WEBVTT - Hour 3 – Choosing a Final Show Date, Tom Verducci 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:04.440 Sports Radio. 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.360 Tom Berducci will join us. He was on the call 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.240 that would be the Fox presentation of the World Series, 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.040 and he'll join us. Coming up here shortly. Best and 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.320 Worst of the weekend, as we always do every Monday. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.840 What you saw that you like didn't like? Operator Tyler 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.240 sitting by eight seven seven three DP show. We've been 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.360 talking so much baseball. I asked Dylan if he could 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.880 cook up some hot dogs, and then all of a sudden, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.560 like you know, you're going to have an end of 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.440 the season hot dog, and I thought, okay, ten thirty 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.840 in the morning, that's not too early. All of a sudden, 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.720 Seaton walks out because you can't miss the smell of 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.040 hot dogs here in the man cave seat and goes okay. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.199 I said, hey, we can throw a couple on there. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.839 All of a sudden, I turn around. Seaton's got a 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:52.040 hot dog, don't mind if I do. Yeah, can't pass 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.960 that up. All right, So we'll have a pull question 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.360 for the final hour of the program. We've done a 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.480 recap with college football, the NFL. The Commanders will be 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.880 without Jayden Daniels. I'm going to guess for the rest 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.399 of the year with a dislocated elbow, non throwing. But 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.800 still I can't imagine a scenario where they would be 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.600 bringing him back. I didn't think he should have been 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.959 in the game at thirty eight to seven. And I 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.280 don't like this. Hey, he's kind of working back getting 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.039 some reps. You've been banged up. I don't want you 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.919 coming back in a game we can't win just because 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.360 you want to get reps. You want to get reps, 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.440 get reps in practice. Because Seattle's defense knew that he 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.440 was going to pass and they were going after him, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.440 and I didn't like it at all. Now he's out 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.720 for the rest of the year. It looks like we 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.800 say good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. That's our 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.399 streaming partner, NBA on NBC and Peacock Monday nights, and 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.760 then you also have Tuesdays in primetime. It's Coast to 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:54.440 Coast Tuesday on NBC and Peacock. Tom Berducci, Sports illustrated 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.240 senior baseball writer, New York Times bestselling author, co host 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.360 of the Book of Joe podcasts with Joe Madden, did 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.320 a great job at the World Series. Tom if I said, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.360 what do you think is going to happen in game seven? 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.639 Before Game seven unfolded, you would have said. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:16.280 What, I liked Toronto going into that game because they 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.200 were a home But I did not expect that, yes, 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.359 ronobe Yamamoto was going to pitch in that game at all. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:24.120 I really didn't. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.399 It wasn't on my Bengo card that after pitching Game 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:28.959 six he'd come back the next day. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:30.280 That was a difference maker. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.040 What do you think was the turning point in the game. 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.880 Well, the home run by Migi Rojas, right, I mean, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.240 the Jays are two outs away from the first World 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.720 Series in thirty two years. You got your closer on 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.400 the mound. It's a three to two count, number nine hitter. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.000 I understand you can't walk him because Otani is on deck. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.920 He's the go ahead run, right, so you have to 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.160 throw a strike. What I didn't like was throwing a slider. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.079 When you have to throw a strike, that's a strike 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.160 to strike pitch. I'd rather just throw a fastball challenge him, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.040 and it was a hanger. I mean, it's a home 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.120 run that you didn't see coming, kind of like that 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.240 Roger Davis home run in sixteen. This happened to be 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.040 two outs from the end of the game, so that 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.520 was the turning point. And after that, I just thought 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.760 the air came out of the building. It was gonna 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.600 be tough to beat the Dodgers at that point, giving 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.519 up such a renewed life right there. But listen, that 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.040 was a stunning as stunning of a home run as 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:28.400 I've seen in the World Series. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.519 Mickey Rojas, you bring up a great point because you 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.840 got Otani on deck and you're just kind of thinking, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.040 I just got to get through this. He's the ninth hitter. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.240 Let me just get through this, so I don't have 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.360 to worry, you know, about Otani with anybody on and 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.760 I mean, there were so many little moments here, but 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.240 that's what makes up these great games. It's small moments 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.640 that can lead to big moments as well. And that's 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.119 what was fascinating about this is both teams had those moments. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:03:59.880 You either capitalized or. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.040 You totally dan. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.720 I think that's what made this series and especially this 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.880 game stand apart. I've been at a lot of great games, obviously, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.200 but there you can go back, like watching a great movie, right, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.480 you go back and watch it a second, third, fourth time, 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.400 It never gets old because you go back and you 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.919 rEFInd something like, oh, I forgot about that point or 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.840 that line in this movie. How about Andy Piez going 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.080 into the game, Dan, I'm sitting there next to the 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.320 Dodgers dugout. Andy Piez was as involved in the game 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.839 as I was. He's sitting there with his hoodie on, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.239 just watching the game, and all of a sudden, Danny Leeman, 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.640 the bench coach, runs down there and says, get in there. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.000 This is Bassis loaded ninth I think. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.920 And he just ripped off his hoodie, hadn't warned up 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.480 at all, runs out the center field and two batters later, 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.880 there he is playing Superman, jumping over Keik Hernandez to 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.760 literally save the game. Right, that looked, for all intents 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.599 and purposes like Ernie Clement was gonna be the World 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.479 Series MVP, the Jays were gonna be World champions, and 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.080 he fl eyes out of nowhere. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:02.679 I mean he must have ran more than one hundred 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:03.680 feet to get that ball. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.159 That was one of the great World Series catches of 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.760 all time because of what was on the line. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.200 But was it Okay, we know the result, but was 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.919 it a smart play by him? In the moment. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:17.880 You know, they tell you it's the center fielder. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.520 Go get what you can get, right, So I think 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.240 it was in the moment because he was fearless going 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.440 after that ball. I'm not sure that KEYK would have 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.360 caught it over the shoulder with his face about five 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.680 feet from the wall at that point, So I think 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.520 it was a play that had to be made. There 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.520 was a risk obviously they collide and the ball falls. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:38.839 I mean, what a way that would have been to 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.640 loser World Series. But I love the aggressiveness from that kid. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.680 He didn't hit it all in the postseason. He's got 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.000 to play. He'll remember forever. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.200 Yeah, I agree with you centerfield. You have control, you 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.120 have license to go after because of the angle. And 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.880 that's why I thought, okay, you may bowl over your teammate, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.880 but you have a better angle than he and he 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.880 ended up holding on to it. One thing that I 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.039 thought was so small, Well, maybe it wasn't touched on 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.120 as much that you have that you know, I kft, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.839 he's not off third base, Tom and on contact I'm 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.359 going I just didn't know why he didn't have a 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.880 little bit more of a lead, knowing if it's a 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.560 ground ball, you're going, and I thought that it became 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.960 it shouldn't have been close at home. I thought that 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.560 he would have been down the line a little bit. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.960 Yeah, it's a great point, and in real time I 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.880 had the same reaction. But looking at it again, and 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.200 a lot of teams teach this in that situation, shorter 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.800 lead at third because the worst thing that can happen 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.080 is what a line drive and you get doubled up 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.080 and the game's over. So there's more of the emphasis 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.640 on a better secondary than getting the longer primary lead 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.040 at third base. He's a smart baseball player. I am 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.640 not going to question him on that. I think he was. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.039 We already saw a line drive. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.840 Monthy in that game. I don't know how he caught. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.840 Other than self defense. You cannot get doubled up at 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.000 third base. I think that's the right way to go. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.000 You can argue he could have been a little more aggressive, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.560 but on this case, I'll air on the side of 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.320 IKF being a smart ball player making the right call. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.840 Was that the greatest game that you've ever been a 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:19.160 part of. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.000 I have a hard time putting it up above Game 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:27.360 seven of twenty sixteen. You know, I still go back 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.720 to that seventeen minute rain delay, that just that pregnant 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:31.640 pause in the game. 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:32.640 You're like, the game. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.239 Is tied in the World Series, and we're gonna stop 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.080 and have a seventeen minute timeout with two teams that 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.680 had won forever. And that was another game, by the way, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.240 that had so many twists and turns. It wasn't just 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.840 the end, it was all the pivot points in the 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.720 course of the game where history was changing minute by minute. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.400 This is right up there, though, because again I think 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.760 there was so much to absorb in this game. Dan, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.560 actually the whole series where I don't know how many 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.720 times you thought this, like the Dodgers are gonna win 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:03.560 the World Series. World Series, right, Yeah, I mean, you 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.080 couldn't have written any better as far as Cliffhangers go. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.160 And Dave Roberts had one of the great late inning 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.120 managerial games in the history of the sport. Everything he 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:21.240 did worked totally, I thought all throughout. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.840 I mean, when you think about Will Smith, you know 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.880 he moved Will Smith up to the two hole because 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.040 the Jays kept walking show hey Otani and Mooky wasn't 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.760 swinging a hot bat and Will Smith was, so I 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.080 think it was Game five he moved will Smith up 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.640 to number two, where he just doesn't hit, but it 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.960 was because he was the hotter bat. He's the one 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.040 who hits the home run, two outs, bases empty in 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.439 the eleventh. Getting Mookie down in the order for Game six, 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.520 he said, I want him in an RBI spot. Maybe 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.640 they'll help him relax his swing for a base hit. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.280 He had the huge two strike, two run, two out hit. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.280 I really won the game for him in six, So 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.120 you're right the defense there, Miggy. I mean just the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.880 idea that you know, he told before Game five. Before 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.760 Game six, he put Miguel Rojas in the game, who 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.840 had had a base hit for a month, literally thirty. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.880 One days since he had a base hit. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.640 Put him in the game because, as he told us, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.520 he's such a glue guy. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.400 I means so much to this team. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.240 I couldn't see going home losing the World Series without 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.840 giving him a chance to play. I had nothing to 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.360 do with the analytics or numbers. It's a look in 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.280 the eye that says, if I'm going down, I'm going 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.959 down with this guy. And not just a home run, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.480 but how about his defensive plays. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:31.760 I mean the pick he made on. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.880 Key K's double play in Game six to end the game. Wow, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.960 that was a great play. And then of course you 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.800 mentioned the play thrown out ikf at the plate, So 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.640 you're right. I mean, Dave Roberts made some you know, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.200 I call them blink moments there and the course of 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.120 a game where you have to make a quick decision, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.319 and it seemed like, if not all of them, most 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.079 of them certainly worked out in his favor. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:53.240 I thought he had a great series. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.480 Tom Berducci, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer Fox Sports on 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.440 MLB Otani's legacy. I don't know. Did he get a 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:03.880 boost here in the last month? 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:06.480 Uh? 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.079 Yeah, I mean greatest game ever, you know, tense strikeout 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.520 game with with three home runs. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.640 Yeah, I mean the eighteen in game nine times on. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.960 Base, the greatest World Series game of all time turned 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:22.520 in by one. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.840 Point on base. That's gonna be tough to be. Two 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.199 home runs, four extra base hits for the first time 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.680 at one hundred and eight years in the World Series. Yeah, 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.560 I mean, and then he goes out and pitches the 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.439 next day seventeen hours later. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.560 Now I thought he was gassed. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:38.800 Dan. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.240 I mean, I really think there's a point where even Otani. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.760 Uh is showing e on the on the on the 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.520 gas tank, but uh, he pitched it as well as 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.360 he could. But I think his legacy Dan is cemented 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.240 again by he's a winning ballplayer. You know, he joins 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.480 the Dodgers and they've won two World Championships since he 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.880 got to pitch in the World Series for the first time. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.200 This was the first time we saw a show. Hey, 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.320 you know, pitching and hitting in a World Series. And 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.920 last year he had the shoulder issue early against the Yankees. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.840 He was certainly compromised there. But yeah, he keeps going 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.080 further and further away from anybody else who ever played 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:19.520 the game. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.199 It's not sacrilegious to say this is. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.920 The best baseball player who has ever played this game, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.920 and he keeps making it more certain. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.240 If Babe Ruth knew that Otani would do this later on, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.040 would Babe have stayed a pitcher and a hitter. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.240 That is a great question, because you just reminded me 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.920 of this Baseball Raiders dinner in New York years ago. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.720 It was after Katseko goes forty to forty and Mickey 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.440 Mantle was at the dinner and it was late in 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.600 the night, so you can imagine how Mickey was keeping 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:56.440 himself hydrated. So after Katziko got the award, Mickey actually 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.920 wanted to go back up to the podium and he said, listen, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.560 if you guys, if I knew you guy makes such 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.640 a big deal out of forty forty, I'd have. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.120 Done it like five times. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.880 But you know, going back to the Babe, you know, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.679 he actually said he really never had two full seasons 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.320 like start to finish of two way play, and he 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.360 actually said after the second one, it's just too hard. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:19.640 You know. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.320 I think his heart's based on what I've read, was 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.560 really into hitting and that's what that was his love 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.200 where I think Show has DNA begins with pitching, and 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.719 baby Bruce said, it's just too hard physically to keep up. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.839 I want to hit, and you know, I don't want 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.240 to feel, you know, sore, armed or whatever play in 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.120 the outfield because there was no DH so I don't 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.000 think the Babe would do it. The question is how 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.560 long can show Hey do this right? And watching the 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.280 physical wear and tear on him, especially after that eighteen 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.199 in the game, Dan, I started to think we better 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.760 enjoy this because I don't think it came met lasts 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.920 much longer. But then I asked Dave Roberts and he said, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.800 I don't see any reason why he can't keep doing 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.680 this two way pitch and hitting. It was twenty twenty 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.600 five starts a year for years and years and years. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:06.800 This guy is just amazing. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.520 And Vlad Guerrero, you know what an incredible series and 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.880 a losing effort, and you saw how emotional he was 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.200 after the game he was in, he was in tears. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.320 He did everything, just about everything possible to win a 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:23.040 World Series. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.680 I'm glad you brought him up, Dann, because we knew 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.559 he was a great hitter. I think this whole postseason, 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.040 especially the World Series, pointed out what a great baseball 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.000 player this guy is. I mean, I remember a game 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.000 when Max Schurzer was pitching in Seattle in the ALCS, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.040 and he's got a problem tipping his pitches and vladd 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.240 was the one of the first inning who stopped him 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.840 and went to the mound and say, hey, watch your hands. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.840 Here runners are picking it up. There was a throw 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.040 at third base. Barger threw the runner out at third 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.160 instead of throwing home. It was Lad who told him 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.520 to throw it a third not to home. The defensive plays. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.480 I counted three great ones he made just in Game seven, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:03.160 and you're right. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.000 You saw the emotion on his face. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.480 How much this meant to him, The swings he put 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.400 on the baseball Dan, if you go back and look 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.200 at it, this wasn't a guy trying to hit home runs. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.000 This was a guy doing whatever he could to get 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.320 on base, shortening up sometimes even early in counts, sitting 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:19.960 on pitches. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.960 I was blown away by Vlad and his all around game. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.600 Great stuff. Are you now off? You're not doing anything? 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.040 I wish I could say that, but no, it's starting 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.280 at MLB Network. We start Awards week next week, start 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.720 aligning up the finalists for the awards tonight on MLB Network. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.320 Of course, everybody wants to wait for the al NBP vote. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.680 That's going to be a cliffhanger, Judge and Raleigh. So 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.120 I'm not getting on a plane. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:51.840 So that's big. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.239 Thanks again, Tom, Hey, my pleasure. All right. That's Tom Berducci. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.520 He was there with Fox Sports MLB with the World 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.880 Series and co host of the Book of Joe podcasts 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.160 with Joe Madden. You start to look at these teams 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.440 that won six and seven on the road, in the 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.520 World Series. So you have the Dodgers there, the Nationals 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.120 did this, the Cubs in twenty sixteen, the Pirates in 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.560 seventy nine, then you go back to the Tigers in 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.040 sixty eight, the Yankees in fifty eight. It doesn't happen 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.400 very often, but I don't know how often we have 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.920 a Game seven in the World Series to begin with, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.320 and then a team having to win two games on 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.160 the road to win the World Series. But the Dodgers 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.320 from start to finish, they were supposed to be here, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:44.680 They got there, and they completed it. So Los Angeles 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.520 will be celebrating. Magic Johnson gets to sell I think 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.040 this is the eighteenth title with all of his sports 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.840 that he's either played or been part of ownership. That 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.960 sound right, Martvin, That is correct. Eighteen he said it himself. Yeah, well, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:02.120 good for him. It's nice that something good is happening 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.520 for Magic Johnson. There, it's take a break. 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Check us out 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.400 on YouTube and subscribe. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.000 Jay and Delaware. Hi Jay, what's on your mind? 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.600 Hey Dan? I just have a quick too best and 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.200 one worse. But one worst is that East Rough us 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.080 for New Jersey Field claims another Aco for my forty 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.040 nine ers. And my best along with that game is 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.760 mccorgy Jones still delivering and Bob Sali still has that 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.560 defense Houman even though it's to injuries, so Niners are 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.639 still on track. My other best is the World Series 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.320 absolutely delivered. Not a fan of Eater team, and that 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.560 was one of the best World Series I've watched in 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.280 my lifetime. So many moments from just like Kershaw coming 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.720 in getting that one out, Tredy Sad Jamamoto, Glad hitting 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.840 that home run off of off of show. Hey just 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.000 so many moments to great World Series. Baseball is back. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:39.400 Thanks Van, have a great day. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:44.119 Hi Jay, thank you. The ratings. Game seven of the 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.960 World Series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays had an 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.840 audience in nearly twenty six million viewers, according to the 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:57.480 Nielsen Fast National Ratings, the most watched since twenty seventeen, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.320 when the Dodgers and Astros Game seven and had twenty 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:06.280 eight million. Butch in Ohio, Hi, Butch, what's on your 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:06.840 mind today? 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.359 Hello to the greatest team in the history of radio, 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:19.280 best and the worst, the Buckeye sending Jim Noles fond farewell, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.000 worst of course the Bengals. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:25.280 All right, anything else? 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.600 I'm six' one rather flash at one. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.440 Ninety, yeah thank. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.280 You AND i wanted to just say THAT i have a. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:41.960 PREDICTION i think that The Television academy Of sports or 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:47.160 whomever it, is is waiting For dan to retire so 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:51.080 that you guys can all Get Lifetime achievements. Awards. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.520 YEAH i don't want that. One i'm not showing up 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:58.480 for A Lifetime achievement. Award but thank you, Though. Butcher, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.360 yeah that'd be the easy way. Out we either win 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.960 or we. Don't, Yes. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.840 Martin so you're not showing up period for a Lifetime 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.600 achievement award at SPORTS i mean, NO. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.560 I don't want a lifetime achievement. AWARD i want a 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.600 real time achievement. Award that's all best daily studio what we. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:24.360 Do and hopefully we get. Nominated but if we, win 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.760 AND i KNOW i don't want some we feel a 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:31.600 sympathy Sports, EMMY i want, that we want. IT i 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:37.119 Want Sports center. NOMINATED i WANT mlb, TONIGHT i WANT Nfl. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.200 NETWORK i want all of those big. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.680 Shows everybody who's beating us in the last thing you, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.240 want then we get to beat all of. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:49.040 Them, yes bring all the hammers, out that's you, KNOW Nfl. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.280 Live put them all in. There, Yes Tom. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.280 Hard on the interruption and good morning football. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.399 Everybody, everybody, everybody bring bring the hammers. Out that's WHAT i. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.520 Want bob and Can? Tucky, Hi, bob what's on your mind? 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.560 Today good morning. 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.480 Sir i'm fifty eight six seven three eighties seventeen Shoved 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.480 my best and worst is? You OH i. LISTEN i 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.399 was alive before the invention of the, internet cable and, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.840