Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if they’ve seen enough from the Cowboys tonight to make them feel like they'll be anywhere close to elite this season. We head out to Vegas and check in with our guy Todd Fuhrman. Plus, more on the A’s playing their last game ever at the Coliseum in Oakland!
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In the biggest game of the night in Major League Baseball, the Hadres had a two nothing lead over the Dodgers into the seventh inning, and it looked like San Diego is just going to continue to motor on. However, the Dodgers have exploded for five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Although Freddie Freeman has just gotten injured. We'll have more on that coming up in a second, but a to nothing lead for the left the field. And I always say there's always the moments when the players don't know if the cameras are on, when you when you really get the great measure of what somebody is like.
And ceed Lamb is running off the field.
Tonight and he's coming off field, doesn't have his helmet, bare hands, because that did bare hands play into this coming off the field, no helmet, bare hands. He's running through the tunnel into the locker room and a kid who is at the edge is yelling at CD Lamb and asking him for his gloves. Now, Ceedee Lamb, I don't think has his gloves with him because as I said, he's.
You know, he's wearing bear and you just said that I'll cut off my hands.
So a kid is yelling for him and shouting a CD, can I have a pair of your gloves? Ceedee Lamb stops, sees the kid takes off his cleats. You are rooting for the giants, sucker, No takes off his cleats, runs over to where the kid because the kid is up higher than Ceede Lamb right, because he's up in the stands a little bit higher. He takes off both of his cleats and he runs over and he goes and he jumps up in the air, gives the kid the first cleat, kid grabs it, takes off, give the kid the second cleat, but he doesn't grab it and it drops and Ceedee Lamb catches it. He catches it the second time because a kid can't grab it, catches it a third time, and finally leaps up and the kid is able to get the cleat. He gives his cleats to a kid and he runs up the tunnel in his socks. Just an incredible moment right there, like this is you know, I keep seeing this and I go, this is just awesome.
Did any adult try to steal the cleats from me?
Is Zach Campbell jumped in front and tried to grab it, and then the guy that took the ball from that kid for Otani's no, no, you know, and no one's watching like you can tell like there's a camera rolling but Ceedee Lamb doesn't know if any cameras are rolling on here, so that's not like, oh, I know the camera's following me and I'm gonna do something good. Nobody's else's coming off the field. That looks like he's the last guy off the field, to be quite honest, maybe he was there, maybe he's coming off doing an interview with Thursday Night Football. We don't know when exactly this happened, but everybody else is on the field walking around as far as media members, he's one of the last ones on and he just comes in. There's no cameras around him. This is probably a camera that's a good thirty feet away from him that just happened to be rolling.
And you see ceed Lamb and.
You see him give the cleats to the kid, and it's just it's just such a great moment. I just retweeted out there on Twitter at how about a fresca? And I just love stuff like this, you know because in a time when athletes, when sometimes things they do so many things are calculated. Right, I'm gonna do this great thing because I know cameras are here, I'm gonna get publicity for it. But it's it's it's it's moments like this that I go, yeah, that that that's a really cool thing, right, like like Starling Marte. Right, as much as you know, I keep saying, just throw Starling Marte. Uh curve, curves and sliders that go five feet outside the strike zone. You can't lay off him right for all that, but I love Starling Marte because what he does is at the end of every inning, when he goes to warm up, he throws a ball to a kid in the outfield. So he goes out to right field, warms up before the inning, and always throws a ball to a kid before the inn So that's nine times a game that a kid will get a ball, Marty will warm up and throw them a ball. And that's like nobody knows that. Nobody knows that happens, right, And there's no cameras on Starling. I only know because when I go to Mets games, and you know, at Dodgers Day wherever it is, I see him and I see him do it, and it's a really really cool thing. Like the cameras aren't on for something like that, and the ammer's not on for this, and Cite Lamb goes and gives these kids his cleats, and not only that, he could have just thrown that second clean up there and then said, you know you couldn't grab it.
Hey, I gotta go, man, somebody else will pick that up and give it to you.
But no, no, three times three times ceedee Lamb does it and gives it to him. And he doesn't see the kid coming in. He has no idea because he's running by and the kid yells his name. He doesn't know anything about this kid could be wearing a Daniel Jones jersey for all he knows, like oh CDCD, and he still goes back and gives him as cleats.
By the way, a.
Fan of the game always got to be looking out for the younger ones.
And we see this with some regularity.
The glove, the glove thing has really become a coveted item. The arm bands, not the wristband with plays on, and that'd be kind of funny, but the you know, the other wristbands and you know sometimes embrace now and again you have the sleeves that'll get tossed up as well. So but to give the cleats man, that's some next level stuff right there. Man's that's a happy souvenir for a youngster. As Harry Carey would say, yeah, you.
Know, And for me, I'm like, boy, if I get a pair of cleats, are a parachute that I really like.
I'm not I'm not.
Giving them up. Man, Let's say, Hey, it takes me.
I got if I got really wild, break them in, you know, I get that off.
I'm good. Yeah, well yeah I got to I could have to double.
Yeah, I got to double not them, and I got to put the the the air fresheners in at night and everything. Ah, it's just very difficult. No, but look there's something we said because look a lot of players, they all like new stuff. Uh you know, you know we we've heard that many times from players. They want to look good, they want to wear new things all the.
Game, the game, custom painted, custom, you know, custom made, custom, paid, custom fitted.
Right. But still these are his cleats and you know, you know they still had some wear in him. Whatever it was.
And and he gave him to this kid, and that was it was. Really he doesn't know the cameras are on, and he does it and that's such a cool thing.
Well and he was smoking on that fifty five yard touchdown reception, so maybe he burned off the cleats.
It's you know, that's never happened in NFL history. Wids.
I'd like to see a wide receiver catching a ball, running for a touchdown, and he's so fast and so far behind.
The guy's chasing him. He lights up a.
Cinnarette and just smokes as he's You know, he would have gotten the same fifteen yard taunting penalty that he got anyway, So what the hell's the difference?
You want to talk about our soft call?
My goodness, lighting up a heater on number eighty eight offense, that's a fifteen yard penalty to be enforced on the kickoffs.
Kane Lamb was doing.
His tribute to Len Dawson on the play. He sat down on his helmet in the end zone and lit a cigarette.
You just seem he's running for a touchdown and then just like a big puff of smoke comes out of the ear holes of.
The helvet because guy's smoking a cigarette. You can't catch me.
I'm still running, still running with a cigarette, and he's coming out of the ears of the helvet.
So excitable. How got you all giddy? Because the Dodgers.
Clinched the chiefs idiot that was smoking in the locker room back in the day, Dawson. Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
At the halftime of the Super Bowl, that famous video of him having a heater and drinking a fresca, right, like, that's that's that famous video of halftime a super Bowl, the one they won, right, so that was Super Bowl too.
So be honest, that's really why you call yourself? How about a fresca?
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I yeah, and that's why I'm only five nine, because I smoked so much when I was a kid.
It's stunted my ground. That's what it was, was.
Me not sleeping, drinking coffee and bad.
Yeah. I could have been six seven, six eight, Yeah, I could have been that.
Cake, could have been a giant Joel.
That's cigarettes.
Too many cigarettes me and it's just smoking cigarettes with each other.
That's all cesspenous. We hadn't had his name on the show in a while. I'm gonna pull one out for him right now.
Does that back to a Colosseum highlight? Remember that throw at the Colosseum? Oh yeah, yeah?
Could there we wait? Wait, which which throw? What are you talking about?
Really? Look it out? You don't deserve it. Then you.
Said Colosseum, and I'm thinking, yeah I remember, but yes, yes, from from left field, from the corner.
All the way home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, he wasn't gonna fire up the USC marching.
No, I was just because you know what, you got me because my head got ahead of my mouth. And I'm thinking, could there be a cigarettes podcast where like athletes just get around smoke cigarettes and talk about sports.
Dude, we should get that together. We could find that and then they just smoke cigarettes. They can bring whatever they need.
Yeah, they have comedians getting coffee and cars. We could have athletes smoking cigarettes in a room.
A lot of hiking videos. It's too much exercise. We're not doing that.
No, no, no, no, no, why would you want that's?
How about we do one when we take people bowling.
And then every time they talk, you can't hear them because you hear the and he may have.
Said something dinners and never call him again. That's right, Hey mom, Good times.
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swollen Dome.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the tirec dot Com Studios. So yeah, look, so for the Cowboys, they hold off the Giants and they win twenty to fifteen, and I know that. Look, I come down hard on the Cowboys tonight because they just didn't look.
Good well, and they didn't cover for the seventy eight percent of the population that be minus five and a half.
That that that is true, That is, they did not.
They not seventy eight percent of bets.
Uh.
But the Cowboys did do exactly what they needed to do. They needed to win more than anything, right, because if you lose tonight, the season was over, like that was it. You're you're one in three and you can't beat the Giants, a team that you regularly steamroll, the season would have been over. So now now they're two and two and things are still possible for them. Right. I'm not saying that I'm coming from the from the aspect of I just don't see that this team is that great. I don't see anything that tells me, Hey, the Cowboys are gonna get it going.
Who's gonna run the football?
They're gonna find Deuce Vaughan finally week nine and give him the ball and he's gonna be great now of course, not that they're gonna find another wide receiver that's gonna catch a ton of pass. No, what's Ceedee Lamb and maybe Ferguson and maybe that's what they have going on. They're limited right and defensively, who knows whether Micah Parsons, you know, he left the game with an injury tonight. You know, obviously they have ten days off in between games, but Digs got hurt too.
This is already a defense that.
Has not been good, that's gotten torched by a high level quarterback in Lamar Jackson, a mid level quarterback, and Derek Carr and a low level quarterback, and Daniel Jones who couldn't throw deep and still through for like two seventy seven and nearly pulled off the upset tonight. So I just don't see for the Cowboys, where hey, the sun is shining and we're gonna be great right now, the NFC East isn't as good as we thought of it. No, the Commanders might be a little bit better, the Giants might be a little bit worse. The Eagles are still the Eagles. Everything is still where it is as far as the division. But you're the Cowboys and you're saying this is about playing one or two weeks into January, you know, an outside of that, and I just don't see it with this team. And I don't see how suddenly something happens in their formula to change things right, because they didn't go out and get anybody.
To make this team better.
In the offseason, Jerry Jones decided, I'm not gonna spend right, so it's the same team as last year. And when the same team as last year isn't good enough. When you're a year older, you don't suddenly just get better. So I don't If I could see a ride to the rescue, great, I could see that. Like for the Jets, I could see, Hey, if Aaron Rodgers keeps getting better and better, oh my god, they might be unbeatable. Hey if Josh Allen really is better without Stefan Diggs and he can spread the ball around, guess what. The Bills might be the best team in the conference. If the Steelers stick with Justin Fields and don't go back to Russell Will so they could be in the AFC Championship. There's certain teams that have talent that I can see the possibility of growth for. I can see them from this point in the season to the end going all right, this is why they got so good, this is why they were elite because player X or Schemex was able to go to have a positive trajectory. I just don't see that trajectory anywhere with the Cowboys, Like what, like Dak is gonna be better than he was last year, He's gonna throw the ball more. I see the Lamb's gonna have a bigger year he did a year ago. Like, I don't know where that growth is gonna be from the Cowboys.
Yeah, I think you're looking at in the secondary. You got Digs back, so that was the one big acquisition, a guy coming back off injury, right, But Bland got hurt and eventually he'll return to the secondary, so that shores up a little bit. We'll see what the results of the MRI on Micah Parsons are. But through the first couple of weeks of the season he was playing, when he played well as a one man gang, wasn't getting a lot of support, right, and that was called out time and again, and even his contribution at times. You know, we even highlighted it during the course of the show tonight. And Andrew Thomas did a fantastic job on him in his pass rush. At one point it was fourteen head to head one on one matchups and there was only one pressure allowed. Did have a nice stunt on him where he crippled the ball carrier five yards behind the line of script mid Jamaine. That was a blow up kind of play. But overall, you know you've got that side. Okay, they'll they'll be functional and they've got some winnable games on the schedule. When you look at it from the what Zimmer and the defense are building offensively unless Dalvin Cook can suddenly turn back time and search share highlight here that you're not getting anything from the run game, right ric O'donald's just a guy.
Ezekiel Elliott was at his.
Peak when Jerry Jones and company found him on that island and you know, hanging out on the beach in Mexico a couple of years ago. Beyond that, you don't have much and you've got two receivers that you trust.
I mean, look at Geyton. He had a couple of big plays for them last week. The only time he was on the field with any consequence. Today he was committing penalties on kickoffs.
And and with a you know, pass interference that negated what was a pretty good place. So you know, you've got Ferguson, You've got Ceedee Lamb. You need to find another more consistent option in the receiving game for Dak Prescott. Like I said, I love Brandon Aubrey, and I do a somewhat tongue in cheek, but he can't be your best player. You can't win consistently into January just kicking field goals. You gotta be able to finish drives. And that's why, as much as I love Pittsburgh, I need to see more than Boswell, not bos Lee. Boswell by the way, Dallas and Pittsburgh.
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I keep waiting for somebody. YEO, Hot round, Hot round, get that camera off.
Champagne flowing. Dodgers clinch YNL West title. They're eleventh title in the last twelve seasons. They will now turn their attention to two things, Freddy Freeman's health and the playoffs. As far as Freddie Freeman goes, he was seen in a walking boot following the game tonight in the Dodger locker room, turned his ankle a little bit trying to evade a tag at first base in the seventh inning. Uh but he will have some time most likely, uh to heal. I got to think we've seen the last of him in the regular season. The Dodgers now head to Colorado with the NL West title in the shirtless kershaw Yoh now we got we got shirtless curse Shaw answering questions right now. Uh So again, I say, I've seen a bunch of guys in no shirts answering questions.
It's just like, just just like my house. This is what people come to the door. I got I answer the door with no shirt on. Hey, what do you want? I'll answer questions for you. Uh So the Dodgers are back in the playoffs.
Yeah, they are looking for a World Series title. What kind of favorites are they? Are they even close to being the favorites? Let's go to Vegas. Joining us now in the hot line. Longtime front of the show, former rots maker at Caesars. Check out the bet the Board podcast. You see him on CBS as well. It is our man in Sin City, Todd Furman, Tom, what's happening?
Bud's vote to great Lou Brown? We wear caps and sleeves in this league, gentlemen. That's how things kind of work.
I was going to quote Lou Brown ago, nice catch, Hayse, don't ever like to do that again.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean you may hit, I mean, you may hit like me, but you never mind, we'll believe it.
All right.
So as we sit now, we're seeing clinching happening in Major League Baseball going through here. If I to say to you partlay the World Series teams for me, who are you recommending?
I mean, look, I mean you see the landscape of the National League. It's hard to make a compelling case for the Dodgers is a short shot. You wonder how they're able to cobble together twenty seven outs on a gaming game out basis with a staff that's really left something to be desired. We know, from an offensive capability standpoint, they check a lot of the boxes. But I'd be more compelled to make a case for, you know, maybe the Phillies or the Padres that come out of the National League. I don't think the Brewers have enough in terms of their ability generate offense. And while we've seen some of the Cinderella teams that have to continue to be working with this playoff mentality, you know, maybe it does create a pass to the Diamondbacks if they're able to get in, because I do think from a pitching staff standpoint, that group is as talented as any as far as the American League is concerned. Look, I grew up a Yankee fan, a roof of the Yankees, but I don't think that they have what it takes to get out of the American League. Houston still has plenty more questions that have to be answered than anybody. And while I think people sleep on the Guardians for some of their offensive shortcomings, Look, it's a bullpen that's more than capable of, you know, buttoning things up in the seventh, eighth, and ninth inning. So I'd be looking to come from off the pace and maybe take a shot with the Guardians.
From the bookmaker's side of things, though, the Dodgers Yankees is best case scenario worse.
I mean yeah, I mean look from a handle standpoint. From a TV viewership for Fox, I mean, people want to see Dodgers Yankees, and maybe it's the one time where you know, these two teams, while having short odds, you know, don't look to be the perfect batch of postseason teams capable of making a run. But honestly, you look at the landscape all over and it wouldn't shock if any of these teams got hot enough to go out there and win the World Series for the first time in a long time. It doesn't feel like we have a dominant side. And you know, as we know, a playoff baseball can be more fickle than any other postseason. All takes the team getting hot and you know, never looking back to try and capture the ultimate goal in the Commissioners Trophy.
All right, Tom, we saw the Cowboys beat the Giants tonight. We look ahead and nowt of some of the action this week and got the two Bet the Board podcast up one college football, and obviously when everybody wants to know, you got Alabama, you got Georgia.
It's a two point spread. What do you like in this game?
You know, I wish I had a strong conviction from a betting standpoint. If I was forced to bet this contest, I would lean towards Georgia as the number trends down closer to pick them. I know it's a Bulldogs team that's a little bit banged up, but they've had two weeks to kind of correct some of what went wrong in that thirteen to twelve win at Lexington against the Kentucky Wildcats where they close north of a three touchdown favorite. I mean, assuming the number holds here and there's a chance we could see a flip of favorites, this will mark the first time in one hundred and thirteen games going all the way back to two thousand and seven, that Alabama could play a game in Tuscaloosa where they would be listed as a home underdog. It's the longest streak we've seen in the FBS in thirty years. I will say the overtook a little bit of money earlier today the forty eight and a half turned into forty nine and a half and fifty. Kalin de Bore probably going to come in with an aggressive game plan, looking at test Kirby Smart's defense that hasn't given up a touchdown in four games. But you know, a fascinating chess match. I found myself on the over in the SEC title game last year. Didn't get there Kirk because Kirby was stubborn. You have to think, if you have a quarterback that's going to be one of the top guys off the board, you need to trust your ability to get after the Alabama secondary. It's a group that potentially would have given up some real big plays against USF if they had a quarterback cable of completing the deep ball.
Top twenty five matchup Louisville at Notre Dame. Seven points the number in Louisville yet to commit a turnover, forty six the total. Can they go and sting the Irish at home?
It'll be interesting to see if Louisville can put together a more complete offensive effort than what we saw last week. Now. I know they did cover in a thirty one to nineteen win against Georgia Tech, but needed a defensive touchdown and a special team score to get them across the finish line. Struggled to really hold down that Georgia Tech offense led by Haines King, and well, Notre Dame doesn't scare you much with a vertical passing game by any stretch. What the Irish do you bring to the table is one of the more underrated defenses in the country. Al Golden should have a few wrinkles to try and take away some of Bill's limited weapons. Tyler Schuck, though a talented quarterback, I know he has been oft injured through stop at Georgia, Georgia, Oregon, excuse me, in Texas Tech. But at the same time he is the ultimate facilitator. This number at seven doesn't interest me much, but I do think we could see defense ruling today, especially early on. So if you can find a twenty three in the first half, that would probably be the way I would look to Tangle and make sure you're checking those weather forecasts. We could see a little bit of a residual rain from the hurricane impacting South Bend right around pickup time.
Vegas insider Todd Furman our guest to Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the tyrec dot Com studios. Nowt if you listen to Todd last week, he told you how interested he was watch the Denver Broncos problems they can give to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And you probably said, wait what and look what happened this week, Todd. I know part of your bet the Board podcast in the NFL, you like what the Bucks defense can do to Jalen Hurts.
Okay, so what can they do to Jalen Hurts they couldn't do to bon Nicks.
Well, what I think they do to Jalen Hurts is neutralize them offensively. Given the fact that Philadelphia will most likely be going into this game a little bit handcuffed, playing their second road game in as many weeks against an NFC Syals opponent and most likely going to be forced to do so without aj Brown dealing with that hamstring injury and Devonte Smith, who I don't anticipate clearing concussion protocol. And that's even before we get into the offensive line where the Eagles could be down late Johnson as well. We know how different this group looked offensively in the past, and they had Jason Kelsey and Lane Johnson missing time that overlap. I'm not sure they have the continuity from a veteran leadership standpoint yet. Mackai Becken landon Dickerson banged up, and when I look at what Tampa can do on the defensive side, you know Vitaveyas should be out there to clog the middle. And it just is the kind of game where you're going to have some weather, It could be a little bit of a slop fest out there. It feels like the big plays will be kept to a minimum and you will, no doubt get a much more focused Bucks team on the defensive side than the lethargic effort we saw last week, which was more a byproduct of the schedule anything else, and why it's led me to betting the Denver Broncos plus the six and a half. Didn't think it would come that easy, though, at the tune of a twenty six to.
Seven win, Todd as we sit here late on a Thursday night, the reports on Jordan Love is that he's quote unquote close packers with a couple of wins. With Malik Willis, they are either three or two and a half point favorites depending where you're shopping, based on what I'm looking at right here after the line open at four and a half? Does Sam Darnold continue his magic at Green Bay?
I mean look apparently like most players when they leave the Jets, that when their careers really take off.
Top and he's been to like.
Four other teams. He's been to like four other teams, as as Geno Smith as.
A cold, it takes time to.
Go away, and Benker Mayfield never played for the Jets, just so he never played for the Jets.
The stench of being a yet it takes a little while to wash off, and in the case of Sam Darnold, he had to wash the stent should be a Carolina panther off as well, which can be a lot for one man to kind of overcome during a short NFL career. But when you look at this Vikings offense, they've clearly been the surprise and Kevin O'Connell deserves a world of credit getting the best out of the former top draft pick who never lived up to his potential. But when you have some of the weapons that they'd like to do at their disposal, you're seeing that on full display. Brian Flores defensively, his schemes some unique things up, really putting opposing quarterbacks heads into a pretzel as they try and sort out what kind of looks they're going to see. This game is interesting because you mentioned the Jordan Love situation, and if Jordan Love does get upgraded, I expect Green Bay to leak out to probably a three and a half point favorite in the total to tick up as well. That's where I would look to jump in on the Vikings if I could get them plus the field goal. Oh, I should say plus three and a half. We're better in this spot. And maybe look to come under an inflated total. I think the Vikings will struggle to move the ball a little bit, as Shail Alexander against Justin Jefferson should be a fun match up, and I don't expect Jordan Love to be close to one hundred percent in this spot. So given the familiarity in the division, it feels like underdog and under make a world of sense if Love is back under center for the Green Bay Packers.
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is at Todd Ferman get the links out of the Bet the Board podcast, all his thoughts on all the other week four games in the NFL, other big college thoughts for the weekend coming up as well.
Todd, appreciate it, my friend. We will talk to you next week. Have a great one.
Always a pleasure and Smith. I don't often say nice things about the Mets, but the conundrum that Major League Baseball has created with the doubleheader on Mondays to get the Braves and Mats, who are going to have their rotations thrown completely into flux if they do get in the playoffs. One of the more head scratching moves that the MLB couldn't come up with a contingency plan, knowing that weather was going to impact the final two games of that series.
Yeah.
Well, look, if it's not interesting, if it's not the Mets, right, nothing's easy.
It's always fun, it's always interesting.
It'll make it mean that much more when they finally push the finish line.
Ah, thanks a bunch, buddy.
We'll talk to you next week. You got always to begin, all right, There goes Todd Furman.
Hey, speaking of Vegas, how about Mike and I give you.
Our weekly parlay where we take a player we like over under and we tell you what we think. We talked about this guy earlier in the week, and both you and I like him a lot. He was a big free agent pickup. The over under for Rashawn Johnson rushing yards this week for the Bears is twenty two and a half. I love this over. He's winning the job from DeAndre Swift, who is just not good right, and the Bears need some kind of production as they struggle to try to figure out Caleb Williams and going forward. And he's a guy that was drafted last year. They thought he was gonna jump in and be even better a year ago. He wasn't they signed Swift. He's not the answer. Johnson's getting a bigger role. He had to carries last week. I love over twenty two and a half yards of him.
This week, I would agree with you.
I think when you've got a bad offensive line, let's get a guy that likes to run north south as a bow to skipping and hopping east to west, as you've seen with DeAndre Swift.
I'm gonna take Michael Pittman.
Junior forty five and a half yards and I'm gonna take the under.
It's been awful thus far.
Eleven catches on twenty targets thirty one, twenty one, thirty six yards, that's what you've got. And the scattershot Anthony Richardson under center against the scheme of schemes the Pittsburgh defense. No thank you. Moving on, I'd rather take a shot that Alec Pierce finds another one from fifty yards out that falls into a bread basket. Either way, it's a no fly zone for me there.
Dude.
You can give me an over under of five yards from a Colts wide receivers in this game, and I'll take the under look.
He throws it to Pierce, enough that one falls in. But Miko true, at least at the five yard. Beyond that, I don't know.
Of his seventy five yards passing a fifty five yard to Alec Pierce and then everybody else is under five.
It's a tough watch, right, Seventy five doesn't mean it doesn't give you some fantasy numbers for the Richardson side of things once he runs the ball and et cetera. But well, I tell you that's sixty sixty minutes of hell to steal from Nolan Richardson.
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Time how to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. Special delivery Steve Desager has the latest are Stevo.
Dodgers had a chance to clinch tonight Hollow right.
Field Taylor calling for it.
Still yes the League West Covision tappions. That is the call on Dodgers Radio AM five seventy in Los Angeles. The Dodgers now four games over the Padres in the NL West with three games left in the regular season. They've clinched, as you mentioned, eleventh time in the last twelve years they won the division crown before this the Dodgers had eleven division titles total since they went to divisions back in the late nineteen sixties. Freddie Freeman did limp off with an ankle injury. X rays were negative. He's on crutches and in a walking boot. He's not going to have to play this weekend now that they've clinched. In fact, apparently he will stay back in LA and not go on the road, and Freeman said doctors and trainers are optimistic he can play the next Saturday. Dodgers won tonight seven to two over San Diego, getting five runs in the bottom of the seventh to take the lead. Earlier, it was the Yankees clinching the Al East, beating the Orioles ten to one. Aaron Judge with his fifty eighth home run. Minnesota lost at home in thirteen innings to Miami, eight to six, so the Twins are three games out of the final Ale Wild Card. Seattle is eliminated. Kansas City won with three runs stop of the ninth one, seven to four at Washington Detroit one. It's fifth in a row, four to three over Tampa Bay with two runs in the bottom of the eighth.
The Tigers host the.
White Sox starting tomorrow night. Oakland at home beat Texas today three to two, the a's last game in Oakland to the NFL contest Tonight. Dallas was a twenty to fifteen winner at the Giants Dak Prescott with two touchdown passes in the first half, including a fifty five year arder to Ceedee Lamb. Cowboys did have eleven penalties, and defensive end Micah Parsons left with an ankle injury.
X rays were negative.
Malik Neighbors in the lost twelve catches one hundred and fifteen yards. He left late with a concussion. The Giants went five for five on field goals but had no touchdowns. Giants as a team on the ground twenty four carries twenty six yards, so they've now lost seven times head to head in a row to Dallas and thirteen of their last fourteen matchups. Texans running back Joe Mixon misspractice again with an ankle injury. Eagles wide receiver aj Brown misspractice with the bad hamstring. Lions tight end Sam Laporta did not practice sprained ankle. In the WNBA Chicago reportedly fired coach Teresa Weatherspoon and guard Derreck Rose retired from the NBA. You know, guys, you've talked about WNBA tonight, and we talked about this before. By when Caitlin Clark's on, they get the most viewers. Prior to this season, no WNBA game had hit one million viewers since two eight, Candice Parker's debut. Now, including the playoff last night, twenty six w NBA telecast this season have top one million viewers, with Caitlin Clark involved in twenty two of the twenty six Back to.
You, that means four there she wasn't that's right, but.
Two of those were at the back end of TV doubleheaders after a.
Clark positivity though. Yeah, I mean you kept your lead.
Thank you, Steve.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Coming up next, we have something on show, Heyo Tani that might make the rest of Major League Baseball BEATPA, rest of Major League Baseball Baseball, the rest of Major.
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Baselss A piece of audio that there's a seventy percent chance you're gonna cry.
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Here it is by Mason.
He turns, He's ready, He throws in it, swung on and hit the third.
He was stuff up with it, Schuman.
He turns, he throws in the as a runner, Mason Miller slams the door on.
The Rangers as the curtain comes.
Down on fifty seven incredible years of a baseball at the Colisseum.
Yeah, moneyball music makes it hit a little bit different, doesn't It makes you want to cry.
I want to cry just hearing that.
Can we get the the Little Girl's Song to play us out to?
Oh no, but I'll call you a loser anytime you want me to. You such your loser, Mike, You such your loser. MI just enjoy the show.
Yeah, the demons in my head don't do that enough.
Jerk, You're such a losive. You wanted this song, I'm giving you.
The song sounds better when she sings it now it just sounds hateful.
How It ended today in Oakland for the A's their final game before the team moves to Sacramento and maybe Vegas, you.
Know, maybe back into the possome possum Man to Oakland Alameda County Coliseum at some point.
Make sure the coliseum still works, okay, because you may need to move back at some point. I'm just saying it may not work out in Vegas, so you might want to go back.
Yeah.
The biggest thing for me, though, Jason, was all the videos that showed up online and the photo tributes to the people that had been working there for thirty years, or the fans that were holding up here. I was in nineteen seventy five with my dad and I'm here for the final game and things like that. And you're talking hundreds of folks who now are displaced and have to go find new gigs, and fans that have to decide how often they want to go to Sacramento.
Yeah.
Look the ground screw guy who was crying doing the field for the last time.
Shoveling dirt and water bottles for people and crying.
You know. The thing is is that it looks to try to take such a really sad story and just you know, just it's a lot of sadness.
Whenever you see a team.
Have to move, it always they didn't have to.
No, it didn't right, And that's the thing, Right, I've had one of my teams move. I had the Whalers move from Hartford to Carolina. Uh, it's this is a little bit different. This is this is a one and more tried and true MLB franchises that that won multiple championships in the seventies, were the best team in baseball in the late eighties early nineties. You had Moneyball, the movie.
You knew it was ending.
And watching this game today, watching the pregame, uh, and seeing.
How the game went.
This was about all you could expect and the best you could expect from a situation like this. You knew it was going to be emotional. You knew there was going to be some bitter. You knew it was going to be bittersweet.
You knew you.
Wanted to be fun. You wanted to just have a day where you celebrated the team. And I saw all of that today. I could have sit and just watch them cut away to people in the stands wearing Raleigh Fingers jerseys and Mark McGuire Jerseys, Ricky Henderson Jerseys, Tim Hudson Jerseys, Barry Zito sings the Bleeping.
An the Man. I mean, he didn't even his guitar with him, though I know, well I don't. I don't.
I think he Bernie Williams now it's a jazz guitar.
It was.
It was as good a day as you could expect, knowing that this was the last time you were going to see a game in Oakland, and I don't know that it could have gone off any better. Right, the smoke bombs in the outfield, Mark Kottse's speech at the end, we had to keep it short because he was gonna cry.
Uh.
Just the love affair with the players and the fans. It really, it really was some kind of way.
To end it.
And as you know, Tony Stark said, right, part of the journey is the end. Right, this was the end, and you wanted it to end as well as it could. I don't know that it's gonna end any better than it did today with one hundred and.
Four mile an hour pitch, So you know, I wonder if the radar guns are juiced, But either way, it's it's all good. I mean, we just to see that stadium full. I mean I spent many a day there when I lived in the Bay Area. Oftentimes, you know, you find a way to get out of the office, and and that was where you found a little bit of respite, going to watch what you were covering the rest of your your waking hours building websites and responding to customer support requests. When I was at Yahoo and and you get on reports, I did.
But I got it. But I got to love those A's teams back in the day the huts.
We told you we're putting the covers on the reports now right, we told you're.
Putting No, I don't do covers.
We're doing it requires colored ink and that costs more money.
All of high britt and black.
All of the memo dropped off to you so you can so you can read that.
I told you I have the memo.
So while we say farewell to the A's, we say hello to another vision title for the Dodgers. Right eleven in the last twelve years. Two big takeaways from this game tonight. The Dodgers have not one of the things. I'll just say this, one of the things that's really been affecting the Dodgers.
Who is their emotional leader? Right?
You look at the playoffs and falling short. I don't see the emotion from the Dodgers that you get from other teams in the playoffs. And is that a part of why the Dodgers go home and don't win the World Series every year?
Yeah?
They put together a team for moneyball and using analytics and not moneyball, but using analytics, and yeah, this is kind of the team.
They put together. But I'll tell you what.
The last week and a half couple of weeks, they're finding show hey, Otani is their emotional leader. He is just a different guy on the base pass with the team, talking to guys, the celebration, his go ahead hit in the seventh, he's screaming as he's rounding first base. I think the Dodgers are finding that emotional and that emotional leader and a guy who doesn't need to do anything more for the team because he does everything. But now add this for show hao time.
Now at this point, it's why not this too?
Right?
I Mean, Kershaw can't be that guy from.
Where he is right now. He's on the comeback trail and all of that. Mookie Betts followed up, O'donnie's hit with a little bit of that, but that's generally not been his mo so for show. Hey, I mean he did it on the base paths when he said, all right, we got to generate runs somehow when guys were struggling. Here if I'm on second, does this help? Does this help? So why not be the screamer while you're at it?
Two?
Because the pitchers can't because they're ru on the mountain for crying out loud.
And I'll tell you this my other takeaway real quick. I know the Dodgers pitching is going to be just ever every day, flying by the seat of their pantscau. Their starting pitching is terrible, but they have locked down the eighth and ninth innings with Blake Trot and Michael Kopek. They are turning these games into seven inning games because these guys are both lights out.
Look at it.
You can't approve the starting pitching, hey, shorten the game, and that's what they're doing.
Your former white side ace is now closing games. Mike Harmen.
At least he's doing some good somewhere.
From Mike im Jason coming up next to my buddy Ben mallor this is