Hour 4 - Sam Mitchell's Awkward Back and Forth!?

Published Oct 12, 2024, 6:10 AM

Jason Smith & Mike Harmon talk shop on Sam Mitchell having an awkward back and forth with his co host on national TV.

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Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight, the Jason Smith Show with my bass friend Mike Harmon, live from the ti rack dot com studios. Tirec dot com will help you get there an unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free roadhaz protection over ten thousand recommended installers. Tirack dot com is the way tire buying should be. And tonight we saw an absolute thriller, one of those old school MLB playoff games like and we see a lot of those so far, and I kind of dig that in a in an era now where it's about bullpen management and and trying to escape, we have seen so many of these great too nothing to one pitching duels and it's it's it's kind of like the games, and especially with most of them being on during the day. It's kind of it kind of reminds me of, look, this is why baseball.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

It takes me back to when I was a kid running home from school at the end of the day because the playoff game was on that you know, the Orioles and the Angels were on at four o'clock and you had to run home to see it. And you know, you said, the Angels, Yeah, well the Angels were good Man.

Early eight times.

Yeah, they were good Man does lest.

Yeah, sure, Gary Pettis, Brian Downing, oh yeah. And and it's it's with all the playoff games on during the day. Basically, again, what baseball decided it's gonna play a bunch of games during the day. You know, you don't have to you can play. Nah, We're just gonna do it during the day. It's more fun. Uh So it's a it's a real fun throwback to see. And we had one of those games tonight again. You Darvish pitched a hell of the game for the Padres. He made two mistakes. Right, first pitch to Keik Hernandez was too much of a Hey, if he throws me a fastball over the heart of the plate. First pitch, I'm taking him downtown. That's exactly what he did to Oscar Hernandez Homers, and that was enough because the Padres were dead from the neck up the last two games batting. They had a bad approach to hitting. The last couple of games, they batted like they had given up. It's so incredibly embarrassing for the Padres to be worked by thirteen straight Dodger pitchers from the first inning of Game one of Game four all the way through Game five and the Dodgers win. And here they are now with a vibe again as they are hosting Game one of the NLCS.

Well, I'll tell you it was just crazy convergence right of the way. The timing of all this comes down and Dodger Land and a big expressway mess to trying to get to the game. So you saw it phill up as the game got underway. But you know, just a quick side note talk to my mom, Like right before first pitch, I was finishing walking the dog, getting ready for the show, and they had just had their power restored down in Florida. So a big shout out to all the responders and people work in the overtime. They were estimated Tuesday. They got it back in for thirty our time on a Friday night. So I'm like, hey, you're gonna watch baseball game.

She goes, I haven't slept in two days with.

News heavy wins and waiting on reports of anything, and now we're just we just got power back.

I'm going to bed.

So she'll be excited that, you know, she didn't miss a lot of runs because she loves, you know, the barrage of scoring. It's like that game was boring. Is exactly what I'll hear from her. But just the craziness right of offense early in this series and then operations shut down by this bullpen and the Padres bats going silent, Dave Roberts, no matter who he brought in scoreless, and the impatience of the Padre hitters was the thing that stood out to me down the stretch. You needed one guy to get on base, one bleeping guy. You have a good at bat instead, and nope, I'm gonna play hero ball. Yeah, and just out of sorts, and and just one after another, uh setting him down, even though they'd familiarity normally brings chaos. Not not here, Padres with no patience, Jason. And we see the series set up for the Dodgers Mets.

Well, and I'll say this right because you know tonight, watching the way this game shook out, what did I say last night? Hey, yeah, give me the Dodgers. Then what did I say in the seventh inning? I don't know that I want the Dodgers.

Now.

The Dodgers clearly looked like they want it way more than the Podres do. But I'm gonna be honest with you, Okay, there is nothing. And usually when you see a situation like this, and here's the Mets, who are the number six team and they've been in a magical run. And here are the Dodgers, who are the best team in the National League all year, and you see their record and they're seeding in the playoff that.

I see the Dodgers. They're talking a lot right now.

Keik Hernandez had the big moment where he cursed on National TV earlier tonight. You'll hear that again in a few minutes where he was asked, what's the difference in these Dodger teams compared to the other ones?

Yeah, we don't give.

A blank Max Munsey in the locker room saying, eighty percent of you blankers thought we were gonna lose. Yeah, the Dodgers have a vibe. Well, you know what, Mets got a vibe to. All right, Mets got a vibe too. I'm not coming into this thinking, oh man, how are we gonna compete. I'm coming in here thinking this is toe to toe because there's nothing you're gonna throw at me and throw at the Mets they haven't seen in the last ten days. What are you gonna throw at them? What are you gonna possibly give them? Ooh, but Otani? You know what, we just had an entire series with the guy that's been the best player in the National League for the past decade.

Guess what.

They went home in four games. Oh, the Dodgers' bullpen is good.

Guess what.

We just had the best bullpen in the National League and the best closer in the National League. Guess what. Both those teams are home now. Okay, yeah, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling good. The starting pitchers that the Mets have the advantage in the starting pitching department because they do. Yamamoto was really good tonight, but when's he gonna be able to pitch again? How many things is he gonna be able to go? Jack Flaherty has been a good pitcher. Has he been great? No, but he's been really good. And I love Flaherty. I love the moxie he brings. He's got that little bit something that oof and have toughness. That's really really good.

I dig that. Oh but what about the lineup?

What about the top heavy Dodgers lineup, Mets out of top heavy Phillies lineup. There's nothing you're gonna throw at me where suddenly it's the big bad Dodgers. This is we're going in toe to toe and it's gonna be a war, I'm telling you.

And if the Mets.

Take game one, because this is one of those series where boy, the Mets take Game one, that's gonna be it. But if the Met I'll tell you sometimes it's just game one. It's just this Mets take Game one, that's it. And the Dodgers take Game one, that's gonna make me really nervous because going back home down to zip I know it's hey, series doesn't really start to you lose on your home field. Yeah, but the other team is up two games to none. It's a really it's a it's a really big advacas. It blowing off that we lost the first two games on the road. Yeah, you normally lose that series, and that you normally lose that series, telling you Game one is gonna be huge, it's gonna be a huge opening. The Mets have the pitching lineup how they want it to be. The Dodgers only somewhat have it what they want it to be. I'm ready for this, man. This is toe to toe. This is not all Hey, the big bad No, this is hey, you're at that point where this is like Rocky and Apollo back and forth at each other. Right, it's the Dodgers vibe and it's Decoy, and it's Grimace, and it's hawk Tua, and it's and it's decoy, and it's and it and and it's Frank the Tank and it's decoy. Right, like, this is the series now, it is toe to toe. This is I am not coming in here as a oh hey, if we win, if the Mets win, it's a big it's what a great run?

No, no, no, I'm saying this could be. This is a world series year. Man. This is the final four. It's time to go.

Let's see you just named all your luminaries, hawk To, uh, Frank the tank, and Grimis.

Yeah. Just think about that. That that's the mets he that's the mets here.

Who are the three people most responsible besides Lindor for this season? Well, Grimace and uh hawk To It definitely won two like the winning percentage after Grimmason hawk to a girl, I mean through the roof like you can't beat them, you can't beat like.

No. She she inspired America, That's no question about it.

Uh, and girl inspired tag inspire America.

Well, you know, everybody needs a hero and then we look for what we need in the moment.

Uh.

Then well let's call it what it is. Uh, it's save Harbor. Uh look decoy. The celebration would show him going around. That's great. Uh, you also have Rob Lowe and all those luminaries that you saw. I still want to know the conversations Brad Pitt and Flee were having, because I mean, Brad Pitt, tell me, tell me he wasn't going back into moneyball and talking about Yeah, you know, I played a guy who had to do the kind of stuff with his bullfen playing guy did just this kind of thing. Didn't have a billion dollar payroll. But boy how he had to remember Chad Bradford. Hey Fleet remember him?

Yeah, So Bradford's defect is he throws funny. Yeah. No, no, sure to.

Go through all of those things. You know, we found Pratt, So go through all of those things. But the curiosity and we buried the lead because this is the bigger point for sports talk radio and television. Who was Key k Hernandez talking about when he said we don't blank and care? Who was too emotionally uptight in past Dodger runs that led them to a defeat time and again? Who is it? Who is it? Dodger Nation? Let me know at Swollen Dome at how about a presco.

I think what kek hernanders is trying to say is that they don't care.

Hey, what a bad team. They don't care about. They don't care to win.

Let let's bring you that audio. Let's just so you can hear it. This audio. This is following the Dodgers win tonight. Ke k Hernandez, the big hero, had the big home run, the only run the Dodgers would need, and he does the on field interview with Ken Rosenthal following the game, and he's asked, what me you know this is your eighth time now in the playoffs with the Dodgers. Look, every team has a player like keyk Hernandez. He doesn't play every day, but boy the spark plug. When he plays, he always seems to play well. He left the team, he came back and he's the same guy he was when he left. And everybody has a guy like this, and the Dodgers guy's Key k Hernandez. And here he was on the field being asked what the difference is in the Dodger team. You're gonna hear what was said, except imagine it without the bleep.

Take a listen. And you mentioned that you've been part of eight different postseasons.

Here, what is different about this particular team ever?

Live O live?

The fact that we don't.

Yeah, congratulate again, thank you again, Key Kick says, the fact that we don't give a blank curses on national television, and Ken Rosenthal thanks him, and Key Kick that, yeah, thank you, thank you for letting me say that a natural television.

I really appreciate that. I think it.

Comes out from this series that neither dugout wants Kenn Rosenthal around.

That's just why he did that. He took his moment.

But you know, it goes down in the antles of like great uh interviews that players have had. I mean, Ricky Henderson famously you know, a happy Mother's Day mother, uh and talking about John Olerude plenty of quotes through the years. Uh, Julio Cruz, you talk about Key K being a spark plug for these Dodgers. At one point, Julio Cruz, member of the White Sox, was asked about his contribution. He basically said, I don't have to hit. I'm the spark plug.

So so you get these moments. But again, you know, just saying, hey, caught in.

The emotion of it all, maybe not that they're just guys that are going out and playing at this point, that the emotion that may have and the weight that might have been there isn't there this year for them, that it's not pervasive in the clubhouse. I think he's partially lying, clearly, because there's a lot of weight. Because Dave Roberts celebrated the hell out of this win. I don't know I've seen Dave Roberts celebrate quite this much other than the world series victory and clearly front and center, not that anybody had put any of this on him. And that's the hard part of all of this, is that he might have been the fall guy for a failed attempt and the injuries to the pitchers and everything else while not really doing anything wrong. In the postseason.

Exit, how about a Fresca exit swollen down in the Jason Smizer with Mike Carmon Lai from the tirech dot Com studios.

Tell me, man, this is Rocky and Apottle. Let's go, let's go.

No happy to be here, and we'll see you guys on Sunday because looks, look, this is just okay.

To be fit for both teams.

Right, this is not even supposed to be a year the Mets contended this far. This was a this was it no no, But here's the thing. This was a This was a gap year while they got rid of all the dead money on the books and hey, we're gonna contend for a wildcard spot and see where they're at. Look, this is why David Seerns, the executive the year in Major League Baseball, Right, you're.

Supposed to be backpacking through Europe.

It was a gap year.

No, it's a gap year and so and so for the Mets to be at this at this level, it's amazing, But still they are a flawed team. The Mets bullpen is not great. I don't know that there's anybody really trustworthy in the Mets bullpen right now. But it comes down to it, Pete, get the big hits, right Peterson, Peter Elane, you're fired and he would be our best starter, and for some reason, the Mets have him in the bullpen because they couldn't get him back into starting because they need him to close out the end of the series with the Brewers. So the Mets are a flawed team. This is not a pray you look at some of the lineup going really these guys. The Mets have the vibe right, Dodgers, this is a terrific team, but the Dodgers aren't bulletproof. The Dodgers starting pitching is a huge issue. It's a huge issue. And the bullpen has been great. Is the bullpen still gonna be this good or are they gonna get a bit of a bounce in the next series?

Right?

So this is this is not your one versus six. Oh, the ride's gonna automatically be over for the Mets. This is the Dodgers is gonna have to scratch and claw as much as they can to get through this. It's not gonna be Otani hitting home run after home and I say, there's gonna have four home runs on Sunday hitting home run after home run because the Mets have been through everything. And for the Dodgers, yeah, they seem to think. And the bright spot for the Dodgers is they seem to look like they're gonna be peaking at the right time. Like I don't know, the last couple of days hasn't been uh oh, the Dodgers now suddenly are playing their best baseball and that's gonna be something to watch out for. But you know what Mets are play in their best baseball. This is gonna be a rock fight. It's a heavyweight fight, man, don't look at it any other way. That's exactly what this is.

Gonna be home run derby two on two tay Oscar and show Hey going to the gainst Alons and Lynndor tune in Sunday.

Like you get the NBA the MLB Jam video, like the the NBA cham video with the two guys on each side.

I like that.

Get those cartoon graphics going. Let's go exit out by a Frasca exit swollen dome.

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I know we got something pretty special for you, But.

We have a big weekend of football coming up. Mike and I are going to give you our big college football bowl predictions coming up in a few minutes. But I want to take a look now at the best game in the NFL, the biggest game in the NFL this weekend, and you know it's it's it's my upset special.

For the NFL. I I don't know what here.

Here's the thing this one makes me crazy is that I know how they're what their record's gonna end up. I know it's not gonna be good, and yet I still find myself picking the Cowboys to win games.

It's crazy, right, but I still find myself doing it.

But you know, look, Cowboys Lions is the game of the week, and it's the big rematch from last year, the Jimmy Johnson game.

Oh I reported, I'm eligible. I'm not.

Look, there's gonna be all of that, all that flavor going into this game.

And while this doesn't mean that I'm down on the Lions.

Look, as time has gone on in the NFC, the struggle that I thought the Lions were going to have. I'm not as worried because other teams are struggling more. But this is a Lions team coming off a bye, and Jared Goff just isn't the same quarterback away from home that he is with Detroit. We have enough of a sample size to know that. Okay, you can expect one kind of game from him in Detroit and quite another game on the road. He does have a good game on the road this year so far. I'm not saying he doesn't, but this is going to be a bit of a different thing. Dallas is coming off a big emotional win last week where they drove down for a touchdown at the end and Dak Prescott not only throwing the touchdown, but jumping on the fumble and really trying to justify every penny of that big contract he got before the season. I like Dallas in this game, and I grant, but Dalla's still gonna win eight nine games. It was like the third time I picked them, but it's not. It's not quite that. What I see with Dallas that might be a little bit different. Okay, is that yet? You know we talked about the pitch and catch that that you're gonna be able to put that DAK and CD can play, and that's certainly gonna be the case here, right, there'd be a lot of points in this game.

But it was a couple of years ago where Dallas.

Looked like, ah, I don't know what we're gonna do offensively, Ezekiel Elliott's not the same guy, and maybe we gotta split carries to him and Tony Pollard.

And Tony Parlor was just a guy. He's like, yeah, Tony Pollard.

Now three years later, Tony Pollard's a guy who got a big contract to leave to go play for the Titans, and he was a revelation in the Cowboys backfield. Sudden is wait a minute, Tony Pollard's averaging like nearly five yards of carry and the Cowboys offense was really good. Hey, you you know, yes, all the all the headlines go to DAK and CD and the offense, and I understand that, but hey, you're not winning twelve games a year the last three years without being able to run the football as well as you had when they had Tony Pollard they were able.

To do that. And maybe Rico Dowdell is that guy.

You don't want to give him a lot of responsibility. You're not sure the kind of player he is. But then when you get to a point where you have no choice because Ezekiel Elliott is washed and you can't suddenly say all right, Deuce Vaughan, go be the exciting number one, and it's like through just by default, Hey, all right, Dowdell's gonna get the carries. And now suddenly, wait a minute, Donald's putting up some numbers here. Suddenly, wait a minute, he might not be bet. He might be Tony Pollard two point zero. And if that's the case, then then this Cowboys offen is gonna be even better and more dangerous, because this is something nobody sees coming.

But just seeing his arc.

Over the course of this season so far where very regrettably, and because they have nowhere else to go, we're gonna give him the football more.

Oh, hey, look at this, we found something. Maybe this is a guy not gonna run.

For one hundred and fifty yards a week, but can he run for seventy five eighty yards a week?

He can do that.

Suddenly, take a look at this Cowboys offense and how many more games they're gonna be able to try to pull out in the end because they can run the football. Dowdill running the ball, I'm tell he could be Tony Pollard two point zero.

Four yards to carry thus far, also adding eleven receptions averaging about nine yards of reception.

The other guy is.

Tolbert, right, We joked about it because he had the T shirt made right the freeze frame. Hey, here's the picture of his winning touchdown. But he's emerged, right, He's got twenty receptions on the year, ferguson a solid tight end. He's healthy. So you've got some weapons, and you got a lot of chirping out of Ezekiel Elliott evidently as well, which is kind of fun because you know, I like the chaos that flows out of that, no question about it. But you know what's curious is Detroit should be able to run the ball effectively. Right, You're still missing Lauren, still missing Parsons, so you should be able to set up the pass something you know past opponents, certainly Pittsburgh was not able to do, so opportunity knocks there. But yeah, it just has that feel of Dak being able to put him on his shoulders to get a w I'm still gonna take Detroit to win the game, because you know, I got to look out for your family, although they'll be riding high tomorrow.

But that's a whole other thing.

But I think there's just too much balance with the Detroit offense that maybe Dak has to stand on the sideline a lot like he's caged because Montgomery and Gibbs are just running the ball.

Well, they're gonna score a lot, But this is a game where coming off a bye, the rust is gonna show a little bit and Dallas is gonna get out to a lead early and it's gonna be Detroit chipping away, staying in it most of the game, because I can see Dallas coming out at home, coming out like a house of fire something. It's fourteen to three, and what's going on with Detroit? But then look, Detroit's offense is too good, right. The running backs are fantastic. And oh, by the way, shout out David Montgomery for that interview he did with Michael Fobbio and Lindsay Roads about mental health and what it was like with as far as it comes to fantasy football. It's an incredible listen about what goes through players heads sometimes they think about during a season an unbelievable story. Shout out to him for telling that story on the air. This offense just said they have too many weapons, you know, to keep them down. So it's not like they're not going to score. But this is the Lions on the road where you get the mistakes from golf and you might get a little bit of stop and go before they really get going. And the Cowboys getting out to that lead. They certainly able to go up and down the field. We saw them. They're coming off that big win the end of last week, and that's why I think they get out to a good early start and are able to hold lot. I think like thirty four to thirty one.

I like this.

I love the over, I love the over in this. But yeah, I'll go like thirty four to thirty one Cowboys.

Yeah.

The only way they really have an advantage is if they open the dome right retractable roof. So if AT and T is open, then Jared Goff sometimes doesn't know what to do.

What are we doing? This is open?

No?

No, no, Because that was the thing with the Lion's schedule coming into the year was look at all the dome games he got and what a great Dome player is like, here's how you mess with his head. Wait, it's right before kickoff? Why is that opening? Why am I seeing natural sunlight? No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, the home road splits are certainly there, and it is a huge spot for Dallas. I like the I like the intrigue of it. Like, there's a lot of games this week that are moderately interesting. I don't think there's a lot of points scored in a bunch of them, but they're moderately interesting. This one potential for chaos with a over under, a fifty.

Two exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.

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Steve, Well, that's one way to couch. But yes, the Mets aren't traveling this weekend. They knew they were going to Southern California to open the NLCS Sunday night on Fox TV. Dodgers Stadium will be the host for that game and for Game two on Monday afternoon. Then New York will host Game three Wednesday night against LA. The Dodgers eliminated the rival Padres two nothing tonight to finish the best of five nl Division series, and Andres offense went two for twenty eight. The Dodgers pitch back to back shutouts this week to close out the series. In fact, twenty four straight score less innings to finish it up. Dodger reliever Alex Vessia left to night with a possible strained oblige, but the Dodger bullpen with four hitless innings and five strikeouts tonight the save to Blake Trin and winning starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto five scoreless innings.

He has not.

Pitched more than five innings in any game since the shoulder injury in June the loss to ex Dodger you Darvish, who was good again six and two thirds innings, but he allowed two solo homers. Dodgers only had two other.

Hits in the game.

But due advance, Tomorrow's game five in the Alds Detroit at Cleveland was moved up to one pm Eastern Time due to impending rain. The Alcs will have the Yankees hosting games one and two on Monday and Tuesday nights. Speaking of bullpens, Yankee bullpen in their Divisional series, they pitched fifteen and two thirds innings, no earned runs allowed. In college football, it's about five and a half minutes to go at Arizona State Sun Devil still leading sixteenth ranked Utah now twenty to nineteen, as the Utes have just kicked a field goal. Starting quarterback Cam Rising is in there tonight after a finger injury, but two interceptions thrown.

NOI is not Rising over the court. Everybody wants him benched. On social media, you gotta get him out of there.

It's the bad moon rising Tonight at Yeah Thank you Northwestern Professional, don't try this at home. Northwestern a winter at Maryland thirty seven to ten and unlb's five and one after a victory at Utah State fifty to thirty four. A reminder Saturday at noon Eastern time, Washington at Iowa on Fox TV. Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis will start on Sunday after a shoulder injury. Tennessee will host Indy Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson's a game time decision with his oblique injury. Indy running back Jonathan Taylor is out with the bad ankle. Bill's running back James Cook misspractice again with a toe injury. Patriots running back Mandre Stevenson out with a foot injury, misspractice all week. Brown's running back Nick Chubb is still out with the bad knee, and Giants wide receiver Molak Neighbors is still out with a concussion. Among the NHL games, tonight, Winnipeg in overtime beat Chicago Philadelphia with a shootout victory. At Vancouver, Tampa Bay and Vegas with wins.

Thank to you, Thank you, Steve O and TJ clearly Cam Rising falling to Arizona State right now by a point late in the fourth QUARTERDJ, I just, I mean, I've been waiting for that all night. I wait, when are we going to get cam Rise against?

I didn't? I did? I did. We're all good.

Look a couple of previews have we have now, because then we have the big craziness coming up in about fifteen minutes.

It's audio you absolutely have to hear.

Let's give you our other upset special picks of the week, and then we'll tell you what's going to happen tomorrow in the alcs in Kyle told you the NFL game of the week taking the Cowboys getting three. Give me USC getting three and a half against Penn State tomorrow. This is the typical game that USC wins, right when the pressure is gone, you think the season is lost.

Hey, Lincoln Riley, we will win this game.

It's a thing when a team has to travel in college football across the country, right, you think it wouldn't have just a playing ride, it says. We talked about this with Pete fu Tec from College Football News, and this is the trip of trips for Penn State, and with USC playing at home, I know their offense is going to be able to move the football. On their defense, Penn State's a little limited offensively. As long as Miller Moss doesn't turn the ball over, USC will keep it close enough. You know, it's hard for me to see Penn State showing up, getting off the plane and suddenly, hey, it's fourteen to nothing, and what's USC gonna do now? USC is still a really talented team. Can you say they're tricky? Sure you can say that more there, but we've seen them win big games. We see them rise up and win big games, beating LSU the way they did.

This is one of.

Those games where hey, USC shows you maybe we are better than you think we are, because they have at least two or three of those games a year. Then they have two three games. Oh no, wait, you're not nearly as good as we thought you were. But early part of the season at home for this, I'll take USC. I'll take I'll take the three and a half points. Will get me wrong, but USC's gonna win this on the field dramatic fashion.

Twenty seven to twenty four.

Just remember this. If it goes sideways, that seat is really really hot and flaming because Lincoln Riley was making a lot of excuses a week ago.

Oh, they'll take that plane away from the first thing is the plane. The first thing is the private plane.

Wow, we'll see and then and then you start taking the other accoutrements. Oh way, I'm gonna take LSU getting three and a half at home against Ole Miss. Since that loss to start the season against the aforementioned USC Trojans, they've been running up some big point totals. Good spreading in and around. As you look at at nuss Meyer, he's got four receivers with at least twenty receptions, so lots of different weapons. He's completing seventy percent of his passes and four touchdowns per pick. So give me them plus three and a half as they race back into the top ten.

All right, So there's are upsets special picks in college football and the I'm a little nervous, Mike, I gotta be in a thirteen and two. I should have been fourteen and two, but the bleeping Bengals can't close out a ten point lead in the fourth quarter.

I wind up getting a.

Push getting you can trust that defense man, man, I'll tell you man, that's no. You cannot trust their defense at all. Right now, Now, this is the belief. Sometimes a belief in one player is enough to withstand everything else. Alcs tomorrow game five or Alds tomorrow Game five. We're waiting for the final team to join the other three teams in the league championship series. And I can't bet against Tarik school Ball. He's been the best pitcher in baseball. It's not even close. He has shut the Guardians down in theory. Could this be a game where he's sharp, but the Guardians scratch out a couple of runs. Yeah, But I don't know that they're gonna score off of them. I really don't. And the Tigers have found a way throughout the playoffs to get runs when they needed. Yes, they had a bullpen meltdown in the last game, but buy a large A Hinch has pulled the right strings. I don't know that anybody makes better decisions overall in the playoffs than aj Hinch does. So I will take the Tigers behind Tarik school I'll take I'll take them two to one tomorrow to go on, and it's the Tigers and the Yankees.

I dig that you're taking the under and you're taking the Guardians with the spread. It's one and a half runs and the total is six. I've definitely taken the under. Oh yeah, yeah, there's I can't believe. That's insane, that's that's just crazy. Uh So, but yeah, you're not beating school like man on a mission. Guardian's a fun story for me being the U the White Sox honk and watching the division unfold and and guys teams dominating uh by really taking advantage of beating the hell out of us repeatedly. Uh, Tigers have been fun to watch. I don't think this is much more. I think you're two to one. Maybe a three game is really about as far as I'd be willing to go based on what we've seen out of here. But Schooble, no chance. They're not getting to him seven innings strong problem in the next round because he won't be available to game three. But you know what, cross that bridge when they get to it. Your family back in Detroit celebrates.

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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon coming soon to Fox. When pregame shows go bad, it takes a lot to get us away from a big college football NFL weekend Dodgers going to the NLCS at there win tonight.

They host the Mets in Game one on Sunday.

Jason, we didn't even do a bunch of the post game because it takes too long to bleep all these games. They're all trying to one up at this point, every last one of them.

Well, hey, this is where you should learn from Former NBA head coach Sam Mitchell, very famous for single guarding Kobe Bryant during his eighty one point game.

No, no, not gonna double team.

Can't fault a good strategy. Continue gonna continue to throw one guy at Jacobe. Good luck, Sam Mitchell, former NBA coach, on NBA TV Right Now with Chris Miles doing the pregame show before tonight's game between Sacramento Golden State. It just started about a half hour ago. This is a late game on the West Coast, but NBA TV has the game. Okay, great, So here are Chris Miles and Sam Mitchell and they're doing their normal pregame stuff lead leading up to the game, when suddenly things get personal. Chris Miles makes a seemingly an innocuous joke about salary, and Sam Mitchell did not like that.

Take a listen, not at all.

I'm surprised coaches don't get a gold medal.

I'm surprised coaches get a paycheck for the show.

You know, I think, like, maybe you should do this pro bono, my friend.

You know, last time I looked at my check, it's pretty close. So hey, I'm taking donations. Why don't you come up off some of that money you got since you over there bragging about.

It, I'm I mean, oh, I'm sorry.

Did you rent your beach house house down in Florida doing the hurricane? Do I need to go on? How about your townhouse over over Bucket?

Hey, you want to call me? I mean, come on, I even broken, hungry.

Let's just see it.

You know, I know, I know what you have and where you live, young fellows, so you.

Need to I think we have snitches on the show today, we have Mitchell.

We have truth tellers. So you're the one who poor destitute up here? When do I need to keep.

Going on further more and more? Or do you want me to start going to this game?

You gonna stop messing with me on National TV?

Told you about that?

Okay, all right, that's not the end of it. But we don't want to play. We don't want to play the rest of it for you. And I'll tell you why. How awkward is that?

Chris?

But just makes it fun? Hey, you know, hey, I can't believe coaches get paid for this show. Like it's so much fun to do this show. How about you doing pro bono? And Sam Mitchell decides, oh, I don't like that, and I'm gonna talk about you renting out your beach house.

And the hurricane like whoa?

Like that got serious really fast, like all of a sudden, this is not cool anymore. Chris Miles is trying to laugh it off, a lot of nervous laughter, not at what what's happening I'm sure he doesn't know what's going on.

Why sam Mitchell so upset?

Why is why is he talking about all the two places I own, the houses I own? This is a guy that coached and played in the NBA and he's talking about he's jealous of what I have?

What the hell is happening here?

Quickly word pregame segment and it got even more awkward. But before, let's let's break down what we just heard. There's a lot of big quotable. Uh, sam Mitchell's out of there. But I think I told you, young fella, you're gonna stop messing with me on National TV. I think that's my favorite how he ended it with that, you're gonna stop messing with me on National TV or I'll leak your address to the rest of the world.

Yeah, because he says it, I you want to want to keep doing this and that that's like the Ken Rosenthal you know, getting asses? Are we on live TV? It's like, yeah, nothing good coming out of this. Key k Hernandez Kurz. Ken Rosensall said, thank you for ending the interview. Okay, we're done, We're done, We're done ending this one. Hey, can we go to the game now, just guys, hell, hell, can we go to the game?

Don't look look at him? How look at it?

So that's exactly what he did.

How private answer the question?

Uh?

And the thing is they finished talking about you know, hey, there should be a game in Seattle because that, you know previously all great, we should have a team back in Seattle. Steve Balmer had some really fun things to say, pumping up the crowd in Seattle for the game there tonight, and everything was.

Kind of fun.

But in the pregame toss just a few seconds later, I don't want to play it for us.

We don't want I don't want it. I mean it's out.

In a lot, I don't we don't want to get to it exactly.

But uh, Sam Mitchell still gets mad and gives out Chris Miles his home address. Yea, and he and they're talking going okay, And the thing is Chris Miles should have just let it go at that point, like that's where, okay, it was really awkward.

You brought it back. It's done.

And then Chris Miles says, so there you go, Sam, Actually you do have a you have a good point once in a while, Like dude, what are you doing. You just saw what he did. He was he was taking the show off the rails. I know you want to kind of get back at him because you're mad at what he's what he's doing, But all you knew, all you're gonna do is inflame that. And he says, hey, Sam, you do make a good point now and again and say goes okay, and then.

He gives out the guy's a dress. He says this and treads.

On the air, I got I gotta think we get ourselves a change up on that show here after tell you what you're all fired on the eve of the season. What is it?

How do you get that mad? Hey?

Do the show pro bono? So you know there's some people. Look, there's some people to not mess with money wise. Like when you make a joke about money there initially right away shut it down because it's a really touchy subject. Okay, not gonna joke about money. But wow, man on the air, like you know, he's just making a joke and suddenly it's oh, your townhouse and you're you rent out that that that house in the in the in the hurricane. It was like you could hear the whole.

Studio go well, but that becomes a question right as he had you know done the hey, you know you pick up you pick up bill and whatever else, And so taking that shot here escalated into I'm gonna I'm gonna air out everything you own. Wow, I don't know where you're four oh one, k's invested.

If you really want, if you really want to say that, go oh you like number Sam? How about this eighty one? Boy, Kobe? How'd you let him score eighty one? I mean, nobody's even come close to that, man, eighty one.

That would have been the that would have been the proper comeback interstead of any at the rest of it.

That's really something man. Eighty one? Wow, oh boy, that's a that's a big number. You talk about big number. That's a big number. What do you think about that?

Uh?

I mean I'm watching that going What is happening?

Right? How are they still on television? How do they not just go to break or go to commercial or something? No, no, can't go back to goes difficult. Keith Shallow and we were talking about or.

Just keep going with this, just keep we want to see where it goes. Just keep going.

Someone start dancing like you're uh, Britney Spears's.

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