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It's hour two on this Thursday.Congrats to the Dodgers winning the World Series.Eighth World Series title.And the Yankees collapsing in the fifth inning.And 5-0.Then it's 5-5 in the fifth inning.And then things change dramatically.
You could feel the air being sucked out of Yankee Stadium. You got Garrett Cole, he's cruising, we're up 5-0, we can get out of this inning.
All you gotta do is cover for... All you gotta do is catch that fly... All you gotta do is throw the ball to third... And then you don't do any of those things.And then all of a sudden, the Dodgers go, hmm.Things that make you go, hmm.
We got a chance here.And then the Yankees did come back and take the lead.And then Walker Buehler closed it out.Yes, Marvin?
You could just hear the excitement getting sucked out of the stadium when Gary Cole didn't go to first base.Yeah.It was, ah!
Well, it's one of those where it's a harmless grounder. or the appearance of a harmless grounder.And then you're going to catch routine.The pitcher comes over and then he, wait, the pitcher's not coming over.He's headed towards the dugout.
Rizzo's not going to get there.Mookie Betts is flying down first base to keep the inning alive.Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program.New foliage flannels available in the store at danpatrick.com.
We're down to Danette.Paulie might be back tomorrow.Talked to him yesterday.He's in pretty good spirits, and hopefully we'll get an opportunity to see him, if not tomorrow, then on Monday.877-3DP-SHOW.Email address dp at danpatrick.com.
Twitter handle at dpshow.Football tonight.You got the Texans.The Texans are getting one and a half against the Jets.Over under 42 and a half for entertainment purposes, but that's
That's an interesting number there with the Texans because you got people who think the Texans are a AFC caliber team winning the AFC, going to the Super Bowl, getting to the AFC title game, even though they lost Stephon Diggs.
That'll be coming up tonight.Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan will join us next hour.Joey Votto, the former first baseman for the Reds, will join us coming up, recapping what we saw last night and in this series.I have said this before.
I don't want this to be a standalone moment for Aaron Judge.I hope it's not.Yes, he did drop the ball.He didn't play well.He hasn't batted well in the postseason.
You know, it's almost like the hitting equivalent of Clayton Kershaw, where you want them to have these big moments, you get to these big moments, and Aaron Judge didn't perform.Hit the home run last night, but dropped the ball, literally.
I think Shohei Otani got a hall pass because he built up a lot of credibility with his regular season.He wasn't 100% healthy.I mean, you could see that.He was laboring, even trying to run.
But I do give him credit for being out there, at least giving that probably reminder to the pitching staff for the Yankees, don't make a mistake.I can still hit a home run. But the rest of the lineup, certainly Freddie Freeman, they came through.
Dave Roberts did a wonderful job in managing, and they win the World Series.All right, poll question for Hour 2 is going to be what?Seton O'Connor?
Well, let me get you the mean-spirited results from Hour 1.Wow.Who feels worse today?Is it Aaron Judge, Garrett Cole, Anthony Volpe, or the Los Angeles Angels?
I don't think the Angels... The Angels have felt bad than the last few years.Yeah, this one probably feels a little more tough though.You think watching Shohei win a World Series?Yeah, yeah.Your neighbors in Los Angeles?
Yeah, that was already bad, but... Yeah.And that Mike Trout is just like, I don't care, okay?It doesn't mean that much to me, okay?I don't care, alright?
It means more to Aaron Judge.
It means more to Aaron Judge.
Aaron Judge currently leading the poll with 48% of that vote.Sorry, 51% just ticked up.
Yeah, definitely.That's a crusher there.All right, we'll get to phone calls coming up.Operator, Tyler sitting by.Good morning if you're watching on Peacock.And no, we didn't wear costumes today.Todd.
Todd went against my memo that I sent out we're not doing costumes because if one guy does it everybody has to do it and I didn't want to get dressed up.
I was a shark for a little while.
And you were displeased because I kind of went against it.
Well you didn't tell me you were doing it after I told you we're not just dressing up.
I meant well like for it to be a surprise but it ended up being going against your wishes so it ended up being a negative thing.
Well I don't want to get into it other than you did it.And I was like, okay, now we got through it.
It was a San Jose shark.So at least it was.
Yeah, of course it was.Okay.So, uh, no costumes today, but, uh, Princey's got his t-shirt on that has his Halloween names on it.That's, that's about as Halloweeny as we're getting.What Todd?
No, I'm proud of that shirt.And I was very excited doing, uh, we put that together.
All right.Well, we're happy for you as well. Levi in Utah.Hey Levi, what's on your mind today?
Hey Dan, first time, long time, 6'2, 225.Hey, I wanted to get your take on teams that don't have their names on the back of their jerseys.
And I ask this because I'm watching this series with my girlfriend, who is a big sports fan, can name a lot of players in all sports. She's talking to me about the game and calling a lot of the Dodgers by name, struggling with the Yankees.
So I thought of, okay, we've got the Yankees, USC, Penn State.Is it ego or is it just tradition?
I think it's tradition.I think a lot of coaches, managers like the fact that you're really playing for the front of the jersey, not the back, but You know, what bothers me is when you see these uniforms and the names on the uniforms are really small.
Either put them on so we can read them or don't put them on at all.Not the, oh it's in like fine print on some of these.But no, the Yankees have always done that and I have no problem with that.Penn State, I have no problem with that.
Big Jay in Delaware.Hey Big Jay.
Hey, good morning, DP.Good morning, fellas.Just like how our mutual friend Pat says, shout out Freddie Freeman.I'm a big lifelong Braves fan, so I was happy to see him come alive.I like to call him, you know, shout out Fritzie.
Freddie Frankenstein Freeman.He came alive in the postseason.Six straight games. in the World Series with home runs in seven straight games with multiple RBIs in the World Series.So, shout out to Freddie Freeman.
You can make a case this is as good a World Series performance in history because he ended up knocking in 12 runs, homered in four of the five games.Like, let's, you know, eliminate what he did with the Braves.Let's just look at this World Series.
Now, you had Reggie when he hit three home runs in one game, but
You know, to be able to sprinkle the magic throughout all these games, and to help your team win because of these home runs, or the RBIs, I mean, that's just... You'd be hard-pressed to find a more impressive hitting performance in World Series history.
And he delivered, and you didn't expect him to deliver. But those are big hits, man.Big, big hits.The Dodgers had a total of 20 innings from their starting pitchers in the World Series.
That's the fewest innings from a starter by any World Series champ.In history.What? Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show.Peacocks got the mega mischief, mega mayhem, mega minions.
Your next movie night grew his back with his most daring adventure yet being a dad.Despicable Me 4 streaming now on Peacock.Not sure why I'm using that voice.Kevin in Oregon.Hi Kevin, what's on your mind today?
What's up, guys?First time in a long time, 5'9, buck 90.So you mentioned that you're talking about the salary caps and NFL and they want the parody.So are the Jets just the laughing stock of that?
Because it's hard enough being a Jets fan in Oregon, let alone with what's going on every season.
Yeah, they're being laughed at. They should be good.They had seven wins with terrible quarterbacking play last year.The defense was top five.
And I thought Rodgers healthy and that defense in that division with that schedule that you're looking at least 10 wins, if not 11 wins.You get Aaron Rodgers, seasoned veteran.You got a good running game, Garrett Wilson.And I thought, you know what?
They can do some damage.Oh, they did.They did a lot of damage to a lot of reputations.And here they are favored by one and a half tonight.Luke in Charlotte is back.Hi, Luke.What's on your mind?
Hey guys, how you doing?Go Dodgers.I just, I got a bit of a bone to pick with this whole salary cap issue because
I mean, some of these bad teams, you know, not necessarily bad teams this year because the, the guardians were in there and the tigers were in there, but yeah, people were talking about the tiger salary with like 18 million for the whole team.
And their owner is one of the 10 richest owners in the league.And I think the blame has to be shifted more towards complacent owners who just won't spend more than
the owners that are just as rich as the other ones, but just decide to spend because they want to win.
Oh, yeah, yeah.There's a bottom line to all of this, that there are owners who will take profit over progress.OK, I'm going to make this amount of money.I would want my ownership to spend the money.
Maybe not like the Mets did, but look, you're going to invest in a team.And this goes back to what George Steinbrenner and the Yankees did that was brilliant.They created their own network and they made their team Must See TV.
As if you're tuning in to watch Friends and you knew everybody in the cast. You're tuning into a baseball game where you knew who these stars are.They could spend the money and keep them in the uniform.You had familiarity.
Now, occasionally they would bring in somebody, free agency, as if, you know, Bruce Willis or Brad Pitt are guest starring on Friends.I mean, this is what the Yankees did. They haven't been able to replicate that.
They're trying, but they haven't been able to replicate that.And the Dodgers, same way.I mean, you're in a town full of stars.You want to have those stars, develop those stars, showcase those stars.I have no problem with it.
And you're right about the Tigers.I mean, the Tigers don't have a big payroll.And they did a wonderful, A.J.Hinch did a wonderful job with that lineup there. Kansas City did a really good job.I mean, that's where I say you can make the playoffs.
And then after that, anything can happen.But there are teams that they can make the playoffs, but you have to want to make the playoffs.At the trade deadline, you have to want to bring somebody in.
And sometimes that's where we see teams like the Reds or the Pirates that they're selling.Paul Skeens is not going to end his career in Pittsburgh.Just not. You know, Elie Delacruz is not going to end his career in Cincinnati, probably not.
And that's disappointing from the standpoint of you're there to watch.It's like when you watch a band and they're like, man, you know, nobody really knows about how good they are.
And then all of a sudden they get big and then all of a sudden you lose them. That's what happens with a lot of these franchises, you know, these cities where you go, we kind of raised you and then all of a sudden you're gone.We can't afford you.
Back to ownership was, is George Steinbrenner or was he in the minority as far as owners that at all costs were trying to win, then make money?
Well, it felt like if there was a free agent, the Yankees were going to get him. I never felt that way with other franchises.Now you'd pick and choose and somebody would say, hey, we're going to go after that guy.
Like the Giants have gone, they went after Aaron Judge.They've gone after Carlos Correa.I mean, they've tried to make a splash.You know, Juan Soto, to me, would be a guy that maybe the Giants would go after.
But, you know, the other teams are able to go after that guy and that guy and that guy.And that's the difference with a lot of these teams. I don't think it's an aberration that the teams that spent the most ended up in the World Series.
But, you know, I mean, look at the Padres.You know, that's not a small market team.Like, they shouldn't be viewed as that.They spent a lot of money.They should be really good.The Mets should be really good.You spent a lot of money.
And you saw all of that with the Dodgers.With all the money they spent, you're still relying on guys that didn't make a lot of money. Now, Freddie Freeman gets paid and Shohei and Yamamoto, like they got, they get paid.Mookie, they all get paid.
They're MVPs and, you know, well-decorated.But then you have to have those guys where they're not making 15 million a year.They're not making 10 million a year.They might not even be on the roster next year.But those are the guys throughout history.
There's always one or two of those guys on every World Series championship team.All right, more phone calls coming up.We'll talk to our good buddy Joey Votto, former Reds first baseman.
See, I want his perspective on that grounder up the first base bag with Garrett Cole and Anthony Rizzo, because that one seemed to open up the floodgates there.And then after that, it was the point of no return, it felt like.
All right, we'll take a break. And we're back after this Dan Patrick show.
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More phone calls coming up.The Jets and the Texans coming up tonight.Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan will join us a little bit later on as well.He's Joey Votto, the former Reds first baseman and our good buddy.
Joining us once again, recapping the World Series from a first baseman's perspective.Put me in Anthony Rizzo's shoes last night with the dribbler up the first baseline.
So in that situation, there's two windows and the first is ball off the bat and you're reading the way the ball's spinning towards you, the speed of it.
The most important thing to do as an infielder, not just a first baseman, is obviously catch the ball. There's always a backup plan.No matter how deep you are in the infield, whether you play third, first, it doesn't matter.
Someone has to be there to receive the ball.So if you can't take it yourself, the first baseman has to be there.Excuse me.If you can't take it yourself, the pitcher has to be there to receive the ball from you.
While he was reading the ball, because it was a ball off the end of the bat, he needed more time to prevent a possible, you know, odd bounce It was almost like a cue ball shot sort of thing.
If it had been one of those odd bounces, all of a sudden it clinks off his glove, he's embarrassed, it's an obvious error, a non-out.
But if it clinks off your glove or you catch the ball, either of those should have resulted in the opportunity to flip the ball to first base to the pitcher.In that situation, my guess is Garrett read Anthony as initially attacking the ball,
And because he couldn't, because he couldn't make that decision, he had to stay back on it.Garrett paused, Rizzo stayed back, and there was nobody at first base.Mookie ran as hard as he could out of the box, which is, that's what he does.
He plays the game perfectly.And nobody was there, and you get the first run of the game.
Yeah, it kind of had to be a perfect storm there that And what you bring up, the spin on the ball, I think, is going to get lost with a lot of people that they don't realize that Rizzo couldn't attack.He couldn't come up on it.
But Cole was thinking he's going to be able to do that.Therefore, he's sort of walking towards the dugout.And then you've got to factor in that Mookie Betts is running as hard as he can and put even more pressure on Rizzo.
But that was the story of the series.You know, in the very first game of the series, Gleyber Torres casually went after a ball after Shohei Otani, hit a double off the wall, and it bounced off his glove, ended up rolling into the mound area.
Shohei aggressively took third base in what was then a 2-1 game.Muki Betts' sacrifice flies, makes it a 2-2 game, and they get through the next inning and it ends up going to extra innings.
Who's to say that that couldn't have been game one for the Yankees and Freddie Freeman doesn't get the opportunity to hit a grand slam.
Then, in this most recent game, several errors in that very same inning, an uncharacteristic error from Aaron Judge, and then Anthony Volpe, what was
decision that probably I would imagine he probably would have liked to have gone to second base on because in that situation when you go to third base there's a crossover you have to make the perfect throw and when I say there's a crossover the base runner is heading in one direction and the third baseman who's typically not receiving balls in a forced situation has to has to catch the ball basically with a runner sliding into him with a runner crossing his path
And without a perfect, perfect throw, you're oftentimes not going to get a force play in that situation, especially if you have a really good runner and he didn't make a perfect throw and ended up, it ended up exacerbating and then the Garrett Cole non-cover in a, I guess, a miscommunication, a misread.
And then there's your first run and then, you know, go from there.
But we talk about all the millions and millions and millions of dollars that these rosters are, you know, it comes down to little things, little things, you know, fundamentals, little things, doing things the right way.
It's, you know, I don't want to be get off my lawn old, you know, get off my lawn guy, but the culture I was brought up in, I'll tell you a story from the minor leagues.
So our farm director, Tim Nehring, when I was 18 years old, we used to run this drill and it was during instructional league, spring training, even during the regular season where it would be a 27 out drill.
and you would have to get 27 consecutive outs, excuse me, collectively with your infield, outfield, with your catcher, with your pitcher, and they would hit balls all over the outfield, through the infield, ground balls, double plays, tag ups, and you had to do a 27 outs in a row.
And if you made an error or a misplay or a miscover in the 18th out or the 23rd out, he'd scream, Back to zero!And then we would start back up from the very beginning.But it was the culture of perfection.
It was the culture of, we are going to execute in game.
If you made an error in the game, and if it was a real blunder, you were getting either talked to or potentially, I remember occasions where you weren't playing the next day or there was a real fallout from it.
Now, I'm not saying these teams aren't doing that. But I love, personally, I love a game that's clean.There's something about it that's appealing when you get to watch a clean game, no errors, fundamentally sound.
And these are two highly professional teams.It was shocking to see some of these errors.Anthony Rizzo is one of the best defenders I've ever seen.Cole doesn't make these mistakes.It was just an odd situation.
Joey Votto, former Reds first baseman.How will you remember Aaron Judge's World Series?
I will remember it the very same way I'll remember Shohei Ohtani's.I'll remember it as a fan.I'll remember it as a missed opportunity, as potential just being...
right on the precipice of him breaking out and carrying this series show hey the very same way he looked as good as you could possibly look and then he injured his shoulder Aaron Judge looked as good as he possibly could have looked right in this most in this most recent game and then they get knocked out
It would have been such a fabulous finish to the series, game six and seven, because Aaron finally looked locked in in this last game, hitting a ball to right center field, powering it almost to the second deck, taking tough pitches.
I thought... Wait, it froze up here. We'll work on that connection there, Fritzie, with Joey.Froze up there a little bit.Let me see.A couple of phone calls in here while we wait.Chris in California.Good morning, Chris.What's on your mind today?
Hey, good morning Dan.Dan Etz.I just wanted to tell you what your show means to a lot of the listeners.I never get to catch you live because I work swing shift, but I listen to you on Peacock, the streaming partner.Everybody should download it.
And I have a coworker who gives me $60 a week gas and we commute together, but he complains about your show. And I told him, I love the Dan Patrick show.There's no yelling.There's fun.You know, we laugh, everything else.So he just keeps complaining.
So now, you know what, Dan?I ride by myself to work.So listening to your show costs me $60 a week, but it's worth every penny.
And you guys do a lot and even like if I last leg of a parlay and the Vegas Knights don't win, I just put on your show the second hour and I laugh and it makes everything all right.So I just want to tell you thank you to all you guys.
We really appreciate it.One thing, Dan, were you a parlay guy or were you just a straight bet guy?
Straight bet guy.Straight bet.Never liked parlays because I knew that that was impending death.I would always lose those parlays. And, you know, parlays are so much fun.You're like, oh, we can reduce this to, or now the line is seven and a half.
It's, yeah.And then people go like, you know, Dylan and Shay and Irving and Bad Larry on the gambling podcast.They're like, oh, you know, I'm going to do a 14 parlay.And I'm like, that's a loser.That's a loss.Yeah.I was always a straight up guy.
Tom in North Carolina.Tom?
Hey, DP, with Paulie not being there, I took it on myself to do an I-team report investigating a possible trademark infringement on Fritz's Halloween sports names.Oh.
So it comes to find out that Silence of the City Lamb was used before from Todd Fritz a few years ago.Dang.It was actually used this past week on the Fox pregame show on Sunday. So I think cease and desist, you know, is on the page.
Wow.OK.All right.Got some trademark issues there.Fritzie's trying to corral Joey Votto here.So Fritzie's not even in the room right now.He's he's panicking that he's lost Joey Votto.Fritzie, we're running out of time.
If Joey's not able to reconnect, then, you know, just tell him thank you. We'll get him another time.It's all good.Yeah.Uh, Ryan in Honolulu.Hi Ryan.Happy Halloween, Dan.Well, thank you, Ryan.Good to talk to you again.
I have some Halloween sports names that are as creepy as Todd.Okay.Couple of NBA ones here. Andre Igualdala.NBA coach Zombie Bickerstaff.Dante Exorcism.
Dante Exum makes the show.Give me one more, Ryan.
I got four quick ones.The baser ones.Jose Altumve. You got three left.Mommy!Machado!Two left, mommy.Alright, well, I don't know if this is a Kareem Witch Hunt, but I got Demarcus Werewolf.And lastly, soccer legend... Gary Cain!
Thank you.That's Ryan in Honolulu.Joey Votto, thankfully, is back with us.We were talking about how you'll remember Aaron Judge, and you brought in Shohei Otani.That missed opportunities for both of these guys on the big stage?
Oh, man.Dan, I'm sorry.The hamster jumped off the wheel for my connection.I thought that Shohei was approaching peak Shohei before he hurt his shoulder.But Aaron, in that last game, very similarly, You know, he looked fantastic.
He had that beautiful home run to right center field.He took some tough pitches for a walk.I just thought he looked great and I thought it was a missed opportunity for all baseball fans.We didn't get to see our best players at their best.
Yeah, and then Ohtani, but they build up a lot of regular season credibility with the numbers that they both put up.You just wanted to see that kind of showdown showcase, go seven games, and it comes down to Ohtani or Aaron Judge.
I mean, that's what we live for.We want those moments.We want the best players on the biggest stage.How do you explain Freddie Freeman of getting locked in like that?And it felt like they were pitching him sort of in the same location.
There was never a tough matchup for him.He's the type of hitter that against these right-handed pitchers that don't get swings and misses, he's going to get three quality swings off every single at bat.
And when you get three quality swings off and you're a contact style of guy, you're going to do damage.I'll tell you when I played, I used to look at the series.I used to look at who was pitching.
And I used to laugh to myself, I'm going to be able to get swings off over and over and over.And that's how Freddie felt going into this series.There was no bat where he was overwhelmed.
But weren't they putting it in the same location where he was taking it?I thought away, away, away, or if it's inside, it's really inside.He could turn on it. And that was what Henning was driving.I mean, he was hitting home runs.
So the novice in me is looking at that going, why are they putting that ball, it felt like, in the same location?
that was just a reflection of him executing on every one of those opportunities.You know, when you watch a game, notice how many pitches get missed, whether by take take or by foul ball or swing through.
And he got those opportunities and at a significantly higher percentage than the average hitter was executing on it and putting it in play for a homerun or a double.And he just did that all series long.
And I think he owns the World Series homerun record, consecutive game record now.
Yeah.Six.Not bad.Yeah, he went six.If you go back to the Braves, that's six consecutive games that he hit a homerun, didn't homer last night.But still, they didn't even know how healthy he was going to be.
I mean, you can look at the Dodger, I mean, total team effort, but I brought this up in the first hour.I thought Dave Roberts did a wonderful job with his pitching staff, with the roster, and they felt more like a smaller market team.
Like their approach felt smaller market, even though it's a, you know, billion dollar roster.And I think that's a credit to the manager of, we hustle, we make the small plays.You know, we're going to pull the pitching staff together.
you know, be a bullpen game, you know, all of those things.I just thought he pressed the right buttons.
I agree.I agree.But they didn't have a strong pitching staff and their bullpen was not strong either. They had some bright spots.Of course, Trenton was excellent.
But when you have to bring Bueller in to end the game, that's saying that you don't have a class A sort of thing to throw the last two, three innings of the game.Even on the Yankee side, they didn't have an ace bullpen arm.
They had some solid guys, but they didn't have guys that historically have been dominant.
Have you ever had a moment like Mookie had with fans where they were trying to take the ball out of your glove?
shamefully, shamefully, there was a pop fly down the first baseline.And one of the Cincinnati Reds fans reached over and we made contact and I didn't catch the ball.And I grabbed his his Cincinnati Reds logo.
And I kind of tugged at it like you're a red fan.And I walked away.And That was the first and last time I'd ever made contact with a fan in general.I called him personally and I profusely apologized and we had a good relationship afterwards.
You know, I've never seen that before, and I've never seen something so egregious.
I thought it was not good, especially on the World Series stage, especially with such a classy player as Mookie, who's like the sort of player that you would watch with your children to teach how to play.
And so, you know, to see that, I was bummed out.But no, that's never happened to me, thankfully.I would have probably reacted not in a good way, not as classy as Mookie reacted.
Did you ever talk to Ohtani when he was at first base?Yes.There's a language barrier, but do you think he knows and can speak a whole lot better than he leads on?
Well, when I first played against, or excuse me, the couple of times that I played against him were when he was with Anaheim.So that was at the beginning of his career.And the first occasion that I crossed paths with him, I said, wow, you're fast.
And he goes, thank you.Arigato.So in my experience, we were having a Japanese-English conversation.
OK.Yeah.OK.Deep conversation, huh?You're really fast.Yes.Arigato.Arigato. Great to talk to you and hope you're doing something with your life now.What are you doing with your life?
I'm clearly in environments that don't have strong internet connections, so I could stand to upgrade from there, but I'm doing great.I've been doing some surfing and been doing some traveling.It's been great, Dan.
Okay. I hope I see you, you know, involved with baseball next year.I hope that there's something if you want to be involved in a, you know, MLB network, pregame show or something, you got too much knowledge and personality to have it not be seen.
That's kind of you.I love the game.I love talking about, but more importantly, I love to learn.And this is the sort of sport that if you don't stay up with the current trends, if you don't keep up with the the the industry, you could fall behind.
And I don't want to be one of those types.Either I'm in or I'm out.So I would imagine I'll probably take a step.Good.Good.Thanks, as always.
Thank you.That's Joey Votto, former Reds first baseman.Take a break.More phone calls coming up after this.
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James in Virginia.Hi, James.What's on your mind today?
Oh, thanks for taking my call, brother.Happy Thursday.BP, Danette, salute the commanders, and happy Halloween, man.Who doesn't love handing out candy?And officially, we are the full-size candy bar house of our neighborhood, man, no doubt about it.
Man, the Yankees really dropped the ball, man, literally and figuratively.I thought they were gonna win the series with their pitching staff, man, and they just let it go.But last night was a perfect example on why betting on sports
It's totally hard to do, man.You said it right.I am a gambler myself, and I definitely had the eighties last night.Nothing, I went to bed.I woke up when the Dodgers were winning the series.I'm like, wow, what happened, man?And one last thing, VP.
Who feels worse today?To me, it's the Boston Red Sox, because Mookie Benz didn't leave them in free agency.They traded this guy.He's got two World Series wins, and is probably a top-five player in baseball today.I always appreciate you guys.
Have fun today.Don't eat too much candy, and watch out on them sports games, man.Salute the Commandos.Y'all have a great day.
All righty.All righty.That's James in Virginia. I love Mookie Betts.I fell in love with how he played the game when he was in Boston, and I thought, gosh, you just don't get rid of a guy like that.It's crazy that they let him go.Crazy.
And granted, his numbers aren't the way they were in Boston, but still, he plays the game right.You don't worry about him.And he can play a lot of different positions. Now, does he have three World Series titles now?I think he does, yeah.
I think he's the active leader in World Series titles.Let's see.How about Scott in Jacksonville?Hi, Scott.What's on your mind today?
Good morning, Dan.How are you today?Great.Best wishes to Paulie and his recovery.
I would suggest that Aaron Judge dropped fly ball last night will go down in MLB history alongside the Merkle Boner in 1908 and Fred Snodgrass dropped fly ball in 1912, both to eventually lose the World Series.
I don't think so.They were down three games to one. Judge's hitting or lack thereof should have more of the spotlight than him dropping that ball.You can see him at the last second.He's thinking about doubling off the runner.
And we're always taught, get the first out before you get the second out.And he didn't.And he felt terrible about it.He talked about it.Marvin, do we have Aaron Judge with the air?
I think falling short in the World Series will stick with me until I die, probably.I think just like every other loss, those things don't go away.
There are battle scars along the way, and hopefully when my career is over, we've got a lot of battle scars, but also a lot of victories along the way, too.
Yeah, you can hear it.It will stay with him.I don't think it's going to stay with everybody the way it stays with him, obviously.He didn't hit well. And that, to me, he's got to hit well.You do make the error, but he's not alone.
I mean, that team is short on fundamentals.Base running, fielding, making the right baseball play.That was a microcosm of who they were.That fifth inning was a microcosm, I felt like, for how they played during the regular season.
There'd be times when you'd go, nobody can turn a double into a single like Giancarlo Stanton can.Like these guys, They're not hustling down the back.See, Mookie did a small thing.He never gave up on the play.That's the important part of this.
You know, Garrett Cole didn't understand the spin on the ball.Anthony Rizzo couldn't come in because it might have gotten by him.And then maybe you're, you know, now you got a couple of runs coming in. But you got to get the ball.
You have to make sure that is all routine.That's all spring training routine for the pitcher in the first baseman.They practice it over and over and over.
And Garrett Cole made a mistake in reading the ball and Rizzo thought Garrett Cole was going to be there.Yes, Eden.
It's a good point, though, because like the first thing that popped in my head as soon as I saw Aaron Judge drop that ball was, oh, my God, Fred Snodgrass. Oh my God, I know one person who's happy right now, that's Fred Snodgrass.
The Snodgrass family.Yeah, the Snodgrass estate.I think he's being sarcastic there.I think you're being snodgrass.Oh my God, he just Fred Snodgrassed.
Yeah, Snodgrass waved him off and dropped them all, see?Back in the day.And there's a drive to Fred Snodgrass, and he said, oh and he lost it, oh no.Camped underneath it, and he dropped it.
1912 a play that's gonna be thought of a hundred years from now.
We're gonna be talking about that other announcers will the Fred Snodgrass play He wasn't that good cuz his name was Fred yeah, if he was really good at me ah three fingers Okay, Fred.
Just catch the ball right yeah Fred, try to, you're not a star, okay?Fred, alright, just catch the ball, alright?
God, Snotgrass, do it, come on.Can't believe he said that with a straight face.It wasn't even like a chuckle after that.
I know Fred Merkel, you know, bonehead Merkel, but I, You'd have to jar my memory with Fred Snodgrass there.I thought he was going to say Bill Buckner.But no, this is your, it's 3-1 games.
If this was the seventh game and he did that, then yes, we would be talking about that.You'd be talking about that 110 years from now.Yes, Marvin.
And the Dodgers were playing like they were down 3-1.They were playing with urgency.
Yes, they did.And Dave Roberts talked about that. When you get up, make sure you still play like you're the underdog here with urgency.And Dave Roberts talked about that.All right.Talked a lot of baseball.We got football coming up tonight.
Why are the Jets favored by one and a half against the Texans?We'll talk to the former Jets head coach, Rex Ryan.Final hour.
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