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Speaker 1: Big night in the NFL. We'll get back into that

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Speaker 1: coming up in a few minutes. The Jaguars escape, sending

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs to two and three, thirty one to twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: But again another night of high drama in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Nothing bigger, nothing crazier than Dodgers Phillies Game two. That

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers survive, no better way to say it. They

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Speaker 1: survive despite Dave Roberts' best efforts to not out, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: succeed and proceed. They win this game for to three,

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Speaker 1: take a two zip lead going back to Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: And are there some things to talk about in this game? First,

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Speaker 1: let's look at what happened in the ninth inning, a

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Speaker 1: game the Dodgers had led for nothing, and great pitching

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Speaker 1: performance by Blake Snell. Phenomenal, Right, he was great. This

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Speaker 1: is why I say he's got to pay all the

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Speaker 1: game ones when you can, because he's that guy and

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Speaker 1: he was terrific. But what do I say, Dodger bullpen.

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Speaker 3: Didn't avoid them as long as you can, then the

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Speaker 3: Dodger bullpen is gonna have a big say on the

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Speaker 3: Baseball playoffs, and not from a positive perspective.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have it. And what we saw in the

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Speaker 1: ninth inning tonight, I really I thought Dave Roberts isn't

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Speaker 1: fired as Dodgers manager. Okay, now you know how bad

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers bullpen has been the last few months. They're

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Speaker 1: not solving this anytime soon. The bullpen has been absolutely abysmal.

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Speaker 1: There's no one you can trust. The only one you

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Speaker 1: been good. So he's the only guy, right. He was

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Speaker 1: choice but to trust Asaka. Look, we talked about it

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Speaker 1: Dodgers closer, and Sasaki had to be. He's throwing great,

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Speaker 1: He's throwing a hundred, His stuff is moving phenomenal, and

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers get everything you need tonight. Six innings from

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Speaker 1: get Blake trining into Alex Vessia, finally to Sasaki, who

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Speaker 1: where the Phillies decided, Oh, Dave Roberts, we can't take

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Speaker 1: You're done? But now Consteanos beats it, So okay, Now

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Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, dodge your bullpen and all.

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Speaker 1: have stot bunt. And what do I don't need any

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Speaker 1: it anymore. Bunting is such an antiquated strategy that no

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Speaker 1: It's quite another thing to execute a bunt when the

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Speaker 1: major Leagua should be able to bunt. Yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 3: But the other thing is he got the bunt down, right,

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Speaker 3: if I gave up that strike, I guess I have

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Speaker 3: to swing away. Now, how often do you see that?

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Speaker 3: But Stott had three sacrifice bunts on the year, five

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty played appearances. And if he's gonna get

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Speaker 3: defensive structure that they put in to execute this, but

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Speaker 3: you've got to make lay down a perfect bunt. Like

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Speaker 3: it's not just a all right, did I bunt it here? No,

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Speaker 3: it's like you've got to pull it to the proper

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Speaker 1: And that's as are. Everything's gotta work. It's not just

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Speaker 1: they decide to bunt right, and the Dodgers run a

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Speaker 1: they were inspired by Oceans thirteen and the cartwheel. All

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Speaker 1: When the Phillies go home, they're gonna say that this

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Speaker 3: Bessie A kicks and fire Stott gets the bunt down

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Speaker 1: Dodgers Radio Network on the call, and now, all of

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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario happens in which your lead runner

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Speaker 1: MLB men and Rob Thomas has been doing this for

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Speaker 3: We bemoan the three outcome of walks and strikeouts and

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Speaker 1: Now here's Rob Thompson, Phillies manager, trying to explain why

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Speaker 5: Just left on a lot for trying to tie the score.

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Speaker 6: It seemed like the Dodgers were expecting Was there any

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Speaker 5: Well, Mookie did a great job of disguising the wheel play.

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Speaker 1: And people think it's a simple play, a simple thing.

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Speaker 3: No, all you reply with is, Mookie was great, we

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Speaker 1: You try to button an knife fitting and you lose.

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Speaker 1: Rob Thompson's gotta explain himself. We're down to going back

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Speaker 1: to la.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Mookie's the best. Okay, he he confused us, He

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, a little bit

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Speaker 1: more on Dodger Philly drama before we get back into Shore.

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Speaker 1: Talk about drama at the end of the game tonight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go Jaguars and the Chiefs. But you know, not

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Speaker 1: enough has been talked about this. Look, we talked about

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Speaker 3: Congratulations, outlawed first bunting of the tush push eight seven

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Speaker 1: Now, Philadelphia fans want to see the toush pus. They

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see that. You know, we do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you just good the end to the end

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Speaker 3: of that the hail Mary, the angle that they've shown

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna gonna run down to catch him myself

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Speaker 1: Don't no, don't like it? Perfect. So this play we

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Speaker 1: I believe in you. You either get it done or not.

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Speaker 1: your team and say, hey, I don't know what we tried? Guys, No, no, no,

428
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Speaker 1: Why did you not go to the guy who was

429
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Speaker 1: your closer? Why did you not go to your best reliever?

430
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,840
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts tried to give this game back to the Phillies,

431
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Speaker 1: and he got bailed out by the fact Rob Thomps said,

432
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Speaker 1: oh no, no, We're gonna try to bunt, and then Finally,

433
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. Maybe it's a phone

434
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Speaker 1: call to the dugout. Maybe the players just grabbed Dave robertson, dude,

435
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,479
Speaker 1: bring Roki Sasaki in. What happens? He comes in, he

436
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,679
Speaker 1: gets the ground out, and the Dodgers win. They go

437
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 1: up to sit. But Dave Roberts did all he could

438
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Speaker 1: to give this game to the Phillies. He hasn't gone

439
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Speaker 1: two out of three much at all. Just figuring the

440
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Speaker 1: run right there. Blake's pitched some of the biggest outs

441
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Speaker 1: innings in the postseason four us. Felt really confident right there,

442
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: and with Vessie behind him if he needed and he

443
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Speaker 1: just keeps.

444
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Speaker 3: Going on and on, and eventually, you know, I thought

445
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Speaker 3: about it, but I went with what I've done before,

446
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 3: right So it's it's it's like the Rob Thompson thing.

447
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Speaker 3: He's like, well, what are you gonna do?

448
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Speaker 1: What do you say, Thomas or Thompson? Rob Thompson. But

449
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Speaker 1: just all of the discussion, it's very, very, very smooth

450
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Speaker 1: that we're doing right now. Frostberger's very like guys that we've.

451
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Speaker 3: Seen nicely now for for the history, and I get it.

452
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Speaker 3: Dave Roberts, we've talked about his loyalty to his guys,

453
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Speaker 3: long standing relievers, starters, they're going to get an extra

454
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Speaker 3: turn in the rotation during the regular like all of

455
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Speaker 3: those things. He is very loyal to a fault and

456
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Speaker 3: then and then they played to the numbers and this

457
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 3: is one of those all right, how much is the

458
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Speaker 3: equation versus the gut feel?

459
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Speaker 1: And we play that game all the time?

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Speaker 3: That yo, yo. But for the recent history of what

461
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Speaker 3: you've seen from this relief staff, like there's a reason

462
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:44,399
Speaker 3: you've been going to Sasaki Kershaw, damn it. Guys that

463
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 3: have been starters more than your actual bullpen.

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Speaker 6: You go.

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Speaker 1: When you get to the ninth inning of the game,

466
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Speaker 1: do the Mets say, oh, we got three lefties coming up?

467
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Speaker 1: Or do the Mets say we're bringing in Edwin d

468
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Speaker 1: Mets say we quit has had a great year. No, no, listen,

469
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Speaker 1: the Phillies in the y stop stop the Phillies and

470
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: the Yankees losing is like the Mets winning. It's the

471
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: same thing. Right now, I can wear my Mets gear

472
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Speaker 1: with the Yankees and the Phillies losing. Man, it'd be

473
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Speaker 1: it'd be an awesome playoff after after this, this could

474
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Speaker 1: be better. It'd be an awesome. Actually, probably better, isn't

475
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Speaker 1: it. It might be better, but it's because it's still you know,

476
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Speaker 1: it's it's fun to wallow in the mission. You should

477
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Speaker 1: probably call a doctor.

478
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Speaker 3: Yeah, in four hours, Well it'll be better. The Yankees finally, yeah,

479
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 3: the Yankee one and the Phillies right, because oh, my dad,

480
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 3: my dad is he's not picking up.

481
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Speaker 1: My dad is not doing well. He said, what what

482
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: did he tell me? You should call me before the

483
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Speaker 1: first inning of the Yankees game, because after the first

484
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Speaker 1: inning of the Yankees game, Yeah, he's like done. Comes up.

485
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Speaker 3: Every game that's played by play might might have been

486
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Speaker 3: the best thing I heard all weekend.

487
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Speaker 1: Every game it's eight nothing in the first gave Wills.

488
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Speaker 3: Talking about how I'm glad Gurel has been killing him.

489
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Speaker 1: Oh, I know, by the way, the number of people

490
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Speaker 1: because when we made our predictions for this last week,

491
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Speaker 1: I said, the Yankees are gonna just absolutely rake the

492
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Speaker 1: beginning of this series. They're gonna beat the Blue Jays.

493
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Speaker 1: They're hot, they're gonna ray. Obviously it's gone the other

494
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Speaker 1: way and the Blue jed and so many people now

495
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: all all yesterday on my timeline, you're wrong, giving giving

496
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Speaker 1: me a gives I'm like, oh my god, oh my god.

497
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: And what I wanted to come back and just say,

498
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: is you think I'm unhappy to be wrong about this.

499
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Speaker 1: You think I'm oh, the Yankees are losing and they

500
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Speaker 1: may go home. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I don't care

501
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: if I got that wrong. Yeah I got it wrong.

502
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Speaker 3: I don't we make a million predictions. There's gonna be

503
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Speaker 3: a lot of wrong ones. Case. This also gives you

504
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Speaker 3: the satisfaction.

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Speaker 1: Of you no gonna lose. Oh my goodness. Uh So,

506
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Speaker 1: I don't get Dave Roberts. I don't understand what he

507
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: was trying to do. I mean, you bring in your

508
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: best reliever. Everybody brings in their closing. You don't mess

509
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Speaker 1: around and say, oh, I kind of like the when

510
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Speaker 1: Sasaki is pitching out the way, he is like, what

511
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: are you doing here? Are You're so overmanaging the game?

512
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: Go to your best guy. I mean that's what I think.

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Speaker 1: I can't Roberts. Dave Roberts me, Jason, I mean I

514
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Speaker 1: know he isn't. I mean, I know he loves it,

515
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: but at some point you have to say, Okay, I know, like, dude,

516
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Speaker 1: you don't There's no rule that says you have to

517
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Speaker 1: bring in three reliefs, but bring in your best guy

518
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Speaker 1: and that's it. Go home.

519
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Speaker 3: But here's the thing, right, we can go all the

520
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 3: way back to twenty sixteen when the Cubs won the

521
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Speaker 3: World Series. How many times did Joe Madden do something?

522
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 3: And we're looking at each other going, that doesn't make

523
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 3: any sense, And damned if they didn't have the horseshoe

524
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Speaker 3: to get to the end line. Right with Dave Roberts,

525
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 3: look at last year, how many times did he go

526
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 3: to the penny? You're like, all right, now we're on that.

527
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 3: How many relievers and it worked? Yeah, so he's in bolden.

528
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 3: Eventually they're gonna pitch a solid scoreless inning. Damn it.

529
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Speaker 1: Uh So, really, I don't understand how that happened. And yes,

530
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Speaker 1: the Phillies bailed him out by bunting, but also bailing

531
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Speaker 1: out Dave Roberts was Freddy Freeman. Because this ground ball

532
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Speaker 1: that Roki Sasaki gets with the tying run at third

533
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Speaker 1: and the game was not just your garden variety ground

534
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: ball to a good infielder throws him out at first.

535
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmond nearly threw the game away for the Dodgers.

536
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Speaker 1: And Freddie Freeman had to save it. Turner to second base,

537
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: Tommy Edman low throw Tlenny Freeman with a scoop and

538
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:35,479
Speaker 1: the ball game is over. Oh my goodness, Tommy Edmond

539
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: spiked it in the Tommy Edmond threw it into the dirt.

540
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman is able to dig it out and keep

541
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Speaker 1: his foot on first base. Remember long stretch turner, running

542
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Speaker 1: fast player, He's able to somehow stay connected to the

543
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Speaker 1: bag hold onto the ball. Wasn't even a replay challenge

544
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Speaker 1: after because you could see Freddie Freeman somehow stayed on

545
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Speaker 1: the bag and he saves that game. Made a great

546
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Speaker 1: defense to play the play before it. I mean, really,

547
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Speaker 1: I think Freddie once he got one gold Glove Frostburg

548
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: his career, Freddy Frame, I think that's pretty accurate. Something

549
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know, man, she's absolutely criminal, because

550
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: he does this all the time. You got to give

551
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: it to him. You got to give him miss one

552
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: just for that play. I mean, he absolutely said. I mean,

553
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: Tommy Yeman, it's an easy throwing. He lollipops it to

554
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: first base and Freddy Freeman's got to make a really

555
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: hard play.

556
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 3: How many guys make that play? In that situation. But

557
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 3: he doesn't bobble it and there's no to stretch off

558
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 3: the bag or any question of it. It's it's an

559
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 3: immediate run, close, close out an inning, and get the save.

560
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 3: But looking at his fielding, let's see what do we

561
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 3: got not in the box score. But he wins games

562
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 3: doing this. No, but that's just it runs saved and such.

563
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 3: Certainly we've got the runs created. I'm curious where if

564
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 3: we have a run saved space for him, though, But

565
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 3: we've watched this time and again, right, there have been

566
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 3: some truly suspect plays through that Dodger infield for as

567
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: many years as he's been manning first base that he's

568
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 3: saved the day. Think about how much worse those reliever

569
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 3: stats would look at out Freddy Freeman.

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Speaker 1: And you know what else is amazing by Freddy Freeman

571
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: is the guy runs like he needs a hip replacement,

572
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Speaker 1: like really, like yeah, I think gloves twenty eighteen, Yeah, yeah,

573
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: seven years ago. And you know what, it was a

574
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Speaker 1: co co he shared it with. I think Anthony Rizzo

575
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: that year. Wow, you didn't even win it out right, man,

576
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: I mean the guy can barely move, he can barely run.

577
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: He run. You know, he runs. He runs like my dad.

578
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: My dad's seventy eight, and that's kind of how my

579
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: dad runs, like a little oh, just kind of kind

580
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: of stepping up a little bit, like he runs like

581
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: he needs gonna need a hip replacement. Like, boy, it's

582
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. He's gonna be sidelined a long time

583
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: when he gets that new hip. Like he can't even move,

584
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: and still he's able to make plays like he made

585
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: for the second out of the inning, like he made

586
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: there at the end of the game. It defies logic

587
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: that he's able to make those plays. Watch Freddy Freeman run.

588
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: Don't know how he has so many? He doubles like

589
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: he got I mean, how does he get the second base?

590
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: He kind of just lumbers in, and you know, it's

591
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: almost it's almost like Freddy Freeman's a robot. And when

592
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: they get in, they go, Okay, start decreasing speed, decreasing speed,

593
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: like you're landing a plane or something. You're slowing the

594
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: train down, all right, pressing buttony Okay, we're slowing down,

595
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: slowing down, arriving and we're at the base. Speaking of

596
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: people moving very very very slow, how about the play

597
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: Miguel rojas Man man that slide into third base to

598
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 1: beat Trey Turner of the bag. I mean that that

599
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: could have been the game. You know, hey again, and

600
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: what did I say last week all about Dodger defense.

601
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: Dodger defense is gonna be his absolute killer. It's so bad,

602
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: it's so bad. And then had three big plays tonight

603
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: to save the game. Actually, okay, three big play one

604
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: because Edmund was a bad play. But Freddy Freeman made

605
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: a good play, so you didn't make that. Yeah, it

606
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: gets it done, Roki Sasaki. By the way, Christian Walker

607
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: has won the last three. Freddie Freeman should wring this

608
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: year just for that plane to night.

609
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 3: He should three straight, and then Goldschmidt and then you

610
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: go back to Rizzo for a couple of years, and

611
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 3: then that tie in twenty eight.

612
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: Christian Water just for tonight, just for hey, sorry, everything

613
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: he did in the regular season, Christian was great, all yeah,

614
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: but Freddie wins just for that play tonight, just for

615
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: making that play. I'd be right, And no challenge from

616
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: the Phillies not you'd say no. He stayed on there,

617
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: He stayed on there. He saw it, he got it.

618
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: It was it was I mean, that was an amazing

619
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: play that could have been absolute disaster the Dodgers. I

620
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: feel like they The one thing I could say for

621
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: the Phillies, right, if I could say anything positive for

622
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: them going back to La down to Zip, is that

623
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: maybe the Dodgers are out of miracles, right, maybe you know,

624
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: the selling their souls to the devil. Maybe, Okay, we're

625
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: done now, We've given you. We gave you the bunt play,

626
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: we gave you the Freddie Freeman play at for today's right,

627
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: we gave you. Now we got to kind of make

628
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: things even for the Phillies. That's the only thing I

629
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: could say positive for Philadelphia. Go.

630
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 3: I remember they're they're up to nothing and to this point,

631
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 3: Shoho Tani's only made good contact on one one at bat.

632
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, in these two games.

633
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 3: That change, it'll get get it worse for you.

634
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: But again, was it the big hit tonight? I mean,

635
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: the game's tied. If O'tama does that big insurance run,

636
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: that big round, that is a groundball that maybe should

637
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: have been stopped. It was a little little bit, but man,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Dave Roberts, if the Dodgers fighting away,

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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, Oh, I could get fired. No, instead, we're gonna.

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Speaker 3: Win the year of living dangerously, Dodgers for three winners.

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Speaker 1: Sasaki to save tell now to find out what's trending

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Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports. But guy's been called

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Speaker 1: the rookie Sasaki of Fox Sports Radio. He says, you

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Speaker 1: wait till now to put me on the air. It's

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Speaker 1: Steve de Sager.

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Speaker 6: Huh, no speak English. By the way, I predict that

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Speaker 6: Christian Walker will not win the Gold Glove in the

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Speaker 6: National League this year.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty that's pretty bold. Same, that's pretty bold, Staman

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Speaker 1: resident play in the National League. Any how, what irony.

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Speaker 6: By the way, the gold glove first baseman in the

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Speaker 6: NL might be the guy that the Atlanta Braves picked

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Speaker 6: to be their first baseman instead of Freddie Freeman pat Olsen.

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Speaker 1: But Freddy wins it. But just with that play, he's

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Speaker 1: gotta win it.

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Speaker 6: Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. And remember he had a similar play

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Speaker 6: that he could not backhand in Game one at philadel

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Speaker 6: And I would note that with the three great defensive

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Speaker 6: plays today by the Dodgers, all three were in the infield,

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Speaker 6: none by that porous outfield. The starting pitching has been

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Speaker 6: incredible for LA in the past month, and Blake Snell

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Speaker 6: got the game to win tonight four to three at Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: Dodgers are up two games to none in this best

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Speaker 6: of five NL Division series. In Game one, shoe Heyo

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Speaker 6: Tani was the starting pitcher with that great Kerve ball,

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Speaker 6: he got a swing and miss twenty three times. Tonight,

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Speaker 6: Blake Snell got a swing and miss from the Phillies

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Speaker 6: twenty three times. In fact, Snell finished up for the

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Speaker 6: fourth time in his postseason career and outing with at

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Speaker 6: least nine strikeouts and no more than two hits allowed.

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Speaker 1: That is a record. I thought the Phillies were good, Steve.

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Speaker 6: The Phillies actually had more wins than the Dodgers in

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Speaker 6: the regular season ninety six and had a first round

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Speaker 6: by after they took the NL East by thirteen games

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Speaker 6: over the Mets. The Phillies and this was key bottom

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Speaker 6: of the ninth did bunt into an out at third base.

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Speaker 6: Sasaki got save getting the final out. Aaron Nola of

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Speaker 6: Philadelphia will be starting Game three in LA Wednesday, with

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Speaker 6: the season on the line for him, going up against

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Speaker 6: Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

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Speaker 1: Is it the Aaronola of four years ago exactly.

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Speaker 6: Great decade with Philadelphia and then this year in Era

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Speaker 6: of six the only good thing that Philly people can

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Speaker 6: look at as well. He had a couple of great

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Speaker 6: outings in the last month. Maybe he found something or

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Speaker 6: he'll be there a very short amount of time, and

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Speaker 6: Ranger Suarez is coming in early people. Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers,

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Speaker 6: the top overall seeds, up two games to none in

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Speaker 6: their series after beating the Cubs seven to three. Cubs

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Speaker 6: offense after a three run homer in the top of

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Speaker 6: the first, went two for twenty eight at the plate

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Speaker 6: with eleven strikeouts the rest of the night. In fact,

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Speaker 6: the Cubs are the first team in playoff history to

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Speaker 6: hit a three run homer in the first and not

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Speaker 6: score again after that and lose the playoff game. This

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Speaker 6: was the first playoff game ever where each team hit

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Speaker 6: a three run homer in the first. In fact, the

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Speaker 6: Brewers wound up with three long balls and the winning

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Speaker 6: pitcher was Jacob Miserowski, three scoreless innings, four strikeouts when

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Speaker 6: he came in, his first eight pitches were all fast balls,

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Speaker 6: the slowest of them one hundred and two miles an hour.

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Speaker 6: By the end of the night, Misserrowski with thirty one

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Speaker 6: different pitches at at least one hundred miles an hour,

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Speaker 6: needless to say, the most by any playoff pitcher since

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Speaker 6: they started this pitch tracking over fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he pitched eleven innings tonight. Every time

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Speaker 1: he is still on the mount long down. Other people

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Speaker 1: now gives a four hour game and not three. It's

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Speaker 1: three hours later. He's still on the mountain. He's only

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Speaker 1: pitched four innings, but he's still on.

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Speaker 6: The mount The American League games are on FS one

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Speaker 6: again tomorrow. What a Monday night football matchup it turned

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Speaker 6: out to be. Jacksonville gets a touchdown with under thirty

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Speaker 6: seconds left to beat Kansas City thirty one twenty eight.

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Speaker 6: Jags are four and one. Kansas City, it turns out,

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Speaker 6: is the team of Jags two and three. Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 6: one touchdown run, one touchdown pass, and one key interception

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Speaker 6: return ninety nine yards for a score. He looked at

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Speaker 6: the goal line, Mahomes through the ball. This was gonna

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Speaker 6: be career touchdown pass number three hundred set the record

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Speaker 6: the fastest to three hundred TD passes in NFL history.

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Speaker 6: He stepping in front the life touchdown it to go

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Speaker 6: the other way, Devin Lloyd the hero Two other notes,

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Speaker 6: Patriots running back Antonio Gibson out for the year, torn

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Speaker 6: acl Chargers are putting running back Omrion Hampton on IR

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Speaker 6: back to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Carbon Coming up next, we got more baseball

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Speaker 1: on the way, but straight ahead, we get back into

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Speaker 1: the big drama tonight the Chiefs and the Jaguars and

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Speaker 1: a big, fat hot take on one really popular quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That's next right here, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio The Jason's Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Touchdown Ready, big heroics tonight on Monday Night Football, Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd, That was nice, Devin light was nice. Trevor

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00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: Lawrence owns the night. A career defining touchdown, a career

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Speaker 1: changing touchdown in the final minute of regulation gives the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars the thirty one to twenty eight win over Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: And look we talked about it on this final drive. Hey,

743
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Speaker 1: they get the ball back just under two minutes left

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Speaker 1: to go. This is the biggest drive for Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: that we've seen in quite a long time. Things get

746
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Speaker 1: amped up on Monday and Thursday nights. He needed a

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Speaker 1: game winning kind of drive to flip the narrative on

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Speaker 1: his career, which is, yeah, the guy's getting paid a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, but he's in league average quarterback. He's

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Speaker 1: not been great. The team has been winning so far

751
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: because they've been able to run the football, play really

752
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: good defense. But once in a while, you need a

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Speaker 1: quarterback you decided to give fifty million dollars to because well,

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Speaker 1: we took him number one overall, it's kind of embarrassing

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Speaker 1: if we don't give him that money. You need that

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Speaker 1: guy to make a play for you. You need to flip

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00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: that narrative because Trevor Lawrence pun intended, he's been a jag.

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Speaker 1: He's just been a guy. And the final play that

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00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 1: they have the ball tonight, where they need a touchdown

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Speaker 1: on it's absolute disaster that turns into a miracle for Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: Trevor under center, he he slip that he fell down.

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Speaker 3: Tremor fell down on the play.

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Speaker 2: The gonna run down, cut down, touchdown, begun up.

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Speaker 6: He felt.

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Speaker 4: It.

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Speaker 3: I got ten to Senny.

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence Trey very happy. Jaguars Radio Network on the call.

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is gets his footstepped on by the right guard.

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Speaker 1: He falls down. He tries to get up, he falls

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Speaker 1: down again. He somehow gets up. The Chiefs have him

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Speaker 1: in the backfield. He escapes. He runs twenty yards on

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Speaker 1: the play to gain one yard. That one yard to

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Speaker 1: get in the end zone for the go ahead touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how far you have to run, how do

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Speaker 1: you get in? He gets in and you can see

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Speaker 1: the rest of the game. It was like ESPN was

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Speaker 1: anointing him as this is the guy. Finally he wears

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Speaker 1: the crown. He's the guy everybody thought he was gonna be.

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Speaker 1: He who had taken number one. Overall, all the congratulations

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Speaker 1: on the sideline. The camera follows him into the tunnel.

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Speaker 1: It's his birthday. He comes back out for cake with

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Speaker 1: Scott Van Pelt was. This wasn't just hey, here's a

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Speaker 1: quarterback made a big play. This was a career altering play.

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Speaker 1: This was the biggest play of his career. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: want to look back and say you add the collapse,

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Speaker 1: the big comeback win against the charge of the playoffs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's great, but it was also the Chargers collapse. You

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Speaker 1: played poorly in the first half, big thing. But individually,

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Speaker 1: for Trevor Lawrence, this was the biggest moment, the biggest

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Speaker 1: play of his career because he needed this to show

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Speaker 1: I am an elite quarterback. And he gets it on

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Speaker 1: the day where he celebrates his birthdays, having cake with

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Speaker 1: with Van Pelt on the ESPN set and everything is

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Speaker 1: coming up Trevor Lawrence. It wasn't just a win. It

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Speaker 1: was an anointing what we saw after this game at

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Speaker 1: least push forward right three and one, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions of how much they're winning in spite of

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Speaker 1: and not because of, like the run game and defense.

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Speaker 1: To this point, coming into tonight's game, they were plus

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Speaker 1: nine in the turnover battle. That's going to help you

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Speaker 1: win football games. We know the old stat, right, seventy

802
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Speaker 1: five percent of the time team with the that wins

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00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: the turnover battle finishes the job. But for Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: to what he's just over a thousand passing yard, six touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: five picks. Again, not world beating, but made the big

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Speaker 1: plays when they matter. Does it change the narrative all together? No,

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Speaker 1: But it's a big moment and it's a win in

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Speaker 1: over Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: Right. Everything gets amplified when you go and you knock

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Speaker 3: off the top guy. Right. Eli Manning's eventually gonna be

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Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer. Not because he has two super

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Speaker 3: Bowl wins. Wins, that's part of it. But those two

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Speaker 3: super Bowl wins were over Tom Brady, so they get magnified.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Ever, Lawrence, when you have a big moment on the

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Speaker 3: big stage, the standalone game, which Jacksonville does not do, right,

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Speaker 3: I forget what the data was, but it's been a

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Speaker 3: minute since Monday Night football has been hanging around in Jacksonville. Right,

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Speaker 3: We've seen a bunch of Thursday night games that we

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Speaker 3: have seen. We have seen them be the host at

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Speaker 3: many a European destination though these many years, No, No, No,

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Speaker 3: and Monday Night Football wearing those classy jerseys and getting

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Speaker 3: the best of Patrick Mahomes in dramatic fashion. Yeah, it's

824
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Speaker 3: everything you can want for that springboard and in an

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Speaker 3: AFC that's got a lot of questions for all your

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Speaker 3: top teams in Jacksonville. They're saying, why not us? They

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Speaker 3: start a head coach, and look, they figured out a

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Speaker 3: pretty good for him. They run the football really well.

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Speaker 3: They look when you traded ten bigs b week two,

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Speaker 3: it's like, we know we can run the football.

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Speaker 1: We got our guys right. Your defense is playing really well.

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Speaker 1: You haven't really got a lot from Travis Hunter, although

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00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: he did catch a couple of passes to night pass.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're gonna get more from him, more from the

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Speaker 1: passing game. Brown is back now. They wanted him back,

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Speaker 1: and he had a big catch his first one near

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Speaker 1: the end of the game to get you inside the

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Speaker 1: ten yard line. So you got some stuff going on

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Speaker 1: with David Jackson.

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Speaker 4: Boy.

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Speaker 3: Throw to Brian Thomas, who seemed the most confused that

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Speaker 3: it got to him.

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Speaker 1: You got some You got some stuff going on right

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Speaker 1: now if you're Jacksonville. All of a sudden, Liam Cohen

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Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. Every hair commercial tomorrow, Well there's

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Speaker 1: a flip side to Trevor Lawrence and that's Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: That's next.

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Speaker 5: Fu