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Jason and Mike are in complete awe of Shohei Ohtani's series-clinching performance leading the Dodgers to the World Series!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Hey, you know a
funny thing happened on the way to football Friday show. Hey,
Otani decided to say, Hey, wait a minute, I'm gonna
put out the greatest performance anybody's ever seen in the
history of Major League Baseball playoffs. That's exactly what Otani did.

(00:53):
Unbelievable night for him.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Uh show me to think to dismiss his NLCS performance.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh, I know, it's it's insane, right.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Find yourself a hug on a Friday night, folks.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I mean, look, Otani had been struggling in the playoffs.
This is what drives me crazy. No, I'm just going
to take the other side of things, Just to take
the other side of things what we saw tonight from show.
Hey Otani.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
One, welcome back, Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
What do you want to go back to major League
baseball eighteen eighties, when baseball started eight to late eighteen eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
When god On Abner double dates. All right, yeah, so
we're going back to om Alexander Krt, right and all
those guys Fireman's.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Hat, Alexander tay shirt when he invented baseball and Toad. Hey,
let's put three bases out there.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
You say, hey, I love the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Eighteen eighty The last time the Mets were good, my
name wronging up was Benjamin Benjamin Button.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, that's right, alex is aging in reverse.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Look, let's go back nearly one hundred and fifty years
of major League baseball. That's kind of where we're last
time the Mets we're good. Yeah, we've only been around
since sixty two, and that's nineteen sixty two, not eighteen
sixty two. This is the best game anybody has had
in the playoffs in the history of Major League Baseball.

(02:12):
And it's not even debatable. You could talk about Otani
coming into this game had he not been playing well. Yes,
no one in the history of the game did what
he did tonight. I hope you got to see it,
hope you got to spend time watching it. I hope
you save your ticket if you have a pay per ticket.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
If if you find a pay per ticket, let me
know I would be in the market for one.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I hope you have some sort of souvenir from this game,
because I get this is a game that you will
never see again. Look, I'm fifty four. I've been watching
baseball since the early seventies. Go back. My dad is
almost eighties, been watching baseball since the fifties. My grandfather
was born in nineteen nineteen. And I guarantee you none
of us, none of us have seen anyone do what

(02:56):
Shoho Tani did tonight. Six innings, pitched ten strikeouts, two hits.
He was as dominant as you could expect. One hundred pitches.
And they went to the bullpen and get into a
little bit of trouble in the top of the seventh inning,
put a couple of guys on dodgermen, get out of
the jam. Dodgers going on to the World Series. That
feels like the Dodgers going to the World Series feels

(03:17):
like it's like story seventeen. When you talk about what
o'tanni did, that's how good what he That's how huge
what he did tonight. So that would be a hey,
what a great game from Otani and then batting three
for three with three home runs, including a home run
that he hit out of Dodger Stadium. He had over
the roof in the right field bleachers into the picnic

(03:41):
area or as they would say in the Mets telecasts,
into the friendly pavilion area here into the picnic area.
And I've said that, and I'm texting my dad and
he was so excited because I said, Dad, Gasiro Otani
hit that home run too. He goes, that's where we
had lunch. I said, yes, my dad. One of the
greatest things my dad and I have done the last years,
there's two really great things we've done together, and one

(04:02):
is to go see the ship he served on in
Vietnam when it was Doctor in San Diego, and that
was I mean, that was so cool for him to
go back, go down there and see the ship and
everything else. We went down there and did that a
few years ago because it was Doctor in San Diego.
And we went to the NLCS last year and we
goent to both games, went out there, we had lunch
and we enjoyed the game and stayed. He was rooting
for the Mets with me. Everybody was channing Yankee suck

(04:25):
like it was such a great day.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
What absolutely, And.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
We said, I mean, the thing about this is, I
just I keep thinking about where we sat, where we
had nachos and had lunch, is in the is right
off the parking lot, right off where the team store is,
which is right when you walk in off of the
big parking lot, and that's where Tani hit his home run.
Right Steve Disager brought us a story. The guy that
got the ball was eating nachos and he happened to

(04:51):
look up and saw the ballfly sports him and he
got it. Like that's how far? I mean they say
it was four hundred and seventy feet, I guarantee it.
What it was long than that, I guarantee you. So,
I don't know how. One of the worst things that
I think baseball does, or that any sport does, is
how baseball measures distances for home runs. Come on, man,
you can't tell me it's got to be more than
four and seventy feet.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
If nothing else, doing like NBA heights man, add a
couple of feet you.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Need to you know, what you need to do. Seventy
four feet. That's I think I'd I'd be more up
with that frous from there was one more seventy I
want I want the spot to be given a star
or some sort of area where you can come see it, right,
like this is the spot, Like just just put like
a plaque on it or one of those things where

(05:36):
it says, this is the landing spot where show EO.
Tani's home run in Game four of the NLCS hit,
however many feet it was on this day, Like, I
want that to be a spot where where it landed
and and people go out to be able to see that.
Like that's what needs to happen for that spot, because
that's how big a deal that was. And when you
think about that night, eleven people in the history of

(05:57):
baseball that three home runs in a playoff game, so
Tani already would be all time. Oh yeah, throw in
the six innings of two hit ball and ten strikeouts
that he pitched. We've never seen anybody do this never,
I don't know the babe Ruth did this on his
best day pitching and hitting in the playoffs in Major
League Baseball back when he pitched in the nineteen twenty.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Challenge.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
What are he's talking? You know? I mean that's how much?
How far you're going back to saying, when was the
last time we saw someone do something like this? And
it's show Hao toy. You'll see Haley's comment before you
see this again. I've seen Haley's comment, I've seen Otani
do this. Okay, what am I going to see next?
I got a better shot of seeing Haley's comment the

(06:38):
twenty sixties, whatever it shows up, got a better shot
of that than seeing someone have a night like this
with show Hao TONI.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
In the interim, I'm gonna watch a little Bill Haley
and the Gommts and I'm gonna rock around the clock. Look,
there's a lot going on with this, right we talk
about the all the superlatives that we can bring out
and go to the thesaurus and bring out the great
big words to describe what we saw for those that
want to dismiss it. And I've seen this done in

(07:04):
a million different ways in the last two to three hours,
and had been set up for a couple of days.
And Pat Murphy he gets part of the blame for
it when he starts talking about payroll and all that
fun stuff, like if you don't like the rules, put
in something to change it. It's like, you know, state
to state and nationally we have all sorts of discussions

(07:25):
that way. Let's talk about baseball, right, you want to
talk about salary?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, wait, I have a thing to ask Mike before
you go more, because I have a question that may
may play it to it. Who had the best record
in the National League this year? Tell me, tell me
to who that was?

Speaker 3 (07:38):
I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Payroll was a thing, man, Man, roll was a thing.
It's a big deal. No, that the Mets had the
biggest payroll. That's if I'm remembering right, it might have
the best record. In fact, who had the best record
in all of baseball this year despite the fact of
all the payroll the differences there, Who had the best
record in the game?

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Wow, it's sure as that wasn't my team one hundred
lost season in the last four Yeah. No, the Milwaukee
Brewers with their ninety seven wins. Okay, the Dodgers did
not hit the over right, everybody, Oh, they're gona win
one hundred and twenty games. They didn't, and the injuries
are there. And yes, they have a luxury and an
ownership group and a management group that is different, and

(08:18):
they run and operate differently than anyplace else. You would
be wise to try to figure out how to replicate it,
even if you have to take a couple of zeros
off the back end of your spending. But all of
that to say, you want to put a thing up
saying there's got to be a higher floor for teams
to actually spend the money they get from the revenue split,

(08:39):
I'll vote for that. You want to say that maybe
there's a more restrictive cap, sure I can go with
that too. Go in and talk to the Players Association
about that one and see how far that'll get you.
The deferred money loophole, Sorry, it's there. You don't like it,
voted out and figure that out at your next CBA.
But in the interim, shut up, they're playing by the rules.

(09:01):
There's nothing else to see here. You got beat in
a series. And so that leads me to the other
point when it comes to shoe Antani and trying to
dismiss what you saw here, Well, they were up three
to nothing and they were dead come on ninety seven
wins NLCS scrappy team. Everybody trying to say, you know,

(09:23):
root for the underdog, which they really weren't. In the
grand scale, Yes, betting odds they were, but they were
a ninety seven win team. Right, generate runs, this is
what they do. Well, they did none of it. They
got shut down and slapped around. And it wasn't because
the Dodgers went and scored fifteen runs in every game
and did the conga line thing. No pitching felled you

(09:46):
all the bats that you were gonna be able to,
you know, work account and get a guide base. Guess
what you didn't?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
You didn't.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Oh and then this guy, you know the what, he's
gonna win his fourth MVP award. He uh, he slapped
you around from the mound and at the plate.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
So wear it.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
And for those don't like it, you know, go go
play some Tiddleywinks or something. This game's not for you.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Oh you said Tiddleywinks. Wow, Like you're ninety I've played
Tiddley Wow. I mean bubblety peg.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, what what else should I say?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Go do your wordle?

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Maybe play the world's.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Good Wordle's good Wordle's good because my because my dad
is one of those people in wordle that always wants
to post like how he did and how many he
got him in, you know, World one, seven hundred and
forty two, four out of six, like like he might
he does that.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
All we did that a long time ago. That seemed
like so what twenty eighteen, twenty twenty, I don't know,
but all of that to say, Jason, like the amount
of complaining about this. Dave Roberts, you know, finished his
line going, hey, let's go room baseball. We're going to
the World Series. Let's continue to ruin baseball some more

(10:54):
like good for you?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it happens. There's always gonna
be a dominant team. This just so happens to be
the Dodgers, right, Like for a long time it was
the Yankees. The Yankees paid money. Hey, it's not my
fault that you could pay that. That team's can afford
to pay more than anybody else, right, Hey, players should
be able to go where they want to go. Oh,
they all want to pick the Dodgers because they're good.
What what the hell is wrong with that? Like? Really,

(11:16):
I mean, seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I have an opportunity to go pick wherever you want
to work, right, wherever you want to work. You want
to walk Cross Street, go walk Cruss Street. You don't
like where you're working. I don't know what to tell you.
At some point, I feel like decision fans just want
free agents to be assigned to teams. Now, like, oh, hey,
that's great. Look at yeah you can only there's one
from these yeah, c list because these other teams are stacked. Sorry, listen,

(11:40):
you have to pick one team from each tier. Okay,
here's one team at the top. When like you're setting
out of the fantasy goal for auto racing roster, Sorry,
you can't pick any of the good guys.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Hey, I know you were hoping to go to the
Dodgers and get a good contract from them, but instead
I got you a one year, three million dollar deal
with the Orioles. So congratulations, there you But I don't
want it. It doesn't matter. It's where you gotta go. Like,
I don't know what people want. Like this is just
in every sport there's a team, there's one there's somebody
at the top that spends more money than everybody else,
that gets more players, and if it wasn't the Dodgers,

(12:12):
it would be the Yankees. Wasn't the Yankees, would be
the Mets. It wasn't the Mets, it would be the Phillies.
It's all of these Okay, So it happens that way
you want. It's it's the bitterness that that people have
where Hey, because Otani chose the Dodgers, well, guess what,
the Dodgers paid them a lot of money. Now they're
not paying them now, but eventually they got to pay him.
Oh but Yamamoto Dodger. You know, Okay, he picked you know,

(12:35):
Yamamoto picked the Dodgers. Okay. I mean, this is just
how it goes, man and and buying all of these players.
It doesn't guarantee you World series. What it does is
it guarantees you being competitive, right, that's what the money
you spend and being able to get players like this.
It doesn't guarantee you winning it all. It guarantees you competition,

(12:56):
because if it guaranteed you winning at all, the Dodgers
would have more world to reason they do, well, dude,
have every World Series for the past fifteen years. But
that's not how it goes. Yes, it buys you competitiveness,
and a chance to win, but it doesn't buy you
a championship. You got to be able to go out
and do it on the.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Field well, and you got to play some pretty big
bets and they all have to hit right. It's like
building through the draft. That's great in theory, but you
got to get all those draft picks right right. And baseball,
in particular, guys coming up through a system, coming out
of college, going through your your minor leagues, do they
all hit. Yeah, every once in a while it coalesces,
and you sprinkle in some high priced veterans. But for

(13:33):
all of these guys to have hit, you had no
proof of concept.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
All right.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
They pitched well overseas, and these guys you know, came
over and have been all lights out. And certainly for Otani,
he didn't pick the Dodgers right off the jump. He
was down by Mickey Mouse, playing in obscurity, obscurity relatively
speaking with Mike Trout, and.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Now here he is. Tonight the greatest night in playoff
history that we've ever seen in Major League.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Bas These people are mad.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's that kind of night. Man. If you can't enjoy
a night like this, I don't know what to tell
you about maybe sports isn't your thing? Funny, Hey, really,
maybe sports is not your thing if you see a
night like this and go, yeah, but maybe it's just
not your thing. I mean really, that's kind of where
it is. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon

(14:23):
not the only shocking result tonight with show Heyo Tani
six innings, ten strikeouts, three home runs. How about the
night that happened that is shaking up college football as
we speak. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (14:51):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
This is Jay.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
I'm the producer of the Paula and Tony Fusco Show.
Usually in these promos they ask you to listen to
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
What the hell are you doing? Out studio.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Hit him, Paulie, ignore that fool. Listen to n Pauline
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Speaker 2 (15:18):
He's still moving.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, late in the third quarter,
Cal leads North Carolina twenty one to ten. North Carolina
though driving, I feel like every play Lopez gets crunched,
he throws up a prayer and somehow North Carolina comes

(15:44):
down with it.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Sometimes it has been answered, yes.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's every play on this drive. He's just chucking up
balloons in hospital balls and somehow North somehow Cal can't
defend these and they're coming down with the ball. But again,
it's a eleven poor point lead right now for Cal
North Carolina with the ball potentially driving. Every play seems
to be reviewable near the sideline. We'll keep you updated

(16:09):
on this. Belichick trying to not tag another loss to
his record. That gets chasing. You know why they can't
defend it? Why can't they.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Because Jordan Hudson drew them up.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh maybe maybe Jordan Hudson's the one saying, hey, just
throw it up. Just it doesn't matter, just throw it
right up.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, I was thinking that the insanity of it all,
that you can't really call a proper defense to defend it,
because none of it makes sense. Right again, the scrambling
running for his life and then throwing it up and
guys having to come down and make massive plays. I
am encouraged that there are some of these guys. And
Klower his name's up there.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
He's about an inch and a half taller than me.
Now he runs a forty probably in a second and
a half faster than I do at this point. Right,
but twenty one to ten end of three plus seven
and a half was your number?

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Now, Frostburg, Hey, can can you tell me what? What
do you what do you think of the graphics on
the game? Like, do you think Jordan hudsonill be okay
with the graphics after the game is over? Or no,
that's up. Will Joyn Hudson be okay with the graphics
of this game after? Well she liked the graphics are
not like the graphics I'm gonna go with.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
No, she does not approve. She does not approve of
that one that says twenty one to ten and you
will be showed out on a hot mic Hot Mike,
can't you.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Just change it and give us seventeen? Can't you just write,
you know, make it twenty one to seventeen, make it
a close game. Why not? We'll keep your day. I
picked the Chargers to win Frostburg. You should love me.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I think that's why he hates you.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Don't I be the Chargers whisperer this year. I've been
the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Whisper You're just a very bad person for doing that.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Everything I've said has been right, the charge of everything
has been great Frostburg, everything's awesome.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
What if you said recently that's been right? The Super
Bowl that was that was two years ago. Man, it's
in the promo. They keep running that thing from two
years ago. Man, two years ago.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
So meanwhile, elsewhere in college football, and I am going
to take the Jets to win the game on Sunday.
By the way, Miami and Nebraska two games tonight, two
big games, two top twenty five teams. Well one of
them is not in the top twenty five anymore. Matt
Rule in Nebraska lose to Minnesota, who rowed the boat
right over Matt Rule's face. And now good luck getting

(18:29):
that job at Penn State Matt Jor But the big
loss of the night Carson Beck not one, not two,
not three, four interceptions, including a game clinching one on
the final drive for the Hurricanes, who were in field
goal range, could have sent this to overtime against Louisville.
They lose it. The Cardinals beat him twenty four to

(18:52):
twenty one. Congratulations Miller Moss, former USC He was going
to be next after Caleb Williams and instead now he's
playing well at Louisville this year. But man Carson Beck
falls out of the Heisman favorite spot. The Miami's gonna
fall out of the top five, and all of this
because they go down on a Friday night to Louisville.

(19:13):
And look we start the weekend. We end the week
with two really big crazy stories, right, James Franklin gets
fired by Penn State and number two Miami, who wis
a couple weeks ago. Who's gonna beat them? They're gonna
go undefeated. They they've made it through all their tough parts.
They're not playing anybody who won their skeptics. They don't
play any top twenty five teams the rest of the way.

(19:34):
They're gonna be undefeated, They're gonna be a top seeded
of the playoff, and yeah, here they are. They lose
right now to Louisville sometimes and part of a positivity Friday,
sit back and enjoy the most bananas and bizarre college
football season we've seen in almost twenty years. Right. I
always go back to two thousand and seven when it
came down to the final day of the regular season

(19:55):
for Missouri and Kansas and West Virginia. Think about that
for a seconds, Zuri, Kansas and West Virginia. We all
thought were going to the playoff on the final day
of the regular season. We all thought that was gonna happen.
Now it didn't, but that's where we sat going into
the final game. Those three teams, Kansas, Kansas Football could
have done it. That's this kind of year right now,

(20:15):
because you have teams that we thought were good, that
were good in the beginning, not good, then we're good again.
You've had teams we thought we're gonna be good that
are not good. We've had stars we thought we're gonna
be stars that are not stars. We've had teams we
didn't think we'd ever talk about, and their front page
headline like Indiana is like, this is such a bizarre
season and the James Franklin story stands for all of it.

(20:38):
This is a guy that two weeks ago on Saturday,
was tied in overtime in a top five game against
number two Oregon. Two weeks later, he has fired as
Penn State head coach. This is the kind of season
we have, Like, you know what, just sit back and
enjoy this craziness and the ride that is every week.
There's nothing wrong with that. That's the kind of year

(20:59):
we have. And there's different drama and different great stories
every week. We have heritage programs that hadn't been good
in a while that are coming back and now maybe
they're a little bit better. Teams like USC have jumped
back into the top twenty five. That's terrific to see,
right arch Manning maybe is playing a little bit better
now they can maybe squeak back into the playoff. Oklahoma

(21:19):
is still really good. Like this is Alabama now. A
month ago, everybody was looking at Kaitlin Debores buyout. Can
we gotta get rid of this guy? Can't win any
big game? This is terrible? And instead now here's Alabama.
Everybody loves them right. The guy's got Alabama back at
number six. They're five and one. They can probably afford
one more loss and still make it into the playoff.
And oh, by the way, they're in the run of

(21:41):
a schedule right now where they play number five, number sixteen,
number fourteen, number eleven, number ten, number fourteen. This is
a five out of six week stretch. They play a
top fifteen team and Alabama is here in the top seven.
This season is absolutely bananas and it's just so much
fun it can't even make sense. Like every week just
brings something different and something crazy with college football.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, first appreciation for Jeff Brohm eighty nine and fifty
three in his career. You're looking at a lot of
You got a double win, digit win season in twenty
twenty three and nine win season last year. Now up
to five and one to take down in Nebraska today,
we will I.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Just like to be with Salty during the kneel down.
Oh no, he was yelling at Miller Moss about the
kneel down, like, did come on, man, you're the final
whistle man.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Excellence of execution, no fighting, no stupid penalties. Just let's
end this cleanly and be done with it. I dig that.
I dig the cut of his Jim talking about the
rankings and where we're at right now. Just the veritable
pote poirie, the mix of teams, the heavyweights, the long
standing blue blood programs mixed in at number seventeen, Vanderbilt,

(22:57):
we got Memphis, we got the Bearcats in there. I
mean like you got a little bit of everything for
you as you roll on. And obviously a bunch of
top twenty five matchups there this week that'll jumble that
up even some more. But let's go back to the
Heisman Ray, shall we? For old mister Beck updated odds
as we sit here late on a Friday, early Saturday, Antia.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
He was the odds on favorite going into tonight. Yeah,
he was plus three hundred. He was the favorite. Well
that was a third. Lots changed since thirty seconds ago.
We live in a different world, in a different world,
all right.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Leading the clubhouse Fernando Mendoza of your Indiana Hoosiers at
plus two That future jet Fernando Mendoza. He is tied
with Simpson from Alabama plus two forty. Marcel Reid is
third at fourteen hundred. Julian's saying at fourteen hundred, Jeremiah

(23:53):
Smith at fourteen hundred, and then we jumped to Gunner
stocked in and CJ. Carr at twenty to one, Dante
Mori twenty two, along with Trinidad Chambliss from old Miss
all the way down to forty to one. After tonight's performance,
Carson beck ooh Man from three to one to forty

(24:14):
to one. I need to hear you say, Jade and Mayava.
He is sitting there at twenty five to one. Who
that's that's respectful?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (24:23):
He he could make the two guys, Look, they win
that game tomorrow, they're ten point dogs. Now, I'm gonna
tell you this, they will both guys with a big
game tomorrow can jump up.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Because CJ. Carr is really good. Maava is really good.
The thing I worry about with Maeva is that, especially
watching him in person last week, is that he has
the propensity to make at least one or two really
bad heat check throws a game and it's like, dude,
what are you doing? Where is that throw? Just because
you can see the confidence in him in the and

(24:54):
the heat check he wants to runs like dude, what
are you doing? Man? And that can kill them, That
will kill them tomorrow if he makes he checked throws.
But whoever wins that game, you get a big game
from one of those guys USC Notre Dame. Yeah, they'll
vault to the top of the Heisman races.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Miller Moss at one seventy five to one, and then
go back up a little bit. Mattier who was one
of your favorites injury and then last week he's one
hundred to one now and nuss Meyer, who was the
preseason number one or number two depending on where you
were looking at your odds, now sixty to one.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
We got more coming up. In ninety seconds. We will
take a look at two of the biggest games in
the NFL this weekend. But first special delivery, Steve de Sager,
who took North Carolina getting the points tonight, has what's
trending in the wide world of sports.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
By the way, the av writer at this game at
cal To I said, the cal student section right behind
the tar Heels bench at one point was chanting high
school girlfriend at Belloto.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (25:56):
Hel up twenty one to ten against North Carolina early
in the four quarter, and we had the Dodgers advancing
to the World Series. In postseason history, no pitcher has
ever hit three career home runs in the playoffs. Otani
was the winning pitcher and hit three home runs in
this game tonight, beating top seeded Milwaukee five to one,

(26:18):
completing a four game sweep. What you guys mentioned before about, Yes,
there is money involved with contenders. The New York Mets
had the number one payroll at opening day this year
and missed the playoffs entirely. Texas Rangers, who had won
the World Series two years ago, had a top ten
payroll missed the playoffs entirely. The Dodgers, with the money spent,

(26:39):
were out first round back to back seasons in recent years.
Atlanta Braves had a top ten payroll and missed the playoff.
I speaking of the Braves, Freddie Freeman thought he was
going to be in Atlanta Brave for life. He's on
the Dodger roster only because the Braves acquired Matt Olsen
in trade and four days later Freeman left and so

(27:00):
with the Dodgers. Roque Susaki picking the Dodgers has nothing
to do with money. He was coming over to this
country under the age of twenty five. He's not allowed
to make big money under the baseball rules. He picked
la and as far as Max Munsey. He was cut
by the Oakland A's at the end of a spring
training after two lackluster years, went unsigned for a month,

(27:22):
and then the Dodgers signed him and put him in
the minor leagues. In twenty seventeen. Tommy Edmund was injured
when he was acquired in that three team trade. A
couple summers ago, the Dodgers drafted Will Smith, a catcher,
at the end of the first round. Literally the rest
of the major leagues had a chance to draft him,
including the White Sox, who took a catcher top ten

(27:43):
that year, and the Angels, who took a catcher top
ten that year.

Speaker 7 (27:46):
I knew I was getting a card door to the
side of that will stand here. Thirty second overall goes
to the Dodgers. By the way, Otani did something that
we now have proof that Babe Ruth never did, because
Nay Bruth did actually pitch three World Series games before
he went to the Yankees and won all three with
the Red Sox, but never had a night like this.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
I looked it up and in nineteen sixteen with the
Red Sox, he pitched all fourteen innings of a World
Series game that he won. He had four strikeouts, three walks,
and at the plate went zero for five, And then
a couple of years later with Boston, he pitched all
nine innings of a shutout, four strikeouts on the mound

(28:30):
and batting ninth went oh for three, and then later
in that series with Boston eight innings, got the win,
no strikeouts, six walks, had a triple there oh Toddi,
three homers and the winning pitcher and struck out ten
in six plus scoreless innings, just two hits allowed, and

(28:52):
the Dodgers advanced to the World Series for the fifth
time in the last nine years. The Brewers were held
to one run in each of the four games of
the NLCS. The last time the Dodger franchise swept a
four game series was the nineteen sixty three World Series.
These Dodgers are nine to one in the playoffs. They've

(29:12):
lost six games in the last six weeks. They've won
twenty four of their last thirty. Seattle's up three games
to two in the ALCS after beating Toronto six to
two with an incredible bottom of the eighth, a five
run rally cal Raley with the rally tying solo homer
and a grand slam for au Henneo Suarez, who'd also

(29:32):
hit a solo shot tonight in the second game six
on FS one Sunday nights in Toronto.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
San Francisco tight.

Speaker 6 (29:39):
End George Kittle will return from the torn hamstring Sunday
nights as San Francisco hosts Atlanta with Mac Jones at
quarterback again.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Upset.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
In college football, Louisville won at number two Miami twenty
four to twenty one, victories for Minnesota and Utah State.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Back to you and Steve, you're forgetting. In two thousand
and seven, in the Israel Baseball League Draft, a team
drafted Sandy Kofax, who was then seventy one years old,
because he said, hey, my age, but they drafted Sandy
Kofax in two thousand and seven.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
He's American. Jason.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
It was a stunning night for Otani, and if you
list the three greatest nights since he came to this country,
it's this performance number one. And I assumed the night
where he got the fifty to fifty, where he had,
by the way, six hits in that game, that's number two,
and then winning the gold in the World Baseball Classic
Number three.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I really thought you were gonna say when he announced
that his dog's name was Decoy.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Well that was big news as we were cold, but
it was topped by the dog actually throwing out the
first press.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
True no, you guys, and all the extra money the
Dodgers were able to give Sandy Kofax as a bonus baby.
They gave him a fourteen thousand dollars signing bonus in
nineteen fifty four that they won a big battle to
get Sandy.

Speaker 6 (30:59):
Kofan was wild young.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
He made six thousand dollars that year. Steve is a
pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Famous Tommy List sort of quote when he was being
sent back to the miners.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm not the guy you should be sending down that Kofax.
Guy can't throw one. Soto makes twenty thousand. That makes
twenty thousand dollars for every two to two county has
hey twenty grand for one Soto begs a bud Steve,
All right, there we go. Hey, look a couple of
big games in the NFL this weekend. I'll tell you this.

(31:35):
If everybody thinks the Chiefs are back after last week,
big headline today where she Rice obviously is coming back
for Kansas City, and obviously that'll jump start the offense
a little bit. Look, it's the Raiders, so they're.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Gonna go ours.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, Byers is out. Yeah maybe Myers is questionable. He
might play, but it really doesn't matter the offensive line.
So yeah, Stabler is not going to play. I don't
think Dave Casper is going to play. Look, the Chiefs
are gonna win, but this is not going to be
a Chiefs's back game. The Chiefs are still going to
struggle because this is kind of who they are. They

(32:08):
struggle with the younger, more athletic teams, of which the
Raiders are not, and it's going to be a struggle
to make the playoffs. This is not a flip to
switch team in something where she Wright shows up and
all of a sudden every week the Chiefs are back
to being the Chiefs. That's not gonna happen. But I
will say this, We've talked about MVP in the NFL.
We talked about Baker Mayfield like two and a half
weeks ago, So congratulations, people just want to run the

(32:29):
Baker Mayfield's the MVP now You're welcome for that, but
I gotta be honest with you at this point, right now,
I don't know that that Mahomes isn't the MVP of
the NFL. He does absolutely everything for this offense, including
leading the team in rushing. Right you look at this
chief team. It is not what it was. They don't
have the playmakers, they don't have the running game. Travis

(32:51):
Kelsey is not what he was. And still Mahomes finds
a way to keep this team afloat because that's where
they are right now. They're afloat that anybody does more
is more responsible for his team staying where they are
right now than Mahomes. So I'm gonna say that, even
though I'm not believing. All year I said the same thing,
stock up on Mahomes, stock down on the Chiefs, and

(33:13):
that's where it is right now.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
I still believe. I still believe that that defense can
get it done, that the offense comes into play as
these receivers get healthy and the timing's better. Travis Kelcey
is still one of your top five tight ends and
making some plays down the field, and the timing they're
getting better in the red zone as well. The offensive

(33:35):
line is moderately concerning, and they're gonna go find some
help at the running back position. As we look at
the odds right now, Mahomes is the favorite over Josh
Allen plus one ninety five to plus two seventy five.
Baker at three to one, the fourth guy on the
list right now, just Drake May attend to on Drake May,

(33:56):
Drake May No, Justin Fields. Let's see where is he
on the list. It's a lot of guys. He's there somewhere.
That is a long ass list, but yeah, it's a
long line. Still can't find Justin Fields Camp. I mean,
I wanted to do it without the search. He's actually
only one hundred to one, which actually isn't too far
off the pace when you get down to it.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Exit out out of Fresca, Exit swollen down. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon Coming up next,
we get back into the biggest story of the night,
which happens to be the greatest single game performance in
the playoffs in the history of Major League Baseball. Right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Sakey on Jason.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
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