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Speaker 1: Nights Wildcard or Tuesday Nights Wildcard game against the with
Speaker 1: the Yankees from Red Sox probably is not going to
Speaker 1: stand out the long storied history of the rivalry. There
Speaker 1: was no Bucky Dent, no Bloody Sock, no Dave Roberts steel,
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone home run, not even Pedro getting into it
Speaker 1: with Don Zimmer. Instead, we got to watch the Red
Speaker 1: Sox control early and take that win and now move
Speaker 1: on to face Tampa. Boston's pitcher Nathan Vivaldi was brilliant,
Speaker 1: while the Yankees ace Garrett Cole struggled and the Yankees
Speaker 1: squandered some opportunities. It was an overall disappointing night, but
Speaker 1: we had become used to these two teams being the
Speaker 1: best in baseball. Now Boston advances to face the Race,
Speaker 1: who were the best team in the American League all
Speaker 1: season long. I'm sure some fans have to be disappointed,
Speaker 1: but we only get to see one Red Sox Yankees game.
Speaker 1: Boston beat New York Farren Square, and this certainly won't
Speaker 1: be a highlight in a long history of this rivalry.
Speaker 1: But the Red Sox move on and now they have
Speaker 1: a chance to make another championship run. The story is
Speaker 1: more about the Yankees, because the Yankees haven't been good
Speaker 1: enough to have people hate them. I mean, they've been good,
Speaker 1: but not great. And it used to be the Yankees, well,
Speaker 1: the evil Empire. They're not evil, they're not an empire.
Speaker 1: They're just the Yankees. They're like, oh, okay, the Yankees
Speaker 1: used to be. You would have a visceral reaction with
Speaker 1: all the Yankees, you know, you feared them, you didn't
Speaker 1: like them, you respected them. Now, one World Series win
Speaker 1: in seventeen years, one World Series appearance, I mean for them,
Speaker 1: that's horrible. That's when you lose your job. Here is
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone talking about the tough night starting with going
Speaker 1: out and pulling his starting pitcher. How kind of surprised
Speaker 1: were you? I mean, you sent out your best tonight,
Speaker 1: you only got six outside of him, and here you
Speaker 1: are having to make this huge move really really early.
Speaker 1: Him was a kind of a stunning blow to you. Guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean not easy, especially you know just how great
Speaker 1: a picture Garrett is and how much respect I have
Speaker 1: for him, and how much I know he wants it
Speaker 1: and prepares for it and competes for it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a difficult decision, but I felt like the one
Speaker 1: I needed to make. Yeah, I give him credit. That's
Speaker 1: a tough decision to make. You don't want to embarrass
Speaker 1: your star pitcher that you spent three hundred million dollars on.
Speaker 1: But this is a one game playoff, and he made
Speaker 1: the right move because the pitcher he brought in you
Speaker 1: ended the inning there. And those decisions. Is that a
Speaker 1: decision of a manager who is on shaky terms, shaky ground.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I wondered about that because I'm sure
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole wanted to stay in. But you know, you
Speaker 1: give up the home run starting out, you know, that
Speaker 1: was big. You know, Bogart's home run was like whoa okay,
Speaker 1: and then Stanton's home run that turned into a single.
Speaker 1: It just felt like things were aligning for the Red
Speaker 1: Sox last night, and Nathan Vivaldi pitched well, and the
Speaker 1: Red Sox move on. But with the Yankees, they're just
Speaker 1: the Yankees now, and this rivalry is just a rivalry.
Speaker 1: It's a brand. You know, It's nice to see Bucky
Speaker 1: Dent last night, you know there that you know, they
Speaker 1: trotted out all the highlights and you know, the the vitriol,
Speaker 1: the hatred here, but it wasn't there, not in the
Speaker 1: game itself. But Red Sox move on. Now they've got
Speaker 1: Tampa coming up. McLevin, watch a pull question we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with which would ultimately be more disappointing to their
Speaker 1: fan bases, the Yankees losing last night or if the
Speaker 1: Dodgers lost tonight to the Cardinals. The Dodgers just won
Speaker 1: the World Series, right, are they so? Are they? Okay?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like Vegas still has the Dodgers as
Speaker 1: the favorite to win the World Series and they're in
Speaker 1: a one game playoff against the Cardinals. I mean that
Speaker 1: tells you a lot. But I don't want to speak
Speaker 1: for the fan bases. If I'm a Yankee fan, I
Speaker 1: think you probably went in going, hey, let's at least
Speaker 1: beat the Red Sox. The Yankees weren't better than Tampa.
Speaker 1: Tampa gets no attention because Tampa gets no attention in
Speaker 1: Tampa let alone. You know, the national media, the Yankees
Speaker 1: and the Red Sox get attention because that sells. It's
Speaker 1: like when the Cowboys aren't good, they get attention because
Speaker 1: they're the Cowboys. Steelers not playing well, they get attention
Speaker 1: there they're Steelers. Packers lose Week one, they get a
Speaker 1: lot of attention because you have a brand, Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. When Notre Dame doesn't do well, a lot
Speaker 1: of attention. When they do well, a lot of attention.
Speaker 1: It's a brand. Duke Basketball, I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: way it works in this world. Yes, et dude, Tampa's
Speaker 1: titletown right now, are you kidding? Sport never been hotter there,
Speaker 1: I know, but they don't really celerate the Raise that one.
Speaker 1: Not yet, No, well not yet. It's a good team,
Speaker 1: it's well run, but they don't have any stars, you know,
Speaker 1: national stars, and this is this is the typical. Nobody's
Speaker 1: watched any baseball and then they're gonna watch Tampa and go, Man,
Speaker 1: Tampa's good. That's what's gonna happen. That happens, it does.
Speaker 1: It's like, man, Tampa's got some good guys and young players,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, yeah, Paul, I wonder if the Raise
Speaker 1: would be better to have free admission and put thirty
Speaker 1: five thousand in the ballpark. I wonder if that thing
Speaker 1: has ever done the math that. I think they get
Speaker 1: eight thousand a game, and I'm sure they make a
Speaker 1: couple of bucks off that. But if you had thirty
Speaker 1: just complete free admission, open seating, first come, first serve
Speaker 1: at Raise games, would you make more money off parking
Speaker 1: and concessions and other sales than you would having eight thousands.
Speaker 1: I've been saying that for years. Yeah, that I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I grew up in an era when they gave out
Speaker 1: tickets for straight A students. You got straight a's. You
Speaker 1: don't want to set it to twelve and under and
Speaker 1: you want to reward them than great, and then you
Speaker 1: then you just let them go to the game for free,
Speaker 1: and then you make your money. You make your money
Speaker 1: on concessions and parking souvenirs. Get them into experience a game.
Speaker 1: We've all done that. Everybody's an experienced a game that
Speaker 1: first one you went to. And I hope that some
Speaker 1: of these teams, teams that struggle at the box office,
Speaker 1: are able to go, hey, come on in, this section
Speaker 1: is for you and let them get that first game,
Speaker 1: because once you get the first game, it feels like
Speaker 1: it's different for you when you watch a game. And
Speaker 1: I think the Cincinnati Reds still do that. But I
Speaker 1: didn't get straight A tickets, but I did have friends
Speaker 1: who got straight a's, and then I would be able
Speaker 1: to go and watch the Padres in center field, and
Speaker 1: even though they weren't great seats, I was in the
Speaker 1: game and I was watching the Padres who weren't good,
Speaker 1: but I was still I got to see the Cincinnati Reds. Yeah, seton, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just looked over at the straight A section and like,
Speaker 1: toss your pop gun on them. No, no, no, I
Speaker 1: got they got straight A's. I said, fu. Yeah, Paul,
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Speaker 1: if the Yankees are out, who is the team to
Speaker 1: watch it? Everyone can focus on who's the most biggest
Speaker 1: national draw. The Dodgers the Red Sox. Maybe the Astros
Speaker 1: are the three teams that jumped out to me. Is
Speaker 1: there any other team that has like sort of a
Speaker 1: nationwide appeal? The other teams? The Giants, the Brewers, the Braves,
Speaker 1: no White Sox. No, no, no no. Maybe the Cardinals
Speaker 1: because of their history if they advanced tonight. No no, no, no.
Speaker 1: And this is nothing personal. This is just it's Dodgers
Speaker 1: and Astros. That's it. A Red Sox, No Dodgers and
Speaker 1: the Astros. Now the Red Sox, the Red Sox aren't
Speaker 1: good enough to be on that platform. Where you go? Man,
Speaker 1: you got to fear the Red Sox. This isn't Big Poppy,
Speaker 1: this isn't schilling, this isn't manny, this isn't any of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Red Sox overachieved this year. The Giants
Speaker 1: certainly overachieved this year. Great stories, Giants, you know, unbelievable story.
Speaker 1: But this comes down to who moves the needle. Are
Speaker 1: you going to watch a game and you don't have
Speaker 1: any rooting interest, you'll watch the Astros, I believe, and
Speaker 1: certainly if they're playing against the Dodgers, Dodgers have star power.
Speaker 1: It's Los Angeles celebrities coming out. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: this is what happens when you're a TV executive. How
Speaker 1: do we make this an experience? How do we make
Speaker 1: this bigger than what it is? Well, the Astros, you
Speaker 1: do a report, you look back on what happened. The
Speaker 1: players are still there, maybe they sit down, maybe they
Speaker 1: talk about it. Maybe you have a reporter and Kenny
Speaker 1: rosenthalal said, and the Astros refuse comment on this whatever
Speaker 1: it is. The Dodgers, you know, is Clayton Kershaw going
Speaker 1: to be able to play. He's not gonna have Tommy
Speaker 1: John surgery, Max Munsey no serious structural damage to his injury. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, you still have some things there, But I
Speaker 1: think it only comes down to the Astros and the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and then you would get a national audience tuning into that. Yeapo.
Speaker 1: It's a weird dynamic because if you're still angry with
Speaker 1: the Astros for the cheating scandal, you want them to
Speaker 1: bow out in a painful fashion, but you want them
Speaker 1: to get to the World Series, so they face the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and bow out to the Dodgers. Not early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Yankees to me, you know, I watched last night,
Speaker 1: like okay, like like my my interested in Aaron Judge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't look at him and go, well, that's
Speaker 1: why I hate the Yankees or Jian Carlos Stanton. I
Speaker 1: don't care Brett Gardner, like they don't roll over teams
Speaker 1: like they used to. Garrett Cole. I was curious, this
Speaker 1: why you paid him all that money? Come in, let's
Speaker 1: see what you can do. He didn't last three innings.
Speaker 1: But the Red Sox there's nobody where you go. You know,
Speaker 1: I fear that guy or boy, they're they're the team
Speaker 1: to beat or unbelievable story. It's just like, okay, they're
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Yeah, why they they do have Fenway
Speaker 1: is pretty cool? Will that give a little juice of them?
Speaker 1: That was kind of fun to watch the you know
Speaker 1: they have that new angle from underneath the bleachers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's been around since nineteen twelve. Yeah, it's still
Speaker 1: not like somebody's going, oh my god, did you see
Speaker 1: that left field? And else I do that that guy
Speaker 1: hitting the monster last night. They're still that fun. It
Speaker 1: is probably the most fun stadium. Is that your favorite stadium?
Speaker 1: Um not to sit in? They made it nicer. The
Speaker 1: seats are Way nice. Well, I remember going there and
Speaker 1: it feels like, um, your shoulder to shoulder with somebody.
Speaker 1: Paulie and I were touching shoulders. Oh it was ninety
Speaker 1: six degree. You and I love the buffer seat. We
Speaker 1: were sticking to each other and uh. But but I
Speaker 1: will say, there is no better sight than going into
Speaker 1: Fenway and you come out of not that you get
Speaker 1: to go into the dugout and come out come up
Speaker 1: those steps, but when you come out and up and
Speaker 1: you look at that green monster, it just feels like, God,
Speaker 1: this would be a great whiffleball park. Like you just
Speaker 1: want to you want to hit one off the monster
Speaker 1: and you feel like you can. It's it's still one
Speaker 1: of those magical moments when you see that in person
Speaker 1: it and it never fails. But as far as I mean,
Speaker 1: they've added a lot to Fenway, but I remember, gosh,
Speaker 1: twenty years ago sitting there and I'm going this, these
Speaker 1: are the seats that somebody in nineteen twelve sat in,
Speaker 1: And it certainly feels that way. There are a lot
Speaker 1: smaller back then. Yes, John, you really got to do
Speaker 1: your homework when you're buying the seats, because some of
Speaker 1: them got a big green post right in your face.
Speaker 1: And there's certain outfield seats where the seats aren't angled
Speaker 1: towards home plate. You could be sitting and you're just
Speaker 1: looking straight into the right field and your neck is
Speaker 1: going to be all the way to the right to
Speaker 1: watch your pitch. That is true. Yeah, yeah, there's seats
Speaker 1: where I got tickets to go to a Red Sox
Speaker 1: Yankees a few years back, and I took some of
Speaker 1: my buddies with me, and I was like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: like right in that lower area, like that lower bowl area,
Speaker 1: you know. And we got to our seats and where
Speaker 1: we sat, the overhang from up top cut off everything
Speaker 1: so you couldn't see you could you could only see
Speaker 1: home the pitcher's mounds, first base, and right field. Anything
Speaker 1: else was completely out of you. That being said, it's
Speaker 1: still the best stadium in baseball by far. I love
Speaker 1: Camden Yards, I love the area. I love what they did.
Speaker 1: Um there's something about going to Dodgers Stadium. Just the backdrop.
Speaker 1: Those uniforms are whiter in person than you think, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they get those uniforms that white,
Speaker 1: but it just there's something. It's it's sparkling. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's a good call. I think Dodger stadiums underrated.
Speaker 1: The first time I went there, I don't think I
Speaker 1: realized what the backdrop would look like with us brown
Speaker 1: and green hills back there, and then like the jumps
Speaker 1: are cold mount Yeah, well the little one there's like
Speaker 1: those little ones right behind the stadium in the mountains behind.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it's just drastically sunny. Yep, it is.
Speaker 1: H Dodger Stadium's great. Trying to think if there's another
Speaker 1: one that stands out because a lot of them. U.
Speaker 1: I like when there's you know, when you when you
Speaker 1: go to Fenway and you can stay downtown, you can
Speaker 1: walk to the ballpark. There's just something about that instead
Speaker 1: of driving, you know, you're waiting your park, you got
Speaker 1: to walk, you know, quarter mile. Just walking to a
Speaker 1: ball game is just it's wonderful be able to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm leaving out a stadium that I've gone to.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, how bad were the multi use stadiums from
Speaker 1: back in the seventies. They all look the same from
Speaker 1: above it looked like a giant ash tray. And Howard
Speaker 1: the fields were like in Philly it was concrete basic
Speaker 1: Riverfront was the first, and then if Philly, Pittsburgh, the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: they all just look the same. If you looked at
Speaker 1: from above looking down, you'd go, uh, I think that's Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: I will say that stadium downtown. You can walk across
Speaker 1: the bridge and it's got great views, great vista. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to go to a game there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just because of the way it presents itself on TV.
Speaker 1: It looks spectacular. Yeah it is. Yeah, I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: call it Candlestick because I can't keep up with the name.
Speaker 1: But the Giants Ballpark with the water behind it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the neighborhood is really easy to eat and drink locally.
Speaker 1: I think it's called a packbal oracle whatever it's called
Speaker 1: this week. Yes, you're right, that's that's They did a
Speaker 1: great job with that. Um what's the other one that
Speaker 1: I'm missing here that you can walk to the ballpark,
Speaker 1: because you said San Francisco and there was one other one,
Speaker 1: Well San Diego, isn't that now Downtown Stadium. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: did a good job there, Like the I wish the
Speaker 1: ballpark would have been facing the water, like there would
Speaker 1: have been something to take in with the water there
Speaker 1: they're showing off the city, kind of like the Seattle Seahawks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll take a break, John Smoltz. The whole
Speaker 1: of famer Will jonas Well is Aaron Boone, dead man walking.
Speaker 1: I guess to put it bluntly, because bottom line is
Speaker 1: making the playoffs didn't good enough in New York and
Speaker 1: you got one World Seris appearance in seventeen years. We'll
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Speaker 1: some Dodger fans speaking up privately to me, Fritzie, you're
Speaker 1: an Astros fan and you have a Dodger jersey. I
Speaker 1: like the uniform, and they're playing tonight, and it's not
Speaker 1: about being fan or not a fan. The Dodgers do
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Speaker 1: gonna jinx the Dodgers and I'm going to hear about
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Speaker 1: Smoltz joining us. John part of the Fox Sports one
Speaker 1: broadcast Red Sox raise for Game one and Game two
Speaker 1: that starts tomorrow night, followed by MLB Networks exclusive broadcast
Speaker 1: of Game three on Sunday at four Eastern. We were
Speaker 1: just talking about stadiums. John. If I said best stadium
Speaker 1: to pitch in, what would you say today? Best stadium?
Speaker 1: I mean the old Astro Stadium just doesn't get any
Speaker 1: better than that. I mean, throw fastball, see if they
Speaker 1: could hit it out of the stadium. There's not many
Speaker 1: of those anymore, unless Wrigley's blowing in, So I would
Speaker 1: say if the wind's blowing in Wrigley. But in the
Speaker 1: stadiums today, I mean, Dodger Stadium's pretty fair. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm not this marine layer thing that's been talked about
Speaker 1: whether it's gone or there. The ball travels. It doesn't
Speaker 1: travel at night, travels during the day. But Dodger stadiums
Speaker 1: a pretty fair place to pitch when the thick marine
Speaker 1: error is at night. What's the worst stadium to pitch in? Oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, there's more of those than there's ever been.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, Camden Yards is a great place
Speaker 1: to hit. Small American ballpark in Cincinnati I call a
Speaker 1: small American ballpark because it's very tiny the Central seems
Speaker 1: to be one of the worst places to pitch when
Speaker 1: it comes to the teams, and of course Colorado's not
Speaker 1: fun at all when you think about a visitor in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Great place to watch a game, not a great place
Speaker 1: to pitch if you're a pitcher. What about San Francisco
Speaker 1: and that feels like it there's parts of it that's
Speaker 1: a good pitchers ballpark. Yeah, the new stadium's fantastic as
Speaker 1: far as the weather. You know, the weather at old
Speaker 1: Candlestick could have been you start at seventy and you
Speaker 1: finish at forty. It seemed like when the layer would
Speaker 1: come in over that. I don't know who thought putting
Speaker 1: a stadium right behind that rock was a good idea,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't. I'm a fan of the new stadium
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Very fair. If you hit it down
Speaker 1: the lines, you can go. So they've they've maximized what
Speaker 1: I thought was the impossible, in the fact that they
Speaker 1: hit so many home runs. I didn't think that was
Speaker 1: part of the I mean, this has been the most
Speaker 1: amazing year of storylines, of predictions that you never thought
Speaker 1: would happen. They're leading the case for the most up
Speaker 1: predictable success story. How does it happen? You know what,
Speaker 1: I'd like to say, this is not a formula for
Speaker 1: success long term. Year to year. They have made every
Speaker 1: right decision. They've had every right player in the right spot,
Speaker 1: give their organization, managerial all their strategy. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that can continue year to year. You can't keep
Speaker 1: plugging in those kind of things. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: they're older guys, that which I'm a fan of because
Speaker 1: you know, analytics is you're old, so you can't play
Speaker 1: at thirty. They've had a little chip on their shoulder,
Speaker 1: They've been healthy and they have delivered big time. So
Speaker 1: that has been a kind of like an organization filled
Speaker 1: with players that you see there longer than most and
Speaker 1: it's paying off. They won a few championships this year.
Speaker 1: I'll be the first to tell you I got on
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, no chance. They weren't even
Speaker 1: in the discussion. And that's why I said, it's the
Speaker 1: most remarkable year I can ever remember. From a team
Speaker 1: that maybe should have won seventy five to eighty games
Speaker 1: won one hundred and six or seven. That to me
Speaker 1: is a great credit to their organization. Are you all
Speaker 1: on board with the playoff format, the one game playoffs. No, no,
Speaker 1: I never have been. I can say that consistently. I
Speaker 1: understand why it was put in place. Ironically, it was
Speaker 1: probably put in place because of the nineteen ninety three
Speaker 1: Giants and Braves race to the Pennant and we wanted
Speaker 1: on the last day and the Giants had one hundred
Speaker 1: and three wins and didn't make the playoffs. There comes
Speaker 1: the one game playoff to try to secure a team
Speaker 1: like that situation. Now fast forward this year. If both
Speaker 1: these teams end up not moving on, you're going to
Speaker 1: see a change. I believe in the playoff format because
Speaker 1: you it's hard to imagine that you would have one
Speaker 1: hundred and five win team, which easily could lose to
Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals not move on and our whole
Speaker 1: season is based on the you know, most wins. I think,
Speaker 1: if anything, Dan, I would tweak if they don't want
Speaker 1: to make can hold sale change. I would tweak a
Speaker 1: scenario where you have tonight, the Cardinals should have to
Speaker 1: beat the Dodgers twice, right, I mean the Dodgers won
Speaker 1: one hundred and some games. The Cardinals did a great
Speaker 1: job down the stretch, but the team with the best
Speaker 1: record in the wild cards should at least have an
Speaker 1: advantage to where they only have to win once and
Speaker 1: the second team has to win twice. Personally, I'd like
Speaker 1: to see playoffs always have a two out of three
Speaker 1: no matter what scenario you set out. It needs to
Speaker 1: be a series. You need to have a fighting chance.
Speaker 1: And I think we need to start rewarding the teams
Speaker 1: who have the best record, give them a buy so
Speaker 1: that when they play a team that's already played two
Speaker 1: out of three, there's your incentive for the team that's
Speaker 1: won all those games. Otherwise, you know, it is a
Speaker 1: little bit more random. Let me look at last night's game.
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone takes out Garrett Cole, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you run the risk of embarrassing your pitcher, your
Speaker 1: three hundred million dollars pitcher in a situation like that.
Speaker 1: I meant Aaron Boone for doing it, because I think
Speaker 1: it was the right call. But man, that's difficult for
Speaker 1: a guy who's probably got his job on the line,
Speaker 1: and you're going out there and taking the ball from
Speaker 1: your starting pitcher. What did you think of that move
Speaker 1: at the time, Well, let's just say Garrett Cole. The
Speaker 1: last three outings haven't been Garrett Cole, and I know
Speaker 1: he had the hamstring injury, and there's probably something to
Speaker 1: do with that, because when Garrett Cole doesn't look like
Speaker 1: Gret Cole, you throw everything out the window because it's
Speaker 1: that one game scenario that you needed a great performance
Speaker 1: and it just didn't look like he was on the
Speaker 1: top of his game. You don't have the time and
Speaker 1: luxury as a manager to factor in all that. So
Speaker 1: I thought it was a really good move to just
Speaker 1: at least give them, and it worked out because he
Speaker 1: got out of an impossible situation. Holmes did a great job.
Speaker 1: So those one game playoffs or another reason why I
Speaker 1: don't like it, they're manager killers. You basically don't have
Speaker 1: the luxury of a lot of things because the panic
Speaker 1: and stress on that game doesn't leave you any room
Speaker 1: for air. And Yankies aren't good enough to hate anymore. Right,
Speaker 1: one World Series in seventeen years, that's a good point,
Speaker 1: because you know, the stress on the Dodgers and the
Speaker 1: Yankees was the highest it's ever been. The Dodgers won
Speaker 1: the World Series last year, they hadn't won in thirty
Speaker 1: some years, those two iconic organizations. There's so much pressure
Speaker 1: on the Yankees right now and certainly that organization for
Speaker 1: what they built. But you're right, this year just was
Speaker 1: a roller coaster year. They've been through everything. Their offense
Speaker 1: was hot and cold, and I think that's not a
Speaker 1: good formula for a deep run. I mean, they're certainly
Speaker 1: going to be right back there next year and could
Speaker 1: be the favorites. Who knows what the off season brings.
Speaker 1: But this year was the streakiest, most unpredictable baseball season
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. You're talking about teams losing records on
Speaker 1: the road, and then you're talking about home teams, teams
Speaker 1: that have won games over ten in a row multiple times.
Speaker 1: So it's a crazy year. It's one of those that
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were waiting to see,
Speaker 1: after the COVID year of these short, short season, how
Speaker 1: it was going to play out. He's John Smoltz, the
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, and he'll be part of Fox Sports
Speaker 1: ones broadcast Red Sox at the Rays Game one and
Speaker 1: also Game two that starts tomorrow night. I look at
Speaker 1: the Dodgers situation where you've been great all year long,
Speaker 1: but then you run into one of the hottest teams
Speaker 1: that we've seen in recent memory. How do you handicap
Speaker 1: this game with these two Well, the beautiful thing for
Speaker 1: both teams they have the pitcher they want on the mound.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get into these games you don't have the luxury.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers were almost forced to play that. It would
Speaker 1: have been interesting to see how the Dodgers played the
Speaker 1: one game playoffs to determine the division championship had they
Speaker 1: been in that spot. So I think there's some relief
Speaker 1: in that regard where they can put everything towards this
Speaker 1: one game. But it's a high stress and kind of
Speaker 1: flip with the coin Adam Wainwright the veteran, of course,
Speaker 1: my former teammate. Both pitchers know how to pitch in
Speaker 1: big moments, so that won't be unnerving. It's going to
Speaker 1: come down to who can, kind of like last night's game,
Speaker 1: who can score first and create pressure on the manager.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but notice, and maybe there's nothing to it.
Speaker 1: When Kershaw was pulled from his last start, he kept
Speaker 1: the ball. He walked off the mound with the ball.
Speaker 1: I know he doesn't need Tommy John surgery. He's been
Speaker 1: through an awful lot. Do you think there was anything
Speaker 1: too that that Kershaw kept the ball when he walked
Speaker 1: off the field. You know, until you mentioned it, probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have thought twice about it. But having the kind
Speaker 1: of career he's had and where he's at his career,
Speaker 1: I know this year there was a lot of talk
Speaker 1: possibly of could he be headed for Tommy John? You
Speaker 1: know you're talking about Kershaw and Verlander two. I consider
Speaker 1: surefire Hall of famers that have some life left in
Speaker 1: their game and probably don't need anything more to get there.
Speaker 1: But I know Verlander coming back from Tommy John as
Speaker 1: an older guy, he wants to win a lot more games,
Speaker 1: and I would think Kershaw is similar. But winning the
Speaker 1: World Series maybe takes a lot of less stress off
Speaker 1: of him from having to prove to people so many
Speaker 1: much more. But it's a great question. I didn't even
Speaker 1: think about it because you don't ever take a ball
Speaker 1: off the mound as the season ends. Yeah, you don't,
Speaker 1: like you have to hand it to the manager when
Speaker 1: he comes out that that's part of the ceremony there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting, interesting thing to follow us. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are monitoring that very closely. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: going to miss the postseason because he's got that foearm
Speaker 1: elbow injury. Like it, I don't know exactly what that is.
Speaker 1: It more elbow than forearm. John. You know, typically in
Speaker 1: the picture the opposites work, or the top of the
Speaker 1: arm is going to be you're concerning here. If it's
Speaker 1: the bottom side, you're not as concerned. But four arms
Speaker 1: never a great issue to have unless it truly is
Speaker 1: not connected to the elbow, which is hard to imagine
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't. A lot of four arm injuries usually
Speaker 1: turn into what people talk about as a precursor to
Speaker 1: Tommy John, but not necessarily in his case, it could
Speaker 1: be something different. Before you go, introduce America again to
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, I just don't get it. Like
Speaker 1: I really am in awe of what they've been able
Speaker 1: to do. I will spend all day Thursday getting introduced
Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay Rays because I'll be doing a
Speaker 1: deep dive into their rotation, which is almost brand new.
Speaker 1: Their bullpen is as interchangeable parts. Their offense seems to
Speaker 1: just slug Wander Franco is the real deal because when
Speaker 1: everyone was wanting him up in the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: and they delayed his clock for obvious reasons. But they're
Speaker 1: going to start two rookies that you rarely see from
Speaker 1: a team that almost won the World Series, that left
Speaker 1: two of their stud starters to go somewhere else. The
Speaker 1: Rays are an amazing organization that quite frankly, a lot
Speaker 1: of people stop trying to figure out and they just
Speaker 1: go with it. And when they push a button, you
Speaker 1: know it might be the right button. Of course, last
Speaker 1: year the button that was pushed in Game six build
Speaker 1: their formula of while they went about their business. But
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, would wonder what would
Speaker 1: have happened if they left him Blake Snell. They don't
Speaker 1: even think about it. They turned the page because they
Speaker 1: are on a quest to prove everybody wrong. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: great to catch up with you, John, have fun with
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and the Rays. Thank you, bun looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. Thanks. That's John Smoltz, all of Famer
Speaker 1: MLB Network Analyst MLB on Fox Analyst. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get reintroduced to the Raise again. Feels like it's, you know,
Speaker 1: a right of fall where you go, Hey, let's look
Speaker 1: at the Raise and how much they don't spend. I
Speaker 1: think they are twenty sixth in spending. That's right, they're
Speaker 1: twenty six out of thirty teams seventy million. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: spend two hundred and more this season than the Rays.
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Speaker 1: ask for all right, a couple of surprising moves. At
Speaker 1: least it felt like that the Patriots have released the
Speaker 1: former defensive player of the year stuff On Gilmore, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have released Jalen Smith, who was their defensive
Speaker 1: captain as late as last game. And I think Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith that's still They have to pay him seven a
Speaker 1: little over seven million dollars this year, but there was
Speaker 1: a guarantee if he got hurt in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: that he'd get around nine million dollars. I think because
Speaker 1: they have depth at the linebacking position now that he
Speaker 1: was available, a lot more depth than I thought. This
Speaker 1: guy was the captain. He was a Cowboys defensive captain
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, mc glove. I think they switched schemes
Speaker 1: for the new coordinator too. And I don't understand this
Speaker 1: at all, but he's not a good fit for dan
Speaker 1: Quinn's four to three or whatever. Okay, you know how
Speaker 1: linebackers have different styles. I have no idea. Stephan Gilmore
Speaker 1: has been released. He was a holdout. He I think
Speaker 1: was getting paid fourteen million and then wanted more and
Speaker 1: so he's now available. I was surprised you couldn't trade
Speaker 1: these guys. But also Stephan Gilmore. It feels like Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is on the phone to him now or has
Speaker 1: probably already been, to say hey, if they don't want
Speaker 1: you to come on down here. I think that he
Speaker 1: could slip right into the backfield, just like Richard Sherman did. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: there are some reports that the Patriots have been trying
Speaker 1: to trade Gilmore this whole time, but there just weren't
Speaker 1: any couldn't get a deal done. Well, I guess you
Speaker 1: got a factor in that salary and maybe that's the
Speaker 1: reason why. But what's he going to get paid now?
Speaker 1: If he goes to another team, how much can that
Speaker 1: team spend on him? Yeah, mcclubin. You know who really
Speaker 1: needs these guys? Kansas City Chiefs. I watch it on
Speaker 1: today their defense Toothless. Wouldn't that he'd be great with him? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kansas City. That's that's not a good defense. I mean
Speaker 1: it's not Yeah, you're gonna have those moments, As as
Speaker 1: I say all the time, there's gonna be a moment
Speaker 1: where your defense has to do something. In Kansas City,
Speaker 1: you just wonder do they have playmakers who can make
Speaker 1: something happen when they're gonna need to. I know, you
Speaker 1: got to outscore everybody. You gotta put up at least
Speaker 1: I mean, the pressure on the Chiefs offense is you've
Speaker 1: got to put up at least thirty points every single game.
Speaker 1: And that's not a guarantee you're going to win. And
Speaker 1: that's a lot of pressure for Mahomes in company. Yeah. Point,
Speaker 1: it seems like the Packers have been searching for defensive
Speaker 1: backs for about fifteen years and never get set at
Speaker 1: that position. For gilmore competitive team. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: all caperm but you got yeah, you got to be
Speaker 1: able to pay him. We have the free agent game
Speaker 1: that PAULI has, an NFL game. Give me the rules here. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a game called Chiefs Bucks Other. I think
Speaker 1: we have custom music for this second. Okay, Okay, that's new.
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith is no longer a cowboy. Within the next
Speaker 1: three days, he will be a Chief, a Buck or other.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go other other. I'm gonna go other. This
Speaker 1: game is going quick, kind of quick. Yeah, Stephan Gilmour,
Speaker 1: former Defensive Player of the Year defensive back, Chief Buck other.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much these teams have to spend.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sorry, I'm gonna go Chiefs. That is the
Speaker 1: Chief Buck or other game. Yeah, that's it. That's a
Speaker 1: very quick game. I don't know if this is gonna
Speaker 1: catch on Niche Yeah, I need players to get cut. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see Willie in Alabama. Hi, Willie, what's on your
Speaker 1: mind today? Hey? D love or show. I have a
Speaker 1: question for you. Do you think that Urban Meyer it
Speaker 1: is a dead man walking? And if so, get a reprieve? Um?
Speaker 1: Do I think he's dead man walking? Um? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It certainly feels like that. Now, it doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: that owner is gonna go. Let's let's cut him loose now.
Speaker 1: You know he got two home games coming up. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're able to get a win against Tennessee and
Speaker 1: or Miami. That certainly helped. I was wondering is it
Speaker 1: a good thing they have a home game or a
Speaker 1: bad thing that they have a home game? And Urban
Speaker 1: Meyer has sort of changed the narrative here he was
Speaker 1: on his radio show and he does this every week.
Speaker 1: You imagine going into that radio show last night. Imagine
Speaker 1: the host, what can I ask? Do I press him?
Speaker 1: Is there follow up questions here? M Urban Meyers said,
Speaker 1: it's it's basically on the players right now. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: still got music playing, Yeah, Urban. With this distraction trying
Speaker 1: to get the team refocused on a game in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: the players are going to get questions throughout the week.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, how do you attempt to kind of focus
Speaker 1: away from the distraction to get a team ready to
Speaker 1: play football game. I don't believe that's in my court.
Speaker 1: We're going to do the best. But you know this,
Speaker 1: Jeff as well as anyone, that the leaders on our
Speaker 1: team are going to make that decision. It depends how
Speaker 1: much trust you have built up with him. How we
Speaker 1: structure everything this week and focus on winning that game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be as extremely clear as I can. Our
Speaker 1: staff is working our tails off. The ownership of this
Speaker 1: team is with the players. Okay, he's got to take
Speaker 1: ownership of this. You can't say now it's up to
Speaker 1: the players. It's still his situation. He created this. I
Speaker 1: don't think you can put this onto players because then
Speaker 1: you can blame the players like well, you know, the
Speaker 1: players didn't react. You know, they're supposed to take ownership
Speaker 1: of this. You know it's about them going out on
Speaker 1: the football field. It is, but they have a tough
Speaker 1: enough job going out in the football field where they're
Speaker 1: going to be an underdog in every game this year.
Speaker 1: Now you've added this, and that's not fair to the players.
Speaker 1: You just say, look, this is on me, and you
Speaker 1: know I have to do my job, prepare them, make
Speaker 1: sure they go out there and you know, we win
Speaker 1: these football games. It's not on the players to do
Speaker 1: something with what Urban created. It's on the players to
Speaker 1: go out and take the game plan out there and perform,
Speaker 1: not hey, by the way, you know, with game plan
Speaker 1: and make sure you beat the Titans and stop Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry and then you'll beat the Dolphins up. Can you
Speaker 1: take this baggage out there too? That's not fair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not fair to them. But I will say it
Speaker 1: feels like it's open season on Urban Meyer because you
Speaker 1: can't hide behind a national championship. At Florida, he was
Speaker 1: winning nobody. He was impenetrable. Ohio State, same thing, wins championships,
Speaker 1: playing for championships, you're good. Nobody's going after you in
Speaker 1: Gainesville or Columbus, they're not. Now it's to the NFL.
Speaker 1: Even though it's Jacksonville, a smaller market, it feels like
Speaker 1: it's open season on urban Meyer. This happens. All it
Speaker 1: takes is one item, and then you got people ready
Speaker 1: to pounce. Look at Tiger Woods, impenetrable. He was winning,
Speaker 1: he's the greatest. And then that Thanksgiving night, Then after that,
Speaker 1: well I heard, I saw sources close to me tell
Speaker 1: me everybody had the green light urban Meyer. It's the
Speaker 1: green light on urban Meyer. Right now. If you have
Speaker 1: a video, you you have a police report with Tiger,
Speaker 1: you had pictures, you had Oh did she try to
Speaker 1: go after him with a seven iron? He didn't have
Speaker 1: any shoes. He ran out of the house, hit a
Speaker 1: fire hydrant. Now, all of a sudden, it's open season.
Speaker 1: Then it's somebody else is going to come in. Somebody
Speaker 1: else is going to come in. Everybody. All the secrets
Speaker 1: in the past, they're green light, and it feels like
Speaker 1: that with urban Meyer. But he put himself in this situation. Now,
Speaker 1: I know that there were there were people in players
Speaker 1: who said, well, you got to you gotta go home
Speaker 1: with your team. It's a Thursday night game. He went
Speaker 1: from Cincinnati to Columbus and he has his restaurant there.
Speaker 1: It's weird. It's rare when a coach doesn't go with
Speaker 1: the accompany his team. I think just the fact that
Speaker 1: they played in Ohio, two hour drive up to Columbus,
Speaker 1: he got to see family, grandkids. It's just that doesn't
Speaker 1: hold water when you realize that he's out of a
Speaker 1: bar and what happened at the bar. But it's open
Speaker 1: season here. Yeah, McClean you commented on this yesterday. But
Speaker 1: how important is it to win one of these next two?
Speaker 1: I know him, boy, I think I think his career
Speaker 1: is hanging in the balance here. I do because if
Speaker 1: they lose the next two, when's their bye week. I
Speaker 1: just don't see him. Yeah, I just don't see him surviving.
Speaker 1: And I had a source who told me, you know,
Speaker 1: Irvin has certainly taken himself out of the discussion at
Speaker 1: USC even though he wasn't going to get that job.
Speaker 1: He's not in that discussion. Not now. I got some
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