Mike DeCourcy Joins to Talk World Series, CFB Week 10

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00:00All right, Mike, of course, he's with the Sporting News, the famed columnist, you see

00:07him on Fox Sports and Big Ten Network during the college basketball season because he's

00:12on take for the Indiana Hoosiers, as you know, and that's important.

00:18He wrote an article about Otani being the player of the year for the Sporting News.

00:24And you know, he I guess he blew out judge for the vote.

00:29I saw the article, he killed him right in the voting.

00:33And then I just want to get your reaction to how bad he had 60 percent more votes than

00:39judge.

00:40And then I'd like to know your opinion of how awful both of them have been in the world.

00:47That's what Freddie Freeman is for, I guess, you know, in Otani's case, he has been a little

00:54bit dinged up there.

00:56And that's made an impact on his performance.

00:58But Freeman hasn't has made it so that it has not mattered at all for the Dodgers.

01:05In the case of judge, it's a disappointment without a doubt.

01:08And it is tough for power hitters.

01:10Those things sometimes come and go and sometimes the pitcher gets the better of you.

01:16I remember when I was covering the NLCS in 91 and 92 and Barry Bonds just really couldn't

01:23be you know, he couldn't get himself to be Barry Bonds.

01:26And the Pirates went home twice as a result of that or partly as a result of that.

01:32It's a tough ride sometimes.

01:34And we're way past the days when a Willie Stargell or Roberto Clemente would dominate the

01:41postseason because pitching has advanced so much in that time.

01:44Not that there weren't great pitchers then, but there's more great pitchers now than there

01:50were then.

01:51And the second reliever and the third reliever and the fourth reliever are all those pitchers

01:57because of Freddie Freeman.

01:59It's a home run every time he comes to the plate.

02:01So I don't want to hear about great pitching.

02:03Where is it? We don't have any here.

02:05We don't have any great pitching.

02:06It's all in L.A., man.

02:08I think that's the problem.

02:10Honestly, Mike, have you ever seen anything worse than that third base coach sending the

02:16slowest guy in Major League Baseball rounding third on a one hop liner to left with Teoscar

02:25Hernandez running inward?

02:26As you know, there's two things in sports that happen.

02:29One, it's a three point shot stepping into it.

02:33It's automatic.

02:34If you step into a three, you have way better chance of jumping up and making it.

02:38Anyone that steps into a three can launch and fire and hit.

02:42Second thing, a guy in left field running in on a one hop liner with an arm.

02:48What do you think he's going to do against a guy that runs four miles an hour around third

02:53base? That was the worst send home I've ever seen by a major league third base coach.

02:59I think that's a reasonable assertion.

03:01I really do. I mean, you've been watching baseball for 50 years, and I think that that's a

03:06reasonable assertion because I'm watching Stanton and he is moving so slowly that that it's

03:15staggering. And one wonders while you're watching live action, is that slow motion?

03:21Is that because nobody, no human being could move, no professional athlete could move that

03:26slowly in this circumstance.

03:28But he really did. And it was so obvious he was going to be out when when he turned third

03:34base going for what you would call full steam when he turned third base.

03:40There was no question he was going to be out.

03:42It's just a question of by how much.

03:43And I just don't understand how you do that in that circumstance.

03:48I've seen bad decisions before where guys got thrown out as a result, but never one that was

03:56so egregious because the runner had no chance.

03:59I mean, had no chance when he reached third base.

04:02That's what the it's an easy call to hold him up.

04:05So do you think that or so?

04:08So Judge has these monster season, 62, 58, 144 RBIs.

04:14Do you feel that we we said earlier in the show that he will not be remembered for any of

04:20that? Frankly, he's going to be remembered for being a postseason flop.

04:24He has been since he has been in over 50 games in playoffs over his short career.

04:32And now he's hitting.

04:34Oh, ninety one.

04:36Austin Wells is hitting 100.

04:39I mean, honestly, I have never seen a superstar this bad in any sport ever in a big game, in

04:48a big moment, in a big light, in a big spotlight like the World Series.

04:52This guy made the World Series and he is the most anemic at bat.

04:57He misses by two feet and he swings at everything.

05:01He's out within forty five seconds.

05:05Well, that's the modern game, Scott.

05:06And that's part of baseball's problem now is that they have taught batters that that

05:13hitting the ball out of the park is the primary goal and making contact and getting on

05:18base and all that stuff and moving the runners and all that stuff means less than if you

05:24hit the ball, it's got to go out of the park.

05:26And that's why you can have a circumstance where somebody could be, you know, a 50 home

05:31run guy and a hundred and forty four RBI guy or whatever, and he only hits two thirty.

05:37I mean, that happens or some approximation that happens in Major League Baseball every

05:42year now because that's what they've been taught.

05:45And so that's how you wind up to some extent.

05:47That's how you wind up with a guy hitting 090 in in postseason baseball.

05:52I agree with you that that will be a part of his memory.

05:55However, he does get the chance, I don't think this year, but he get the chance next

06:01year and he still has several years after that where he'll be considered to be in his

06:04prime where he can change the narrative.

06:07But he has to change it.

06:09If it stays like this, this will haunt his his legacy without a doubt.

06:14If if there hadn't been the to the 2006 season for Peyton Manning, then with the Colts,

06:22then that's what they would remember in Indy, is that he was as great a regular season

06:26quarterback as anyone's ever been.

06:28But then the postseason came along and he didn't get it done.

06:31If it hadn't been for them getting that Super Bowl, that's what people would think about.

06:36But he got that one and then he kind of got the one.

06:39You got to give him some credit for the one in Denver several years later.

06:43And as a result of that, that's not what people think about when they think about Peyton

06:47Manning. But it came very close.

06:49And that's why I have to say about Judge that he's not going to change it this year, almost

06:54certainly, but he'll have to change it himself in the next couple of years.

07:00This year, what are you, a comedian?

07:02Like, hey, hey, we have we saw that we saw the Red Sox come from four down.

07:07We did. We did. We saw it happen.

07:09It didn't happen.

07:10So you are not going to happen.

07:13But I have to I have to allow for the possibility.

07:16It's not that's not happening.

07:17All right. So let me ask you this question really quick.

07:20Ohio State's playing Penn State in Happy Valley and they've owned them.

07:26They have owned them like no other.

07:29The quarterback, Howard, said he grew up a Penn State fan his whole life from

07:34Pennsylvania and they didn't want him.

07:35He wasn't good enough to play at Penn State.

07:38Will that kid get the revenge that he seeks on Saturday?

07:42And will Indiana handle their business at East Lansing and then against Michigan

07:48and Bloomington to go into the game in Columbus 10 and 0?

07:52You know, it's interesting because this is a huge game for Ohio State because I

07:56don't know whether they can make the playoff with two losses.

07:59It's it's possible.

08:01But I think that that concern has to be out there for them.

08:05So every game has great urgency for Ohio State now.

08:09And they do have the advantage or apparent advantage that Drew Aller, the fine

08:14quarterback for Penn State, appears to be affected by some level of injury.

08:20We'll see on Saturday whether he's himself.

08:23But that's that's a factor that might be in the Buckeyes favor.

08:26But they certainly will have to play better than they did last Saturday against

08:30Nebraska. And so I think Ohio State will play better and I do think they will win.

08:37But the Aller question is the one that's hanging over Penn State.

08:40As for Indiana, I do think that they will arrive in Columbus at 10 and 0.

08:45I think that this last Saturday, having to play without their number one quarterback

08:49and being able to win still decisively against a pretty solid Washington team says

08:54that they're going to get there.

08:55But they have to pay attention to they have to pay attention to the tail.

09:01They can't allow them to get themselves to start thinking about going to Columbus with

09:06a perfect record. They have to focus, as they have really well, over the course of the

09:11first eight weeks of the season.

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