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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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we are at seven o two pm Pacific time. Yeah,
all the polls have closed. The first college football playoff
poll has been released. No, that is true. Everything came in.
We know everything everything we need to know. Cleveland is
not sure, Okay, I mean Ohio is represented, yes, like
(01:14):
Cleveland State is not that I don't have an Ohio drops.
It's not well, it's not my fault.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We're gonna have to work on that and find you
the proper Ohio drop.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Even on the show for about seven years, you couldn't
find an Ohio drop. You got Cleveland Rocks. You have
Drew Carrey yelling. So I just want to make sure
to make sure you know that. I mean, he doesn't
even have a guy yelling who day no, no, no, no,
no no. I just wanted you know before we got
just here. Obviously, Look, we're gonna talk sports tonight, everything
going on, tons of stuff to get to. Uh, but
(01:45):
I just want to I mean, really, Okay, everybody knows
what the calendar is. This is a pretty big November fifth. Now,
this is the day we're gonna make the NFL trade
deadline and the first college football playoff poll come out.
We're gonna make it today.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, it's like Major League Baseball Sunday deciding let's announce
all our gold gloves we're making in the middle of
an NFL Sunday when there's nothing else going on. You
couldn't do it on a Wednesday when there's nothing going on. No,
that's going on a Sunday. How a thing here?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
How do we? How do we? How do you pick
this today? You're all, we're gonna have the first poll
come out. Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean to give you some levity. I mean there
is college football being played. Okay, okay, NBA took the
day off, but we've got other games college basketball. It's like,
look over here, like I wore a divisive shirt.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You wore a nickelback shirt today. Yeah, but it says
fan yeah or liar yeah, no, no, And it creates debates.
It does, and it gets.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You away from the divisiveness and some of the rhetorics
in the that people have been.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
In the black skull cap you're wearing right now, like
you're going to a rap battle against Pappadi. I would
probably win, probably went well.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I mean, you always criticize the fact that I wore
ball caps, so I decided to change.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It up today. But you know, but there's distractions, and
then there's oh, here's something pretty bad. You know. I
think people are really looking forward to saying, hey, we've
been talking about the trade deadline in the NFL forever
and it's a different day, a different wide receiver, and
here comes the first college football playoff ball. I mean,
Jonathan Mingo ain't exactly moving the needle. It doesn't matter.
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You know, we already had a bunch of trade bad
lines are different, and this is still the deadline day.
It's in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
We actually have trades on like five years ago where
we're like, anybody make a deal.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They couldn't make it out could have made the deadline.
I'm just saying you could have made you know, I.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Should probably move the deadline Wednesday. No, it's hard and
fast in the calendar, damn it. Likewise, College Football said, well,
if the NBA is going to take the night off,
the NFL is not playing. I mean, even if they
have the trade deadline, Well we we can make some
noise too, Okay. It is tangentially tied to the larger
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conversation of of of polls and electorates and all of
those kind of so yeah, I mean, I guess we
could run those concurrently.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Now before we get into the day of college and
the first playoff. Paul, and we got big hot take
for you coming. I want to tell you I rode
in somebody for president. You did, I rode in on
my mouth? Yes, I rode in. I didn't write it.
I didn't write you in why what because you're you
were in person, I can't trust you to lead the country.
How dare you look if you're wearing a Nickelback T shirt.
Can't can't be running the country wearing a Nickelback T shirt. No,
(04:27):
come on, man, I break people together. They're certain arms around. No, No,
you just said eight seconds ago it's divisive. I'm divisive.
It's divisive. But now I'm wrapping arms.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Around because it brings people to the table for a conversation.
It's because, hey, man, people bought records from Nickelback.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, they may try to disown them now, but they
bought them. They did. You you know you would be
a great politician. But you just you just said you
were against that five seconds ago. Yeah, but I changed.
I don't really want me to go through that.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I changed my mind because I'll start going into the
actual election, state by state. You want to talk about that, Hey,
my opinion changed. The information changed in those three minutes.
So I changed my opinion. But I've heard that before.
I could do that, right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But I do want to tell you who I voted.
I wrote somebody in and while it was fun seeing
all the writings today for president, you know cowboys suck fire,
eber flu thread. Yeah, but you know who I wrote it. No,
I thought he'd throw that joke in voting, not that
(05:38):
he was a cad. I voted.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes
about diabetes.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I did not vote for Wilford Brimley. I did not brother. Hey,
he was a great, great manager once upon a time,
but it's a thirty nine pennant. He was great.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I voted for former NFL quarterback Alex Smith. For Alex,
I wrote in Alan, Yeah, I did well. He's got
a great story obviously stuff, he's overcome so much, the injuries.
But there was one reason why I voted for him.
And I thought about this when I thought about, how
would Chris Berman announce why someone was voting for Alex Smith? Okay,
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I'll bite.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I mean, all these years you watched Alex Smith's career,
you watched the rise he was a number one overall pick,
and the comeback from the huge injury.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Why would you want hit to elect him president DJ.
I always think it should be someone with experience, and
he's already shown to be a great commander and chief.
J I Alex Smith for president. That joke sounds very familiar.
(06:50):
That was courtesy of Justin Frostburg earlier today. Very nice
giving you credit. He t I said, I'm so using
that right every thing he says except the Jets Christ
but I dug that's right in Alex Smith, great commander
in Chief. Now the college football Playoff poll week, well,
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first college football playoff poll has been announced and is
not a lot of surprises. You have Oregon at the top,
which is to be expected, nine and zero, followed by
Ohio State, Georgia, Miami, Texas. There's your top five. Then
you get outside the top five again teams you would
expect coming off the lost. Penn State is still in
the top six, all the stuff we've talked about with
Penn State for instance, where hey, they can afford a
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loss because they don't have anything, and serios they dropped
to number six. Then you have Tennessee, Indiana, BYU, Notre Dame,
Alabama and Boise State. That's who covers the top twelve.
Then just outside SMU Texas A and m LSU is
right there, Ole Miss Pittsburgh, Colorado, Kansas State. So that's
kind of where you get a lot of one two
loss teams sitting outside one through twelve. This is already
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better than any playoff we have ever had because how
much fun and how much more interest and how much
more play on the field goes into finding these twelve teams.
Whether it's we're gonna overly value the SEC, which is
what this poll has done, We're gonna overly value the
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Big Ten. We're not gonna let a non Power five team,
and maybe Boise State can find their way in, but
maybe not, depending how it goes. There's already arguing better
and trying to figure out twelve spots versus four, Like
half the teams I just mentioned would have no chance. Well,
Ohio State or Indiana is gonna be out to only
one of them's gonna win the Big So you're crossing
teams off already, Whereas now twelve teams make it in,
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and it's okay for a one loss team or a
really good two loss team to make it in to
the college football playoff. But the main thing is you're
talking about if you're in the top twenty five right now,
you have a really good chance to make the playoff.
You went out. You need some help, obviously, but that's
how it goes in all all kinds of sports. You win,
you go, hope, you get some help, and you have
enough at the end. But it's already better trying to
debate the top twelve and more teams are involved than
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it is saying well, here's your top four, because imagine
if we're going back, well, here we go Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Miami,
wel Texas has already lost. Well, you know what if
these four results hold true, Hey, there's your playoff. Great.
What kind of drama do we have towards the end
of the season. Hardly any There's so much more, there's
so much more interest level, there's so much more excitement,
there's so much more buzz, there's so many more good
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teams that are involved in this. Whereas this makes up
for the well the specialists of the regular season when
you lose a game. I don't think anybody thought Ohio
State and Penn State wasn't special this past weekend because
one of them at a loss and one of them
didn't end. Oh, by the way, because there's twelve teams
in the playoffs, that was still the specialist of that game.
There's still the specialists of half a dozen games that
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we thought these are the games of the year so
far in college football. None of that specialists have been lost.
All everything is good, and you're seeing with the opening
of this poll today that oh, I understand it is
going to be better. You can already tell what we're
going to see is going to be better than everything
we've had before.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, the gravity and weight of it all is so
much more, uh grandiose, you know, even on the election day.
And if it gets muted here for a day, that's
fine because you got several weeks because it's a TV show,
right because you heard the immediate outrage of how's Indiana undefeated?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Nathan Well?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Who they beat? Who they beat? That was any good? Okay,
they're they're thumping teams. Don't want to say that, you know,
don't want to dismiss that and and and marginalize it.
But the reality is they've got a test in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
If it was if it was a top four in
it would be, well, we beat Ohio State, we're probably
in the playoff and win the Big Ten. Now it's
if we lose to Ohio State, we might be out.
If we win, we're probably in. There's nothing you still
have to go and change.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And all of those games that always had weight within conferences,
that doesn't change, right, You're still playing. As much as
folks want to dismiss the Bowl games, tell that to
the millions upon millions of dollars still spent by all
of these networks to fall over themselves to get rights
to them, because live sports is really all all you
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got left in terms of attracting a captive audience.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
For your commercial times.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I mean, we just saw these Super Bowl ads were
selling out at what seven and a half million dollars
each for thirty seconds, you know when when things hit
New Orleans in February. A Fox like all of that
to say, like these games all still had great, great
interest and great breakdowns coming out. I mean even leading
Sunday morning, all right, we're previewing Week nine of the NFL,
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but we had so many big games going. And even
go through the rest of the top twenty five, you
got another four one loss teams SMU, Iowa State, Pit,
Washington State sitting down there, and then you still have
Army down at the back end of the top twenty
five that who knows.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You have way more that matter because you have the
teams involved in the top twelve that need to win
to keep their ranking, and then you have the teams
thirteen and on who want to win knowing that some
teams are gonna lose and we want to move up
into that top twelve. Take care of your business. It
was a win win sach a wild card, and baseball
people hated it watered down. No more cities are active.
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And when we talk about trade deadlines right parody in
the NFL, we're talking about the trade deadline. For the
last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
We've had trades here and there, and then last ditch
efforts today to try to make some kind of noise.
Teams are still active, thinking they still have a chance
for college football. It's the same thing for their fan bases.
They're still gonna be rabid. They're still gonna be insane
for the final month of the season, where in historically
been like, all right, do we want to go play
our bowl game in Texas or Las Vegas or the pinstripe.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Ball No, this still matters. This is so good because
in a year it's going to be let's have sixteen teams. Boy,
this worked out really well. Let's put a few more
yea because the biggest question, and I understand that that
was a bit of an unknown coming in, was all
the big games on the college football calendar, are people
going to watch them as much? Knowing full well that
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it doesn't mean as big a thing, because hey, a
team can lose and still make the playoff. But I
think we've seen this year. Nobody didn't watch Ohio State
and Penn State. Nobody didn't watch Oregon and Michigan. Nobody
didn't watch all these other big games that we have
seen so far, because well, if you win, you're still in. No,
it's just like they're just like the NFL. If you lose, okay,
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your season's not over. But boy, you can't lose again, Okay,
there's still the stakes are still there, right, And that's
why I never understood going back to the first when
we got the first playoff was oh boy, I can't
believe we didn't do this sooner. No, everybody fought tooth
and ail. You didn't want to playoff, they want to playoff.
And then we had the playoff. Oh wow, that worked
out pretty well. Now it's I don't know, twelve team playoff,
I don't know, a lot of push a lot of
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push back. Oh, I don't know why we didn't do
this sooner. I'm telling you this may be the only
we have a twelve team, but we may go to
sixteen next year, go to sixteen team playoff next year.
The top four teams will get buys and we get
five through sixteen players and we get down to eight
and then we have a I mean, that's that's how
it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
But it's still one or two loss teams, right, that
is the ultimate thing. And like, if all of a
sudden it's four loss teams that we're considering, that's good
because parodies truly hit college football and chaos has ensued.
But as it is, it's one or two loss squads
that we're gonna be fighting about. I guess what, there's
a lot of them, which means it's great for debate, radio,
TV and the regionalism and the you know, the conference
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cheerleaders will be out in full force.
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who decided, Hey, man, we're gonna put the college football
playoff pull up against election day, and hey we're gonna
(16:15):
make the NFL trade deadline up against election day. Okay,
let's go alternate programming. Man. I understand, folks, in the
last couple of weeks, how many political ads did you see?
You could have been watching The Wizards of Waverley Place
and suddenly I had someone telling you that you needed
to vote for some candidate. Yeah, but today is like, okay,
everybody's paying attention to the polls. It's like, okay, well,
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now you're gonna give me the trade deadline. Mean, come on, man,
you gotta you know me. We've been talking on a
trade deadline forever now, and now you give them it
to me on a day where it's like the trade deadline. Oh,
and I'll try to keep an eye. I mean, come on,
you know we can extend to exhale a little bit.
Gona happened on a Monday. Could have done it on
a Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
But over here, serious global, local conversations being had over here.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Ooh, shiny new things. Hey, check that guy out. He's
gonna have a new uniform. Good for him. What does
that mean for the NFL landscape? That's good? I know. Uh,
they got other stuff going on today, So uh, how
do we how do we get the headlines?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
For today? How about this? I got an idea, Steven Steven,
Steven listen, I got an idea. How about we trade
for a guy who was probably gonna be out of
the league after this year and hold on, hold on,
he hits better. Uh. If we trade for that guy
and we just give up like a seventh round pick,
no one's gonna say anything. But if I give up
a fourth round pick, oh, hey, every's gonna be right
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and talking about the Cowboys, right, So let's do that.
I'll take the heat. I got big shoulders. I've been
making deals like this for the last thirty years. Remember
I got the Lance kid for a fourth round pick.
He's not even on the active roster. So uh, let's
do that. Let's go get it doesn't matter who it is,
just go get somebody. Who probably is no good and
is gonna be out of the league in a year.
Offer them a fourth round pick and we will get
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the news cycle all day today, no matter what other
guys get traded.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Jerry Jones lose a Betton to David Tepfer what should
have been a conditional seventh rounder and he came a.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Fourth, and listen, do it early. I don't want to
get eclipsed by when the when when the Jets trade
trade to williams Kid. Uh so, just you know, I
want that to just got to be the storyline whatever
whoever he else gets traded after big trades. I know that,
you know, za Darius Smith is probably gonna go. We
could use him, but you know that's not headline. But
we overpay for a guy who really is terrible and
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uh again, fourth round pick, third round pick. Maybe I
might have to say, hey, Jerry, what are you doing?
But fourth round pick? That's just enough to get made
fun of, not enough to sink us, but enough we
win trade deadline day.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Now you laugh this morning? You know I get up
ridiculously early a vampire at this point. But get the
kids off to their school to work and all of that,
walking the dog and I start scrolling and that's it. Hey,
Cowboys are gonna make a move. And Jerry's like, it's
someone we liked when he was drafted. I'm like, all right,
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last couple of years receivers that might be be on
the move.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What do we got?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And then it becomes a fourth round pick for Jonathan Mingo.
I'm like, are you kidding me? And it was great
build up. You want to talk about s get in
there and sell, sell, sell, Yeah, I'll buy in. I'll
pay a dollar.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Even for that news. That's great Jonathan Mingo for a
fourth round. The Cowboys say, this is where our path
to glory is now with Dak likely going on iron.
We'll get to that coming up in a few minutes. No,
the guy we're gonna go out again, Not Mike Williams. Guy,
we're gonna go out and get somebody who really was
probably going to be out of the NFL after this year,
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or trying to hang on with somebody in camp. Because
Jonathan Mingo is a second round draft pick a year ago,
he never flashed at any point last year for the Panthers.
He can't get on the field now, he can't get
on the field now there's an undrafted rookie playing ahead
of him. Johnson got Dell and Adams hurt and I
can't get on the field. So what does that tell you? Man?
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I mean, what does that tell you about this guy? Yeah?
I get oh we go back to his draft grade. Yeah,
but stuff has actually happened. I mean he's not even
like Melanchi Corley, who gets in for a kiss. See
what I did there? This is you know, I got
a drive, like shit joke. This is like, this is
like the person you have somewhat of a crush on
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and you're like, boy, you think they're great, and I
think they're awesome, but for some reason you never dated
whatever is okay great, And then like a couple of
years after, you know, you run into them and you
go on a date and you go, oh boy, I
was going back to the person I thought you were
a couple of years you need your music now life experience,
and now I don't. Wow, I really I think this
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is I think this is the last date we're gonna have.
I think things change. In two years, things change, They
absolutely change.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
But yeah, like the build up this morning, and it
started getting retweeted by all of the insiders and oh
Jerry said this, and it was like, all right, what
are they gonna do.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
They're making a big splash. It's Mingo. I mean, it's
not ming the merciless Mingo. Jonathan Mingo is. And now
you know more people know him. The only people who
knew him before today were fantasy players in Dynasty who
drafted him last last year. The he's a receiver that
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was drafted the second round by a team. Okay, look
it's not. And the thing is is that it's not
that this is so unbelievably out of left field for
Jerry Jones. This is what he does. I mean, this
is what Jerry Jones does. That's the sad reality of it.
And I really, I'm only saying maybe there's it's maybe
only a seventy five percent chance this deal was made
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on the up and up, and maybe only a fifteen
percent chance. Really it was, Well, if we give up
a fourth round pick, more people will talk about it
and say it's a bad deal, Like I really, there's
maybe seventy five maybe only twenty five percent chance that
actually happened. But the fact that they I think we
got more people. I saw more people were talking about
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me than about Harrison Trump, just just so we know.
But it was there, was there. I didn't read it.
Steven read some stuff to me. I need. He didn't
tell me a lot of words. He's got to skipped.
But I mean I was trending more than they were.
You want to talk look over here. No, no, I
I really I don't. I don't get the outrage. This
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is what Jerry Jones has done. He gave it a
fourth round pick for trade lance. You have a first
round pick for Amari Cooper. Davante Adams just went for
a fourth round pick and he's one of the top
four receivers in the game.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
He saw Hopkins impact for the Chiefs last night. Flift
round pick.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, this is this is how how trades are done.
But this is not how Jerry Jones makes trades. And
this is another reason why the Cowboys are where they
are for going on oh thirty years right now, because
I'm gonna give up assets I don't need to. I'm
gonna overpay for guys that don't need to pay for
I'm going to do this. And you hear the same
broken record all the time, Jerry needs a GM. It's
not happening. Okay, Eventually the day will come where Jerry
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Jones is not making trades like this and somebody else
is in control of the franchise. That day is not today,
and that day is not going to be anytime soon.
He is still going to do things they shouldn't be surprising.
When I saw Jonathan Mingo and I said, for that,
I laughed. A lot of said did we traded a
fourth round pick for Devontae Adams? Like this was this
where Jerry just said Bernice hold McCalls, don't let anybody
(23:26):
get in and he called Tepper right away and nobody knew,
no football people in on the call. And I need
a wide receiver. Oh we got the Jonathan Mingo We've
got in the second round a couple of years ago.
I remember his name. Yeah, you know, I can let
you have him for a fourth round pick. Not let deal, deal,
let's do it Arkansas or something to where Jerry would
remember him. Did he keep them out of a bowl game? Oh?
(23:46):
You know what I mean? Like, oh, that got crushed us.
This is I mean, you can't you can't be surprised
at this because this is just this is what Jerry
does and it's part of what happens when you know
you're not going to win anything, You are going to
try to win the battle for attention in relevance. The
Cowboys and the Lakers are in the same boat. They
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know they're not championship teams. So they try to win
the battle of relevance and to be talked about and
to still have the status of being the big bad franchises,
the most popular franchises in each of their respective sports.
And they know it's a weird way to do it,
and it's kind of a it's not a way that
endears themselves to fans, but we have to be that team.
And here you are on trade deadline day. Jerry Jones
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wins trade deadline day. Why because we're talking about this
more than we talk about any other trade going on.
Now that there were other so large trades, but we're
talking about a trade for a guy that most people
haven't heard of, and yet Jerry Jones has found a
way to make it about him. This is what the
Cowboys and the Lakers do. Let's go get Brownie James
because we'll win the war of relevancy. Right. This is
you can see their strategy. When teams know we are
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not a championship team. Some are so desperate for the
attention they go out and do whatever they need to.
You're not gonna have dak now until the middle of December,
and you go give a fourth round pick for a
guy for this guy, seriously, who couldn't get on the field,
who may not beat out Cavante Turpin for for a
snap with the Cowboys. This is what's actually proven something.
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This is what you're doing. No.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But the contrast to the Lakers, at least with Bronnie James,
there's a financial element to where you.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Win, right.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
We get into this whenever there's big contracts signed and
folks go, well, why would they do this or that
or the other, you know, the the Shoho Taani deal,
and now contrast that to whatever wan So DOA says
like there's a huge financial incentive to go and find
the dollars in Japan and the sponsorships and all the
partnerships and everything else.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
There's all of.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That for Bronnie James, eight million dollars guaranteed. You could
talk about the salary cap and how they might have
played some funny games there with with Lebron's deal and
everything else. That's fine, but it's gonna be worth more
than that to them.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Without a question. Jonathan Mingo doesn't do any of that.
The only headline it wins is here's the latest in a.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Long line of idiotic moves from Jerry Jones, just because
he can't right, Why did you do that?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Because I could? Because honestly, it's not like this was
a move made where the Cowboys were close, but they
had a big injury and this is how they filled it,
and they filled it badly. This is a move done
a day after you know you're not gonna have your
quarterback for the next month and a half. You're starting
your backup who can't put points on the board. You
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can't run the football, you're three and five, and yet
we're gonna give up a draft pick of a fourth round,
which is generally now accepted to be someone who's gonna
come in and start for you, not gonna be a superstar.
But you gave up a draft pick as someone's gonna
come in and be a starter for a guy again,
who couldn't get on the field for the Panthers. I
could get on the field for the Panthers. I get
out there hands, but I can run hand, I can,
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du I get out there and I can. I'm like
Wes Welker, man I Wes Welker never ran a pattern
his entire NFL career. I could just find melant my
hands out, throw it to me seven yards seven yards and.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Secure the ball. You just shut your eyes and pray
you don't get blown up by.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I just turn and dive to the ground. Always, always, always,
always always go forward. So that that, I mean, that's
what this, that's why this trade when you see it
and and and people want to pull their hair out.
But it shouldn't be surprising because Jerry Jones does stuff
like this. He has done and now he's doing stuff
the detriment of his team just because hey, we make
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a headline on trade deadline day and it looks like
I'm doing something just real quick. On the on the Cowboys,
on the grandiose scale, right, Mike the Parson's making some
noise talking about Saquon Barkley and everything else and that,
and that's great. He comes back to the field, land
Is coming back. They sucked when those two guys were
running around the defense before. So I started to saying, well,
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they make this move. It really doesn't matter because these
guys are coming back and the defense is gonna be
that much better. Go back. Remember the Saints were good
against them with those guys on the field. I tell you, look,
this is Jerry Saints. It's Jerry jerrying right, this is
what he does, and this is what I'm gonna give up,
a starting caliber player for a guy that I may
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or may not even get on the field for us,
who may or may not have been in the league
a year from now, and in a year where we
should just be tanking to try to get the highest
draft pick possible. Because as much as I gave Dak
this money, I'd kick him the hell out for Dion Insador, Sir, there's.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
A million times a year we said, like to be
a fly on the wall, wouldn't you have loved a
Hey Mike, Hey Mike, I got your gal.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Hey Steven, listen, don't get mad at me. Don't get mad.
I've got a promise not to get mad. Okay, if
we're bad enough, who would want Dak in the off season?
Just tell me who? Because I could go, I could
go and and oh oh and CD two like like
like both of them, like who is? Because there's a
lot of money to bring in Shaudor and Dion like
I gotta take money from the salary cap to pay
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him to come and coach Cowboys. Just so you know,
I just, you know, quietly kind of look around the
league and see what they're thinking about that exit out
about a Fresca exit. Swollen down The Jason Show with
Mike Carbon live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Right now, a man who actually advised Jerry Jones to
give up that fourth round pick. It's Isaac Lowan Crown
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with what's trending.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Interestingly enough, I actually have Jerry on the line right
now reacting to your impression of him.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Settle just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I don't have the patience to jack with you today
in all seriousness. Is the first time I've heard of
you do. Your Jerry Jones impression is very very good.
By the way, how about that thank you? Look thank
you to the lowenbrow kid on the side. Man, that
was nice. That was good tonight. Let it be Lowenbrow.
I remember that from the nineteen seventies. I remember I
was at a party once Catherine Bach came up to
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me and said, you know about this lowen brow I'm
telling you. I was talking to Lonnie Anderson and I
said no, and I tried the low and brow and
it was pretty good. So I gotta say, I always remember,
not tonight, let it be low and Brown, Catherine Bach
back in the day, absolutely and Lonnie Anderson. It was
actually for a party for the Battle of the Network Stars,
as it was, I like it.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Oh no, there you go. I was at Battle Network
Stars when I met Julie Christie. I was back in
Heaven Kwait days a time to make the movie about
the cowboys, but it was about them in the super Bowl.
Didn't know if they were going to win, so I
said no.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Did not have a Julie Christie reference on the Bengo board.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Time all same party, met Martha Stewart.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Only about fifteen seconds away from a Gina Lola Bridgeta reference.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So well, hey man, we're just getting warmed up. I
didn't make the Martha Stewart book. She left me out.
I know I'm in there somewhere, but left me out
of that new book. I guess that's okay. You'll be
in the movie.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Jerry, Am I still on line?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hard to say at this particular point. The first college
football playoff rankings Fellows of twenty twenty four revealed earlier
this evening at number one, We've got Oregon, Ohio State
number two, Georgia is third, followed by Miami and Texas,
and then rounding out the top ten, Penn State Tennessee,
Indiana is eighth, number nine BYU and then Notre Dame.
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World champion Los Angeles Dodgers revealed today that show Hey
Otani suffered a torn labrim in his left shoulder when
he was hurt in Game two of the World Series.
He underwent successful Arthur scops Arthur scopic surgery today and
is expected to be ready for spring training. The NBA
suspended Philadelphia seventy six er star Joel Embiid three games
without pay for shoving a member of the media in
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the locker room after a game this past Saturday. While
in the NFL at the trade deadline, the Pittsburgh Steelers
acquired linebacker Preston Smith from the Green Bay Packers. They
also acquired receiver Mike Williams from the New York Jets.
The Washington Commanders acquired cornerback Marshawn Lattimore from the New
Orleans Saints. Back to Jerry and sorry back to Jason
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and Mike.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Thanks a bunch, Isaac. I appreciate it pretty again. See
see at the Star. Can't get Loan Brown anymore. Can't
get it anywhere. Try, I tried to find it. Can't
get it. No, can't get it. Thank you very much.
I love The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live
the Tirec dot Com Studios. That's your trade deadline, Jerry
Jones day in a nutshell, low and brow coming up next?
Didn't also have a huge suspension for one of the
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NBA's biggest stars on my bingo card Forday, but we
exactly got that. We have that coming up next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the Tirec dot Com Studios. We're
here on Election Day, big time sports news. All day
we talked about the first of many trades in the
NFL Trade deadline day, College football playoff Pole and now
we have Joel Embiid who got suspended by three games
(32:52):
today for shoving a media member. This is a a
I just got suspended. No not yet, no no no, no, no, no,
no no. Now, this is the story that you've seen
for the past couple of days. He got into a
physical altercation with a Philadelphia reporter, Philadelphia Inquired columnist Marcus Hayes,
after the team lost Saturday to the Grizzlies. Now Embiid
(33:14):
hasn't played yet. Marcus Hayes wrote a column challenging him
and mentioning his son and his brother who passed away
a few years ago. Embi did not like it, got
into a confrontation, shoved the guy, and we're waiting to
find out how that was going to play. And now
Joelle Ebid we find out he gets suspended for three
games without pay. Now he's got the suspension, he's injured.
(33:36):
He hasn't played yet this year. This is not at
all how we expected Joel Embiid to start this season.
And just going back from him the last couple of years,
like there's a smaller take before you get to the
bigger take on him, is that when's the last time
he really seemed happy playing basketball? Like, when's the last
time he was because when he came into the league,
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his first few years, he was fun. You know, Yeah,
he was trying to fight back from injury. He's never
actually really been healthy, but he was a fun dude.
He's trying to get dates with Rihanna and catching balls
in the home run derby. And every time you see
him now the last couple of years, it's a headline
that all, here's Joel Embiid, here's a fight with a columnist. Here,
he's not playing beginning of the year. He's upset this,
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I've done so much for this blanking city. The big
quote that came out over the weekend, he didn't play
a lot in the Olympics, so very quiet. How happy
was he to play there? Going back? The officiating is
always a big thing for him. Not getting officiated. Well,
he's hurt a lot. He can't stay healthy, so that
doesn't make him happy. Like I want the guy to
just be happy. And I don't know the last time
he's really truly been out. He's never seemed like he's
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happy because every story is, well, here's something up with
Joel Embiid, whether it's an injury or an instance off
the court or an instance on the court that turns
into something off the court, and now you have the
start of a season where the sixers getting investigated because oh,
wait a minute, he's hurt. Why is he hurt? Why
is he not playing? So it didn't start off on
the right foot there, and now he has, we have
played and he's serving a six game suspense.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
A great example of the you know, if you're going
to go down the road if he's inactive, you can't
have it start with, well, he's not gonna play back
to backs. Okay, the NBA doesn't need that to start
the season, right. We adjudicated that a couple of years
ago with Lebron and you saw it with the Warriors, right,
remember that string of Saturday night games on on ABC
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where every week at least two of the stars didn't play.
It's like, well you still got him. It was like
they played rock paper scissors that you have to play, right,
And so the last thing the NBA wants is for
that to start again and for a resurgence of load
management talk. And then with Embiid, you're right, it's it's
proved positive once and for all. If you ever had
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any doubt a lot of money doesn't buy you happiness.
Like we needed another example, But here's a guy in sports,
a great example, great contract, maybe dealing with Doc Rivers,
maybe dealing with the local media and the fans and
the thickleness there in Philadelphia. A lot of it goes
to it, and certainly national talking heads don't help. Great
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debate shows that dismiss categorically anything you've actually accomplished in
your career, is it wells up? And then this column
you take out two lines. It's a fair assessment. But
dude decided to go to the top rope instead of
just the elbow smash. Nope, I went macho man, savage,
and I'm coming off the top rope by invoking the
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memory of a dead family member. Right, So, like all
of that to say for Joel Embiid, Yeah, you wish
he'd find health and happiness because he's a hell of
a player and a fun watch.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Never there enough, right, And here's the thing is the
long view of Embiid, Like, oh, Jason, you have a
hot take on it. No, I have a long view
of Joel Embiid. Here's how the rest of his career
is going to go. He will stay in Philadelphia, it
will be like this. He'll be in and out of
the lineup until the Sixers get to a point where
they say he's no longer worth it because he's not
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as good. He's breaking down. He's a big man that's
never been healthy. How long is he really gonna be
healthy for He's thirty years old now, he's never played
a full season. So at some point in the next
couple of years, the Sixers are gonna get done with
the drama, and they're gonna be done with the fact
that he see, okay, you know what, he's starting to deteriorate.
Then he's gonna get traded and there'll be a new
resolved interest in Joel embiid Oh, Joel Embia's finally out
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of Philadelphia now here he is. And instead it's gonna
be more like Kevin Durant as he's changing teams as
he gets older. Oh, he's leaving. He's leaving Golden State.
Look at him. Go to Brooklyn. Now he's gonna have Brooklyn.
And then each place he stops at is gonna be
a little bit less, a little bit less. And we
have the memory of a great player who just doesn't
quite affect the game. The same. That's kind of how
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it's gonna go for Embead'll stay in Philadelphia for the
next couple of years. Then they're gonna decide, Okay, we're
moving on Max. He's our number one. We get another
couple of guys in to be around him. This is
how we're going forward. And Beat gets to a new
team and suddenly it's hey, wow, look at this excitement.
Now Joel embiid we got him here, we got him here,
we gotta be here, and he's gonna be okay. But again,
he's gonna be injured and not in the lineup, and
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then he'll bounce to another team and another team, and
I don't I don't know is he still in Leege
when he's thirty five with all these injuries. I can't
say he's gonna be in the league at that point.
But that's how it's gonna go for Joel and Beach two.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
More years on his deal before the player option and
then unrestricted free agency. And I have to ask the
obvious questions for all of America, since you thumped on
this desk and canvass like you were running for office
to get Joel embian in a Nick uniform it's just
because he's not here, because Julius Randall isn't there to
be traded anymore.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
So now it's like the hell with this guy.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
He's gonna be just an average schmoe for the next
couple of years and then he's done.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
We got big bodega. Now I'm fine. I'm fine. We're
a big bodega.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
We're good cause, I mean, you really did sell sell
hard for embiid. Now, now this comes, by the way,
his first game back, it's gonna be against the Knicks
as the NBA Cup begins.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
What do you got, Frostburg? The NBA League office, guys,
is so damn soft? Okay, a punishment? Do you want
to punish him? Beat you make him play three games?
There is that thirty eight minutes a night. Oh, you
got to play the entire fourth quarter, Joel, you sat
on a lot and get this. You have to play
with the twos as well. That's how it's gonna go
for Joel embiid. Hey. Coming up next, we have two
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big stories that broke tonight in Major League Baseball. One
is Shoheo tani I Fieri elected the mayor of Flavortown unanimous. Oh. Yeah, No,
there was no doubt. I mean, I mean he ran
on a post. Yeah, I don't think there was. I
didn't even see another name.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
On it might have been a write in, Yeah, there
might have been a Jeff Morrow fan. Alex Garner Shelley,
you know, your love affair with her work and.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Antonio la mayor of Flavortown.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Like, think about how much someone staging a coup is
with Flavor.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Wouldn't that have been a great election day reality show
where Guy Fieri has to run for mayor of Flavor
toown and all these chefs are running against him and
there's some kind of competition every week. I like that
to be the mayor of Flavor. Just said something that
would rule it out, though, what's that you just said
he would have to run? Oh, that's a fair point.
He could stand. He could stand, or he could be
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like the President of Flavortown and he elects the mayor
of Flavortown and it's a competition to become the mayor. Yeah,
but now it's a whole branding thing.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
He's been mayor of Flavortown so long, that's kind of
a part of his identity.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I think you can kick him upstairs at this point,
the governor of mayor Flavortown. Come on, he's the president
of Flavortown.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
That's what everybody except bladder back in the day.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
No, I like that. Antonio Lafosso could be the mayor
of flavor Town. I think that would work. I work
pretty well sergeant at arms in Flavortown. I like that. Yeah, yeah, sure,
whole thing undershare, a whole royal court. It looks like
the end of one of the Lord of the Rings movies.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
But he's sitting thrones with staff and we're all the
orcs doing over there.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Ad protection their muscle. That's all they are, their muscle.
Uh So, let's keep working. And the one thing I
can tell you is we're likely not going to get
a winter tonight. To listen to us, that's all. And
listen to us, and we're just doing our thing. We're
talking sports, we're having fun. Harmon decided to wear a
black T shirt and a black skull cap like he's
in a rap battle. Uh So he's all ready for tonight.
(41:22):
You're wearing a Syracuse shirt a known as Tuesday. Yeah, exactly, awesome. No,
but you're really you're you're you're wearing I wore this yesterday. Yeah,
but you were in here, but you wore you wore
a black skull cap and a T shirt and shorts,
Like like, the bottom of you is cold, but the
bottom of you is fine, is hot, but yet as
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you go up you get hotter, so you have to
wear a wool hat but you're wearing shorts. Yeah, okay, yeah,
because that doesn't make sense. I couldn't find the ball
cap and then I wore this. I gotta say, Michigan
swing state. But going back to Michigan, like one of
the most popular outfits that I go back there is this,
and I can't believe it's unique to Michigan. But I
can't tell you how many times to go back and
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in the middle of winter, Like we'll go back at
Christmas time and I'll go to like Meyer or one
of the grocery stores whatever, and someone is wearing and
I'm gonna I'm gonna go top to bottom. They're wearing
a Michigan University of Michigan skull cap. Because every third
person wears Universe, it's a Michigan skull cap. A bulky
down jacket. Uh, maybe it's unzipped unzipped long basketball shorts
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like Fab five era. Yeah, a basket and Timberland boots.
Oh and that said, that's a very popular out. I'm like,
how is that? But yet I that's what I an,
errand real quick, Yeah, that's what it is. Zero degrees. Yeah,
but I buy I buy By basketball shorts on. But
at zero degrees, I'll put my jacket on. That doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Yeah, this literally was. I didn't see a ball cap
when I went to Grambling.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
All right, so okay, just make it. And I went
for a walk with the dog very so this was
with me.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I will say it is kind of rap Battle or
early morning Rocky Balboa in one of the first two movies,
going for a run around walking at about ten after six,
it was it was a little bit of a chill
in the air. Uh so, hey, big day for football,
Stop judging me. I'm just big day in college football,
big day in the NFL at the trade dead libel
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more the trade deadline coming up in a few minutes.
But two big baseball headlines. One sho Hao Tani surgery
for his shoulder that he injured in the World Series
against the Yankees. The dislocation has now been repaired by
world famous surgeon doctor Neil Ela Trosch. How about that
there was He's the one that put Aaron Rodgers achilles
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back together and say, hey, you're good to go in
a week.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Build a bigger, faster show. Remember that story last year?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Yeah, so fast to be back so fast? Now it
looks like, oh, could have taken some more time to
get ready. Did they have a time turner?
Speaker 3 (43:58):
So like we all lived, you know, just three weeks,
but it was really nine months.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I don't know. Now here's the thing, and this is
what I this is. This is where this becomes a
bigger story, right, Otani? At some point, I don't know
how much you can expect to see him pitch, because yes,
he's coming back from two UCL surgeries already, right, so
he's not even thirties at two UCL surgeries. How much
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longer can the guy really expect to throw? Now you
throw in an injury in his non pitching arm that
he's gonna have to rehab from. It's not known if
that's gonna cut him back. But when it comes to
to arm injuries and shoulder injuries like these are bad
ones that he has had and so you know, I
know the dog and it look, if you're gonna if
you go fifty five to fifty five every year, it
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doesn't matter. But you know, the Dodger signed him with
thoughts of he's gonna pitch at some point for us.
Now I say, I just don't know, like like, I
don't know that I would even have him come back
as a starter. I would have him come back as
a closer. You know, when there's less stress, there's less torque,
you're pitching every couple of day, and there's a rule
that you don't pitch back to back days. You still
keep him in the in the lineup as being a
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designated hitter. I just can't see Shoho Tani going through
the rigors of being a starting pitcher for the next
few years and staying healthy and staying out there, and
you still need him in the lineup. So you have
to you have to protect him as far as that goes,
and say, okay, two bad elbow injuries. He started throwing
at the end of this year, not well enough to
throw in the playoffs. Now you don't know, does this
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throw his his rehab off because he needs to keep
throwing to be ready for spring training, and you know
that's now that's now out because who knows how long
he can't throw for. Not that it's gonna affect you
coming back, but now your throwing program is now off.
I just I when I look at Otani, I go
if I was the Dodgers, I would say, you know what,
You're gonna be a closer and this is gonna be unbelievable,
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and the excitement level when you come in a game
is gonna be awesome, and it's just gonna be the
next level thing for you. And you're gonna DH every day.
You're not gonna play the field because now with a
couple of injuries like this, you don't want him getting
hurt in the field. But if he DHS every day
and then he comes in, it's also easy. Okay, well
he's dhing, but we lose him to the ninth thinning.
But that's okay. He's coming in to close the game,
So it's okay if you lose that position for what
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however you want to do it. But that's a like
like that seems to me to be the best source
of future for Otani is that, yeah, be a closer.
Not only does that help you extend, maybe he can
close for ten years. Right. Eckersley close until his late
thirty at the mid mid career change from starting Pittuer
to closer. John Smolt's the same thing. His arm was hurt,
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he couldn't do it so much. Went from starting Pittuer
to closer and look how good, how good he was.
He was lights out. Like if I'm the Dodgers, I
think it's a no brainer to say, hey, you're gonna
close for us. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
I think the other part to it is, since all
that money is deferred, right, we're still looking at the
next couple of years.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Or two million, two million, two million.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
It's not like you're we have to force him back
into the rotation because we paid all this money that
precludes us from doing something else.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
You're in bonus.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
You're you're making profit off him, hand over fist right now,
not that you were short of money at any point.
Just take a painting, sell it, and a way we go.
But the idea being that you're not hamstrung there at all,
and you can go into the marketplace. We've already seen
reports of Snell and all these other guys that potentially
are there, and we'll see what the contracts become, right
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player options and all of that being declined. That was
part of the subplots of all of this. But for
SHOWEO Tani, I mean, this is the injury of weekend
warriors and dads everywhere right sla and moms to that
man slinging kids over your shoulders, throwing them in the
pool for the backflips, whatever, and it's like torn labor
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many there. There was an epidemic of this in Major
League Baseball actually a few years ago. That became the
injury dajure looked much like the Achilles injury suddenly in football,
left and left and right. But you're in the best
position of all. You're not forced to make a decision
short term about your rotation with him, because that is
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a bonus territory. And given the attrition of the Dodgers'
pitching staff the last several years, you know you have
to go out into the marketplace and add arms. You've
got a few guys that are coming back that you
hope to remember. We didn't even talk about it a lot.
As they won the World Series. You were still coming
off of two guys that you expected to be parts
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of your rotation in Urias and Bauer who were disqualified
from contention to even beyond your roster that had big,
big expectations to be thirty start guys.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
So all of that to say, some of those guys
are coming back off the injury, some of those young guys.
And for Otani, you're in bonus territory if he's physically
able to give you a start on occasion, sure, but
if you can go to closer, as we've seen with
how they managed their bullpen, that doesn't even need to
be one guy anymore. Exit out, bout of Fresca, Exit
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swalling down the Jason Smizer with Mike Harmon. Now from
show heo t to the latest with Juan Soto, who
is going to own the off season with the daily
story of where he's going to go is. He very
famously opened up his free agent negotiation five minutes after
the World Series ended. And I don't mean like a
metaphorical no. It was about five minutes after the game ended.
He said, yeah, all thirty teams, no, no, no, give him
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a little credit.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
Was a little bit later, okay, because he did watch
the Dodgers celebrate and he sat in the dugout sulking
because he watched them ce.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Ten minute cooling off period. Then okay, here he says, yeah,
I'm open to all thirty teams. Uh. Here he is
talking about exactly what is ahead for him in the
off season. Show me the money very very quick today.
That was good. That was a very quick sound bite.
Walking out of his meeting today because he met with
he and Scott Boris's agent met with Brian Cashman, did
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he just make the money sign and keep walking. The
interesting companion to this is that Brian Cashman Yankees GM
said that he met with Scott Boris about so said,
I'll meet with Scott as many times. He wants to
about Juan Soto. We love him, want to keep him,
but also about Pete Alonzo, who is a free agent.
And if we lose one Soto, you take our guy,
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will take your guy. So there's a lot of gangsmanship
going on here because Alonzo is a free agent too.
How sad would it be to see the polar bear
in a Yankee pinstripe? Though, if we get one Soto,
I'd be okay with it. But here's the thing, It's
not gonna happen. Okay, I'm telling you It would be
the most unlikely and shocking Yankee headline of my lifetime,
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of my lifetime if they let one Soto go to
the Mets. There's certain rubicons you don't cross, and losing
a superstar who's twenty six years old to the team
you share the same city with is not happening. Not
in New York, all right, happen here. Angels now sit
kind of share the well, don't really share, We're right,
or oh, you guys go take Otani. If Juan Soto
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had a huge desire to go play for the Mets,
I would say, it's different. But Otani wanted to be
a Dodger, So what were you gonna do? Were you
gonna stop him? No, you couldn't. One Soda just wants
to go reason to get paid the most money, and
whatever Steve Cohen offers him, the Yankees are gonna say,
we're gonna give you more. We are not losing you
to the Mets. Brian Cashman, because I know Brian Cashman
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for the last fifteen years, it's been he's deathly afraid
of any time losing headlines to the Mets, losing players
to the Mets. He wouldn't make a trade for Jacob
de Grom. Do you want to give up Gary Sanchez
and and uh who else? It's that now, he's not
even Miguel Andrewharp And like I remember his famous phrase,
I gotta walk around this town. He is never never
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going to allow a star player with that kind of
life left on his career to go to the Mets
where they got it, where every day he's got to
wake up and see the headlines and see highlight. It's
just not gonna happen. It maybe be a weird way
for me to say that, but trust me, I know
the Yankees, I know how they operate. I know Brian Cashman.
That's not gonna happen. He's not gonna get a Mets
can do all the Mets can do well. He oh,
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he could get outbid by somebody else. If somebody else
comes in and says, hey one, here's one Okay, we'll
lose you, but we're not losing you to the Mets.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
But just not just from a dollar perspective. Yeah, he
will not lose to them. And that's all Scott Boris wants,
because that's that's really the the crux of the argument.
Does Juan Soda want something else, because everybody's gonna kick
the tires, the Cubs, the Dodgers. There's no question you're
gonna look around and see, you know what the asking
price is what he wants. Don't forget from the pitching side.
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Going back to the Otani talk, you've got Roki Sasaki,
the young fireballer that that make him over. And given
the fact that Yamamoto and show hey.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
Are already there.
Speaker 3 (52:42):
Hey, come on in. This is a great organization. So
there's another picture that jumps in. So they're maybe they're
not in contention for Sodo, but yeah, the loss to
the Mets would only really be if Sodo tells Boris,
all right, the money's one thing, but this this and
this about stern Zy versus cash Man or whatever else.
See what I did there? Yeah, but does the Soto
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strike he was that guy?
Speaker 1 (53:03):
No, that's right.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
No, that's the thing, right, since he's already got a title,
he's already got his reputation, his history, et cetera, that
it would seem to be a more a mercenary.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
What are you paying me all the stuff? I see? Oh,
the Mets get one, so to get one, So what
they'll do is drive the price up. They'll drive that's
all they're gonna do is drive the price up. It'll
just be like Yamamoto last year at the Dodgers. Hey,
you're offering him three hundred twenty five million. Okay, Dodgers,
you're gonna match. Great, We're going to the Dodgers like
that's all. He's gonna do it like Kirk Cousins did
do the Jets