1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: voter number fifty seven, Rob Parker. 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: Come on, I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit, 8 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: in LA. 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 3: I love this game. 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 4: Let's go. 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 5: Welcome into the podcast. 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: I'm your host, Rob Parker with a very special World 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 2: Series edition of Inside the Parker coming up. 14 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 5: Former Major League center fielder Vernon. 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: Wells, of course, played for the Blue Jays for a 16 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 2: long time. He'll stop by. Plus John Morosi from MLB Network, 17 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: he'll drop by. We'll have so much to talk about 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: the World Series, as we had to Game six in Toronto. 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 5: Let's go better up. 20 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: To lead off. It's getting rocked to keep them on. 21 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major 22 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one. 23 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 2: Before the World Series started, I was on Dave Simms podcast. 24 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 5: Hey now Dave Sims. 25 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 2: Of course, the Yankees played by play radio man, and 26 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,639 Speaker 2: Vernon Wells was on that podcast as well, But. 27 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 5: I had a prediction. People looked at me sideways. 28 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 2: They were kind of looking like I was crazy talking 29 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: about I want to pick the Blue Jays in five, 30 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 2: but I'll pick them in six and take a listen 31 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: to my prediction. 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 5: And I don't want to pat myself on the. 33 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 6: Back, but I was spot on. 34 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: I'm the Nate Sayer, and I'm gonna say this. First 35 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: of all, the Brewers were dead. It's absolutely dead. I'm 36 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 2: not knocking the starters that the Dodgers have, but everybody 37 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 2: jumped on, Oh, look how great old Tony was. Well, 38 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 2: wait a minute, Snell pitch eight inning was outstanding, right, Yeah, 39 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 2: I'm a moto pitch nine inning. It's a complete game, 40 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 2: and everybody's telling me, how great show Hey Before show 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 2: Hay's three home runs in that game, he was batting 42 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: one fifty in the playoffs with sixteen strikeouts in thirty 43 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: four games. Go look at the Dodgers' run total. They 44 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 2: haven't been hitting. They've been winning two to one. They 45 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 2: won Game one on a misplay and a bases loaded walk. 46 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: All I'm saying is I'm not buying that they're dominant, 47 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: and there's no chance that the Blue Jays have the 48 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 2: chance to win. They swing the bats, they score a 49 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 2: lot of runs. I like the blue Jays up and 50 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: down this series. The Dodgers will not be able to 51 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 2: score enough runs to beat the blue Jay. 52 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 5: That's where I'm at. 53 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 7: Rob brings up a good point like these are the 54 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 7: upstart wildcard Dodgers, the number one seed Phillies, and the 55 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 7: number two seed Brewers. This is really a miraculous run 56 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 7: that the Dodgers are on. They don't have home phill advantage. 57 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 7: They're facing another number one seed in the American League. 58 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 7: The Blue Jays, Like, Rob, You're right, the Dodgers they 59 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 7: don't have a chance. 60 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 5: I didn't say they didn't have a chance. 61 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 3: Steven, I'm just playing man, I'm playing with. 62 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: Him number two. 63 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I don't understand the managerial hiring this 64 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 2: offseason in Major League Baseball. First we saw the San 65 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 2: Francisco Giants hire a college coach. My god, never happened 66 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 2: in the history of Major League Baseball. And now the 67 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 2: Washington Nationals have picked up Blake but Terra, thirty three 68 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 2: years old. Thirty three years old, and he becomes the 69 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: youngest manager since the Twins hired a thirty three year 70 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: old back in nineteen seventy two. So but Terra was 71 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: a minor league player, you know, never made it to 72 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 2: the big leagues, but played. Was drafted in twenty fifteen 73 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: by Tampa Bay thirty fifth round, played at Boston College, 74 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: and has been in Tampa Bay's farm system as their 75 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 2: farm director in charge of its entire player development process. 76 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 5: So you look at this. 77 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 2: Is this guy a savant, some genius baseball guy or 78 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 2: is this just a thirty three year old puppet that 79 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 2: they the front office can dictate what they want done. 80 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 5: I mean, that's what you got to ask yourself when 81 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 5: this kind of hire is being made. I granted, there 82 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 5: aren't a lot of veteran managers with. 83 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 2: World Series championships in their pockets, so I get there 84 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: aren't that many people, but my goodness, crazy, there's all 85 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 2: kinds of major league level coaches dying for their opportunity 86 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, some guys waiting for their second 87 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: chances who maybe managed once somewhere. So there we have it. 88 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 2: A thirty three year old in Washington doesn't sound good 89 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 2: to me. 90 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 8: Number three, The MLBPA Players Choice Awards were announced, and 91 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 8: guess what it weaked of jealousy, and you know, players 92 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 8: having skin in the game and not wanting to acknowledge 93 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 8: the other great players that they play. 94 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 2: Against, because somehow, some way, the best player in the 95 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 2: National League was Schwarber, not Otani, and the best player 96 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 2: in the American League was Raleigh not Judge, And you know, 97 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 2: you could make your choices wherever you want. Just seems 98 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 2: really weird that Judge put together this unbelievable year and 99 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 2: players didn't vote for him. Like in a league where 100 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: people batting two point forty two is the average, Judge 101 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 2: hit three point thirty one with power. 102 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 5: Yes, Raleigh hit sixty home runs. 103 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 2: I get it, and I'm not taking away from the 104 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: year he had, but it seems weird. And the same 105 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: thing here we are here in every day fans and 106 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: reporters and analysts talking about Otani's the greatest player of 107 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: all time, and yet he's not the National League Player 108 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 2: of the Year by the Players Association. 109 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 5: I've said it before. People always say, don't let the 110 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 5: sports writers vote for anything. 111 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 2: Those guys they hate the player, They're always holding grudges. 112 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: No writers broadcast, they don't have skin in the game. 113 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,679 Speaker 2: Players have skin in the game. And unfortunately, we've seen 114 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 2: this before. We saw one hundred and twenty five players 115 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 2: not vote for Lebron James for an All Star Game. Yes, 116 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 2: they're tired of Judge and Otani getting all the love 117 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: for as good as they are, so they want to 118 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 2: see somebody. Let's vote for some I'm tired of Otani, 119 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 2: I'm tired of Judge. 120 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 5: Yes, that's not the way it should be. 121 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 2: You should celebrate the greatest players who play, and they did. 122 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 2: Both of them deserve to have won the Choice Award 123 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: in both leagues. 124 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 5: I'm sorry. 125 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: Here comes the big interviews. Listen and learn. 126 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 9: We're so good. 127 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 10: All right, let's welcome in former Major league outfielder Vernon Wells, 128 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 10: who played eleven years in Toronto for the Blue Jays. Centerfielder, 129 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 10: gold Glove winner, had a tremendous career, and we were 130 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 10: on the Dave Simms podcast, Hey Now last week previewing 131 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 10: the World Series. 132 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: We both picked the Blue Jays in six games. Now, 133 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: the Blue Jays are here with a chance to close 134 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 2: it out in six games in Toronto. 135 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 11: What do you think The only thing that stands in 136 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 11: between our predictions of them winning in six is Yamamoto 137 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 11: and He was the one person on that podcast that 138 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 11: I was worried about because he's nasty, but the Blue 139 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 11: Jays hadn't seen him up until that point. Now they've 140 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 11: seen him. They've all had plenty of it bats against him. 141 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 11: Now now that approach changes. Now they have a better 142 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 11: idea of okay, he's going. He's mixing in more off 143 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 11: speed stuff than his heater, even though the heater can 144 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 11: get up to ninety nine. So it's now I think 145 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 11: their approach is going to be different. Now they can 146 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 11: work counts a little bit better, they can battle a 147 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 11: little bit more, and yeah, they get him out of 148 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 11: the game a little earlier, or get him out of 149 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 11: the game period. Then they get in that bullpen and 150 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 11: they stand a chance. So I think our prediction could 151 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 11: be right. But it's going to be a lower scoring 152 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 11: game that the Blue Jays tend to pull out. 153 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 9: Anyways, Yeah, I'm with you. 154 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 2: Exciting The series wind up being good, like really really good. 155 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: I think despite the Dodger struggles because a lot of 156 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 2: people came in and they just thought, oh, this is 157 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: a whitewash because they swept the Brewers and thought, oh well, 158 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 2: a Dodge is a winning I don't know how many 159 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 2: people told me, oh, back to back. And you notice, Vernon, 160 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 2: it's hard to win back to back championships in Major 161 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 2: League Baseball. We got to go back to the Yankees 162 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 2: ninety eight, ninety nine, two twenty five years ago. And 163 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 2: if you go to the National League, the last National 164 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: League team to win back to back championships the seventy 165 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 2: five seventy six Reds. 166 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 11: Wow, I mean that's yeah, baseball, basketball, like I mean, 167 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 11: even football. It's like you you put your body through 168 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 11: so much more another month of baseball like it is. 169 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 11: It's a lot of baseball that's being played at shortens 170 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 11: or offseason. It does so many things and all those 171 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 11: sports that just put your body in a different place. 172 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,599 Speaker 11: And to be able to repeat and come back and 173 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 11: even put yourself in that situation again to possibly do 174 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 11: it is hard. But then to go through sweep the 175 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 11: Brewers and talked about it on the podcast. The Brewers 176 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 11: just they weren't the Brewers at that point. 177 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 5: They were dead, they were dead to be offensive. They 178 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 5: scored four runs in four games. 179 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 11: Yeah, and you spoke on that and it was just 180 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 11: you hit that right on the head and its translated 181 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 11: over to this series. It's just the Dodgers haven't been 182 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 11: what they have been in the regular season at points, 183 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 11: and yeah they can they snap. 184 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 9: Out of it without a doubt. 185 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 11: I've ouldn't put it past the three Hall of Famers 186 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 11: to snap out of it in a game or two games. 187 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 9: I'm hoping that doesn't happen, but I wouldn't put. 188 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 11: It past those three to be able to do that 189 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 11: and flush everything that's happened before before this point and 190 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 11: come out and hit because it's a good it's a 191 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 11: great place to hit. 192 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 9: It's one of the best places to hit in baseball. 193 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 11: You see the ball so well, but that crowd, that atmosphere, 194 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 11: and they they're used to it, but Toronto hits a 195 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 11: little differently when when when their home team has a 196 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 11: chance to win a World Series. 197 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I was up there when they won back 198 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 5: in the nineties. 199 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 2: I've been covering baseball almost forty years and remember that 200 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: how great it was up there. 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Let's bring in a writer 243 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: or broadcaster, old or new. 244 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 5: Now let's welcome into the podcast. 245 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 2: John Morosi, of course from MLB Network, does a Fox 246 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 2: Sports Radio Baseball Insider for us as well, one of 247 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 2: the one of my favorite people in. 248 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 5: The baseball media. 249 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 2: And of course it's October, so it's only right John 250 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 2: that we would be talking as we're about to crowd 251 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: a new World Series champ within the next two games. 252 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 5: Right, how are you. 253 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 6: Doing great rob This has been an amazing October. 254 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 5: You kidding me? 255 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 6: Some all time games, the eighteen inning game, there are 256 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 6: Game three Dodgers Blue Jays, one of the best World 257 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 6: Series games ever. You've had Otani have two of the 258 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 6: greatest postseason days in the history of the game within 259 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 6: the same span of ten days. So we have just 260 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 6: seen some amazing performances here lately. 261 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 2: John, I want to ask you now, I picked the 262 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 2: Blue Jays in six prior. What was your original law, 263 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: you know, prediction on this series. 264 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 5: What was it? I'm going to get that first. 265 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 6: Yes, my original thought was Dodgers in six. I thought 266 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 6: Dodgers and six, which felt I mean at the time, 267 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 6: I like the way that the Dodgers were playing. I 268 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 6: know that they've had some shortcomings offensively, even even against 269 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 6: the Brewers, but I just felt as though their overall 270 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 6: talent level was going to allow them to win this series. 271 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 6: But clearly it won't be a six game Dodger win. 272 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 6: That much we know. And I did believe though, from 273 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 6: having covered the Jays in the last round, that they 274 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 6: were equal to the task. That this was not. I 275 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 6: think there was a real misconception from too many folks 276 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 6: from the media thinking, oh, the Dodgers, they're just gonna 277 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 6: walk over the Blue Jays, No chance. 278 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 2: I agree with that, John, There was so many and 279 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 2: I was stunned that dismissed the team that was averaging 280 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 2: six and a half runs coming to the World Series. 281 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 2: You know, baseball, six and a half runs is a 282 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: ton of runs. 283 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 6: That's right. I think Rob, people were not paying attention. 284 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 6: They were not watching this team. Look the Dodgers. Yes, 285 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 6: they've got superstars, multiple Hall of Famers. It's how you 286 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 6: are playing right now. 287 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: Not the. 288 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 6: Resume, exactly, your resume. Your resume doesn't go three for four. 289 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 5: It's not how it works. 290 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 6: You can't put a put a piece of paper up 291 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 6: at home plate. That doesn't do any hitting for you. Okay, 292 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 6: So I think in general the J's were in a 293 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 6: really good run of form. I think offensively and the 294 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 6: thing they do, Rob that I love, that makes me. 295 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 6: It just it con up a lot of really positive 296 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 6: memories for me, is they build rallies. They build rallies. 297 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 6: As much as we talk about the Yankees the most, 298 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 6: really the last great dynasty we had in baseball, they 299 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 6: built rallies. They're there and then it would be Brocious 300 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 6: getting the big hit or Lerrett's getting the big hit. 301 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 6: These were moments that built one at bat after another, 302 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 6: and we're seeing that right now with the Toronto Blue Jays, 303 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 6: a team that understands how to build rallies, and you're 304 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 6: seeing guys like Barger and Jimenez and Kirk. I mean, again, 305 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 6: Kirk's an All Star caliber player and Jimenez is two, but. 306 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 2: Jimnez has got so many big hits in the playoffs 307 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 2: at the bottom of the final. 308 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 6: I just I think Rob that there were a lot 309 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 6: of people that just missed how good this team was. 310 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 6: And and let us be fair too, the resiliency they 311 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 6: showed after Game three. Not only do they lose the game, 312 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 6: they lose it in eighteen innings, They use up all 313 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 6: their pitching, and George Springer, their most consistent player during 314 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 6: the season, is hurt, and yet you have Bishett stepping 315 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 6: in there. I thought the way they've turned around game 316 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 6: three to Game four was one of the more impressive 317 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 6: performances I have seen from the manager coaching staff on 318 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 6: down of understanding how to put that loss in the 319 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 6: rearview mirror, contextualize at lever them and say, hey, we 320 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 6: just played one of the great World Series games ever. 321 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 6: We shut down the Dodgers for like ten straight innings. Okay, 322 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 6: they did something right there, and I just thought overall, 323 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 6: it was a very impressive performance, especially in Game four 324 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 6: for the Toronto Blue Jays. 325 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 5: And let's talk about Game five obviously. 326 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 2: You know, they beat up Blake Snell the first game 327 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 2: they got to them, and here they are with a 328 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 2: chance Blake Snell pitching at Dodgers Stadium. You know, his 329 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,479 Speaker 2: team could put them within the you know, one win 330 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 2: away from the World Series with their basically ace on 331 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 2: the mound right and three pitches in two balls leave 332 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 2: the yard. And it just I think people were shook 333 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 2: after those two swings. 334 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 6: They were, And and I was that a case of 335 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 6: just the Jays being more aggressive? Was it the case 336 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 6: of the Jays knowing the scouting report better than what 337 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 6: the Dodgers did. Clearly you don't expect the game to 338 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 6: begin that way, and and their early aggressiveness on some level, 339 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 6: they had to expect Snell's gonna be around the plate, 340 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 6: Snell's gonna give us some pitches that we can hit 341 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 6: early in counts. And the adjustment was eventually made. It 342 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 6: was made a little bit too late. But I will 343 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 6: also say this, Rob Blake, Snell is not the reason 344 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 6: why why the Dodgers lost that game. The Dodgers lost 345 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,959 Speaker 6: that game because there was no there was no CounterPunch. 346 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 6: And if you look at what what Snell did, his 347 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 6: overall score line was fine, especially by the standards opposing 348 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 6: the baseball. He gave his team a chance to win that. 349 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 6: Now there are there's what Treya Savage did, which was 350 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 6: even better than that. 351 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 2: You've been coming baseball for a long time. For a 352 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 2: twenty two year old with more starts in the postseason 353 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 2: in TRIPLEA to pitch at Dodger Stadium in an epic 354 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 2: important Game five against a guy like Snows, had nothing 355 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 2: but success in the postseason, strikeout twelve, no Walks, faced 356 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 2: three potential Hall of Future Hall of famers in the 357 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 2: first four batters and have as many swings and misses. 358 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 5: And he was incredible. 359 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 6: He was and I think this morning, actually I was listening, 360 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 6: Xavier Scruggs made a really good point Rob about the 361 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 6: difference between the first Y Savage starting in this World 362 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 6: Series and the second one. And then the first one, 363 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 6: as Xavier pointed out, you Savage didn't really have is 364 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 6: good splitter, And so we talk about the benefit you 365 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 6: get from facing a pitcher twice in the same series, 366 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 6: which is real. You certainly do have a benefit you're 367 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 6: familiar with him now. In all though, those things are 368 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 6: very legitimate. But the Dodgers didn't face that tray of 369 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 6: Savage in games. 370 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 5: That's a good point because they didn't face. 371 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 6: That one didn't have the splitter, So all of a 372 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 6: sudden you're like, whoa, where did this come from? This 373 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 6: was not part of my lived experience here. And so 374 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 6: because they didn't face that pitch and that guy, everything 375 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 6: changed and they never really looked comfortable. And I think 376 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 6: the important thing that you mentioned, Rob, Yeah, the strikeout 377 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 6: total was extraordinary, right, one of the best ever for 378 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 6: a pitcher of that young in the World Series. But 379 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 6: also the zero walks stands up to me in a 380 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 6: huge way because when you talk about a dangerous lineup, 381 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 6: this is the one issue that I ran into with 382 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 6: with the way the Jays, and I think they did 383 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 6: the right thing in Game three, because what other option 384 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 6: did you really have? Oh Tani was having one of 385 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 6: the best days ever. 386 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 5: I just didn't like to walk in the ninth inning. 387 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,479 Speaker 6: I think it's every time every time you walk someone, 388 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 6: you're giving that part of the lineup more opportunities. You're 389 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 6: giving Freddie Freeman one more at bat, and eventually it 390 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 6: ended on a Freddy Freeman at bat. So when you're 391 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 6: walking guys as not just well walks of walk, yeah, 392 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 6: but it moves the lineup forward. And so not only 393 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 6: did you Savage keep the bases clean, basically he was 394 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 6: able to work so efficiently that the Dodgers never really 395 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 6: had enough opportunities to get their confidence going again and 396 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 6: really build momentum. So we talk so much rob about 397 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 6: what it means to win a postseason game. 398 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 9: Or even a series. 399 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 6: I look at them as rounds of a boxing match, 400 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 6: even when you don't score runs. And I think John 401 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 6: Smoltz made this point the other day, and it's it 402 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 6: is true, even if you don't score a bunch of runs, 403 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 6: you're still grinding the guy down. You're doing things that score. 404 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 6: Some Body blows early in a game that show up 405 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 6: with fatigue later on, or you have to then face 406 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 6: a reliever multiple times. You get more looks at the reliever. 407 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 6: You feel better about it the second and third and 408 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 6: fourth time you face them in a series, and I 409 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 6: just think that the Toronto Blue They've not just won 410 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 6: three games, but they have won three games in such 411 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 6: a way that that has given them a continued advantage 412 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 6: they have not had. They didn't have to use Jeff 413 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,360 Speaker 6: Hoffman in Game four. Little things that make a huge difference. 414 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 6: When you talk about how can you possibly beat the 415 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,639 Speaker 6: Dodgers in a seven game series, you do it with 416 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 6: the type of baseball the Toronto Blueches are playing right now. Now. 417 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 6: I'm not saying that they're inevitably going to win it, 418 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 6: because there's a dude named Yabamoto who's gonna pitch in 419 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 6: Game six, and last I checked, he's pretty good. So 420 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 6: the Dodgers are one victory away from all of us saying, hey, 421 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 6: it's Game seven, anything gonna happen. God bless you, and 422 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 6: have fun playing the game where we're one good Yabamoto 423 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 6: outing away from that being the case. Again, So I 424 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 6: don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. But 425 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 6: when you talk about how you clinically win a series, 426 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 6: the Jays are playing baseball in what I consider to 427 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 6: be a clinical and fundamentally sound fashion. 428 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 2: All right, last thing, and you're right now my motal 429 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 2: could go out there and pitch a great game. 430 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 5: I do not. 431 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 2: Believe the Dodgers will be able to force a game 432 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 2: seven because I think maybe they get to the bullpen, 433 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 2: maybe they're off. The reason I picked the Blue Jays 434 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 2: I did not believe John that they had that the Dodgers' 435 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 2: offense could score enough runs. 436 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 5: And these guys are really struggling. 437 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 2: I don't know, is a button gonna be pushed and 438 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 2: they're gonna hit the last two days, the last two 439 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 2: games of the season. You know, their resume says one thing, 440 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 2: but they're admired in such bad slumps. Freddy, I mean, 441 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: he had to walk off, but he's not hitting. Nobody's 442 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 2: hitting for power, nobody's hitting. Even when you look at Otani, 443 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 2: you take away those two great games, a lot of strikeouts, 444 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, a lot of pop ups. 445 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 2: I just Mookie Betts is lost. I don't see it 446 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,479 Speaker 2: at the bottom of the lot months he's not hitting. 447 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 5: Who's hitting right well? 448 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 6: And let's be honest. You talk about the Dodgers, and 449 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 6: even when they were winning, they swept the NLCS, But 450 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 6: let me tell you how many runs they scored in 451 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 6: each game? Two five three and five. Again, it wasn't 452 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 6: like there was Moore in ten runs they and you 453 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 6: go back even and you look at how they played 454 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 6: against the Phillies. That was a pretty darn tight series. 455 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 6: In that series they scored five, four, two and two. 456 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 6: So again like, this is not they, this is not 457 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 6: even the lineup they had last year in terms of 458 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 6: how productive the players are. So I think that it's 459 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 6: it's in general a concerning sign for the Dodgers. It's 460 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 6: a core that is not really getting much younger. The 461 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 6: one of their younger position players who was really important 462 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 6: to them during the season, Andy Pakez, was benched in 463 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 6: Game five for Alex call to come in there because 464 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,479 Speaker 6: that was really the one move they could make. You 465 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 6: start thinking around and where is the impact coming from 466 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 6: show A show A cannot do this by himself all 467 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 6: the time, And I think you're you're not seeing even 468 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 6: if you look back in the series against the Phillies, 469 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 6: two guys at home runs Edmund and Hernandez and and 470 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 6: even then there it's not as though really Edmund or 471 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 6: or Taylor are really going at this moment in time. 472 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 6: So there's I think there's some some lacking production really 473 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 6: across the board, it seems like to me, the Dodgers, Rob, 474 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 6: with the exception of Otani, it's almost like they're all 475 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 6: down about ten or fifteen percentage points and their overall 476 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 6: effectiveness from what they should be. And when you add 477 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 6: all of that up, at bat to bat to at bat, 478 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 6: the Jays are not feeling the stress that you would 479 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 6: expect them to feel against this Dodger team. And now, Rob, 480 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 6: those last two games are back in Toronto, a very 481 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 6: different situation. 482 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 5: No doubt. All right. 483 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 2: John Morosi's his name, and be Network check them out 484 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio as well Joins Us and 485 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 2: other shows. Of course, the Odd Couple John always a pleasure, 486 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 2: And man, I think they close it out in six games. 487 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 5: That was my original pick. I'm gonna stick with it. 488 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 6: Hey, Rob, listen, I gotta tell you this. I think 489 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 6: it'll go seven. Uh now, But I tell you this 490 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 6: if you if you're correct, I don't know if anybody 491 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 6: else in all the baseball media said Jason six. So Rob, 492 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 6: here's what you gotta do on every platform you got 493 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 6: for social media. You gotta take that pick when you 494 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 6: made it, put it up there, and then pin that 495 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 6: thing to your profile from now until the end of time. 496 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 6: Because any anytime anybody says hey, Rob, I didn't like 497 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,479 Speaker 6: your take on the Lions, and say hey look at this, 498 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 6: I'll write a time I got this out. 499 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 2: I'm gonna take credit for it because people try to 500 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 2: shut down on that pick, no doubt. John. 501 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 5: All right, buddy, we appreciate you. Thanks so much. 502 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 4: Always good to see it, Rob. 503 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,360 Speaker 6: Thank thanks for the conversation. We'll catch up again soon. 504 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: In case you miss Rob Parker the MLB Networks, here's 505 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: his latest appearance on mlbina. 506 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 4: Traditional Showdown on the Road. Though. We find a coastal 507 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 4: town and here's Rob Parker in the flesh Bay bad all. 508 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 3: Ros up, Bka, great, welcome to my town. You know 509 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 3: I live out here in la is your town. 510 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 4: You have a press box where you're Connecticut? In Connecticut, 511 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 4: you got your high school in Queens. You can't you 512 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,479 Speaker 4: can't own every town. Rom all over there you are. 513 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 4: That's great to see you always. All right, So let's 514 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 4: start off. You made a bit of news because that's 515 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 4: Rob being Rob. Shoeotani had this unbelievable game. We can 516 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 4: agree on that, right, get three home runs, hit six 517 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 4: shot out innings, ten strikeouts, and the question is it 518 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 4: the greatest postseason game ever? 519 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 3: And you say, no way, nohow BK. 520 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 2: The hyperbole after that was ridiculous, seriously, And it's not 521 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 2: to take anything away from Shoeo Tani and what he's 522 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 2: able to do. 523 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 3: But when people start saying that was the greatest. 524 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 2: Game ever and he's the greatest play ever because of 525 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 2: that game, I cannot stamp that. 526 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 4: I'm with you. I begn't get a bit a bit now. 527 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: Now. 528 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 4: I even throw up, what are the greatest postseason games ever? 529 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 4: And it was Bob Gibson sixty seven games, seven hit 530 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 4: a home run, won the game, drikeouts, ten strike I 531 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 4: won a complete game, not six week game. And he 532 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 4: had three complete games in the series. Right, So I'm 533 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 4: saying that obviously Don Larson didn't give the Dodgers a 534 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 4: base runner a perfect game. We have Babe Ruth. By 535 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 4: the way, people forget Babra. The babe never did this. 536 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 4: The Babe won a game on the mound and hit 537 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 4: a two run triple to drive in two for the 538 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 4: Red Sox that he later needed a guy to pitch 539 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 4: two innings, but Joe Bush, remember him, good guy? He 540 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 4: got two outs and he closed out. But Babe Ruth's 541 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 4: game for the Red Sox over the Cubs was an 542 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 4: all time great game and or a Hersheiser went three 543 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 4: for three with a complete game against a dynamite packed Jack. 544 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 2: I'm glad you say that, because part of my issue 545 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 2: with the six innings and the ten strikeouts the Milwaukee 546 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 2: Brewers at that point, we're ba dead because Snell had 547 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 2: pitched great against them. 548 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 3: I'm a modal pitch a complete game against them. They 549 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 3: weren't getting. 550 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 4: Anybody, Yeah, they were, they were. 551 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 3: They were dead in the water. 552 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 4: Now it's one of the greatest games in posts. I 553 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 4: got that, Okay, greatest, he said, yes, not that. It's 554 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 4: not a hater and you know it frequently now in 555 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 4: this sort of transformative media age where we have a 556 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 4: lot of young people who are just used to I 557 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 4: hate to use this, but they just gotta get onto 558 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 4: the hype. They don't have a knowledge of the history. 559 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 4: I don't want to be just everything has that context, 560 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 4: right and and and that's why we're here to say, 561 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 4: hold on, Bob Gibson. 562 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 3: Game sets humped the breaks, humped the breaks. 563 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 4: A little bit. So you're right, you got a lot 564 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 4: of flat for that all. Rob Parker's a hater, but 565 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 4: I know what you were saying. You were like, just 566 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 4: put it in proper context, that's all. 567 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 3: And the other one too. 568 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 2: And I know it's not with the pitching, but Reggie 569 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 2: Jackson's performance with three consecutive home runs on three consecutive 570 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: pitches against three different pitchers. 571 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 3: It's in the World Series. How is that not one 572 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 3: of the in a clinching game. 573 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 4: Yes, Now he didn't pitch because it's ridiculous, and what 574 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 4: o'tanny did was unbelievable, But it's there with Gibson and 575 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 4: Babe Ruth and Don Larson. I think that's good enough. Right, 576 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 4: that's there all right? Now quickly doing something now, pupping 577 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 4: the brakes. Cito Gaston. We saw Cito come out throw 578 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 4: out the first was awesome. Blue Jays. You think he 579 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 4: should be a Hall of Fame manager. I do. 580 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 3: And he won back to back World Series, right, we 581 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 3: talk about all the time. 582 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 2: The last team to win back to back the Yankees 583 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 2: twenty five years ago when they won the three in 584 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 2: a row and in the National League. It hasn't been 585 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 2: done since the Big Red Machine in seventy five seventy six. 586 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 3: So it's hard to do. 587 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 2: And all I'm gonna say is, if you're gonna fire 588 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 2: the guy when things don't go right and blame him 589 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 2: when things don't go right, how do you not give 590 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 2: him credit when things go right? 591 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 3: And you went back to back World Series. I think 592 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 3: he's up. 593 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 4: There with We've talked about this, but there is a 594 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 4: class of Davy Johnson, Loup Penela, they're all right there 595 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 4: where you could put them in the Hall of Fame. 596 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 4: It's a very subjective thing. 597 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 2: Well, it's the same thing Jim Leland got in and 598 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: Jim Leland won Florida. 599 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 3: He didn't win in Detroit with some really good team. 600 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 3: He won a lot, but not one, but he didn't win. 601 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 3: I'm just saying. 602 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 2: I always say sports has a short menu beka wins 603 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 2: and losses, especially in the World Series. 604 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 3: Sto Gaston belongs in the Hall of Fame. 605 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 4: You're so right through all of this. No, no, no, 606 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 4: you could be right. No, someone should be making that 607 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 4: case and you are. Now. Could you go talk to 608 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 4: Joel Sherman and Yandro A Lonzo and talk some sentence them. 609 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 4: I can't. 610 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 3: I've known Joel for forty years. 611 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 4: It's too late. It is too late. He's right there. 612 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 4: Everything Hey, everything's good. You didn't hear that. 613 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late 614 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time, this time until 615 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 2: next time. 616 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 3: Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This could be 617 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 3: an inside of Parker. 618 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 6: See you next week, the same bad time, same man's station.