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We'll have more on 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: that crazy ass lebron story coming up in about fifteen minutes. 20 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: Because oh my goodness, it's already good, it's already awkward, 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 1: it's already off. Jason the Bad look is he's supposedly hurt. Yeah, well, 22 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: you know, let's mention it now he's shooting hoops. Oh yeah, yeah, 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: dude's pod he look today. Look, we talked about this 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: a few minutes ago. Just to tell you again how 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: awkward this is. First day of Lakers training camp was today. 26 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: Lebron is out and JJ Reddick had to tell everybody 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: he had a slight irritation in one of his glutes 28 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: and the goal is to get ready for Opening night. 29 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: But they're waiting all this crazy ass stuff to me. 30 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: And you do need to be able to activate your glutes. 31 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 3: If you didn't work or you got it, you did 32 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 3: bring the ball up, make cuts, all of that stuff. 33 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: Absolutely held out for nerve irritation his glutes and. 34 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: Instead was dancing on a big live stream marathon. Ky 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: Sinnett and Mary told us about it earlier. You see 36 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: the video of him. He's dancing, he's cutting, Harry, He's 37 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: doing all this stuff. So it's not enough he's held 38 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: out of practice to be on a live stream. Okay, well, 39 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: you never know the timing of things. But the fact 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: that they said, yeah, he's got a glute irritation and 41 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: he is telling the Lakers. Blank you here, I am 42 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: on a live stream and I'm gonna dance, right. 43 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 3: I've told well he was shooting baskets too, Jay, Yeah yeah, 44 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 3: I mean look look look Teddy turned down the shot 45 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 3: in the final seconds. 46 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: This is why I really I can't believe he's not 47 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: been he's not on a new team, because you can 48 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: just tell it's a big blank you between he and 49 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: the Lakers. They can barely be civil with each other 50 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: off the court, right everything. They're not going so far 51 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: enough to get the gloves off, you know, the Lakers saying, oh, hey, 52 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: we want to make sure Lebron is ready to go 53 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: for this. We want to make sure he calls the shots. 54 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 1: We didn't sign him to another contract after this year, 55 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: but he's want to make sure everything is right for him. 56 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,399 Speaker 1: He's earned the right all that bull crap you got 57 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: from Rob Polinka last week. 58 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: Look you see it's the giant sign that said we're 59 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 3: not giving him fifty million dollars or if he. 60 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: Wants to stick around. You see this back and forth. 61 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: The Lakers have pushed him to the outside once they 62 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: got Luca right, and you've seen the back and forth 63 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: between both sides. You know, that the relationship is frosty. 64 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: It's not what it was. Clutch Sports doesn't call the 65 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: shots the Lakers anymore. The Lakers were sold, and I 66 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: said going into this summer, he's gonna get dealt. He's 67 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: not gonna be a spare part on a team. And 68 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: the Lakers have said Luca is our guy. Now. Of 69 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: course they're gonna do that, because Luca is the guy 70 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: they got. He's gonna be the next level the Lakers 71 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: the next ten years. But basically thumbing their nose at 72 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: Lebron as it's going to let you know, you do 73 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: not do this anymore. Whatever the power trip that you 74 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: had over this organization, you and ad and we made 75 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: moves to help you guys out, that is not happening. Okay, 76 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: Lebron is never gonna not be in Alpha, So he 77 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: calls his shot to go someplace else. But either misjudged 78 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: the the trademarket form, which we've heard from Mark Stein 79 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: and Rick Buker over the course of the summer. Hey, 80 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: maybe a little bit not quite getting Lebron as teams 81 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: are at the point right now. Maybe Cleveland's not at 82 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: that point where they say, hey, we can go get 83 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: Lebron and bring him in and he's a guy to 84 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: get us over the top. But now he's stuck with 85 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: the Lakers. And so you had last week, you had 86 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: Rob Polinka answering those crazy ask questions with you know, oh, 87 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: you mean you're letting Lebron hit free agency because you 88 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: want to do the right thing by his family. If 89 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: you wanted a good player, you'd sign him, right, you'd 90 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: sign him. So don't give me that's a load of 91 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: crap with oh, we want to make sure Lebron is 92 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: taking care of It's a big thumb in your nose 93 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: at him, going yeah, we're just we're saying glowing things 94 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: about you when the reality is we're not gonna sign you. 95 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,239 Speaker 1: You're done with this team after this year, we're gonna 96 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: be able to go out and build on whoever we 97 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: want to. So now here's Lebron a week later going okay, 98 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: blank me, no, blank you day one here of training camp. 99 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: Now my glute has bothered me. I'm going to a 100 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: live stream and I'm gonna dance on the live stream. 101 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot baskets on the live stream. Yeah, I'm 102 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: held out of practice, but I'm going to go thromb 103 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: your nose in it. Like the It's like Stringer and 104 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: ave On at the end of the wire. They tried 105 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: to be friends, but you knew they're trying to get 106 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: each other. Like this is going to be so awkward 107 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: with the Lakers and Lebron this year. It's already awkward 108 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: day one of training camp. It's so awkward. 109 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 3: It all goes back to the day he opted in. 110 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: Like you could have gone anywhere you wanted, now you 111 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 3: would you have made fifty three million dollars. 112 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: No, but I'm. 113 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 3: Sure for the price is right, you could have gotten 114 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 3: one and the bonus deal from a number of teams 115 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 3: that you might have wanted to be part of. Right 116 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 3: for a championship contender in terms of trades, whether it's 117 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 3: Cleveland or somebody else, think about all the parts you 118 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 3: have to give back to make these salaries match up 119 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 3: under the NBA rules. Do you talk about the aprons 120 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 3: and all of that other stuff, Like it becomes a 121 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 3: very complicated situation to ours, Like wait this, we we 122 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 3: won because we had a nine man core. How many 123 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,799 Speaker 3: of those guys have to go back to bring in Lebron? 124 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: Yeah? 125 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 3: Right, So, like you're not gonna do that. Plus, as 126 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 3: you say, he can't not be the alpha. No, And 127 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 3: if that's the case, am I gonna take a team 128 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: that I've got great chemistry one through seven, one through 129 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 3: nine or whatever and bring him into that No, I'm not. 130 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: Well, here's where you talk about the alpha and the 131 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: big thing for Lebron was opting into that year. Okay, 132 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: because Lebron is never going to unless he can control 133 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 1: the narrative. He's never going to take less money or 134 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: diminish his stature at all, which is why I can't 135 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: believe he's back with the Lakers. But picking up that option, 136 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: that was kind of a not a panic move, but 137 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: just we got to make a really tough decision very early. 138 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: And the best thing for Lebron would have been if 139 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: he didn't feel things going right with the Lakers, I'm 140 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: gonna opt out and I'm gonna see what's out there, 141 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: because if it's not fifty million, and it's hey, I 142 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: can go and go here and take less money. Then 143 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: a team like Cleveland coming off of the way they 144 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: ended the season, Hey, okay, we can get into the 145 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: Lebron James business for actually can actually look at it. 146 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: It's less money to look at it. But the unknown 147 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,559 Speaker 1: for Lebron didn't weigh as much for him as the well, 148 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: no matter what happens here, I'm getting fifty million dollars, 149 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: I'll get fifty million dollars, and who knows where the 150 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: future is gonna go. But I gotta make this decision now. 151 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: So the right decision for in basketball wise, would have 152 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: been to opt out. Maybe he stays with the Lakers, 153 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't, maybe he's with Cleveland, maybe he's with 154 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: the Knicks, whatever it is. But he also has set 155 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: up his business in Los Angeles. He set up This 156 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: is where his family has moved here the last few years. 157 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: You know, this where he's gonna want to be when 158 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: he's all said and done with whatever investments and adventures 159 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: and he has going on once he's done playing basketball. 160 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: So that decision was was the one that set this 161 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: course in this course of action and motion, because once 162 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: you opt in, okay, now you're hamstrung with what's gonna 163 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: do Now? The team could be able to say, hey, 164 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: we'll take you for fifty one million dollars. Are we 165 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: gonna be able to say, hey, we're gonna give up 166 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: pieces for you. No, but a Lebron James for free 167 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: trading wise and for less money. Yeah, there would have 168 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: been some teams in on that, but that was an 169 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: unknown for him at that point. And no matter what, Okay, 170 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: what do I pick if I'm Lebron? Do I pick 171 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: that unknown even though it's better for me basketball wise? 172 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: Or do I take the fifty one million dollars and 173 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: stay here and then see what happens and see if 174 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: things can we kick that can down the road and 175 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: then we get to it at a different day. So 176 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: Lebron opting in there, Hey, I'll kick the can down 177 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: the road. Well, guess what, we're down the road. We 178 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: can't kick the can anymore. The season's here, and now 179 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: things are awkward and both sides hate each other. And 180 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: now again day one of training camp, it's already awkward. 181 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, but no matter where you go, you're not gonna 182 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 3: be the guy at this point, and you continue the 183 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 3: I'm not quite the Shacktice yet, but I'm on my 184 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 3: vagabond tour like I'm Shagne. 185 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: But here's where he controls the narrative, and that I'm 186 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: the missing piece. If Lebron goes to the Knicks and 187 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: they win the title, if Lebron goes to the Calves 188 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: and they win the title. If Lebron goes to the 189 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,839 Speaker 1: Mavericks and then where it is he's the missing piece, 190 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: they win because of him. I'm coming here, and no, 191 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: I may not be Donovan Mitchell. I might not be 192 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson. You know, I might not be Will Kyrie 193 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: is out. I might not. But but I go to 194 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: one of these teams and we win. I am the difference. 195 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: Now. 196 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: It's a it's a risk for him because if he 197 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: goes someplace and they don't play, well, well, guess what, Lebron, 198 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 1: You're not that guy anymore. Where I can finish with 199 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: the Lakers. I won the title here and and my 200 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: legacy is not going to take a hit of any 201 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: kind again. It's it's it's risky stuff. And Lebron is 202 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: picking the sure things all the way along. My sure 203 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: thing is opting in for fifty one million here. I 204 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: am now that maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. But 205 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: basketball wise, for him, and the guy looks like he's 206 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 1: got at least two or three good years. He hasn't. 207 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: He hasn't fallen off that and he's still a top 208 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: fifteen player in the league. But you got to take 209 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: a chance at some point and take a risk, and 210 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: Lebron is not at that risk point in his career 211 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: where Okay, I'm gonna do this and see if it 212 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: works out. But if he went someplace else, he could 213 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: easily present it as I'm the reason. If he went 214 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: to the Knicks and they won, Yeah, jaylen Brunt is great, 215 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: but we needed Lebron to come to win. If he 216 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: goes back to Cleveland, he he won again with Cleveland. Hey, 217 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: it's great for Mitchell no Alston on the dais at 218 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: the end, they'll all have Lebron on their shoulders. They'd 219 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: all be so excited that they won because of Lebron James. 220 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: So he could control that narrative at least where I'm 221 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: the reason they won if he went somewhere to win. 222 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: But that's a big if for Lebron to say, Yeah, 223 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: I could throw my legacy into into flux because of it. 224 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: But if he goes to New York and then they lose, 225 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: can they make the Dallas runts and carry them as 226 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: far as Matthew dela Vedova and those other players he 227 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: could go? Is that where we go? 228 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 3: The other is we got to sync up the abba 229 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 3: take a chance on me with the Lebron's dancing and 230 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 3: basketball playing from today. I mean, I'm glad that glutes 231 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 3: are able to activate so that he's really not injured. 232 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: Well, if you can do the worm, if you can 233 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,199 Speaker 1: do the worm, like I actually, I mean you might 234 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: be sore. 235 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 3: I mean you might need to, you know, bring out 236 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 3: the bombs and saves and whatever. 237 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: To tell you this, because now you're gonna get the 238 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: visual list. Like I taught Zoe how to do the 239 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: worm like three years ago. She wanted. I said, oh, 240 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: I could do the worm. You taught because because and 241 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: here's how it because and I'm sure you did this 242 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: in football. You didn't hit its football right, which is 243 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: the worm? Right? You get them chopping, right, get yours chopping, 244 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: and then you dive to the ground with your hands 245 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: and then the rest of your body goes to the ground. 246 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: So I taught, hey, this is how you go to 247 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: the ground and do it and then you just and 248 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: then she's like, oh, okay, I get it. So I 249 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: showed her like the first part and how to do it, 250 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: and that's just the worm really well, and I'm like, yeah, 251 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: I touched up to the worm. Okay, that's great, but 252 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: you need. 253 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 3: Your glutes for the worm. What circumstances in your normal 254 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 3: day to day life you need to do the worm? 255 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 3: She was, well, well, I mean there's that, and so 256 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 3: I'm drinking tequila and this greasy spoon. 257 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: No, she wanted to do it for a performance performance, 258 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: as I said, Okay, I'll teach you how to do the 259 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: worm because I could do it because I remember from football, Yeah, 260 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: the hit. I can do the worm. You can absolutely not. 261 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: I can absolutely I can do the worm. I can 262 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: do the worm. No you can't. Yeah, I can. He's 263 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: going to take the physical challenge. Yeah, I could do 264 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: the worm. I mean I'm going to warm up to 265 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: do it. I'm not going to do it right now 266 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 1: at ten fifteen at night, after you know, drinking diet coke. 267 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: But next couple of days I'll show you I do 268 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: the worm. The diet coke. The thing. Well, I'm kind 269 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: of fin I feel kind of full right now, uploaded 270 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: like I can't just you know, that's the thing. My dad. 271 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: You know, my dad's in his late seventies now, and 272 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 1: you know he's just he's having a rough night tonight. 273 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: He is, well, yeah, my dad, my dad in the 274 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: state of Ohio or having rough nights, not a great 275 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 1: night for Ohio. Not great, Bob. But like my dad, 276 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: you know, he was in Vietnam. He did a lot 277 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: of things like he needs when he gets up every day, 278 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: like he's got arthritis and all this stuff. And the 279 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: doctors tells him, hey, you know, you take your medication 280 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: and stretch, like they tell him stretch before he goes out, 281 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: and I go, He'll come over his I go, how 282 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm not great today? On my shoulders? 283 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 1: By go did you did you stretch? Hees, nah, no, 284 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: I didn't. I go, Dad, the doctor tells you got 285 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: you take your meds right, He goes, yeah, yeah, of course. 286 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: I go, why don't you stretch you? I like to 287 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: get up and go. I go, yeah, I know this, 288 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: but the doctor said, if you stretch, you'll have a 289 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: better day, Like you're not gonna be a sord but 290 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: take ten minutes to stretch in the morning. People like 291 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: to be pissed off. Okay, now I just want to 292 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: get up and go. I go, Dad, I get it. 293 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: But this is the thing. You're in your late seventies. 294 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: All they're saying is stretching. They're not saying, hey, go 295 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: through this all kinds of By the way, that's a 296 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: whole other thing going back to your football analogy. You know, 297 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: tell me you got to do it an American ninja 298 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: warrior course, Like they just saying, just stretch for ten minutes. 299 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 3: But that's the other thing, going back to your your 300 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 3: football days. How much stretching did you guys do to 301 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 3: start a practice? Oh, we stretch for like we slesch 302 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 3: for like fifteen minutes. Yeah, we got we had behind 303 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 3: this five and a half minutes. 304 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: No, no, no, we stretched so because we did leg razors 305 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: and arm raiser, which were awful. We did all kains. 306 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 3: They couldn't race through ours fast enough to just get 307 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 3: to the hitting and hitting us in the head with 308 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 3: whistles and everything else. 309 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: What hurts your dad more his bones? Are the Yankees tonight? Oh? 310 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: The Yankees? Easy? My dad would say, I could sit 311 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: on the couch and feel fine, but I still gotta 312 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 1: watch that. But it hurts your soul. Yeah yeah, but 313 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: that's I mean, like, I'm not gonna just try to 314 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: do the worm right now, because I'll screw it up. 315 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: I'll do something on my wrist. And do it. No, 316 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: I can do the worm. I'll need to stretch you. 317 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: I can do the worm. Trust me, I could do 318 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: the worm. I could do the worm. I've taken physical 319 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: challenges here many times over the last eleven years. I've 320 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: taken many physical challenges. I'll think, well, I'll do them. Yeah, 321 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: but I was still okay at the end. You know what, 322 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: though earlier, you're yesterday. 323 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 3: These Strauss batting helmets, it's the closest I'm ever gonna 324 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 3: come to be and show Tony. 325 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, we got the Straus batting helmets. Pretty cool. Yeah, 326 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: you guys put those on? Yeah? Uh yeah. I had 327 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: a jam at OxT seven and a quarter. I'm like, oh, 328 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: my head is a little bigger than whose head's been 329 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: in that? Right? Whose heads have been in those? You 330 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: put it on? 331 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's cackuling like a madman. 332 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: We've really hit another. Oh Toni's head. No, Tony's head 333 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: has been inside. Oh it's way dirtier than that. Oh 334 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: wow wow, okay, wow, I cleaned mine, cleaned yours. It's 335 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: not yours. They're here for whatever. 336 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 3: Well, the helmet i'd put on my head, okay, I 337 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 3: cleaned it. 338 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: Okay, I put it on. All right, all right, very good. 339 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: Exit up by now it's got exit swollen Dome. The 340 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike carbon I 341 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: love that it's already so awkward with Lebron and the Lakers, 342 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: and it's just going to continue to be awkward as 343 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: the season goes. At Popcorn, that's awesome. October what twenty thirteen? 344 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: Se you that story here? Coming up next, we get 345 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: back into two big hot takes coming off at Day 346 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: one of the MLB Playoffs. Get you ready for Day 347 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: two Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio, matts Yo. 348 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 349 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 350 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Hey, 351 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 2: this is Jason McIntyre. 352 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 4: Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight Fire 353 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 4: with Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sports pod pushing 354 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 4: the same tired narratives down your throat every day. 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Yeah, 361 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: day one of the MLB Playoffs in the books, so 362 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: much great drama, and first of all, I want to 363 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: say this to have an appreciation moment, just for a second. 364 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: Most of the games I mean, obviously not the Dodger 365 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: Reds game, most of the games today, and this is 366 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: why I love the early rounds of the baseball playoffs 367 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: when they played during the day like this. It's this 368 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: is what the playoffs were like when you and I 369 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: were growing up as kids, where they played the ALCS 370 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 1: the NLCS. One game was always right after school, and 371 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: it was a day game, and the crowd was always 372 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 1: nervous and sitting on their hands. It wasn't always as 373 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: loud as you expected me because it was it was 374 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: such a Every pitch was was fraught with tension, and 375 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: every game was low scoring, and it was an error 376 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: or a single and a stolen base that would be 377 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: the difference. And that was every game today, right. 378 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 3: The only thing different from my childhood is the Cubs 379 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 3: were active in the playoffs. 380 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: Yeah right, but like that was every game today. That 381 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: was Tigers, Guardians, It was every game was a was 382 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: a pitcher's duel, and every base was was absolute gold. 383 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: If you got to second base with one out, oh 384 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: this is gonna be it. And and again the amount 385 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: of tension that you can see in the park, and 386 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't just everybody going nuts to start the game. 387 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: It really was a great throwback. It was like what 388 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: the playoffs were like in the late seventies early eighties 389 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: when I remember watching coming home from school. The playoffs 390 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 1: are starting and it was cold, and everybody was bundled 391 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: up and no one could really loosely. You needed innings 392 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: for the crowd to loosen up because they weren't getting 393 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: a lot of hits, not a lot of runs. That 394 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: was every game up until the night game with the 395 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: Dodgers night when they just started hitting home runs off 396 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: of Hunter Green. It never stopped. 397 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, just the celebration of pitching. Right. I'm the lunatic 398 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 3: that loves a low scoring defensive battle in football. Sure 399 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 3: I love big touchdown plays and runs or whatever, but 400 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 3: same thing with baseball. 401 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: We all love home runs. 402 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 3: They had ad campaigns, and we go back to the 403 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 3: what do we call it these days, the ped era? 404 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: Sure, the Mitchell Report era. Yeah, whatever you want to 405 00:18:59,320 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: do with that. 406 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 3: And we watched the home runs fly out, and then 407 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 3: everybody started complaining about It's like, no, we were duped. 408 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: Not me celebrate them all. It's all entertainment. 409 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 3: But I always love to watch a workhorse pitcher go 410 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 3: go after it and get deep into games six, seventh, 411 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 3: eighth innings. 412 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:17,719 Speaker 1: And we got that today. 413 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 3: Schoobl did it today, Crochet Williams gage is sixty our 414 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 3: six innings and then you got sixty was how many 415 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 3: it pitches the Dodgers, Yes, the Dodgers. 416 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: Bullen had in the eighth in it's the fifty nine 417 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: in the in the eighth. 418 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, But also you know, you look at Max Freed, 419 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,719 Speaker 3: goes six and six and a third, six and two 420 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 3: thirds before he comes out, but he gives you one 421 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 3: hundred pitches and then they make the decision and you 422 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 3: go from there. But all of that to say in 423 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 3: the regular season, like, all right, are we gonna get 424 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 3: the guy? I mean, you got the lineup coming up 425 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 3: for the third time he's out right, Like no, now 426 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 3: it's that's our e's get back out there. If you 427 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 3: got anything left, you get to go and continue your effort. 428 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 3: Like Blake SNeW would have been fun to watch the fight. Right, 429 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 3: they've got a huge lead if Dave Roberts had tried. 430 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: To go to him an inning earlier. 431 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 3: He goes seven innings, but say after six, David's like, 432 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 3: you're done for the night, right. 433 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: Blake, Blake gives him them tumbo fingerwag No, no, no, 434 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: send Vesia back to the bullpen. I'm staying in. But 435 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: that's the that's the big thing. You want a couple 436 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: of big hot takes on the playoffs. Here, this is 437 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: why I said, what did you know about the playoffs? 438 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: Though my team was just in the playoffs last year, 439 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 1: we have no playoffs cast. That's that's what you're rusty, 440 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: is that I said last week Blake Snell needs to 441 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: pitch more than any other Dodger pitcher in the playoff. 442 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,479 Speaker 1: But that I mean he needs to start game one. 443 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: He needs to come back whenever they need him. He's 444 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: the guy, right because Blake Snell's career and again once 445 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: he did he put a he put a stamp on 446 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: it with telling Dave Roberts. No, I'm staying in to 447 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: finish this game. I got it. I'm staying in. He's 448 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: on a Madison Bumgarner like path with his career. Right, 449 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: two lefty pitchers, both dominant. Blake Snell a little bit 450 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: more regular season dominant than Madison Bumgarner. Madison Bumgarner clearly 451 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: much more playoff dominant. Right, but you watch Bumgarner, who 452 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: during his career was pretty good in the regular season, right, 453 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: you know, there's his five six year run sixteen to nine. 454 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: ERA was pretty good. Tough dude, always would tell people, 455 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: don't peacock around the base as you go you go. 456 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: A bit of a jerk on the mound, but a 457 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: personality Blake Snell also personality on the mound, right, not 458 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: not afraid to question what's going on, not afraid to 459 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: give his opinion. And a little bit more regular season success, 460 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 1: but also a really good amount of posting success so 461 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: far as ERA in his playoffs is in the low threes, 462 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: which is great. Right, There's not many guys you could say, oh, 463 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: Clayton Kersher needed to be better in there. No, there's 464 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 1: not many guys outside of Bumgarner who you can give 465 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: the ball to in the last fifteen to twenty years, 466 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: you could say, yeah, he's shutting down and winning every game. 467 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: There's nobody else outside of Bumgarner. That's kind of where 468 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: Snell is going. If he stays on the Dodgers and 469 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 1: he becomes a playoff pitcher every year, He's already got 470 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: a couple of cy youngs. He's on that path because 471 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: we've seen him pitch great in the playoffs before the 472 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: legend of him in the twenty twenty World Series where 473 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: Kevin Cash asides him taking Blake Snell out and the 474 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: Dodgers did backflips because the knew they were gonna win 475 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: the game. Oh, we're so glad we got that guy 476 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: out of the game. Yeah, you go back to that 477 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: Game five was fantastic and he took him out of 478 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: the game. I mean, what are you doing. It's not 479 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: like he had a lot of stress of the season 480 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: on him too, because it was a COVID year. Right, 481 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: it's COVID. They didn't start playing until you know, the 482 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: end of August. Right, My parents are still pissed about that, 483 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: and if they're adopted. Spot two hits allowed, one air 484 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: and run, nine strikeouts, zero walks, and got pulled. If 485 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: he stays with the Dodgers, he is on that Bumgarner 486 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: path of being the next great postseason pitch. 487 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 2: Right. 488 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: You saw him tonight into the seventh inning for the 489 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: first time with the Dodgers as dominant as they could be. 490 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: He left the game. The Dodger bullpen comes, it almost 491 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,919 Speaker 1: gives up a ten to two lead. Right, he was 492 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: as good as advertised. He's the guy. He's got that attitude, 493 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: he's got that desire for the ball. Yamamoto's terrific, right, 494 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: Otani is Otani. These guys are great. But Snell's got 495 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: that when the stakes are higher, I have that ability 496 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: to raise my game. We saw it from Bumgarner all 497 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: the way through his career, right, winning every other year 498 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: with the with the Giants in the in the teams, 499 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: and I see that same kind of path for Blake Snell. 500 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: He's gonna be the net he could be the next 501 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 1: modern day Bumgarner, but staying with a team that's really 502 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: good in the playoffs, that can win, because look, Bumgarner 503 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: was with that team with the Giants every other year. 504 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: They were great, right when they won the World Series, 505 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: and and you know his legend coming out in relief, 506 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: pitching the last seven innings on like what four hours 507 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: rest to win the World Series over the Royals. Like 508 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: this is the kind of path that that that Blake 509 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: Snell is on. He needs a pitch game one, needs 510 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: to pitch all game ones come out of relief when 511 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 1: they need to. Anytime you give him the baseball, he's 512 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: that guy. 513 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 4: Well. 514 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,719 Speaker 3: The beauty of it also is look finishes the regular 515 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 3: season five and four two three five ERA, but only 516 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 3: had to. He made eleven appearances in the regular season, 517 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 3: which means he's now just ramping up to full season shape, 518 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 3: right as opposed to having pitched thirty two times or 519 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 3: twenty seven times or whatever constitutes a full workload in 520 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 3: today's Major League baseball with the extra man in the rotation, 521 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 3: days off, bullpen games, the openers and all that other stuff. 522 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 3: He only pitched the what sixty one innings in the 523 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 3: regular season, so right now just rounding into shape. And 524 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 3: you've seen the last four appearances, including his seven innings tonight, 525 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 3: how dominant he's been. How much that translates. And we've 526 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 3: talked about him a lot over the last couple of years. 527 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 3: The greatness when he was with Tampa the Cy Young 528 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 3: Award winning seasons, the question of what you do with 529 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 3: a contract with him, Dodgers went all in and so 530 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 3: for year one. Now this is where he makes his 531 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 3: money and proves that it was a worthwhile investment. First 532 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 3: step in many for this postseason, he gets the w Now. 533 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 3: The other big take from today is you saw on 534 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 3: display the most dangerous team in the playoffs and a 535 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 3: team that nobody wants to play. Dodgers, Red Sox, red Sox. Now, no, 536 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 3: the Yankees don't want to play the Red Sox. You 537 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 3: saw the Tigers win today and show you why they're 538 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 3: the most dangerous team and nobody wants to play them. Yes, 539 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 3: they're coming off a regular season in which for a 540 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,239 Speaker 3: while they were the best team in baseball and then 541 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 3: they hit the skids. 542 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: That sounds familiar. Yeah, the Mets were the best team, 543 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: I had the best record, They hit the skids. Never 544 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: got it back. At least the Tigers got it back 545 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: a little bit. They also needed the Astros to completely 546 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: collapse at the end, which they didn't do with which 547 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: they did, and so they get in the playoffs. Sometimes 548 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: it's just as turning the page on the regular season, 549 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: sometimes as simple as momentum is your next day starting pitcher, 550 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: which is when it's schooball, Hey, he was the best 551 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: pitcher in baseball. It's gonna work struck out fourteen today, 552 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: it's throwing one hundred miles an hour in the seventh inning. Right, 553 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 1: And again I go back to he emptied the tank 554 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: in what he thought was his last inning because he knew, okay, 555 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: this is it for me. And then they said, hey, 556 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: we need you one more, and he, of course, I'll 557 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: go one more. Right, That's what I love at Full 558 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: Ocean's eleven. If we need more, one more, I'll go. 559 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: But the Tigers, I'm not that surprised at their collapse 560 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: during the season because this is not a This is 561 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: not a team that's built to withstand everything. This is 562 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,120 Speaker 1: not a team that's too big to fail. It's not like, hey, 563 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: they got sluggers all the way up and down the lineup. 564 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,679 Speaker 1: All their starting pitching is great, their bullpen is for 565 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: not They're not the Dodgers. They are built for the playoffs, 566 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: which is a team that can hit home runs when 567 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: they have to, but can play small ball. They have 568 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 1: an a starting pitcher, their defense is good enough, their 569 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: metrics are good enough. They're a top half of the team, 570 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: a league team. They're not going to cost themselves like 571 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: teams like the Mets do. But that's a team that's 572 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: built for the playoffs, for series, for short series, for 573 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: long series. You have an ACE. You have guys who 574 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: can play small ball, clutch hits. Tigers at the top 575 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: of all of these lists. This is not something that 576 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: always shows itself during the regular season, because it's about 577 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: six days a week, seven days a week, playing and 578 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: repeating every day. You can't do it. But during the playoffs, 579 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: when you show that, yeah, this is how we play, 580 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: that's a team you don't want to play. We saw 581 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: it last year. They're complete and total salary for the 582 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: team and the playoffs in the first round was like 583 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: not even a million dollars sure, Like I mean, Hobvey Bias, 584 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: who was sitting out, was making more money than the 585 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: entire twenty six members of the Tigers. Like, this is 586 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,479 Speaker 1: a team that's just thrown out there. Hey, do what 587 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: you can. But in the playoffs, all of these things 588 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: you got an ACE boom. Great, you have a team 589 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: that can get clutch hits, yes, hit home runs, yes, 590 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,479 Speaker 1: can you play small and that was every run they 591 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: were able to manufacture. They're playing small Did they play 592 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: good defense? Yes? Could the Guardians play good defense no? 593 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: Did they play small ball node? Did they hit home runs? 594 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 3: No? 595 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,479 Speaker 1: As good as the Guardians have been, the Tigers are 596 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: much a much team, much more suited for the playoffs, 597 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: which is why they're the most That's one team I 598 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: don't want to play of anyone because Wow, suddenly every 599 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: run is worth gold and they're pitching has got you 600 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: and they're making the right decisions. It's so incredibly frustrating. 601 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: Do not want to play them? Yeah? 602 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 3: What's curious is you got Riley Green at one hundred 603 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 3: and eleven RBI. They didn't have another guy over eighty 604 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 3: A lot of guys in the fifties and sixties. And 605 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 3: they also don't steal bases, no, no, And defensively they 606 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 3: tried to give it away in the ninth, but they 607 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 3: closed the door. 608 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: That's how they do it. Telling you do not want 609 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: to play the Tigers? They have it exit out about 610 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: at Fresca Exit swalling down the Jason Smith Show with 611 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: my best friend Mike Harmon Time not to find out 612 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: what's trending in the wide world of Sports. So someone 613 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: who would called the Tarik school Ball of fire sports radio, 614 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: crafty southball. Every time we tell him we need you 615 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: for one more, he gives us one more. It's Steve Disager, 616 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: an actual compliment here. 617 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 5: I want to tell you that one not entirely accurate, 618 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 5: but okay, by the way, with one ca after another, 619 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 5: in this day one of the postseason, first day of 620 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 5: the playoffs, we had seventy total innings pitched, ninety two strikeouts. 621 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 5: That's a strikeout rate of almost twelve k's per nine innings, 622 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 5: the most by Major league pitchers on any single day 623 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 5: that has at least four games in the modern era, 624 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 5: regular or postseason. 625 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: Did the Rockies play in every game today? Is that 626 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: what happened? No, but Cleveland did. 627 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 3: It's just stay of Major League baseball, right, We've been 628 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 3: celebrating those eight guys with a three hundred batting average. 629 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 630 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 5: One in the NL. Cleveland's offense four for thirty fifteen strikeouts, 631 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 5: barely got the ball out of the infield. The Guardians 632 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 5: offense regular season was near the bottom and run scored 633 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 5: to one Detroit the final at Cleveland, scoring two unearned draw. 634 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 5: The losing pitcher, Gavin Williams six plus innings, eight strikeouts, 635 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 5: attendance just twenty six thousand. In Cleveland, trek scouob will 636 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 5: to win with fourteen k's in his seven and two thirds. 637 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 5: Garrett Crochet a Boston seven and two thirds, eleven strikeouts, 638 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 5: no walks in a three to one victory over the 639 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 5: Yankees in New York. Crochet threw one hundred and seventeen pitches. 640 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 5: He retired seventeen straight batters after giving up an early 641 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 5: home run. And this is the Yankee team that was 642 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 5: number one in the majors this year in homer's, RBI's, 643 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 5: in walks, in run scored. Yankees had bases loaded, no 644 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 5: out's bottom of the ninth against Eraaldus Chapman, and then 645 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 5: Chapman got a strikeout, flyout and strikeout to end the game. 646 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 5: Luke Weaver the losing reliever for the Yankees, ruining a 647 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 5: great start for Max Freed, who went six and a 648 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 5: third scoreless about one hundred pitches, left with a one 649 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 5: nothing lead but got no decision. Boston third baseman Alex 650 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 5: Bregman did play after illness over the weekend. He had 651 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 5: two hits, a walk in RBI double Red Sox took 652 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 5: the lead in the seventh on a two run pinch single. 653 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 5: Boston pitcher Lucas Giolito is expected to miss the postseason 654 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 5: with his elbow problems. In the National League openers are 655 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 5: the best of three wildcard series. Cubs beat the Padres 656 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 5: three to one. The loss to Nick Pavetta despite his 657 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 5: nine strikeouts in five innings. Cubs hit back to back 658 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 5: homers in the fifth. Padre offense got back to back 659 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 5: doubles in the second inning, but then went two for 660 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 5: twenty five the rest of the game. The Dodgers tonight 661 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 5: held on for a ten to five victory over Cincinnati. 662 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 5: La hit five home runs, including a leadoff shot from 663 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 5: Shoheo Tani. He later hit a two run homer in 664 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 5: the sixth. This is against a Reds team that had 665 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 5: trailed the Mets by six games about a month ago, 666 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 5: wound up getting the last wild card spot. Anyway, had 667 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 5: won eight of eleven coming in. 668 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: We don't need to know the Reds history. They're playing 669 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: the game they lost. That's all we need to know. Okay, 670 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: we don't need an all thing about where they came from. 671 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: We don't need a prequel on the Reds. They won. 672 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: They're here. 673 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 5: Okay, that's all, but starter Hunter Green, who's from LA, 674 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 5: gave up three homers in three innings. He'd only had 675 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 5: one bad start like this since April, and it occurred 676 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium. Blake'snell the winning pitcher seven innings, nine strikeouts, 677 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 5: and then the bullpen had the near sixty pitch inning 678 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 5: in the top of the eighth, allowing three, so it 679 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 5: made it interesting. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, LA starter for Game two. 680 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 5: By the way, Pitcher Roki Sasaki is on the Dodger 681 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 5: roster this week. Clayton Kershaw is not, but would be 682 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 5: next round if the team advances to Philadelphia. Dodger catcher 683 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 5: Will Smith is on the roster. Took BP yesterday after 684 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 5: the broken hand, did not play tonight. They have three 685 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 5: catchers on the roster, but no Michael Confordo. The outfielder 686 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,959 Speaker 5: is not. They kept pitcher Tanner Scott and did not 687 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 5: bring him in in a blowout game tonight. They did 688 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 5: not put lefty Anthony Bonda on the roster. 689 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: I think they also had Key Hernandez warming up in 690 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: the bullpen in the ninth inning. 691 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 5: Is it more of a realistic guy to bring Yeah, yeah, yah, 692 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 5: yeah eight two yeah. 693 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: I think you did Scott just to give Tanner Scott 694 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: a you know, the message, like you know when teams 695 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: get alrighty and a lefty up in the bullpen, like 696 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: you know, Hey, Tanner, Scott the lefty, Carnandez the righty. 697 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 5: You know, if they were really interested in a message, 698 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 5: they could have left him off the roster. 699 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: I think they had. 700 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 5: Three different shots to. 701 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: Actually bring him in. 702 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 5: Edwin Diaz, right, oh, you have played the Trump international 703 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 5: call in Cancun, though in the WNBA Semifinals ended with overtime. 704 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 5: In Game five of the best of five at Las Vegas, 705 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 5: the Aces beat Indiana one oh seven ninety eight Asia 706 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 5: Wilson thirty five points Vegas against Phoenix in the WNBA 707 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 5: Finals that opened Friday and Sunday, opposite the baseball playoffs 708 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 5: and the NFL great scheduling. The ed WNBA's worst team, Dallas, 709 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 5: fired its coach Chris Kochlanis. In the NBA, Golden State 710 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,479 Speaker 5: re signed forward Jonathan Kaminga, the Warriors sign guard Seth Curry. 711 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 5: Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill had surgery on his dislocated 712 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 5: knee and the torn ligaments. The Ravens Wednesday are due 713 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 5: to give an update on quarterback Lamar Jackson's hamstring injury. 714 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 5: He could miss two to three weeks, according to The 715 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 5: Baltimore Son Back to You. 716 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve l. The Jason Smith's Show with My 717 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: best friend Mike Carbon. Okay, so day one of the 718 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:09,240 Speaker 1: MLB Playoffs in the books, Day two tomorrow. What person 719 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:17,280 Speaker 1: has the most at stake steak in the playoffs? Tomorrow? 720 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. Maybe we give you that answer coming up 721 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: next right here. The answer could be in his last 722 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,919 Speaker 1: game with his team. Oh boy, depending on how tomorrow goes, 723 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: it can't be Pete Alonzo. Who is it? We'll tell 724 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 1: you next right here, Jason and Mike. 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