Welcome to the Jim Rome Show, presented by FanDuel. What a day to be talking sports with you here on Thursday. My name is Trent Rush, sitting in for the legendary Jim Rome. What a treat to be here in Southern California today. And my goodness, a lot to get to.
Some scary news out of Philadelphia, particularly with Jalen Hurts and blood clots he's dealing with, and what that could end up meaning for the Philadelphia Eagles. On top of that, what it means for Jalen Hurts and how he's Handle that moving forward. Just how serious is this? Jalen Hurts out this week, and we know Tanner McGee is going to get the start. And then who knows what happens after that?
Meanwhile, you have what's going on in Southern California today is the story. I think in the sports world. And that is the Dodgers dynasty is dead. It's done. It's over.
That's it. They're down three games to none after losing last night, and this is truly the end of the run for the Dodgers. And I know. I know what happened in 2004. I know all about it, and I heard David Ortiz and Derek Jeter having some fun with that.
We all know, of course, it was Dave Roberts, Steele in Game Four of that ALCS that brought one of the great comebacks of all time happening in that American League Championship Series. This National League Championship Series will not go that way. This is a Dodgers team that is defeated. This is a Dodgers team that I think has accepted that they're not going to advance. And we're hearing it from some of the comments in the clubhouse.
We're seeing it with these guys. I think you saw it on the faces. And there is a video that is actually making its rounds on social media right now, and it was from the Fox broadcast last night. There was a 21 second clip of silence in the booth and showing no game action, just cutting face to face to face. Players, fans, demoralized, depressed.
And you know that it's doom for the Dodgers at this point. And after two incredible seasons where they win championships, and this year when you try to get everybody lined up exactly right to strike in October, I think the baseball gods had different plans. The baseball gods are honoring the team that uses the whole field, working great at bats. What Jake Bowers has done is nothing short of sensational. Two games in a row.
He has the twelve pitch at bat that leads to a hit or leads to a walk, rather. And then Christian Yelich drives in two runs right after that in Game Two, and then in Game Three, it was the big moment of that game. Hits the home run immediately followed by Garrett Mitchell going yard off of Blake Snell. Blake Snell who bookends a start, giving up a home run. And does it in the first inning, right off the bat, to Jackson Chirillo, first pitch of the game, and then at the end to Garrett Mitchell.
To think that his first and last pitches of the game both left the yard, but don't worry, he said he went all season that he didn't give up home runs all season, being nine starts, forty-two and two-thirds innings. This is what I'm saying when I say the baseball gods are not falling for this anymore. Because I really believe, the idea of what happens over the course of baseball season is you build as a team, you grow, and you get to a point where you can strike in October, and you want to be at your best come October. The Dodgers knew in spring training it was a foregone conclusion this Dodgers team was going to be playing in October. We all knew that there was no denying this Dodgers team was going to be there then.
But what the Dodgers didn't factor in was when you have Tyler Glass now miss as much of the season as he did, when Blake Snell misses as much of the season as he did. Maybe when you get to October, yeah, you want everybody to be lined up to be just right to go. But he's barely pitched this year. Nine starts for Blake Snell. I get it.
He's a Cy Young Award winner. But when Dave Roberts, who had to use eight pitchers in Game Two, had to push him just a little bit more, he was gassed. He got worn out. Those at bats, those long at bats that Jake Bowers had, where he's fouling off a bunch of pitches and he's making guys work, it's not just about the mental toll and the strategy and the chess match that goes into those at bats. There is a legitimate psychological toll.
And a physical toll that simultaneously take place. Those are absolute battles. They wear on you.
So when he gives up the home run here at the end, that's because he was tired. Snell was gassed, and then he gives up another home run to Garrett Mitchell. And Garrett Mitchell may not admit it afterwards, but yeah, he was facing a pitcher that was emotionally and physically drained. Two games in a row, this happened. It was Yelich in game two.
It was Mitchell last night. The benefactors for being able to cash in when the starting pitcher was worn out from a long at bat started by Jake Bowers. That is a real thing, and when you haven't pitched all year, it comes back to bite you. These were amazing at bats that Jake Bowers had last night, and you know what? What beautiful baseball that was!
Can we just take a moment? Forget the narratives for a second. Forget the the Dodgers dynasty and what it's going to mean for the lockout. And I know everyone's got their conspiracies right. Everyone's decided that the Dodgers are oh, we're just they're throwing the series to save baseball.
Spare me all of that, please. That was beautiful baseball that the Brewers are playing. You want to know how beautiful the baseball was? Ask Max Muncy. Ask Max Muncy just how beautiful the baseball has been for Milwaukee and how the Dodgers have looked on the other side.
Max Muncy says the Dodgers are playing like you know what, and the Brewers are not. They're playing really good baseball right now. And I think that there's a lot to that.
Now there was some kind of chatter out there that in Game Two that maybe Milwaukee was picking up on on some of the pitches that Yamamoto was throwing. They had great at bats. They were being patients. They weren't chasing out of the zone. Yamamoto's got this splitter.
He throws six pitches. He's got a splitter. Maybe the best pitch in baseball. Really is. But when you let it go.
Then all of a sudden, it becomes far less effective. And the Brewers were so so patient in those at bats that it neutralized Yamamoto. This is what I was talking about with Max Muncy. Take a listen to what Muncy had to say after the Dodgers' loss. I mean, it's a pretty simple answer.
We're playing like they're playing great. It's just simple as that. Yeah, pretty much is simple as that. I think that there are more. Layers to this, I think that you know Pat Murphy in the way that he handled his bullpen last night and taking Gasser out of the game.
What he did very nearly cost the Brewers the game. It was set up last night. Game one and Game three were set up for the Dodgers to win, and that I think is what's most surprising about all this, because these are the games the Dodgers normally do win when they're down. We've seen them down before, but when they take leads. In years past, they don't give those up, and it's not like the pitching is the problem.
I think that you're looking at an offense of a bunch of guys that are old and tired, and I know they try to pace themselves to be right by the end of the year, but I think that we are seeing a team that has played a lot of games over the last several seasons. They've gone on a lot of runs. It's not about a want to or a fight or a heart. That it's not that's not the problem with the Dodgers. Do I think the Brewers maybe have a little bit more fight?
Maybe, do I think the Brewers are maybe unfazed by having been swept by this Dodgers team and knowing that hey they were the team that won 103 games this year they were the team that the best record in baseball they were the team that actually believes that they could win coming into this series I think that all has something to do with it I think it also has to do with this Brewers team is talented and I think that this Dodgers team. They, as we heard after their victory over the Braves in the NLDS, they're dinosaurs. But not only are they dinosaurs, they're also like four-leaf clovers and rabbits' feet. And they have had unbelievable luck. I don't want to hear about the dominance of this Dodgers dynasty.
I think back to 2024 against the Yankees. If Aaron, if Aaron Judge can catch a line drive. Very different story because the Dodgers were out of pitching. If Garrett Cole is able to go cover over at first base, I think it's a very different story that year. If Addison Barger doesn't have the issues he had on the base paths last year, if that ball doesn't get wedged between the warning track and the base of the wall in Toronto, very different conversation.
If there wasn't a play, that play that Miguel Rojas made at the Get on my inches there. The Dodgers could not have come closer to losing the World Series than they were last year. It's not like this Dodger run has been nothing but dominance, and I think that when you test the fates of the baseball gods and you try to manipulate how you're going to use your players. I think at a certain point that catches up with you. It caught up with Snell last night, and I don't think Snell was bad.
Snell was really good for a lot of that game until he wasn't, and everyone's blaming Dave Roberts for that. But maybe the bigger issue isn't Dave Roberts asking a two-time Cy Young Award winner, a guy that's making thirty-six million dollars. This year, to try to push a little bit further, maybe the issue with Blake Snell isn't trying to ask that guy to go a little bit further in the game. Maybe it's because Snell has barely pitched this year. But this is what Snell had to say after the game last night, talking about those three home runs that he gave up.
Three home runs in a game is. I mean, I didn't give up one the whole year, so top three in a game is pretty frustrating, but. You know, somebody got to learn from. It's part of their journey too, and it's only going to make me better along the line. How difficult is it to be in this situation, facing elimination at home tomorrow?
Yeah, it sucks, but it's part of it. You know, how do we bounce back? How do we fight? I think that's the most important thing, and it's you know us coming together and finding a way to win. The whole year.
Forty-two and two-thirds innings, nine starts. That's the whole year for Blake Snell, who appeared as he often does, completely unbothered. And you know what? A lot of times, you like that. I think when you're down three games to none in a playoff series, maybe you want to see the guys look a little bit bothered, being in those situations.
I know the Dodgers are the back-to-back defending champions. I know that they are the mighty team. They have not looked that or anything close to that here in this playoff series. And I'm going to get into Shohei Ohtani a little bit as well. Ohtani actually, to me, looked better last night.
Ohtani was on base three times last night. He was on base twice in Game One. He had a ball 113 miles an hour off the bat last night. For those that care about exit velocity, when you see that. I actually think Otani is trending in a positive way, but what he's not doing is helping his team.
And however noble of a cause he thinks that he is making for his team, it is creating much greater issue because he is not effective right now. He's not, and I know that we're going to hear after the season. I'm sure. Oh, Shohei was banged up and he was injured. It's deeper than that with Shohei Otani, because I think with Shohei.
While physically, maybe there are some things and mechanic issues that he's trying to work through right now. I think also with Shohei, there is a clear mental disadvantage that he has put himself in, which happens in baseball. It's unfortunate for Otani and for the Dodgers that it's happened at this time. But this is a player that is experiencing failure on a grand scale for the first time in his life. When is Shohei ever?
Felt two months of poor play. It's never happened. Remember all the talk about Shohei coming into the season; he was going to win the Cy Young, and for a while he looked like he was until he couldn't pitch anymore.
So that dream dies, and then he comes back, and sure he's banged up, but now to go two months without a home run, it's not just that physically he's struggling. He has completely lost in the batter's box.
Some of his swings and misses have been absolutely atrocious in these playoffs. What does it mean for the greater picture on Shohei Ohtani? Are Shohei's best days behind him? Is the Shohei run as the greatest player ever? Can we put that to rest for just a moment?
Can we maybe stop with the narrative that we're talking about the greatest player of all time? There's a lot of players that have had good five-year runs. I'll I'll get into that a little bit later on in our show. We got an NFL game tonight. We have a big one coming up between the Seahawks and the Broncos.
We're gonna have Ryan Harris on to talk about that. We're gonna get into the NFL and talk about some of the things that we're seeing right now. There are some teams that are in pretty dire situations that I think we shouldn't give up on just yet. Looking forward to getting to that later on in the show. I want to hear from you.
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They are on the way. It's the Milwaukee Brewers. Their play-by-play voice, Jeff Levering, joins us on the Jim Rome Show. Coming up right after this. Again, I'm Chut Rush, sitting in for Jim.
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At Fat Kids Love Cake, the NLCS is like Rocky III all over again. The champ is old and tired, and Milwaukee's Mr. T. I pity the fool on that one. Very good, Richard Torres.
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And while you're at it, hit me up at Trent Rush Sports. I'm Trent Rush, sitting in for Jim Rome today, hanging with us here on the Jim Rome Show. In hour number one, we have the play-by-play voice of the Milwaukee Brewers. Jeff Levering is with us right now, and I know, I know, it's not time to celebrate just yet, Jeff. But for this Brewers team to be up three-zero the way they've done it, how are things going right now in Milwaukee, and the way that town is feeling about this team?
Well, not just Milwaukee. I think the entire state's feeling pretty darn good about where the Brewers are right now. They've never had a two games to nothing series lead in the CS before. They've accomplished that, and they've added to it last night.
So I'd say that the the watch parties have been great at American Family Field in Milwaukee. They're going to open up the ballpark today for forty two thousand people that want to show up and enjoy the ball game.
So it's not just going to be out in the plaza. They're opening up the entire ballpark. Concession stands are going to be rock and roll. It's going to be a party in Milwaukee, and hopefully they've got something to celebrate late night tonight.
Well, I think that that is totally in play with what we've seen the first three games of this series. All right, so Jeff Levering is a Chapman Panther, as am myself.
So we we go way back, and Jeff has always been like that North Star broadcaster for us.
So I just want folks to know, like it's an honor for me right now to be talking with Jeff Levering. But I mention that because you're a California guy. And there's a lot of California guys on this Brewers team. Do you think there's something to the group of local players, particularly those from Southern California, to be doing this against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, the back-to-back defending the champs? Do you think that adds anything to it?
Sure, I think some of it does. I mean, a lot of these the Southern California kids grew up being Dodgers fans, and playing in this ballpark has a lot of nostalgia for them. But I think more than anything else, a lot of the guys that were on this roster this year were also on the roster a year ago, and to have the feeling of what they felt in this ballpark a season ago, the disappointment in the National Championship Series, getting swept here by the Dodgers, not having a playoff. Victory against the Dodgers since 2018. I think it it sticks in the craw of a lot of these players and a lot of the the front office members.
So to have a three nothing series lead against this team, you want to if you want to win, if you want to win a championship, you want to do it against the best. And I think the Brewers relish in that opportunity to get it done against the Dodgers and do it against this crowd. And I think that they really enjoyed taking the lead late in the ball game last night and then seeing fans. Starts to leave Dodger Stadium in the eighth inning when they added a run and then added another run in the ninth inning. I think that that a lot of these players really enjoyed seeing that moment.
And again, I think for for a lot of these kids that are from Southern California, learning what they learned a year ago, feeling how they felt, the emotional take it took on them to get through the division series a year ago, and then just running out of gas against the Dodgers. In the CS season ago, it has really propelled them to work hard here in 2026 and to put themselves in the situation to sweep a series and go to the World Series for the first time in 44 years. I think the what has been established in terms of what the Brewers are doing, and I think it's interesting to get into the why and the how they are doing it. And I'm also no, I'm not just talking about play-by-play voice of the Milwaukee Brewers, Jeff Levering. You are a College World Series champion.
Back your days at Chapman University, so I gave you some love as a player too. What is it about the way Milwaukee has done it? There's been a lot made about their ability to use the whole field, you know, the contact, you know, trying to cut down on the strikeouts, hitting for a high average. How much of that do you feel like has been to the Brewers' advantage, not just in these playoffs, but really all season long? It's just it's Pat Murphy baseball, right?
I think for for what the Brewers have accomplished, they pitch the ball exceptionally well. There's no doubt about that. They do an amazing job defending, and what they've done offensively with the plan that they have put together, the buy-in from everybody on this roster to have gritty at-bats. You take the the two big at-bats from Jake Bowers in this series, the 12 pitch walk, the 11 pitch homer from from last night. That is the epit.
Of what this Brewers team does, it just grinds you down until you just you are just worn out. And I think for what the Brewers have done over the course of not just this series for the regular season, they do it in in Game One of a series over a weekend or Game One of a four game series where you get to the starter in the third or the fourth inning and that guy's out, and then you're getting into the bullpen so quickly. That is what this team does. Again, there are no holes one through nine. It doesn't matter who the the superstars are and the Brewers.
If if you go down, Major League Baseball fans. They probably couldn't name five or six Brewers, except for maybe Christian Yelich, maybe Jackson Chirillos on that list now.
So it doesn't matter who the guy is in that in that lineup. They're getting the job done, passing the baton to the next guy. It's just how this offense works, and they are they are grinding down this Dodgers team.
So for me, the offense for the Dodgers looks old. It looks tired, and and that happens over the course of this this a bunch of. Winning that the Dodgers have had, but I think a lot of it has to do with the way that the Brewers play offense and just grind down defenses and pitching staffs. I think there's going to be a lot made, and there already is right now in baseball. Everyone's talking payrolls, right?
The Brewers payroll 18th, Dodgers, of course, number one in the American League. You have you know the two lowest payroll teams fighting it out in the American League Championship Series. But I think that the way the Brewers play is fascinating. Do you think that that kind of grinded out style, that that contact? First style.
Do you think that's something that now maybe this Brewers team can maybe create a new trend in Major League Baseball, where maybe the game goes back to seeing more of that league-wide? Yeah, and it's hard to do, right, Trent? Because guys are throwing, their guys are throwing harder. Guys are spinning the ball with with much more success these days. It's hard to make contact.
Strikeouts happen in Major League Baseball; it's part of it. But if you buy into the, listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna do whatever I can do to to wear this guy down and win this battle. I think I think the league is better off for it. And I think what you're seeing in the American League with Cleveland and with Tampa Bay, they they are very. Similarly built, like the Brewers are, and it's not just a payroll thing.
It's it's a buy-in. It's whole. It's the entire organization, top to bottom. And for me, when I explain the Brewers, I explain them like a silo because it's it is so connected from top to bottom, from ownership down to whoever's cleaning the ballpark. Everybody's on the same page.
I think that that's the biggest part of what this Brewers organization has been about. And when you talk to teams around the league. I I can't tell you the amount of broadcasters that come up to us and go, man, what's the secret sauce of the Brewers? How are they doing this? What what I don't I just don't understand with these players and how do they just continue to win?
It's the buy-in. It really, it really is the buy-in from everybody within the organization, and there is no secret sauce because everybody's just playing for for each other. They're not playing for individual contracts. They're not playing for for anybody else. They're playing for their teammates, and and I think that that's the biggest part of of what this Brewers team has has done over the the decade of success that they have had, and hopefully one more win, and they're they're headed to the promised land for the first time since 1982.
Yeah, I want to get into that for a second because Jeff, you've been around this Milwaukee organization for a long time, and you've seen a lot of the ups and downs, and we've seen a lot of the ups for like a relatively extended period of time. The Brewers have kind of been like this, this sleeper team that is in, you know, legitimate contention every single year, but haven't been able to get over that hump, and now one game away from doing just that. I would love to know, from your perspective, what's different about this. This Milwaukee team, maybe compared to some of the other teams of the last few years. I think that there is a belief trend.
I mean, I've been in this organization for twelve years. This is my twelfth season here in Milwaukee, and since the two thousand and seventeen season, they've played two games that have not had playoff implications: the final game of the seventeen season and the final game of the twenty-two season, where they were eliminated from the from the playoffs by one game. Everything else has had playoff implications.
So, for me, what separates this team from Years past is that they they believe. They absolutely believe. I think last year they were happy to get through the Cubs and and win that division series and prove that they belonged. And again, we talked about it earlier: the emotional toll that that took on this team to to win five games. I think they were just gas going in the championship series.
This year, their goal was get through the Dodgers. They wanted to get through the Dodgers, prove that they belong here, and I think that they've done that in Spades. And once they got through the Padres. The Padres were, I think, collateral damage. I think it didn't matter who they were going to be playing.
It was they. The goal is to get to the Dodgers, and they were going to go through whoever they needed to get through to get there. And they took down the Padres in an emotional series. Every game was decided by two runs or less. And then you get to the Dodgers series, and it was all right.
Game on. This is what we've worked so hard for, starting in spring training, and let's let's prove that we belong here. We believe that we belong here, and they. Proven that in the first three games. All right, Jeff.
I've I've learned recently that fans care a lot more about broadcasters than I ever truly realized before. People want to know.
So you're getting ready for game four tonight. You guys are on the brink of sweeping this Dodgers team. I say you guys as if you're one of the players, but you know what? When you're with them all the time and you're on the plan, you're calling all the games. You are.
You're part of the team, part of the organization. As you prepare for the game tonight and what's to come, do you start thinking about calls? Do you start? Thinking about how you're going to get ready for the moment tonight. How does how does a play-by-play man for the Milwaukee Brewers get ready for this moment tonight?
Potentially, I'm not scripting anything. I've the only thing I've ever scripted in my my big league time was how I was going to come on the air for the first game after Eucher passed away.
So the the first game, the first time that we came on the air in 2025, that was the first time that I had ever scripted anything because I wanted to make. Sure that I said the things that I needed to say, without kind of breaking down. Right. That was a hard. That was a hard day.
It's the only time I've ever scripted anything. Do I think about what it would mean to the city? To see the Brewers go to the World Series and you're five wins away from potentially being a World Series champion, do I think about what words would come out of my mouth? Yeah, and I don't I don't take that lightly. We're going to go game by game, and if the Brewers win tonight or if they win tomorrow, whenever it may be, if they end up going to the World Series.
I'm just going to say how I feel, and and the moment is going to come to me, and hopefully the words come to me in that moment, and hopefully I do the the city and the fans a the right way in that moment. But to say that I'm going to script something, I I think that that would give the moment a disservice, and I just I just want to feel in that moment and. And hopefully, and hopefully, again, I have the right words to say.
Well, I'm I'm certain based on 12 years of track record. I don't think that's going to be any kind of issue for you tonight, Jeff. Hey, would you do me a favor? Can you give Stephen Nelson a hard time in the other radio booth tonight? I will.
I will. I absolutely will. We took our we took our Chapman picture. Way to go! Because the the three of us are the the the Chapman alums that are in the big leagues, which is pretty amazing.
So way to go, Panthers! Proud to be a part of the lineage, and and I'm just glad to to blaze the trail for everybody. Have a good call tonight, Jeff. Thanks for coming on. You got it.
Take care, Trent. All right, we'll see you. There goes Jeff Levering. Hey, again, Jeff's a friend. I'm, I'm telling you, like, just again, a backstory of this.
So Stephen Nelson, play-by-play voice, one of the voices of the Dodgers. Of course, everyone knows Joe Davis, but Stephen does a lot of TV, a lot of radio. He was a senior when I was a freshman. When Stephen was a freshman, the senior at that time was Jeff Levering.
So we do. There's a little bit of a Chapman pipeline here.
So I know Syracuse gets all kinds of love, but we're trying to do our thing out here. On the West Coast, we do have some reaction to what's going on right now. And again, you can hit me up at Trout Rush Sports. Hit up the show at Jim Rome. Send some emails Rome at HaveItTake dot com.
Of course, taking your phone calls one eight hundred six three six eight six eight six. More fans in Milwaukee Stadium than at Dodger Stadium tonight, says Squats the Toad. That's in play, yeah, for sure. That's in play. Aaron in Iowa, real quick.
Did you see? It's going to cost more to park your car tonight at Dodger Stadium than it will be to get in the building. Seventy-five dollars is the price to park your car. There's tickets going on the secondary market right now for seventy bucks. It's getting more expensive to park your car tonight.
Aaron and Iowa taking some shots. Trent Rush looks like a guy who doesn't even like rush. Ah, come on, man! Don't be taking shots like that. Tom Sawyer all the way.
Let's go. We got some of that. Yeah, Aaron and Iowa. Rush. You know what?
I'm actually going to take that as a compliment. I'm going to take that as a compliment because I think that means that I'm too young to enjoy. Rush, good stuff right there. All right, we're gonna we're gonna step aside for a moment. When we come back, a lot going on in the NFL.
We were just talking to one broadcaster. Ooh, is that some broadcaster drama happening in the National Football League right now? Plus, what Jalen Hurts blood clots could mean for him and for the Eagles moving forward.
Some teams the NFL that I'm not ready to give up on just yet. You may be giving up. I'm not a quitter. I'm not backing down on some of these. My name is Trent Rush.
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Can we get enough updates, enough upsets right now in Major League Baseball? My goodness, how about the Cleveland beating Tampa three-two? Today, Pete Halpin hit a two-run homer in that game. Gavin Williams awesome on the mound for Cleveland in that one. Man, how did how did the Guardians take a two-one lead on the Tampa Bay Rays?
Tampa has been head and shoulders above everybody else in the American League all season long, all year. Like it's like they're like the only team that you feel like had any chance against the top five in the National League, and then Cleveland comes to town and Jose Ramirez gets going at the right time. My goodness, we're going to have to get into that. We might have to get our friend Mark Trumbo to come on the show coming up in a little bit to talk about some of that. Right now, I want to get some of your reaction.
My name is Trent Rush. I'm a broadcaster for the Angels. Like full disclosure out here in Southern California, that's what I do. I call football and basketball for Fox as well. I spend my day to day with the Los Angeles Angels, and we're hoping for better days.
We are, but after having to watch the Dodgers in Southern California do nothing but win, win, win, and win some more of the last couple of years, now Milwaukee comes to town—a team full of Orange County guys. Going up the road and and beating the Dodgers three games to none to this point chance of a sweep tonight that is fantastic you can call the show one eight hundred six three six eight six eight six you can find me on X at trout rush sports of course hit up Jim at jim rom rom and haveitake dot com a place to get into the email space we'll be reading some of your emails here if you want to get into some of that action as well want to take a phone call here as we got Sean from Nashville that. Joining us here on the Jim Rome Show, what's up, Sean? Trent, what's going on? Hey, condolences on the Angels.
Days will get better. First thing, I just want to shout out. I was a little animated yesterday. Matt from LA, we need you to call back soon. But number one, did Doc Roberts leave Blake Snell in too long?
He was at ninety-one pitches. We had nine outs. Vescio, Scott, anybody could get it done. That's a judgment call. We could Monday morning quarterback if he was at 91 pitches.
We could talk about that tomorrow. Second thing, Glasno tonight we're better on paper. Shane Doolan thrown nine and two thirds innings against the Dodgers. They've gotten five runs off him. We can get one.
Just get one tomorrow night. Scooble the Miz. We've seen the Miz be erratic. We've seen the Miz. Not go as far in.
If we can get that one tomorrow, get this thing back to Milwaukee. Your thoughts on that? Part two of this for Matt in LA. I see the Rams wrapping off five in a row. This is facts: Arizona, Vegas, Chargers, Washington, Arizona, two and three, seven and three.
McBag has not dropped the bag yet. Your thoughts on this? All right.
Well, Sean, thank you. And for Matt in LA, I don't think he's going to call today. Just kind of my hunch, with the Dodgers now down three games to none, I don't think we're going to hear from it. Not the way this Dodgers series has gone. As far as the Rams coming up in a minute, I'm going to talk about some of the teams in the NFL that I think that I've gotten off the band starts that I am absolutely not concerned at all about.
The Rams are almost disqualified from that conversation because it's such a layup that this Rams team is not overly flawed. Yeah, they've lost a couple of heartbreakers. They had the terrible game to open the season on Australia. I think you throw that one out. A couple of tight losses.
Shouldn't have lost that game against Denver. Shouldn't have lost this past weekend. Did go to Philly and beat an Eagles team on the road. Granted, I know the Eagles have had their share of injuries as well. But I really do feel like this Rams team is not a team to be worried about at this point.
There's there's no reason for that. I I am worried about another two and three team though, and. I think more than football, I am worried just on a bigger scale of what's going on with Jalen Hurts.
So they're calling this a superficial blood clot, and he's not going to play against Carolina. Tanner McKee is going to get the start in that game for the Eagles, and they're already down Saquon Barkley. They're already down Devonte Smith at two and three, and the status of Jalen Hurts being unknown is incredibly alarming. And I don't know how long we're going to see the Eagles be without Jalen Hurts.
Now again, they're calling it week to week, and like remember he got cleded in the calf. In that Rams game that I was talking about a couple of weeks ago, back on October the fourth, he got some treatment on the calf. Few days later, apparently, like there scans in London, he was good enough cleared to play. Plays in that game against Jacksonville, and then now they do some further ultrasounds and they're seeing some movement in the small blood clot. Is what some of these reports are right now.
Again, I I can't confirm any of this personally, but this is this what some of the chatter is out there. Right now, and they're trying to figure out like the next step forward. At this point, I think that the one thing is for the Eagles, like unbelievably bad luck and the injuries stacking against them is dramatic. But like, it's not like the NFC East is full of juggernauts. Like, are you really going to trust that Commanders team and?
Jane Daniels, who isn't quite sure how to run a play at the end, and then wants to blame the coaching staff afterwards for some of those comments. I know that you know we've gotten into this last couple days, and that just disaster that they had. Are we really like that into the two and three Cowboys? Are we are we that into the Giants? I know that they're off to a good start, but Is that is that Giants team like the dominant team?
And so I don't know. I am concerned about the injuries for the Philadelphia Eagles, and I think that it was obviously risky. But you know, some of the talk that we're seeing right now, whether it be on social media or on other radio shows, other TV shows, is like, what exactly happens next for Jalen Hurts? What's the treatment then for blood clots? I don't have experience in this, but.
From what I understand, generally you take blood thinners, and that is kind of what alleviates that, or at least makes it preventative from becoming something greater.
Okay, well, if that's the case, if you're taking, if you're on blood thinners, like contact sports are like the worst thing you could do.
So he's going to be out for again. Who knows how long? I don't know when Jalen Hurts gets cleared, and I'm not ready to to be one of those that's saying that's it, it's done, career ending. Like I don't know. I do.
Tend to think that to guess that it's going to be a one week thing, and then he's back. I have a hard time seeing that happening, but it's it's an indefinite timeline. And when I say an indefinite timeline, it doesn't mean oh, it's forever. It's just like it's not determined yet. And if that's the case, I mean, and I don't know that I love the backup quarterback answers for the Eagles this year.
I don't know that I. Love the current quarterback situation. It's not like Jalen Hurts has had a great year. Hurts has struggled, but when Saquon's hurt, Devontae Smith's out. I mean, you just keep going down the line, and all those injuries.
I think that's a that's a big concern right now.
Something else I wanted to to look at. I don't know how many people caught this on the Monday Night Football game last night. Apparently, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman—or not last night on on Monday night. Apparently, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman had some kind of a spat before the game, and they got into it.
Now, the backstory to this: Joe Buck gets that six-year, hundred-eight million-dollar deal with ESPN. Troy Aikman's going to be a free agent, and I don't love getting into like broadcaster discussion and and everything that that happens there, but. It was very fascinating to me to hear Troy Aikman basically acknowledge that there was a disagreement, that there was a spat, and here's Troy talking about what happened between him and Joe Buck.
Well, I think there's a there's probably a time and a place for all that to be discussed. I don't know if now's the time. I don't know that it's hard to figure out. Kind of what's happened, but you know, I'll broadcast through this season, and I'll be a free agent at the end of the year, and kind of see what happens. But I'm looking forward to whatever the rest of this year does hold, and with the Super Bowl and all that, and where my next landing spot might be.
Broadcast booths are centered around the analyst on television. That's the nature of it. That's the reality. The play-by-play guy is called the game. You're asking your play-by-play guy to be a traffic cop, to set up the analyst in the right way, to facilitate the sideline reporter, to call the game the producer wants you to call, to make sure that your voice and your reflection inflection reflects the images that are being shown on the screen.
That's the job of the play-by-play announcers to get you through the game. The real money comes from the analyst. Tom Brady gets paid pretty handsomely for that. There are just a lot of other options right now. It's very fascinating with Troy Aikman, who and and I think that there's something to be said for the fact that Joe Buck and Troy Aikman could have this disagreement and still call a game, and none of us knew.
Absolute consummate professionals, Buck and Aikman, stand-up guys by by all accounts, and people that know them and talk to them like they'll all tell you that. It's not a bad word about any of those guys. And I think that if anything. It's almost like a marriage, and a healthy one at that. Do you get along with your wife on every single thing?
I have a feeling that if you've been married to somebody for a long time, and they've been married in the broadcast booth for a long time, you're not going to agree on everything. You're going to have maybe some, you know, fundamental issues that you might disagree on. To have those, to have the conversation, and still be able to do the job, to where nobody knows. That's even more impressive for me on those guys. Greg Olson probably could potentially be sitting out there.
T here is chatter about what his future looks like at Fox. They this Richard Dice saying, you know, no negotiations with Greg Olson yet. You know, Pat McAfee has paid a lot of money over to ESPN. Though, I I think the value of McAfee for me is the shoulder programming. A lot of people are into Pat McAfee, and.
I think that you're going to watch the game regardless. No matter who's in the booth, you're a great game. You're going to watch the game. That shoulder programming—that's where you you need, you know, that figure. And then that McAvoy is also a little bit of a disruptor on the set.
I say that in a positive way. Like he disrupts college game day in a in a good way. He's an entertainer. That's what he is. And just because you might like that on college game day on shoulder programming, I don't know that you're necessarily going to love that in the booth.
I think it's very different, but you're going to watch the games anyway. Like that's the magic of it. Like that's you're going to watch football. But I thought it was very interesting, and I don't know. We can go into this.
We can take some more calls, get some more reaction on this as the show continues. We're only an hour into this thing, and boy, we have a lot more to get into here. We're going to take a deeper dive into these baseball playoffs. The fact the Cleveland Guardians have a two-one lead. I know nobody wants to talk about the American League Championship Series.
It's all about the Dodgers and their and their dynasty being doomed, down three games. Do they get swept tonight? We're gonna have Troy, not Troy Aikman, but we are gonna have Mark Trumbo join us in the next hour. A lot of baseball talk, a lot of football talk. Straight ahead, I'm Chuck Rushing for Jim Rome.
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