Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Greenings.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Welcome inside the biggest night of the year in the NBA.
It is the final night of group play for the
Emirates Cup. Wow, and I am just waiting with baited
breath for the Knicks to close out this one twenty
one one oh three win over Orlando. Hang the banner,
get that one seed in Groop, ay.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
For the Emirates.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Go.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Hey, man, you gotta take every little step on the
road to an actual championship. Find your wins on a
given Tuesday in early December, just like you did. Wake
it up this morning, he said, damn it, I made
it to another day. Let's go. It's an e Cup night,
Mike Harmon, Come on, man, it's a different night. It's
just a different night. Well, we got the cup.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Nights are different.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, you got a huge, resounding Nicks win. I mean
they know what's at stake. I mean I'm telling nothing
to chance. I mean the cup, the cup, man, is
the cup?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
That's come on.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
If you gotta be cool, you gotta say e cup
is a big deal, right, Lakers won the first one.
Now you know, hey, this is a big deal, man.
This is kind of a dress rehearsal for the real thing.
Like that's why it's a big deal. Like if the
Knicks win this like, okay, it's a dress rehearsal for
the big NBA playoffs later on. Yeah, but Lebron told
me now it doesn't matter because he already won one.
He doesn't care.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Just is he just quitting in jail?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
No, just like when the Lakers won in twenty twenty,
he doesn't feel the need to win again. He's fine,
I won in twenty twenty. I don't care that nobody
cared this.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Tournament, does it? I won doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Meanwhile, Hey, how quickly can I open a bottle of
sham pain after the final buzzer? Lakers already won one?
This is this is the this is the new look,
and I gotta say, let's let's be honest. Let's let's
take We'll take better part of the next four hours
breaking down the E Cup level of play this year
versus the E Cup level of play a year ago.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's important. We'll go all the way through. We'll go
that great clarity is what we do.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
The floors, right, the floors have really taken a step
up this year, you know. I mean, the Knicks played
an entirely orange floor tonight. I'm a little surprised they haven't,
you know, had the inlaid led lights really come into
effect yet. That's you know, our in synchronization with the
music that they play, you know, defense and we get
like little swells to see what we can do with it.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean to make for a great televised attraction there.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
So again we will keep you updated on all the
big E Cup moments of the night time.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
May have a like a one.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Shining moment roll at the end gay all the great
things to all the great highlights, the one shining moment. Sure,
I think that's where that would give you the E
Cup level of experience that you need to have. We've
done a hell of a job selling the E Cup
in these opening moments of a show. Let me tell you,
because I think across the oh this one was an
E Cup game I didn't know for the New York Knicks,

(03:09):
Orlando Magic and all the other fine teams in the NBA.
I'm jim nantz enjoy one shining moment as we look
back at the E Cup that was Bullues tipped and
Jalen Brunson with a coast to coast drive.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
There you are. Look at Nicola Yo Kicch running for
your life, big Bodega from Free. You're a shooting stuff.
I could just do it like that. There are other
players need to do it. Do it. Nicks highlights. The
Knicks couldn't make the Double E Cup.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's that's not that your Brixcuse me, Adam Silver has
the Double E Cup for next year.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Okay, that's that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's gonna when the Lakers are already working on the
logo for it.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's fine. The E Cup, that don't don't. That's behind
the pay we can Yellow Cup. We we can't.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
We can't pull the top off us.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
That's all. That's a whole other thing. NBA only fans.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh that's it. Can you earn forty three million dollars?
Let's see you see the new doublele cup on only fans?
But what is it?

Speaker 3 (04:08):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Let me look, we have today what we knew what
was coming. And this is why we have a twelve
team playoffs so we could have the mass anarchy and
arguments that are going on right now about the twelve
team college football bracket projection. The latest college football playoff
poll is out. The number one through four seeds right now, Oregon, Texas, SMU,

(04:29):
and Boise State. Of course, you know the top four
conference winners get the top four seeds. Put a pin
in that. But the big controversy here is Alabama is
in at number eleven over Miami, who was number twelve.
No I remember because Q show, Yeah, exactly right. We
killed Miami. Syracuse killed Miami. You planted that flag. We

(04:52):
dealed Miami to the heart. We did a hurricane. We
just came out with that big machete in the woods
like Jason Modes are gonna kill Miami. Come on in,
come on in with your imbis, Come on in, come on,
ask got one of our reporters.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Come on, we're gonna kill you, Mario crystal Ball.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
You guys put out a thing of roasting him on
a spit yet or what? But all of this just
a cord just eating wings and ripping him right off
the mascot and eating. But watched it earlier this year,
the Year of Living Dangerously from Miami. Did not think
that the final I don't know blow would come from
the Syracuse Orange, particularly in the game where we saw

(05:32):
our friend Pete Futech immediately going, boy, I really picked
this one wrong. And then in the end he was right,
how about it. We're gonna have him next hour on
the show. It'll be fine. But here's look, here's the thing. Look,
here's the thing, Jets. It doesn't matter. We're a football
school and big bodega. As if you couldn't tell by
that tonight Syracuse when our football lost by fifty to Tennessee.

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We're a football school. Yeah, Wildcats lost. Ohoo, we killed Miami.
We ended Miami. No you did. Then you resurrected not
only Dabo Swiney, but you also put Alabama in the
number on dovens. So now because of teams that can
win and rise up, Clemson can win and move up
their number seventeen. They're in the AC Championship game. The
way things stand, Miami is out because the College Football

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Playoff Committee has already said Alabama and Miami teams that
aren't going to play, are not going to lose their ranking.
There's no way they can lose their right now. Obviously,
depending on if other teams move ahead of them, that could,
but they're not going to lose their ranking to the
fact where next week Miami will leap frog Alabama. So
Miami is out. They'll be out of the playoffs because again,
once everything is set, the teams that the teams that

(06:38):
are outside the top twelve that are going to win
a conference title, are going to move ahead and move
ahead of them. So Alabama's ahead of Miami. Now, first thing,
let's take care of this first. This is this is
the big one because Syracuse ended Miami. We ended Miami.
That's so great. Uh, I'm okay with this. I'm okay
with that.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Going to make a shirt and walk around the rest
of the holiday.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Look, my Twitter avatar is the upside down of Miami
Hurricanes logo.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Man, we ended Miami. We ended this.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
See, you're part of the problem between the horns and
now now flipping the logo.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
No no no no no.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
No no no a rebellion.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
That's been a thing for Syracuse for at the big
restaurant on campus, the varsity. Uh, we put all little
flags of the teams we play up on up above
where we get food from. And if we beat them,
it's a big thing where they turn it upside down,
the stays upside down for the season. If they beat us,
their flag stays right side up. So you know, that's
been a whole thing. So you know, now here, this

(07:37):
big win, maybe the biggest win series. They beat Clemsing,
but we were four and eight that year, so what
what kind of win? Did that turn out to be
probably the biggest win Syricus had in twenty years. Yeah,
I'm going upside on my head, but also huge magnified
by the fact that McCord had the game he did
while the Ohio State loses. So it makes him look
I mean, he's a king, Like there should be a
statue look.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
At me, I'm the King Essential New I like that.
The specificity of Central New York.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I'm okay with Alabama being ahead of Miamiami being out.
Why if you have three losses and Alabama's losses. The
Oklahoma loss is really bad. That's the one that sticks out,
going Oh man, yeah, I get that. Maybe you fell
asleep for Vanderbilt.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
But the Giants right the course of the year though,
they were surprised. But it's still three losses.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
And now the way it looks like three losses is
where the line of demarcation is going to be set
for the polls. But I'm okay with it, because if
you have three losses, you have to have a really
good resume outside of that to get in the playoffs.
And you know what Alabama does. They have three wins
over the teams that were ranked, including Georgia, who's number
five overall. They have a resume. Miami doesn't quite have

(08:45):
the resume that they have.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
If they are a one loss team and they go
in and beat Syracuse, okay, great, but they lost. And
so a two loss Miami team and a three loss
Alabama team that's playing a more difficult schedule, played more
teams in the top twenty five, Alabama deserves to be
in there ahead of Miami. And I get that that.
Mario Cristo Baal is try an argument because it's a

(09:09):
very sophisticated argument of hey, in our conference, we won
ten games. How many how many people can do that?
How many teams can say that? And across the board. Yeah,
I understand that, But you're also at a time where
you're letting in mid major conference champions because I'm sorry,
but the Big Twelve is a mid major conference. Now
Mount West is a mid major conference. It's college basketball playoff,

(09:29):
come to uh, come to the college football. So you're
letting in these teams. So I'm gonna try to find
an argument that works for me. Oh, ten wins in
my conference, Well, all right, obviously people are gonna argue
about the other teams getting in the seeds they're getting
in the Mountain West and the Big Twelve. But to
take care of the Miami Alabama thing is you know, yeah,
I mean, everybody looks at their resume now and and

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and when you're when you're going to be going back
and forth now because the because the resume is so important,
it's less important if you're in the top four. Because
if you're in the top four, hey, as long as
you win all your games, you're getting in, right Power
five or now Power three conference you're getting in, But
once you get it out to twelve, you're gonna be

(10:11):
battling with teams and say, hey, yeah, you lost a
couple of games, how's the rest of your schedule. You
can't say, well, we're playing three teams that we're just
gonna warm up with and not play anybody who is good,
because if you're gonna get in, you need to have
that resume that says, hey, we beat some other teams
that are really good. It's just like you know, like
I mean, it's more and more like college basketball. Hey,

(10:32):
what's the resume? Say, boy, this team has ten losses.
Can we let them in?

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah? But look, they beat Duke on.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
The road, they beat North Carolina at home, they beat
Michiet whatever you want to say. So you need the
resume to get in. And Alabama has the resume over Miami,
who escaped for a long time. They lost two of
their last three games. I get it, yet as it
sucked to the ten and two team in the ACC,
isn't making it. Yeah, but you know, you gotta make
your conference championship game. They didn't do that, and you
let the door open for there to be an argument.

(10:58):
And that's where I come down. The second part of
why I'm okay with Alabama is because it's an argument
you would beat Syracuse. You're fine, don't worry about it.
But oh hey, we lost a couple of games. Look
at what we did, we won ten games. Yeah, but
you didn't play the teams Alabama did. I'm fine with
Alabama being as Florida A and m Ball State, yeah,
in in conference and then beating up on Florida State.

(11:20):
Clearly that didn't matter this year, and you lose two
of three down the stretch. Oh, by the way, we
didn't even mention the whole brand thing. Okay, this isn't
the you right, this isn't this isn't that just because
my deliver was on the sideline last weekend and everybody
else could come back as well. You could have a
damn class reunion and bring back every legend that ever

(11:41):
wore the uniform. It doesn't matter, right, Alabama still rates.
Obama still has a number of players at the collegiate level.
We know their names, right, we know and anticipate what
they're gonna do on the next level.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
So yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
The other is, if we're gonna be arguing, I mean,
you got three losses or two law is down the
stretch like we're not at the point. Once we get
to we're arguing about the number twelve team, I don't
really feel bad for you if you get left out
of that game. It's really hard to get too fired
up about that that last slot, because that's what we

(12:16):
do no matter what. We expand the playoff brackets too,
soas well that was someone's gonna get left out right somewhere,
someone's gonna say it's unfair, and yeah, they they'll make
their argument, right, they'll get it. Or your coaches, you'll
get your sid you'll get everybody in a room and
you'll go up on a white board and you'll make
your argument. We got ten wins, we did this, We

(12:36):
did this, and you'll go through everything. This is like
Scott Boris going around Huja League baseball. We were talking
about the first one of these and that's why people,
how is this going to It's the first one, So
I'm going to act just like the last ones have
been and how are we not getting in? I've got
a politic, my wigh in. But yeah, when when you're
talking about the top twelve, it's going to be oh yeah,
So Miami should have beat Syracuse.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Okay, that's just it, right.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
It's all data points that lead to the next iteration
and the next decision process. Here it is, they're they're
drawing from scratch and to James Franklin's point and from others.
You know, when you do have the opportunity to go
and throttle what is a highly heralded opponent, you need
to go do it right where there's some expectations and

(13:19):
you have to live up to them. So when we
see a big crushing loss or a narrow escape, you
know you're going to get a shrug of the shoulders
and it's not going to have the same weight. Yeah,
you won, succeed and proceed only really matters in the
NCAA tournament.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, but even if it was the U and they
were on top and they were undefeated, you lose the cues.
You're automatically discuss dude, we're a football school. Now we're
going to the nation. You lose the cues.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
To your point, it's the first year of this playoff.
It's the first year of the Fran Brown world. Yeah,
and so we don't know yet. And let me tell
you one thing. I'll tell you I'll tell you this.
He showered and this is.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
A fair point. Dude.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
He was just roasting Ryan Day on the radio today.
He was roasting Ryan Day because here's what I think is,
I look and I go had seriocus, have we just
beaten either Stanford or Boston College. We're on the cusp
of the playoff. Like, that's how great this playoff is? Right,
just to take it from you and I perspective and

(14:18):
blow it out there is that would you ever have
thought in a million years a year ago, is sitting
right here that I could sit here a year from
now and say, and here if I'd be saying, boy,
if we had just won one more game, we could
be in the playoff. But that's what's the best part
about this is that so many teams can say that, look,
you play in the other division in the Big Ten.
You could have a big run and win some sort

(14:38):
of crazy ass high breaker and get into the Big
Ten championship game. Oh man, if we had just won
one of those games where now at the imbalance scheduling, Hey,
this is a year we don't play in Michigan, Ohio
State and Wisconsin, we could wind up getting there. Like now,
the door is open for so many teams to dream
about the playoff, and that's why this is still such
a great thing, because yeah, okay, now it's open to

(14:59):
every again. A year, a year before this time, I
would never say that, but now here I am thinking
it's a possibility. And five more plays Lincoln Riley and
the US Trojans Colorado was was was one game away, right,
Illinois Missouri. I mean, all these teams was so so
many say hey, we have that dream.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Now, and that's why it's so great man.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
And now we get into the portal and let's go
exit out out of Fresco exit Swelling Dome. We have
more on the college football playoff because hey, we already
can see the changes that are absolutely going to happen
to the playoff for next year. We got that and
a big story out of Major League Baseball. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
What if I was doing the Last Christmas Challenge?

Speaker 6 (15:55):
Mary Mack, come on, you failed, You didn't tell me
before you're.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Not supposed to do. You know what you're supposed to know.
You can't just do that.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Look, I can do whatever I want, but you know
you're gonna get a lot people. Okay, cause look Martin,
Martin tells me what song? Well, Chris, you want to
not play? And I respect it. You did not tell
me what CHRISTMSNA.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
People are gonna be so pissed at you. They're gonna
be pissed at me, Nona, the host.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
You should I always ask you guys, Hey, what song
guys want to hear and not hear?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Blah blah blah. I didn't tell me.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
I listened to a sports station. I'm doing the last
Christmas Challenge and now I lose.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I'm out.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I'm out.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Not even the first week in December is out a
good run?

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Listen you you get on my studio. That the phrase
that pays.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Now, I'm telling you, Mary, just I'm telling people are
gonna be so pissed at you there pistol.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Well, they can get it on my studio too, Okay.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harman live from the
tire rack dot Com studio. Mary treating the studio like
it's the paint and she's big bodega.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
You don't come in here. You know, you gotta be careful,
you know, good bit?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Uh now, hey, before we get to all right, look,
the big change will be coming to the college football
playoff for next year, guaranteed. Uh big story out of
baseball this breaking in the last couple of hours.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
According to multiple reports, we will have a one.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Soto decision soon, could be as early as the beginning
of the Winter meetings, most likely definitively by the end
of the Winter meetings. Now Sunday is when the Winter
Meetings start, so we could have a one Soto decision
at the end of this week, but latest possibly by
next Thursday, which is the best news possible. And I

(17:39):
guarantee it again to go to go, Bill Maher. I
don't know this for a fact. I just know that
it's true. I guarantee you. With last year, the message
the team sent to Scott boris We're gonna let your
four guys sit out there in free agency until the
season starts.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Right.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
He had four big players nobody signed, and they sat
there till the end of the spring the or the
end of spring train and then had to sign Snell
Montgomery all. He had four guys out there that was
a message saying, you do not hold the cards anymore.
We are going to dictate what happens, and you better
get this message. And so now suddenly here's what could
be the beginning of the Wan Sodo sweepstakes. And you know,

(18:15):
you heard a lot of big grand standing by Scott
Boris a couple of weeks ago. This is going to
be a really long process with multiple rounds of bids
and all of this. And I guarantee you again without knowing,
I only know that it's true. I guarantee you. Team said, hey,
we know sooner we're out, Like we're not coming back,
We're moving on. You are not going to sit here
and hold us all hostage for the next month and
a half. We're gonna have we love one soda, we

(18:37):
love one, but we have a decision soon or we're out.
And I guarantee you. All the teams said that, they said,
you're gonna do this soon because I like how he
said today he was at the Blake Snell press conference
signing with the Dodgers and said, oh no, there's no
time tail or anything. Yeah, you're just trying to say face,
I guarantee you he was whatever what intermediary he was
going through with back channels. This decision happened soon or

(18:59):
we are not going to be involved, that we are
moving on to something else, just because no team wants
to be held hostage anymore. Look, he had his run
as the agent. I ran everything. But now even though
you have the best free agent that we're gonna see
maybe out of the last five years of another five
years from now, Yeah, teams are gonna say, you know what, Yeah,
it's okay, we'll spend our money someplace else. But a
lot of it comes down to you know, what does

(19:20):
it mean for your bottom line? And is it pushing
you over the edge to win?

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Right?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
And when we're talking about the dollars that this contract
for soda will be, I mean he's only twenty six.
I mean we're talking a decade. Is what the the
lengths that we've been hearing? And then how many opt outs,
how many buy you know options? Do you have no
trade clauses and everything else that make it more complicated?

(19:48):
And look at those guys from last year. Snell only
made twenty appearances last year. Right, just like we said,
it would be an odd situation. Obviously, had the opportunity
to go back into the market, it plays Dodgers sign him,
give him the long term deal.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Hey, it's your money.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
You have the opportunity to go and do so, and
we'll see, you know, if he goes against his history
of Hey, it's a contract season I pitched really well
versus ah, maybe I'm not. Because even in this case,
he knew he could go back into the marketplace and
it's not a very robust market. And that's the beauty
and leverage you have as a picture. But go back
to the Montgomery thing. He fired it boris right, and

(20:28):
then the ownership in Arizona called it the worst thing
they've ever done. They apologized to the fans for signing
that deal, and Montgomery's been very vocal about how that
all played out. So and look each team, and we've
been hearing what the match, the Yankees, five team.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
The Blue Jays are there.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
There's always the random team that suddenly is, you know,
standing on the corner shaking a kettle and begging you
for money. Why to get into it?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Now?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
The White Sox can't remember Tommy had Men's contract would
have been the second highest deal ever signed by a
White Sox player. Now, there's a rule that Major League
Baseball has that you can't sign a player to a
contract where the contract is worth more than the value
of the team, so that they are already he is eliminated.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Oh look at you, smart guy.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
You get a new owner and alls and look out
jest yea, I know, yeah, yeah, you ain't done crap yet.
The last signings you made were terrible. So there they
went and won World Series elsewhere. But to this, yeah,
you can't have it.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Linger.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
I'm on the other side though, like I wanted to
linger because the hate watching of the process and Boris
and everything has some value in the winter media. Yeah,
but there's certain things, and you know, there's just certain
things that I would like to see the chass and
have the stomach for, and certain things I don't. It
just well, it's that only because one of your is

(21:50):
your team is in a mix. You'd think I would
be going crazy about this better, but that you want
it done because you want to know are we in
a we out? Am I buying a Soto jersey? Am
I telling Wall to buy me a Sodo jersey for Christmas?

Speaker 3 (22:02):
That's really what you're you're thrust.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
It's it's honestly, it's more about this is the process
we've seen with Boris for the last few years, and
it's gummed a lot of things up and I'm done
with it.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
I'm just done.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Just like everything else in in society and pop culture,
when we're done with something, we're done with something, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Kind of done. I'm done.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I'm done with Scott Boris and this all, well, you
want this guy. Here's what he means for parking. Here's
what he means for concessions.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
I'm done with that. I'm done. That's so two thousand.
I'd like to I'd like to see each of the
line items. I'm done. Here's what he means. I would
walk out. I just walk out. Here's what you're gonna sell. Okay,
you know what I'm leaving.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
I'm leaving this bobblehead nights for the backup middle endfielder.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
I mean, come on, no, I would feel I would.
I would look this is how I feel.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
And again, my team is gonna come down to the
final two like that, whether it's that he's gonna go
to the Mets or they're gonna use the metsas leverage
to go someplace else.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
I'm fine.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
I'm also fine to be quite honest to tell you,
to tell you a little bit different thing and hear
about Sodo is that if you don't get Sodo, there's
no reason to be upset because there's lots of things
that are gonna that are gonna crop up that you're
gonna say, is this worth a six hundred million dollar contract?

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Right?

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Like, is he's still gonna question? He's still gonna be
the same player. Yeah, And when you give him six
hundred million.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Dollars, just overall, what what's the opportunity cost of that
type of contract, Because if he's not taking a bunch
of deferred money, which we've seen more creativity. And again
go back to Benia, go back to some of those
over the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
The Dodger in more debt than that than the the
franchise has worked like ten billion dollars. They owe more
of that in contracts. But go back to the old mockery. Uh,
and then you see the reality. It's like, wait, they're
still playing paying Ken Griffy Jr. They're still paying Bobby Benia.
Benia for whatever reason, it gets a laughable thing. He's
got a steady income stream every year. But it's more
embarrassing for the Mets. But he was the first guy, no,

(24:01):
no expect for the Mets. It allowed them to do
something like that like David Wright and all that stuff
that folks conveniently forget that part of the narrative. Likewise,
the Dodger's doing this now, it's not new, it's not revolutionary.
But for Wan Soto, if he's not going to do that, well,
now you're thinking about what the rest of your roster
build is. Is he putting you over or would you

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rather go get another arm or two that go along
with an outfielder who's slightly who's a twenty and eighty
five guy. You're gonna be nervous about the contract the
entire time. And it's not like Juan Soto puts up
Miguel Cabrera in his prime numbers. He's not hitting fifty
home runs and knocking one hundred and forty runs. He's
a phenomenal player and probably the most talented guy that's

(24:44):
going to be a free agent in the ten year period.
Go back the last five years and another five years.
So you're always going to be concerned about what his
level of commitments going to be after he gets paid.
But I'll even go a step further because we talked
about this a little bit too. If one soda was
so sought after, how is he going to be twenty
six years old on his fourth team?

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Right?

Speaker 1 (25:05):
As great as he is, and I understand, Oh, I
want hit free agency. This is a This is a
seven year long game that you're running to get to
free agency. The Nationals would have given him a lot
of money. Padres would have given him a lot of money.
Yankees would have given a lot of money. No, we're
getting a free agency for this. It was a long
game for this. Why are the Yankees? Why doesn't it
seem like the Yankees are doing anything and everything possible

(25:27):
to land Juan Soto. Why has Aaron Judge said, yeah,
I really talked to me, knows I love him and
we'd love to have him here. Why is this not
happening right? Why is suddenly this guy who's so great
on his fourth team. When Bryce Harper became a free agent,
this is my first team, the Nationals. Okay, now I'm
moving on and now here I am Philadelphia. Two teams
for his career. Again, when you're twenty six, twenty seven

(25:47):
and you're on your fourth team. I got to raise
a red flag for a second ago, Uh, why is this?
Why is nobody else wanted to Padres? They gave away
They were giving money away to guys crazy when they're
twenty one years old, they get to he's three hundred
million dollars. They would have given that to Soto, Yet
they chose to trade him, right, The Yankees could have
tried to say, yet they chose to let him hit
free agency after getting him last year. The Nationals could

(26:09):
have kept them, yet they chose to trade him. This
is the guy you're gonna build around. If this is
a guy you're gonna build around, why do teams keep
trading him?

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Right?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
I mean that's a that's a whole thing, and that
that's a that's a big concern and a red flag.
It's it's kind of the vein of why did nobody
go to bow Callahan's birthday party? But it's why is
he on his fourth team if he's twenty to twenty?
But I used to ask you that about your guy,
Cesspitus back in the day, right where he was bouncing around.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
It's like he's so great.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
He's a thirty ninety guy, but why is he going
from Oakland and Detroit and here and there? And he's
a mat and you know red Sox or whatever, Like
there's a reason for soda. And part of it is
the Scott Boris. In fact, I have no doubt. Like
teams to a degree, we're just like, you know what,
I'm done with this. We've got other guys we want
to talk to. Yeah, you're just going to get an
opportunity costs of you know, how much is he really

(26:55):
giving us in the win column when we can go
disperse this cash two starters, shore up our bullpen, add
another outfielder, whatever. And it doesn't take away from his greatness.
It's just how you're building a squad. He's one guy.
If he has a bad year, he is about okay.
That's a lot of money to bring into to bring

(27:15):
to somebody that says, okay, what are you gonna give
us on a yearly basis?

Speaker 3 (27:18):
And are you going to be that?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
So far, it's worked out great for Philadelphia, right Bryce
Harper has had them a year playoff slash World series threat.
But that you know, that's one guy, not every guy
is like that. You look at the the annals of
all these big long contracts. I mean, my god, the Tigers,
they were awful forever and then finally they get out
from Cabrera's contract. Now they're good, right, I mean they

(27:41):
draft to come. Well, they hit on a couple of
guys that were a little lower in the night order
and couldn't go out and signed free. Was so hard
to do, hard on guy. Look, I mean look at
Anaheim and this contracts they signed where you get three
or four years of quality production, but it still wasn't
getting over because you were missing half a squad, you'd
haven't a pitching staff. So it's great you got pool,

(28:01):
Hooles said, for a couple of years with Trout, and
then you add Otani all of this, Oh it's fantastic,
and then you sign rendon't but that to say, you know,
it's it doesn't guarantee anything. But the trend towards this
deference of salary, and I think if you really want
to build a winner and you're selling a long term

(28:23):
vision on these deals, that's the only way it's gonna work,
because otherwise you're gonna be hamstrung in the short short term,
and if it's not bringing the ancillary money like Otani
would have paid for himself even if you were giving
him full value of the annual of his contract because
of the sales, the sponsorships, the partnerships and everything that
flowed through. Do you have the same thing with Juan Soto. No, Look,

(28:45):
it's gonna end soon, which is great. Teams can move
on if you get him, great. If not, it's not
a big deal, right, I mean, really that that's kind
of where you're at.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
You resigned that he's gonna be a blue jay.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
No if it goes, but great, he goes, It's fine,
spend money someplace else, right, Like it's that that's the
way this should be approached and in the right way.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
So why money might spend a little easier in Canada?
There's only one dumb team that's going to give him
seven hundred million. Who's going to do that? And that's.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Hey, well, I don't know. We just gave thirty four
million dollars to Frankie, so uh.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sportsman man who designed every NBA E Cup
floor that teams are playing on this season.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's Steve Desaige twisted mind.

Speaker 7 (29:28):
That explains my eyesight currently. My goodness, as you guys
were talking baseball. By the way, there is a Hall
of Fame Classic Era Committee that meets this Sunday at
the Winter meetings in Dallas. They're considering an eight man
ballot of contributors before nineteen eighty, which means Dave Parker
is up for the Hall of.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Fame this weekend.

Speaker 7 (29:45):
He's one of the eight finalists along with Ken Boyer,
eleven time All Star Dick Allen, Louis ti On, four
time twenty game winner is up for the Hall. Steve
Garvey's on the list, Tommy John and former Negro leaguers
John Donaldson and Harris Again this Sunday, that committee will
be meeting. Anyone chosen from that committee gets into the

(30:06):
Hall next July, along with the players voted in by
the writers. The Red Sox are signing reliever Earaldas Chapman,
who turns thirty seven in February to the NBA scoreboard, Grizzlies,
with nine minutes to go, lead at Dallas one oh
three ninety two despite thirty one points from Luca donsich
Sons at home or a head sixty seven sixty three
over the Spurs. Oklahoma City sent Utah to a fifth

(30:29):
straight loss. In fact, the Utah Jazz had twenty nine turnovers.
Okse won the game one thirty three to one oh six.
NBA players of the Month include Oklahoma City Shay Gilgis
Alexander in the West and Boston's Jason Tatum in the East.
New York ended Orlando's six game winning streak one twenty
one to one oh six. Toronto and Milwaukee with wins.

(30:51):
Milwaukee Bucks have won seven straight. Philadelphia won at Charlotte
one ten, one oh four Paul George twenty nine points,
eight assists. Charlotte has lost six straight, and Cleveland sent
Washington to a fifteenth consecutive loss, one eighteen to eighty seven.
In men's college basketball, at number three Tennessee, the undefeated
Balls wiped the floor with Syracuse ninety six to seventy.

(31:14):
Was the final on FS one Villanova over fourteenth ranked
Cincinnati sixty eight to sixty and among the games going
right now, Michigan leads at number eleven Wisconsin fifty four
fifty two with under eight minutes left, to college football.
Oregon is still number one in the new playoff rankings.
Texas is now number two, Penn State is number three.

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Notre Dame is number four, but it cannot get a
first round by because as an independent, it cannot be
a conference champion, so the Irish would be hosting a
first round game this month. SMU is number eight in
the country number ten ranked. Boise State could get a
first round by because currently it is ranked higher than
any Big Twelve Conference team Arizona State's number fifteen. By

(31:56):
the way, on Fox TV. This Friday night, Boise State
host number twenty unl in the Mountain West Championship game.
Houston Texans linebacker as He's Al Shire was suspended three
games for the illegal hit on Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence
and the fights afterward.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Eagles Tita in Dallas. Goddard is week to week with
a knee injury.

Speaker 7 (32:14):
He's not expected to play this weekend, according to NFL Network.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Back to You, Thank You, Steve, The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
We got more baseball coming up.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Next hour because we have to get to the Golden
at bat story, but coming up next, already we're getting
set for what is going to be the first twelve
team college football playoff. And because college football changes every
five minutes, we'll tell you the two changes that will
absolutely come to the playoff for next year. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
The Q's killed Miami and they're not in the playoff
and Kyle the Court is the King. Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
I thought you.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
Would stop doing that just because it's Christmas, Like, come
on now.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh way, do we get more Andy Williams next hour
when you play Happy Holiday?

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Not doing that Happy Holidays, Happy Holiday week around Christmas.
It's the season. It started right after Halloween.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Novis once saying why can't every day be like Christmas?
What a wonderful world this would be? And it's true.
So the first cover you Grinch, the first college Football
Playoff poll came out tonight. Baxter, you just bark twice
if you're in Milwaukee. First college Football Playoff Poll came
out tonight the fourth sorry not the Lake, but the

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latest witch is the penultimate one, which tells you that
right now Alabama is in at number eleven. Miami is
not going to be in No matter what, Miami has
been left out because of the way teams are going
to win when their titles move up, and Alabama will
be in Miami even though they're twelve right now, they'll
wind up being They'll wind up getting left out. Now,

(34:02):
there's a lot of controversy already around this, should Miami
be in? Should Alabama be in? Alabama's got three losses?
What about all these teams that are winning their way in,
teams like SMU or Arizona State, They're going to win
their way in from the Mountain West and win their
way in from the big twelve. But I can already
tell you, with this controversy going on and how the playoff,

(34:24):
the new playoff has been received in the last month,
the two big changes that are going to come to
the playoff for next year. Number One, the top four
seeds are going to be the top four rated teams.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
We're not going to have this.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
If you win a conference, you're guaranteed to get one
of the top four seeds. That's not going to fly anymore.
They're not going to put a team in the top
four seed that well, we have to because that was
the rule. When there may be the tenth best team
in the playoff, that's gonna be one change you'll get
in the playoff. Hey, if you win your conference, you're
guaranteed to get in, but you're not going to guarantee

(34:59):
to be one of the top four seeds. Unfortunately, this
isn't a ten year deal like a CBA that you
have to decide whether you want to strike.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Here.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
They seem to make it up, as with every other rule,
as they go along. We're gonna try this and then
let's see how it's received, how it plays out. Do
we get any level of satisfaction with how the field
plays out? What's the social media response? What are our
television ratings? All those important metrics by which they decide

(35:29):
when they go back to the table. All right, one
needs to change. Yeah, I mean, look, and that's what
it is. And it's only it's only natural to say, Okay,
we're doing this for the first time. Granted you have
all kinds of time to think through it and think
through all different peoplestations of stuff considered.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
We don't do any of that.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
I mean, look ACC saying hey can you can you
reconsider our ranking? We're filing it appeal. It's like, hey,
you know you only gave me partial credit on this
essay question. I really think I hit the crux of
the argument right here in paragraph three. I'd like the
extra two points because my grade point average is suffering here.
That's what we're happening. There is no sport that is
more Let's throw it up against the wall and see

(36:07):
what sticks more than college.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Right, So it's built for change.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
So the first thing that's gonna be the first when
you see a team that is up there at the top,
because you know SMU wins the ACC. Whatever it is,
that's going to go away. Right, we have the top
four teams as they're ranked, will be in the playoff
and they'll be hosting games. Now, the other change is this,
and this is legit, and this is Wayne Kiffin brought
this up three weeks too early because not now he
brought bad karma out of himself. But the next change

(36:33):
is going to be if you make your conference championship game,
you automatically qualify for the playoff as well, because look
at the most unfair thing that could happen right now.
The AC title game is SMU and Clemson, right so
in SMU wins, that's look, SMU is the better team,
they should win. But this is not out out, it's
not outlands. I think Clemson can win the upset. So

(36:54):
Clemson wins, they get into the playoff. Now then it's
going to be a choice of hey, who does that
final playoff spot go to SMU at eleven and two
or Alabama at nine and three. And SMU is getting
penalized because they made the conference championship game. Alabama is
not playing and they're sitting at number eleven wherever they are.

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But SMU, by virtue of achieving more than Alabama, is
potentially going to be penalized because they played another game
and they happen to lose, And that's not fair. So
what you're gonna wind up seeing, I think, is that
twelve team playoff for the Power three conferences, for the

(37:37):
Big Ten, the ACC, the SEC, the top two team,
do you make it to the conference championship, you're guaranteed
to get into the playoff. Just to make it fair,
so you can't lose and get left out because it
really isn't fair. And then you're talking about four at
large seeds that come from outside of that, or the
rest of the seeds are the at largs coming from
outside of that, and you're on your other conference champion

(37:59):
that's going to get in there. Just still gonna see
a lot of what it looked like this year, except
you'll see the top four seeds change, and that if
you make the conference title game, you're gonna wind up
automatically qualifying for the playoff as well. SMU a two
and a half point favorite over Cleansing fifty six and
a half is your total. I was waiting for you
to add an extra caveat for anything Notre Dame does

(38:22):
that they now get back into the full consideration as
opposed to you know, we're here.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
We're on the outlier.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
We don't we're not a conference champion. We refuse to
join a conference, but damn it.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
We're Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
And when you have the and they have the cachet
this year, they're the number four two, they're not gonna
lose their ranking. Right we saw the playoff committee said
no one loses their ranking if they don't play the
next week, nor that they could be passed. Other teams
can pass, but other teams will have to move down.
Notre Dame's in the top four. Like Notre Dame is
in the top four, they're gonna sit there. They're gonna
host a playoff game. You know they're or sorry, they'll
be right outside. No, but that top point is that'll

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be right outside the top four. So they will host
a home playoff game in the first round. They will
get to do that. No one's gonna be able to
win and knock them out of that. That's the thing
that now it gets to expanded. If we're back on top.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Now we'd like consideration that we can be a top
four seed and not be left out of the and
holding the bag.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
They'll say, join a conference. Pick big a conference and
join pick go ahead, big a conference.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Anyone, we don't care. Just pick a conference and join it.
We don't care. Start your own conference.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Is there's been letter writing campaigns like their Andy Dufrain
for as long as I've been alive. Can you just
join the conference already? You play three of us, Yeah,
and you play all the service schools.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
I get it, and.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Then you've got your game against USC But come on,
come on, let's go now. But you could already see
those two changes coming next year. Eventually they'll get to
sixteen teams not too long from that. But those that do,
you make the conference title game to be fair, you
get in and they'll make sure the top four seeds
are not some you know, mid major getting a host,
getting a buy and hosting playoff games not gonna happen.

(39:58):
Reconsideration appeals process. We got more football on the way.
We have a big story out of the NFL that
has to do with Batman five here all the crazy
stuff that happened.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
How boring Hard Knocks was.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
But that was part of the deal, right. The Giants
gave us a bunch of gold without anticipating doing such
a lot. Yeah, with the GM, Joe Shane and we've
seen so much traffic and mileage out of the Saquon
Barkley his phone call with the Bears, it was Matty
Eberflu's his beard and his haircut. Yeah, and his wife
fawning all over him, and everybody going, he's cute.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
He can't coach, and then he can't coach. In the
final minutes, of the game. Let's get it right. You
can't coach in the final minutes. That's what I reserved
my ability as a long suffering fan of said squad
to just say it overall because it's lack of preparation
and everything else. Don't forget that first half of that

(40:56):
Bears Lions game, But that.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Happens to teams. But boy, really the end of game
and the.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Game situations down distance, clock management, time out management, all
of that. I mean the week before Caleb Williams made
fun of him for burning a time out.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Right.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
The other story we got was DJ Morris contract, Yeah
all right, and his ability to go into an ice
cream museum with his family.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
That was great, Yeah, but it was it.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Now we got another You made the Bears boring, so
now hard Knots clearly feeling the pressure to make this
one this in season with the AFC North.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
A little bit more fun with a lot of little
more pizazz.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, we got the Mike Tomlin shot going into the
locker room. Get this damn thing off me. Wait, you
were miked up. About a month ago, this story broke
that Warner Brothers was selling ten fully functional but not
street legal.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Replicants of the Batmobile.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Remember I tried to, yeah, do a crowd crowd sourcing
and go fund yourself here and we fell short. From
the from the Batman Trilogy. From the Christopher Nolan bat
Man Trilogy, send fully functional but not street legal replicants
of the Batmobile for the low price of three million
dollars low one low price.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Of three million, three million dollars Limited Edition. You're not
gonna believe what Joe Burrow told Jamar Chase on the
first episode of Hard Knocks.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
I called you up.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Did you get it yet?

Speaker 6 (42:23):
Though?

Speaker 4 (42:23):
I can't get it for like a year, but I
bought it.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Great. I think gonna be crazy. I thinkna be crazy.
You gotta go to the Dvances Batman when he had to, Yes,
I think on.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
He bought the Batmobile. Borrow bought one of the bat
but he gets in a year, like come on, no, no, no, look,
it's a long lead, right, come on, man. But it's
like anything, right, they have all sorts of like on
a much smaller scale, uh, lego sets and all those
things where it's like, all right, we'll build it if
so many people buy in, right, we'll produce this in
other words, you fund us doing the next stage right

(43:03):
of the actual prototypes, et cetera. This was just conceptually.
It's like, what if we put it out there, would
anybody buy them?

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (43:10):
No, now we have to build them.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
I hope this is Joe Burrow who has been very
smart with his money, and not Joe Burrow, who, Oh
my goodness, dude, you bought the batmobile. I'm hoping. It's
hoping that. I always hope what I hear, so I
act spending a lot of money on things. I hope
this is, Hey, I've been really smart and took care
of the money, and not in five years. It's dude,
you bought the batmobile? Like what are you doing now?
In the end there are only ten of them? Now

(43:32):
does that mean that it.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Doesn't mean you have to spend three million dollars on one?
But go ahead.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
How people spend their money, they spend their money right,
And I'm just going to make the argument of at
three million dollars in five years, assuming it's in good
working still, what you get when you wanted to deliver
it and you're going to take care of something you.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Can I take? Can I take it to target? Can?
I know? But a target and go in. Get what
I mean. It's not street legal or whatever you can make.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
But you think you're not going to make it street legal,
Come on, man, of course gonna make that.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
You're gonna have to retrofit the size and are if.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
You've got if you have three million dollars, you didn't
buy it to just have it sit there.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
You want to drive that thing?

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Yeah, that's where you own land and Kentucky, Ohio, where
people see you drive. You want to take where no
one's gonna see you unless a space ship comes out
of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
There's nobody that lives where the.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
White Sox come out of a field Cornfield. Look at
that dude's got the batmobile. Man, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
He'll have plenty of ample opportunity.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
I bought Dark Night number one when it came out
for three cents from DC Commas.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
I mean, that's it.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
When we have the quote unquote street legal. There's plenty
of things rolling around Los Angeles that I see at
night when we're driving home from the show. How many
cars do you think that go whizzing by you? At
nineteen five? There's only one batmobile? Though there's only one batmobile. Well,
there's ten. Well, but okay, in any at any given time,
there's only gonna be I don't think there's gonna be
a bunch of one. Sound Effort had a bunch of batmobiles,

(44:51):
maybe actually bought more than one. Anyway, the original point
was that there there's investment possibility here because there's only ten.
I'm gonna guess there's more than ten people with three
million to burn.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Oh, we're gonna want a batmobile.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
That batmobile be the TV show on Home and Garden Television.
But your point was I'm worried about him and his money. One,
he's got two hundred and seventy five million dollars coming,
I hope, but he's got that. But he's got three
million dollars is pocket change. Well, he's good flip that
batmobile free as long as he doesn't wreck it. The
best part of it Guy's money is the in fact
that Chase asked him the real one.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
The real well.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Might have been a documentary then lace was watched Like
Jamar Chase lives in a world where Batman is real.
I know you mean bat Batman saves everybody, doesn't he He's.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
The He's the hero that Gothain deserves.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah, but don't you kind of hope on some level
there is a Batman like figure out there looking after you.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
I would hope.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
So I always look up and see if Robert Pattinson
is hanging out on top of a building looking give
me emo Batman.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Yeah, he's looking down it Okay, he's actually in the
tree outside your windows.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
And then that bass starts playing and all of a sudden,
it's Ravana singing to you. E. Uh so Joe Burrow
bought the Batmore one of the batmobile.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
I love Joe Burrow that much more.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Now do you think we're gonna get a movie or
some kind of show about the who's buying the batmobiles?

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Look? The fantastic the selling of the batmobiles.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Sure when they come to claim them, maybe they come
over the Warner Brothers studios.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Here.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
They've got a huge display. Uh there's my my little
touristy kind of thing here. If you haven't done it,
it's fantastic because they've got the whole Harry Potter section
and everything else.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Uh. And I know the London one. You've you've seen
a bunch of.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
That, but all the Batman, you know, all the old
batmobiles and costumes and everything else. I mean, the Riddler
costume is up for sale, the one that Jim Carrey wore,
so we can get that. I'd really rather have the
Gorshan with all the question marks on it. Yeah, does
it stretch? If I can wear that in the studio
all over it, I would hope so. But look, I

(46:49):
hope he takes the games. I wanted to pull up
out side and go, here's getting it anytime soon, Jaz,
here's Burrow pulling up outside of Burrowhead five.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
That's it. Yeah, he's got to wait a year. It again.
I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
I mean, there's got there's gotta at least be some
kind of special when he goes to pick that up.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Who is is Bail going to be there? Murphy? You
know who I am?

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yeah, I know you're Christian Bale, but I'm using my
voice to make you think. No, I know you're Bruce.
Wat know you're Batman.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
I can tell. Does Michael Caine show up? The mask
shows up? Oh yeah, yeah, Killian Murphy and the Scarecrow.
Once he's done with the peaky bleeping behind yours.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Listen, Joe, you gotta do your paperwork with the Scarecrow
and then uh, well we'll.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
See, We'll see out here. You can take think thet you.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
I could use one of those in this extended universe
Killian Murphy's Scarecrow movie.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
So already already better than the Bears. I like that.
That's all all you had to say, was Batman, you
had me. They could have showed a touchdown. It was
better than the Bears. Ah. Yeah. How much of the
defense did they show though, because I think people wanted
to turn away from that horror Filmo, not your father's
lew And now, speaking of defense, we had the big

(48:02):
move today, the big announcement that as He's alsha Here
was suspended for three games for his hit on Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Have we seen hits like this on quarterbacks in the past, Yes?
Have we seen suspensions like this?

Speaker 6 (48:13):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Is this something that has deserved? Yeah, when you go
after a guy and you hit him with a forearm
and he goes down and the postures right away, and
you know it's incredibly grave. You have to do something
to stop this from happening. So here's a three game
suspension for alsha Here. He's going to appeal it, but
right now, it's three games and when the dust is
settled with this story, and obviously all best thoughts to

(48:36):
Trevor Lawrence as he recuperates from this, I can't help
but just think this is the reason we're here is
because it's the NFL's fault.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
The NFL.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
This is kind of going back to I don't know
what a catches and how for five years we didn't
know in the NFL what a catch was because every
year it change and having control controlling the football going
through the end zone. Not going through the end zone
it's a Faarian chickens and not complete the catch. And
we went through that for five years, and I'm sorry
when we go through for five years and players routinely

(49:06):
say I don't know what it catches, I don't get that.
That's on the NFL for not making it better. And
when I still see quarterbacks getting hit like this, this
is on the NFL for not making their hitting a
quarterback rule much more cut and dried and streamlined. Players
don't know where the line is. Sometimes that you can tell, Okay,
I hit the guy face mask to face mess. I wait,

(49:27):
but this time I had a perfect form tackle and
because I fell on top of them. That's a penalty,
and I don't know why. And when you when players
don't know how to play, they get pissed. And if
players don't know what's over the line, what's not over
the line, players are gonna go, well, I'm gonna do
what I do and if they give me a if
they give me a penalty or a fine, I get
a penalty.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Refine.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
But that's why we're at where we are with these
late hits on quarterbacks is because still we're three four
years into these new rules of what you can and
can't do to a quarterback, and still we get routinely
ridiculous calls. Here's a roughing call on Patrick Mahomes that
I don't understand. Here's a call on Jameis Winston last
night that's missed. When when a defender hit some face

(50:07):
mask to face mask when another defender already had him
in the grasp. The NFL has got to find a
way to get a handle on this whole situation. So
everybody knows this is what's gonna get you a penalty.
This is not gonna get you penalty. Don't get frustrated,
don't get upset. If this happens, it's not a pen
but because we still have this and we have officiating

(50:29):
crews that call it however they feel at that moment,
and they miss calls or they don't feel that him
landing on top of a quarterback was, but this guy
landing on top of a quarterback is. You're just getting
defensive players more upset and they're gonna continue to do
whatever they want to do because part of it mentally
is going to be, well, you're not helping me, so
screw you. If I'm gonna help you, I'm gonna hit
this quarterback. I'm gonna do it. If you want to

(50:49):
find me, go ahead and find me. The NFL had
fast to find a way at this point to say
this is what it's going to be, and there's gonna
be no derivations from it. If you hit a quarterback
like this, it's a fine, it's a suspension, and maybe
we'll back off a little bit of landing on the
guy or some kind of ridiculous head on the football.
I always say that this is something that should be
done after the games are over and over the course

(51:13):
of the week. Right, you want to call the penalty,
but the whole big thing is, let's let's do all
the jurisprudence of it. Let's let's take care of this
after the game is over and have some kind of
some kind of jurisprudence decision where players are going to
stop doing this, We're going to stop seeing quarterbacks get
hit this way, and there's no and there's less controversy
over what a penalty is and what is it.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Yeah, I thought it was curious in the the aftermath. Right.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Obviously the finger wagging from Demiko Ryan's rings hollow, especially
when you get the greatest Hits collection of Al Shahir
and his history. It's, you know, the idea of you
play to the edge of what you can, right, that's
what makes you, uh the player you are, and you're
within the rules and you're right at that edge and
bending it in this particular case, the forearm coming down

(51:59):
in his helmet. Yeah, egregious, next level stuff. But you know,
to take your first point about the catch, we still
don't know what a catch is in the middle of
the field. Right now, we can dot the sideline and
get our feet down and then fall out of bounce.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
But that's fine.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
But if I catch the ball with get both feet
down and then I only take a half third step
and the ball comes free. Somehow that's not a fumble.
I didn't make a full football move, Like okay, then
why is it dead here?

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Why is it dead here? Why?

Speaker 1 (52:30):
It makes no sense? So that's still a problem what
a catch or is or isn't?

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Tom Brady taken up for this other part right when
we're talking about quarterbacks and try to get through.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
You watch the Bears Lions game. How many people lost
their mind over the Caleb Williams play when he was
running and then he stopped and then he got run
through and I was like.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Oh, it's a dirty hits. Like no, he came back
in the field to play.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
He didn't step out of bounce like he went for
the half assed mahomes. Oh, I'm going to kind of
go out of bounds. You're gonna stop playing and then
I'm gonna keep going forward. That's the other part. There's
gotta be an onus on the offenses and quarterbacks for
some responsibility.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Right.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
The slide is the best and the worst thing because like,
well I'm free because I'm now sliding. It's like, well,
the guy's already moving into strike pos to come and
tear you apart, and now you make a half ass slide,
you know, the little two yard thing instead of a
full Hey, I've given myself up kind of moment. I mean,

(53:28):
the game moves too fast, which means you're gonna have
too many impactful plays and big grave hits to a
quarterback like this. I did like that Trevor Lawrence, or
at least whoever was running his Twitter account, showed hey,
I'm okay by clapping back on people that were coming
at him on Twitter, So at least we got a
little bit of snark coming out of it. But to

(53:49):
your point, Yeah, they've got a long way to go
to resolve this one.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Exit. How about a Fresco at Swollen Dome.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Tirack dot Com Studios.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Coming up next are.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Most try said college football insider stops by his thoughts
on the next to last playoff pool? Is Alabama really
deservedly ranked ahead of Miami? That and more coming up
next right here, Jason, I'm like Fox.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
They should release the college football playoff Final Playoff poll
to this song, and let's get a look and see
where the final seedings are. People representing the last teams
on the bubble, and one of them has the football
taken away when they go to kick it, and like
they dance on like snoopy.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Hey, look who's dancing on? Oh it's Alabama. Who's not
dancing on? All Miami?

Speaker 1 (54:54):
So college football next to last playoff pole is out.
This tells you exactly what the committee thinks of where
the team should be seated. And they have said that
for Alabama and for Miami, which is where the crux
of the controversy lies. At Alabama being ranked ahead of Miami,
neither of them will lose their standing going into next week.

(55:17):
So you're not gonna see Miami leap ahead of Alabama,
which means you're gonna see Miami home for the college
football playoff.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Syracuse killed Miami? Did the committee get it right? Joining
us now on the hot line.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Nobody better than the owner, editor, proprietor Grand Pooba of
college Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping for college
football all the picks, all the prognostications, all the analysis
could possibly want. He's on Twitter at Pete Futach. It
is Pete Futack.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
What's happening, bud can.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
I Well, now I'm gonna give you my hot my
unpopular hot takes. That Charlie Brown music puts me in
a horrible mood.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
There's so mean to him.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
That's like the meanest kids show ever because they're just
ruthlessly cruel to this poor kid. I've just I never
I never understood it as a kid. I just get
it less now as an adult. And I admit I
am a lonely man on this one.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
So what you're saying is that poor kid is Miami
pretty much okay?

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Or s m U or South Carolina or actually that
poor kid right now in Ohio State fan, you're god,
oh the lining, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Ohio State could win the national title, Peton fans are
going this year was a failure, this.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
Failure, you're you're you're not joking. I cannot take it anymore.
You want to with the whiniest Oh, oh my god,
I'm gonna get a mean text from Bill and Accounting.
Now he's got Michigan like it's oh, I mean seriously, like,
you know, suck it up, Buttercup, you're playing for the
NAT's got the best team. You're gonna probably play for

(56:57):
the national title. And it's like, you're right, You're actly right.
I don't care. We want to Michigan. Let's get over it.
Like I don't know. I get the rivalry thing, of course,
but like I don't know, come on, it's a game.
You're gonna just go win, go win something bigger than this.
So but yes, but I digress.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
All right, So so let's start here with the controversy
surrounding Alabama ahead of Miami.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Uh, Wharry do you like this? Do you agree? Do
you disagree? Where are you? I?

Speaker 4 (57:25):
Well, I don't kind of get the Miami part of this.
The bigger one is the SMU. If they lose to Clemson,
and because it's pretty cut and dry, SMU beat Clemson,
then we're we're all pretty good. The problem with Miami
is where's your win? You know, where's the where's the
one w that's out there that you can say, oh, yeah,
Miami beats this team and you know it's they're just

(57:49):
it doesn't exist. Well, it's an easy thing for the
committee to to justify and this is the you know,
for South Carolina, for old myths, for all these teams.
They're gonna they can be able to say, look, Clemton,
you know got housed by Georgia. Alabama beat Georgia, South
Carolina beat Clemson. Well, Alabama beat Clemson or beat the

(58:09):
South Carolina so like they've got a couple of decent wins.
I don't get it. I think that lost to Oklahoma
is a disqualifier at this point. But apparently, you know,
the committee, like I told you guys before, I've seen it.
It's over there in the corner. There's a little in
case of emergency, break glass and pull out Alabama and
there you go, so that they're just gonna go with
Alabama and just say, well they you know, they beat Georgia.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
So did you think Syracuse would be the thing to
upset the Apple Card? I mean they would, Yah told
you last week.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
I think I think it's on I've got to be
on tape somewhere right now.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
You're on tape, but you're on Twitter lamenting their early struggles.
It was when it was twenty one nothing, when Miami's
up twenty one nothing, Pete Texan, ut, Hey, my thoughts
that Syracuse are going to give Miami a game today?

Speaker 3 (58:53):
Yeah, I'm sorry about that. And then I was like carefully, yea, yeah, Bail,
I believe, Yeah, but you spurred them onto greatness.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
Thereafter I did, I jumped back on my own bandwagon there, No, yeah,
but that that was one of those things that we
discussed this and Syracuse is going to go Syracuse. You
know that was going to kind of happen. Then you
know you've got you know, the two number one passing
the country, number two, those guys are going to bomb away.
And so it certainly did happen. But that's that's certainly
changed up everything because Syracuse doesn't do that. Then all

(59:25):
of a sudden, this weekend becomes Miami and SMU and
it's a completely different discussion.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
All right.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
So we talked about where the the changes to this
are likely going to come after this season, and the
first one I can say, Pete, that I'm pretty positive
about is that there's going to be a rule put
in that Okay, the top four, the conference champions are
all going to get in, but they're not going to
be guaranteed to be the top four. Seeds because you
keep looking at Boise State being number four. That's going

(59:51):
to piss off so many people and it's going to be, hey,
you'll get in, you're guaranteed to get in, but you're
not just going to get one of the four seeds
because you're in a mid major conference.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Clemson against the four, you know, right because right now
as we're talking, that's kind of the problem is that
you know, the Big twelve champion first of all, the
Big twelve losers out and the Big twelve champion. If
UNLV and Clemson win, the Big twelve champion might be
the three you know. So I mean like it's it's
a little too quirky in that way. You do have

(01:00:21):
to give something. You have to throw the throw a
cookie to the champions for something. The reason why I
do sort of get the putting the conference champion in
the four, at least for now, is that the reward
is you get that extra week off and that you
won your conference championship and instead of you know, okay,
well now you've got to go play an extra game,

(01:00:44):
you get a buy and so you get to miss
that one extra thing, so that I get at the
reward the big loser in this is, you know, Penn State.
Like for all the things I joke about with Ohio State,
it's my second unpopular take on this thing is that,
you know what, losing to Michigan should catch a break,
get three weeks off. Yeah, they get time, they get

(01:01:05):
time off. They probably get them. But they're probably gonna
get like Indiana, okay or something like. Okay, they're gonna
beat Indiana. They get a pretty easy first round matchup
at home. And if you look at how the bracket happened,
that's three and four seed. How it shakes out being
seven or six or seven not too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Breaking down the playoffs from a different angle, making Ohio
State fans feel maybe slightly better here today.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Out Not even a little bit, not even a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
I didn't say you were trying to just saying maybe
that was in the silver lining.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Not even a little bit. No, no, no, mister power,
not even a little bit. No. It's p few Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
College Football News is where you find in college footballnews
dot Com at p FU tech in the Twitter verse.
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as we talk all things college football.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
We'd be remiss Pete.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
I mean, the rankings are are exciting, but you know
they're secondary to all the chaos and handwringing coming out
the flag.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Do we have to put gait on it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Isn't that in this process with the number of flag
incidences over the weekend and handwringing that came out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
The sky's falling, Pete. The whole world's going to hell.

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
Here's my thing. If you're if the opposing team can
figure out how to plant a flag into field turf,
you tip your cap and say you are the better team.
That's you know, they just move along. It's ridiculous. I mean,
come on, like you just played each other. I mean
it's like, oh gosh, look they're pushing and shoving each

(01:02:35):
other's football players. That's what they do. Like it's like
it's just and they bring out the Pepper experience that
just Texas and Texas A and I did it right.
The security came out and they stood on the logo
and they're like, no, we're not doing this. So Kesy
and took these guys like uh uh we're not. We're
not you know, being those guys and just you do that.
But I guess, like, oh, no, wow, reallyal House State,

(01:02:56):
your feelings are hurt. Now, Okay, I guess goes along
with it. But it's all silly, I get just don't
do it. It's classless, it's silly. But if someone tries
to do that, just accept that they're you know, ridiculous,
and good luck planting that flag into the field turf.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Well, I think that's I think.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Look, I think it's pretty easy to think that that's
going to get out lawed in the offseason. Somehow college
football will come together and say, okay, no more flag planting.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
We don't want that. I can't see that being actually
allowed next year.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
Yeah, you can do something, I mean that, that's it.
Just it's a bad look. It's it's just leads to
worse things. But obviously everyone's emotions are high right after
the game, and just whatever you have to do to
get those teams away from each other after a game,
just do it, especially a game like that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
All right now, I want to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Throw something a little bit radical at you here with
what's going on with the playoff poll going into the
final week of the season. Starting next year, the if
you make the championship game in your conference, you qualify
for the playoff because I look at a team like
SMU that look they should be they should be Clemson.

(01:04:01):
I mean, when you lose to Syracuse around. But if
you're SMU and you lose to Clemson, right you made
it to your conference championship game. Now suddenly it's going
to be, well, who do we take a two loss
SMU team or three loss Alabama team? And SMU gets
penalized because they went further than Alabama because they made
their conference championship game and they played and they lost,

(01:04:24):
compared to Alabama who couldn't make it and didn't win.
I think there's got to be something for making the
conference championship game and getting it. You know, your seed
is wherever it's going to be, and obviously the winner's
going to be seated higher. But if you make the
conference championship game, I think you kind of have to
get in.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Here's the problem with that. It's not fair if you
play a tougher schedule, and if you look at like
my example right now, has been the whole idea of oh,
you can't punish a team for a loss. Texas A
and M just lost to number two Texas and they
went from twenty to out. And if you look at
Texas A and M, they've got to win over Florida,

(01:04:59):
they gotta win over LSU. They have a win over
number nineteen Missouri. That's a better win than anything Penn State,
Notre Dame. I know, they beat A and M right
on down lay Indiana. You know, like like nineteen of
the team, Texas A and M is a better win
than most of the teams in the top twenty five.
Like if you played a brutal schedule, it's kind of

(01:05:21):
not fair. And you're supposed to be able to say,
you know what, you guys played, you know, the number one,
five and ten teams and you lost to them. We
can't really and you're not in the championship, we can't
really punish you for that. While SMU plays you know,
Virginia and you know Wake Forest, it's just not quite
the same.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Let me ask one last question coming out of Michigan,
Ohio State, back to the football side of it. Offensive
coordinator Kirk Campbell gets fired by Michigan one. Was it
the incoming underwood that sealed it? You know, as a
quarterback watching the offense, I mean they got a hamstrung
and without a quarterback here.

Speaker 4 (01:05:57):
Pete, I think it's ridiculous that Curtis Rourke was not
the Michigan quarterback. Like, you're Michigan, how do you not
go into the season with a you know, one of
the top you know, transfer possibilities at quarterback there? And
you know, thank your lucky stars that you know what
was the one thing Ohio State could do to lose
that game? It's the punch down and say, hey, you

(01:06:19):
know what, that team on the other side, they can't
throw or complete a downfield pass and their secondary is
completely depleted. So you know what, We're going to run
the ball into the middle of the line, you know,
for twenty four times it's like the fewest will carries
since like twenty eighteen. We're gonna run it. We're just
gonna kind of forget to throw the ball and we're

(01:06:40):
going to just rely on our defense and field goals
and oops, there are two chip shot field goals missed.
He kicked them straight. They win sixteen thirteen and get
out of there. Doesn't work. They lose, And now everyone says.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
That is at and everyone said check out college footballnews
dot Com all the anounce all the previous predictions for
conference championship weekend again college Footballnews dot Com. He's got
all the picks himself. He's got all the previews himself.
Pete is always money appreciated. Man, we'll talk to you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
I thought you got quite Syracuse and Michigan can't play
for the national championship.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
But okay, dude, if syric is, if we had just
beaten either Boston College or Stanford, we'd be on the
cusp of the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Yeah, if I were five inches taller, blah blah blah. Yeah,
but that game we lost, like we got killed. That game.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
We should have been Stanford End or Boston College, but
we killed Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
So it's killed.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
He showed up all so he had the one bad
game against Look, I led the Lee, but that was
a bad game. If you're gonna do the well, if
we've done that, well, that was him.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
But a lokay.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
So I'll take eleven and one eleven because he can.
We be in the playoff, man, Syracuse in the playoff?

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
No, I know we're not.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
And that's the sad part. That's not how it works.
Is this the best it's going to be? Because boy,
we had Kyle or he was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
This is good as its good. A dead

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