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WFAN Daily

Mike Francesa with John Smoltz

WFAN Daily

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Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

John Smoltz of MLB Network joins Mike to go around the league.

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0:00.0

We'll get back to that.

0:00.7

We'll do the draft later as we get closer to it.

0:03.5

Right now, I'll do a little baseball with John Smoltz, the MLB network analyst,

0:08.6

and obviously one of the great big game pitchers of all time.

0:12.5

John will call Cubs at Red Sox this Friday night.

0:15.7

Boy, I can't get enough of that.

0:16.8

Cubs at Red Sox, I mean, that's it.

0:18.7

I mean, that's it. I mean, that is it. From a network standpoint, from a TV

0:23.0

standpoint, that is it. That is Shangri-La, the Cubs and the Red Sox. That's the World Series

0:27.1

everybody wants. That will be MLB. Tonight, the Cubs have picked it up lately and got it going a little

0:33.2

bit. They've started the, you know, get everything going. The Red Sox have been pretty good so far. They've got the Yankees for a couple of games. So big week. That's a big week up there. You know, they got the Yankees and the Cubs up there. That's a big're coming in to catch the Mets reeling right now and

0:55.8

the Mets are reeling they're banged up they desperately need to beat on the Braves what's up with

1:00.8

the Braves right now well you know the Braves are going to be one of those teams I mean you know

1:05.4

after the first seven days everybody was a little like, every home city is like, oh, this is

1:11.7

going to be a long year, and then they won six in a row. But the Braves are going to have their

1:15.4

issues winning close games, in my opinion. Once they start doing that, you gain confidence

1:21.3

as a team. I don't know if they're going to be able to duplicate the second half last year of

1:25.7

their hitting. I mean, their hitting was unbelievable.

1:29.2

Well, Freddie Freeman's been unreal.

1:30.4

Freeman's a heck of a player.

1:30.9

He is.

1:34.2

Kemp's health is very important to their offense.

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