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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm Monsieur Lanius.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Just like the Yankees runs all stolen way. Greetings, Welcome inside,
Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show with my base friend
Mike Harmon. Woo. We jump right into a huge night
in Major League Baseball. Two games down, two to go,
although one sort of very slowly dripping to the end.

(00:58):
Kyle Schwarber has just homard. Kyle Schwarmer got a hit, great, Kyle,
Kyle Schwarmer got it hit. You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
That was the easiest looking swing up for a home
run that we've seen in these playoffs. Everybody else looks
like they're you know that that face, that constipated face,
grunting and swinging from the heels.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
This was just a nice easy flow to right field. Yeah,
just uh, just finally a hit for Kyle Schwarber. This
tie way. Tommy edmunded homeward for the Dodgers in the
first inning, so a second inning rather so. Now Phillies
and the Dodgers tied at one apiece. Philly's batting one on,
nobody out in the top of the fourth inning, looking uni. Yeah,
that's the I want to say this right away because

(01:40):
people understand that I always tell the truth on things.
You know, me, Mets fan, What do I say? Right?
The Phillies and the Yankees losing are just as good
as the Mets.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
You pop some champagne before it's if that happens tonight
with both of those going away, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's just as good as the Mets winning, right, one
hundred percent. Boy, it's really hard, maybe better. It's really
hard to root against the Phillies when they're wearing these uniforms,
the the this sky blue and dark red. I mean,
it's just such a great seventies look like you start
thinking about Gary Madden. I can see Mike Schmitt walking
out hitting the ball here Rose he said, shit, right,

(02:16):
I did say Schmidt?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
I didn't did.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't know. We will get into I didn't say
Schmittler and Schmidt.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
David Ortiz in big trouble on that one.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, yeah, a little bit. Uh,
speaking of trouble, as we say, now lead it two
to one. As Bryce Harper scores from third, he tries
to go from first to third on a single. Andy
Pa has his throw into third is low and in
the dirt, and it skips by and goes out of play.

(02:47):
So Harper is awarded at home. And now make it
a three to one lead with a sacrifice fly. All
of a sudden, that big error, the bad throw by
pahz Uh Marsh is able to score in the sack fly.
So now make it a three to one Phillies lead
in the top of the fourth inning. Just like that,
things have gotten good for Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
That escalated quickly. The throw that skips by. You know,
we talk about the fundamentals and then you know, just
the execution, especially when you know you're trying to steal
as many innings out of Yamamoto as you can so
you don't have to get into the pen. All hands
on deck, a lot of anticipation, whether we see Clayton

(03:28):
Kershaw later on et cetera. But the pitch count starting
to rise a little bit. As another ball said, I.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Think we might see Clayton Kershaw or someone else pretty
quickly a double down the line and right is laced.
So now still one out runner at second Young Moto's
now giving up three runs here in the top of
the fourth inning.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Jason, just remember though, the Dodgers are up two games. Yeah,
but this is what's going on right now yet No, no
it's not. But I'm saying, like this is a the
show is now. Yeah, this is what's happening.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
And and the people in there that stadium or panicking.
You're getting shaky back there, shaky real. Muto doubles a
one hopper into the stands.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Uh. Everybody is out to talk to uh, to talk
to Yamamoto with this surprise. The outfielders didn't come into it.
I mean everybody. Everybody's on the mound now trying to
figure this out because it has gotten bad in a
hurry for the Dodgers. I mean, look, this was this
was hey one nothing and y'am motives look really good
so far the first couple of innings and all of
a sudden banged bank and here's hits and Wine drives
up the middle and Schwarber has a home run, and

(04:30):
all of a sudden, Dodgers ace starting to get hit.
Philly's thinking, we're getting that bullpen pretty soon.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
To forty nine pitches already here. I don't know the
pitch counts is the thing at this point with no, no, no, no,
he's getting right. It's how much but how much long
is you're going to be in this game? But that's
the thing, right is is you're you're playing both as is.
You're now escalating and they're hitting the ball hard, like
these are not little duck snorts u that are finding
their way in this all starts with schwarber home run

(05:01):
and now a veritable conga line, a lot of laughing,
and you can see the tension just melt away from
the Phillies in this inning right coming in. Everybody had
that stoic, steely I gaze of all right, we got
a few innings left potentially in this season. All of
a sudden, a big inning starts to unfold and resting

(05:22):
easy and you're gonna watch each each batter, you know,
wait for the next mistake from Yamamoto.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
So again we'll keep you updated on this of course
again three to one, runner at second, one out, top
of the fourth inning. Meanwhile, in the Bronx, the Yankees
are four outs away from elimination. However, they have a
little bit of hope right now. Ben Rice is pinch
hitting for Paul Goldschmidt against something that would have sounded
crazy a couple of years ago. But Ben Rice pinch

(05:51):
hitting for Paul Goldschmidt. Now Yankees have two on and
two out bottom of the eighth inning. They trail the
Blue Jays five to one, and tonight they had the
huge advantage coming in with Schlittler getting the start. The
Blue Jays are going to a bullpen game. Nothing less
imposing for the Blue Jays than seeing the font of
TBA versus Schlittler. Great. This is gonna be great. And

(06:12):
Schlitzler pitched really well.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Wasn't quite the dominant performance he had against the Red Sox, obviously,
but he pitched pretty well. Two runs in six plus innings.
The bullpen has come in and given it up. A
really bad error by Jazz Chisholm on a double Playgrounder
kept the Blue Jays inning alive, which they put a
crooked number up and went from two to one to
four to one. So so far, there's a lot of

(06:35):
old Yankee, same old Yankees from last year. Oh, they're
bad fundamentally, they make too many errors, they can't run
the bases. That same old Yankees has come out and
come back in a large way, and they have four
outs to try to flip the narrative on them before
they're limiting.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, I mean, they've had a couple of opportunities where
they were going to fight back in the game and
then Blue Jays making big plays defensively something they didn't
do yesterday, right, drifting foul ball, uh Grisham hit with
judge on deck, caught ends an inning with two runners on.
And we've talked before the show, you and I about

(07:10):
Anthony Volpi. At this point, you've got to do something.
Come on, man, the guy guy's not hitting like, he's
not putting the wood on the ball at all.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
It look and I know, got to put the wood
on the ball. Boone is gonna be yes, you always
have to do. You got to put the boone is
gonna get a lot of a lot of flag and
look and it's one play, it's it's a runner at first,
one out in the seventh inning, and you don't pinch
it for Volpi, who strikes out next batter gets it
now first and second, two out. Now Yankee fans vot vopope.

(07:38):
But just just to be honest, just to be with
with Volpi is Anthony Volpi has been absolutely terrible.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
He's got multiple strikeouts and four straight playoff games before tonight.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
He's one for fourteen in this series with ten strikeouts.
When you have ten strike if you're one for fourteen, okay,
you're in a bad spot. But when you are one
for fourteen with ten strikeouts, there's a there's anything is better. There,
anything is better. I don't know that need anymore argument

(08:08):
that that's but that's the thing is that and this
is this is one of the common threads of the playoffs,
whether it's the Dodgers and and and Dave Roberts and
the bullpen, whether it is the the Mariners and the
Tigers in there and they're pitching escapades that continue to
happen in that series. But you are seeing and and
and obviously it's it's Aaron Boone with Volpi, who had

(08:30):
a pretty good year, right, It wasn't unbelievable, you know,
for shortstop thirty and seventy.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Okay, but I mean fielding wise is where there's a
lot of angst.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Job but he's a putty, but he's a player, right,
He's not going to be Jeter, but he's a player.
But the number of managers that in situations here in
the playoffs where you aren't in a winneror go home game,
or or a rubber hits the road situation in the
playoff game that say, no, I'm gonna stick with my
guys when everything tells you, hey, maybe something a little

(09:03):
bit different here. I mean that just it baffles me
that that's still how managers react. It baffles me with that, Like, okay, Volpi,
when you are one for four, when you have struck
out ten times in a series, you are not seeing
the ball, well, you're not coming, You're not anything at
the plate. So I know, if you've already struck out
twice in a game, I'm putting somebody else up there
for you. Somebody else has a better chance of getting

(09:24):
it because I know how that outbot's gonna end.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
No.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
But that's the thing, right is we talk about it
as fans. You watch your favorite team and all of you,
you know, look in the mirror in the moment and.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Think about this is the all right that guy's do
and that's either positive or negative depending how things are going.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
You're a Jets fan, Knicks fan, We've chronicled this. I'm
a Chicago fan. You're always waiting for the other shoe
to drop. But you know, when you've got a guy
who's going badly, who's been good for you all year, like, well,
eventually he's gonna come through.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
The Dave Roberts argument for why Blake Trining and some
of these guys, well, you know the outs they they
got us in the past, Like yeah, a year ago. Right,
that doesn't mean that he's suddenly gonna come out and
pitch a clean inning.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
What in recent history.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Tells you this guy's gonna be able to do the
job either at the plate or on the mound. You've
got to shuffle up the deal, right. They had the
big argument in Philadelphia about pinch running. It's like, yeah,
this is where, hey, do we have any other athletes
that are at our disposal to try to move things along, Right,
Sometimes you've got to think a little bit outside the box.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
And to give you an update from the Bronx right now. Wow,
So ben Rice pinch hits for Goldschmidt, he walks to
load the bass. Hoffman loads the basis or as a
slider on three and two that is not even close
to the strike zone. Stadium's going crazy. Austin Wells comes up.
Remember you just walked the guy. Yeah, first pitch hunting,

(10:50):
Austin Wells hits a lazy flyout to left field, ending
the inning. It is a five to one lead for
the Blue Jays going to the top of the ninth inning.
This is where Brice draws the walk. That's nothing more,
nothing more frustrating than if you're gonna swing at that
first pitch. Like, and that's that's the thing. Like it's

(11:10):
always easy to to backseat drive and search, but like
there's certain situations in baseball where and and like I
always go you know, I always go back because now
because I got I got to say these things to
players as a youth coach, I'm like, hey, if you're good,
if I'm gonna give you the swing on three and oh,
if you're gonna swing on three and oh, it can't
be a ground ball to shortstop like this This has
got to be a line drive somewhere or a double

(11:32):
or something where you really meet the ball. You're not
You're not just gonna swing on three and oh and
hit the ground ball to the short stop right, and
I see a situation like this. Okay, the nerves in
the stadium now, everybody is going crazy and wells, honestly,
that pitch looked like it was out of the strike zone,
was right. It looked like it was out of the
strike zone, and he couldn't handle it, and he flew
out to left field like you just watched a guy

(11:54):
walk somebody, you know, his whatever it is on the
mount at this point, here's the first couple of times
you're in this situation in Major League baseball. Hey, Blue
Jay's in this situation for the first time. Here they
are in Yankee Stadium. You know, Hey, the pressure is
on him. I gotta see what he I'm gonna see
what he throws. Can make a pitch And if you're
gonna swing at that first pitch, it's because I know
he likes to go, because I know his tendencies are fastball,

(12:16):
inner part of the plate, and I'm gonna get a
good swing on it and that's gonna be a line drives,
but instead it's a ball off the plate that he
winds up hitting a lazy fly ball to. And that's
why I bang my head and go something better than that.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
You can't just watch a guy walk and have a
great at bat and you just give it away swinging
outside because you're because you're too over anxious.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Come on again, third inning, Game one seven, nobody cares
bottom of the eighth, two outs and the bass is juiced.
When you're down, like every bit checks off to. You've
got to at least see what he's got, Make him
make a pitch, don't go give him an easy lazy
fly ball.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
That was just that. That was just all. It's in
the Capitol and.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Notice been a lot of shots and Brian Cashman over
the last Oh yeah, sure, well.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
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(13:27):
So we got more baseball on the way again. Top
of the ninth, Jay's with a five to one lead
over the Yankees. Phillies lead the Dodgers three to one.
Dodgers batting now in the bottom of the fourth inning,
but coming up next the Bill Belichick potential buyout fired
at North Carolina. Story has just taken off like wildfire.

(13:48):
We break it down. Coming up next is Bell Belichick
in the endgame at UNC. That's next right here. Hold
out of your hats, Jason, run this well, no, he didn't,
really he didn't. That's the thing you said, you that
you default to that he did not have a guess,
has not been a good run. It's not been a
good Anybody will tell you this has not been a
good run. Teams they play against will say it's been

(14:08):
a good It is true, but they will not say
it's distract Judge at the foul pole. Guys, that's next
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(15:21):
Dodgers three to one. Yoshinoba Yamamoto still on the mound
for the Yankee for the Dodgers. Meanwhile, the Yankees coming
to back in the bottom of the ninth inning, Hoffman
in for his second inning of relief, blue Jay Hoffman
though a different Well, I was going to say it
was going to Hoffman all the way through. There was
gonna be Abbie Hoffman, and then it was going to
be a Trevor Hoffman, and then it was going to
be amount of Hoffman's I'm really a Matta Hoffman's. Wow,

(15:45):
that's pretty fast to be a run out of Hoffman.
What about Oh yes, yeah, yeah, Dustin Hoffman. Yeah, I
mean that's an obvious one. Philip Seymour, Fernando Valenswela pitched Wednesday,
That skills pitch again until Sunday. Yeah, yeaheah yeah yeah.
Yankees down five to one, four hits on the night
for the Yankees, Blue Jays five on twelve hits. They

(16:08):
need four to keep their season going, or the Blue
Jays will advance to the Alcs to take on the
winner of Game five between the Tigers and the Marits.
Well in this game coming up in a few minutes.
Think your dad's got a rally hat on or anything. No,
my dad is so negative right now. He's so absolutely negative. No,
he is, but he's hate watching this is terrible. We

(16:30):
all Steak. We gotta get him down. Chishom was one
of his favorite players. Now it's gonna be gonna get
rid of Chisholm. Guy can't field. He's yawning on the
field if it plays are happening. I don't like it.
I don't like that. We're getting rid of everybody. Just
keep judging. Start over again.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
That's my I know, Jason, you know they're going to
run it back with Cashman and.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Boom well cool oh man. Yeah, there's nothing to take
the wind out of the sales of Yankee fans more
than to hear, Oh, don't worry, Boone and cast will
be back again in twenty twenty seven. No, that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
We're watching it here in the Fox Sports radio studios, right,
we got no sound on, and they keep doing the
cutaways to cash But he could only imagine what the
voiceover is. Obviously, they're just saying this guy, twenty years
of this, A lot of work to be done with
this Yankee roster.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
He literally almost twenty years of nothing. He gets a
watch if he if he pitches, if he stays for
another couple of years. I'm gonna try to get to that.
The mandatory retirement age, and then I'll go.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Jason the old man killed this guy.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh he would he would have been literally years ago. Yeah,
because I just George Steinbrenner would not have tolerated this
many without a world series, would never If you get
the Yankees with more than two years, it would change. Change. Change.

Speaker 8 (17:40):
It's been almost twenty years. Change change, almost twenty years change.
I mean, look what he used to do with Billy Martin.
There's no chance in hell this guy was gonna get this.
He might have gotten fired and brought back change, but
he would have took it easy.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
On Billy Martin compared to what he would have done
with Aaron Boone.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Cashman might have made it
a little bit longer, be a little but Aaron Boone, Yeah,
Aaron Boone would he would have been.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
So tell me who in America gets to keep their
job after sucking for almost twenty years.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh, there's actually a few people, there's yeah, yeah, yeah,
idea yeah yeah, oh no, we're not gonna make this political.
I was going away from Cashman. Oh I think I
was going away to going Oh no, I can think
of a lot of guys. How did they have a
lot of them were owners in Major League Baseball though.
That's that's the one thing. Yeah, but you can't get
rid of them. You gotta find a dirt. Speaking of

(18:31):
not having a job, and again we'll keep you posted
on the Yankees and the Blue Jays again, five to one,
top of the ninth inning, one out, one on for
the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Is there a rule where Aaron Judge come about three
times in the same minute. If there is it, there
will be after this year, because yeah, this isn't be
great for Major League Baseball to say we're gonna buy
Judge three times in a row. Now he's gonna go again,
I gonna go up again, gonna come up again.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
The overtime rules in the NFL, No, both teams have
to get the ball. Why why it was working so
well until that one that everybody get mad about.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
So Bill Belichick either is going to be fired, going
to be bought out, or going to coach the rest
of the season for North Carolina. One of these things
is happening. But let's give you the backstory to this.
Earlier today, a couple of insiders came out with stories
that Bill Belichick and the North Carolina tar Heels have

(19:23):
started conversations about a buyout. Things are not going well.
Obviously they're two and three. U had fans leaving the
stadium in droves last week against Kate Club. Nicks killed
Bill Belichick, right, I knocked the guy out. Well, we
played the audio. They interviewed a girl who's going to
North Carolina saying, yeah, I was at that game. I
failed a couple of mid terms and that was worse.

(19:46):
So it's not been great. It started out the first
half of the first quarter of their opening game was good,
but that's really been it for North Carolina. But now
today again a couple of reports that the plug could
be pulled on the Bill Belichick experiment. Belichick could be
leaving if he finds a soft landing, either with another
team or with a broadcast job. Forget about being another team.

(20:07):
No one else is hiring for that walking. Additionally, there
are reports that potentially things have been weird with Belichick
and his staff the last few days during the bye
week there where the coaches couldn't get a hold of him.
He's been distant from the team. You've had some disharmony
in the locker room. You already had a little bit
of legality issues with when it comes to improprieties over

(20:30):
the course of the last seven plus days. So things
are not great at North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
And evidently an edict that they couldn't reference former Tar
Heels star Drake May and his win over the Patriots tweets.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
The byproduct of this story today has been two statements,
one from Bill Belichick and one from North Carolina. Belichick
put out a statement saying, quote, I'm fully committed to
North Carolina football and the program we're building here. Let it.
Director of Bubba Cunningham said quote Belichick has quote the
full support of the North Carolina administration. Now, this is

(21:07):
either a load of crap. This has either been a
story that someone took and run with and went a
little bit further. But it doesn't matter. Okay, all of
that is irrelevant because this is going to be a
one and done year for Bill Belichick. I told you
this in the spring. He's not going to get fired.
As bad as it was, as awkward as it's been
with Belichick and Jordan Hudson, his girlfriend is part of

(21:30):
the story too, that hey, her constant presence around the
program is not great. But look, it's not going to happen.
They hired the guy to coach. He's going to coach
this year. If he doesn't win, he's out. It's that simple.
And the off season, North Carolina went through dealing with
the controversy of Belichick's interview with CBS where Jordan Hudson

(21:50):
jumped in and they dealt with the fallout from that.
That was bad enough, and it was if you win,
everything will be forgiven. Right do we know you win
everything will be forgiven. Belichick is not winning, but not
only that, you are seeing the worst thing that just
happened on Saturday, and that is apathy with the program.
You are five games into his tenure and fans were

(22:11):
leaving at halftime of this game. Fans have had it. Okay,
what's gonna happen? I'll tell you. Eventually, sometime between now
and the end of the season. Bill Belichick will be
gone at North Carolina. Maybe it's in a week, Maybe
he coaches the rest of the year, maybe it's they
have to figure out a buyout, or maybe it's the
day after the season ends. Belichick is gone. This is it.

(22:34):
I don't know how many more times we're gonna see
him take the field as North Carolina's head coach. Maybe one,
maybe two, maybe five. But at the end of this year,
that ends the Bill Belichick experiment. This has gone horribly
wrong on so many levels, so many levels. And again
I go back to saying I knew when college football
was too much for him when he banned Patriots personnel

(22:56):
from scouting his players for the NFL sided because of
his petty feud with the New England Patriots. I'm gonna
make it difficult for you to see how good our
players are. Right opening night, he wouldn't put a depth
chart out, so all the scouts at the game, because
if you start for North Carolina, potentially there's a few
guys at NFL raiders. Maybe not first round picks, but

(23:17):
guy's the third, fourth, fifth round. They all have NFL dreams.
You're starting at North Carolina, you're started Power five conference.
And Belichick made it more difficult for scouts to get
to watch his players because he wants to play this
ridiculous game. I'm now the lord of football at North Carolina.
We're gonna reinvent college football here. Remember when he came
in his big press conference, nutrition everything else. Yeah, okay,

(23:40):
he was never up for the challenge of college football
never was whether he thought he was too smart or
thought I don't need to work as hard and I
can dominate college football because of the coach I am.
What I've done at the pro level, I can go
up and give you seventy percent and win in college.
Can't do that now. Rules are different, right, everything is different.
You see the young guys coming in right now that
are actually doing well and coming. These are guys that'd

(24:01):
never been head coaches before, but they jump in because
they get the nil system. They get about recruiting players.
They are tireless workers. This is college football. You can't
come in and say, well, I'm gonna give you my system.
You're all gonna buy in. He's never been cut out
for college football. I knew in the beginning when he's
making it hard for the NFL to see his players.
Oh sorry, guys, sorry that you're my guys. You're sweating

(24:23):
for me every single day and we're going through this together.
I'm gonna make it harder for the NFL to see you,
to see you go and try to get to the NFL.
That's when I knew. And you see how this has
played out. Nothing is good, So yeah, is it gonna end. Yes.
And that's the best thing and the most accurate thing
I can say is that even if this report is
seventy percent, if it's thirty percent, sometime between now and

(24:45):
the end of the season, is the end of the
run for Belichick and North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Lot of curiosity with all of it. Right, it was
the off season. Yeah, he's got the girlfriend, and everybody
can have their glib one liners or whatever else.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
That's fine, But when it came to the football side
of things, it was okay, now we're building. We're starting
essentially from scratch, will build this program. And you're relying
on your history, your reputation, your rings to get you going,
whatever Lombardi's doing on the business side of things. That
you were expecting some level of confidence, Well, clearly it's

(25:17):
a vote of no confidence on that side as well.
And you had a ton of players come into the
system and you're trying to learn. You had a schedule
that on paper, right, We've talked with Pete Futech about
this for weeks and months. At this point, the idea
of all, right, there's enough winnable games on the schedule
if you're playing decent football, well they're not, I mean,

(25:39):
in any way, shape or form. It's it's been an
absolute failure. And now you have questions about armand Hawkins.
He gets suspended, the cornerbacks coach. He used to work
with Steve Belichick at Washington. And you've got players allegedly
having sold off their tickets, like you've got a bunch
of n CNAA is not coming around for anybody at

(25:59):
this point. They've got no juice yet, they're they're coming
on to North Carolina who got to skate away with
made up classes years ago? Yeah, folks, forget about that.
Nothing ever transported. Like wait they were making up? Yeah,
we don't care. But here it's like aha, ah, now
now they're they're circling like vultures.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
And you've got a mess. You've got a game where
you're a twelve point underdog to cow for crying out.
That's how bad things are. Als, Yes, that's what that's
you're just going for good now. But yeah, so you've got.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
An absolute mess and you've canceled whatever that TV show
is gonna beat. There's footage somewhere now that now this
becomes the can we get to go fund yourself? Going
to have those hours and hours of video.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Uh circumstances released so we can all watch the the
chaos and and someone plays a fiddle in the background
as it burns. But you don't have the juice that
you had at in New England. Nobody's giving you the
benefit of the doubt, and you've got an alumni base
right to your point. You didn't do the players any
favors week one. So is this just a an ego

(27:10):
trip of I want to see if I can make
it my way. That's not the way it works anymore.
He thought ten years ago, I can walk into this
and do whatever I want to. No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
That's not college football. Ten years ago this you gonna
come in as Jordan. We're not telling them, Hey, dude,
I walked away. You saw how successful I was. I
walked away. I'm I'm on TV now, sitting next to
the league course.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
So putting a giant head on. Okay, that's what I'm
doing because I can't do it anymore. Has he not
seen the conga line between football and basketball and all
of his contemporaries who just said, to hell with it.
I don't want to do this. I just love that
he thought we're gonna come in and reinvent college football.
He and Lombardi know we're gonna reinvent college It's gonna
be so easy for you to win here. It's like
I'm gonna take a video game that I've been doing

(27:55):
pretty well on on expert, I'm gonna put it on
amateur or put it on the law. I'm gonna dominate. Now.
That's what he thought was gonna happen, and it's it's
turned out to be where he is now. Emmett Smith
his last year with the Cardinals. He's Willie Smith his
last year WILLI Willie his last year with the Mets.
He's this is what he's done. This is what he
has done to his legacy. He has decided because he's

(28:16):
never going to get hired again. No other team is
ever going.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
You were already in a desperate mode to take this job, man, right,
I mean because everybody else bypassed you and whatever.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Arthur Blake doesn't know what he's doing. He still told
you to go. Belichick and the powder blue North Carolina
is going to be like Emmett is a cardinal name,
that's a ram all that, and it's right along that line.
Man right along that line.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
I wanted to see him have some success, so at
least it went for a while. This is just floating
dumpster fire at this point time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the Bill Belichick of Fox Sports Radio, boy,
that's right, she wears blue all the time as well.
It's Wance Bela.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I do wear a lot of blue because of the lawyers.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
You do, not the not the baby powder blue a lot,
but you know blue, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, speaking of blue, yes, Banda, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know you're a little blue because the Dodgers aren't winning,
but it's not as blue as my dad. How you're
gonna tell us what just happened? You're gonna tell them
what happened at Yankee Stadium? Yes, I'm sorry, dad.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
As the Blue Jays are headed to the Alcs after
defeating the Yankees five to two in Game four, And
it started just the way you would think.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
And the O two.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Line drive fair ball down the right field line, ricchets
off the sidewall Springer scores with these judge on it
quickly gets it in to Kep Blindey to a single
and the Blue Jays lead one nothing in the first.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, Blue Jays Radio Network on the call. Of course,
it was Vladimir Guerrero Junior booting Toronto on the score board,
so they're moving on. As for you, the Lawyers Dodgers
are currently down at home three to one. It's the
bottom of the fifth inning that's about to start in La.
We'll see if the Dodgers manage to bring out the
brooms or if the Phillies stay alive.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
The Tigers are alive.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
They scored nine unanswered runs to defeat the Mariners nine
to three to force the Game five that's going to
be on Friday in Seattle. Cubs also stayed alive, edging
the Brewers four to three, so there'll be a game
four in Chicago tomorrow. In the WNBA, the Aces are
now one win away from winning the title.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
They just edged the Mercury ninety to eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Asia Wilson dropped thirty four points and points including the
go ahead bucket with five seconds to go.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
We also have hockey.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
The Oilers are up on the Flames one zero halfway
through the first period. King's up on the Golden Knights
one zero, also halfway through the first period, while the
Maple Leaves and the Bruins got their first win of
the season today. In NFL news, Bengals head coach Zach
Taylor named Joe Flacco as the team starting quarterback for
their game this Sunday against the Packers. No practice for
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson because of that strained hamstring, and

(30:53):
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray didn't practice today because he is
considered day to day with the foot injury. And lastly,
here a Lakers fan is suing Lebron James for allegedly
tricking him with that second decision announcement that he made
earlier this week. It turned out to be an ad
for Hennessy. So the fan says that he bought two
tickets for the final Lakers home game against the Calves

(31:15):
the late.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
March two tickets because he's a dope. Correct, A lot
of people were dopes. There are a bunch of dopes
and they lick their wounds.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Sure, So he's suing Lebron for what he spent on
the tickets, eight hundred and sixty five dollars for two,
because the value of the tickets immediately went down when
it was an ad for Hennessy Lebron.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
I'll drink the bottle Hennessy you put on your shelf.
I'm gonna see Lebron James right now. My name is Humpty.
Pronounce with I'm suing you, Jason. It's pretty impressive, Jason.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
You can think how you can think that quickly on
the spot.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
I know that whole song I'm.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Lebron James.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Did you see that I was suing it for not
showing up the Blaze pizza like six years ago? Of
course I didn't go, but that would have been annoying
if you went. There were helicopters and newsvers there, and
the line was around the block. And he was almost
late for work any night, and.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
His what.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
And his wife puts out a picture of him in
the pool. I know, like, aw, come on, what are you?

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Jason?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Did you get any of those sauces that I did
not get any of those sauces? You could have got
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ALCS for the first time since twenty sixteen, you knock
out the Yankees Toronto Blue Jays, you get to be
the play of the day Chef.

Speaker 9 (32:49):
Hoffman trying to finish the job is one two pits.
Toronto Blue Jays punched their ticket to the Championship Series,
going through the New York Yankees in four games and
again with standing the Yankees' best punch.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Joe Davis on FS one with the call the Blue
Jays a in the Yankees are out? Coming up next?
What happened to the Yankees? What's the big take coming
off of this? Good to surprise a little bit with
the Yankees being, I mean happy the Yankees around, because
you know it's like the Mets winning but a little
bit different, and then you think it's gonna be as

(33:32):
we break down the Yankees elimination from the playoffs, that's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio, and we'll.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Check in on Wall.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Just a pitch swing in a miss and
that'll do it.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
The Toronto blow Jays are going to the American League
YA pion Chip Series, which starts on Sunday. As Hoffmann,
it's a very defiant look at the Yankee thugout, very
sad ending to a Yankee season here in twenty's twenty five.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
He's not excited, very sad. Call the Yankees Radio Network.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, well whatever, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (34:19):
You think, Glicklyn there was like one out in the
in the ninth that you started unplugging stuff. Yeah, I
get ready to go, grabbing my keys, got my wallet,
ready to walk out. I'm ready. As soon as it
is over, I'm dropping the headphones and walking out. Simms,
we took your microphone. You're gonna have to shout a
little out, Joe. Two outs runner at second, Hey, can
you validate my parking? You got okay? Great? Thanks you

(34:41):
two outs. You're running right.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Ten dollars if you send your dad the uh the
gift of Dawn maddingly partying right now?

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, you I really want to see I
want to get a screen grab of Maddingly with the
big goggles on and and and pouring champagne. Yeah, I
want to see that. I want to see that. And
he's flipping off the camera like Jerry Jones that normally
we watched these things.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
And and it's the Dodgers celebrations, like all right, there's
people we know getting sprayed and assaulted.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
H my god, just creeping up. This one's for you. Now.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
We're watching for Don Mattingly because it's the the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
We don't know any of these people, but we're just
trying to find find mad shit. I'll tell you if
lad Guerrero had some series, man goodness, but that's one
of the best playoff series I've ever seen someone have.
It was amazing. Judge had a great series too, Right,
we talked about Judge. You know, look picked the Yankees
up when they were one game from elimination, worked on

(35:41):
his legacy a little bit with that game last night.
But the Yankees go home and now let me talk.
I'll tell you this, right because here here's the thing. Right,
you think, oh, Jase's gonna go crazy the Yankees around, Yes,
there is that because, like I said, the Yankees losing
is like the Mets winning. I no longer have to
worry about the Yankees winning the World Series, So I'm happy.
Today's a good day. But if I'm honest about the

(36:02):
Yankee I think, if you're honest about the Yankees, this
is not one of those ha, look at what they blew.
This is not ha all the star talent and then
looked they couldn't win. This is a Yankee team that
was pretty good. This is not a Yankee team that
was overwhelming. This is not a Yankee team that a
talent up and down the lineup. This was not a
team that, hey, we're paying four hundred million dollars and look,

(36:24):
we can't even get to the playoffs like the Mets.
This was a pretty good Yankee team that had holes,
right and clearly the biggest hole. And we talked about
this throughout the year, and things might have been different
for the Yeah. In fact, they definitely would have been
different if you had a Garrett Cole. If Garrett Cole
was healthy, they probably would have won the Al East.
They probably would have had a better playoff experience because

(36:46):
Garrett Cole has been lights out in the playoffs. One
of the best playoff pitchers in the history of baseball.
I think he's twelve and six ERA at like two
and a half. He's been terrific. I mean, outside of
not covering first base, well, Garrett Cole has been terrific.
That doesn't show up in the bad It doesn't show
up there. But I feel pretty confident in saying that, Hey,
when you miss your stopper every fifth day, especially in

(37:07):
the playoffs, it's going to be different. This is a
very appropriate ending for the Yankees this year. Yeah, they
were pretty good. They were good in the beginning. They
faltered a little bit midway through. They had a good
run at the end. You're a ninety ish win team,
you won the first round of the playoffs. You go
home to a team that has a much better lineup.
They rake top to bottom, and they beat you in

(37:28):
the first two games of the series. Hey, we had
out There was eight to nothing after the second inning
the first two games. This is very like I don't
look at this as a wasted experience, a wasted opportunity,
the Yankees embarrassing themselves. This was a very appropriate ending
for a team of this talent that had holes, that
had guys that didn't hit, and they have to figure
out next season. You have to figure things out because

(37:50):
you have holes to fill. With the Yankee number one
thing is are you bringing your manager back? Is your
general manager coming back? Those are the things you have
to start with. But this was not an unbeatable Yankee team.
If you say, in the middle of the summer, I
remember saying, well, this is a team they could go
home any time. They can make the playoffs, they can
make a surprise run, because any team can get hot
in the playoffs. But clearly if the Yankees lose, yeah,

(38:12):
that's kind of on brand for this team because it's
not like they they didn't live up to expectation. This
is a very again, a very appropriate ending for the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
You go through their roster and for the Blue Jays,
just to make the note, they didn't even have Bishett
available to this point, right he's still on the comeback trail,
so part of the lineup that you're still like plugging
holes and adequately so and then some. But for the Yankees,
just go to the pitching side. You had Freed, and
you had Rodin and then he had a lot of guys.
The fact that Schlittler had to become superhuman like, and

(38:44):
all New York hopes were on.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Wasn't a starting pitcher until July, and suddenly it's like
it's like the at least that a little bit more
like when Nola McClean come up for the Mets, it's
he's our best pitcher. He's had two starts, he ask
everybody else thinks now. But now Schlittler was kind of
a different version that because he's a guy that came
up middle season, all of Sudday. Now he's got to
save our year.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Huge strikeout right we saw him in his last start
was unbelievable. The twelve strikeouts against zero walks. Had a
great start tonight, right, six and two thirds, two earned
runs allowed. You'll take that every day of the week.
And unfortunately the offense couldn't back it up. We had
opportunities runners on base for the Yankees in multiple innings

(39:23):
and they just couldn't push the run home. And we
talked a lot about the Austin Wells at bat, which
is just awful. Right on that plus Volpi, who was
the highly heralded prospect, and again for for the balance
of the season, the numbers look fine, but situationally, and
with the huge strikeout totals, it's a loss, right, And

(39:45):
he's he's an average shortstop at best in terms of
the field.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Overall, he isn't a he is a plus player overall,
he's overall sure, but he's not. But everybody he thought
he was gonna be a world b right. And and that's
the thing, is that the end all their kids, that's
the thing the Yankees. They think all their kids coming
up are great. Everybody's awesome. You know, I'm sorry, but
the rest of the league season, Okay, these guys aren't
all awesome. I'm sorry about that. Was that played a lot,

(40:13):
was solid, not spectacular. To keep going on down the line.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Jason, it was just last week you said the Yankees
were a team of destiny.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
I thought they were a team of dad. They would Oh,
I'm okay with not being right about that, calling your dad.
I am completely okay with that. We'll have to do
a wellness check. But we were having this discussion if
they went quietly. Is Judge's home run now just a
doint all? It really doesn't matter. He's going to kick
your ass. Great series, doesn't matter. Done. Two big hot

(40:41):
Taggs coming off of the playoff next Fox. We want
to see the sound system they're playing that off of too.
It's probably just a boom box. Yeah, I think they
always got the little external speakers that they bought. Can
you hook that up to the Bluetooth kit you No,
never mind, We're just gonna play a little bit stripe
that as much as you can. Yeah, that's wow. The

(41:07):
Yankee Clubhouse right now, you're hearing that blurring. Yeah, you're
here trying to answer questions and you just heard it.
Is it malfunctioning outside? That's outside? Right? Great? Please don't
be the clubhouse next Stars. Please don't be the clubs
that's over the loud speaker that they accidentally misfired. That
right right.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
If I'm in the Yankee Clubhouse hearing that, I go
join them and party.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well that's what Don Mattingly did. Apparently I'm gonna go
hang out. Hey. That's great it Hey he earned a check.
Judge walks In puts on the goggles celebrating Spring and Champagne.
I had a big series. I mean, I did my job.
That was great.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Hits one of the Yankee Don Mattingly's top five Yankee
all time.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Oh, no, no, no, but fifteen yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
he might be thirteen, like he stands for all that
losing they did from eighty six to ninety six. Yeah. Sure.
His whole career basically was the year after they were
good and then they were bad, and then he retired
the year before they got But it was really good.
He was true. Don Maddley was terrific. He was right,

(42:11):
but bad didn't go out right because of that deep crouch.
I mean, but he came up right after the Yankees
were good in the early eighties, right right after they
were good with rookie year, and he retired the year
before they went to the World Series in ninety six. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Bench coach since twenty twenty two for the Blue Jays.
It just looks really odd in that uniform. Mister blue Jay,
that's what they call him, Mister blue Jay. Nattily shaved
those side burns. Mister blue Jay. Celebrate.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
He's finally saying, Donny Field done well. Took me a
long time to celebrate a big win with Champagne and
Yankee Stadium. Here I am heading to the Championship Series.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
I mean, remember that eighty five season, him and Dave
Winfield battling for the batting title. Yeah, I guess that
was the eighty four season, commemorated in eighty five.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
And well, here he is. I don't remember of the
Blue Jays congratulating New York, New York mad He's a
guy that had it on. Oh, I got it on
my phone. Hang on, just got right, just play, waiting
on this for dirty hair. I don't have my.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Start board, I'm being told. And on the dark board
is a picture of Steinbredder.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Nearly forty years. I've had this, and I've been waiting.
Did what do you have?

Speaker 2 (43:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (43:19):
I got a playlist. It goes back into the New
York groove. Is next. Yeah, I know it's all good.
The summer wind he had. We're all good. We'll just
keep playing is. We're all got a whole run of
followed by some Billy Joel.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Now, if we stay here long enough, we'll get a
little bit of Springsteen and let's go.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
The first thing I want to say is this. It
was last week after the win over the Red Sox,
the destiny, Ryan McMahon, New Jeter play, and Schlitler coming up.
Unlike any rookie we've seen in baseball, in years and years. Hey,
Yankees look like boy, look like they're a team of destiny.
They're gonna win this series. I said they're gonna get out,

(43:54):
They're gonna rake the first couple of games, and the
Yankees are gonna win this city. And I missed this today.
I was, yeah, Friday, I say, listen, the Yankees are
gonna listen, the Yankees are gonna roll through. They're gonna hit,
They're gonna they're hitting the springboard here. This is what's happening.
And instead it was the exact opposite. And I want
to say this, I am absolutely fine getting that prediction wrong.

(44:18):
I mean, you think I am a There are certain predictions. Man,
I'm mad I got that wrong. I'm man that didn't
work out. I'm now this is one of those. I'm like, yeah,
I'm eminently okay with being wrong about the Yankees winning
around in the playoffs and the Yankees going up. I'm
okay with. I really am. You don't need to know
this is just for the radio, right, No, I really
am okay being wrong on that.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
I'm absolutely one hundred percent fine. No again, I mean,
you make a lot of predictions. In this case, A
part of it was maybe you were worried about your
dad or many of your friends who were Yankee fans,
many of them who adopted the Yankees for no logical
reason other than that they were winners, uh during their upbringing.
But but all of that to say, you know, they

(44:59):
did score thirteen runs over a two game stretch, so
I mean that was good. They lost one of them
thirteen to seven, but.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
You know that that's all right. I mean, they won
one game. Offense was terrible except for Aaron Judge who
came loaded for Bear.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
But it's bad for the business. I mean because now
we get one more day to talk about. Hey, is
Aaron Boone gonna stay? Is Brian You're gonna stay? And
then it goes away. You're looking at perfect The Blue.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Jays aren't exciting as much.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
I love Laddie Junior because maybe we get some shots
of the old man hitting some balls out of the dirt. Hey,
remember this is what he had look at here he
was watching his dad hit and we get it, you know,
all those old shots.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
That's great. There's not a lot of personalities out squad.
You're in a perfect world for baseball fans. The Yankees
make it to the World Series and they lose like
last year, right, that was perfect for Babs, especially the
way they lost to me. Come on, yeah, absolutely, that
fifth inning will live forever. Yeah, Dodgers, Yankees didn't hurt
major League Baseball and all that at all. Now the
Yankees around and now it's oh, it's just like in

(45:58):
the NCAA tournament when you say, oh, man, I love
all these upsets until you get to the sweet sixteen.
You go, hey, I'm going to the bar Saturday to
watch and it's oh boy, it's copp And State and
Washington State. Okay, oh they play beer pong there. All right,
how are we going to pass the time? Everybody loves
it until oh wait, it's it's it's the it's the
Blue Jays and the Mariners. It's the blue Jays and

(46:18):
the Tigers. It's a Blue Jays Brewers World Series. Everybody
loves until you that's the World Series.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Oh hang on, hang on, hang on, all right, all right,
all right, we get to watch Bernie go down the slide.
Jackson Curio's a guy that you know, I mean, I'll
be cheering for Andrew Vaughan. But yeah, all of that
to say, we need the storylines. We need the history,
we need the pomp and circumstance. Doesn't mean we don't
like new new teams crashing the party. Yeah, but I'm
looking out for America. But I America.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
But I'm old, Daniel Dave Lewis, so honestly, I'll deal
with that. I'll deal with that as the fallout of
the Yankees, not beach.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
So you got one half of your uh yeah, hey,
the one half of this equation that came in for you.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
If the Dodgers can come from behind tonight and win,
I can wear my Metskier again because the men help
me out and the Phillies will be down. It's like
an automatic again, soot video game. I got all my lines.
I can't wear my medskier until both of those teams
are out. Laundry Day. You cannot bring back I can't

(47:20):
do it. Mean the Jets are already done. So what
else has he got? He's got like a week of
the Knicks? No, no, no, the Knicks. We're getting honest,
We're getting honest. It's fine. Uh but the worst part
for the Yankees. Okay, you want to know this right,
because I told a few minutes ago this is not
a horrendous playoff loss. This was a pretty good Yankees
team and losing here it's an appropriate time for them

(47:42):
to lose. They would never they were never great. They
had injury problems, they had performance problem performance and you're
in very some changes, but you're in a very deep division.

Speaker 8 (47:50):
Right.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
You got help by the fact that everything went wrong
for Baltimore too, Well, I need to get to this point.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
You can help. The Red Sox decided to trade away
Rafael Devers and get better hen Roman Anthony. Yeah, so,
I mean, look, this was a they were a pretty
good team and losing in the alds Okay, Like, this
is not something that the Yankees gotta hang their heads
and hide and go. Oh, I just gotta go to
kankun with Jon Soto on vacation and hang out because
I can't see it. It's still shameful. But this is

(48:16):
the worst part for the Yankees, right, because what is
the narrative they wanted to get rid of. They wanted
to get rid of the lazy Yankees, bad fundamental narrative.
Right the Joe Kelly sounded that that alarm last year
Dodger reliever he'd been playing the playoffs. It called the
Yankees lazy, remember how it's mad they got All off
season and even into uh spring training, that kept coming

(48:38):
up because we saw the Yankees fundamentally they were bad.
They didn't run the bass as well, they made a
lot of errors, and that narrative stuck with them all
the way through this season, right when they had that
big mid season swoon and the Yanks and the Yankees
announcers were saying, this is a little league team. They
can't run the bass as well, they don't do things
well fundamentally. Even Buck Martinez Blue Jay's announced it before

(48:59):
the said, hey, I don't think the Yankees are very good.
I don't think it's it. He doubled down saying, yeah,
what I said, They're not a good baseball team. They
don't do the things you need to do well enough
to win. And yes, there is a lot of that
in baseball this year, especially the last couple of years,
where managers make mistakes, teams make mistakes, but they get
bailed out by a three run homer. Right, we said

(49:20):
that happened so many times. Hey, this team played horrible today,
this was bad, this was bailed but we had a
three run homer and that bailed us out of that.
The Yankees weren't bailed out by it. So the Yankees
the one thing they wanted to do was get rid
of that narrative, get rid of the lazy Yankees. We
can't play narrative. Especially Aaron Boone wants to get rid
of it because that's gonna cause him to get fired.

(49:40):
And what happened. What do we see just in this game,
you saw Aaron Boone not pinch hit for Anthony Volpi
who was at that point one for fourteen with ten strikeouts.
Anybody else going up there would be a better choice
to pay, but they left let him go up there.
In the seventh inning with a runner on base, he
strikes out, next batter gets it. The Yankees can't get
any runs in Okay, you had Jazz chishlm boot a

(50:01):
double playgrounder in the seventh inning where the Blue Jays
were able to take their lead from two to one
to four to one. Double playgrounder bad optics by Chishom
was seen yawning, you know, last night, during the middle
of the game, an elimination game. He's yawning, and he
goes down on social media and says, I yawn all
the time. Okay, yeah, bad optic man to be yawning
during a game. You had the big ara by Jazz

(50:24):
Chism and you had the horrible at bat by Austin Wellson.
This goes into lazy Yankees, bad bass running, bad coach,
bad fundamentals. Where Ben Rice is up. This is the
Yankees last gasp, right, it's five to one in the
eighth inning. Ben Rice pinch hits for Paul Goldschmidt and
he works a walk out of Hoffman. Hoffman throws a
three to two slider that's not even close to the plate.

(50:45):
So now Yankee Stadium is rocking. Austin Wells is coming up,
bases loaded. You know, Hoffman in his boots, his knees
are clanking together. He has just walked a guy. What
are you gonna do? And Austin Wells swings at the
first pitch, flies out to left field on a pitch
that is high and out of the strike zone. And
it's not a one running this is this is a

(51:07):
four run game that you need to figure something out
here right now with two outs, and you not only
swing at the first pitch after a guy gets walked
to load the bases and you know the pressure he's feeling,
the pressure running. You're on the mound in Yankee Stadium
at this point. You've never been in this position before
in your life. Yeah, the pressure is on you. And
Wells bails him out by swinging it a bad pitch

(51:27):
that he lay hits, a lazy fly ball left field.
See lazy Yankees, lazy as it is. And this is
that's the worst part for the Yankees is that lazy
Yankee narrative. Bad fundamentals, bad base running, bad everything that's
not going anywhere. Because this was something that players doubled
down on, people doubled down on, and you saw the
and you saw the result on your screen. Lazy Yankees

(51:47):
fundamentally bad. That narrative sticks with them now through another
full season. It's not enough. If they lost, if they
lost eight to seven, they lost seven to six. They
hit the ball, but their pitching didn't come through. You know,
the Blue Jays were able to rake, but they still
have this lazy Yankee narrative that sticks with them. And
this is why, honestly, I thought Aaron Boone did enough.

(52:08):
You know, they beat the Red Sox. We wanted to
win the series. I don't know man seeing lose this one.
I am not going to be surprised if the Yankee
say we need something else to get there, and Aaron
Boone is replaced as Yankee made.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
But you go through the whole Ledger, go back to
the start of that Red Sox series when he had
Rice and Chisholm on the bench. Right two, I get it,
you're going up against Crochet, but Theo's been two of
your productive hitters. You're talking about sixty home runs. A
ton of RBIs on the bench, and you lose that
and eventually you get bailed out because of the lack

(52:40):
of fundamentals on the Red Sox side. But all of
it is in the grand total, right the Ledger at
the end of we talk about shedding your mortal coil,
and the good and the bad that you did whatever
else for Aaron Boone. There's a lot of it of
going through the one sixty two plus the playoffs of
operations and management of this roster. Still spent a lot

(53:02):
of money, right, It's not Dodgers, it's not Mets money,
but it is still a significant amount of cash. And
it's another year of Aaron Judges prime that gets wasted, right,
And He had a fantastic series, but do you have
enough horses around him to get you over We talk
about the prospects and expecting what they were going to be.
Domingus was okay, he was a two fifty seven hit

(53:24):
or ten home runs, nothing to write home about. Ben
Rice looks like a guy who's going to grow into
a really good left handed hit bat for you for Volpi,
he's a plus player, but he's not the number one
prospect that you were anticipating and starting pitching. Yeah, Garrett
Cole would have been a nice addition. Well, do you
have enough there to get through the East again, because

(53:45):
you're you're navigating, you know, a war inside a bigger war.
Right when we're talking about the American League as a whole,
there's a lot of heavyweight teams going, but you got
to get out of the East first. There always gonna
win eighty five games by default. Yeah, look just what
they do.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
And you've already seene seen a season in which you
went from World Series Yankees, lazy Yankees, Little League Yankees,
two out in the Alds Lazy Yankees, little League Yankees.
Like that, that's not something that says, hey, we have
the right leadership in here where we know when you
can't keep figuring out that all three run homer is

(54:24):
gonna bail us out. Right, Judge is not gonna bail
you out with a three on homer every single not
enough to win series like this not gonna happen. No,
I mean, you're running through a gauntlet of teams and
a long regular season.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
And look the pitching staff. Schlittler might be that guy, right,
he might become that that big arm that goes along
with these others, but you still have so many other
questions that you have to answer and the little little
things of the innings that get away. Aaron Boone probably
faces the sort of damnicles off of.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
This exit ab out of Fresco exit swalling down the
Jason Smith The Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
We got more baseball on the way. We have more
on the Yankees getting eliminated, and more on I think
I can run for some sort of baseball president and
my only platform needs to be stop bunting. So we
will have that more big stuff out of the NFL

(55:19):
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