Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if Dodgers/Padres is the best rivalry in sports right now. And Jason explains why the Jets firing Robert Saleh was the right call. Plus, a visit from the GREAT Jon Paul Morosi for all things MLB Playoffs!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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that look like a wee Below's convention. You know this,
I mean, but pace of play has gone to hell.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, I actually called a pitch clock violation during the
Mets Phillies, saying like, wow, okay, the umpires are paying attention.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
I still got to pay attention. I mean, you got
to make it look like that rule matters. I mean,
even if you've thrown it out for most of the way.
But yeah, this is uh, it's been insanity the last hour.
You and I sitting in the back, wait for our
opportunity to sit in the studio and get on microphone.
Just the roller coaster of emotions, friendly jumping around, Padres

(01:37):
guy yipping it up, and then all of a sudden,
well not so fast, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
It feels like Robert Sala got fired, like like a
year ago. It was. It's the anniversary of Roberts. I
woke up very early this morning. He's like, uh, what
do you know. Oh that seems like forever. You're not
getting off out easy, buddy, No, no, don't worry, don't worry.
Uh So, yes, Robert Salah gets fired the Mets Phillies.
The Mets are again away from the NLCS. However, what

(02:03):
is happening right now between the Padres and the Dodgers.
If you thought this series is gonna go back to normalcy,
there was gonna be a bit of ay. Wait a minute,
let's let this series settle down. Let's go fighters, go
back to your corners, let's come out. Let's have a
clean next round of boxing. Nope, nope, nope, we are
getting instead people getting hit over the head with chairs.
Mister Fuji is tripping people with his cane. Oh yeah, great.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Kabuki came out and had the green smoke going like
we got it all.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
The game begins with Mookie Betts hitting a home run
to the same part of the ballpark where Jerks and
Profar pulled it back from in Game two when he
stopped mess with the fans and then showed, oh, I
have the ball. He should have caught this hit. Mooki
hits it to the same spot. However, Profar doesn't get it,
but the umpire, because of Profars Shenanigans, doesn't signal home run,

(02:50):
doesn't know. Mookie Bets thinks he flew out. He goes
trying to go back to the dugout and they're going no, no,
keep running, and so he goes back. Umpire finally signals
home run, so Mookie Bets scoreleeping back. You knew at
that moment this game was all right, we're picking up
where we left off. Gotta be off the rails. The
Padres score six runs in the last inning thanks to

(03:12):
couple of errors by the Dodgers. Freddie Freeman makes a
really bad play, Rojas makes a really bad play at shortstop.
Fernando Tatis Junior hits a clobbers a home run. Manny
Machado runs out of the baseline on a play at
second base, gets hit by the ball, so he winds
up safe. Everybody is safe. It was just a comedy
of errors and conference of circumstances. It was like a

(03:34):
tidal wave of of of baseball karma and baseball emotion
was flooding the Dodgers in the bottom of that inning. Okay,
so six to one, all right, Padres are rolling on
you and I are talking. I'm saying, well, Mets Padre
maybe easy, gett Mets Padres tickets and Mets Dodgers tickets. Yeah,
not so fast, Yeah, Dodgers load the bases and tioscar

(03:54):
Hernandez homers to dead center field a grand slam. You
want to hear it? That has turned out. I thought
we're not allowed to. Oh, there's always exceptions, I think
I think there's a taoscar.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
I don't don't.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I don't flying item. I don't think we can. I
do you mean? I don't. I don't think we can.
I don't think we think.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Rob Madford comes in here with a hunk of metal
and throws it at you.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
What he can bring it in here? I don't think
we can till after the game is over. I don't.
I don't think we're I don't think we can. If
it gets who gets in trouble, is it him? Ent
you and me? Because our names are on the show.
I mean that's kind of problem because I'll throw you
under the bus because I'll say, hey, you told him,
go ahead and play it. I completely will Oh yeah,
I'm complete looking out for me. Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, yeah, no, no,

(04:38):
all your Mike Harmon show crap, the last couple of
ye yeah, this is where it comes back to hurt
you now. Oh yeah, it'll never exist. I've come to
that wreck. Yeah, but you keep thinking, you keep thinking somehow. Yeah,
throw you completely under the bus, completely, because now you're
wearing sleeves.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
It shows that you're more uh more preoccupied with with
your health.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
So you're not going anywhere Jason, I gotta proposition for you.
Then go ahead. What do you got?

Speaker 5 (05:01):
We can't play playing the sound of the home run
the Great ground Slam, right, Okay, I'm gonna need you
to make me a trade.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
A trade, Okay, what do you want? Grimace?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
There are very few untouchables. Grimace is one of them.
I'd rather give you a indoor than give you Grimace.
That's how a boy.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
But now you've got like nine thousand grim eyes showing
up at the stadium.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Dude, you want to know. This is when I knew
the Mets are going to win today when I saw
the video of Grimace getting on on the train with
the seven line and they're all yelling grim Grima's just
I'm dunk. Were those people good for them? Those are
my peeps, man, those are the best peeps.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
I mean, that's that's what sporting events should be all about.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
What are catching the train? Where have a sip? When
I saw that video of the guy dressed as guard woman,
I don't even know what dresses Grimace getting on the trade,
come on, come on, come on, get the grim Grimas.
We're gonna win today.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Nerve wracking though, when they started going around the stands
and showing just how many people were wearing various incarnations
of the Grimace.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I was also close to Halloween. It's gonna be incredibly
popular Halloween. Oh yeah no, and it was sold out
two weeks ago. Yeah, I can't get Grimmoth. Couldn't get
a Grimma get Grimouth Tri State Area, no chance? Uh
so Yes, Mets beat the Phillies seven to there, one
game away from the NLCS. Meanwhile, Padres and Dodgers has
turned into a game. Uh you want to say, is
the emotion still there? Fernando Tatis Junior, after his home run,

(06:35):
stood at the plate for about twenty seconds watching that
ball go over the fence. Walker Buehler in the dugout
in between innings was smashing things he picked I don't
know what he picked up and threw, but he picked
up something with both hands and smashing all the ground. Yeah,
this is I'll tell hey, look, I love Mets, Phillies,
I love Yo Yankees. Where all this stuff? Yeah, Padres

(06:56):
Dodgers Like that's it? Man, like that? This is the
Padres Dodgers on the is the new Yankees Red Sox.
You think about Ryoty, you think about that it's only
a couple of years old. This hatred between the Padres
and the Dodgers, and for the long time, look, Yankees
Red Sox ran everything in baseball. We knew Sunday Night baseball.
These games are four and a half hours long. Yes,
Yankees Red Sox. For a long time, Yankees Red Sox.

(07:17):
But when the Padres got good a couple of years ago,
they signed all those players, and all the players at
that time. Look, they're very young, very emotional, kind of
like they are now, except they're a couple of years older,
very emotional, and they turned this into a little brother,
big brother rivalry, and the Dodgers reciprocated, and boy was
it fun like those Dodgers Padres games two years ago.

(07:38):
Beginning of the years, like, Wow, this is amazing. I
can't wait. They play again, They play again, they play again.
Padres kind of fell out of it, you know, they realized, oh,
we can't play with this kind of emotion for one
hundred and sixty two games. Oh and they wind up,
you go falling off. And then last year happens and
they have a really good run and they're starting to
get it and understand, Okay, we can't play that emotion card.
We can't play it this way, but you can have

(08:00):
slutely do it in the playoffs. And now this is
where the Padres thrive in moments like this because they
love the chaos. They love getting under the Dodgers skin.
We said it last night. The Padres plan has been
working to perfection. They know how to get under the
Dodger skin, and the Dodgers reciprocate. Whether it's Dave Roberts
saying major League Baseball, look at this throw and Machado
throws the ball at us, trying to figure out why

(08:20):
fans are throwing the balls back of the stadium. Max
Munsey even said today, all they want to do is
get under your skin. Dude. It's like I could have
been your sports psychology yesterday. Said that last night in
the show, like five times you are falling for everything.
They know exactly how to push your buttons. The Padres
forget about the big brother, little brother. The Padres are
the teenager that knows how to push the buttons of
the parent. Right, I know exactly, haven't I know? My

(08:42):
mom has been stewing all day to tell me something,
but I know what to say when I walk in
the house, it's gonna get her off her game and
we're gonna go back and forth on stuff. That's what
we see. And you know what, while it's really weird
and it seems a little dirty, it's not quite what
major League base Ball is. This is fantastic theater in
New York. They're loving every minute of it.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
They don't like the water bottles and idiots running on
the field or whatever. But you know, Dave Roberts trying
to inspire his guys a little bit. As we talked
about last night with the they tried to hit me.
It was intentional. We're gonna file the report all of
that stuff, you know, getting into the emotion and trying
to tap into the Dodgers emotion. Because we've talked about

(09:23):
it a lot. You've seen not a lot of juice
outside of anybody but Otani and that home run by
Tao scar huge, the home run by Mookie Betts. Maybe
that on courtse and maybe a home run yesterday would
have gotten things started, but took it away or I
should say Sunday, and we watched it escalate from there.
But when you're talking about these kind of rivalries and

(09:45):
it took forever for the Red Sox to finally win
something of substance, right in grandiose fashion, no question about it.
But we had years of Sunday Night baseball, and here's
all the rivalries, and here's all the data points and
crossover points of this guy going from one uniform to
the other.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
All of that same thing here. Now it's just you know,
on a micro.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
But growing and quickly in the proximity of things, and
all the ticket sales restrictions and everything.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Just adds to kind of the legend of it all.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
And for the Padres, let's face it, they're playing I
hate the term house money, but everything's on the Dodgers, right,
Everyone's Dangers.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
And Phillies, right, everything Dogs, everything on that. That's all
on those three teams. The Mets are playing with house money,
the Padres playing with house money, The Royals are playing
with house money, Tigers are playing with house money. Even
the Guardians are because no one's gonna say, but the
Guardians had such a great record. Yeah, it doesn't matter,
and not any of those teams. Forget it. Stop trying
to pass off the Guardians as one of the Big Four.
Stop but growing up as the middle of three boys.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
I recognized pretty early if things got rowdy and on
of sorts who was getting in trouble the older brother
in this case, brother being the Los Angeles Dodgers are
gonna get all the criticism. And though there's a recent report,
in recent study that says the middle child is most
likely to go to prison, sure, Jan, I.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Wish I could have done the margin brady face when
I said, if you go to prison, I actually I
know exactly what you go to prison for. I know
exactly you go to prison. I will find out at Frostburg.
Tell me if you think this right in from Harmon
going to prison? I used to think maybe a road

(11:32):
rage incident, but now no, uh yeah, sure that I
give you all right Harmon? Was it? Harmon goes to
prison for something involving counterfeit or some sort of chicanery
involving signed memorabilia or cards. That's how you go. That's
how you wind up going to prison for how long

(11:54):
are we talking? Well, that's like a that's like a
five to seven year stint.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
P Well, I mean today's in today exactly what you're
gonna hate? Hey, hey, in today's world, I'd get a
longer stay in a in the pen than most folks
that do violent and other crimes.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
What's wrong with federal pup prison? Radio tmz he I
radio radio host has been bilking people for years with
counterfeit cards. And it'd be a picture of you with
your hat on backwards, screaming into the microphone. And then
he would say, oh, that guy completely looks like someone
who would who would steal cards.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
And he has he keeps all the real sign uh
jockstraps because everybody fake ones. Yeah, he's got his kids,
That's that's how he makes his money.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well, you don't know, he's got both of his kids
practicing signatures of hey, practice this. Alex Rodriguez would practice
this Derek Jeter signature that all he wants you to
go away? Looks good, looks you know you're flying, You're
flying close to the sun.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
I mean, some of these stories resemble things that have
been laid out in the media before.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Hey, it's not my fault. Your daughter texted me o
the day saying, Hey, how does Alonzo spell his last name?
I'm just just for I don't know. I just don't worry.
I just want to know how you like Spellman? Or
is it with an S or is Z I don't
understand should we be worried about that? No, I'm just
I'm just saying. I mean, look, I I don't know
if this is going to spark an investigation of any kind.

(13:22):
I'm just saying, you talk talked about you brought up
middle child. Most likely go to prison. I told you
the crime, most likely going to commit to throw it
back at me.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
But you know that that's the nature of your way
as an only child.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Just tosh out at other people. Are you said you're
the one that brought it up? Like, okay, you go
to prison? How are you gonna go to prison? All right? Hey?
Like just think about it. How many years is he
facing for texting your daughter? No, she texted me first,
then I text about it. I don't know if it
works like that. I know she's over eight. It's fine,
you know what, That's not the point of this whole thing.
The point is thing is that I know exactly why
Harmon would go to prison becuse he would tell people,

(14:00):
yeah I got I got hous wagon.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
I actually I all at some point that someone claimed
was babe ruth. I've never bothered to have it authenticated,
but it's sitting in a box.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Exit about RISCA, exit, swollen dumb. The Jason Smiths Show
with Mike Carman Live from the TIREC dot Com Studios.
We'll have more baseball throughout the night. Again, a one
run lead for the Padres over the Dodgers. And this
game is only in the fourth inning. Yeah, but coming
up next we get into the biggest NFL story of
the day, and I will tell you, is it about
Drake Man the big Eye? Well, that would be the

(14:39):
second biggest story of the day, or maybe third biggest
story of the day. Son Reddick back, Well, that would
be the fourth biggest story. Though maybe now he comes back.
I don't know. Maybe now maybe now that that was
the thing that gets him back in, we get Davonte
Adams and we get a Son Reddick. He's not coming back.
The two biggest takeaways, the two biggest things you need

(14:59):
to about the biggest story of the day in the NFL,
it's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike, you're
listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1 (15:53):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirac dot Com studios
right now San Diego, and The Dodgers Show. Heyo Tani
batting in the top of the fifth inning, nobody out
padres still with a six to five lead. Freddie Freeman
on the last play of the bottom of the fourth

(16:14):
on a double play, had to jump in the air
to grab the ball, came down on his bad ankle,
kind of limped off the field. Now there's no update
on Freddie Freeman, who we didn't know if we were
gonna see him in this series at all, but surprise,
he's playing tonight. But he did have to limp off
the field. And now we don't know what a situation is.

(16:35):
We're waiting to hear. But he didn't need any help
off the field. He just kind of limped his way
off the field. He's coming up pretty soon because he's
hitting third, so it's gonna be Otani and Betts and
then Freeman sold know pretty soon.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
But the first half of this game, he's got He's
had to his work right at first base. It's been
a lot of plays, balls hit down the line, balls
that he had the field, obviously the one with the
throw of Machado. And it goes back to conversations because
there were two that had conversations about bass Pats. One
when Mooki thought he'd gotten got uh and kind of
started going back towards the Doug I was like, no, no,

(17:08):
go finish your home run trot. And then obviously Machado
running on the grass. But whatever. But we've seen Freeman
have to make a number of plays and then this one.
He just goes, he skies it, high points the ball
and comes down awkwardly. So we'll find out in short
order here.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Uh, there has been already. It's it's a it's a
Greek tragedy. Already for four innings of baseball and we're
still on the top of the fifth again. Padres lead
the Dodgers six to five, although Shoheo Tani doing his
best to make it six six he flies out to
the wall for the first out in the fifth inning.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Credit to both managers though they haven't blinked yet, both
starters still going yeah, well, well, and no one's throwing
a ball at either of the managers yet.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Now yet, no little early hey shull, Let's see how
fast you are if I throw this ball at you.
Let's see if you can move huh. Well, Dave Roberts's
life is still flashing before Nanny Machado almost murdered me
on the field with the baseball. But the big NFL
story of the day, look, I mean, I really the
Jets and the Mets age biggest stories up until now.

(18:14):
The Jets fire Robert Sala as head coach, and there
has been no shortage of craziness in the ensuing hours.
If you remember, first thing I want to say is
we told you last night Monday was going to be
high noun. If the Jets had a bad game against
the Bills and the offense was bad, either Robert Sala
or Nathaniel Hackett or both were going to be fired.

(18:36):
Right even though the Jets don't usually make changes middle
of the season, doesn't happen. It was gonna happen. Well,
hei noon came a little early for Robert Sala. Wod
he Johnson said he decided to fire Robert Sala. Came
in this morning, fired Sala. Sala said he was taken aback,
really surprised, wanted to address the team one more time.

(18:56):
Johnson says, no, and he is escorted from the building
by security.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
So no, no, that's escorted by security. Is he was
walked out? Was he actually in the full extent of
the term escorted, as in, oh.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, no, let's go. This is not like you know, he's
got his hand got the guy's got their hands on
his arms. It was instead of hey, we trust you
to get your stuff and go like this is what
you hear, This is a power play, This is what year.
Happens with any employees that people think might be problems
or on the way out, they're gonna do this. We're
gonna have a security guard with you as you gather
your belongings and stuff. It's embarrassing, Like did you need

(19:35):
to do that for the guy? It's not like, Look,
the guy was a bad head coach. Right, we'll get
We'll get into it in a second. The guy was
a bad head coach, I understand, but there's not one
second where I thought he was trying to to be divisive,
to try to sabotage the team. He was just a
bad head coach. You could let the guy say goodbye
to the team, or at least say goodbye to the coaches,
and then move on. At the very least, do you

(19:59):
really need to escor ord him out?

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I mean, I guess you want to make sure he
gets out of the building. But when you say no,
you can't address the team. And here's a you know, Mitch,
who if you said hi to you know, swiping your
key card the last three and a half years, Mitch
is gonna walk you to your car. Hey, Rob, how
you doing?

Speaker 7 (20:14):
So?

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I gotta do this, but you know, that's how it goes.
Boss says, I gotta do it, all right, So grab
your crap, let's go. Come on, guy, I got a
new head coach to bring in here, all right, come on,
come on, come on, come on, come on, let's go.
Come on, Rob, Come on, Rob, come on. But that's
just it.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
There's been conflicting reports as to the escort it and
what it really meant, like whether it was just a
guy walking with him who happened to be its security
guys versus a hey hey Robert, no, no, no, hey, hey,
tell it walking Robert. There's so many little layers to
this and trying to parse out what's truth and what's fiction.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
All right, in the report that you no, I completely
believe that Woody Johnson had security had Roberts because that's
a typical Jets thing to do. Like that's it, Jets. Yeah,
you gotta get out. We got a plan. We got
a game Monday night, all right, I say we, because
I still work here and you don't. All right, So
let's grab your grab your crap, let's go, grab your stuff.
Let's go. Oh and by the way, yeah, I know
I asked you to come in to my kid. You know,

(21:04):
if to do the whole thing, the speech, for the
for the whole you know, uh uh, the work week
that you don't worry about that Anymore'm gonna get Elbrick
to do it. Okay, it's not worry about it. We're
all good. But let's go. Come on, we gotta go.
We gotta go, we gotta go. Come on, I got
coffee to make, I got stuff going on. We got
that coffee to go. Let's go. Uh. Look, so that's
a typical Jets thing to do. And it's it's it's
weird today because I've had to hear and see a

(21:24):
lot of people suddenly opining about the Jets when they
know nothing about what's going on. And it's weird because
I think, huh, is this what other people think when
people talk about their teams and and and they disagree
with what's going on. But all you've seen is all
the Jets are a dumpster fire. The Jets are a
tire fire.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
There were reports that Robert Sala wanted to fire Nathaniel Hackett. Yeah,
and then potentially Woody Johnson didn't want that, and that's
she decided to fire Robert Sala. You have the whole
thing I mentioned with the security guard. There's a lot
of craziness with the Jets, and there's a lot of
tire fire stuff. So to say that Jets are a
tire fire, yeah, they've always been. This is not anything new. However,

(22:03):
let's be honest. This is a move that had to happen. Okay,
this was a good football move. This was not This
was not something that oh, look at the Jets like, like,
the Jets are five and oh and they fired their
head coach. It'd be the Jets starting five and oh.
I mean, but they needed to do this. They needed
something because it wasn't going to get better, right because

(22:24):
Robert Sala again go back to what I first said,
he is a bad head coach. And there was nothing,
no positive vibes with the team. There was nothing that
even sense. Did you think, Oh, Robert Sala is gonna
turn this thing around? He has become such a diminished
person and character with the Jets over the previous few months.
As Aaron Rodgers character and importance has inflated, Robert Sala's

(22:46):
importance has decreased to the point where, okay, if you
and the quarterback kind of don't see eye to eye,
whether it's about the cadence, whether it's about and excuse
your unexcused trip to Egypt, whatever it is, whatever it is,
you are no longer the guy. And when that happens
and you are underachieving like this, I love the move today.

(23:07):
The Jets showed guts, they showed we're not gonna wait
another week. We're not gonna put another potential loss out
there before we make a change. Because quite honestly, it's
smart to do it today, because all right, it was
a long week. You have a long week to go
to the game on Monday. You have an extra day,
You have an extra day to do things. Whereas if
you wait till after Monday, well what do you do?
Then then you have Monday, then you have a short week,

(23:28):
then you're firing your head coach, and then you ben
you have a short week to get to Sunday. Right,
So this was actually the right time to do it. So, yes,
both things can be true. The Jets are a dumpster fire,
and they are, and they clearly they are, but this
was something done to get them out of that. Yes,
is Aaron Rodgers not playing well? No, he's not playing well.
Is Joe Douglas the greatest GM. No, but he's a

(23:50):
pretty good GM because he got the right players. He's
a pretty talented roster. But Robert sala is a bad
head coach, right, I told you for a long time.
Robert sala is a guy who has been a glory
horrified defensive coordinator since he came in right number one,
He's been a glorified defensive coordinator. His offense has never
been good. You're going on three plus years of not
having a good You can't do that. You can't go

(24:11):
three years in your offense sucking right, you can't do it.
He has an inconsistent character during the game. When things
are going well, he's jumping up and down and body
high fiving people. And when things aren't going well, he's
bitter with his arms crossed, and he's got a bad
he's got a bad energy about him. You gotta show
teammates that you're that you're the same guy, win or lose,
that's who you are. These are all things. And then
don't even get me into the penalties and the undisciplined aspect,

(24:34):
where the Jets still get called for undisciplined penalties. They
still make too many mistakes, and again, when you're in
three plus years of it, you know what, Sorry, when
you see it's not gonna work, you have to make
a move. And the Jets made the absolute right thing
by doing it today because it wasn't going to get
any better. Now are they gonna get better? Now? This
is where this is a big unknown. But I know

(24:54):
one thing for certain. It wasn't going to get better.
If this is the way they were going, wasn't gonna
get better? Who was gonna stay bad?

Speaker 4 (24:59):
But that's that's the the jumping off point to the
next part of the conversation, because I think we all,
anybody that's watched the last three plus years said this
is He's becomes one of the poster children for coordinators
elevated beyond their level of competence, and history in the

(25:21):
NFL is littered with them of guys that were great
on one side of the ball and then had to
take the reins as a head coach and it failed.
And what the only other other option, and we joked
about it long ago, was hey, you just trade Rogers
away and send him where he's he's in Nevada.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
But we did that before the season. So that's that's
not an option at this point.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
But you're not getting rid of him, like he calls
the shots for Woody Johnson and Johnson to his credit,
you know, wanted all the credit for the firing without Hey,
I talked to Aaron, and Aaron had thoughts or I
talked to this guy.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Nope, what was gonna my friends, wasn't gonna fire. But
then Aaron called me last night and said, hey, what
do you think. Oh, I never thought about I'll fire
him tomorrow morning. Yeah, right, when I get it.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
But you go through, right, the discipline, even on the
defensive side, you saw a lot of penalties that that
got called, you know, especially this last game. A discipline
certainly an issue, but offensively doesn't solve anything. No, But
there's just that that stink hanging in the air, right,

(26:27):
that has been there for a long while. Why did
he get another bite at the apple? Well, in theory,
it was because Aaron Rodgers is going to be the
quarterback and Aaron Rodgers hasn't been good. We all, we
all stipulate to that. It's you know, the stats bear
it out right. They've scored as many points through this
point in the season as they did with Zach Wilson
a year ago.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Well, look, it's it's it's it's not Robert Solid does
have good points about him. He was just a bad
head coach, like I said, glorified defensive quarter. What did
he do? He built a pretty bleeping good defense. He's
been a two plus year thing. Right, It's a pretty
good system that he's got going on with all.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
If Reddick had actually, who knows, they could have been better,
you will get him now. Maybe maybe maybe they would
have beat everybody, maybe they would have beaten Denver. And
now all of this is avoided. So what I'm waiting
for if Greg the leg actually hits a fifty, you know,
like every other bleeping kicker in the National Football League.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
It's he built a great defense. And I can understand
the Jets philosophy of Okay, so we were supposed to
have this year last year, it didn't happen. If we
if we make a change, what is that going to
what is that going to do? And I understand wanting
to come in, Hey, let's keep the same group. Whatever,
We're staying another year in the same systems, even though
it's going to be different with Rogers. I completely understand

(27:39):
that but it's a short hook because it has to
be because you're built for this year with Aaron Rodgers, right,
you're not built for it if it doesn't work this year.
Jordan Travis is the quarterback next year. Who oh, by
the way, the worst Florida State looks, the better he
looks as a player. So, uh, you're built for this year.
You can't. You can't come into this. That's why this
was something that I wasn't surprised, but I told her

(27:59):
was gonna have. But next week. It happened a week early.
There's still so much football left. If the Jets win
next Monday against Buffalo, they're tied for first place in
the AFC East. Right, everything is still there even if
they lose. Yes, you're two games back, but you're talking
about four and two versus two and four. There's still
ten eleven weeks of football left to go. So they
did it early enough to where we want to be

(28:20):
able to build something going forward. And now you're going
to see a team that plays a little more energy.
You're gonna see teams that play with a little more
a different idea of how to do things offensively. I'm
sure Rogers is going to take a bigger role in
the offense. And that's gonna be good. Because what did
the Jets ask Aaron Rodgers to do? Come in? Cover
up all our ills, cover everything else up that we
can't do, right, So cover this up for us? Okay,

(28:41):
this is what I think we should do offensively. All right,
let's listen to them, I mean quite to be honest,
who do you want to listen to about about it
and listen to when it says, hey, let's fix the offense.
Do we listen to Robert Salad? That knows not the
first thing? That just that? What are they saying the
broadcast Sunday this year? You decided to go to quarterback meetings? Dude,
three and a half years. It's the first time we
want to go into quarter What the hell? Man, I mean,

(29:02):
Jamie Artall had that report. I'm like, that's just that's
just the biggest thing. Oh yeah, I'm gonna go to
quarterback meetings now.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Oh now now that you actually have your veteran quarterback,
I mean, hey, what you just decided I'm going to
take my notebook and I can learn something. Who do
I want to as opposed to you know, I'm the
coach supposed to be imbarting some wisdom here.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Do I want to listen to to Robert Sala try
to figure out the offense when the office has been
terrible for him two and a half years, or a
Hall of Fame quarterback that maybe the best guy throwing
the football that we've ever seen. Yeah, I'm gonna listen
to Aaron ro I'm okay with listening to Aaron Rodgers
on that. No one to be saying this if it
wasn't if it was Tom Brady, Well, of course you're
listening Tom Brady. Why would you want to listen to
Aaron Rodgers Because football? The guy really knows the blanke

(29:41):
he's talking about. I know there's anybody that knows more
about playing quarterback in the history of the game than
Aaron Rodgers. This is all mental stuff. Now this is
not physical on the field. That's a different conversation. But mentally,
there's nobody who knows more about the position than him.
You see him talk about it, you go, oh wow,
It's like he's like watching Einstein try to do some
sort of mathemat equation. We're seeing Matt Damon up at

(30:02):
the board and Goodwill hunting. Oh, he's figured it all out. So, yeah,
I'm gonna listen to Aaron Rodgers. It's not a bad thing.
It's not a tire fire because you're listening to Aaron Rodgers.
It's you want to listen to your best player. Right.
If the Cowboys are listening to Dak Yeah, if the
Ravens are listening to Lamar Jackson, Yeah, that's kind of
how it goes. The Bengals listening to Joe Burrow, and
they should listen to Joe Burrow. Everything would be fine.

(30:22):
But oh, the Jets listen to Aaron Rodgers. All that
thought out, it's not no, it's just a way because
the Jets have been a punchline. It's a way to say,
oh they're a tire fire. Yes, their a tire fire,
but they did the right thing today. Both things can
be true, right, just that both things can be true.
But the other part is you have to rip the
band aid off at some point. I mean, you can't
keep limping along. Okay, so what if you did beat Buffalo? Okay, sure,

(30:44):
cosmetically it's great, and talk about the division, et cetera.
Have you solved anything, Say you win that game thirteen
to ten or seventeen fourteen. Does that say, all right,
our offense is fixed and everything's great. No, and your.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Bye week isn't until around thanks Giving A right, you
got another five six weeks before you're seeing your bye
which is kind of a dopey scheduling thing, seeing as
Minnesota immediately gets to take theirs after the lunch. But
if you any faschedulings, you're gonna play three games in
eleven days and then you're gonna go to London. They're

(31:19):
gonna play a game the next week. Well, and then
you get Buffalo and then then you get Sunday Night foot.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, good luck. Thanks guys, thanks for that. So for
anybody who says the NFL is fixed, oh of course
they want Jets and Aaron Rodd. Now, they wouldn't be
doing this to them.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
They wanted them on TV. So I mean, we get that. Guys,
who really thought you were gonna be We want to
see Aaron suffer.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
We really thought you're gonna beat the Broncos, and we
didn't think Minnesota was gonna be any good, so we
gave it early in the year. But you know how
it goes, Uh time now to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports. From a guy who's
getting absolutely zero work done tonight. It's Padres fan Brian Finley.
That's how you introduced me. Well, I guess then I'll
say Mets Finn Jason Smith. Yeah, but I'm actually working.

(31:57):
You're getting no work done. How would you say that
because my game is over and your game is still
going on. If my game was going on and was
saying I'm not gonna work, I want to watch the game,
Brian Felly's gonna teach him in crazy stuff for two
and a half.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
You know that you're a good multitasker, you know I am.
You will do interviews and it's incredible how you listen
and then you tweet what they're saying at the same time.
That's impressive. So you know, if you can multitask here
in the newsroom, we can do that as well, because
we're watching different games happening at once and reporting on
them at the same time.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Okay, what's the score of any other game? Except for
the Padres Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
The Utah Hockey Club is of one, one nothing against
the Chicago Blackhawks in the first period.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Fair Looking at the front page of ESPN dot Com
and seeing with the first score that's no, no, no,
refreshed beautifully in that moment.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Sometimes guys get caught with the refresh.

Speaker 7 (32:49):
You guys do realize that we have multiple TV monitors
here of live sporting events happening. So it's not as
if I'm not paying attention to what's going on live too.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
There is that part as well. He's given you a
full theatrical I am.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
It's like, I'm like, he's gonna do jazz hands at
the end of it.

Speaker 7 (33:05):
Like an orchestra conductor or something like that. But yeah,
that Padre game, it's still six to five right now.
The pods are in front, and this is a game
that is to the top of the six. The Padre
score all six of their runs in what would be
the second ending that included a Fernando Tatis home run.
This game is on FS one and his Game three

(33:26):
NLDS and the Padres and Dodgers all tied up at
one in this best of five matchup. No longer the
case tied up at one, and another NLDS Game three,
thanks to the New York Mets rooming past the Philadelphia Phillies,
is seven to two. So that puts the Mets up
two games to one in the series. Pete Alonso got

(33:47):
the scoring started with a solo home run, and after
the game he had this to say about where his
team stands.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I just want to.

Speaker 8 (33:54):
Come through any any chance I get. I mean, this
is the playoffs, this is the highest stakes, and during
the entire offseason and spring training, in the entire year,
you work really hard to get here, and I just
want to be able to capitalize on whatever moments I'm
given and and just do the best I can for
my team.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Right now.

Speaker 7 (34:14):
Lastly, guys, NHL regular season, it is a day one
Utah Hockey Club. I know you guys are watching this
one one nothing in favor of the Blackhawks. That's in
the with about nine minutes to go in the first period,
One nothing with the Utah Hockey Club ahead. And then
two finals quickly Blues three to two winners against the
Kraken and Jason your Panthers winning six to four against

(34:37):
Mike Harmon's Bruins. So we had three games on that
NHL regular season, gave.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
The Blackhawks scored nine times, and now I get signed
a different squad.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
It's not what's wrong with having two teams in the
same very sports league.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's the new same profession. Well I'm not normal then, okay,
Dodgers fan Brian Finley, Sure, thank you much. You have
two teams Southern California. Let's randomly assign you. I'll be
the next Rodgerson. Thank you very much, sir. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon Livethetirack dot Com studios. So
we have more on the Robert solid Jet situation coming up.
But straight ahead, how about a big quarterback change today.

(35:14):
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Speaker 2 (35:15):
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(35:46):
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Mike and I love putting this content out for you
every single day. Still a six or five lead padres
over the Dodgers padres coming about here in the the
sixth and then we'll have more baseball coming up in
a few minutes. But on the heels of Robert Salah
getting fired by the Jets today, we'll have more in

(36:07):
the Aaron Rodgers angle on this Drake May. The time
happened for the Drake. The Drake is now going to play.
Drake May the final or the next to last first
round quarterback we're gonna see play. He will now take
over at quarterback for the Patriots. So everybody, New England,
just calm the blank down, do you love? Just calm

(36:30):
the blake down. Calm down. He's playing now. Everything is fine.
Mutiny with the Patriots. Everybody just calmed the black.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
That was a great story and they forced it out
of a podcast hearing.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
I mean, come on, now, let me just say something
that I really did not like saying for the past
twenty four years, but I'll say it now. The Patriots
have done this thing right. They have done it right.
They're under no aspersions of grand no delusions of grandeur.
They know we're gonna stink. Yeah. Look, they played one

(37:07):
of the worst football games you'll ever see. And I
don't mean like because they played so bad. I just
mean why you can tell they have no talent and
neither do the Dolphins in that game terrible. Uh, Look,
we're not going to win. This is a year of
starting over seeing what we have with a new head
coach and a new quarterback. We don't want to put
the new quarterback out there until we think that maybe

(37:27):
we have the offensive line working enough to where, hey,
we can put him out there and not worry about
him getting his shoulders separated. Now, Jacoby Brissett is still
getting sacked five times a game, but still they decide
to make the move now, and I like it because
it's well, I'm sure you're looking for a soft spot
in the schedule to say this would be a great
time for Drake Maye to get his NFL debut. But

(37:48):
the defenses you're coming up against, Hey, turns out they're
a little bit better than you thought. Right, Minnesota is
gonna be better than you thought you hat the Jets coming. Ah,
oh all right, well here, okay, you know what this
is as good as it's gonna be. Houston and jackson
to put him in rum.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
And Houston is even with the record, they've been gettable downfield.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
We've seen that at times.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Jacksonville they got their first win, but they're still give
up chunky yardage. You can go and have some success.
Nothing able to put any natural pressure on guys. So
maybe after two weeks and they talk about in practice,
how he's seeing things better, he's getting rid of the ball,
and we'll see what happens when his feet to put
to the fire. Because certainly that stretch run against the Jets,
I thought that was coaching. I thought, I like, unless

(38:31):
Brissett just said physically, I'm done for the night, guys,
there was no reason that Drake may should have showed
up in that game.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah here we are. Yeah, look and you have the
Vikings and the Broncos have better defense than you thought
they were gonna have. Okay, so they put him in.
Now the Patriots are doing it right. This is a
first round pick, a high first round pick. It takes
him five weeks, but he started. This is how it goes.
This is fun, Patriots, and just everybody calmed down because

(38:58):
for the from two thousand into twenty twenty, everything was unbelievable.
Just bleep and relax and understand those days are gone.
They're not coming back. Hope you enjoyed two decades of excellence.
This is the new reality for the Patriots. You are
starting over. Yes, you think everyar we're gonna reload, We're
gonna be great, We're gonna get Mac Jones, We're gonna
do this that. No, now we got a new head coach. No,

(39:20):
this is what happens when you go back to the bottom.
Bill Belichick made short to tell you, hey, there is
no talent on this roster at all. Good luck. So
you're bat Jones should sue it. You're building up from
the bottom, right, So what he did do them? Wait
till he's coaching Mac Jones next year and and Jacksonville.
So uh, this is just everybody's gotta and everything in
New England, everything around this and the and the mutiny

(39:42):
and the players are just understand, this is different than
anything I know. You're used to a certain way and
certain expectations. They're all gone. This is all starting from
the ground up. This is how you do it. And
I can't believe him saying the Patriots are doing and
they have done it the right way.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
With Drake, yeah, I still would have been like, patience,
a little more patience, little can.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
We trust our offensive line yet?

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Not really, but we're not. It's not gonna get any better.
Like that's the other thing. It's not gonna get any better.
So unless you're just gonna red shirt them all together,
you might as well look at those AFC South back
to back games and say, hey, we've got a shot
and see what he can do.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Look like I said, you know, I'm telling you the truth,
and I tell you, hey, the Patriots doing it the right way.
They're doing this right. Just understand, zero expectations is where
you need to go.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
As long as they don't go in to hire a
former defensive coordinator to be a ZC, we'll be okay.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Coming up next, what could make the biggest NFL story
of the day completely irrelevant? Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Don Paul Morosi, what's happening, buddy?

Speaker 3 (40:45):
How are you happy? Postseason?

Speaker 1 (40:47):
My friends?

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Greetings from the great city of KCMO. We're here for
the Yankees and Royals tomorrow. But I was certainly keeping
a very close eye on the Dodgers and Friars tonight.
And I don't know. There might be a storyline or
two in that series maybe. I mean, it's it's kind
of a you know, it's been kind of a boring
series right now.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Nothing going on quiet, I'll tell you this.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
And I know there was another series that happened earlier
today as well, in the method Plites. We'll talk about
that as well. But I'll say this about the Podrays
and Dodgers. While I do not love all of the
ancillary things that have been going on in the series,
allegations of of unprofessional behavior, et cetera, the reality is this,

(41:36):
I I was as glued to that game. It just
ended in terms of a game that I have not
been broadcasting or had no real connection to personally. I
was as down into that game as I've been to
any game all season long. And I gotta admit some
of the some of the soap opera stuff kind of
pulled me in there, guys. So it's a it's it's
actually pretty pretty entertaining to watch, Oh, John.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Paul, It's it's immature, it's petty, it's full of disrespect,
and it's the best rivalry in sports right now. It's
all of those. It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
But the thing is, we don't have a lot of
this in baseball, and and we can talk about why
that is. It's probably that's probably a full three hour
podcast at some point about just the differences and why
baseball is the way that it is. But it is
for the most part a fairly h people seem to

(42:29):
get along pretty well. You see players with hugs and
dapping each other up before the games, and and and
there's a real fellowship that goes on. I don't think
there's a whole lot of daffing happening with this with
these particular two teams before the games, because it is,
it is getting tense, it is getting tight. They don't
like each other, and there's not a whole lot of

(42:49):
pairings that we see during the course of the season
where they really really overtly dislike each other. But that's
exactly what's happening right now between the padre and the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Well, we got to love a little bit of drama mixed.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
They're in JP and and I think everybody watching the
game goes back to Machada on the base paths and
really still looking for further explanation of letter spirit of
the law as related to base pads, because you know,
he's running on the infield grass, which isn't a natural path.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Right right, It should have been interference. And that's that's
all I can say. I mean, it's a judgment call.
It's a difficult call to make in real time. We've
obviously got six umpires on the field for a reason.
But in my in my judgment, that should have been
interference on Machado. He he clearly the rule is he

(43:44):
he deviated out of the baseline that he had established.
Once you establish your baseline, you runners. And again all
of this fits under the heading of a judgment call.
And it's a judgment call. It's made at a lightning
quick rate, and it's not reviewable, so it's a herd.
It is a hard call to make. I'm not blaming
anybody for this, but I when I'm watching that play

(44:04):
and I see Manny choose his path and then take
a good step step and a half to the left
directly into Freddy's path of throwing the ball to second base,
it's interference. It's just that's what it is. And some
man's has called some mans is not. And obviously Manny
I think Manny got away with one there, And yeah,
he sometimes seems to be in the middle of everything.

(44:26):
The Padres won the game by a run that was
one of the biggest moments in the game. All of
that is absolutely true. And I do believe that that
if if that was a reviewable call, that it would
have been called interference, it would have been a very
different baseball game, all right, John Paul.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
I want to bring it back to something we talked
about going into the playoffs, right, because I still keep
thinking about this when I think about the Dodgers, jobs
are at stake. Dave Roberts job likely at stake. Other
people's jobs are at stake. They have a lot of injuries,
they don't have a lot of sure things pitching out.
The fact that Walker Buehler had to go tonight, and
it's an era with six Walker Buehler, he threw long

(45:05):
toss before the game the other day. I know they
have said it's not going to happen. But now when
you're faced with this reality that you could be going
home again in the first round and again, jobs are
at stake. Is there no way show Haotani pitches even
a couple of innings or one inning for the Dodgers,
maybe even as an opener tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
I don't see it. It's a fair question. I don't
see it. As much as we would love it, as
amazing as it would be, I don't see it happening there.
Because now a month ago, when there were the rumblings
and Dave Roberts said, yeah, you know maybe, and he
kind of raised the possibility. At that point in time,
I thought, oh my gosh, like this is going to happen.

(45:48):
But now there's with Otani. Everything is so clearly scripted,
planned out by the book, buttoned up for the Dodgers too,
at the outset of this series, have no notion of
him pitching, and then all of a sudden, or at

(46:10):
least no public acknowledgement, and then all of a sudden
have the switch through at the last possible minute when
they're facing elimination. I just don't think it's going to happen.
It's everything with him is so carefully crafted that I
would be stunned at this juncture. Now, who knows, We'll
see what Dave Roberts says, I think at the moment,

(46:31):
it's probably going to be Land and Nak starting with
your season on the line. And I realized Land and
Nak is not showing Otani. But that's where they're at.
And furthermore, I mean, my honest assessment is this, if
if you need, if you need Otani to save you
in the fourth game that you have played in the postseason,

(46:54):
because the rest of your pitching plan is all of
a sudden already by the boards and you're in a
complete panic vote four games into the postseason. My my
news flash for you is you're not gonna win the
World Series anyway. Really, I mean, like, if if they
need if, especially if it's two innings. Now, if he
was built up, if he had been doing his progression

(47:15):
and we knew that he could start and go six
seven innings, it's a little different different story. But if
you're if you're begging for two innings from the guy
to save your season in the fourth game of the
postseason and you've got a three hundred million dollars payroll,
what are you doing? I mean, that's that's and that's
not on Dave Roberts, by the way, Like they're They've

(47:36):
built this roster full of guys who break down, and
that's exactly what has happened. And they are completely and
utterly stuck right now, and it's it is uh uh.
Maybe they'll just respond by spending a whole bunch more
money in the off season, but I would submit that
that's exactly what's gotten them into this mess to begin with.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Let me ship to the other National League series. My
friend here is excited about the baseball results. Is that
the case and defeated by the you know, coaching change
earlier like he was riding a roller coaster of emotions JP.
But Mania comes in gives them the fantastic start. Nola

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gets bested by Pete Alonso, the guy everybody wanted out
of town, and Grimace is still the MVP.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
The big question for Jason Smith is is if we
are going to see a statue built of Pete Alonso
before he becomes a free agent. They basically saying, Pete,
you can leave in free agency, but you're gonna have
to walk by this statue that we are erecting in
your honor for what you're doing here, for your great

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service for the New York Mets. And hey, listen, Hey,
I'm talking to you from Kansas City. They even their
series at one game at piece yesterday. Maybe Jason, it's
your second chance at twenty fifteen. Maybe it's your second
chance of twenty fifteen without loose, without Seths put us
losing the ball and the lights in game one or
do whatever that was.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah, no, no, no, you just in Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Yeah, there's there's no Matt Harvey going on. It's it's all.
It's all good. So so it's a different a different era,
and maybe we're gonna get a Mets Versus Royals world series.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Well, look, first of all, yeah, look, Alonzo's great, Lindora
is great. The grim statue goes up first. I mean,
let's be on.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
I heard it took this he took the seven train.
Now things happened either either Grimace took the seven train
or that was Jason Smith on the seven train. And
and you're doing this show remotely from city Field, and
and it's and actually you have brought the tire rack
dot Com Studios with you and put it right in

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the middle of city Field, right in Flashing Queens.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Maybe it was David Stearns. That's how I would call
your roommate, call your college roop.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
How we got the game?

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Maybe that's how we got to the game. He's there
is grimmage.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
I mean, I'll say this, We're all a family here, Okay,
justin the two of you. Me. The person on this
phone call right now who lives the closest to the
tairak dot com headquarters is me because I've driven by
it many times and it's in the great state of Indiana.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Do there you go, Jap.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Let's go to the series you're covering talking about the
Yankees and Royals. And while it's not the you know,
big bulletin board stuff for national news.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Of you know, all everything that went on with the.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Dodgers, padres Jess Chisholms saying well they got lucky.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Is that resonating it all locally and having some fun
with that.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
It was This was mentioned a Salvador Perez today at
the media availability, and he basically said, I've got nothing
to say about that. Next question, I'm afraid it was.
It was like a two sentence response. And and by
the way, I have a rule, and I hope everybody

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respects this rule. I will never, ever, ever, ever ever
criticize an athlete for speaking their mind about sports matters,
and I certainly within it, within the realm of professionalism
and good case you want to say the opposition got lucky. Hey,
that is awesome. It's fun for us, it's fun for you,
it's fun for the other team. This is sports. It's
supposed to be fun. So he says that they got lucky.

(51:23):
That's interesting, and thank you Jazz for saying it, because
it's given us plenty of good stuff to talk about.
But what I would also say is this, you lost
game two and you won one. You won game one
by a run one, You're probably lucky as you're not
down zero one two. We're being really honest here, and
especially when you consider how many hard it balls they
gave up in game one. I mean that was very nearly.

(51:45):
They very nearly lost game one. So I don't know,
this is a very even series. I think it's gonna
go five. I don't see either team went into in
a row here in Kansas City. But I say, guess Chism,
thank you for speaking your mind. I love it. It
gives us good stuff to talk about on this show
and on our TVs broadcast tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
All Right, John Paul we have four games tomorrow. We
got a big day tomorrow, and in play it starts
very early with the Guardians and the Tigers. Give me
your four winners tomorrow. Who wins the four games tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (52:17):
All right, here we go. I've got Tigers, I've got Royals,
I've got Mets, and I've got Podres.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Wow, I've got all.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
I've got a home team winning every game.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Which good thing. The White Sox are on a pick.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Sounds really sounds really chalky and unimaginative. Let me just
tell you it felt great when I was saying it.
It felt really cool. I felt like I was being
a total boss man.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
I just picked all the whole teams.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
What was that? Man?

Speaker 6 (52:53):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (52:54):
I mean I I've spent like half my life in
baseball stadiums root for the home team.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
I guess that's just what because sort.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Of part of my conscientious is now there you go.
So it's just, uh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
You're the guy.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
You're the guy when picking his college basketball bracket has
all the one seeds going to the final four.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Yeah, I'm gonna be real. I'm gonna be real bold
here and say that I think the final four it
might be Duke, Duke, North Carolina, Indiana, and UCLA. I mean,
like really surprising teams. But no, I'll tell you this.
I think that you know this postseason. I know people
have had their criticism about it and said, okay, the

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top seeds that they sit for too long. Well, all
of those teams they all won their first game, right
when you think about it, So the Yankees won, the
Guardians won, the Phillies won the first game, right or
am I getting that backwards? Did they won the first game? Yeah? Yeah?
So I mean yeah, so that they all they won.
They all won their games and so and so the

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layoff didn't hurt them. But what what we are dealing
with right now is a very balanced league. Nobody won
one hundred games in the regular season. So the notion
that we were going to see the top seeds all
of a sudden just steamroll through these teams that are
playing hot and won their first round is not not reality.
So I'm I'm loving it. It's chaotic, I have no
idea what's going to happen, and I'm very much enjoying it.

(54:17):
Except right I do believe the one thing I am
certain of is the Lions will win their next game
twenty one the fourteen.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
That's my guys, keep going down. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
It never does, doesn't. I think they.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Got they got the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Okay, oh that that's I've heard of them.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Okay, good, good, that's a good Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
I've heard of them.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
The Dallas football clus I say that's.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
One fourteen and and uh so yeah, and it's on
the road in Dallas. I still think that this is like,
uh uh, they're they're going to get the like revenge
for that our call last year when when when when
the left tackle reported eligible with the officials pretended they
didn't they didn't understand what he was saying.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Oh yeah, Johnson gain, Yeah, we're putting Johnson ring him on.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Yeah, Sureki wasn't those on the guy's name Skipper, So yeah,
so he's he was, he reported eligible. They should have
let let the play stand. And uh and the lines
are gonna get revenge on on Sunday twenty one to fourteen.
I also believe, by the way, I think Michigan does
not play this weekend. So I am under no obligation
to make a prediction.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
You'll say, no, you're good, John Paul, You're good. Man,
you are good, hammered.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
It didn't I did I not tell you? Didn't I say,
I'm I can't remember now exactly what I said. What
prediction I offered on your show. I think I believe
I said that Michigan was going to lose last weekend
and they did.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
No, you are right. No, you've been. You've been. You've
been pretty hot with your picks, even picking against the lines.
You've been pretty hot.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Yeah. So I mean, I'm doing okay. You know, eventually,
maybe I'll branch out in the football. Right now, I
got a key by focus on the series I'm covered
in Kansas City. I gotta just try to be a
good reporter for Game three, day to day focus. I've
been listening to all the playoffs cliches, one pitch at
a time, one game at a time. I'm sidelined for

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Game three. I gotta try to master a Game three.
That's all I got.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
You will see him tomorrow on TV Yankees and the Royals,
alongside Bob Costs and Ron Darling. You want to call
this game, You'll be the Yeah, John Paul will be
the guy eating a dinosaur rib in the stands when
they first go to him, for information. Good. Yeah, there
you go.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Yeah, And if there's a guy that shows up, we're
at a number fifteen jersey from the football team here,
and I'll say, you know what I heard. I think
i've heard of this guy. Believe his dad played baseball. Okay,
so I know that about him.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
If you interview him ten bucks. If you purposefully mispronounce
his name and you call him Patrick Mahims or something,
just get his name wrong. Just get his name wrong
when you're interviewing him.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
I've mispronounced a lot of things in my life. That's
a hard name to mispronounce.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Have fun on the call, buddy. We'll talk to you
later on this week.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
I appreciate it. We'll talk to you soonbody.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
We're here with Patrick Mhames Mahomes sorry Mahomes. Yes, you
played football of all in the city. Oh how cool
is that? I don't know you played in the same city,
Kansas City. Oh that's great. Yeah, it's great you're here.
How are you going to fix this office?