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Jason and Mike react to the Mets taking NL Wild Card Game 1 from the Brewers. The guys tell you if Davante Adams has really played his last snap with the Las Vegas Raiders. Find out why the Detroit Tigers are by far the best story of the day in the MLB playoffs. And a visit from our most trusted MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi!

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are almost as excited as Ion myself, like all and

(01:03):
they're they're craze. They're crazed for the Tigers. They're almost
as excited as Ion myself. Okay, good at a lot
of positivity. I mean, it's day one of the playoffs.
It's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Wall to wall, pillar to pillar, post a post just
game after game, big sequence after big sequence, and big
performances and school well going six innings. I just love
my timeline though, Like Rogers gets the hit. It's like
really first playoff heroes, Jake Roberts, Jake Rogers, sure you
know behind the plate, Sure, that's that's gonna be the guy.
Like it's just always funny because everybody wants you know,

(01:36):
Tatis has the home run here whatever. Everybody wants the stars,
and I was like, wait, that guy, that guy's gonna
be the guy to lead almost like Tip so one's
got it too, has a home run tonight. It's fine,
that's brought it off. But everybody wants tattoos. It's okay.
The superstars, the big name guys to count for one
hundred percent of the rush. That's not the way this works.
They said, superstars, Mike, Well, you know what, though I

(01:58):
did get a lot in my time, like well, at
least we got James Shields. Big game.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
You have to actually win a big game for your
nickname to be big game Superstars, like James Worthy.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Big game James. He won a lot of big game
he did, James. I don't know that James Shields has
won a big game. What big game does he win?
I mean, I don't know, back to his time in Tampa,
but he had some opportunities. I don't think he won
many big games. I have to go back to Fife
and times of James Shields. But that's like calling James
Loaney big game James. Oh, he hit a double in

(02:28):
one game for the Dodgers once in the Playofflso like
taes As you can absolutely, I mean, like thirteen year
career for James. Yeah. No, I'm not saying he was
I'm not saying he didn't have a decent crew. It
was good.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
But a big game James like that. He's not you know,
he's not Bumgardner, you know, showing up in the playoffs
all of a sudden and it's unbeatable.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
But here's the best. In twenty eleven, he had eleven
complete games. That was more than all of Major League
Baseball combined.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
And I'm pretty sure James Shields also gave up Bartolo
Coloone's home run.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm pretty sure he did. Look it up. I'm pretty
sure he was a big game.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
James big bar Big Bartolo, Hey, big Bartolo, I'm pretty
sure he gave the home run.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Look it up, look it up. Look we got a
big night in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Obviously, a huge superstar has now requested a trade when
earlier today his team said yeah, we're open to trading him.
So we're gonna have more on that story coming up
at about fifteen minutes. This could change and not Lebron. This
could change the NFL. I know exactly the team that
is going to go overboard to.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Go get it. Could be, Hey, they are on the board. Uh, Cleveland,
clear the Cleveland's got a couple of good receivers. I see,
I'm letting it out of the candeback. Cleveland has a
couple of good players at that position that we're gonna
talk about in a few minutes of a couple of
good players walking through that door. They got a guy
that I'm starting as one of my top two receivers
in fantasy. I'm not happy about it, but I'm doing it.

(03:51):
Desperation is a state week league. Definitely, I'm starting Jerry Judy, Like,
oh no, It's like you could feel the sweat, just
pour off me. Oh, there's a whole lot of sadness
coming off right there.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
But tonight, obviously, the first night of the MLB playoffs.
One game still going, middle of the sixth inning thanks
to Fernando to tis Juni, you're in a big home run.
The Padres lead the Braves three to nothing. Again Padres
coming up to bat in the bottom of the sixth inning. Meanwhile,
earlier today, three big w's and all from the visiting team.

(04:27):
The Royal shout out. The Orioles won nothing.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
The Tigers, behind school balls six inning, gem hold off
the Astros three to one, and I mean hold off.
They barely hold them off.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Astros line out with the go ahead runs on base,
and the Mets come from behind to beat the Brewers
eight to four. Hey, guys, this ain't like last weekend?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Is it? Ain't like we're first weekend of the season,
is it? oOoOO? There was a great, great job of
not hitting the panic button after the early struggles of Savarino. Okay,
because we talk about we talked about, you know, baseball,
and certainly the Dodgers being the team. Here we're in
Los Angeles where we broadcast and a lot is always

(05:07):
on Dave Roberts and the management and pulling the strings whatever, sure,
and the pulling of pitchers too early, right, we watched
it in other games. Sevar Reino struggled early, ends up
giving you six strong.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I wanted him out of that game in the second inning.
That's what That's what makes me real life. Sometimes my
worst int like us, I think I'd be a really
good baseball manager, but sometimes, like the playoffs like this,
like my instincts with just got like, you can't what.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Are you doing? He doesn't have it. He's giving up
nine hits in three innings. Take him out. Why is
no one warming up? And then he.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Settles down enough to give you six innings and and
turn it over to the bullpen, and the bullpen is
lights out, and the Mets hit and they win eight
for it. I go, no, Okay, that's why maybe I
should look into being head coach of the Jets, because
then he might help more right now than the Mets STU.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
But also, you know, coming off a doubleheader, obviously Game
two was what it was. After that big win in
those five thrilling innings that send that tape to the
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I can't wait to talk about the Diamondbacks owner later.
That's going to be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
That was fine that well, I mean because we talked
a lot about that story this past offseason. But the
fact that you had to trust and that and that's
a difficult word for a lot of managers this time
of year. You had to trust that Severino was going
to be able to either work through it or you're
just gonna get your ass kicked. And that's the way

(06:27):
it goes. Because you had to exhaust right the last
four and it's been unforgiving.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
And it's easier to say that in a five or
seven game series, but a three game series, it's like, hey.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
This is a three game series. Man, we can't do this.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
But I mean, look, the Mets stay with Severino and
they went to the bullpen when they had to. And
this is the big takeaway from today. In Day one
of the playoffs, right, Tigers beat the Astros three to one.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Schoobl comes out.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
After six innings, eighty eight pitches. Did he have another
inning or two in him? Probably probably would have wanted
to put him now. Maybe he said I'm done, but
I would have put him out there for another couple
of inasas you want to win this game and then
win tomorrow. Well, because you need to win this game.
When did the time? Yeah, with him pitching, you win
or you're done. And then what happened. Then the Tigers
had to hit, there were levers, and then they got
a lot of trouble in the ninth inning, and the

(07:13):
Asers put a lot of runners on base. And when
the final out is a line drive to your first
base when the bases loaded, you know you escaped, right.
You gotta know when to have to go to the bullpen.
Look at that first game Royals Orioles, right, they're throwing zeros,
throwings here Corbyn Burns who made himself.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
A lot of money today. Yes, it is for the Orioles.
One run.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Hey, teams know you know when you have to go
to your bullpen. Right, this was a close game, won
nothing Mets and the Brewers. There's your out. There's your
game that tells you, oh, you see what happens when
you go to the bullpen when you don't have to.
And I maintained this is the biggest thing in the playoffs.
Doesn't matter the round, whether it's best of three, best
of five, best of seven, is that it's different in

(07:48):
the regular season and you have to manage your team differently.
And I understand that the Brewers have a great bullpen,
and it's what they do is go to the bullpen, right,
It's what they do. But in the playoffs it is different.
You don't go to the bullpen until you have to
because what happens in the postseason. The at bats are
a lot. They players grind through at bats way more

(08:09):
than they do during the regular season. Every at bat
is like gol and I watched the Mets in that
fifth inning and I saw so many good at bats
from from JD. Martinez to Vientos where they're fouling off
pitches and they're staying with the count. Every at bat
is like gold. So it's tougher on the relievers. In
the postseason. You go to the bullpen when you have to,

(08:30):
because what's gonna happen is in the postseason. More often
than not, the more pitches you bring into the game,
eventually you're gonna find the guy where.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's not his day. I say it all the time.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
You could go to the bullpen. You're gonna find that
guy where, boy, it's not my day. You're gonna give
away the game. The Brewers going through the first four
end of the fifth inning, Freddie Peroltz had calmed down
a little bit, and you'd set down and I think
nine Mets in a row. He started to groove a
little bit, and the Brewers had a one run lead,
but sixty eight pitches, and the Brewers said, nop, we're
going to the bullpen. Uh, you didn't need to. You

(08:59):
didn't need to.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Freddy Parolta was pretty much grooving at that point.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
He had a wild second inning where he threw a
lot of pitches, but the Mets had not done anything
in the last three innings. Right again, nine up, nine
down for Freddy Parolta. After that he's pitching, well, he's
at sixty eight pitches. Let him keep going. But the
Brewers decide, no, this is what we do. We go
to the bullpen. And I get that. You get a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Managers get bullpen happy because now you don't have to
worry about pinch hitting anymore.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
You can just do it as often as you need.
You have to worry about this and this. This guy's
gonna pitch here. It's a lot easier. But what did
the Brewers do they went to their bullpen and they
found the first three guys. It was not their day.
First three guys out of the pen, not their day,
when Paralta probably had at least a couple of more
innings in him. Now you get to the six or
seventh inning before you bring it in your bullpen, and
you can do a lot more then you cant. Hey,

(09:44):
not your day outcoming. But the Brewers decided we're gonna
go to the bullpen before we need to. And there
you go. There's your result. Mets win eight four, and
they go for the clinching tomorrow with Sean Manea, and
there's your three games so far. The Tigers went to
the bullpen. You know, wait a little bit too, you know,
they could.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Have gone a little bit longer. They almost blew it.
Their Brewers decided to go right away, and they blew
it early. And that was your game. Teams do that
and managers do that, and I don't understand why they
keep doing this. Dave, wait till the Dodgers start playing.
When playoff, Dave starts going to the He'll go to
the bullpen after like two batters in the first inning.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Boom boom, boom boom, and this is what happens to
the Dodgers because he'll find the guy that it's not
his day. And in the playoffs it's a killer and good.
The at bats are different. The players to every at
bat looks like right before they come up to bat,
the hitting coach spends five minutes with them, this is
what you're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Look at this, Look at this.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
You don't like it, grind it, foul it back, don't
be I ton't I feel every at bat is is
it's it's there's so much into it. It's not like
the regular season. Yet managers decide, oh, it's gonna keep
going to the bullpen. Guys, yeah, okay, and you see
what happens you do that you wind up loving.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
But we watched during the regular season, right it's while
we bemoan the three outcome world of Major League Baseball.
But guys go up packing because there's another day, there's
another game. This is it. This is legend making time.
This is money making time. You talk about you know,
Burns and what he's gonna be able to command. But
for the Burs, when you saw Pearlta go out, I

(11:10):
was like, why sixty eight pitches? Nine straight retired, and yes,
all right, there's some trepidation, the old Hey, we're gonna
he's gonna go through the lineup again, and maybe these
guys had great at bats last time. Guess what, you
got a lot of baseball still to play. Man, it's
a fifth inning. This is not a little league game

(11:30):
that ends in the sixth. Okay, that's not a White
Sox game. It's not a White Sox game. Well, no,
White Sox said they had a really good record. I know,
but you're only down a couple of units after six innings.
If you stop the fight, that's that's all right. But
in the end, for for the burs, you just opened
the door to chaos. Sixty eight pitches and you pull

(11:51):
the guy out like this is this is your season.
It's the best of three. It's not a long series
where it's like, all right, we've got the luxury of
running it out and we can mix and match and
wish and want and hope, like sixty eight pitches, nine
straight retired and if he gets in trouble, yeah, have
a guy warm right, go to your bullpen game and

(12:13):
all right, and employ that strategy. But it just seemed
at that point, if you could steal another inning with
your starter. I don't understand its And with the Dodgers
gonna be a whole other thing because we don't know
how many starters they actually had. Right seventeen guys started
a game this year, what you've got actually, once the
series begins on Saturday, who the hell knows? So Dave

(12:33):
is gonna be matching up. I can only see the
printouts like they've wallpapered offices all around Dodgerville because they're
trying to figure out every permutation and every matchup that
they could possibly come up with as they start looking
at their opponents. But for this one, I mean, you
guys caught a big break. Guy had just settled down

(12:55):
and started to deal, and he gets lifted and then
they couldn't find the right and every at bat the
Mets had in that inning, I said to myself there on,
it's a lot JD. Martinez coming up, and it could
tell he wasn't you know. Somebody kept fouling off and said,
you know what, I have something I can hit the
other way, And that was the hit that that broke,
that broke him. It went from six four to eight four,
and that was the game like six four, the Brews

(13:17):
were still in it.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
They come back, they come from behind. It was a
big seesaw game. But that hit, which is just a
nice little bingo between first and second base, and that's
what might mean Martinez, who's someone wants it off the
wall if he can. But he knew I see him
coming up going he's not on this. He's not gonna
pull the fastball. He's going to go the other way.
And he found the pitch he could control, and he
slammed it through for hit to drive in two runs

(13:38):
in the game. That's how every at bat is in
the playoffs. Now, on Jay, I mean every team.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
After the first innings inning, he was no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It was that was just Severino. It was just it's
just Severina. He doesn't have it. Take him it like
like we were fraighting for texting you just space. I
was laughing. Take him out of the game at one point.

(14:05):
At one point, my wife comes to me and says,
I don't think Benny, my dog, I don't think. I
don't think Benny. Benny's not gonna want to watch games
with you if you're gonna do this all the time.
Poor dog all stressed out? Did Benny bark twice because
we're playing Milwaukee. No, he's.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
He's someone who he's a dog that tries to sleep
and if you and if you move, he gives you
that look back like, hey you blankety blank, I'm trying
to sleep here. I was, sorry, Benny, Sorry, Ben, Sorry, sorry,
but it.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Gives me the extra kind of claw as he walks away.
It's thanks, Bal, that's your dog just trying to escape. Sorry,
buddy bites me.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
But but I mean, I mean, come on, Severino's giving
up nine hits and three innings.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Why the hell is he in the game, Benny, Benny?
Why is he still in the game?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Benny, Benny bark if you understand me, Benny Bark, if
you understand me.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Poor dog. But again, we're gonna see it. And you know,
it's the first night of the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
And you wait until I'm telling you, wait till the
Dodgers get involved in playoff Dave, just keep my team out.
Oh just wait, just wait until they write in Cofax
is the problem starter for game three.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Thank god both of those games are on the weekends,
so I don't have to see your mug. Oh it
does coming over to watch. Have you tell y'all stadium? No,
I'm coming, I'm coming with you.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, it's it's you, me and both of your kids,
and Abby's gonna spend the day watching Florida State.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'll get a seat between us for your nacho helmets. Ah,
there you go.

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Speaker 3 (16:44):
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like if you know what the song is hitting me
in the head. Never play this song again. I'm playing
it all the time now some new Tears for Fears.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
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and Paul Newman just walks back and he slams organ
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Speaker 3 (17:11):
Just alienated everybody under twenty. That's your fan. What are
you talking about it? I love Tommy, Okay, you don't.
I'm trying to feel where, trying to figure out in
my head what song Tommy stole that? Dude? This is?
This is Tommy Devino. How do you call that? Oh?

Speaker 4 (17:24):
This is Tommy Tommy ly Jones, Oh, Tommy Lee lampspeed
trowns four miles an hour. Wilson up perimeter to catch
doctor Kimball.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I don't know what you just said.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
He said he.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Didn't kill his wife. I said, I don't care. I
don't care.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Don't use words, Ronny, don't know what it means. I'm
gonna take the stairs. I think that's what we did
to do. I'm just running lines from the fan, just.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Gonna run with some kind of bassline under you. Lines
from movies, Jason, None of those are in Men in Black, though,
I get to do whatever you please. We're eating oranges
and we're making odd these. That's great. Wait, I wrapped
broke his head.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I wrap like actors from lines from from famous movies.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
I like them. What movie that's fugitive? That was all
the future? Eat oranges making odd These said famous movies.
I said, come on, it's more famous than Men in Black.
You want me, you want the one best of supporting actor,
A pretty cool thing at Universal that you can have
fun with at Florida. In Florida. That was cool. It's
not a black ride, right, Yeah, So where's this other
ride that you're talking about? Fugitive that would be a

(18:35):
cool ride. Okay, here you are here, it is your handcuffs.
You're on a bus. The bus goes off the road. Everybody,
a child gets off the bus. What am I wearing
the bust orange? You're wearing orange? Just an orange jump.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well, it also makes it it's a ride, makes so
people could see you and makes it harder for Yeah.
So you so you get out of the You get
out of the bus and you're in handcuffs, but you
find a way to get off. Most of the people
on the bus either die or are recaptured.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Wow, but you you've made it out.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
You have to clear your name because someone broke into
your house and killed your wife. And I don't know
why you would do this because you can always leave witnesses.
For some reason, the people behind it say, let's send
a guy in with one arm.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Not somebody that I don't know what he looked like.
He had a stalking over. You were literally spoiling one
of the greatest movies ever. Will send a guy.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
It has been thirty years. So do you know what
can you tell us about this guy?

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Not much? I don't know. So, Oh he had one arm?
Wait what?

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:32):
One arm? Which one? I forget?

Speaker 1 (19:34):
But he only had one? Really, you couldn't fight back
a guy with one arm.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Really, I know, Nick from the editor Bay was in
that movie Stop you could.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
You couldn't fight a guy off with one arm. Hey,
seal a Warrick the murder with one arm. You're taller
than he is. This guy was older than you.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
He had one arm. You could well come on, what
happened there? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mean in the beginning, okay, and then and now
you're making then you make a light of her not
being able to fight off the one.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Armed man arm.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
I gotta say he was a powerful man fight off
a guy with one arm because I know what's coming. Okay,
I know what's coming from that arm. Okay, then, but again,
I gotta think I could. May you're overpowered, you're frozen
in the moment. I mean, I'm missed your jiu jitsu class.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I think you gotta be ready when a guy with
one arm comes at you, I know what's coming at me.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
I didn't expect the guy with one arm to be
in the in the house. I didn't expect to send
somebody that was so easily identifiable and recognizable part of it,
to send a guy with one arm to come in. Oh,
all right, that's great. And then his next film he
had to take on a chef named Casey Ryman to Jones,
that's tough run. And then and then you know he

(20:39):
had to.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Fight Batman Aliens. Yeah, well, listen, and you want to
go back. There's a lot of something that pissed off.
I'm sure a lot of Hollywood. He wins Best Supporting
Actor right for playing the same guy he's played in
every movie his whole life.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh, by the way, Ray.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Fines doesn't win for Shindler's List, who was unbelievable. Leo
doesn't win for What's Eaton? Gilbert Grape, who was insanely good. No, no, no,
we're going Tommy Lee Jones because he's eating oranges and
we're making odds so what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
It's a good movie. That was great movie, but I mean, wow,
really time. But I mean at that point, he wasn't
going down the full Kitel de Niro run of singing
his lines like he had and every other every other
move like that was my dad always. He's like, he
plays the same damn guy, like there was there was
five or six guys that go that's all they do.
It's the same guy. And Tom Cruise played the same

(21:25):
guy for the longest time. He still does.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
But I mean he makes He's not He's not someone
telling you, Hey, I'm reinventing the wheel with acting. I'm
gonna do some unbelievable stunts and the action is going
to be insane.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
And he's gonna be a throwback to the way you
enjoyed movies when you were younger.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
We're not giving him a Best Actor nomine. I mean,
he'll get that Lifetime Best But.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
You get to get out of a motorcycle with the
American flag and all that. I got his stuff pulled up.
He's literally in some of the biggest movies ever. What
Tom Cruise, that's a pride Tommy Lee Jones, Like, sure,
Cruise is the biggest star you've ever seen it. He's
in over one hundred movies. He's like Space Cowboys kicked ass.
Space Cowboys was good. Space Cowboys was good. I just

(22:05):
wanted Lincoln Lincoln, Sure, Washington, Jefferson, stop it. Daniel Day
little is coming back to acting. I know, well when
you don't, when you when you retire for a little while,
you get bored. Drink exactly. I'm gonna go and start
retiring to spend more time with my family. Like my
family now they're getting into the business. So he said,

(22:25):
come out of reach like he's a coach. Yeah, spending
time with my family. I'll take that low level d
one job. That's fine. You really didn't have jobs coming
your way, did you listen? Listen, listen, I'm mac Brown.
I'll take that up. Don't forget Ty Cobb. He did,
he did. Play time. Ty Cobb was a really good movie.
It was just a little slow and just a little slow.

(22:45):
Roberto it was. It was, It was good. It was.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
That's a movie that I think came out, not that
it was ahead of its time, but it would be
much more appreciated today. Yeah, you know that type of
biopic I would have gotten a lot more run.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Wasn't that Tommy Lee Jones and there will be blood right? No, no, no, no,
that bowling ball scene, man, that's the other great actor.
That's the other sports movie. Yeah it was. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Here's what happens in that movie is they're they're bowling
and Bill Murray shows up and he really you know,
earlier in the film he had found a way to
get rid of his Oh don't do that.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, no, no. What he's doing is he's conflating it with
Kingpin and Woody Harrelson's character. That's what I'm doing. I'm saying,
now we found a way. I'm doing the whole joke.
I'm doing the bit. Why did you have to jump
into it? Finish it? That's what I was doing. I
was doing the thing. Yeah, but she just kept going.
You didn't need it. Was like the bullpen. You didn't
need to come in. I was fine. You did not
need to come in. Now, Luke, you came in and

(23:40):
ruined it. You came and took everything off the rails,
like the bus the beginning of The Fugitive. You did that.
That was you. You did it. Now we're back on
the bus. Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Big story in the NFL today, Davante Adams. Okay, Davante
Adams now has requested a trade. The Raiders are open
to trading him, and if you trade a second round
pick ish you could get DeVante Adams.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
It's a lot of details. All of this we found
out in the last twelve hours. I mean, it went
from speculating ahead of the season how long he would
be a Raider, Yeah, to okay, now we've started things
what's gonna happen? And then boy, as soon as he
got hurt and became quote week to week, this all
escalated very quickly.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Now let me let me say a big thing about
this before we get into exactly what's gonna happen, because
I know where he's gonna wind up. Uh, this all started,
and we knew that it was gonna wind up happening
at some point. Adam's coming into the season. You knew
he wasn't happy, He hasn't been happy for a couple
of years. You knew he wanted out. It was just
gonna be a time. And look, we told you to see,

(24:42):
it's just gonna have to wait some time until we
get closer to the deadline. The Raiders are losing and
they and then they're gonna trade him, right, So this
is not surprising, no, but how this has come up
this fast is very surprising because it's about a guy
you should know better. This comes up because there was
a social media post and Michael Fabiano Sports Illustrated talked
to him yesterday on the way into work, like lewis

(25:02):
name dropping and so he.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Can't get him on the show. It's too late, it's
too late. He is too late. He wakes up early.
He doesn't like promotion. He's a couple of years younger
than me, but he's he's much older than I am.
When it comes to Benjamin Biden, he says, he says
it's too late, delayed. He didn't want the promotion.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
So he found he's the one that saw that a
post that was put up there Devanta Adams, he didn't
play last week. Someone posted, hey, this is probably Devanta
adams last game as a Raider and the post was
liked by Antonio Pierce's account. This story gets out yesterday
and in the ensuing hours that post was then disliked.

(25:40):
But it doesn't matter. This is this is gotten.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
So raiderish, so fast. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Sometimes the speed still amazes me how quickly the Raiders
turned into the Raiders. But this is, this is, this is.
It baffles me because Antonio Pierce has to bl even
know better.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Man.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
You're the head coach of the team, right, I get
that you're not too far removed from the field. You
still see a lot of these guys as your peers.
How many stats do you have to see? Antonio Piers
is younger than so and so, who is playing for
so and so today?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
I get it. You're the bleeping head coach. Man.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
You can't be liking media posts that criticize your players.
That's not what coaches do, and it makes you not
feel trustworthy by other players. Now, maybe Devont Adams doesn't
have a lot of fans in the locker room. I'm
sure they're divibes. Sure, that's some people that love them,
some people don't like them. But the bottom line as well,
coach is getting involved in social media. He's liking stuff.

(26:36):
Let the players do that, man, that's a player's thing.
You're a coach, be a grown up, be an adult.
You're the adult in the room.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
And and he chose this opportunity to basically show, yeah,
I want to be petty.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
I want to put this out there. I want to
I want to make this thing go faster. When if
you want to trade the guy, trade him, people will
take him. You didn't need to do this, You didn't
need to embarrass him, embarrass yourself as a result.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
This is this is something that no looks good and
it's petty. And if a player does it, I can
shrug and understand and say, this is what players do.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
They love social media, they love doing stuff, they love
doing things like this, they love the attention. You're a coach.
You are a head coach in the NFL. You're not
a linebacker anymore. You're not playing with these guys. This
is not hey as a captain, I'm looking to kind
of get this guy in the right way.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
No, you're a head coach.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
You gotta be. You have to be the adult in
the room. And Antonio Piers was not the adult in
this situation or whoever is running Antonio Piers's Twitter account.
But you know that didn't happen without Antonio Piers saying,
because we would have known if something this gets out there, oh,
was Antonio Piers really doing? Antonio Piers would have denied it.
I don't know how this happened. I don't know why
this is went on the way it did. We would
have found that out. You have to be the adult

(27:43):
and instead he's raiding. So okay, but that's the that's
the takeaway. The first part is that I really I
can't believe this is a head coach doing this, not
a player, and he doesn't understand what he's.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Doing well, still controlled sometimes by emotion the element that
comes in in this case. But it's not a flame,
you know, post or anything. It just you know, it
was from SI now and it was something that Fabiano
doing a fantasy bit theorized with Adams being out quote

(28:16):
don't be surprised if Devanta Adams has already played his
last nap with the Raiders, Michael Fabiano says, and that
it's got the you know, wide eyes emoji and he
likes that. Okay, that's kind of interesting showing us the
cracks in your locker room. But Antonio Pierce, wasn't he
one of the guys that really campaigned for him last year.
Wasn't went on a bit of a run, But it

(28:37):
wasn't wasn't you know, DeVante Adams and the other veterans didn't,
didn't They go to bat and then he's addressing the
injuries and all this stuff and he refers to him
as seventeen. The other guys get their names as he's
talking about, you know what, they have expectations going forward.
But yeah, well number seventeen. It's like, okay, so now

(28:59):
we've reduce that personal human element of this and we
reduced him to his jersey number. So that's problematic. But yeah,
I get the emotion, but you know the old Herm Edwards.
Don't hit sind, don't hit send, don't hit like like,
you still got to keep this together, not to mention.
You don't want it to look like it's a dumpster fire.
So hey, come in and get us because we've exposed

(29:22):
our week under belly because DeVante Adams is unhappy with
what's going on in the locker room, whether it's the
play of Minshew, whether he'd rather have Aid O'Connor, because
remember he gave Aide O'Connell a tepid endorsement when he
was doing all the rounds for that Receiver Netflix thing.
I think we were the only show that didn't talk
to him during that entire run. So I'm glad we

(29:43):
took that hard stance, but it's just the idea that
don't don't let him see a sweat and if things
are going asunder for you there, you know you got
the job based on a lot of goodwill and a
hard fought end of the season, and to have that
unravel in four weeks, four weeks coming out of a win,

(30:04):
coming out of a win. This is where they're at
in Raiderville.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
The Raider's gonna raider, Raider's gonna raider and Antonio Priscoll.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna be that. I'm gonna be the cool
It's like he's trying to be the cool dad. Hey,
it'll be the cool dad where I let the underage
kids drink at our house because it's cool. Don't worry
about it. No one's getting out of your car, no
one's driving. Everything is good. You're gonna part, dude, Be
the adult, be the parent, Be the parent here, Yeah,
be the adult. And still it's it's almost like because

(30:33):
I still see him, he still talks like a player,
he still approaches certain things like a player, like a
captain does on a team. And there's a big there's
a reason why someone's the coach and someone's the captain. Okay,
it's not like, hey, it's just a normal ascension for you. No,
there's a you have to do things that aren't popular
that maybe you want to bite your tongue about because

(30:54):
you don't want you don't want the outside perception to
be what the hell.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Is going on here? You don't want the other players
on the team to go wow if something bad goes?
Is coach gonna?

Speaker 3 (31:02):
You know me on on twittervat right, he's he's the
guy and he's going after him. Raider's gonna what do
I get? Exactly? So bad? Exit?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Ot about a Fresco exit swallen down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Raider's gone a
Raider Now, update's gonna update. Kevin Wyer has what's trending
in the wide world of sports? Yeah, major League Baseball.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
We're in the month of October now, and of course,
not only is football in full swing a couple of
weeks away from basketball and hockey, but the Major League
Baseball postseason has begun. And as I was about to say,
the Padres leading three nothing, they have just made it
for nothing. Uh, he got Shioka just hitting a home run.
That's a second RBI of the day. Kyle Hika Shioka

(31:48):
hitting a solo home run to make it for nothing
in favor of San Diego, and they're backing an outstanding
start by Michael King. We had some good pitching in
the playoffs today as Michael King tonight for San Diego
twelve strikeouts in seven innings of work.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
He allowed five bases as well.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
He has now come out for relief, but with outstanding
pitching performance he's put on and the Padres now leading
at for nothing. San Diego does look on their way
to leading this best of three series one nothing. Everything
else in the playoffs has concluded. The Mets with a
big fifth inning five runs to blow the game open
against the Rulers, as they leaded eight to four New

(32:28):
York ahead in this best of three series, one game
to now in the American League, a couple of pitchers duels.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Royals and Orioles.

Speaker 6 (32:37):
Only one run needed for Kansas City and Cole Reagan's
ball based higlet field Bobby wit Junior drives in Mike
cal Garcia And how many times would we say that?

Speaker 3 (32:49):
In the first half and the Royals lead one nothing
in the six Royals Radio Network with the call Bobby
Wood Junior the loan run of the game as Kansas
City wins it one thing and Cole Reagan's eight strikeouts
and six innings. Tigers meet the Astros three to one
as tarreyek scooball six strikeouts in six innings of the
Roils getting all three of the runs on RBI singles

(33:11):
in the second. The Astros made it interesting in the ninth,
got the bases loaded, cut it to two, but ended
up flying out to end the game and then WNBA
playoffs going on. Right now, it's the Minnesota Links leading
the Connecticut Sun thirty six thirty at the break.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
Earlier today it's Liberty taking it to nothing lead in
their series against the Aces eighty eight to eighty four.
Back to you, guys, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
K dub the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmen live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. We
got more NFL on the way, more where DeVante Adams
is going to wind up? And straight ahead. What's the
best story of the day today? I'm gonna zig where
you think I'm gonna zeg?

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Real? Best story of the day to day. I mean
we just did Davante Adams and the Raiders raiding. Eh,
the best story the day to day. Wow, zig when
you're that's next? Jason to Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:13):
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Speaker 3 (34:18):
Jay, how do you like this song? This song's fine,
same dude, It's good.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
That's good Tommy Lee Jones, Right, Yeah, does he have
one arm? No, it's the guy he's chasing has one arm. Oh,
Devonte Adams. No, it would make it very hard to
catch the football.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yeah, he's got to. Well, Bectim showed you can do
one hand once in a while. Odell Beck in junior
back at practice? This about that? What can he play quarterback?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (34:42):
I just catch his balls? No hands? Uh m okay,
okay uh. Let's get to something else. Yes, please entirely
for something you'll really like. It's over in San Diego,
the Podras, the Braves for nothing. Coming up in a
few minutes, we'll tell you why Yankee fans are just

(35:03):
hopping mad right now. But look, we now have the
entire day in Major League Baseball. Day one of the
playoffs is all in the books. Best story of the day.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
This is where Isaac, when you think I'm gonna gook, oh,
you're just gonna say the Mets.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
No, the Mets are a great story. Of course, the
Metals still on. Man, the Mets. Look at where we're at.
It made plenty of other stories out there.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, the best story is a continuation of the best
story of the season. Tigers are the best story of
the day. They were the best story in Major League
Baseball this year. A team that hasn't made the.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Playoffs in a decade, and and and they can't hit
it all, they can't run it all.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
But it doesn't matter. You have a cy young winner,
likely a most likely going we have the triple crowded.
He doesn't win it, then I mean that it is
a fraud perpetrated, just like so many votes of MBPS,
Halls of.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Fame and everything else that we've seen through the years.
But yeah, they continue on and they just find a
way to win. Of course, eating the Astros that gets
most baseball fans happy. You know, that's never gonna end right,
everybody away, everybody say it's bits long, no, no, no, so
long as there's the last vestiges of that era, not
even after that. I think now even after that, see,

(36:13):
then I'll just go back to the happy times of
those they had with Ryan.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Wait a little too. It comes back to manage the team.
When he's done, that's gonna go. H But the Tigers
are the best story in baseball. And you want to
go back to the trade deadline when they traded players away.
They didn't really trade for anybody, and they had the
best record in baseball since that day. They just find
a way to keep winning and and and we have
a lot of great stories going on. Clearly, Look the

(36:38):
Padres winning for nothing over the over the Braves. You know,
the little brother syndrome may have in the West. They're
looking at that big showdown with the Dodgers. But the
Padres have spent a lot of money the last three years.
I spent tons of money. Okay, you have the Royals,
great story. When you have enough number one picks that
many years in a row, you're gonna win. But you
still have to get them right.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
We got plenty of teams have had the top picks
that they've gone wrong because that was one of my
like I picked them to They didn't win the division unfortunately,
but they made the playoffs, which was a pretty big
long shot when we did those mid season discussions. So
I hate it that it comes at the expense of
the Orioles. Like that's the series that I hate because

(37:21):
you know, I do regular stuff in Baltimore. I love.
I love the youngsters they've got right, So it's the
battle of youth. But yeah, the Tigers with school ball,
the guy they did in trade No. And and and
when when you have the Royal again, you get getting
those high draft that's always gonna help you, right, always,
you always want to pick higher when you can.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
You want to pick in the middle of a round.
If you're gonna be really good, great, If you're gonna
be bad, be really bad. The Royals picking like that
for so long helps The Mets are a great story too.
But the Mets are doing this after having spent so
much bad money and this is a year where they're
just gonna kind of hang out and we're gonna wait
and spend money next year in the off season. So
we're gonna get a lot of guys on one year

(37:59):
deals because we're mismanaged the team. We're gonna bring in
Grimace and we're gonna get lucky.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
It spent a lot of bad money that they're trying
to get out from under. The Tigers are it's the
Tigers are the team. It's almost like they're America's team
this year in the playoffs because you look at them,
you never expected anything out of them. I know, the
last ten years they were no good, right, Miguel could
plays all the way to the end. Finally the tires
and the Tigers go back to the playoffs. But this
is they have such a lunch paal workmen's mentality. When

(38:29):
teams can't do stuff when they're limited, it's always fun
to see just how far can they push that envelope.
And again the Tigers in the bottom third of the
league and hitting I think they're their bottom three in
the league, and stolen bases. They can't do anything offensively,
but yet they find a way to just put enough
offense on the board. And their pitching is terrific. Their
bullpen is terrific. They you know, schoobl was great today.

(38:50):
They should have let them in a little bit longer,
but now they have the they have the Astros one
game away from going home. There is no there is
no story more that is more fun to see and
more surprising than what the Tigers have done so far.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
And it's unlike the lamentations that I'm sure we'll have
when we get to the twelve team playoff for college football,
and that we've experienced for every March that you and
I have been alive, where it's like, all right, we
like the upsets until we don't. Baseball, hey man, it's
game to game. If a guy's feeling it and he's dealing,
even the best hitting team can be taken down for

(39:26):
a game and all of a sudden you got your
backs against the wall. I mean, we've seen it. We've
watched it year after year. High payrolls, high energy, and
efficient offenses that suddenly gets shut down pitching, goaltending. Where
we talk about the National Hockey League, by the way,
and the Blackhawks are back on the ice. They lost
seven to tonight in an exhibition.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
But you say it like like people care about that,
like you bet on did you bet on it?

Speaker 4 (39:50):
No?

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Okay, it's more just a continuation of my sports misery.
It's a show. I felt like I needed to bring
it in. You're doing stream of consciousness on the radio.
Just go and no, no, but it's that look. Plenty
of young draft picks. Has that worked. No For the Tigers,
they had Torkal sit it were supposed to be a stud.
They had to send him to the minor leagues for
half the year because he couldn't hit. Yet here they

(40:13):
are bottom of the order. Comes up with a couple
of big hits and they take one away from the heated.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Astros exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The
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especially in Detroit where They're the story of the year
in baseball. Coming up next, we'll tell you why Yankee
fans are really mad and where Devonte Adams is gonna

(40:55):
end up one hundred.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Percent Fox.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
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Speaker 3 (41:04):
Well, it's a show we're on every night. We talk
about sports thing with the guy in the place. There
you go big at night.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
In MLB playoffs, the visiting team wins every game until
Michael King decided to get involved. Seven shutout innings, twelve strikeouts.
Yankee fans are going absolutely insane right now because he
was in their bullpen the last couple of years. What
to make a day one? Nobody better to welcome inside

(41:32):
right now. Mbody Network Insider Extraordinaire, Fox Sports Radio Insider Extraordinaire.
You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi. He
is a man who's gonna come on here and apologize
for something he said last week.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Pope, what's happening?

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Man?

Speaker 3 (41:48):
You're ready to apologize. I was wrong.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
I thought the Lions were going to lose the office,
and they did not. I threw you a change up.
He did as good as Michael King's change or or
Cole Reagan's change up where ten Scoople's change up today.
But I threw you a change up and I was wrong.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Oh you know, well, because you came on last week
and said, Jason, we're friends. I want to tell you
the Braves are making the playoffs. I don't see it
for the Mets.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
I don't say it. We're friends, and I'm telling you, like, okay, Well,
after after Lindor hit that home run, y'll today, my
first all was, oh, John Paul's gonna have a fun
time with us tomorrow night. Well, he's gonna have a
right time tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Swings, swings and missus all over the place. From ROSI
I would say, this is this is like oh for
five with five strikeouts. But you're right, You're right. I
did think that things were trending in the wrong directions
for the Mets, but my goodness, Lindor saved them. And
then they just they get on the plane and go
right back to Milwaukee and win again. So they're in

(42:49):
a good spot now. I think the Mets. Now they
were able to come back from from DZ giving it
up there to Alb's in Atlanta yesterday. It feels like
that was you know, five days ago, at that point
in time yesterday, we could basically do a whole show
just based on Game one of yesterday. But what a time.

(43:10):
The Mets continue to show a lot of resiliency and
now they're up one nothing in the series.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Now looking at today, in the history of the first
round of the playoffs, and we have the best of
three that the team that won game one has won
them all. If I had to say to you, the
team that lost today that you think can still win
their series most likely to still win their series, who
are you giving me?

Speaker 5 (43:33):
That's a great question. I think that the team that
I that I leave has a legitimate chances Houston, because
they do have a ton of postseason know how. They
understand how to manage a series like this. Of course,
their problem, though, is that aj Hinch does too, and
he's no longer their manager. He's managing against them, and
I think we saw that today. And listen, the Tigers

(43:56):
almost gave it up late, which might give the Astros
some measure of confidence entering Game two, but they need
to get the bats going. They really had the Astros
one one solid innings worth of that bats, and that's
just not gonna be good enough, especially when you consider
they're gonna see four or five, maybe even six different

(44:17):
arms from the Tigers tomorrow, and they're just gonna bring
them out of the pen and carve up the game
with a number of different, really talented guys who are
used to pitching in this role. The Tigers have been
doing this to great effect basically since the first of August.
So I as much as I say I think the
Astros have the best chance to come back, it is

(44:38):
a fairly significant climb for them.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, curiosity Jason and I were talking about a little
bit earlier. JP is just you know, manager decisions in
terms of when you extend and let a guy pitch through,
like the Mets did with Severarino, you know, and on
the other side, where you've got you know, Peralta had
settled down and started pitching. Well, yeah, you go to
the pen and immediate give it up, right.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
No, that's an excellent point. And I think too, And
you're right about the I think that the general commentary
about pitching around around the game in the industry and
sort of what we saw tonight. I had I had
a long time baseball person, former major league player, just
sent me a text later tonight, just saying, man, the
pitching right now is just unbelievable, and he's right. Uh,

(45:23):
And it started with the early game and in Schooble
obviously Valdez didn't quite have his best stuff today. Reagans,
both School and Reagans had cramped up, and it seems
in both cases but they did. They certainly were pitching
well enough for the teams to win Burns. You certainly will.
We'll probably second guest maybe challenging with the base open

(45:43):
in that spot and ends up being the one run
of the game. So but in general, whether it's Michael
King in the later game, the pitch making that we're
seeing broadly speaking right now is just really really good.
It's elite stuff. It's repeatable, and I think today sets
the standard in the bar very high for what it's
going to take to be able to sit at the

(46:04):
table in a postseason like this. You're going to have
to bring an ace, and I think the teams that
had aces today that did exceptionally well.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Now, Pope, I have an idea for you for MMB
network for tomorrow. Oh boy, I got an here for
you ready, Okay, here's what I want you to do.
I want you to go to a bar in New
York City. Okay, fly fly.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
To New York go to a bar, go in specifically man,
hopefully a Yankee bar, but it really doesn't matter. Any
bar in New York.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
The turn the camera on your microphone on, talk about
who you are and say, hey, I want you guys
to talk to me about what kind of performance Michael
King gave last night? That was just really what what
do you guys say about this? And you are going
to get absolute gold? Now bring a bodyguard because I
would I worry about you a little bit. But man,
when you get gold, well, Yankee fans will say about
Michael King now starring for the Patres.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
I love it and listen to be fair and Justin
and I talked about this before the segment started. It's
not as though the Yankees, at least not right now.
And we'll see how things play out with respect to
where Juan Soto signed, but it's not like the Yankees
would would undo that trade today because then they wouldn't

(47:13):
have won. Soto hit in forty home runs for them,
So that's important context. But Michael King has become a
phenomenal starting pitcher in a legit game. One guy, and
by the way, they still have plenty of pitching after him,
and that's why the Patres are a dangerous team right
now in the National League. You've got a credit as well,

(47:35):
Rubin Dieblo, who's a great pitching coach. Credit aj Preller.
Once he knew that he had to make that trade
with Juan Soto just from a payroll perspective and with
the roster he traded Soto to the right place. He
traded into the right place that had the need to
get him for a year and the prospects to make
it worth as while in the young players, in the

(47:56):
case of king who had already been up to big leagues,
which just wasn't he wasn't in New York when he
has become in San Diego. And it's that's part of
the game. Changes scenery sometimes, let's be fair, it's it's
different pitching at pet Co than it is pitching a
Yankee stadium in terms of just the dimensions and the
comfort factor. So he's in a really good spot. I
think Michael king is is has taken a big step

(48:18):
and and that's a very interesting crowd sourcing idea. That
that I am planning to cover some playoff ball in
New York and I will keep that in mind.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Yeah, I have nothing else. You get some great excited
utterances and you can start your own YouTube channel and
have millions of hits angry yan Yankee fans off the.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
Angry Yankee fans. That that sounds like a really good
Twitter handle. I would say angry at angry Yankee fans.
It probably already is. But if it wasn't already, we could.
You know, Mike, you might your your your childhood team
had a few angry fans this year too, that we
might might make for some good, good copy on Twitter
as well.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Yeah, we'll have that therapy session another time. JP. Uh, Okay,
we're just gonna bear an ax Ale. Accept it for
what it is. Back to back, one hundred lost seasons,
three in the last seven years, seven in the franchise's history.
Uh yeah, an absolute disaster. But let's stay in division
because I did see a tweet that made me chuckle

(49:18):
and I told it to Jason before we got started
here with you of how playing the White Sox really
helped the Tigers and Royals get ready for the postseason.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
Hey, listen, it clearly did. The American League Central right
now is two and zero undefeated as a division, so
that they're the only undefeated division with multiple teams in
the playoffs so far. Well, I'm gonna keep saying that
as long as it's true and as long as I can.
But there were certainly plenty of plenty of comments made
about the American League Central and how the Royals and

(49:52):
there are the White Sox and they're struggles enabled the
Royals and the Tigers and the Guardians to an extent
to get into the playoffs, and the Twins a for
a long time had a decent chance to doing the
same thing.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
But it is.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
It is, I'm sure a proud moment for the division
that two of these teams come in the first round,
go on the road and win. And listen, the Royals,
they just brought back past quenteen. I do think run
scoring is going to be an issue for them, and
I think it probably would still be an issue for
them against the Yankees. The Tigers, they're just it's almost

(50:26):
like they're so young that they don't know they're not
supposed to be here, and no one has told them
that they're not welcome here. Yet and they're just say, Okay, well,
I'm gonna hang out anyway, because why not. We're a
good ball club. And I love this. I pointed this
out earlier today. The Tigers roster for this series has

(50:46):
zero players acquired the a major league free agency, none,
not a single one. All twenty six were either drafted, developed,
or traded for or waiver claims minor league free agents
whatever it might be, not a major league free agent,
which tells you a lot about how you can effectively
build a roster of the Guardy the very similar roster

(51:07):
as well. So you're right. The White Sox gave a
a bit of an assist perhaps to the Tigers. And
there may be some concerned Seattle Mariner fans who believe
their team would have been postseason worthy, But the Tigers
beat the Mariners at dead which is a big reason
why that the Tigers are in the playoffs and the
Mariners aren't.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
MLB Network inside of John Paul Morosi with us the
Jason Smithson with Mike Carmon Lott from the Tyreck dot
Com studios. All right, John Paul, Obviously, yesterday we lost
Pete Rose at the age of eighty three, a very
shocking story. And now you know, with stories coming out
and people talking and debating about his Hall of Fame situation,
was there You've been covering the game for a long

(51:45):
time since Eric Kipple was the starting quarterback of the
Detroit Lions. Was there ever any softening, any possibility at
any time where hey, maybe there was an avenue for
Pete Rose to get reinstated into baseball and be voted
into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
No, not, in my I never thought it got close,
and I still don't think that it's realistic from a
Hall of Fame perspective. I'm glad you asked it that way,
because it's important to draw the distinction. Mlban's decision for
violating Rule twenty one was that he was on the
permanent ineligible list, which meant that because he had bet

(52:24):
on baseball, he was no longer eligible to be employed
by a Major League team. And that's the rule, and
I would say that's the rule, especially in the times
that we are in where honestly gambling entities have sponsorships
in baseball. There were a number of players, as you

(52:44):
both know, who were suspended for playing on parlays. In
certain situations, earlier this year, and those players were suspended
in the case of Tukompta Marcano for life and put
on put on the permanent and eligible list. So that's
that's what that means that if you gamble on on
a game in which you have a duty to perform,

(53:05):
you you are on the permanent ineligible list. That is
the way the rule has been written. And I would
say that that rule is more important now than it's
ever been because of those those partnerships with various UH
sports gambling entities. So that's the first part. The second
part is the Hall of Fame, and the Hall of Fame,
which is a separate entity from Major League Baseball, has

(53:26):
said that they enacted this. It was after the Rose
situation broke. They said, if you are on the permanent
and Eligible list, you are not eligible for election to
the Hall of Fame. That's a Hall of Fame decision.
That that's not an MLB decision. Now, could you say,
did mL is there is there a conversation between MLB
and the Hall of Fame? Of course there is, but

(53:46):
it's ultimately the Hall of Fame decision by the chairman
and by the board. And I don't I don't see
either situation moving. I don't see MLB posthumously restoring Rose
from the permanent in eligible list, Nor do I see
the Hall of Fame changing its stance. And I'm I'm honestly,
I'm okay with it, with the way that it is.

(54:08):
I am someone who believes in second chances and in grace.
But I also wonder about what that what that decision
would mean in terms of opening up other avenues of appeals.
And to be fair, it's not as though Pete Rose
is not represented in Cooperstown. There are plenty of artifacts

(54:30):
of his in the museum, and and he probably in
some ways is more famous, is more famous in the
baseball consciousness for reasons good or negative, than a great
majority of living Hall of Famers. I would say that
if a table if a year ago, two years ago,

(54:51):
you put a table out, even in Coopertown or New
York City or Vegas or anywhere else, it said Pete
Rose is gonna sign here, and then lined up every
other living Hall of Fame, Pete Rose would draw a
crowd that is larger than probably eighty to ninety percent
of the living Hall of Famers just to sign agrass
because it's a fascination with him. And we can argue

(55:11):
whether that would be the case if he had gotten
in a minute to Cooper cent or not. But I
do think that is the reality that defined his life
and his notoriety for the last thirty plus years.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is, at John
Morosi MLB Network in soider hope as always, thanks so much.
Maybe we'll talk to you later this week. And hey,
you get the week off with no Lions games, don't
have to worry about.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
Making it no exactly no Lions game. There does seem
to be though a distinct Michigan Washington vibe. You got
the Wolverines and Huskies playing this weekend. Yeah, well, and
the Subway Series as we speak, could still happen to
Jason Mike, we'll see if maybe that's the way this
baseball season ends.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
All right, Noy, my best Asterns. When you talk to him,
I'll let him know that might be rest Take any
j P. There goes John Paul Morossi