November 3, 2025 • 53 mins
An epic Game Seven of the World Series brings us to two friends for the price of one as we dive into Chiefs-Bills and the college football Saturday with Stan Weber, and the epic Series, and Gold for two Royals, with David Lesky from “Inside the Crown”. Dig in with us!
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football weekend, but the World Series concluded in epic fashion
on Saturday, so you get two friends for the price
of one. Today, after the classic Game seven and a
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not so classic Chiefs effort, that will be Stan Weber
here in a second, and then David Leski from Inside
the Crown talking baseball. As Game seven had so many
different things, they did a list of the ten most
important plays of the game and the sixth one was
the game winning home run by Will Smith. So that'll
tell you a little bit about that game. The Chiefs
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to get a win to keep the momentum going, and
I'd say, in all too familiar fashion, right when you
think everything's going well for the Chiefs, they just kind
of lay an egg and don't seem to show up.
We'll Stan's analysis of that more offensive line problems. And
of course we had a college football weekend that was
half okay and half not okay, and this KU won
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Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech with their starting quarterback back
in tow looking like they did early in the season,
and k State didn't have enough to match and a
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saying the little girl with the curl, and it's supposed
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to talk about somebody who's kind of precocious and you
can't figure him out. And I think that fits the
Kansas City Chiefs. They're football's most outstanding team near a
decade now. They made the AFC Championship Game seven consecutive times.
And I guess you shouldn't expect seamless perfection all the time.
But all the narrative last past week was that the
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up the Chiefs are up to speed, they have the
NFL's best, they're the freight train we once saw back
in nineteen and twenty and twenty one and so on
and so forth. And then the Bills just all day
long looked like the better football team. And I think
we pretty well know that's not the case. Your over
arching thoughts on Sunday in Buffalo.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I think Buffalo played unbelievable football. Just Josh Allen, I
pretty much count on him every time he plays the
Chiefs that he's going to play a great game. And
it is not quit. This may be as good as
any of them. Just flawlessly passing the football with not
a scary receiving corps, getting the ball to the tight ends,
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throwing the ball down the line. I mean he threw
one hundred mile an hour fastball. You're talking about baseball.
He'd get that ball and rip it down the line
so that they could gain three yards on third and two.
But they were able to do it, and I thought
Cook ran the ball really well.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
The offensive line for Buffalo.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
In fact, I was even impressed with the defense and
Joey Bosa. I'm a bigger critic Joey Bosa of anybody.
You know, if he makes a play, it's usually outside
of what the team really needs. He doesn't play team defense,
and he's just not a great player like his brother. Well,
guess what, he played the game of his life.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
I thought, in.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Tune with what Buffalo wanted to do, rushing to quarterback
was a very good plan. And so it's the regular season, Danny,
it's the regular season, and it's in Buffalo, So what
do you expect. I think it's just kind of more
of the same, but even a better performance by Buffalo.
They showed us the best that they had. And then
if you spend this thing around Danny and think for
a second, the Chiefs are throwing the football into the
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end zone trying to tie that game at the end,
in a game where they really blew their opportunity at
the one yard line and plenty of time left at
the half, ended up with only three points instead of seven.
So it just shows you.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
I don't think anybody would say that that's the.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Chiefs a plus game in any way, and I am
here to tell you I thought it was an a
plus game for Buffalo from coaching all the burning of.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Time was not good.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Okay, if you want to get into the hair splitting
where they couldn't get lined up, they burned two timeouts
on defense, you know, Buffalo's stretching trying to coach with
Andy against Andy Reid. But anyway, I thought Buffalo played great.
Josh Allen played great, They have a good running back
now who does some work, and the Chiefs were still
almost there. So at the end of the day, you
say this is great ratings, Maybe you lose the number
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one seed and all that. That's been the story for
five years, Danny, but it's different this year because the
Chiefs only have a five and four record, and if
the playoffs started today, I know you say, who cares
about today?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Well, it's nine games into the season, right.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
And their third place in their division, two games behind Denver.
They've lost to the Chargers. So you can't just blow
it all.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
They wouldn't they wouldn't be in the playoffs if they
started today.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
So you can't just blow it off and say it
doesn't matter because, like you mentioned, that Teas factor is
coming into play and just the opposite of last year.
Last year's team was not undefeated worthy football team going
through the year. But when we looked at it at
the end of the year, Danny, we said they were
eleven to zero in one score games, and we know
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it was even closer than one score.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
It was like hold your.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Breath plays at the end of the game and a
Chief will flawless until the Super Bowl. So it was
a story that the team wasn't as good as the performance. Well,
this year is the exact opposite. The Chiefs are zero
to four in one score games. They're better than their
record shows. They absolutely should be scary to every other
team in the NFL. Of seeing them at any point
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in the playoffs, you do not want to play the
Chiefs even if you have a home game and the
Chiefs are a wild card, the Chiefs get into the playoffs,
they're going to cause some havoc. But you just got
to respect the NFL season and how great it is.
Five and fours, five and four, and you got to
get to work. And it doesn't let up because you
play the Denver Broncos on the road and Indianapolis. Whatever
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you think of Indianapolis, you play them in the next
two game. I still naively overconfident Lee HOMERSM.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
I don't know, Danny. I think they're going to make
a big run at the end.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I think the schedule really lays out for them to
win a lot of games down the stretch, and I
think the Denver game, a couple of weeks down the
road will define for me. Is that talking about winning
the division again?
Speaker 8 (09:15):
If they beat Denver.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
If they lose at Denver, I'll give you I probably
don't think they're going to win the division. There will
be three games behind the Broncos lost to him head
to head, and I'll say the Chiefs are still going
to make the run at the end of the year
and be really dangerous and a really good football team.
But they won't be the division champions. That's still up
for grabs. But they've messed around, you know, that Jacksonville
game and things like that. They messed around just enough
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that there has to be intrigue about both ends of
the world of wanting to be the number one seed
and not even making the playoffs. That food chain is
still alive. With the Chiefs losing to Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Well, you mentioned Buffalo, and they did play great and
Cole Bishop might have made himself the Pro Bowl in
this game.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
He was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He was unbelievable, awesome. Yeah, he played it. Fantastic game.
And on the other side of it, you know, in
a bigger game, I guess, quote unquote, although this sounds
like a big game to me, Chris Jones was just
a no show. I mean, he was dreadful in the game.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Well, you go, Danny.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
As you were starting to talk, immediately what came to
my mind was Chris Jones thinking about how well Bishop played.
You think about the Chiefs and if you want them
to be a better team, like, how can it happen?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Well, the wide.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Receiving core being healthy, you know, Rashid Rice being back
off suspension.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
That was a big deal.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Travis Kelce being more athletic than he was last year,
that's a big deal. Offensive line, running backs. Those are
all places where you talk about why the Chiefs are
going to be X or y places you say, hey,
here's how we can be better. Even with the trade
deadline on Tuesday, some people they say, hey, at trade
would help in this.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Area or that area.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I get all that, but you know, one of the
biggest areas for improvement is what you're focusing in on.
If Chris Jones goes back to playing like the Chris
Jones we normally believe is a Hall of Famer and
down after down guy that we trust, just think what
that would do for the defense, because you're exactly right.
Ninety five looked like just another player out there in
that game until unfortunately CBS showed him getting blocked late
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in the game seven yards off the ball, you know,
just shoved backwards.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
That was not the whole game.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
That was like unfortunately, you know, the one time you're
picking your nose, Danny, and they take a picture and
publish it, you know, you're like, wait, wait a second,
come on, So I'm not bashing him for that one play.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
But he hasn't affected the games.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
He hasn't blown things up this season, and his mindset
in interview sessions, Danny, if you go out and talk
to him, I think he's done a really good job,
been engaged, enthusiastic, But his game day actions and game
day interviews and stuff just seems like there's something not
quite right, something missing from that dead set focus and
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joy he usually has.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
I don't know what it.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Is, but that's a big area for chief improvement, is
for him to get back to playing the way he has.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Let's talk a little bit about the Denver game. Chiefs
get a bye week. They've been great coming off the buye.
Denver has been the team this year that has been
winning the games late and close, and bo Nick says
at times been just sort of ordinary, but then when
the game's been on the line, he's been very good
and it made a big run at the end of
the game. What do you think of Denver.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I think they're really well coached and they have an
old school mentality. They look to the finish line and say,
no matter how we get here, style, points don't matter.
We're here to win, and we're going to be physical
and tough and those kind of things, things that were
very valued in what Marty Schottenheimer's era, Right, does that
make sense that the kind of coaches that went out
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and coached at that time and in one games, it's
a very successful formula and Danny I even believe it
in twenty twenty five that that being tough and demanding
and those kind of things are still going to work.
Nick Saban was doing it at Alabama, right, I mean,
it wasn't that long ago, so I think they're on
the right path. I think bo Nix has a grown up,
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has been married for a number of years. His dad
was a quarterback at Auburn, He's been around big time football.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
He went to.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Oregon and that money system out there. I do think
bo Nicks mentally gets it that winning the game and
not worrying about what happened in the first quarter or
second quarter isn't going to hold you down. And he's
not worried about being embarrassed. He shouldn't be compared in
the same sentence with Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes and
those guys. I don't think he has any problem with that.
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I think he just says, I'm control in my skin.
I believe in coach. He's hard on us. Let's go win.
That said, I can say many many positive things about
Denver and the program he's implementing. The defense is really
sacking the quarterback at an unbelievable rate, you know, a
record level rate, and their sound on defense. But as
a analyst of one game, if you said, hey, the
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Chiefs are getting ready to go to Denver, and do
you realize that Denver has this unbelievable record. They have
won close games, they're finding their second year quarterback, they
got a third year coach, they're hitting on all cylinders,
they're winning the close games, they're playing great defense, and
you just keep going down the line about what you
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like about them.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
But Danny, I.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Gotta say they're not that great a team. Credit them
for finding the way. They and the Chargers are in
a battle to find the footing to be a competitor
of the Chiefs. And you look at the talent and
the coaching, and I believe the Chargers probably have more
talent than the Broncos. But I would have to say
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right now, the Broncos have put things together better than
Harball has with the Chargers. Now, maybe it's just the
injury bug that continues to attack every Charger team. But
right now, Denver is a much bigger competitor to the
Chiefs and the Chargers on an overall seventeen game schedule,
but on one given Sunday, the Chargers have more athleticism
in a dynamic quarterback. Does that make sense, Like, if
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they're getting ready to play the Chargers, I would have
more respect that the Chiefs might not match up well
than I do with Denver.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
I think the Chiefs match up very well.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
If Patrick Mahomes throws a couple of interceptions, then the
world turns upside down. But they're not scary, if that
makes sense. Right now, you got two weeks to get
ready for Denver. They're likely to go out on Thursday night.
If they take care of business Danny and beat the Raiders,
they'll have extra rest beating the Denver Broncos and going,
look what we just did.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
You know?
Speaker 7 (15:40):
We beat Houston on the road, We beat the Raiders,
and now we're getting ready for the Chiefs and that
place will rock. They can talk about all that, but
the fact is the Chiefs match up very very well
with the Chargers and they're the better team. So We'll
see if Andy Reid with a week off and a
division foe, what does that sound like to you? Normally, Danny,
division fo and a week off, Andy Reid beats those teams.
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Patrick Mahomes beats those teams. So I do give the
Chiefs advantage going into Denver. Denver now has working room.
You know, they are very lucky to win the game
against the Houston Texans. They should have lost. I watched
every play. They weren't as good as the Texans this day,
and the Texans lost their quarterback. You know, for half
the games headed to Denver for being feisty. But they're
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not a great football team. So it's good well coached
a tough defense. I can give you a lot of attributes,
but they're not scary good. They're not like the Eagles were.
You know, when the Eagles pop and they go win
the Super Bowl, Danny, and then you have to play
them in regular season. I'm telling you that is a
giant step up. Denver's not done that yet. Does that
make sense? They've not taken that step to be a
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scary Super Bowl champion. There's still the little engine that's
trying to put together a program to compete with the Chiefs,
and they got advancement because the Chiefs are five and
four right now. I mean, they're really playing more off
of the chief failures in saying why not us? They
really aren't ready to be Division champs yet.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Let's turn to the colleges on Saturday, and Texas Tech
had looked great until their quarterback got hurt, and then
they played okay but lost one game and didn't quite
look the same. Their defense continued to play outstanding football,
and all of those things coalesced. Morton wasn't rusty. The
Cats made enough mistakes, although these were you know, I've
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often talked about giveaways and turnovers. I think most of
the turnovers were actually Texas Tech generated in the game,
and the Cats just couldn't measure up. I don't think
there's any shame in this. They could have played a
cleaner game, certainly, but Texas Tech looks to me like
the class of the Big twelve, and they showed up
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and showed out on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yeah, you know, and the word that you could have
plugged in there as well as takeaways. I mean, Texas
Tech doesn't have to talk about anything you other than
take ways because they did it. They had a superstar
linebacking Corps Danny, and that is a strength of people
talk about very much with Texas Tech, because it's more
fun to talk about the millions of dollars they spent
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on the front wall to get sacks. And guess what
David Bailey and robell o'hit did exactly that. You know,
they rushed the quarterback and they work great, and Lee
Hunter and Aj Holmes stuffed the run. So the big
money guys up front did everything that anybody would want.
But the real guys that make a difference is Jacob Rodriguez,
who was first team All Big Twelve last year. He
punched out two fumbles after K State's receivers had caught
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the ball. This isn't a running back, Danny, this is
a receiver who's already caught the ball. You're happy, you're
gaining yards, and all of a sudden, bang, he punches
the ball out like an NFL veteran and they turn
around and scoop it up, and that just started turning
things around. They also got a scoop and score at
the end. But really, Case State, you said it, well,
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the summary is that Texas texts better than kse State. Okay, period,
it doesn't matter what.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Field they're on.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Even though the games in Manhattan, Case State should not
be embarrassed about losing this game. The game is closer
than the score says. But that's a great compliment to
Texas Tech. They had a close, hard game at Utah
earlier this year, but when they got control of it, Danny,
they never looked back. And the thing I want to
credit Texas Tech is getting control of the game. They
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never blinked when things didn't go their way. You know,
I had set a lot of optimistic thoughts out there
about Case State being able to match up with Texas Tech,
bring them into a tough environment and find a way
to win. If you could create adversity game pressure that
Case State could take advantage of that.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Well, Case State actually did that, Danny.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
They led seven to nothing, and Avid Johnson had his
longest touchdown run of his career forty one yards and
he outran everybody. You're like, uh, oh, this guy's faster
than we are, and they're completing some passes and in
Case State makes a fourth down stop.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Now Case State's got the ball at to thirty nine
yard line.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Danny ahead seven to nothing and on Texas Tech's thirty
nine yard line after a shocking sack. You know where
you lose ten to fifteen yards on a sack. The
quarterback is going backwards. And what did Texas Tech do?
To all their credit, they never blinked. KSE State ran
four plays and didn't gain an inch, didn't get into
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field goal rangeer case State could have kicked the field
goal and went up ten to nothing. At least you
could make a case of my thought process earlier. Hey,
maybe KSE State can find a way to win this game.
Not that they're a better team, but on this given Saturday,
they could win this game. But Texas Tech didn't blink
down seven to nothing. Oh, Texas Tech didn't jump in
the lead, Danny, they were still behind seven to three. Okay,
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I'm impressed with the fact that they did not show
any stress during that period of time.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
They just kept playing their game.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
And it was like a great Olympic athlete who knows
that if you're running the sixteen one hundred, you know
who cares after the first lap there's three.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
More laps to run. You know, I Am not going away.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
That's my really impression that I don't know that I
had enough and printed in my brain about what Texas
Tech is doing right now that everyone stayed calm. It
didn't matter if it's offense, defense, pass, rush.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Run, defense, running the ball, passing the ball.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Every aspect of their team is pretty good and they
have confidence in it all. They're indifferent about which parts
pick up the pace. So very impressive, and they're too
much for case date. I mean, once they got ahold
of the game, they went to the half up twelve
to seven because of one of those punchouts, and from
that point forward they just suffocated the game and say
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there's just no way we're going to lose. Super impressive,
super impressive to take that, take the negativity that they
had right in their faces and say it's not going
to affect us.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, I mean, who does this. They only had two
sacks in the game. They put a lot of pressure
on Avery Johnson, but obviously he's very loosive and throws
the ball away. But they had twelve tackles for a loss,
So I mean that's an unheard of number.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
I know, you hand off the ball and I.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Was sitting to myself, going, you've got to make him
think that.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
You want balance in your offense.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
But basically I was saying, you hope to get eight
yards on first down on a pass play run on
second down. That kind of tricked the defensive coordinator to
think you.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Want a run.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
But every time KSE State invested in the run on
first down, it was second and eleven, second and twelve,
and that meant that possessions in big, big trouble. So
it would I don't think I said it on the air,
but I said it to Wyatt and others off the air.
It's almost like you had to have a Mike Leach
Texas Tech mentality back in the day where you just
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throw every downright to beat Texas Tech. K State I
think would have had to just say we're going to
throw every down and hope Avery's fast enough to run
away from a guy who busts through and might create
a sack. No run away, and throw it away for incompletion.
You know what I'm saying. But there's no reason to
invest in the run against Texas Tech. It's a negative
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yardage play unless Avery was running. That's the kind of
day that it was. That's stressful to every offense.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Let's talk about Kansas certainly wasn't uber impressive, and I
think we're probably not that surprised that they came out
a little flat in this game. I'm sure all they
heard about was how dreadful Oklahoma State was, and you
predicted it correctly that Oklahoma State would show some fight
and they did. They just in the end weren't good enough.
Wasn't a particularly good day for Jalen Daniels. They were
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able to run the football and do enough to get
a victory. That's very important because now they only need
one win to be Bowl eligible. It was just a
mandatory win and they got it done.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah, that's well said, and credit a lot of credit
because the things that we talked about, how dangerous Oklahoma
State would be being on the road away from their fans,
having a legitimate quarterback, not a wide receiver playing the
quarterback position. You know, they loved having Zane Flores back.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Hey, we got a real quarterback and he went.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Twenty two to twenty eight through the ball well, no interceptions,
two hundred thirty five yards. So Oklahoma State did a
lot of good things. But you know, bad teams can
sometimes just pull the rug right from underneath any chance
they have and their field goal kicking was just dreadful.
They got down close to the goal line right before
the half and should have scored a touchdown. They didn't
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score a touchdown. Oklahoma State did not score a touchdown,
so at the half, Kansas, who had been behind seven
to nothing and outplayed, actually got to go to half
ahead ten to seven.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
So Oklahoma State let them off the hook.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
But a little like Texas Tech that case, State had Texas.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Tech in a little bit of a bind.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
But Tech just played right on through and said meet
us at the end of the game. And credit Kansas.
They did that, and they said, hey, we'll be fine.
They got let off the hook and had to lead
at half, but in the second half they put the
hammer down and just said we're not playing great football,
but we're gonna play solid football and you can't keep
up with us. And they're exactly right. They're better in
Oklahoma State. They just had to win. Ganny forget to spread.
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I mean, some people were betting and needed twenty five
points or whatever a win by Kansas, but just a
win was what they really needed, and they did better
than that. They separated. It was not nervous time at
any point. They're two scores up. The final score was
thirty eight to twenty one, but that includes a late
touchdown by OSU, so it's thirty eight to fourteen. That's fine.
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They got healthy, they did what they needed to do.
They avoided a disaster and upset in Oklahoma State, like
we said, was a perfect opponent. To just take a
deep breath. Now it's game on. You just need to
win one game in your Bowl eligible and it won't
be easy. It's achievable, but it won't be easy. And
starting at Arizona, but Arizona Kansas matchup pretty evenly. Arizona
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will have a slight advantage being at home. They're dangerous.
If Arizona plays their best game, Kansas will not win
this game, Danny. The best Arizona team is better than
the best Kansas team in my opinion. But Arizona's not
necessarily playing at its best level all year right now.
So this should be a really, really hard fought game.
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But you need to win this game. Iowa State's still
in play. They've lost four straight, they've lost two at home,
so we can't just say Kansas is going to lose
at Iowa State. That was going to be the story right.
We were going to say you better beat Arizona because
you know you're not going to Ames and winning that game.
And then you got a scary, physical, running football team
in Utah. So even though Kansas has a home game
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and Thanksgiving week, it's scary if you have to win
that game against Utah. So it'd be best to get
the work done right now. And then you take a
deep breath and go, hey, why not go blow up
Iowa State's world. This Kansas team needs to get back
to it's true, it's true value. The k State game
just throws such a her ball in your mindset because
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you just can't afford to lose them and this year.
But the fact is you got to get over that,
get back to work. You got a chance to get
a bowl game. You got a chance to win seven
games before you even go to a bowl game, and
really play some good football again down the stretch. They're
lucky they played Oklahoma State and they got the job done.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Congratulations and real quick, let's talk about Missouri. Very big
game for them. Texas A and M both teams will
be rested games in Columbia. It'll be a showdown game.
Missouri can't be just swelled up with confidence. Their season
has gone a little sideways with consecutive losses, but this
is great. The season is defined with this game. Are
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they going to just have a nice season and have
a transferred, decent bowl game or so on and so forth,
or are they going to spring an upset against the
top five team, which they've never done basically under Eli
Drinkwitz and elevate and raise the stakes for their season?
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Well said Danny, so well said, And that is a
mentality that you stated accurately, that the Missouri.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Tigers cannot think like at all.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Okay, they can't think about the upside and the downside.
You and I know football is so great because there
is such a difference.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
You can gain so much in a win on a.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Saturday in October or November, and the loss hurts. It's
absolutely true what you said. Missouri has been sitting with
their fans very excited about a team that had been
set up in every way, six home games to start
the year, eight home games overall, a good football team
and everything going in a great direction. Why can't we
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be part of the college football playoff? Well, any thought
about that and optimism about that's still there. So we
can't throw water on that mentality, but it gets defined
this week because if you don't win against Texas A
and M, that's two years in a row that they
got after you. Okay, and that's one of your permanent opponents,
if I'm not mistaken, it's Arkansas, Oklahoma and A and M. Right,
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So how you fit with A and M going forward
in the new SEC scheduling is a very big deal.
You win this game, and it's exactly the medicine you
needed because they've fallen about nineteenth in the country.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
You beat the number three team that's undefeated in the country.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
You may be Oklahoma shot up this week Danny into
near the top ten, so that could happen to Missouri.
They absolutely could be a part of the college football playoff.
And all the talk about what coach hasn't done, don't
tell me what Eli drink Quiz hasn't done. If he
beats Texas A and M, it's all out the window
and let's go. But if they lose, you're right, the
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fair evaluation is who have you beaten this year? I mean,
where's your big win? The season's not over.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
You go beat Oklahoma.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I get it. But the dreams of ten wins being
no big deal and a college football playoffs. They're all
in the line against Texas A and M.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Danny.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
The mindset, though, is the important thing you mentioned the truth.
The players, I hope aren't thinking about the truth. Here's
the away for Missouri to win this game. Take on
the underdog mentality, right, just accept that A and M's
offense is being run by Colin Klein and a great
Heisman Trophy level quarterback and hits you on all cylinders, scrambling, running,
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passing the ball down field. This is kind of like
Jaden Daniels was when he was at LSU, that Heisman
Trophy winner.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
They don't dink and dunk, they throw the ball down field.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
So Colin Klin is doing a great job.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Mike Alco, the head coach, is a defensive guru. They
play great defense.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
They have NFL like.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Defensive ends that rush the quarterback and sack the quarterback.
Blow things up a little. Like we talked about Texas Tech,
A and M has so many components and are number
three in the country. They've won at Notre Dame, they've
won at LSU. Why don't you just give them their
credit and say, man, they're a great team. You know,
if this name was Alabama, if Alabama was coming in
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here undefeated with the resume, wouldn't you accept the under
out dark row at one second?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
But it's A and M, you know, like we usually
beat them.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
If Missouri comes on and the fans show up and say, hey,
we're the underdog, let's rock this place, and let's cause
A and M some havoc, it is definitely available. I've
watched way too much Texas A and M football this year, Danny,
because I'm such good friends with Colin Kline, and I'm
telling you they have not played for allless games. You
remember the LSU game that got the coach fired right
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the next day at LSU. You remember the disaster of
LSU fans emptying the house in the fourth quarter and
the A and M band and the A and M
fans dominating Tiger Stadium that ugly look.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Do you realize that LSU was ahead at the half, Danny? Right?
I mean A and M didn't beat.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Them forty two to nothing and embarrass him, but A
and M's dangerous pump return kick off return. They got
it all at times. But watching their games, they are
like an animal that messes with their food for a while,
you know, just kind of smelling it, licking it, deciding,
you know, like I'm gonna I'm gonna eat this meal
and no one's going to stop me in the wild,
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But for some reason, I don't just bite right into it.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Yo.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Does that make sense? A and M is beatable. Missouri
can beat Missouri can be A and M. This is
not over overachieving in any way.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
They can do it.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
They're at home, but they got to do it with
the mentality of hey, we're the underdog. If they start
thinking about what's at stake and what they could lose,
then they will lose because.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
The A and M will run you out of the house.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I mean when A and M gets ahold of you
and starts they are dancing on the sidelines, Danny, I
don't know if you've seen this show. They actually have
a half hour show each week the SEC Network or
Texas A and M. Basically they're putting out, Hey, this
is a review behind the scenes with the coach talking
at the half.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
You've seen some of that out there.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
You see those A and M players. They are dancing
on graves. Okay, if they get ahead of you.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
They're gonna you're gonna hate.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
If you're a Missouri fan going to the game, you're
gonna hate these guys. So they get ahead by two
touchdowns because they're gonna be pointing in the stands. They're
only talking trash. They're gonna be cocky. That's when things
go their way. They run and dominate and they just
are looking for elcos is constantly looking for.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
That point in the game.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Like the LSU game, He's like, guys, we're the better team.
I heard the audio, this video. You know we're we're
the better team. But if we keep messing up like
we did in the first half, no one's gonna know it.
And man, when they went out there and started dancing
around on the sidelines and talking trash to the LSU fans,
there was no way LSU is gonna stop it. They're
too good. So to me, this game is really you
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can't turn it over. Freshman quarterbacks gotta play well. I
get all that, but a lot of it. To me,
Danny's gonna be the mindset, take on the underdog roll,
and Missouri becomes very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Stan always a pleasure talking football with you. We'll talk
to you again on Saturday on WHB and talk to
you again next week. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
Okay, Danny and have fun talking about that World Series.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Yeah, that was incredible.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
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David Leski from Inside the Crown, an epic World Series
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Welcome back to Monday Musings Danny and Friends. Sports Rap.
We've done the football, now it's time to talk baseball
and the World Series Game seven couldn't have been really
any better. It might have been the greatest game ever played.
I don't know that's, you know, the prisoner of the
moment type thinking. But I'm not so sure about that.
Twists and turns, heartache, big stars, guys being made stars,
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the Dodgers running their entire starting pitching staff out there
in the game, and an unlikely closer who somehow summoned
up the ability to pitch in Madison Bumgarner style. I
don't know, there's a million things to talk about. I
guess I said this in the open David, as we're
joined by David Leski from Inside the Crown, that there
is a list on mb dot com of the ten
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biggest moments in the game, and the game winning home
run by Will Smith is number six on the list.
So that just shows you what it was like, four
hours of pitch by pitch, incredible drama. It was close
all the way. It was breathtaking, It was it was incredible.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I mean, we talked about this was just last week.
We talked Yeah, it was that. Ye.
Speaker 10 (38:19):
This postseason feels like the best postseason in I don't
know about ever, but in a long time. At the
very least, and the World Series didn't disappoint at all.
It was I mean, game by game, you look at
these and you know there are it's very possible that
you can get a seven game series that just it's
not competitive at all.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Just each game is.
Speaker 10 (38:41):
The series itself is competitive obviously because it goes seven,
but each game is a blowout.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
And I mean there was some yeah, eleven and four
in game one.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
I think Game four was a little closer than it
looked when it was six to two, but Game five
six to one, whatever. But I mean, obviously the eighteen
in game obviously Game six was incredible with the way
it did in Game seven, going eleven innings like that
was just just pure drama. And yeah, I was. I
was watching the game and the second thing, I was
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actually at my in law's house. I turned to my
father in law and I said, bobas Sheett, not being
able to run might cost the more World Series.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
And that was that was when he didn't score from second.
Speaker 10 (39:19):
On the single and then the next thning or in
Tuny Clan or whatever it was, he hit through in
Homer and I went, well, I'm an idiot, but I
think Boba sheet not being able to run cost the
more World Series. I really do, because obviously they'd lost
in extra innings and if he had scored there they
would want more run. But then also his pinch runner
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didn't get the job done as they kind of fore left.
I think he there's a lot of argument about that.
I'd be curious where you stand on on on that too,
But he needed a bigger lead. I understand you don't
want to get doubled off, but you're not gonna get
doubled off if you take two steps.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
I mean, and and who was it?
Speaker 10 (39:57):
I think it was Dance and Borski, which was great
work for Fangrafts mentioned that maxim er dalond bar Show
had hit exactly two line drives to the left side
and his career right.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
So like it just wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Well, here's here's some numbers on it. Of course, there
are numbers for everything up seven point eight foot primary
lead ranked three hundred and fifty seven out of three
hundred and eighty one of all primary leads in the
World Series. Secondary lead three sixty six out of three
seventy six, and he's fast. His sprint speed on this
play was sixty one out of six eighty nine. And
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the other part is, and I kind of excuse him
on this one because home plate is always a sliding play,
but we know that running through the through the plate
would have been better also, and all those things tied up,
all you needed was a little bit of one of
them and he would have scored and won the game.
Speaker 10 (40:52):
Yeah what okay, side note? What would have How awful
would that have felt for them to win a World
Series on a replay review? I mean that that would
be the most anti climactic thing ever, So I'm glad
that didn't happen.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
But yeah, any any one, tiny little difference give the
Blue Jays a World championship.
Speaker 10 (41:14):
And I think when you get to a point that
you are looking at that as a did you win
or lose?
Speaker 8 (41:24):
That's how you know it was a great game and
and and I mean it's just it was. It was
incredible to watch.
Speaker 10 (41:31):
And you know you're watching it, you're going, Okay, if
the Dodgers are within one, when Jeff Hoffman is in,
I think they can they can.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
Tie it up. I really do. Because Jeff hop he's
been Homer.
Speaker 10 (41:40):
Prone, it has he hasn't been in the playoffs. He
felt he felt like it was due. You didn't think
it was gonna be micguil Rojas. You felt like that
he was due to give up a big run because
he had, and you know, it's in Kansas City. It's
so interesting watching the Blue Jays team because I feel
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like the Royals handled them no problem this same I mean,
they were only four and they lost two games, so
I guess that's not no problem. But and they they
took care of business against the Blue Jays pretty well.
And you're watching this team go toe to toe with
the Dodgers, You're going, wait, what, how is this possible?
Some of it's just matchups, like the good teams have met,
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have had trouble with certain teams for various reasons.
Speaker 8 (42:24):
But yeah, it was. It was incredible.
Speaker 10 (42:28):
It's hard to find the words because it was such
an incredible end to the baseball season and just a.
Speaker 8 (42:33):
Great series overall.
Speaker 10 (42:36):
And the part of it, and this is why the
post postseason was so good too, is it was stars.
The stars starred, and I think that that's we all
love the underdog story. We all love the Miguel Rojas
home run. But you know what you remember is Shoheo
Tani getting on base nine times.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
You remember.
Speaker 10 (42:56):
Yoshiamamoto pitching three games and winning three games. You remember
remember all that that That's what you remember from these
big postseasons.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
If you ask who are the unsung heroes?
Speaker 10 (43:06):
I mean, I can name a few because I'm a
complete nerd, And you can probably name a handful of too,
because you're a complete baseball nerd. But like people don't
remember Marklemkey, people don't remember that name. People don't remember
even Cody Ross coming up big. You know, it's people
remember the big names doing it. And this postseason had that.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yep, it absolutely did. And but this game was it
was much closer to the Blue Jays winning the World
Series than it was the Dodgers. Throughout the game. Now,
the Blue Jays made a couple of really fine double
plays that are you know, defensive plays that really save
their bacon. But just a variety of things that Blue
Jays will. You be staying up late late at night
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in the offseason thinking about the kyro Phileppa And the
one that I think is the most is is Andy
pa has unbelievable catch. I mean, when when Key k
Hernandez is going back I'm like, he not gonna catch it,
this one's over, They're gonna win. And here he comes
flying in there as a defensive replacement who just came
in during the inning and made the game play.
Speaker 10 (44:09):
It was before that ipat, I mean, yeah, just absolutely wild.
And did you see I didn't realize this until today.
Apparently he was kik her NAIs was down for so
long that people thought he was hurt, and it turned
out he was down for so long because he thought
the ball dropped and the World.
Speaker 8 (44:24):
Series is over.
Speaker 10 (44:25):
He was upset because he didn't realize that the ball
had been caught.
Speaker 8 (44:30):
And he thought the Blue Jays won the World Series. Wow,
that's why he was on the ground.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
Which it I mean, all sorts of just amazing stories
from that that hole. But yeah, you're right bringing in
pies and and there's there's a ripple effect too, right
like bringing pies.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
They could have.
Speaker 10 (44:46):
Moved Edmund to second base, where Edmund had played a
lot of time. Right, If Edmund's at second base, I
don't know that he makes that play that Rojas made
to get Kindner f Leff at the So it's just.
Speaker 8 (45:03):
All these little ripple effects that Dave Roberts. I look,
every manager has their own issues.
Speaker 10 (45:08):
I don't I don't watch enough Dodgers games outside of
the World Series in the playoffs. You know, a lot
of Dodgers fans think Dave Roberts is bad. He's also
got three World Series titles now, and the buttons he
pushed right, it was he managed I think, a nearly
perfect game and.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
He deserves a lot of credit for that. And everything he.
Speaker 10 (45:32):
Did was right basically, and that's that's part of how
the Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, one of the reasons is because he had a
truly heroic card to play in Yoshinobu Yamamoto. I mean,
he pitched six innings of one run by, and they
think about this. They pulled him after six innings of
one run ball because they figured, well, he's got nothing left.
I mean, he had pitched two consecutive complete games, and
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here he comes and throws two and two thirds. It's
scoreless innings. Then he's on the ropes in the final game,
and you're just like, oh, Kirk, the most lovable guys
at the plate, just hit a fly ball, my man
at least and breaks his bat and it's a sure fire.
Don't give us another sure fire double play as soon
as the ball was struck.
Speaker 8 (46:16):
Really I know, I know, and it was.
Speaker 10 (46:19):
And also not to completely derail, but think about Mooky Bets,
the shortstop. Mookie Bets, the shortstop who became an elite defensive.
Speaker 8 (46:29):
Shortstop this season somehow because he's in.
Speaker 10 (46:32):
He's just an incredible talent as how. But that's not
that's that's that's a play a big leaguer needs to make.
Speaker 8 (46:40):
But also it's not an easy play. I don't think
that it's people.
Speaker 10 (46:44):
I don't think people realize how difficult fielding the ball,
finding the bag, getting your arm angle, throwing it to
the first accurately is. And and he he was able
to do that in a in a very you know,
obviously high pressure situation because if he make that throw perfectly,
if he doesn't step on that bag perfectly, the Bluejays
tied the game, maybe win the game, depending.
Speaker 8 (47:05):
On where the throw goes. So that's incredible too. It's
just every as it's just.
Speaker 10 (47:11):
So fun because every aspect of this is something that
you can look at and go, oh that was incredible,
Oh that was incredible, Oh that was incredible, And you
don't get that very often, so I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (47:23):
I think that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
It is pretty cool. And it came on a Saturday
night after you know, maybe people had had their fill
of college football and it didn't go up against the
NFL or anything. They crafted that on purpose. They didn't
play on Thursday. They didn't weren't going to play on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (47:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
But also I think until maybe this season, because he's
a free agent and he played for a more high
profile team in the Cubs, that the easy answer for
the most underrated player in baseball was always Kyle Tucker
because he's quiet and none assuming.
Speaker 8 (47:53):
To me.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
The guy who at the game winning home run Will Smith.
He's got an ordinary name Smith, and he might be
the most underrated player in baseball.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
I mean, there's a pretty good argument for it. The
guy's a catcher and a pretty good one. Two ninety six.
He got on base at a four hundred clip. He
slugged about five hundred, and that's kind of just par
for the court. I mean that last year he hit
two fifty last year with a three thirty on base.
But he's a guy, he eats a decent average. This
was the best average of his career. But he hits
a pretty snaverage, gets on base, has some pop, catches.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
A lot every innery of the series.
Speaker 8 (48:31):
Every well seven was the seventy three total innings.
Speaker 10 (48:33):
He thought, that's which is just insane. Yeah, I mean
he's he's up there if he's not that guy, and.
Speaker 8 (48:41):
What what's his contract?
Speaker 10 (48:42):
His contract is crazy because it's a Dodgers contract that's
way ten years and one hundred and forty million dollars,
which one hundred forty millions is a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (48:51):
Don't don't get me wrong. I would like you have.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Teen fourteen pers a pretty good bye.
Speaker 8 (48:56):
Fourteen pers are very very good bye.
Speaker 10 (48:58):
I I don't know how it breaks down, but I
think if I remember correctly, I don't think he ever
makes more than sixteen. And this will shock you, but
there's some deferred money in there.
Speaker 8 (49:11):
But it's I mean, value wise, he's amazing.
Speaker 10 (49:16):
He's not discussed very often, but this is a guy
in the Dodgers lineup that includes Shoho Tani, Mookie Bets,
Freddie Freeman, Max Muncis, Askar Hernandez and some of the
guys are bigger than others, obviously, but Will Smith was
the guy hitting.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Second right and sometimes right.
Speaker 8 (49:35):
If he wasn't second, he was third or fourth, and.
Speaker 10 (49:39):
That's he's he's a really really good player that I
don't think.
Speaker 8 (49:43):
I think you're right. I don't think anybody talks about
nearly enough.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
Let's talk a little bit about, well, the Dodgers now
rule the roost and they can play better. I think
that's that's a dangerous thing. They can have less injuries,
they can fill in if they want, they can change
their bullpen if they like. So that's the narrative for
the baseball season ahead. But let's throw a couple of
flowers before we go to Bobby Witch Junior and mikeel
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Garcia who win gold gloves.
Speaker 8 (50:11):
Yeah. Yeah, that's big for the Royals. You know.
Speaker 10 (50:16):
Get to get that left out of the infield. Yep,
that's it's it's hard. Look, that's the reason why I'm
There's been some talk like Alex Bregmant was brought up,
and I have some thoughts on that rumor.
Speaker 8 (50:28):
But I don't want to move Garcia off third base.
Speaker 9 (50:32):
I know that.
Speaker 10 (50:34):
First of all. I think we talked about this a
little bit. He wasn't very good at second when he
played there. Fall sample, didn't get the off season to
prep whatever. Great, but he wasn't very good there. I
think he could be a pretty good outfielder. I do
think he looked pretty good in center field when he
played there a few games. But he's a Gold Glover
and legitimately deserved it. He was the best third baseman
in the American League and probably the second best in baseball,
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which if Brian Hayes exists, he's going to be the
best third basement in Baseballtively.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
That's fine, No, you know, it doesn't. It doesn't.
Speaker 10 (51:03):
Doesn't say anything bad about Garcia that he's not better
than the best. But to have that left out of
the infield's huge, especially the rotation right now as it
shapes up. Reagan's is gonna see a lot of righties.
Ye Blue, which is going to see a lot of righties.
Cameron's gonna see a lot of righties. If you if
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you have that left side.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
It's another reason to keep yourself left handed strong.
Speaker 8 (51:29):
Uh huh, yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 10 (51:30):
That's that's and I think they're gonna this is a
much bigger conversation. I think that they will probably have
to trade one of their lefties, not Reagan's bu butcher Cameron.
But if they don't, and if they go into the
winter with those three plus logo and uh waka, you
feel good about having those those guys on the left side,
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you're facing a bunch of righties. Feel you know, it's
it's a it's a good spot.
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You write a lot in the off season at Inside
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Speaker 8 (52:19):
I can't wait, David.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
Leski from Inside the Crown joining us in one final bouquet.
The Kansas City Current finish off their home season undefeated
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to talk about somebody who's kind of precocious and you
can't figure him out. And I think that fits the
Kansas City Chiefs. They're football's most outstanding team near a
decade now. They made the AFC Championship Game seven consecutive times.
And I guess you shouldn't expect seamless perfection all the time.
But all the narrative last past week was that the
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up the Chiefs are up to speed, they have the
NFL's best, they're the freight train we once saw back
in nineteen and twenty and twenty one and so on
and so forth. And then the Bills just all day
long looked like the better football team. And I think
we pretty well know that's not the case. Your over
arching thoughts on Sunday in Buffalo.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I think Buffalo played unbelievable football. Just Josh Allen, I
pretty much count on him every time he plays the
Chiefs that he's going to play a great game. And
it is not quit. This may be as good as
any of them. Just flawlessly passing the football with not
a scary receiving corps, getting the ball to the tight ends,
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throwing the ball down the line. I mean he threw
one hundred mile an hour fastball. You're talking about baseball.
He'd get that ball and rip it down the line
so that they could gain three yards on third and two.
But they were able to do it, and I thought
Cook ran the ball really well.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
The offensive line for Buffalo.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
In fact, I was even impressed with the defense and
Joey Bosa. I'm a bigger critic Joey Bosa of anybody.
You know, if he makes a play, it's usually outside
of what the team really needs. He doesn't play team defense,
and he's just not a great player like his brother. Well,
guess what, he played the game of his life.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
I thought, in.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Tune with what Buffalo wanted to do, rushing to quarterback
was a very good plan. And so it's the regular season, Danny,
it's the regular season, and it's in Buffalo, So what
do you expect. I think it's just kind of more
of the same, but even a better performance by Buffalo.
They showed us the best that they had. And then
if you spend this thing around Danny and think for
a second, the Chiefs are throwing the football into the
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end zone trying to tie that game at the end,
in a game where they really blew their opportunity at
the one yard line and plenty of time left at
the half, ended up with only three points instead of seven.
So it just shows you.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
I don't think anybody would say that that's the.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Chiefs a plus game in any way, and I am
here to tell you I thought it was an a
plus game for Buffalo from coaching all the burning of.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Time was not good.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Okay, if you want to get into the hair splitting
where they couldn't get lined up, they burned two timeouts
on defense, you know, Buffalo's stretching trying to coach with
Andy against Andy Reid. But anyway, I thought Buffalo played great.
Josh Allen played great, They have a good running back
now who does some work, and the Chiefs were still
almost there. So at the end of the day, you
say this is great ratings, Maybe you lose the number
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one seed and all that. That's been the story for
five years, Danny, but it's different this year because the
Chiefs only have a five and four record, and if
the playoffs started today, I know you say, who cares
about today?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Well, it's nine games into the season, right.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
And their third place in their division, two games behind Denver.
They've lost to the Chargers. So you can't just blow
it all.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
They wouldn't they wouldn't be in the playoffs if they
started today.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
So you can't just blow it off and say it
doesn't matter because, like you mentioned, that Teas factor is
coming into play and just the opposite of last year.
Last year's team was not undefeated worthy football team going
through the year. But when we looked at it at
the end of the year, Danny, we said they were
eleven to zero in one score games, and we know
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it was even closer than one score.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
It was like hold your.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Breath plays at the end of the game and a
Chief will flawless until the Super Bowl. So it was
a story that the team wasn't as good as the performance. Well,
this year is the exact opposite. The Chiefs are zero
to four in one score games. They're better than their
record shows. They absolutely should be scary to every other
team in the NFL. Of seeing them at any point
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in the playoffs, you do not want to play the
Chiefs even if you have a home game and the
Chiefs are a wild card, the Chiefs get into the playoffs,
they're going to cause some havoc. But you just got
to respect the NFL season and how great it is.
Five and fours, five and four, and you got to
get to work. And it doesn't let up because you
play the Denver Broncos on the road and Indianapolis. Whatever
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you think of Indianapolis, you play them in the next
two game. I still naively overconfident Lee HOMERSM.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
I don't know, Danny. I think they're going to make
a big run at the end.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I think the schedule really lays out for them to
win a lot of games down the stretch, and I
think the Denver game, a couple of weeks down the
road will define for me. Is that talking about winning
the division again?
Speaker 8 (09:15):
If they beat Denver.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
If they lose at Denver, I'll give you I probably
don't think they're going to win the division. There will
be three games behind the Broncos lost to him head
to head, and I'll say the Chiefs are still going
to make the run at the end of the year
and be really dangerous and a really good football team.
But they won't be the division champions. That's still up
for grabs. But they've messed around, you know, that Jacksonville
game and things like that. They messed around just enough
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that there has to be intrigue about both ends of
the world of wanting to be the number one seed
and not even making the playoffs. That food chain is
still alive. With the Chiefs losing to Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Well, you mentioned Buffalo, and they did play great and
Cole Bishop might have made himself the Pro Bowl in
this game.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
He was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He was unbelievable, awesome. Yeah, he played it. Fantastic game.
And on the other side of it, you know, in
a bigger game, I guess, quote unquote, although this sounds
like a big game to me, Chris Jones was just
a no show. I mean, he was dreadful in the game.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Well, you go, Danny.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
As you were starting to talk, immediately what came to
my mind was Chris Jones thinking about how well Bishop played.
You think about the Chiefs and if you want them
to be a better team, like, how can it happen?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Well, the wide.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Receiving core being healthy, you know, Rashid Rice being back
off suspension.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
That was a big deal.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Travis Kelce being more athletic than he was last year,
that's a big deal. Offensive line, running backs. Those are
all places where you talk about why the Chiefs are
going to be X or y places you say, hey,
here's how we can be better. Even with the trade
deadline on Tuesday, some people they say, hey, at trade
would help in this.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Area or that area.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I get all that, but you know, one of the
biggest areas for improvement is what you're focusing in on.
If Chris Jones goes back to playing like the Chris
Jones we normally believe is a Hall of Famer and
down after down guy that we trust, just think what
that would do for the defense, because you're exactly right.
Ninety five looked like just another player out there in
that game until unfortunately CBS showed him getting blocked late
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in the game seven yards off the ball, you know,
just shoved backwards.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
That was not the whole game.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
That was like unfortunately, you know, the one time you're
picking your nose, Danny, and they take a picture and
publish it, you know, you're like, wait, wait a second,
come on, So I'm not bashing him for that one play.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
But he hasn't affected the games.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
He hasn't blown things up this season, and his mindset
in interview sessions, Danny, if you go out and talk
to him, I think he's done a really good job,
been engaged, enthusiastic, But his game day actions and game
day interviews and stuff just seems like there's something not
quite right, something missing from that dead set focus and
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joy he usually has.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
I don't know what it.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Is, but that's a big area for chief improvement, is
for him to get back to playing the way he has.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Let's talk a little bit about the Denver game. Chiefs
get a bye week. They've been great coming off the buye.
Denver has been the team this year that has been
winning the games late and close, and bo Nick says
at times been just sort of ordinary, but then when
the game's been on the line, he's been very good
and it made a big run at the end of
the game. What do you think of Denver.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I think they're really well coached and they have an
old school mentality. They look to the finish line and say,
no matter how we get here, style, points don't matter.
We're here to win, and we're going to be physical
and tough and those kind of things, things that were
very valued in what Marty Schottenheimer's era, Right, does that
make sense that the kind of coaches that went out
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and coached at that time and in one games, it's
a very successful formula and Danny I even believe it
in twenty twenty five that that being tough and demanding
and those kind of things are still going to work.
Nick Saban was doing it at Alabama, right, I mean,
it wasn't that long ago, so I think they're on
the right path. I think bo Nix has a grown up,
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has been married for a number of years. His dad
was a quarterback at Auburn, He's been around big time football.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
He went to.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Oregon and that money system out there. I do think
bo Nicks mentally gets it that winning the game and
not worrying about what happened in the first quarter or
second quarter isn't going to hold you down. And he's
not worried about being embarrassed. He shouldn't be compared in
the same sentence with Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes and
those guys. I don't think he has any problem with that.
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I think he just says, I'm control in my skin.
I believe in coach. He's hard on us. Let's go win.
That said, I can say many many positive things about
Denver and the program he's implementing. The defense is really
sacking the quarterback at an unbelievable rate, you know, a
record level rate, and their sound on defense. But as
a analyst of one game, if you said, hey, the
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Chiefs are getting ready to go to Denver, and do
you realize that Denver has this unbelievable record. They have
won close games, they're finding their second year quarterback, they
got a third year coach, they're hitting on all cylinders,
they're winning the close games, they're playing great defense, and
you just keep going down the line about what you
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like about them.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
But Danny, I.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Gotta say they're not that great a team. Credit them
for finding the way. They and the Chargers are in
a battle to find the footing to be a competitor
of the Chiefs. And you look at the talent and
the coaching, and I believe the Chargers probably have more
talent than the Broncos. But I would have to say
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right now, the Broncos have put things together better than
Harball has with the Chargers. Now, maybe it's just the
injury bug that continues to attack every Charger team. But
right now, Denver is a much bigger competitor to the
Chiefs and the Chargers on an overall seventeen game schedule,
but on one given Sunday, the Chargers have more athleticism
in a dynamic quarterback. Does that make sense, Like, if
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they're getting ready to play the Chargers, I would have
more respect that the Chiefs might not match up well
than I do with Denver.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
I think the Chiefs match up very well.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
If Patrick Mahomes throws a couple of interceptions, then the
world turns upside down. But they're not scary, if that
makes sense. Right now, you got two weeks to get
ready for Denver. They're likely to go out on Thursday night.
If they take care of business Danny and beat the Raiders,
they'll have extra rest beating the Denver Broncos and going,
look what we just did.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
You know?
Speaker 7 (15:40):
We beat Houston on the road, We beat the Raiders,
and now we're getting ready for the Chiefs and that
place will rock. They can talk about all that, but
the fact is the Chiefs match up very very well
with the Chargers and they're the better team. So We'll
see if Andy Reid with a week off and a
division foe, what does that sound like to you? Normally, Danny,
division fo and a week off, Andy Reid beats those teams.
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Patrick Mahomes beats those teams. So I do give the
Chiefs advantage going into Denver. Denver now has working room.
You know, they are very lucky to win the game
against the Houston Texans. They should have lost. I watched
every play. They weren't as good as the Texans this day,
and the Texans lost their quarterback. You know, for half
the games headed to Denver for being feisty. But they're
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not a great football team. So it's good well coached
a tough defense. I can give you a lot of attributes,
but they're not scary good. They're not like the Eagles were.
You know, when the Eagles pop and they go win
the Super Bowl, Danny, and then you have to play
them in regular season. I'm telling you that is a
giant step up. Denver's not done that yet. Does that
make sense? They've not taken that step to be a
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scary Super Bowl champion. There's still the little engine that's
trying to put together a program to compete with the Chiefs,
and they got advancement because the Chiefs are five and
four right now. I mean, they're really playing more off
of the chief failures in saying why not us? They
really aren't ready to be Division champs yet.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Let's turn to the colleges on Saturday, and Texas Tech
had looked great until their quarterback got hurt, and then
they played okay but lost one game and didn't quite
look the same. Their defense continued to play outstanding football,
and all of those things coalesced. Morton wasn't rusty. The
Cats made enough mistakes, although these were you know, I've
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often talked about giveaways and turnovers. I think most of
the turnovers were actually Texas Tech generated in the game,
and the Cats just couldn't measure up. I don't think
there's any shame in this. They could have played a
cleaner game, certainly, but Texas Tech looks to me like
the class of the Big twelve, and they showed up
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and showed out on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yeah, you know, and the word that you could have
plugged in there as well as takeaways. I mean, Texas
Tech doesn't have to talk about anything you other than
take ways because they did it. They had a superstar
linebacking Corps Danny, and that is a strength of people
talk about very much with Texas Tech, because it's more
fun to talk about the millions of dollars they spent
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on the front wall to get sacks. And guess what
David Bailey and robell o'hit did exactly that. You know,
they rushed the quarterback and they work great, and Lee
Hunter and Aj Holmes stuffed the run. So the big
money guys up front did everything that anybody would want.
But the real guys that make a difference is Jacob Rodriguez,
who was first team All Big Twelve last year. He
punched out two fumbles after K State's receivers had caught
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the ball. This isn't a running back, Danny, this is
a receiver who's already caught the ball. You're happy, you're
gaining yards, and all of a sudden, bang, he punches
the ball out like an NFL veteran and they turn
around and scoop it up, and that just started turning
things around. They also got a scoop and score at
the end. But really, Case State, you said it, well,
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the summary is that Texas texts better than kse State. Okay, period,
it doesn't matter what.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Field they're on.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Even though the games in Manhattan, Case State should not
be embarrassed about losing this game. The game is closer
than the score says. But that's a great compliment to
Texas Tech. They had a close, hard game at Utah
earlier this year, but when they got control of it, Danny,
they never looked back. And the thing I want to
credit Texas Tech is getting control of the game. They
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never blinked when things didn't go their way. You know,
I had set a lot of optimistic thoughts out there
about Case State being able to match up with Texas Tech,
bring them into a tough environment and find a way
to win. If you could create adversity game pressure that
Case State could take advantage of that.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Well, Case State actually did that, Danny.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
They led seven to nothing, and Avid Johnson had his
longest touchdown run of his career forty one yards and
he outran everybody. You're like, uh, oh, this guy's faster
than we are, and they're completing some passes and in
Case State makes a fourth down stop.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Now Case State's got the ball at to thirty nine
yard line.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Danny ahead seven to nothing and on Texas Tech's thirty
nine yard line after a shocking sack. You know where
you lose ten to fifteen yards on a sack. The
quarterback is going backwards. And what did Texas Tech do?
To all their credit, they never blinked. KSE State ran
four plays and didn't gain an inch, didn't get into
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field goal rangeer case State could have kicked the field
goal and went up ten to nothing. At least you
could make a case of my thought process earlier. Hey,
maybe KSE State can find a way to win this game.
Not that they're a better team, but on this given Saturday,
they could win this game. But Texas Tech didn't blink
down seven to nothing. Oh, Texas Tech didn't jump in
the lead, Danny, they were still behind seven to three. Okay,
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I'm impressed with the fact that they did not show
any stress during that period of time.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
They just kept playing their game.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
And it was like a great Olympic athlete who knows
that if you're running the sixteen one hundred, you know
who cares after the first lap there's three.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
More laps to run. You know, I Am not going away.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
That's my really impression that I don't know that I
had enough and printed in my brain about what Texas
Tech is doing right now that everyone stayed calm. It
didn't matter if it's offense, defense, pass, rush.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Run, defense, running the ball, passing the ball.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Every aspect of their team is pretty good and they
have confidence in it all. They're indifferent about which parts
pick up the pace. So very impressive, and they're too
much for case date. I mean, once they got ahold
of the game, they went to the half up twelve
to seven because of one of those punchouts, and from
that point forward they just suffocated the game and say
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there's just no way we're going to lose. Super impressive,
super impressive to take that, take the negativity that they
had right in their faces and say it's not going
to affect us.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, I mean, who does this. They only had two
sacks in the game. They put a lot of pressure
on Avery Johnson, but obviously he's very loosive and throws
the ball away. But they had twelve tackles for a loss,
So I mean that's an unheard of number.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
I know, you hand off the ball and I.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Was sitting to myself, going, you've got to make him
think that.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
You want balance in your offense.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
But basically I was saying, you hope to get eight
yards on first down on a pass play run on
second down. That kind of tricked the defensive coordinator to
think you.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Want a run.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
But every time KSE State invested in the run on
first down, it was second and eleven, second and twelve,
and that meant that possessions in big, big trouble. So
it would I don't think I said it on the air,
but I said it to Wyatt and others off the air.
It's almost like you had to have a Mike Leach
Texas Tech mentality back in the day where you just
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throw every downright to beat Texas Tech. K State I
think would have had to just say we're going to
throw every down and hope Avery's fast enough to run
away from a guy who busts through and might create
a sack. No run away, and throw it away for incompletion.
You know what I'm saying. But there's no reason to
invest in the run against Texas Tech. It's a negative
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yardage play unless Avery was running. That's the kind of
day that it was. That's stressful to every offense.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Let's talk about Kansas certainly wasn't uber impressive, and I
think we're probably not that surprised that they came out
a little flat in this game. I'm sure all they
heard about was how dreadful Oklahoma State was, and you
predicted it correctly that Oklahoma State would show some fight
and they did. They just in the end weren't good enough.
Wasn't a particularly good day for Jalen Daniels. They were
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able to run the football and do enough to get
a victory. That's very important because now they only need
one win to be Bowl eligible. It was just a
mandatory win and they got it done.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah, that's well said, and credit a lot of credit
because the things that we talked about, how dangerous Oklahoma
State would be being on the road away from their fans,
having a legitimate quarterback, not a wide receiver playing the
quarterback position. You know, they loved having Zane Flores back.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Hey, we got a real quarterback and he went.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Twenty two to twenty eight through the ball well, no interceptions,
two hundred thirty five yards. So Oklahoma State did a
lot of good things. But you know, bad teams can
sometimes just pull the rug right from underneath any chance
they have and their field goal kicking was just dreadful.
They got down close to the goal line right before
the half and should have scored a touchdown. They didn't
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score a touchdown. Oklahoma State did not score a touchdown,
so at the half, Kansas, who had been behind seven
to nothing and outplayed, actually got to go to half
ahead ten to seven.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
So Oklahoma State let them off the hook.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
But a little like Texas Tech that case, State had Texas.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Tech in a little bit of a bind.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
But Tech just played right on through and said meet
us at the end of the game. And credit Kansas.
They did that, and they said, hey, we'll be fine.
They got let off the hook and had to lead
at half, but in the second half they put the
hammer down and just said we're not playing great football,
but we're gonna play solid football and you can't keep
up with us. And they're exactly right. They're better in
Oklahoma State. They just had to win. Ganny forget to spread.
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I mean, some people were betting and needed twenty five
points or whatever a win by Kansas, but just a
win was what they really needed, and they did better
than that. They separated. It was not nervous time at
any point. They're two scores up. The final score was
thirty eight to twenty one, but that includes a late
touchdown by OSU, so it's thirty eight to fourteen. That's fine.
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They got healthy, they did what they needed to do.
They avoided a disaster and upset in Oklahoma State, like
we said, was a perfect opponent. To just take a
deep breath. Now it's game on. You just need to
win one game in your Bowl eligible and it won't
be easy. It's achievable, but it won't be easy. And
starting at Arizona, but Arizona Kansas matchup pretty evenly. Arizona
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will have a slight advantage being at home. They're dangerous.
If Arizona plays their best game, Kansas will not win
this game, Danny. The best Arizona team is better than
the best Kansas team in my opinion. But Arizona's not
necessarily playing at its best level all year right now.
So this should be a really, really hard fought game.
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But you need to win this game. Iowa State's still
in play. They've lost four straight, they've lost two at home,
so we can't just say Kansas is going to lose
at Iowa State. That was going to be the story right.
We were going to say you better beat Arizona because
you know you're not going to Ames and winning that game.
And then you got a scary, physical, running football team
in Utah. So even though Kansas has a home game
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and Thanksgiving week, it's scary if you have to win
that game against Utah. So it'd be best to get
the work done right now. And then you take a
deep breath and go, hey, why not go blow up
Iowa State's world. This Kansas team needs to get back
to it's true, it's true value. The k State game
just throws such a her ball in your mindset because
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you just can't afford to lose them and this year.
But the fact is you got to get over that,
get back to work. You got a chance to get
a bowl game. You got a chance to win seven
games before you even go to a bowl game, and
really play some good football again down the stretch. They're
lucky they played Oklahoma State and they got the job done.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Congratulations and real quick, let's talk about Missouri. Very big
game for them. Texas A and M both teams will
be rested games in Columbia. It'll be a showdown game.
Missouri can't be just swelled up with confidence. Their season
has gone a little sideways with consecutive losses, but this
is great. The season is defined with this game. Are
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they going to just have a nice season and have
a transferred, decent bowl game or so on and so forth,
or are they going to spring an upset against the
top five team, which they've never done basically under Eli
Drinkwitz and elevate and raise the stakes for their season?
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Well said Danny, so well said, And that is a
mentality that you stated accurately, that the Missouri.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Tigers cannot think like at all.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Okay, they can't think about the upside and the downside.
You and I know football is so great because there
is such a difference.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
You can gain so much in a win on a.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Saturday in October or November, and the loss hurts. It's
absolutely true what you said. Missouri has been sitting with
their fans very excited about a team that had been
set up in every way, six home games to start
the year, eight home games overall, a good football team
and everything going in a great direction. Why can't we
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be part of the college football playoff? Well, any thought
about that and optimism about that's still there. So we
can't throw water on that mentality, but it gets defined
this week because if you don't win against Texas A
and M, that's two years in a row that they
got after you. Okay, and that's one of your permanent opponents,
if I'm not mistaken, it's Arkansas, Oklahoma and A and M. Right,
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So how you fit with A and M going forward
in the new SEC scheduling is a very big deal.
You win this game, and it's exactly the medicine you
needed because they've fallen about nineteenth in the country.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
You beat the number three team that's undefeated in the country.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
You may be Oklahoma shot up this week Danny into
near the top ten, so that could happen to Missouri.
They absolutely could be a part of the college football playoff.
And all the talk about what coach hasn't done, don't
tell me what Eli drink Quiz hasn't done. If he
beats Texas A and M, it's all out the window
and let's go. But if they lose, you're right, the
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fair evaluation is who have you beaten this year? I mean,
where's your big win? The season's not over.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
You go beat Oklahoma.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I get it. But the dreams of ten wins being
no big deal and a college football playoffs. They're all
in the line against Texas A and M.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Danny.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
The mindset, though, is the important thing you mentioned the truth.
The players, I hope aren't thinking about the truth. Here's
the away for Missouri to win this game. Take on
the underdog mentality, right, just accept that A and M's
offense is being run by Colin Klein and a great
Heisman Trophy level quarterback and hits you on all cylinders, scrambling, running,
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passing the ball down field. This is kind of like
Jaden Daniels was when he was at LSU, that Heisman
Trophy winner.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
They don't dink and dunk, they throw the ball down field.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
So Colin Klin is doing a great job.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Mike Alco, the head coach, is a defensive guru. They
play great defense.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
They have NFL like.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Defensive ends that rush the quarterback and sack the quarterback.
Blow things up a little. Like we talked about Texas Tech,
A and M has so many components and are number
three in the country. They've won at Notre Dame, they've
won at LSU. Why don't you just give them their
credit and say, man, they're a great team. You know,
if this name was Alabama, if Alabama was coming in
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here undefeated with the resume, wouldn't you accept the under
out dark row at one second?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
But it's A and M, you know, like we usually
beat them.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
If Missouri comes on and the fans show up and say, hey,
we're the underdog, let's rock this place, and let's cause
A and M some havoc, it is definitely available. I've
watched way too much Texas A and M football this year, Danny,
because I'm such good friends with Colin Kline, and I'm
telling you they have not played for allless games. You
remember the LSU game that got the coach fired right
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the next day at LSU. You remember the disaster of
LSU fans emptying the house in the fourth quarter and
the A and M band and the A and M
fans dominating Tiger Stadium that ugly look.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Do you realize that LSU was ahead at the half, Danny? Right?
I mean A and M didn't beat.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Them forty two to nothing and embarrass him, but A
and M's dangerous pump return kick off return. They got
it all at times. But watching their games, they are
like an animal that messes with their food for a while,
you know, just kind of smelling it, licking it, deciding,
you know, like I'm gonna I'm gonna eat this meal
and no one's going to stop me in the wild,
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But for some reason, I don't just bite right into it.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Yo.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Does that make sense? A and M is beatable. Missouri
can beat Missouri can be A and M. This is
not over overachieving in any way.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
They can do it.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
They're at home, but they got to do it with
the mentality of hey, we're the underdog. If they start
thinking about what's at stake and what they could lose,
then they will lose because.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
The A and M will run you out of the house.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I mean when A and M gets ahold of you
and starts they are dancing on the sidelines, Danny, I
don't know if you've seen this show. They actually have
a half hour show each week the SEC Network or
Texas A and M. Basically they're putting out, Hey, this
is a review behind the scenes with the coach talking
at the half.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
You've seen some of that out there.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
You see those A and M players. They are dancing
on graves. Okay, if they get ahead of you.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
They're gonna you're gonna hate.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
If you're a Missouri fan going to the game, you're
gonna hate these guys. So they get ahead by two
touchdowns because they're gonna be pointing in the stands. They're
only talking trash. They're gonna be cocky. That's when things
go their way. They run and dominate and they just
are looking for elcos is constantly looking for.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
That point in the game.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Like the LSU game, He's like, guys, we're the better team.
I heard the audio, this video. You know we're we're
the better team. But if we keep messing up like
we did in the first half, no one's gonna know it.
And man, when they went out there and started dancing
around on the sidelines and talking trash to the LSU fans,
there was no way LSU is gonna stop it. They're
too good. So to me, this game is really you
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can't turn it over. Freshman quarterbacks gotta play well. I
get all that, but a lot of it. To me,
Danny's gonna be the mindset, take on the underdog roll,
and Missouri becomes very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
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you again next week. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
Okay, Danny and have fun talking about that World Series.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Yeah, that was incredible.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
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David Leski from Inside the Crown, an epic World Series
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Welcome back to Monday Musings Danny and Friends. Sports Rap.
We've done the football, now it's time to talk baseball
and the World Series Game seven couldn't have been really
any better. It might have been the greatest game ever played.
I don't know that's, you know, the prisoner of the
moment type thinking. But I'm not so sure about that.
Twists and turns, heartache, big stars, guys being made stars,
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the Dodgers running their entire starting pitching staff out there
in the game, and an unlikely closer who somehow summoned
up the ability to pitch in Madison Bumgarner style. I
don't know, there's a million things to talk about. I
guess I said this in the open David, as we're
joined by David Leski from Inside the Crown, that there
is a list on mb dot com of the ten
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biggest moments in the game, and the game winning home
run by Will Smith is number six on the list.
So that just shows you what it was like, four
hours of pitch by pitch, incredible drama. It was close
all the way. It was breathtaking, It was it was incredible.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I mean, we talked about this was just last week.
We talked Yeah, it was that. Ye.
Speaker 10 (38:19):
This postseason feels like the best postseason in I don't
know about ever, but in a long time. At the
very least, and the World Series didn't disappoint at all.
It was I mean, game by game, you look at
these and you know there are it's very possible that
you can get a seven game series that just it's
not competitive at all.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Just each game is.
Speaker 10 (38:41):
The series itself is competitive obviously because it goes seven,
but each game is a blowout.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
And I mean there was some yeah, eleven and four
in game one.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
I think Game four was a little closer than it
looked when it was six to two, but Game five
six to one, whatever. But I mean, obviously the eighteen
in game obviously Game six was incredible with the way
it did in Game seven, going eleven innings like that
was just just pure drama. And yeah, I was. I
was watching the game and the second thing, I was
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actually at my in law's house. I turned to my
father in law and I said, bobas Sheett, not being
able to run might cost the more World Series.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
And that was that was when he didn't score from second.
Speaker 10 (39:19):
On the single and then the next thning or in
Tuny Clan or whatever it was, he hit through in
Homer and I went, well, I'm an idiot, but I
think Boba sheet not being able to run cost the
more World Series. I really do, because obviously they'd lost
in extra innings and if he had scored there they
would want more run. But then also his pinch runner
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didn't get the job done as they kind of fore left.
I think he there's a lot of argument about that.
I'd be curious where you stand on on on that too,
But he needed a bigger lead. I understand you don't
want to get doubled off, but you're not gonna get
doubled off if you take two steps.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
I mean, and and who was it?
Speaker 10 (39:57):
I think it was Dance and Borski, which was great
work for Fangrafts mentioned that maxim er dalond bar Show
had hit exactly two line drives to the left side
and his career right.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
So like it just wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Well, here's here's some numbers on it. Of course, there
are numbers for everything up seven point eight foot primary
lead ranked three hundred and fifty seven out of three
hundred and eighty one of all primary leads in the
World Series. Secondary lead three sixty six out of three
seventy six, and he's fast. His sprint speed on this
play was sixty one out of six eighty nine. And
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the other part is, and I kind of excuse him
on this one because home plate is always a sliding play,
but we know that running through the through the plate
would have been better also, and all those things tied up,
all you needed was a little bit of one of
them and he would have scored and won the game.
Speaker 10 (40:52):
Yeah what okay, side note? What would have How awful
would that have felt for them to win a World
Series on a replay review? I mean that that would
be the most anti climactic thing ever, So I'm glad
that didn't happen.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
But yeah, any any one, tiny little difference give the
Blue Jays a World championship.
Speaker 10 (41:14):
And I think when you get to a point that
you are looking at that as a did you win
or lose?
Speaker 8 (41:24):
That's how you know it was a great game and
and and I mean it's just it was. It was
incredible to watch.
Speaker 10 (41:31):
And you know you're watching it, you're going, Okay, if
the Dodgers are within one, when Jeff Hoffman is in,
I think they can they can.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
Tie it up. I really do. Because Jeff hop he's
been Homer.
Speaker 10 (41:40):
Prone, it has he hasn't been in the playoffs. He
felt he felt like it was due. You didn't think
it was gonna be micguil Rojas. You felt like that
he was due to give up a big run because
he had, and you know, it's in Kansas City. It's
so interesting watching the Blue Jays team because I feel
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like the Royals handled them no problem this same I mean,
they were only four and they lost two games, so
I guess that's not no problem. But and they they
took care of business against the Blue Jays pretty well.
And you're watching this team go toe to toe with
the Dodgers, You're going, wait, what, how is this possible?
Some of it's just matchups, like the good teams have met,
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have had trouble with certain teams for various reasons.
Speaker 8 (42:24):
But yeah, it was. It was incredible.
Speaker 10 (42:28):
It's hard to find the words because it was such
an incredible end to the baseball season and just a.
Speaker 8 (42:33):
Great series overall.
Speaker 10 (42:36):
And the part of it, and this is why the
post postseason was so good too, is it was stars.
The stars starred, and I think that that's we all
love the underdog story. We all love the Miguel Rojas
home run. But you know what you remember is Shoheo
Tani getting on base nine times.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
You remember.
Speaker 10 (42:56):
Yoshiamamoto pitching three games and winning three games. You remember
remember all that that That's what you remember from these
big postseasons.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
If you ask who are the unsung heroes?
Speaker 10 (43:06):
I mean, I can name a few because I'm a
complete nerd, And you can probably name a handful of too,
because you're a complete baseball nerd. But like people don't
remember Marklemkey, people don't remember that name. People don't remember
even Cody Ross coming up big. You know, it's people
remember the big names doing it. And this postseason had that.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yep, it absolutely did. And but this game was it
was much closer to the Blue Jays winning the World
Series than it was the Dodgers. Throughout the game. Now,
the Blue Jays made a couple of really fine double
plays that are you know, defensive plays that really save
their bacon. But just a variety of things that Blue
Jays will. You be staying up late late at night
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in the offseason thinking about the kyro Phileppa And the
one that I think is the most is is Andy
pa has unbelievable catch. I mean, when when Key k
Hernandez is going back I'm like, he not gonna catch it,
this one's over, They're gonna win. And here he comes
flying in there as a defensive replacement who just came
in during the inning and made the game play.
Speaker 10 (44:09):
It was before that ipat, I mean, yeah, just absolutely wild.
And did you see I didn't realize this until today.
Apparently he was kik her NAIs was down for so
long that people thought he was hurt, and it turned
out he was down for so long because he thought
the ball dropped and the World.
Speaker 8 (44:24):
Series is over.
Speaker 10 (44:25):
He was upset because he didn't realize that the ball
had been caught.
Speaker 8 (44:30):
And he thought the Blue Jays won the World Series. Wow,
that's why he was on the ground.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
Which it I mean, all sorts of just amazing stories
from that that hole. But yeah, you're right bringing in
pies and and there's there's a ripple effect too, right
like bringing pies.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
They could have.
Speaker 10 (44:46):
Moved Edmund to second base, where Edmund had played a
lot of time. Right, If Edmund's at second base, I
don't know that he makes that play that Rojas made
to get Kindner f Leff at the So it's just.
Speaker 8 (45:03):
All these little ripple effects that Dave Roberts. I look,
every manager has their own issues.
Speaker 10 (45:08):
I don't I don't watch enough Dodgers games outside of
the World Series in the playoffs. You know, a lot
of Dodgers fans think Dave Roberts is bad. He's also
got three World Series titles now, and the buttons he
pushed right, it was he managed I think, a nearly
perfect game and.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
He deserves a lot of credit for that. And everything he.
Speaker 10 (45:32):
Did was right basically, and that's that's part of how
the Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, one of the reasons is because he had a
truly heroic card to play in Yoshinobu Yamamoto. I mean,
he pitched six innings of one run by, and they
think about this. They pulled him after six innings of
one run ball because they figured, well, he's got nothing left.
I mean, he had pitched two consecutive complete games, and
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here he comes and throws two and two thirds. It's
scoreless innings. Then he's on the ropes in the final game,
and you're just like, oh, Kirk, the most lovable guys
at the plate, just hit a fly ball, my man
at least and breaks his bat and it's a sure fire.
Don't give us another sure fire double play as soon
as the ball was struck.
Speaker 8 (46:16):
Really I know, I know, and it was.
Speaker 10 (46:19):
And also not to completely derail, but think about Mooky Bets,
the shortstop. Mookie Bets, the shortstop who became an elite defensive.
Speaker 8 (46:29):
Shortstop this season somehow because he's in.
Speaker 10 (46:32):
He's just an incredible talent as how. But that's not
that's that's that's a play a big leaguer needs to make.
Speaker 8 (46:40):
But also it's not an easy play. I don't think
that it's people.
Speaker 10 (46:44):
I don't think people realize how difficult fielding the ball,
finding the bag, getting your arm angle, throwing it to
the first accurately is. And and he he was able
to do that in a in a very you know,
obviously high pressure situation because if he make that throw perfectly,
if he doesn't step on that bag perfectly, the Bluejays
tied the game, maybe win the game, depending.
Speaker 8 (47:05):
On where the throw goes. So that's incredible too. It's
just every as it's just.
Speaker 10 (47:11):
So fun because every aspect of this is something that
you can look at and go, oh that was incredible,
Oh that was incredible, Oh that was incredible, And you
don't get that very often, so I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (47:23):
I think that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
It is pretty cool. And it came on a Saturday
night after you know, maybe people had had their fill
of college football and it didn't go up against the
NFL or anything. They crafted that on purpose. They didn't
play on Thursday. They didn't weren't going to play on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (47:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
But also I think until maybe this season, because he's
a free agent and he played for a more high
profile team in the Cubs, that the easy answer for
the most underrated player in baseball was always Kyle Tucker
because he's quiet and none assuming.
Speaker 8 (47:53):
To me.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
The guy who at the game winning home run Will Smith.
He's got an ordinary name Smith, and he might be
the most underrated player in baseball.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
I mean, there's a pretty good argument for it. The
guy's a catcher and a pretty good one. Two ninety six.
He got on base at a four hundred clip. He
slugged about five hundred, and that's kind of just par
for the court. I mean that last year he hit
two fifty last year with a three thirty on base.
But he's a guy, he eats a decent average. This
was the best average of his career. But he hits
a pretty snaverage, gets on base, has some pop, catches.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
A lot every innery of the series.
Speaker 8 (48:31):
Every well seven was the seventy three total innings.
Speaker 10 (48:33):
He thought, that's which is just insane. Yeah, I mean
he's he's up there if he's not that guy, and.
Speaker 8 (48:41):
What what's his contract?
Speaker 10 (48:42):
His contract is crazy because it's a Dodgers contract that's
way ten years and one hundred and forty million dollars,
which one hundred forty millions is a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (48:51):
Don't don't get me wrong. I would like you have.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Teen fourteen pers a pretty good bye.
Speaker 8 (48:56):
Fourteen pers are very very good bye.
Speaker 10 (48:58):
I I don't know how it breaks down, but I
think if I remember correctly, I don't think he ever
makes more than sixteen. And this will shock you, but
there's some deferred money in there.
Speaker 8 (49:11):
But it's I mean, value wise, he's amazing.
Speaker 10 (49:16):
He's not discussed very often, but this is a guy
in the Dodgers lineup that includes Shoho Tani, Mookie Bets,
Freddie Freeman, Max Muncis, Askar Hernandez and some of the
guys are bigger than others, obviously, but Will Smith was
the guy hitting.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Second right and sometimes right.
Speaker 8 (49:35):
If he wasn't second, he was third or fourth, and.
Speaker 10 (49:39):
That's he's he's a really really good player that I
don't think.
Speaker 8 (49:43):
I think you're right. I don't think anybody talks about
nearly enough.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
Let's talk a little bit about, well, the Dodgers now
rule the roost and they can play better. I think
that's that's a dangerous thing. They can have less injuries,
they can fill in if they want, they can change
their bullpen if they like. So that's the narrative for
the baseball season ahead. But let's throw a couple of
flowers before we go to Bobby Witch Junior and mikeel
(50:07):
Garcia who win gold gloves.
Speaker 8 (50:11):
Yeah. Yeah, that's big for the Royals. You know.
Speaker 10 (50:16):
Get to get that left out of the infield. Yep,
that's it's it's hard. Look, that's the reason why I'm
There's been some talk like Alex Bregmant was brought up,
and I have some thoughts on that rumor.
Speaker 8 (50:28):
But I don't want to move Garcia off third base.
Speaker 9 (50:32):
I know that.
Speaker 10 (50:34):
First of all. I think we talked about this a
little bit. He wasn't very good at second when he
played there. Fall sample, didn't get the off season to
prep whatever. Great, but he wasn't very good there. I
think he could be a pretty good outfielder. I do
think he looked pretty good in center field when he
played there a few games. But he's a Gold Glover
and legitimately deserved it. He was the best third baseman
in the American League and probably the second best in baseball,
(50:56):
which if Brian Hayes exists, he's going to be the
best third basement in Baseballtively.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
That's fine, No, you know, it doesn't. It doesn't.
Speaker 10 (51:03):
Doesn't say anything bad about Garcia that he's not better
than the best. But to have that left out of
the infield's huge, especially the rotation right now as it
shapes up. Reagan's is gonna see a lot of righties.
Ye Blue, which is going to see a lot of righties.
Cameron's gonna see a lot of righties. If you if
(51:24):
you have that left side.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
It's another reason to keep yourself left handed strong.
Speaker 8 (51:29):
Uh huh, yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 10 (51:30):
That's that's and I think they're gonna this is a
much bigger conversation. I think that they will probably have
to trade one of their lefties, not Reagan's bu butcher Cameron.
But if they don't, and if they go into the
winter with those three plus logo and uh waka, you
feel good about having those those guys on the left side,
(51:51):
you're facing a bunch of righties. Feel you know, it's
it's a it's a good spot.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
To be absolutely positively, David, always a pleasure talking baseball
with you. We got an unbelievable conclusion to the season.
You write a lot in the off season at Inside
the Crown. It's such a great newsletter for people to enjoy.
Fridays are free. Sample it there, then buy it because
you'll be much smarter. Always pleasure talking baseball, and'll do
(52:16):
it off and on in hot stove time.
Speaker 8 (52:19):
I can't wait, David.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
Leski from Inside the Crown joining us in one final bouquet.
The Kansas City Current finish off their home season undefeated
yesterday and now it's onto the playoffs for the team
that has dominated the NINEWSL. But of course the playoffs
you got to prove it all over again. But go
teal as they win all the games or get a
(52:42):
result in every single game at their spanking new stadium.
Really cool stuff. So that'll do it for Monday Musings
Danny and Friends Sports Rap always presented by ASFCA.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
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