The Sports Reporters - Episode 425 - Baseball Field = Active Participant! Statement Week in the NFL. Bama Goes Down

The Sports Reporters

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Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The MLB playoffs are in full swing and the guys are here to discuss! What a weird and wild play in the Red Sox-Rays series. Was the ground rule double ruled fairly? And how do the Rays rebound? Why Max Scherzer's time to shine is now. Plus, a compelling weekend of football has the guys giddy with excitement! Alabama goes down to Texas A&M! What does a Nick Saban post game speech sound like after a loss? NFL teams with statement wins in Week 5. Plus, discussing the Jon Gruden emails.

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.4	I am Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.
0:20.2	And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:23.4	I'm at your album of the Detroit Free Press and welcome to the sports reporters podcast on an
0:30.0	extremely, extremely busy day in sports. We could talk college football and the big upset of Alabama.
0:37.4	We could talk the pros and what's upset of Alabama. We could talk the pros
0:38.5	and what's happened to Patrick Mahomes. But we have to start with baseball in one of the weirdest
0:44.9	plays in the 13th inning of a critical game between the Boston Rhexots and the Tampa Bay
0:51.1	raise. When Tampa Bay thought they finally had broken through and a ball
0:55.3	bounces off a wall off a player and over the wall and turns into a ground rule double that
1:02.0	yields no runs and the Red Sox walk off with a home run the bottom of the 13th. I've read and heard
1:10.1	this described as a play that was called correctly but
1:13.4	feels wrong. Do you guys agree? That was Jeff Passen. Yeah, yeah, Mitch, they don't get to
1:22.5	make up the rules as they go along, no matter what the circumstances. That rule couldn't be clearer about what happened last night.
1:30.3	And the fact is, Kevin Cash called for the same ruling a couple of years ago in a game his team was playing against the Blue Jays.
1:40.3	And the exact same rule was enforced.
1:43.3	So all of that hoo-ha afterwards about how,
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