The Josh Innes Show - Clayton Kershaw is a Weasel

Episode Date: June 9, 2025

Clayton Kershaw pitched in St. Louis yesterday. Clayton Kershaw has a history of sucking in the playoffs against the Cardinals. The Cardinals played the highlight of Matt Adams hitting a go ahead playoff homer off Kershaw... Clayton Kershaw did not like this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, we got ourselves a CNX Tuesday alert. And it comes via Clayton Kershaw. Clayton Kershaw, of course, great regular season pitcher, multiple Cy Young awards. I think he's won the MVP. I forgot, but I think he's won the MVP. Clayton Kershaw will forever go down, especially for that stretch at the beginning of his career, as one of the great regular season pitchers of all time. He is also known as a guy who was owned multiple times by the St. Louis Cardinals in the playoffs, most notably in the 2014 playoffs when he gave up a go-ahead home run late in the game to Matt

Adams in Busch Stadium. I think that made that score three to two. He also blew a big lead in the postseason in a home game against the Cardinals. Matt Carpenter I believe hit like a bases clearing, bases loaded double that put the Cardinals on top and they had a big rally in that game to win. So Clayton Kershaw has nightmares about the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cardinals have been his daddies in key moments in the postseason. And let us not forget that he was spotted three runs in that epic game five, one of the great baseball games, most exciting baseball games ever played in what was then called Minute Maid Park, the Astros Dodgers game five of the World Series and the Dodgers are up three nothing after half an inning three nothing after half an inning Clayton Kershaw is given a three run lead dominant Clayton Kershaw in a game that was started Young Award winners. One is considered like the greatest pitcher of this generation, and he doesn't

even make it out of the fifth. And that game ends up like 12 to 11 or 12 to 10, whatever the fuck the final. So it was 12 to 11. So either or 13 to 12. I don't know. I was really hammered at that game. I missed every key moment because I was in the John taking a leak. Every time something amazing happened in that game, I was taking a leak at just how it worked out. And then I was kind of passed out whenever they got the game winning hit. The roar of the

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Voidware prohibited. One per new customer. Bonus awarded is non-withdrawable pick six bonus picks that expire in 14 days. Limited time offer. Terms at picksix.draftkings.com slash promos. So I didn't see this yesterday, but Clayton Kershaw started against the Cardinals and as we noted, he has had his issues with the Cardinals and as we noted he has had his issues with the Cardinals in the postseason. One of the great Cardinals postseason moments ever was Clayton Kershaw giving up the home run to Matt Adams. A fun moment. The big burly son of a bitch is jumping around the bases. Bush Stadium

is going nuts back when Bush Stadium used to be packed and it was fun and there was Cardinal fucking magic. That was that second kind of wave of the Cardinals being good in the 2000s. They had the 2000 to about 2006 run then 070809 nothing special 10 nothing special then the 11 run happened to the World Series and that led to World Series Championship in 11 LCS appearance in 12 back to the World Series in 13, then I want to say made it to the LCS in FOIA. 14 was against

San Francisco, I believe. Then 15 is kind of the end of the road there. I think they lost to the Cubs in 15 and then really haven't been the same ever since, but that was their second run there and that was when Matt Adams hit the home run off of Clayton Kershaw. So he starts the game yesterday at Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis and prior to the game, the Cardinals were playing the highlight of Matt Adams hitting the home run off of Clayton Kershaw. A very significant moment and oh by the way the Cardinals for the most part have owned the Dodgers

as it relates to postseason baseball historically. I think they lost a series to them back in oh or in oh nine maybe but you had the 1985 playoffs where Ozzie hit the home run off of Tom Needon, Führer and then you had Jack Clark hit the home run in game six off of Tom Needon, Führer when they should have walked Jack Clark but they didn't so there were two of the best postseason moments in Cardinals history were against the Dodgers there than two other great postseason moments against the Dodgers in like 14. But anyway, so they're playing the highlight of Clayton Kershaw giving up the home run to Matt Adams. And he was asked

about this prior to the start. He this video is playing before the start. I think it's a little Bush League, but I don't expect anything less from these guys. So it's no worries. Clayton Kershaw, you are a pussy and go fuck yourself. You are the worst. You are a regular season stud who for the most part has done nothing in the postseason. You win all these Cy Young awards. Then the Cardinals, the lowly middle America St. Louis Cardinals find ways to rock you in the playoffs. The Astros gave you a three. You had a three run lead against the Astros in game five and couldn't make it out of the fifth inning. Clayton Kershaw is an overrated regular season stud and talking shit about the Bush League St. Louis Cardinals.

Sorry that you gave up one of the more significant home runs in the team's history. So sorry bro, but it happened and you live with it. What do you think? Like, how can you be such a thin skin? It's Bush League. Bush League is like drilling somebody in the in the head on the next at bat after they hit a home run and stare you down. Okay, that's Bush League shit. This is hey, you gave up one of the most significant home runs in the team's history. It would be like Tyronn Lue being upset because when the the Sixers play the Lakers or whoever who is Tyronn or Tyronn Lue coach now, Whoever he coaches now. It'd be like it's

Bush League that you show AI stepping over me when I come to town. It's called being a sports fan. It's called fucking competition. It's called having some fucking fun. Bush League would be like if Clayton Kershaw was you know uh someone who is accused of a drunk or or got a DUI, and then they put up his mug shot or something on the video board. You might call that Bush League.

Showing a highlight that happened in that stadium against you is pretty fucking cool, because you're one of the all time great regular season pitchers and it just so happens you suck in key moments against the St. Louis Cardinals in the playoffs, and I fucking love it. So screw you Clayton Kershaw. What a bunch of wusses. I sent that to Jillian. She sends me a text back and says if John Mellencamp were a pitcher. Ding ding ding. What a puss. Now again

I guess he was asked about it. But to say it's Bush League. It's a highlight dude. Like I guarantee if you go into Dodger Stadium, highlights are shown on a video board at Dodger Stadium and sometimes there are moments that happen against teams that you happen to be playing that day and it just so happened that a key moment in the history of the Cardinals franchise, one of the great home postseason home runs ever happened with you on the mound. Mr. Three times Cy Young. Now,

I want to know what Clayton Kershaw's postseason statistics are. Alright, let me see if I can let me see. I'm sure they're on the obviously I'm sure they're on the internet. Of course, they're on the internet dipshit. Everything's on the internet but let's see Clayton Kershaw. Let's see what Clayton Kershaw's game log looks like in the postseason. Let's see here. Of course, he's also sucked in recent years. Let's see. Game logs, pitching, post season. Now, to a degree,

it's unfair to criticize guys for post season pitching because there are fewer opportunities. But you're with the Dodgers who seemingly go to the playoffs all the time. So let's see what the totals are, what the career numbers are for Clayton Kershaw in the postseason. Show me the actual composites here, would you please? No, you won't do that for me. Let's just see. Let's go down the list here.

Look, you've had some decent moments in the playoffs. You've also had some decent moments in the playoffs. You've also had some shit moments in the playoffs. You've also been owned by the St. Louis Cardinals multiple times. Look, 2014 was not a good stretch for you. You lost a game 10 to 9 to the Cardinals and you lost a game 3 to 2 to the Cardinals. Boy, the 10 to 9 one was also beautiful because I'm fairly certain

they had a six nothing lead in that game. Let me see. The Cardinals were up, the 10-9 one was also beautiful because I'm fairly certain they had a 6-0 lead in that game. Let me see. The Cardinals were up 1-0 after the first and were down 6-1 going into the sixth. They were down 6-2 going into the seventh and that eight runs were scored in the seventh inning and you know who got charged for, let's see, almost let's see if we got charged for how many of those runs were Clayton Kershaw runs in that inning. Oh, Clayton Kershaw gave up eight fucking runs to the Cardinals in that game in a playoff game in 2014. Then in 2014 old buddy gives up the walk off or

not a walk off but a go ahead home run in Busch Stadium a fun moment for the fans there a little bit of shit talking a little bit of fun, and you call them Bush League and say, I'm not shocked coming from those people, screw you. Of course, there's also the fun of looking at the World Series, that 13-12 game in the World Series of 2017. Clayton Kershaw in that game was spotted three runs in the first. It was a four nothing game in the fourth inning. Astros tied in the fourth. Then the Dodgers say, you know what? We're going to get you back. We'll score three for you in the top of the fifth. So now you've been given a

reprieve. It's seven to four now. And what do you do Clayton Kershaw? You go and you give up three more runs before being chased from the ball game. Kershaw's line in that game was, let's see, his line was four and two-thirds, six earned runs in that game, and a game that you were given a four-run lead in a what really came down to damn near a decisive game in that when that was a swing game that put the Astros up three to two in that series, the Astros would go on to lose game six in LA and then win game seven.

So Clayton Kershaw, maybe try being a little less cunty. Be a little less of a bitch. Like, like, like, like, like if you're in Chicago and somehow Chicago were playing the jazz in the finals again, I feel pretty confident that on the video board at some point you'd see Jordan hitting the shot that seals it in game six in 1998. I feel like that would probably happen. Now granted, it's not like there's a current player involved in that, but it's the same

concept. And do I think the Cardinals were fucking with him? Of course they were fucking with him. Why wouldn't they? Of course you would. You're facing an all-time great pitcher. You're trying to win a baseball game. You're talking a little shit. Who cares? You weasel. But that's all I can think about when I think of Clayton Kershaw is those two games. I mean think about that. You were up 6 to 1 on the St. Louis Cardinals in

one game at home and ended up giving up eight runs. You were up 4-0 against the Astros on the road in a huge game five of the World Series. You end up giving up six and then you give up the big blast to the Cardinals in the seventh inning in that game in 2014. And now I just think of you as a bitch. And I never really thought of you as that before. I thought of you as a guy who does huge things in the regular season, going to be a Hall of Famer, great regular season pitcher that, you know, has some pretty significant meltdowns and horrible moments in the postseason. That's

what I would think of you as. Now I think of you as a twat. Oh, that's about right for those people. Screw you. Don't tell it to Mary Hart, you sack of shit. Anyway, more to come.