great, could be great, not right now,
but he is very I think there's something else going on.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
No, no, no, I think so can we get him
on and try to see how many times.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
He can say the word schlittler tomorrow. No, no, see
how Walt and he'll say I could say it. However,
I want to right because it's your show, and you won't.
Dad doesn't drink schlitz. Come on, My dad's a Guinness guy.
He wants to watch the Guinness so good, get the
(36:11):
Guinness House. He wants to watch just because about Guinness. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
No, a great show, fantastic start to it, unhinged. Wow,
there's a lot going on. Roast beef and the glass.
My dad says, Guinness is fantastic. I can't wait to
go back to Ireland.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
But big trade in the NFL today as Joe Flacco
in the rare intra divisional trade goes to the Bengals.
They swap late round picks the Browns and the Bengals
do so. Now that Joe Flacco era is over in Cleveland,
it's all Dylan Gabriel and and probably should have were
Sanders at some point, and.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Deshaun Watson's still there. Don't forget two big points on this.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
My evil plan of how the Browns will start five
quarterbacks this year is right on time. On through the
first month of the season. I've already seen two guys start.
They can't go back to Flacco now, so the next
guy is gonna be somebody new when it's Shador Sanders,
and then it's Bailey Zappy and then someone that's not
on the roster who will play it sometime late in December.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Yeah, but we never got the Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
They killed Kenny, but doesn't got you. I'm still gonna
get five quarterbacks starting for the Browns, and right on time.
One month, two guys down, another month, two more guys down.
We get it in November. I'm playing with free money.
It's gonna be awesome. Shuffle up and deal five guys.
It's happening. It's happening. But now I want a burger.
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You want a hot take? You want a hot take? Sure,
Joe Flacco heading to Cincinnati. They had to do so well.
We talked of this for a few weeks. Now, then
the Bengals must Mike Brown must listen to the show. Hey,
you gotta get a quarterback. You can't. You gave got
a lot of guys money this year. You can't just
give things away, can't give the season away. Joe Flacco
is gonna hit the ground running with Cincinnati and it's
(38:00):
gonna be like when he came off his couch in
twenty twenty three and led the Browns to the playoffs,
when the Browns started I think four quarterbacks they started
that year and somehow made the play One of the
great coaching jobs in NFL history, Kevin Stefanski going through
all those guys getting the playoffs. Flacco was really good.
He was dynamic. This is the impact he's gonna have
on this Bengals team right away. If I like Russell Wilson,
(38:23):
I don't like Russell Wilson at all, But if I
like Russell Wilson on the Bengals, the moon ball Jamar Chase,
I am really in on Flaco. He's gonna have this
much more vertical passing game. It's gonna open things up
for Chase, open things up for t Higgins. Chase Brown
is gonna find more room to run. The weapons of
the Bengals are going to be get a jump and
(38:45):
a jolt from this signing because Flacco still knows where
to go with the football. He can still deliver it deep.
He's that kind of guy. And the Bengals weapons, they're
big three, are pretty bleep and talented. So yeah, this
is gonna be some case, some case where hey, all
of us sudden, the Bengals office is gonna look Hellen
gone from where it was. It's why did we do
this a couple of weeks ago? Look at Joe Flacco.
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It's not gonna take him a lot of time to
get used to the playbook. All the x's and O.
Flacco's gonna be fine. He's dynamic, and you will see
an immediate leap in production from the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
I'll have to go back through their strength to schedule
going forward, going back to that magical year that was
twenty twenty three. He had four to three hundred yard
games passed for thirteen touchdowns against eight picks. Overall, you
look at the Juggernaut that they beat up on. You
played the Rams. That was a loss that got thumped
(39:37):
the Jaguars. This year's field good team the Bears.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I mean, come on here, this year's field good team.
They were just off last week. No well, I mean
people ride the lightning with them.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Houston and the Jets, those are the teams en route.
We also had five different quarterbacks that year.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Was it five?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Five guys again? Five guys Flacco, Deshaun Watson, yep, PJ. Walker. Yeah,
the DTR experience, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And you
had one game of Jeff Driscoll. No, Jeff Driscoll started
a game thirteen of twenty six on that one. Did
you say, TJ, TJ. Remember when Jeff Driscoll was going
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to be the starting quarterback of the Buccaneers and they said, oh,
we got bigger Mayfield instead, Well, you know Driscoll. And
then you had, uh, who was the other guy they drafted?
Kyle Trask get drafted, They get rid exactly, Joe Flacco,
all good things coming for the Bengal because he played
defense the Bengals offense. More big takes from the MLBNI
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the Yankees snatch victory from the jaws of defeat a
six to one deficit in the third inning, it looked
like it was over nine six is your final? Aaron
Judges three run Homer big solo home run by Jazz
(01:13):
Chisholm to give the Yankees the lead, and they turned
that six to one deficit into a nine to six win.
Joining us down the hot line for everything major League
Baseball playoffs? What to expect next? A man who once
again is joining us in a very difficult day. He
may have actually stolen cal Rawley's home run ball. No
(01:35):
guy that wanted the ball hit to him and maybe
giving it to his dad as a souvenir to say, Hey, Dad,
I'm sorry the Tigers lost, but Dad, here's a cal
Raley home run ball. You want to go blow it
up in the backyard. You can. It is MLB Network
insider extraordinaire, longtime front of the Show, John Paul Morossi,
John Paul, what's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Man, Jason and Mike. I am doing great, my friends,
Yes I am. Indeed, in Michigan, I was able to
cover a season baseball game myself as a broadcaster for
the first time in my home state. Actually, the last
game that I covered, the last postseason game I actually
covered in Detroit was in twenty twelve. I realized there
(02:12):
have been postseason games in Detroit since then, but I
was not actually at any of them. Since twenty twelve,
so I feel very grateful. And I watched this game
with my dad actually, so I was pre imposted, but
during the game I was getting Actually watched the game
with my dad at the ballparks. That was pretty cool,
cool father son moment. Not a great result of the Tigers,
but the Mariners a very likable team cal Riley, Logan
(02:36):
Gilbert where our postgame interview guests. So a very fun
night at the ballpark despite the loss of the home team.
And now we see what I really am excited about tomorrow,
which is, my friend, a game, A day of four
different games, still all pretending up, all potential clinchers. Now
that's the really interesting part. Now on the nationally side,
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of course, for all to be clear, which is what
it would involve sweeps. But on the al side, you
could see both the Jays and the Mariners move on.
But the Yankees might have a little bit of momentum
tonight after that come from behind victory.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, So let's start there, Yankees with the big
come from behind. When what do you expect to see tomorrow?
Is it the Blue Jays hammering the Yankees pitching again,
or are we going to get the Cam Schlitzler that
we saw a week ago.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I think that Cam Schlitller is equal to the moment. Man,
he has elite stuff. And think about what a difference
we have here in that the Jays will be going
with something of a bullpen game that they'll will lately
see a lot of Eric Lawer tomorrow. But there's no
question that started pitching matchup favors the Yankees. And then
(03:50):
on top of that you add the fact that Aaron
Judge has now had what I would describe as his
biggest postseason moment in a Yankee uniform, bas saving saving
their season, tying the game with an epic playoff home run.
This is now the stage is set for just what
(04:10):
I think is going to be a really compelling game.
Of course, that the game i'llbe it will be the
early one Tigers Mariners three o'clock, but man, that's seven
o'clock game. We're about to find out if Cam Schlitzler
is now a certifiable Yankee icon. He had one iconic
performance already, but but now pretty student, guys, if he
(04:31):
can send this series back to Toronto with the performance
tomorrow night, my goodness, start start start shizzling. The Monument
Park right now.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
No, it's just the crazy thing is we're sitting there
watching this game unfold it. One, it seemed like it
took like nine hours to get to our finish for one.
But even we're watching as Rodn is getting beat up,
is like, why why have we not gone to the
to the showers? Why are we not on to the pen?
It ends up working out JP but as we're first
guessing it first blush on both sides, managers were a
(05:07):
little load to make the changes today.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's a hard job, my friends. It's a hard job.
And this is where again sign me up for watching
these games tomorrow, because when you're in a situation where
Rodin goes only two and a third and then on
the Jays side, Bieber goes two and two thirds, and
you were thinking that he was going to be able
to get a lot deeper in the game, yep, when
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he had that comfortable lead, but of course he wasn't
able to do it. So now for tomorrow, you do
like the Yankees overall setup because they've got a true
starting pitcher, whereas the Jays have to go with this
combination plan for tomorrow. And I just think that going
I think to answer your question why Boone and the
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Yankees waited to make the decision on Rodan, I think
had a lot to do with just not wanting to
tax the bullpen too much too early, especially in an
elimination game, and realized that you might not be able
to go quite as long with Schlittler tomorrow as you did,
and to start against the Red Sox. But I just
think that every decision that you see managers make, it's
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not just about the guy on the mound. It's managing
for the rest of the series. And I just think
at this point in time, Boone wanted to be a
little extra careful. Didn't work out in the moment, but
in the end worked out just fine. And now I
think the big question when everybody shows up the Yankee
Stadium tomorrow is just with it? After all the believers
were used on both sides, who's available? How are they feeling?
(06:38):
And you're now deep enough into the series to where
you've had multiple looks at relievers and the advantage starts
to swing out to the offensive players in a situation
like this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You know that's the thing, John Paul, is that the
one common bond for this playoffs is that how much
managers stick with their guys for too long? Right, Like
the Blue Jays needed to make a move earlier, the
Yankees need to make a move earlier. It's a winner,
go home game, and and Dave Roberts needed to go
right to Roki Sasaki last night. And it's like they
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still are managing, like, hey, I'm managing this game, and
what's going on after? It's this is a send you
home game, or this is a stay alive game, or
this is a we're taking control of the series and
not giving it back game. And still I see, you know,
Aaron Boone managing like, hey, you know, we still have
another week of baseball left, and Dave Roberts managing like
he wants to give the game away. Like I don't
understand how managers aren't a little bit more quicker to say, hey,
(07:33):
this guy doesn't have it. We can't afford to wait
any longer. Like you said, it worked out for Aaron
Boone tonight, but wow, was that a big mistake? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And I think on the on the Toronto side, it
really was a bummer for them that that biab couldn't
go deeper because they I think their whole schematic for
how they were were going to manage these games was
that Biab was gonna take them deep and that if
they even if they lost, it's the game that it
would least be with with Beaver throwing five or six
(08:03):
innings and then and then having a fresh and rest
at ten to support Lower tomorrow. Uh, It's it's not
that at all. And remember there's no bass, there's no
shirts around the on the roster, and they had to
use one half a dozen relievers to get through the
rest of the game. So I think that when when
you see managers make decisions that you don't think are
(08:27):
are all that logical, there's usually a reason that has
to do with how a certain reliever that the other
option is feeling, or or maybe they don't like the
way that our reliever's pitch profile and spin sets up
against a particular lane in the lineup. I think there's
often extenuating circumstances. But I get what you're saying, and
(08:48):
that in the moment you're seeing Rodin give up all
those runs early and you're wondering, Okay, Aaron, this is
your season. You're down six to one, what are we
doing here? Uh? And and I think that ultimately Boone
was bailed out in a big way by Aaron Judge,
and that, by the way, what you expect an MVP
player to do. I thought it was interesting Judge Homers tonight,
(09:11):
Raley Homers tonight, Laddie Junior Homers tonight. There's there's big
moments and massive swings all around the American League playoffs,
except from the Tigers until the ninth inning when they
made a little bit of a rally. But the Tigers
have some serious work to do tomorrow against Bryce Miller,
the very impressive young Texan right handed JAP.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Before we get to the other two series, let's go
back to that Seattle Detroit. You need a little more
from Casey Meies. Is your dad gonna go or is
he can now convinced he's bad luck?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
No? No, no, it has nothing new bad luck. He's uh.
I don't think Dad to be able to make it
to tomorrow's game in person, but that has more to
do with his schedule than his lack of faith. I
think he remains very optimistic. I also think that when
you look at these two lineups, Seattle just has more
(10:01):
firepower and Miz is going to have to have a
legacy start to be able to win this game. It's
certainly possible. Miller is on the Seattle side, it's giving
up some home runs, so it's plausible the Tigers can
find a way to win this game and then get
Scooble one more start there in Seattle and potentially win
Game five. But uh, there's I think you look at
(10:21):
Seattle's lineup, probably the best three or four offensive players
so far in this series are all playing for the
Seattle Mariners, and usually when that's the case, when it's
that imbalance, uh, it's just going to be really hard
for the Tigers to come up unless unless Miz just
deals tomorrow, which is possible. Is a former number one
(10:42):
overall pick. If that's some great starts, he's been an
All Star this season. Casey Mize needs to have just
a really great, really great start to keep the ball down. Obviously,
with those splitters against against cal Rawley, I think that's
the matchup I'm gonna watch carefully. What does he do
against Jay? What did you do against Raleigh Suarez? Homer tonight,
(11:03):
Crawford Homer tonight. There's just a lot of really good
vibes up and down the Mariner lineup and not at
all the same story for the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Henely Network insider John Paul Morosi with US Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
let's head to the Dodgers Phillies. Dodgers go for the closer.
The Phillies. Bryce Harper's not hitting, Kyle Schwarber's not hitting.
Dave Roberts has found a way to move on despite
the fact he brings in every reliever and they can't
get any outs. Does the script change at all tomorrow
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or are we talking about the Dodgers moving on in
a sweep.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I think the Dodgers in the series tomorrow. I really do.
I like the pitching matchup favorite the Dodgers. Those relievers
who have thrown a ton of innings are now getting
a day of rest. It looks like the Socki's gonna
be their guy light in the game. The Phillies still
have a plenty of talent, and on some level, you
gotta wait and see how it plays out. I love
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the way the Harper answers the question about the Philly
fans and the way that this has become a kind
of a complicated and rather negative scenario all of a
sudden in what I always consider to be the best
playoff environment in baseball, which is Philly. But you look
at the way that he talked about and Bryce basically said,
it's the passion of the fans, It's what's fueling you,
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and and the Phillies just are not able to meet
the moment right now. It's I don't think that's anything
to do with the fans or any anything else beyond
just a few of their key hitters are not hitting.
They were not able to execute in a big spot,
and with the wheel plays, the Dodgers executed really well.
And so I just think that the Dodgers are playing
better baseball. They're they're hitting their stride at the right time.
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The Phillies are going into a funk at the absolute
worst time. And my big question is do they do
anything different? Does the lineups look look different at all? Obviously,
would they contemplate having shore we play in the outfit
the ability to get Vater's bat in there, because the
way that baters has hit the ball really well, But
of course that the injury that's crept up. If I'm
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Rob Thompson, I'm thinking about anything and everything I can
do just to shake this team up a little bit.
There's still plenty of talent in there. They just have
not clicked at this point in the season. So it's
to me. I still think the Dodgers find a way
to win this game, but I do not expect the Phillies,
with all that professionalism, to go quietly into that good night.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Finally, the other series two to oh Milwaukee over Chicago
tie on trying to stop and give an extra fun
day in Wrigleyville.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Can they stave off elimination?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
They can, but I think the Brewers are the better team.
Whether the Cubs find a way to win Game three,
I think it's inevitable right now that the Brewers are
going to win this series. They're just they're so athletic.
They've got Yellich who they didn't have at this time
last year. Their young players have emerged. Curio was able
to avoid any sort of injury, and he comes back
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and has a great swing in Game two. I just
I like the way this this Brewers team sets up.
They're just so athletic, and they're relentless. Pretty sure has been.
The guys just won a ton of games for them
this season. I think I have a men's respect for
James and ty On and I just think that at
the end of the day, the Brewers have have the
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better team, the more athletic team. Uh and and when
you consider all the talent that they've lost and and
having a Domins leaving free agency and trading Devin Williams
for them to be I think even better collective team
this year than they were last year is just a
tremendous tribute to Pat Murphy, Matt Arnold. This, this Brewers
team is very very special.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Finally, in the well, we we love to play with words,
Jason is writing a treatise on outlawing the bunt?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Would you sign on to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Of that the bund is an important play and if
the Phillies that executed it better or differently, and that
they might have won game too. I love the bunch.
We got to keep the bunch in play and maybe
if the if the Mets had done a little more
fun thaing, they'd still be playing. Right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Oh, Josh okay, you and I are going to do
a podcast about the bunt and how out of date
it is and the team shouldn't do it anymore. We're
gonna do a podcast on that at some point.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You gotta be able to execute sometimes and go to
the bun. We don't see it often enough. I'm a
big fan of it, and my hope is that we
see the bunch come back, bring back the fund. Let's
let's make that a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
He's MLB Network gettings out of John Palmer, Rosie. John
paul Is always appreciate this time, Bible. We'll talk to
you later on this week as we got more baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Looking forward to you guys, call me anytime, my friends,
and I gotta give you the prediction. I believe it
is lions and cheese on Sunday. Right, A good tick
on that one later in the week.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
All right, all right, we'll.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Get that from you next and more baseball. He's John
Palmer ROSI have a good goal tomorrow, brother and consoling
his dad right now.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, you know coming up next.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, we'll have more baseball, but a huge football story
from today that really makes you scratch your head. That's next,
Jason Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
He's Mike Harmon, I'm Dan Fyern. We have a fantasy
football podcast called I Want Your Flex.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That's right, Dan.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Every week we're gonna scour the waiver wire to find
the pickups to turbot boost your fantasy lineup, sit starts,
fantasy football players rankings to get you ready to dominate
the competition.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Listen to I Want Your Flex with Mike Carmon and
me Dan Beyer on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts and
wherever you be your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Here comes to Snowman. Snowman call look out, leam Meason
and Pam and olaf was made and he's hanging with them.
I like warm hugs. Gonna take your inhaler and waste
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it all Outiler alert, oiler alert, Jason, how do you
feel about three ways? With or without a snowman?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
With a snowman?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
With a snowman? Sure, little chili though, little cold, A
little cold, It's okay, you can warm up. I have asthma,
so I'm a little scared. I would I would go
back to the original Frosty having a sauna.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Close the door.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Good luck, Frosty. Oh, boy, that got dark. You know,
you know, here's here's how Frosty the Snowman hasn't aged?
Is that happy?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
No? No room?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Do you remember? Okay? So Frosty the snome obviously naked
gun references which the whole thing with a snowman in
the three way? Okay, naked gun, naked gun, the new one. Uh,
it's holiday. The little girl right? Who is with Frosty
the whole time? What's her name? I Hamerson? Karen?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Is there? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It's Karen, so it really? Every time he says, oh,
but I don't feel good, Karen, Karen.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That was all the money we have about Karen. Like
every time I've watched that a million times, it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Karen gets like, oh man, you need you need to
put a new Uh you need to put a new
name in there. Your voiceover? What's wrong? Melissa? I don't understand,
but kess.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The train continues northward.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Karen starts to get hypothermia, and Frosty realizes she cannot
withstand the extreme cold.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Frosty, I'm cold. Quit being such a Karen. We're gonna
be there soon. What do you want a blanket? I'm
a snowman he'll carry a blanket. Just be quiet, sniffle
over there?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What about me?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Think about me when the sun comes out? I could die.
You're just a little cold here because we're on a
train that we hopped like we're hobos. How about trying
to get some place? What do you think, Karen? Yeah?
Not not not not aging, not not aging.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Well, you know, the the woman that did the voice
for for Karen was uh ultimately grandmother.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Fa In Mulan. Okay, and a.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Bunch of other voice acting work through the years, but
some pretty big roles and are all started with Karen Karen.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Then she got to be on be uh Mulan with
Donnie Osmond somehow. Ah, make a man.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Tell you what.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You go to any karaoke joint in the Greater Los
Angeles area at some point later on at the night,
you are going to find a bunch of theater kids
that that breaks out mulan.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, wow, wow, because I would do Soldier of Love
like a thief and whoever you know Donnie Osmond who
can't get enough clap? I I am willing to fight
because I'm a soldier of Depending on the bar, it's
bigger than Sweet Caroline or any of the other states.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Really sometimes it becomes like a Disney Hour and it
just goes into oblivion. Oh now, Disney Hour, I'd like
to see like that that it starts going into it soon,
like like bikers.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Hey, let's get a Mama Odie song going yeah, yeah,
you gotta dag a little deeper. Still disappointed that they
needed a better story. Eh, you know what I mean,
You've had a lot of stories.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You killed off the shadow Man and they wanted to
go part of the voodoo or anything.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's been a minute. I told you when I saw
Keith David and restaurant on was right. That was so cool.
That was what I want to have a beer with.
That one of the coolest. Uh So, look, one of
the biggest football stories of the day. We'll get to
Joe Flacco's trade in a few minutes, but can't he
be elite again? Eight seven seven, Cardinal's head coach Jonathan
Gannon was fined one hundred thousand dollars for his interaction
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with running back and Marry Demricado after Demarcado's horrendously bad
decision to drop the football before crossing the goal line
Sunday in what turned out to be the Cardinals loss
to the then winless Tennessee Titans. The video you've probably
seen this. He gets really in Demricado's face and yells
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at him and then kind of bumps him on the
way out as he's being consoled by a teammate. Okay,
he gets one hundred thousand dollars fine again and apologize
to Demricado. Now something different about this, right, Just something
different because I look at this and yet do I
see things from a coaching perspective. I kind of do
now after being a youth coach for so long and
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understanding this is that I know in this situation right here,
I get how mad you are. I really do. I
get how mad you are at this point. I'm not
gonna try to say I'm putting myself position of an
NFL coach, but I get how mad you are. I
get that you had a touchdown that really would have
put the game away, but instead your guy decides I'm
gonna flip the ball, and again, it makes no sense.
This keeps happening in the NFL. I have no answer
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for you. I don't know why players who do this
are stupid. I don't know why they do it, but
they do. I really don't know why. I don't know
if something comes over them, if they feel like they
need to have this cool celebration. I don't know what
it is. I don't know what it is, but it
still happens. And I don't know how coaches can't tamp
down on this and say, you know what, guys, no
one do this anymore. I don't know why you do this. Right,
(22:23):
it's two weeks in a row. We've seen it now.
Ad Nai Mitchell barely played last week because his whole Hey,
I'm going to drop the football before he crossed the
goal line, costing the game against the Rams. Right, this
costing the game against the Titans. This is not stuff
that happens over the course. Again, well, no, these two
players cost your team's games, and I don't get why
it happens. So I get being mad. I get being
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mad at players. I understand this, But when you walk over,
you're the head coach for a reason, right this, You're
the head coach. You're not the OC, you're not the
running backs coach. You're you're the head coach. And you
see how your player is standing, and you see he's
got his shoulders slumped and it's teammate has his arm
around him. At that point, you have to realize he
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knows what he did was wrong, and I can deal
with this later. I do not need to deal with
this and make this more emotional or a worse situation now,
because I may need this guy the rest of the game,
or I could just very simply bench him and talk
to him after out of sight, and that's we really
address this. Okay, those are all things that could have
even should have happened in the moment. I get that
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some coaches get mad. I get that it's the running
backs coach's job to get mad when the head coach can't,
or the offense coordinator's job to get mad, whatever it is.
But the head coach, when you're the head coach coming
over doing this, like what's happening here, all this sideline
has completely lost it when the head coach is the
one going over here, so you know the fine, I
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don't think it's necessary, I really, because you know, all
of a sudden, now, hey, he did this horrible thing
cause a team a game, and the coach is the
guy getting fined for it. But I understand that this
is not something that hey, it's a bad optic, especially
when you make contact with the player. I get that
part of it, but the whole overwhelming arch to me
is is not the fine and what he should get it.
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It's that you're the guy that needs to move past
this moment and get the team. Hey, okay, it happened.
We'll deal with it after. We'll deal it after and
let's go on and let's figure things out for the
rest of this game. I can be as mad as
I want to you after the game, when the cameras
aren't on. You're in my office, we talk or you know,
me and a couple of coaches and you are there
and we talk about this, or maybe you get bench.
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Maybe I'm cutting you and I'm gonna yell at you.
But right now, at this point, to get there, that
doesn't help anybody. It doesn't help you, it doesn't help
the team. And all it does is so chaos on
the sideline. And what happened after this, Arizona gave away
the game and they lost. So that's more. I look
at this as I see this as Jonathan Gannon's got
to know better than to even get in this situation.
(24:47):
It's not the first time he's seen a player make
a really bad play. First time you've seen something like
this is a head coach. Yeah, okay, I get that,
But that's why you're the head coach. This is what
you get paid the big money for. You're the guy
that says, okay when bad things happen. I got to
make sure we are still going towards the end goal,
which is to win this football game. And that's what
I disagree with on this, the whole money thing in
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the fine. Yeah, okay, I see it. But that's the
part that really gets me. That's what he needs to
know better about.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
It's the making example of him with the fine. And
you know, the the optics of it were awful, and
certainly folks took it to the extreme of how does
he punch a guy like you're like punch a guy
more a forum? Sure, if he'd come up and he'd
done a tell him big man kind of thing and
slapped his shoulder pads, is that better? Is it's the
(25:34):
same end is that you've lost your composure on the sideline. Yeah,
And I mean, because look, football is a physical gap
and you can't you know, look, you can't you can't
just completely blow off when someone makes contact with somebody
else in assilment. But it is it is a very
emotional game, and it's not like he threw a punch
at him. But I also get that it's a bad
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optic that a coach is making and he's he's on
purpose bumping a player as he goes by, screams it
was like, I need you, come on, let's go. But
unfortunately that's not that's not what it is. That's not
what you did.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
It's kind of a punk move, like when like when
you don't want to fight somebody and and you're in
a bar or something, you're in a parking lot. You're like, yeah, yeah,
you're not gonna do anything to me, and and the
guy walks by and gives him the and gives them
that shot with a shoulder, knowing that the other guy's
not gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
What it is he's doing his I mean, trying to
figure out what the hell he just did, uh, and
what it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Means he's not gonna Chad powers him. I mean, that's
not gonna happen. Got to get his program under control. Man,
things have gone to hell or happening in Oregon.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Chad powers go watch it, you'll understand what I'm talking about.
But when when it comes down to it, you've got
a roster and and I get a Gannon's feeling the
heat because you've had an off season. They went heavy
on the defensive side of things, expectations that Murray and
Marvin Harrison Junior were gonna step forward.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You gotta a.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Find and McBride, who's become one of the best tight
ends in the game. And at running back, you thought
you were set right you had Connor and then you
had Benson and guess what, they're both gone. So all
of a sudden, you're going down to Michael Carter, ex
Jet and de Mercado. So his opportunity and he didn't
have many of them, didn't have many carries in that game,
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and it has the big breakout moment. It's like, that's
what he is. He's a home run hitter. And he
made the play and then didn't finish the play. That
game would have essentially iced it. You might have had
the absolute quit on the other side. Instead, you're energized
and then you have the other nonsensical play of the
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day from the defensive interception followed by a fumble falling
on in the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I mean, you.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Can't script it anymore than maybe on Chad Powers. But
when it gets down to it for again, and you're
feeling the heat because there were expectations for this season
in the past that have not been There's been the
wishing and hoping that you creep towards five hundred. But
here you are in year three. The referendum out on
on Kyler Murray and what he can and can't do.
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Limitations as a player at this point in terms of
the passing game and whether he's slowing down a little
bit as a runner, so that element of his game
starting to be compromised a little bit. The defense has
played its role for the most part this year. They've
been pretty good so the but the margins aren't there.
So when you have a.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Mistake of that magnitude, I get it. The frustration is there.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
However, however, you've got to you gotta keep it together,
as you said, whether it's halftime, whether it's the set
you know, the end of game, whether he just sits
in isolation on a bench for a while, Yeah, you
got a game to coach.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, because there's certain mistakes that go along with this
happened in the game, and afterwards, we'll correct them, right,
Like he a lot of that from Aaron Glenn last
we go, oh, whatever is wrong, we'll correct them. Yeah, okay,
but then you start making all new ones or or
you keep making the same old ones. So really that's
the thing. Okay, mistakes are made. How do we correct
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it after right? And so this is a mistake that's
made that you need to correct after right, of course,
But the biggest thing is that this is something where
you have to be better in the moment. And again,
this is why you're a head coach. You have to
be better in a moment here, in that moment, because
there's lots of things that can happen right at that moment. Right,
you can either you can either find a way to
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galvanize a team, keep them focused and go win the game,
or you could continue to so chaos on the sideline,
which is what happened here, and no surprise, they went
on to give the game away.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Sometimes it's like okay, I know, oh, you know, don't
judge it. No, Sometimes you have to be judging the
moment when this is your job, when you're the head coach,
you have to be judged in the moment to make
those decisions. What makes great head coaches and what makes
bad head coaches. Oh you know I'm learning. I'm learning. Yeah,
but you can't keep learning. You have to know instinctually
what to do and how to react to a situation.
And this you're seeing, this was just like a million
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like coming down the tunnel, you know, like a fastball
down the middle. Like he's got a no walking over there.
See the body language, See the situation that Demriccatto was
there with his head slumped. He knows he screwed up.
You can still yell at him. Later he's got a
teammate with his arm around him. That is like, I
just I see where he is, right. You have to
know in that moment, Okay, Demricado's in one place mentally,
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and it's a really bad place because one of the
players has his arm around him as is talking to him,
so I know is yelling at him. Gonna do what's
it gonna do other than make me feel and get
that that that upset and that anger out of me
out right, That's all that's going to do. That helped
him in the moment. That must have that must have
felt great for Jonathan again and say, oh, I'm so
mad and now I'm gonna go find him on the
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sideline and do it. But it's quite anoh thing to go. Okay,
I guess you felt great about that, But did that
help the team at all? Right? It's it's like when
you say something snide to a friend or something because
you really want a one line you're met and you
say something's like, b I can't take it. Felt good
at the moment, but man, I probably shouldn't have said that, right.
I probably shouldn't have said that I got a whole
book text or something else.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You got a really good or so.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But this is but there's a time where he had
to be better in the moment, and he was not
better in the moment.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Expectations great power comes great responsibility.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Spider Man exit out about a Fresca exit swolling down
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios, tiy not to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports with someone who's
been called the Amari Demricado of Fox Sports Radio. I've
seen him walk down the hall and drop things. Early
as well. It's Steve de Sega.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Some of us had him on the fantasy team and
we're like a yard short of six points for the
touchdown by the way from.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
To win and I lost that one too.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Now I made it up, made up for it with
the garbage touchdown from Jaydon Daniels at the end of
the game. Fantasy football, you can always get a garbage
touchdown and then winning lose. What a night for baseball playoffs.
As the Yankees come back to beat Toronto nine to six,
they're still alive. That means not only do we have
four games on the baseball schedule for tomorrow, we could
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have all four series end on the same day tomorrow.
That has not happened all on the same day since
nineteen ninety six. But here the Yankees win nine to
six this series. After all, the Toronto offense at home
sees Yankees offense at home. This is the first series
in postseason history where one of the teams scored at
least nine runs each of the first three games. It's
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Blue Jays two games to one and Toronto was up
six to one early. Vladimir Guerrero Junior homewred for a
third straight game, but Aaron Judge, who had three hits
four RBIs tied at six to six in the fourth
with a three run shot off the left field foul pool.
Yankees are still alive amazingly in the last thirty years
of Yankee playoffs, when they're down five runs or more,
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they've still won four different times, not just tonight, but
famously in the nineteen ninety six World Series come back
at Atlanta as well. Seattle is up two games to
one in its best of five Division series after winning
it Detroit eight to four. That was an eight to
one lead in the top of the ninth after a
two run homer by Cal Rawley. Mariners hits three home runs.
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That game was on FS two after about a three
hour rain delay at the start. Game four on FS
one Wednesday three pm Eastern Time, and then FS one
will have the Yankees hosting Toronto in a Game four
on Wednesday night. The two NL Division series each resume tomorrow.
Fox got the rights to the next Springs World Baseball Classic,
by the way, including the final on Fox TV. In March.
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From Miami, the Bengals acquired quarterback Joe Flacco from Cleveland.
Cincinnati's lost three straight games with quarterback Jake Browning. Joe
Burrow is injured, Cincinnati cut quarterback Brett Rippon. Rookie Shodour
Sanders is now listed as the Browns back at quarterback,
and the Colt sign kicker Michael Badgeley Andie Spencer Schraders
out for the year with two torn knee ligaments. Cowboys
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owner Jerry Jones was fined two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for what he called an inadvertent gesture to fans.
Dallas could appeal this week. There are three NHL season
openers Tonight, end of two at La Colorado leads the
Kings three to nothing, Pittsburgh three nothing winner at the Rangers,
and Florida edge Chicago three to two. The best of
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seven WNBA finals continue with Las Vegas at Phoenix Wednesday
and Friday. Vegas leads two games to none.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next.
We had a big quarterback trade today in the NFL,
and yeah we got a hot take to go along
with it. That's next right here, Jason, Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. I'm your poppy Chulo. Wow, we got
more baseball coming up. At twelve minutes. Aaron Judges Aaron
Judges World, everybody else is just living in it gone.
My dad is very excited. Your dad wasn't awake now, No,
he just texted me. He is so excited. He goes,
(34:54):
I'm gonna be up until eleven. Why isn't he calling in? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Why is he called in?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Oh, come on, it's my dad. No, my dad can't
call in right now. My dad cannot call in. He
used to call all the time. Well that relationship. It's
a Yankee game. My dad has been watching the game
(35:20):
for the last seven hours that it went on. My
dad cannot come on the air right now and talk
to us.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Was your dad hanging out with one of the official
sponsors of the NBA that was brought and put to prominence.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Stead Maybe on another night, but right now is not
a time for my dad to come all right, Just
to let you know, there's other times with good morn hey,
that could be great, could be great, not right now,
but he is very I think there's something else going on.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
No, no, no, I think so can we get him
on and try to see how many times.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
He can say the word schlittler tomorrow. No, no, see
how Walt and he'll say I could say it. However,
I want to right because it's your show, and you won't.
Dad doesn't drink schlitz. Come on, My dad's a Guinness guy.
He wants to watch the Guinness so good, get the
(36:11):
Guinness House. He wants to watch just because about Guinness. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
No, a great show, fantastic start to it, unhinged. Wow,
there's a lot going on. Roast beef and the glass.
My dad says, Guinness is fantastic. I can't wait to
go back to Ireland.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
But big trade in the NFL today as Joe Flacco
in the rare intra divisional trade goes to the Bengals.
They swap late round picks the Browns and the Bengals
do so. Now that Joe Flacco era is over in Cleveland,
it's all Dylan Gabriel and and probably should have were
Sanders at some point, and.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Deshaun Watson's still there. Don't forget two big points on this.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
My evil plan of how the Browns will start five
quarterbacks this year is right on time. On through the
first month of the season. I've already seen two guys start.
They can't go back to Flacco now, so the next
guy is gonna be somebody new when it's Shador Sanders,
and then it's Bailey Zappy and then someone that's not
on the roster who will play it sometime late in December.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Yeah, but we never got the Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
They killed Kenny, but doesn't got you. I'm still gonna
get five quarterbacks starting for the Browns, and right on time.
One month, two guys down, another month, two more guys down.
We get it in November. I'm playing with free money.
It's gonna be awesome. Shuffle up and deal five guys.
It's happening. It's happening. But now I want a burger.
(37:36):
You want a hot take? You want a hot take? Sure,
Joe Flacco heading to Cincinnati. They had to do so well.
We talked of this for a few weeks. Now, then
the Bengals must Mike Brown must listen to the show. Hey,
you gotta get a quarterback. You can't. You gave got
a lot of guys money this year. You can't just
give things away, can't give the season away. Joe Flacco
is gonna hit the ground running with Cincinnati and it's
(38:00):
gonna be like when he came off his couch in
twenty twenty three and led the Browns to the playoffs,
when the Browns started I think four quarterbacks they started
that year and somehow made the play One of the
great coaching jobs in NFL history, Kevin Stefanski going through
all those guys getting the playoffs. Flacco was really good.
He was dynamic. This is the impact he's gonna have
on this Bengals team right away. If I like Russell Wilson,
(38:23):
I don't like Russell Wilson at all, But if I
like Russell Wilson on the Bengals, the moon ball Jamar Chase,
I am really in on Flaco. He's gonna have this
much more vertical passing game. It's gonna open things up
for Chase, open things up for t Higgins. Chase Brown
is gonna find more room to run. The weapons of
the Bengals are going to be get a jump and
(38:45):
a jolt from this signing because Flacco still knows where
to go with the football. He can still deliver it deep.
He's that kind of guy. And the Bengals weapons, they're
big three, are pretty bleep and talented. So yeah, this
is gonna be some case, some case where hey, all
of us sudden, the Bengals office is gonna look Hellen
gone from where it was. It's why did we do
this a couple of weeks ago? Look at Joe Flacco.
(39:05):
It's not gonna take him a lot of time to
get used to the playbook. All the x's and O.
Flacco's gonna be fine. He's dynamic, and you will see
an immediate leap in production from the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
I'll have to go back through their strength to schedule
going forward, going back to that magical year that was
twenty twenty three. He had four to three hundred yard
games passed for thirteen touchdowns against eight picks. Overall, you
look at the Juggernaut that they beat up on. You
played the Rams. That was a loss that got thumped
(39:37):
the Jaguars. This year's field good team the Bears.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I mean, come on here, this year's field good team.
They were just off last week. No well, I mean
people ride the lightning with them.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Houston and the Jets, those are the teams en route.
We also had five different quarterbacks that year.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Was it five?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Five guys again? Five guys Flacco, Deshaun Watson, yep, PJ. Walker. Yeah,
the DTR experience, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And you
had one game of Jeff Driscoll. No, Jeff Driscoll started
a game thirteen of twenty six on that one. Did
you say, TJ, TJ. Remember when Jeff Driscoll was going
(40:23):
to be the starting quarterback of the Buccaneers and they said, oh,
we got bigger Mayfield instead, Well, you know Driscoll. And
then you had, uh, who was the other guy they drafted?
Kyle Trask get drafted, They get rid exactly, Joe Flacco,
all good things coming for the Bengal because he played
defense the Bengals offense. More big takes from the MLBNI
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