June 27, 2025 • 57 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss why we need to appreciate Clayton Kershaw's next milestone because it may never be done again. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show!!
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I know you you're just gonna say it. I'll just
(01:01):
say thank you. I know you're gonna say welcome back
to first place, So thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I appreciate that ahead of time. So well we'll get
that out of the way. That's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Living and dying in mid June with the the rise
and fall. I mean, are you guy that sits and
watch the stock ticker from sun up to sundown every day?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Or what?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh? No, no, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
How often you check in your four oh one k?
The kids college fun?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Go?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Damn it? We were down thirty two dollars. Thirty two dollars.
That's a turkey sandwich you won't get to eat. Oh no,
turkey sandwich. No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I have a very I have a very good rule
for how to be happy about your investments. Whenever they're
seemingly bad news and the market is down, don't look
at it, right.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So that's where I go and I buy more when
you get good news. When do you get good news? Hey,
go look at it, Go feel excited. That's it. What
do you do? What do you get there? Boy?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Another day like it feels like every other week is
the Dow is out lower than it's been since the
Great Depression, and then it bounces back.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Don't look at it those days. It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You don't like it, don't watch It's Kevin Durant's strategy
and advice could work for so many things. Yeah, but
my my I can't watch my portfolio.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It's gone down.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You don't like it, don't watch Oh, okay, all right,
then I'm not catching it out today. I guess I
don't feel like I need to watch they okay, kady?
That works for everything.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That is one of the big deals of it, all right,
is it. If you don't need it today, you're good.
If it's going to hell, then you're probably gonna get
a notice telling you it's going to hell, and then
then you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
May have to act. But otherwise, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Long, long term goals, long term goals, kind of like
some of these projects. In the second round of the
NBA Draft, I've been alternated between the Pigs and Dupe
and Schmirtz.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Speaking of you don't like it, don't watch Round two
of the NBA tra Yeah, here's some.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Guys you might have heard of, though, I mean, broom
when to the sixers.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So that's good, you know that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
With Barnheiser drafted by the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm sorry by ok see, go cats.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
This No, this would be a great tagline to watch,
uh for for Night two of the NBA Draft.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Hey, here's some guys you may have heard of That's
that's what it is. Hey, I gotta sell however I can.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Hey, there may be some guys you've heard of that
get drafted tonight, so don't miss it. He is we
have night two of the draft. Boy, this is so good.
There should be a third night.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
From both of you. Right now? Is out intend disrespect.
These guys are living their dreams and I'm here for it.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm talking about the fact that you haven't even wished
me or drafts. Hey, just disrespectful, that's all.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
First of all, Happy Curshaw Day, A little late, buddy,
I have a bit How is it late?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We just we've been too ago.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You mortally wounded him by not getting to Kershaw Day
fast enough.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And and you know it's it's not enough that I
had planned to do a big uh Clay and Kershaw
topic in fifteen minutes because we're going to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You know, three k's away from three thousand. Dude, you
have him retiring like four years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, I didn't have that. I said, how many more
starts does he have left? And I'm going to be
right on the button with that one.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
By the way, I mean, who does he get to
get his three thousandth against Sucks and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There you go. He may get four thousand against the
White Sox in the same game.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I might have to gothday. So, buddy, why I've already
got my order in for the Tops Now card to
commemorate it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm gonna be buying a one of those, but then
papering it. You know, don't miss the draft because there
may be someone you know that you've heard of that
could be the slogan for Night one as well. I mean,
but at least Night one we have, you know, the
drama of Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You have big shot. This is you know, this is
the thing. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
All day one of the big topics has been, okay,
how do we how do people react to the NBA Draft,
And a big topic has been well, outside of Cooper Flagg,
there's a lot of players nobody's heard of.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
There's trades all over.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The place, and you don't know where anybody gets drafted,
and Colin Coward is getting selected, and you know, I understand,
I understand, I get it, but there's only so much
you can do. It's Night one of the draft. Night
one of the draft isn't the problem. It's when the
NBA thought, Hey, we're really feeling it. We're gonna extend
this thing to two nights. WHOA, okay, Like last year,
I kind of get it because hey, Bronny is going
(05:21):
night too, and it's a one person draft and it
was Browny, But like this is this is where you know,
the NBA some things I don't understand, Like I don't
understand why they don't make the the actual draft lottery
its own thing, its own television show, and a standalone product.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, yeah, we won't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We're gonna jam it in between Game three and Game four,
the second round of the NBA playoffs. But oh hey,
but but night too. We're gonna put this draft into
two nights. When the second night is is literally nobody
anybody is hurt, unless unless it's a unless you're the
fan of the team the guy is drafted from. Right,
Like if you're a fan of Saint John's, you want
(06:02):
to see when r. J. Lewis gets drafted, right, Or
if you're a fan of Kentucky but you're not watching
the draft because I don't care where my guy goes.
I don't care that hey he's gone right, Oh that's great.
I'll find it out tomorrow, Like, this is a night
where I go, Man, we sure we needed this, We
sure we needed two nights of the NBA Draft. I mean,
I think you could really have Night one of the
NBA Draft and go after the first fifteen picks. Okay,
(06:24):
we take it back to regularly schedule programming and we
can get you back when something happens. But I mean,
clearly night too. At the end, you gotta spice it
up with something. Man, this is this is valuable real
estate and you're basically running unopposed. Right, It's it's a
regular average night in Major League Baseball. It's regular season
for the WNBA. The NFL has gone. You are running unopposed,
(06:44):
and you're putting out a product that's just Ah, I'm
not even blaming ESPN's coverage of it.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's just you're putting out a product that This is why.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
The MLB Draft isn't really televised because you have to
you have to follow it online to find out where
people are getting drafted. Like that's kind of where this
is one step of above the MLB Draft.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Like, if you're gonna continue to do.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
This, this is the night the NBA has to fix.
Forget about Night one. This is the night they have
to fix because you have this whole week with trades
and free agency, and this is where you gotta build
some stuff in. This is where you talk to agents,
talk teams, say okay, we don't want any business announced
while the NBA Finals are going on, but hey, how
about we have something.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's okay to do it a day or two later.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
How about we have at night too of the draft, Like,
this is where you have to figure things out. This
is where it's all right, hey, our standalone product here.
The NBA Draft isn't quite as strong.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
As it could be. So this is let's add stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But especially night two, Hey, don't forget tune in Night two.
We're gonna get the details of a big trade or
something else. Or Sham's is out and he's breaking all
kinds of news and people are still calling WOJ and
wo just tell him to blank off. I don't do
this anymore. I mean, this is the night you need
to figure something out. It's it's a Thursday night, it's
a big night for television. You gotta figure that out.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
And that's the thing, right, is that it's still gonna
outrate whatever rerun they were gonna show if something else right,
or maybe maybe they draw crazy numbers for cornhole. I'm
not quite sure, but I think part of it is
the decision making of, hey, let's go to two nights.
You're always looking at what the NFL does and their
successes and thinking, again, it's going to be better advertising
(08:16):
and marketing because if you want in on day one,
well you got to buy some day two, even if
it's at a discounted rate. So from a dollars and
cents it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
The other part is you couldn't make it a one
year event because then you openly admit, damn it, we
only did it for Brownie, and no, no executives gonna
do that because all you were accused was with being
a bunch of sycophants and bowing to the moment lupy.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We only we only did the second round. But that's
the thing that I would love.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, if an executive got in front of a microphone
and flat out said that here's an actual press conference.
Yeah we're going back to one night. We did it
one year and it worked. You're a bunch of SAPs.
Thanks for the views and the looks were moving on,
but I think for the last couple of years, we've
championed the Lottery as its own standalone event. Right, Yeah,
(09:11):
you've got the ping pong ball thing, I say doing.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
On that night.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
All right, you're on the clock, you got the number
one pick. Let's go, I mean, do it all in
one fels. You have all these workouts, whatever else, bring
in as many guys as you want, and then it's
go time, like it's a fantasy draft. Come on, now,
you're on the clock, buddy, No phones, no phone, so
you can't get any outside help from anybody. But making
(09:36):
the lottery its own event and then picking up from
fifteen on because we saw it last night, right, did
what do we have?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We had the Celtics and the.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Bulls were the only two teams to actually do nothing
with their picks.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
They drafted where they had it.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
They didn't get a draft pick conferred to them there
and they and they didn't trade it out. Otherwise you're
trying to draw a diagram to see how it all
intersect and it might actually have the secret code to solving,
you know, the quest to find the Fountain of Youth.
Maybe better than John Krazinski did in that movie with
Natalie Portman that came out. Oh and Hucks was in
there too, so you got that going on. But yeah,
(10:13):
I mean that might be it, like it's a DeKota
ring drink more ovaltine. But other than that, you know,
tonight is truly the college experience. There's Proctor, there's some
names we know, but in terms of a grand celebration
of your sport, it pales. Like even yesterday, the number
of people we talked about it that had no idea
(10:35):
the draft was going on really was kind of eye opening.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, wait, what huh?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I mean sometimes the draft is a two player Now
NBA drafts are like one, two and maybe three player draft.
You're if you're lucky, it's a two player draft, right,
And usually the last couple of years it's been a
one player draft. The player last year was Brady, this
year it's Cooper Flagg. Well that's just how it goes.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
But I mean this year we got the gift of
Colin Coward, yeah, a Bailey. Yeah, we got multiple guys
caught on camera looking like they'd rather be beamed anywhere
else in the known universe then go play where they
were drafted. So I mean we did get some gifts
along the way and then look, well, we'll dive deeper
into teams as they come into focus, because let's face it,
(11:17):
there's a number of these squads that aren't done. Do
you think San Antonio's squad is gonna look like it does?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Now?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Are they gonna fight for who actually gets to be
the point guard? We got three guys go out there,
make it fast, you know that kind of thing. So
it'll be interesting to watch the next dominoes to fall.
But in the event itself, yeah, it fell short. And
certainly Night two is highly unnecessary except for the business
of sport, which you know, I celebrate like no other
(11:46):
Sure except for that Revel guy. But I don't have
his forty seven billion dollars or whatever he's got, so
I celebrate it here. As where as we watch pick
to pick and just say, look, I got a Northwestern
guy drafted, so tonight I won.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, No, you absolutely did.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You absolutely did, because like Syracuse hasn't had a guy
drafted in five years, but you had a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Drafted since they paid mellow right, Oh man?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean look, and and you know I would like
to do it. I'd like to see this. I'd like
to see the NBA. Say, listen, we we moved the
two rounds. It worked for Brody, it didn't work this year.
We'll get back to round two when Bryce gets drafted. Okay,
when it's time for Bryce James to get to the
NBA and Bron's gonna play with him, then.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
We'll go back to a second round. Well, I mean,
I would appreciate the honesty of it all. Hey, by
the way, because we have to complete the line and
the joke and often referenced for a Northwestern Wildcat. Who's
the last guy to get drafted? That was a Northwestern Wildcat?
Say it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Before that?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Before that, we go for a guy that ended up
playing at Kansas and had himself a career.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Rex Walls, Wow, Rex Walters, Oh my goodness, that's that's
taking that back.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, I'm claiming him. It's like Ken Griffy Jr. White
Sox Hall of Famer, Tom Seaver White Sox Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Uh, but yes, we are getting near the end of
the second round of the NBA draft for Libry. Well,
the Knicks got Kobe and then they traded him, So
I mean, you know it happens, But I mean really
this is this is really somes some kind of second
round of the draft.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yet uh no, not yet, not yet, that's not happening. Well,
they're saving that for day three. You might get see
what's changed since yesterday. Yeah he's saying, yet, yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Know what, His resolve is gone because now we're starting
to interview all sorts of guys.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Because I'm trying to fit well number one.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, as the more they expanded, eventually they might get
to him. But the other thing is that now I'm
trying to figure out what's a way for me to
get Frostburg to stop saying doc and maybe if I
agree with him that maybe it's coming, he'll stop. This
is like my own sanity thing now that I do
instead of saying what are you doing? That's like okay,
yes it's gonna happen now, can never stop, never stopping.
(14:10):
So hey, happy round two of the NBA Draft for
everybody who is celebrating. Still about four picks left to
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Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, we'll get to a day that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
We're gonna celebrate absolute history very very soon. But first
I gotta say this right on a night that the
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Draft, you know, Night two is really just you know,
it's just kind of there.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Tonight in the WNBA, Caitlin Clark is out right big
headline today. She's out again Groyd injury, which you're kind
of hoping, okay, is this is she been overdoing it?
Whatever it is, you know as far as her injuries,
because she never was heard at Iowa. She was healthy
all year last year and now all of a sudden,
here's two injuries that has kept her out a while.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And is it part of the weight program whatever it is.
You're creeping your fingers crossed, and so is a w
because you know she's the show.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So she doesn't play tonight and the Fever lose at
home to the Sparks. Now it's a big night for
Kelsey Plumb, who is who is someone who most basketball fans.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Know who Kelsey Plumb is.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They know some of her virtual highlights, some of her
viral highlights, throwing that T shirt into the crowd, you know,
being the all time leading scorer in D.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
One until Katelyn Clark broke the record, but.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
After autograph collectors for being creeps outside hotels.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah see, And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Is there photo ops that I mean, yeah, attractive woman.
So she has her following based on that, which lends
to that greep factor thing.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
But that's that's the thing, is that seeing what she's done.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I know, we're always looking for who's next in the
w right, Oh, page Becker's Page Beckers is great.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Paige Beckers is the next great player.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't know that this isn't gonna be the breakout
year popularity wise of Kelsey Plump because she's incredibly outspoken.
Right you see you see this that when when Page
Beckers was talking smacked her, she went viral for that.
You know, obviously you're talking about the autograph seekers. The
big video of her yelling about the referees and getting
fouled and scratches on my arms like Kelsey Plum is
(18:37):
a lot of fun. And then yes, obviously the serious
stuff about well you know what happens outside the hotels.
But then tonight like a big viral highlight. You know,
Kitlyn Clark not playing and she's ard because you know
Katelyn Clark, this is this is what she does like
she's not playing, and she wanted to step up and
argue a call with the official. And she steps on
the court and she starts yelling, and Kelsey Plump comes
(18:58):
over and starts screaming, Hey, hey, give her a sit out.
All right, you're standing on the court. You're standing on
the court. Kelsey Plum is a lot of fun man.
And I know we always look at the rookies and
say who's next, But this is the first couple of
years where hey, everybody's really seeing the WNBA for.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
The first time.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I don't know, Kelsey Plum might not be the big
breakout star popularity watching the w this year.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well you get a couple of huge wins, right, She's
she's good on the microphone. She's chirpy on the court,
as we've seen. You talk about the incident with Clark,
but just in general, we talked a lot about her
post game presser a couple of weeks ago where where
she went off about fouls not being called against her.
I mean it was extended conversation of the stuff we
(19:41):
have with Catelin Clark. Look at Sophie Gunneham, Right, she'd
been in the league six years and then she goes
to a whole other stratug.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
She commits one foul and all of a sudden, hey,
here goes another million followers on social media.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
That's all what that just did, right. Her TikTok views
go through the roof.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
People want to see her fit every time she's coming
to the stadium. Everything she posts has turns to a
whole other level of gold. So yeah, I mean there's
there's a spread the wealth the other is. You know,
I think as a league, as much as we've bemoaned
and been a leaders of watching this the last couple
of years of missteps and where they go, I think
(20:20):
they're recognizing, you know, there is room for other people
to get some shine, and media members are being smart
enough to capture it as well. I mean, there's plenty
of personalities out here. Angel Reese has her knee bounds
and whatever else that that roll through. Still waiting for
Cameron Brink to become a star in her own right
(20:40):
right in her second year back off missing most of
last year with the injury. But yeah, for Kelsey Plumb
in little extra shine and it's not because of past
relationships or things of that nature. So it's it's good
for the w to have more and more people get
the shine. Whether that translates to rating, I don't know.
(21:00):
But just like Adam Silver does with the NBA, I mean,
start going into how many people are watching TikTok videos,
YouTube videos or whatever else and get in there and
sell sell.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Sell, Sophie Cunningham no, well listen, hey, so Sophie Cunningham
gets it and Kelsey Plum gets it right. This is
what players just just to finish with this before we
get to Clayton Kershaw. Is that is that instead of
players complaining and being jealous about Caitlin Clark and getting
all of the attention because hey, we've been here and
(21:31):
we built this league. Instead of complaining about how why
is she getting all of this and I'm not, Kelsey
Plum and Sophie Cunningham and other players are doing what
they should be. This is Hey, this is unprecedented attention
on us. I am gonna step up and make people
follow me. This is our big chance to get popular
and for people to understand that hey, whatever happened before
(21:52):
now happened.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I have a chance now.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Kelsey Plumb is thirty years olds, like she's been in
a league a year, year and a half and said, hey,
this is your chance.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
To really cut through and be a star.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yes, Angel Reese does a lot of stuff, and some
of the stuff she says, it's just really outlandish that
he kind of goes in one ear and out the other.
But she gets it. She had, Hey, this is my time.
I know that I get a lot. This is my
I gotta take advantage of the attention and become a star. Now,
this is what the players should be concentrating on, not
oh the jealousy of Caitlin Clark and committing fouls and
this and that, and coaches saying this is what they
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should you know, the chances here there is a big plate,
big smorgasport for you to step up and say, hey,
look at me. I can be a star too. And
it goes into everything about you, about about who you
are and how you present yourself and the optic you
want out there.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It's all there. This is what they should be concentrating on.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, I think we always go back to the idea
of any anything else that we talk about in marketing
and business. Right, you want to go into the shoe business, Okay,
it's a multi billion dollar game. You don't need a
large sliver to make a lot of money doing it right,
whether you're a player selling a shoe line. Right, Asia Wilson,
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I've been getting some run for the last couple of days,
and now Nike's got the Caitlin Clark's coming out. I
think it's Monday or Tuesday of next week, all of
those things and going on down the line, talk about
soft drinks, talk about beer companies.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Whatever, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You don't need to be moved massive amounts of products
because it's a huge marketplace. A little sliver gets you
some run. The same thing here for the players. You
don't need to try to really creep into the Caitlin
Clark's stratosphere. You just get into the peripheral and folks
that are looking to spend money and get into the space.
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There's a trickle down effect that comes in. If you're
the number two, number five, number twelve, whatever that depth
chart is, and you're the right fit for a product,
right fit for some type of campaign, you're gonna get
a little bit of shine. And right now I think
you know as a league embracing it, and the individual players,
particularly the veterans, saying screw it it doesn't have to
be about the rookies. We're interesting, people were sellable. I mean,
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look at all the Cark insurance ads and whatever else.
Oh there all people that were in the league a
decade that started showing up on those beyond Caitlin Clark
and Jake.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swelling Dome, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon live from the.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Fox Sports Radio studio. So just a blueprint there. Maybe
you want to follow that.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Or if you have a great left arm and you
can really throw a hook, you want to follow the
blueprint of Clayton Kershaw, who after today is three strikeouts
away from absolute baseball history.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Now the payoff Pitch.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Cold Strike three, three to go, Dodgers TV on the call,
Clayton Kershaw now at two thousand, nine hundred and ninety
seven career strikeouts after the Dodgers win today in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And no, by the way, just for saying before we
get to.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
History, Clayton Kershaw so far this season four and oh
and his era is three. So maybe not quite the
Clayton Kershaw that we were used to, as you know,
first ballot Hall of Famer, but hey, uh, considering all
the injury problems that he's had and all the doctors
starters that can't stay healthy. Here he is at thirty
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seven four and oh in an era of three. Now
it's not you know, de gram or Schemes or some
of these guys. Yeah, but this is still this is
a huge shot in the arm for the Dodgers. So
just for a second on Clayton Kershaw and what he's
what he's doing right now when the Dodgers need him.
But three strikeouts away from three thousand, probably do it
in the first inning against the White Sox. Oh, I'm sorry,
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is that too?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Sorry? Sorry, Mike, that.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Would be one hell of an inning. There's no question
about it. Just a matter of how how long it takes, right,
But a.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Couple of things.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
First thing is this, and this is all I always
look at things, and I always I kind of think about,
you know, my mortality and our mortalities. When I think
about something that we're gonna see that, you wonder when
it's gonna happen again.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Definitely take the under, so Kershaw, take the for all
of us.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Oh, take the under for Kershaw. At thirty seven, he's
three strikeouts away from three thousand. He'll get there in
his next start. Okay, great, three thousand, the magical number.
Only nineteen people in the history of Major League Baseball
struck out three thousand, of the most recent obviously, Justin
Verlander did it a couple of years ago, so did Max.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Schuzer after Kershaw.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Chris Sale has about twenty five hundred strikeouts now he's
thirty six, but Chris Sale is still humming it right,
like this is not Chris Sale. Who is I'm still
just barely making it. So Chris Sale is still pitching
really well. He's still a strikeout guy. Chris Sale should
get there in another couple of years, barring, barring anything
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crazy happening, right, we should see Chris Sale get there
after that. Again, I don't know if that's not the
last three thousand strikeout pitcher I'm gonna see in my life.
I want to think I got you know, I'm thinking
about years and years and years and years. But there
is nobody that I could say, oh, they're gonna get there, right,
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like Garrett Coles at twenty two hundred, but he's thirty
five and he's missing this year, and he's he's been
injury prone, Like you really think he's gonna get another
eight hundred strikeouts after that, There's really nobody that's even close.
There's nobody that's even started their career you could say
would get to three thousand strikeouts. No, starting pitchers don't
pitch as much as they used to. They don't go
deeper into games. They're not taught to strike out, you know,
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they're taught to pitch to contact a little bit more,
to save their arm and save the wear and tear.
So I mean, really, you you get outside of Chris Sale,
which probably sometime in twenty twenty seven, maybe late twenty
twenty seven, that's it. I mean, we may not see
that again. We may not see a lot of things
in Major League baseball. I mean, the next three thousand hits,
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the next the next three hundred win pitcher, like these
are all things that we may not see in our lifetimes.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And and and it's real.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Crazy because growing up, like we saw this every few years,
not all the time, but we saw guys, Hey, three
thousand hits, every four or five years. A guy would
get there, right, three hundred wins, Hey, guy would get there.
Now it's like we really may not see those things
happen again. In our lifetimes. We could be fifty years
away from potentially saying and again, we may not see
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it again, because is baseball ever gonna get back to? Hey,
starting pitcher is gonna go longer? Right, are we gonna
get back? Or starting pitcher is gonna pitch like we're
gonna pitch seven eight innings? Are gonna pitch two hundred
and fifty innings? Yet that's not happening, right, pictures get
to one hundred and seventy five innings, It's okay, one.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hundred seventy five innings. We gotta watch out for that.
We gonna go to a six man rotation.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
All of these things like these are days in sports
that are gone and not coming back. So like when
Kershaw get in a three thousand, I'm be damn sure
I'm in front of the television to see that because
I want to think Chris Sale's gonna get there. But
I mean, if he doesn't, this could be the last
time I get to see that happen. I mean really,
And I love seeing history, right, It's one of the
reasons why I do what I do. I love sports history.
I love seeing this and there's and and especially baseball,
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which is built on history more than any other sport,
and that really might be This really might be it
for things that you and I grew up on, that
we saw so regularly, that was so celebrated.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
This might be it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well, I mean, let's let's have a little more fun.
Going down the list of active players on the strikeout list.
You got Da Coole, next guy after him, Charlie Morton, Yeah,
not getting there.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Charlie Morton's fifty seven years old.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Two thousand, Yeah, where it says forty one, but I
question it. You Darvish is just over two thousand, he's
thirty eight. Then you got Gossman, Nola, Sonny Gray. These
guys are all twelve hundred or more later. I mean,
Noel's only thirty two, but is he pitching another eight
years to get there? No Patrick Korman, Jose Kantana, your
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guy de Grom, I mean, those are all the guys. Next,
I mean Zach Wheeler. He's thirty five, so that's not happening.
You go to the Wins, as you brought up, and
because I wanted to bring Kershaw back in here as
dominanting as he's been.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
He's a two f fifteen, right, he's at two fifteen.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
The only guy that has the shot and you know,
physically is he gonna get there is Justin Verlanders thirty
eight away, But is he gonna hold up physically that's
another three years?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah no, that's hell no, Justin Verlander is not getting there.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
So like not getting he's at two sixty two, he's
he's the next uh.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And then you go for me, he was at to eighty.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I would say, maybe he's got an outside chance, like
maybe an outside at two eighty.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
But that that's that's not how And then we get
down to schures Are at two sixteen, Kershaw at two fifteen. Uh,
and it drifts from there. So all those metrics that
we grew up, you know, and milestones, and I think
this is the you know, the larger point. Not only
do we get robbed as baseball fans, is you know,
we don't get to see that, And maybe we have
to appreciate what we had as kids when we'd have
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three guys reach the three thousand hit mark or strikeout mark,
and we know in a season and a half, uh,
and then I'll retire at the same time so they
can go in as of the greatest classes of all time.
But now we're like, all right, we got to change
the metrics. Does it become twenty five hundred hits? Does
it become you know, two hundred wins. We've been talking
about the two hundred win threshold in Major League Baseball,
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you and I for going on a long time, and
I think that gets highlighted here once again. The strikeouts
as well. You can have guys with crazy ass strikeout
per nine rates. I mean, we're watching Mizerowski with the Brewers.
Is that going to be multiplied out long enough to
get them to three thousand?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Damn? I hope it. It does.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Right that we're sitting in rocking chairs ahead of coming
in to do the show and being able to do that.
But in the interim, it's like, all right, let's enjoy
it for what it is. And guys like Kershaw, the
old workhorses who get pissed off at the start times
a minute different that they're still there for us.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I mean, of those someone getting the three thousand hits
maybe is the one on the outside, because could in theory,
jose L Twov get there? Yeah, could Freddie Freeman maybe
as long as he's hitting it at forty years old
like he is at thirty five. Yeah, but those are
all outside chances like this, but this with three thousand strikeouts,
three hundred, like the pitching milestones, just we're just never
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gonna see again.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Different world, man, we live in a different world. Exit.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
How about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Time, how to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports,
and someone who's been called the Clayton Kershaw Fox Sports
Radio Wow, because if you put him at the right
time for an update, he gets really nada.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I knew it was too good to be true.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
I was like Charlie Brown, and then Lucy pulled the
football away brilliantly, well done, Thank you, I could run.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I got three more for you tonight.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
I doot, don't worry about oh, I can't wait. Oh
good grief, As Charlie would say, well in reference to
pulling the football away before a kick. We start in
the NFL, and today the NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens
placekicker Justin Tucker for ten weeks for violations of the
NFL's personal conduct policy. Tucker presently a free agent, was
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accused of sexual misconduct by sixteen massage therapists in the
Baltimore area, and after the suspension was announced, Tucker's agent
released a statement reading, in parts and I quote, we
are disappointed with the NFL's decision. In order to put
this difficult episode behind him and get back on the
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field as soon as possible, we have advised Justin to
accept this resolution and close this matter. The people who
know Justin best know his character and understand that he
is deeply dedicated to his most important lifetime roles as
a father, husband, and friend. Unquote excuse me for a second, guys, Sorry,
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I find that found that a little difficult to.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
So you know, I got to know. I got it
from you.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
In Major League Baseball, on Thursday night, Jason's New York
Mets shut out the Atlanta braves Ford and Nothing to
take over first place in the National League East by
half a game over the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That was what you say, I know, we haven't been
playing well. Can you say that again? First place?
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
First place?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Because the Phillies lost at Houston earlier, so the Mets
are now in first place. That means they have the
best record in the National League East, first place.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
So that was the good news.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
The bad news Mets starter Griffin Canning had to leave
the contest due to a non contact left achilles injury.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It looks like he blew his achilles another pitching it.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh, we we're just sensitive to it.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
But he is going to have imaging, however, sensitive to
it obviously because of what happened with Tyre's Halliburton in
the NBA finals. And finally, speaking of the NBA, Round
two of the the NBA Draft concluded moments ago, and
for the record, the final pick of the draft, aka
the NBA equivalent of the NFL's mister Irrelevant Tennessee Volunteers
guard Jamia Mayshak picked by the Memphis Grizzlies. So from Tennessee,
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he goes from Knoxville to Memphis, so he stays in
the state.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Back to you guys, thank you, Ilo, thank you, kersh
appreciate it, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, and Clayton kersher a
lot from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Well, coming up next,
Now that the night two of the NBA Draft is
in the books, we're looking ahead at what we could
see in free agency.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And I got a big Bowl prediction.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'm gonna scare you, Mike Carmon, because there is something
I said was gonna happen. Now I no longer think
it's gonna happen. Oh okay, thing it's good now, No
longer is it gonna happen. That's next right here, Jason
to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Easter and
seven pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
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today's play of the day is gonna be. I have
a sneaking suspicion it's going to be a strike three.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Now, the payoff pitch cold Strike three.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Three to go, Joe Davis Dodgers TV on the call. Yes,
Clayton Kershaw, Now.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Three is not Joe Davis. That's not Joe Davis. Three
strikeouts away from three.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Thousand for his career. We talked about that a few
minutes ago. We'll have more baseball on the way. But
as we're looking at the end of the NBA Draft
Round two, Uh, I'll tell you what, Mike, there's one
thing that I said was gonna happen, and I was
sure it was gonna happen. I'm convinced it was gonna happen.
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Now I think it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I said, Okay, that's a lot of circular way to
get there.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
It is. It is like something I said.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I'm like, no, absolutely, but you know, I look, it's
like that, you know, the Colin Coward promo with with
new information, you know, your your opinion evolves, right, different
things happen. You can't ignore new information.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I said.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
When the season ended, I said, Okay, Knicks are getting
a new head coach. Karl Anthony Towns is gone. He's
absolutely gone, and the Knicks are going to try to
find a way with a new mix, new head coach
knew everything. After the last week or so, I no
longer think that's gonna happen. I think the Knicks are
not going to do anything big in the offseason except
maybe try to bring in some to take some of
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the burden off of Jalen Brunson or a couple of
guys so they can have a little bit of a bench,
because look, clearly that was one of uh Tibbs's faults.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Was oh man, uh we did you know? We didn't
have a bench.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
We had to play the same five guys. But looking
at the Eastern Conference, right you have the Celtics without
Jason Tatum, who knows, and they getting rid of Porzingis,
They're ridd of Drew Holiday. They are gearing up for
another year from now. Okay, so scratch the Celtics. Right
here are the Pacers NBA finalists, a game away from
winning it all. No Tyres Halliburton likely for the entire
next year. Okay, cross them off. The Knicks are gonna say,
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why are we going crazy? Maybe with a new head
coach with a little bit different philosophy, a little bit
more of an attention to detail on defense, that can
maybe hide Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Jalen brought to it a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
You can't hide them both when they're on the court together, man,
Maybe just.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Put them right next to each other.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Okay, spread Now, I know Wenby's learned some of that
stuff from doctor Strange where we can be in two
places at the.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Same time and all. But I don't know, man, But I.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Know longer think the Knicks are gonna do anything big
and they're gonna say, Okay, how do we re how
do we combat this that we still think except well,
if Doc brings again, if Doc brings Giannis, then all right,
then if Doc brings Jeannie, but the but the but
the Bucks are saying they're hoping that that the Doc
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staying would hope Jannis would still wondering what what that meant.
But I I really I don't. I don't see the
Knicks doing anything. Look that they'll go get depth and
they'll go out and they'll make moves in free agency
because they need you. They need to need another guy
that can score another option somewhere.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
They will do that, But the big.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Moves not gonna happen because they're the Eastern Conference favorites
coming out of this season. Right, Yes, the Cavaliers had
a great year, but boy they got They got knocked
out of the playoffs really easy in the second round.
The Knicks go into this saying, and I can see it.
I don't one hundred percent agree with it, but I
get the philosophy of, Hey, we don't need to go
crazy doing stuff because two of our biggest competitors are
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without their best player. It's for likely most if not all,
of next year. And the Celtics already seem like they're
they're rebuilding on the fly, and who knows what the
Pacers are gonna be. Was this just a moment in
time for them? So yeah, maybe we don't need to
do that. Maybe maybe we need to just try to
figure this and wait till the trade deadline. If we
need something to trade deadline, we can do something of
the deadline. But now I think the Nix will more
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stand pat and it's gonna be their next head coach
comes in and this is gonna be a new way
of doing things, and the new way of doing things
will be what the Knicks hope does it in the season.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Well, I mean, you don't want to act out of desperation,
and certainly the marketplace when you see what Durant's trade
value was, what are you getting? I mean, I obviously
there's an age difference, but Carl Anthony downs as a
much different level of deficiency at one part of his game.
Even if we do the chronological thing of hey, he's
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that much younger, so dot dot dot.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
At least Kevin Durant play some defense.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
So you know, if you if all you're gonna get
is a would be could be kind of guy and
a bunch of second round picks, why go into the marketplace,
look at your Eastern conference and reevaluate as the slew
of things begin across the league.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Telling you I thought there would do something big. Now
they're not. But speaking up big.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
It's not every day somebody turns down a max extension
in the NBA, But that happened.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
We'll get to that next right here. Jason and Mike
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (41:39):
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Speaker 3 (41:55):
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It is the heart pounding adventure you want as we
start the summer, so big deal in Major League Baseball.
Tonight we watch Clayton Kershaw get three strikeouts away from
that magical, mystical number of three thousand. We may not
see it again for a while after this. Joining us
now on the hot line for more on this and
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all the big news in Major League Baseball. MLB Network
insider Extraordinaire John Paul Morosi, Who I believe.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Are you in Italy right now? Are you with the Pope?
John Paul? What has happened?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
My goodness? Well, I will say this, Blana said, I
am back in the States now. So if I were
in Italy, let's see, it would be a good morning
call from there. It'd be five, let's say five twenty
am in Rome. My Circadian rhythms are still sort of
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playing catch up a little bit. But I am back
in the States. We got that actually almost twenty four
hours ago, so adjusting and loved it. Did not interview
the Pope unfortunately, but however I did interview the president
of the Italian Baseball Softball Federation. How about that? So
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I met him. He joined us for dinner. Moco Moraco
Matzieri Modica Mazieri, a dear friend of mine. We actually
met for dinner and I interviewed him. The part of
the interview we're hoping is that it will air on
MLB network next week. And I also drove a car
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in Rome, which was its own very challenging and beautiful experience.
I will tell this very quick story. I was trying
to leave Rome to go to the airport. I had
parked my rental car, which again is a leap of
faith in and of itself. I had parked the rental
car down a one way road, which is a generous
(44:05):
way of saying that I probably shouldn't even have parked
it there, and I was trying to get it out
to go to the airport when I realized that I
was stuck behind a tomato truck that was unloading and
was not going to be move in for a very
very long time, and I said, this isn't good. I
got to go to the airport with my family, and
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so I decided to rather than wait and potentially miss
my flight, I decided to put the car in reverse
and drive backwards down a one way in the opposite
direction of what I was supposed to be doing, much
to the astonishment of all the Romans who were watching
this American crawl backwards down this one way road. And
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as I looked to my left, as I was about
halfway down my journey, when I was moving about a
foot every minute approximately, I looked at this this guy
on a vespa, because if my window was rolled down
on the course in Rome, like you know, you can
basically reach out and you know, I could have given
him a high five, but he was not in a
mood to do that. So he basically he saw me
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doing this, and he looked at me and he said
to say, moato, which means you are incompetent.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
It sounds so much more elegant the way they say it.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
Yeah, it just sounds a little better to Sato, to
which I wanted to say, like da Veda vedo, you know, soul,
like I know that I am, But what the hell
am I supposed to do here? Guys, I gotta get
the car out of the street. So it was pretty funny.
I made the flight. We all made the flight, and
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we got a fun story to tell.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
So did you like drive around the Vatican yelling Pop
John Morossi MLB Network come on out.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
I'm I know he had that.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Pig ad Manda bullpen the Chicago White Sox. That was
That was what I was trying to say. But somehow,
somehow that wasn't good enough. But but again, a wonderful
time in so many ways. Got to spend a little
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bit of time in a small seaside village called Porto.
So if you have ever a chance to look at
it in the map or go there, I would highly
recommend it.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
I saw that from the I saw the guy from
the Chosen who plays Jesus in that he got a
picture with him yesterday at the Pope's big thing.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
I was like, oh, maybe maybe you needed it more
of a religious opening, John, And.
Speaker 5 (46:46):
Again, like my my thought on it was this, would
I have wanted to sort of spend an entire day
of the of the vacation waiting in line? Or or
did I want to see Rome with my and and
again when you got a family of five and the
other four people who obviously are the most important people
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in my in my world, love them all so much,
but they they like, they liked none of my ideas.
None of them like any of my ideas about what
to do. So when you're that situation, I don't know
that would have been that would have been risky. I
think if I would have said, Okay, hey, girls, we're
just gonna stand in line for a whole day. I
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wanted to do it so much, but I felt as
though discretion was the better part of valor on this one.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
Well, I eventually you have to go home with your family,
and the Pope is still going to.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
Be in that That's right, That's right.
Speaker 5 (47:44):
I'm I'm staying a prayer and at some point maybe
i'll maybe I'll have a chance to meet him. But
I'll hopefully that's the next time.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Now, Look, obviously, look back in the States here as
you are the big story. Hey Clayton Kershaw now three
strikeouts away from three thousand, and you know, these are
fun conversations.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
That we have once in a while.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
And I look at it and I go, Okay, Kershaw
is going to get there the next start. You may
get there in the first inning against the White Sox.
Chris Sale will probably get there in the next two years.
But after that, John Paul, we may not see anybody
get the three thousand strikeouts again in our lifetime.
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Well, it's a great question. And do I think Paul
Skeen's has a shot. I do. I think Skens could
do it. But the thing about these numbers that I
love about baseball is that you've got to be great,
and you've got to be great from a very young age.
(48:46):
And obviously the durability element with pictures especially is real,
and the amount of injuries even for Kershaw. Let's think
about this way. Kershaw different from Skins. Kershaw was a
high school pick. He started accumulating these strikeouts at the
age of twenty and was about as dominant as you
could possibly imagine for a decade and a half. And yeah,
(49:08):
of course there have been injuries that have intervened in
the time more recently, But so I think Skeens has
a shot. He of course is a college pick and
not a high school pick, and so that that makes
it a little harder for Paul. But he does have
that kind of ability, and he's off to that kind
of start. Look at his numbers so far, but it
(49:31):
is unbelievable what he's been able to do. So Skeens
is probably the one guy that I think has has
a shot to do it who's active right now on
the younger side. But you know, you look at recent times.
Felix Fernandez a very interesting case because Felix was was
great early, but then we just saw the inability to
(49:52):
stay durable. And that's why I'm a big believer. Three
thousand strikeouts, these are special numbers. It'd all be very
I think appreciative of watching an all time great like
Kershaw achieve a number like this.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
Yeah, and it gets to go against my White Sox,
so that makes it all the better for me.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
And and by the way I heard Jason's that was
a very interesting comment that Jason may that he might
get in the first innings. He's saying he might strike
out the side in the first inning to get it.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
That would be a wizard that.
Speaker 5 (50:23):
So we all can do the math here. We all
know with three strikeouts the first.
Speaker 4 (50:28):
Inning with me, Well, the beauty of it, though, JP
is he can try to match Miserowski.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
I mean you mentioned schemes, let's go to the other.
Speaker 4 (50:36):
I mean, we get fifty four thousand for a Pirates
and Brewers day game.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
How great is life for baseball?
Speaker 5 (50:42):
Unbelievable? And that's where Misserowski man. He has been in
so many ways just as impressive. And listen, he again,
it's so early to start putting three thousand strikeouts on him.
We haven't. We haven't seen him him quite for a
full season yet. But my goodness, electrifying, simply electrifying. And
(51:09):
and this is where you're exactly right. A matchup between
the Pirates and the Brewers was the talk of the
sport for a day. I was even hearing about it
over in Italy. So that that's that's what a big
deal was. So I think that for for Miserowski, he's
given the Brewers a real boost. I think, you know,
there's his arm and just the way that he has
(51:31):
gone about it and taken the sport by storm. Hopefully
we see him join Skiings in the in the World
Baseball Classic in the spring. I would love to see it.
I just think he's he is special and uh, it
gives me as a as a Midwest smaller market guy.
It does give me a lot of joy that that
(51:52):
I realized that the pirates are not really able to
capitalize on skins is brilliance right now. But it is
pretty cool to see two of the smaller marcus in
the game having two of the very most talented pitches
we have seen in a very very long time.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Fox Sports Radio, John Paul Morosi, our guest Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
Sports Radio studios. All right, so, John Paul, here we are.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
We're getting set. We're about a month away from the
trade deadline. We're getting to that point. We're getting close.
We're getting close to to July here, and we see.
Speaker 3 (52:24):
Some teams heating up, some teams doing some things.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
If I had to say to you right now, what's
the name that we're going to be talking about a
lot over the course of the next few weeks. Today,
this is going to be the guy available.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
This is gonna be you teams. This is the big fish.
Who would you tell me?
Speaker 5 (52:43):
Well, good framing of the question, because I will say
Sandy A of the Miami Marlins, big fish. Good well
played by you on the question. But I have the
other name in addition is sandy that I'll say that
I actually discussed today on MLB Network is Chris Bubach,
(53:03):
who I think is not a big name for a
lot of people in baseball, but he is to me
an all star. He is, I think on his way
to a career year, and with the current issues that
the Royals have scoring runs, I'm just not sure they're
going to be able to get into this race in
(53:25):
a meaningful way. They're below five hundred right now, They're
double digit games behind the Tigers right now in the
American League Central. So if I'm the Royals, I'm listening
intently on the potential of someone giving me two bats
to get a Chris Bubach. Does that end up being
a Chicago Cobbs, for example, just given where their needs
(53:46):
are for getting one more starting pitcher. I mean that that,
to me is where I'm going with this, that Boubach
should be at least as intriguing to teams as al
Conta is. I think al Conta is probably a little
more of a easy, easy name to mention because the
Marlins are such obvious sellers. But Boobach is in the
(54:06):
same service time class free agent after twenty twenty six,
and for me is at the absolute peak of his powers.
It's made some adjustments this year, he's going to be
an All Star. So I think the number one is
Alacantas simply because he's so obvious and the team is
so so certainly going to listen to offers for him.
(54:29):
But I think a close second for me is Boombach
because if the Royals can't figure this thing out offensively,
very very soon, they need to listen. And I do
wonder if, because Boobich is so so affordable right now
and also under contract for next year, if there might
be a team or two that steps forward and makes
(54:49):
a real strong offer that creates the type of market
that will force JJ Piccolo the Royal team to really
consider moving him.
Speaker 1 (54:58):
He's on ax that John morow see that as at
John Morosi MLB Network Insider and before, because I always
forget John Paul I need to. I forget who's that
new player on the Royals that came up.
Speaker 3 (55:09):
He's such a highly touted prospect. What his name always
escapes me? What's his name?
Speaker 5 (55:14):
Goleanoneone? Jack Glean Okay, And basically I was I was
saying it that way. I just I was walking down
the street glee. And by the way, I was I
was reading, uh, reading the very fittingly Anthony Door's book,
(55:36):
which is Four Seasons of Room. Highly recommend it, and
in it he said he said something that I think
is very true that certain words in Italian sound like
a song when you say them gallianone is one of them,
but the other, the other one is the actual the
number five hundred and fifty five. Chink wichento chikuan ta cinque.
(55:56):
That's how you say it, shinkui cento, quanta chinkwe. It's
just like there are just certain words in the language
that that sing ge is now one of them.
Speaker 3 (56:08):
Why, I tell you, got my dad doing it? Now?
Speaker 1 (56:09):
My dad will come over in the first thing, He'll
say walking in and I'll go k. He just comes
in and says that now you.
Speaker 3 (56:17):
Got to do it.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
Say it nice and slow, and then maybe it's gonna
catch on because they say said the official pronunciation the
MV pronunciation guide is caglione. Guys, no, absolutely not the
official pronunciation. We're gonna We're gonna go with what does
(56:38):
it say in the MLB official pronunciation or what does
it say in the entire country Okay. If you ask
anybody from the entire country, how do you say this,
they will all say it.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
Yeah. One is romanticized.
Speaker 4 (56:52):
The other sounds like he's ready to take you out
back and whack you.
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Again. The romance. The romance wins, like romance always wins.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
John Paul is always buddy, appreciate it. Uh, glad you're back.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
Have fun, great to be back.
Speaker 3 (57:13):
All right, we'll look up and make sure you can
send it on the radio. All right. I'll make sure I.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
Think you said I'll see you in hell, because that
would fit with John Paul BARROSSI.
Speaker 3 (57:22):
I just told us we'll see us in hell.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
Like well, I mean breaks character when he changes language.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
I mean, I don't know, it's a different personality.
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I know you you're just gonna say it. I'll just
(01:01):
say thank you. I know you're gonna say welcome back
to first place, So thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I appreciate that ahead of time. So well we'll get
that out of the way. That's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Living and dying in mid June with the the rise
and fall. I mean, are you guy that sits and
watch the stock ticker from sun up to sundown every day?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Or what?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh? No, no, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
How often you check in your four oh one k?
The kids college fun?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Go?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Damn it? We were down thirty two dollars. Thirty two dollars.
That's a turkey sandwich you won't get to eat. Oh no,
turkey sandwich. No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I have a very I have a very good rule
for how to be happy about your investments. Whenever they're
seemingly bad news and the market is down, don't look
at it, right.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So that's where I go and I buy more when
you get good news. When do you get good news? Hey,
go look at it, Go feel excited. That's it. What
do you do? What do you get there? Boy?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Another day like it feels like every other week is
the Dow is out lower than it's been since the
Great Depression, and then it bounces back.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Don't look at it those days. It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You don't like it, don't watch It's Kevin Durant's strategy
and advice could work for so many things. Yeah, but
my my I can't watch my portfolio.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It's gone down.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You don't like it, don't watch Oh, okay, all right,
then I'm not catching it out today. I guess I
don't feel like I need to watch they okay, kady?
That works for everything.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That is one of the big deals of it, all right,
is it. If you don't need it today, you're good.
If it's going to hell, then you're probably gonna get
a notice telling you it's going to hell, and then
then you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
May have to act. But otherwise, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Long, long term goals, long term goals, kind of like
some of these projects. In the second round of the
NBA Draft, I've been alternated between the Pigs and Dupe
and Schmirtz.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Speaking of you don't like it, don't watch Round two
of the NBA tra Yeah, here's some.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Guys you might have heard of, though, I mean, broom
when to the sixers.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So that's good, you know that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
With Barnheiser drafted by the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm sorry by ok see, go cats.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
This No, this would be a great tagline to watch,
uh for for Night two of the NBA Draft.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Hey, here's some guys you may have heard of That's
that's what it is. Hey, I gotta sell however I can.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Hey, there may be some guys you've heard of that
get drafted tonight, so don't miss it. He is we
have night two of the draft. Boy, this is so good.
There should be a third night.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
From both of you. Right now? Is out intend disrespect.
These guys are living their dreams and I'm here for it.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm talking about the fact that you haven't even wished
me or drafts. Hey, just disrespectful, that's all.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
First of all, Happy Curshaw Day, A little late, buddy,
I have a bit How is it late?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We just we've been too ago.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You mortally wounded him by not getting to Kershaw Day
fast enough.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And and you know it's it's not enough that I
had planned to do a big uh Clay and Kershaw
topic in fifteen minutes because we're going to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You know, three k's away from three thousand. Dude, you
have him retiring like four years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, I didn't have that. I said, how many more
starts does he have left? And I'm going to be
right on the button with that one.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
By the way, I mean, who does he get to
get his three thousandth against Sucks and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There you go. He may get four thousand against the
White Sox in the same game.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I might have to gothday. So, buddy, why I've already
got my order in for the Tops Now card to
commemorate it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm gonna be buying a one of those, but then
papering it. You know, don't miss the draft because there
may be someone you know that you've heard of that
could be the slogan for Night one as well. I mean,
but at least Night one we have, you know, the
drama of Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You have big shot. This is you know, this is
the thing. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
All day one of the big topics has been, okay,
how do we how do people react to the NBA Draft,
And a big topic has been well, outside of Cooper Flagg,
there's a lot of players nobody's heard of.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
There's trades all over.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The place, and you don't know where anybody gets drafted,
and Colin Coward is getting selected, and you know, I understand,
I understand, I get it, but there's only so much
you can do. It's Night one of the draft. Night
one of the draft isn't the problem. It's when the
NBA thought, Hey, we're really feeling it. We're gonna extend
this thing to two nights. WHOA, okay, Like last year,
I kind of get it because hey, Bronny is going
(05:21):
night too, and it's a one person draft and it
was Browny, But like this is this is where you know,
the NBA some things I don't understand, Like I don't
understand why they don't make the the actual draft lottery
its own thing, its own television show, and a standalone product.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, yeah, we won't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We're gonna jam it in between Game three and Game four,
the second round of the NBA playoffs. But oh hey,
but but night too. We're gonna put this draft into
two nights. When the second night is is literally nobody
anybody is hurt, unless unless it's a unless you're the
fan of the team the guy is drafted from. Right,
Like if you're a fan of Saint John's, you want
(06:02):
to see when r. J. Lewis gets drafted, right, Or
if you're a fan of Kentucky but you're not watching
the draft because I don't care where my guy goes.
I don't care that hey he's gone right, Oh that's great.
I'll find it out tomorrow, Like, this is a night
where I go, Man, we sure we needed this, We
sure we needed two nights of the NBA Draft. I mean,
I think you could really have Night one of the
NBA Draft and go after the first fifteen picks. Okay,
(06:24):
we take it back to regularly schedule programming and we
can get you back when something happens. But I mean,
clearly night too. At the end, you gotta spice it
up with something. Man, this is this is valuable real
estate and you're basically running unopposed. Right, It's it's a
regular average night in Major League Baseball. It's regular season
for the WNBA. The NFL has gone. You are running unopposed,
(06:44):
and you're putting out a product that's just Ah, I'm
not even blaming ESPN's coverage of it.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's just you're putting out a product that This is why.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
The MLB Draft isn't really televised because you have to
you have to follow it online to find out where
people are getting drafted. Like that's kind of where this
is one step of above the MLB Draft.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Like, if you're gonna continue to do.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
This, this is the night the NBA has to fix.
Forget about Night one. This is the night they have
to fix because you have this whole week with trades
and free agency, and this is where you gotta build
some stuff in. This is where you talk to agents,
talk teams, say okay, we don't want any business announced
while the NBA Finals are going on, but hey, how
about we have something.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's okay to do it a day or two later.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
How about we have at night too of the draft, Like,
this is where you have to figure things out. This
is where it's all right, hey, our standalone product here.
The NBA Draft isn't quite as strong.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
As it could be. So this is let's add stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But especially night two, Hey, don't forget tune in Night two.
We're gonna get the details of a big trade or
something else. Or Sham's is out and he's breaking all
kinds of news and people are still calling WOJ and
wo just tell him to blank off. I don't do
this anymore. I mean, this is the night you need
to figure something out. It's it's a Thursday night, it's
a big night for television. You gotta figure that out.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
And that's the thing, right, is that it's still gonna
outrate whatever rerun they were gonna show if something else right,
or maybe maybe they draw crazy numbers for cornhole. I'm
not quite sure, but I think part of it is
the decision making of, hey, let's go to two nights.
You're always looking at what the NFL does and their
successes and thinking, again, it's going to be better advertising
(08:16):
and marketing because if you want in on day one,
well you got to buy some day two, even if
it's at a discounted rate. So from a dollars and
cents it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
The other part is you couldn't make it a one
year event because then you openly admit, damn it, we
only did it for Brownie, and no, no executives gonna
do that because all you were accused was with being
a bunch of sycophants and bowing to the moment lupy.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We only we only did the second round. But that's
the thing that I would love.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, if an executive got in front of a microphone
and flat out said that here's an actual press conference.
Yeah we're going back to one night. We did it
one year and it worked. You're a bunch of SAPs.
Thanks for the views and the looks were moving on,
but I think for the last couple of years, we've
championed the Lottery as its own standalone event. Right, Yeah,
(09:11):
you've got the ping pong ball thing, I say doing.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
On that night.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
All right, you're on the clock, you got the number
one pick. Let's go, I mean, do it all in
one fels. You have all these workouts, whatever else, bring
in as many guys as you want, and then it's
go time, like it's a fantasy draft. Come on, now,
you're on the clock, buddy, No phones, no phone, so
you can't get any outside help from anybody. But making
(09:36):
the lottery its own event and then picking up from
fifteen on because we saw it last night, right, did
what do we have?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We had the Celtics and the.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Bulls were the only two teams to actually do nothing
with their picks.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
They drafted where they had it.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
They didn't get a draft pick conferred to them there
and they and they didn't trade it out. Otherwise you're
trying to draw a diagram to see how it all
intersect and it might actually have the secret code to solving,
you know, the quest to find the Fountain of Youth.
Maybe better than John Krazinski did in that movie with
Natalie Portman that came out. Oh and Hucks was in
there too, so you got that going on. But yeah,
(10:13):
I mean that might be it, like it's a DeKota
ring drink more ovaltine. But other than that, you know,
tonight is truly the college experience. There's Proctor, there's some
names we know, but in terms of a grand celebration
of your sport, it pales. Like even yesterday, the number
of people we talked about it that had no idea
(10:35):
the draft was going on really was kind of eye opening.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, wait, what huh?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I mean sometimes the draft is a two player Now
NBA drafts are like one, two and maybe three player draft.
You're if you're lucky, it's a two player draft, right,
And usually the last couple of years it's been a
one player draft. The player last year was Brady, this
year it's Cooper Flagg. Well that's just how it goes.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
But I mean this year we got the gift of
Colin Coward, yeah, a Bailey. Yeah, we got multiple guys
caught on camera looking like they'd rather be beamed anywhere
else in the known universe then go play where they
were drafted. So I mean we did get some gifts
along the way and then look, well, we'll dive deeper
into teams as they come into focus, because let's face it,
(11:17):
there's a number of these squads that aren't done. Do
you think San Antonio's squad is gonna look like it does?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Now?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Are they gonna fight for who actually gets to be
the point guard? We got three guys go out there,
make it fast, you know that kind of thing. So
it'll be interesting to watch the next dominoes to fall.
But in the event itself, yeah, it fell short. And
certainly Night two is highly unnecessary except for the business
of sport, which you know, I celebrate like no other
(11:46):
Sure except for that Revel guy. But I don't have
his forty seven billion dollars or whatever he's got, so
I celebrate it here. As where as we watch pick
to pick and just say, look, I got a Northwestern
guy drafted, so tonight I won.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, No, you absolutely did.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You absolutely did, because like Syracuse hasn't had a guy
drafted in five years, but you had a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Drafted since they paid mellow right, Oh man?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean look, and and you know I would like
to do it. I'd like to see this. I'd like
to see the NBA. Say, listen, we we moved the
two rounds. It worked for Brody, it didn't work this year.
We'll get back to round two when Bryce gets drafted. Okay,
when it's time for Bryce James to get to the
NBA and Bron's gonna play with him, then.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
We'll go back to a second round. Well, I mean,
I would appreciate the honesty of it all. Hey, by
the way, because we have to complete the line and
the joke and often referenced for a Northwestern Wildcat. Who's
the last guy to get drafted? That was a Northwestern Wildcat?
Say it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Before that?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Before that, we go for a guy that ended up
playing at Kansas and had himself a career.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Rex Walls, Wow, Rex Walters, Oh my goodness, that's that's
taking that back.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, I'm claiming him. It's like Ken Griffy Jr. White
Sox Hall of Famer, Tom Seaver White Sox Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Uh, but yes, we are getting near the end of
the second round of the NBA draft for Libry. Well,
the Knicks got Kobe and then they traded him, So
I mean, you know it happens, But I mean really
this is this is really somes some kind of second
round of the draft.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yet uh no, not yet, not yet, that's not happening. Well,
they're saving that for day three. You might get see
what's changed since yesterday. Yeah he's saying, yet, yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Know what, His resolve is gone because now we're starting
to interview all sorts of guys.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Because I'm trying to fit well number one.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, as the more they expanded, eventually they might get
to him. But the other thing is that now I'm
trying to figure out what's a way for me to
get Frostburg to stop saying doc and maybe if I
agree with him that maybe it's coming, he'll stop. This
is like my own sanity thing now that I do
instead of saying what are you doing? That's like okay,
yes it's gonna happen now, can never stop, never stopping.
(14:10):
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popular player in the sport. Plus yes, we get to
Clayton Kershaw and two really impressive things about what he
is about to do baseball history wise.
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Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, we'll get to a day that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
We're gonna celebrate absolute history very very soon. But first
I gotta say this right on a night that the
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Draft, you know, Night two is really just you know,
it's just kind of there.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Tonight in the WNBA, Caitlin Clark is out right big
headline today. She's out again Groyd injury, which you're kind
of hoping, okay, is this is she been overdoing it?
Whatever it is, you know as far as her injuries,
because she never was heard at Iowa. She was healthy
all year last year and now all of a sudden,
here's two injuries that has kept her out a while.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And is it part of the weight program whatever it is.
You're creeping your fingers crossed, and so is a w
because you know she's the show.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So she doesn't play tonight and the Fever lose at
home to the Sparks. Now it's a big night for
Kelsey Plumb, who is who is someone who most basketball fans.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Know who Kelsey Plumb is.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They know some of her virtual highlights, some of her
viral highlights, throwing that T shirt into the crowd, you know,
being the all time leading scorer in D.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
One until Katelyn Clark broke the record, but.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
After autograph collectors for being creeps outside hotels.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah see, And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Is there photo ops that I mean, yeah, attractive woman.
So she has her following based on that, which lends
to that greep factor thing.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
But that's that's the thing, is that seeing what she's done.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I know, we're always looking for who's next in the
w right, Oh, page Becker's Page Beckers is great.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Paige Beckers is the next great player.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't know that this isn't gonna be the breakout
year popularity wise of Kelsey Plump because she's incredibly outspoken.
Right you see you see this that when when Page
Beckers was talking smacked her, she went viral for that.
You know, obviously you're talking about the autograph seekers. The
big video of her yelling about the referees and getting
fouled and scratches on my arms like Kelsey Plum is
(18:37):
a lot of fun. And then yes, obviously the serious
stuff about well you know what happens outside the hotels.
But then tonight like a big viral highlight. You know,
Kitlyn Clark not playing and she's ard because you know
Katelyn Clark, this is this is what she does like
she's not playing, and she wanted to step up and
argue a call with the official. And she steps on
the court and she starts yelling, and Kelsey Plump comes
(18:58):
over and starts screaming, Hey, hey, give her a sit out.
All right, you're standing on the court. You're standing on
the court. Kelsey Plum is a lot of fun man.
And I know we always look at the rookies and
say who's next, But this is the first couple of
years where hey, everybody's really seeing the WNBA for.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
The first time.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I don't know, Kelsey Plum might not be the big
breakout star popularity watching the w this year.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well you get a couple of huge wins, right, She's
she's good on the microphone. She's chirpy on the court,
as we've seen. You talk about the incident with Clark,
but just in general, we talked a lot about her
post game presser a couple of weeks ago where where
she went off about fouls not being called against her.
I mean it was extended conversation of the stuff we
(19:41):
have with Catelin Clark. Look at Sophie Gunneham, Right, she'd
been in the league six years and then she goes
to a whole other stratug.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
She commits one foul and all of a sudden, hey,
here goes another million followers on social media.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
That's all what that just did, right. Her TikTok views
go through the roof.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
People want to see her fit every time she's coming
to the stadium. Everything she posts has turns to a
whole other level of gold. So yeah, I mean there's
there's a spread the wealth the other is. You know,
I think as a league, as much as we've bemoaned
and been a leaders of watching this the last couple
of years of missteps and where they go, I think
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they're recognizing, you know, there is room for other people
to get some shine, and media members are being smart
enough to capture it as well. I mean, there's plenty
of personalities out here. Angel Reese has her knee bounds
and whatever else that that roll through. Still waiting for
Cameron Brink to become a star in her own right
(20:40):
right in her second year back off missing most of
last year with the injury. But yeah, for Kelsey Plumb
in little extra shine and it's not because of past
relationships or things of that nature. So it's it's good
for the w to have more and more people get
the shine. Whether that translates to rating, I don't know.
(21:00):
But just like Adam Silver does with the NBA, I mean,
start going into how many people are watching TikTok videos,
YouTube videos or whatever else and get in there and
sell sell.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Sell, Sophie Cunningham no, well listen, hey, so Sophie Cunningham
gets it and Kelsey Plum gets it right. This is
what players just just to finish with this before we
get to Clayton Kershaw. Is that is that instead of
players complaining and being jealous about Caitlin Clark and getting
all of the attention because hey, we've been here and
(21:31):
we built this league. Instead of complaining about how why
is she getting all of this and I'm not, Kelsey
Plum and Sophie Cunningham and other players are doing what
they should be. This is Hey, this is unprecedented attention
on us. I am gonna step up and make people
follow me. This is our big chance to get popular
and for people to understand that hey, whatever happened before
(21:52):
now happened.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I have a chance now.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Kelsey Plumb is thirty years olds, like she's been in
a league a year, year and a half and said, hey,
this is your chance.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
To really cut through and be a star.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yes, Angel Reese does a lot of stuff, and some
of the stuff she says, it's just really outlandish that
he kind of goes in one ear and out the other.
But she gets it. She had, Hey, this is my time.
I know that I get a lot. This is my
I gotta take advantage of the attention and become a star. Now,
this is what the players should be concentrating on, not
oh the jealousy of Caitlin Clark and committing fouls and
this and that, and coaches saying this is what they
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should you know, the chances here there is a big plate,
big smorgasport for you to step up and say, hey,
look at me. I can be a star too. And
it goes into everything about you, about about who you
are and how you present yourself and the optic you
want out there.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It's all there. This is what they should be concentrating on.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, I think we always go back to the idea
of any anything else that we talk about in marketing
and business. Right, you want to go into the shoe business, Okay,
it's a multi billion dollar game. You don't need a
large sliver to make a lot of money doing it right,
whether you're a player selling a shoe line. Right, Asia Wilson,
(23:01):
I've been getting some run for the last couple of days,
and now Nike's got the Caitlin Clark's coming out. I
think it's Monday or Tuesday of next week, all of
those things and going on down the line, talk about
soft drinks, talk about beer companies.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Whatever, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You don't need to be moved massive amounts of products
because it's a huge marketplace. A little sliver gets you
some run. The same thing here for the players. You
don't need to try to really creep into the Caitlin
Clark's stratosphere. You just get into the peripheral and folks
that are looking to spend money and get into the space.
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There's a trickle down effect that comes in. If you're
the number two, number five, number twelve, whatever that depth
chart is, and you're the right fit for a product,
right fit for some type of campaign, you're gonna get
a little bit of shine. And right now I think
you know as a league embracing it, and the individual players,
particularly the veterans, saying screw it it doesn't have to
be about the rookies. We're interesting, people were sellable. I mean,
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look at all the Cark insurance ads and whatever else.
Oh there all people that were in the league a
decade that started showing up on those beyond Caitlin Clark
and Jake.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swelling Dome, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon live from the.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Fox Sports Radio studio. So just a blueprint there. Maybe
you want to follow that.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Or if you have a great left arm and you
can really throw a hook, you want to follow the
blueprint of Clayton Kershaw, who after today is three strikeouts
away from absolute baseball history.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Now the payoff Pitch.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Cold Strike three, three to go, Dodgers TV on the call,
Clayton Kershaw now at two thousand, nine hundred and ninety
seven career strikeouts after the Dodgers win today in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And no, by the way, just for saying before we
get to.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
History, Clayton Kershaw so far this season four and oh
and his era is three. So maybe not quite the
Clayton Kershaw that we were used to, as you know,
first ballot Hall of Famer, but hey, uh, considering all
the injury problems that he's had and all the doctors
starters that can't stay healthy. Here he is at thirty
(25:19):
seven four and oh in an era of three. Now
it's not you know, de gram or Schemes or some
of these guys. Yeah, but this is still this is
a huge shot in the arm for the Dodgers. So
just for a second on Clayton Kershaw and what he's
what he's doing right now when the Dodgers need him.
But three strikeouts away from three thousand, probably do it
in the first inning against the White Sox. Oh, I'm sorry,
(25:41):
is that too?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Sorry? Sorry, Mike, that.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Would be one hell of an inning. There's no question
about it. Just a matter of how how long it takes, right,
But a.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Couple of things.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
First thing is this, and this is all I always
look at things, and I always I kind of think about,
you know, my mortality and our mortalities. When I think
about something that we're gonna see that, you wonder when
it's gonna happen again.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Definitely take the under, so Kershaw, take the for all
of us.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Oh, take the under for Kershaw. At thirty seven, he's
three strikeouts away from three thousand. He'll get there in
his next start. Okay, great, three thousand, the magical number.
Only nineteen people in the history of Major League Baseball
struck out three thousand, of the most recent obviously, Justin
Verlander did it a couple of years ago, so did Max.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Schuzer after Kershaw.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Chris Sale has about twenty five hundred strikeouts now he's
thirty six, but Chris Sale is still humming it right,
like this is not Chris Sale. Who is I'm still
just barely making it. So Chris Sale is still pitching
really well. He's still a strikeout guy. Chris Sale should
get there in another couple of years, barring, barring anything
(26:49):
crazy happening, right, we should see Chris Sale get there
after that. Again, I don't know if that's not the
last three thousand strikeout pitcher I'm gonna see in my life.
I want to think I got you know, I'm thinking
about years and years and years and years. But there
is nobody that I could say, oh, they're gonna get there, right,
(27:10):
like Garrett Coles at twenty two hundred, but he's thirty
five and he's missing this year, and he's he's been
injury prone, Like you really think he's gonna get another
eight hundred strikeouts after that, There's really nobody that's even close.
There's nobody that's even started their career you could say
would get to three thousand strikeouts. No, starting pitchers don't
pitch as much as they used to. They don't go
deeper into games. They're not taught to strike out, you know,
(27:31):
they're taught to pitch to contact a little bit more,
to save their arm and save the wear and tear.
So I mean, really, you you get outside of Chris Sale,
which probably sometime in twenty twenty seven, maybe late twenty
twenty seven, that's it. I mean, we may not see
that again. We may not see a lot of things
in Major League baseball. I mean, the next three thousand hits,
(27:52):
the next the next three hundred win pitcher, like these
are all things that we may not see in our lifetimes.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And and and it's real.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Crazy because growing up, like we saw this every few years,
not all the time, but we saw guys, Hey, three
thousand hits, every four or five years. A guy would
get there, right, three hundred wins, Hey, guy would get there.
Now it's like we really may not see those things
happen again. In our lifetimes. We could be fifty years
away from potentially saying and again, we may not see
(28:20):
it again, because is baseball ever gonna get back to? Hey,
starting pitcher is gonna go longer? Right, are we gonna
get back? Or starting pitcher is gonna pitch like we're
gonna pitch seven eight innings? Are gonna pitch two hundred
and fifty innings? Yet that's not happening, right, pictures get
to one hundred and seventy five innings, It's okay, one.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hundred seventy five innings. We gotta watch out for that.
We gonna go to a six man rotation.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
All of these things like these are days in sports
that are gone and not coming back. So like when
Kershaw get in a three thousand, I'm be damn sure
I'm in front of the television to see that because
I want to think Chris Sale's gonna get there. But
I mean, if he doesn't, this could be the last
time I get to see that happen. I mean really,
And I love seeing history, right, It's one of the
reasons why I do what I do. I love sports history.
I love seeing this and there's and and especially baseball,
(29:00):
which is built on history more than any other sport,
and that really might be This really might be it
for things that you and I grew up on, that
we saw so regularly, that was so celebrated.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
This might be it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well, I mean, let's let's have a little more fun.
Going down the list of active players on the strikeout list.
You got Da Coole, next guy after him, Charlie Morton, Yeah,
not getting there.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Charlie Morton's fifty seven years old.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Two thousand, Yeah, where it says forty one, but I
question it. You Darvish is just over two thousand, he's
thirty eight. Then you got Gossman, Nola, Sonny Gray. These
guys are all twelve hundred or more later. I mean,
Noel's only thirty two, but is he pitching another eight
years to get there? No Patrick Korman, Jose Kantana, your
(29:46):
guy de Grom, I mean, those are all the guys. Next,
I mean Zach Wheeler. He's thirty five, so that's not happening.
You go to the Wins, as you brought up, and
because I wanted to bring Kershaw back in here as
dominanting as he's been.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
He's a two f fifteen, right, he's at two fifteen.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
The only guy that has the shot and you know,
physically is he gonna get there is Justin Verlanders thirty
eight away, But is he gonna hold up physically that's
another three years?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah no, that's hell no, Justin Verlander is not getting there.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
So like not getting he's at two sixty two, he's
he's the next uh.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And then you go for me, he was at to eighty.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I would say, maybe he's got an outside chance, like
maybe an outside at two eighty.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
But that that's that's not how And then we get
down to schures Are at two sixteen, Kershaw at two fifteen. Uh,
and it drifts from there. So all those metrics that
we grew up, you know, and milestones, and I think
this is the you know, the larger point. Not only
do we get robbed as baseball fans, is you know,
we don't get to see that, And maybe we have
to appreciate what we had as kids when we'd have
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three guys reach the three thousand hit mark or strikeout mark,
and we know in a season and a half, uh,
and then I'll retire at the same time so they
can go in as of the greatest classes of all time.
But now we're like, all right, we got to change
the metrics. Does it become twenty five hundred hits? Does
it become you know, two hundred wins. We've been talking
about the two hundred win threshold in Major League Baseball,
(31:14):
you and I for going on a long time, and
I think that gets highlighted here once again. The strikeouts
as well. You can have guys with crazy ass strikeout
per nine rates. I mean, we're watching Mizerowski with the Brewers.
Is that going to be multiplied out long enough to
get them to three thousand?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Damn? I hope it. It does.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Right that we're sitting in rocking chairs ahead of coming
in to do the show and being able to do that.
But in the interim, it's like, all right, let's enjoy
it for what it is. And guys like Kershaw, the
old workhorses who get pissed off at the start times
a minute different that they're still there for us.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I mean, of those someone getting the three thousand hits
maybe is the one on the outside, because could in theory,
jose L Twov get there? Yeah, could Freddie Freeman maybe
as long as he's hitting it at forty years old
like he is at thirty five. Yeah, but those are
all outside chances like this, but this with three thousand strikeouts,
three hundred, like the pitching milestones, just we're just never
(32:15):
gonna see again.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Different world, man, we live in a different world. Exit.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
How about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Time, how to
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Speaker 2 (32:38):
I knew it was too good to be true.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
I was like Charlie Brown, and then Lucy pulled the
football away brilliantly, well done, Thank you, I could run.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I got three more for you tonight.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
I doot, don't worry about oh, I can't wait. Oh
good grief, As Charlie would say, well in reference to
pulling the football away before a kick. We start in
the NFL, and today the NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens
placekicker Justin Tucker for ten weeks for violations of the
NFL's personal conduct policy. Tucker presently a free agent, was
(33:15):
accused of sexual misconduct by sixteen massage therapists in the
Baltimore area, and after the suspension was announced, Tucker's agent
released a statement reading, in parts and I quote, we
are disappointed with the NFL's decision. In order to put
this difficult episode behind him and get back on the
(33:37):
field as soon as possible, we have advised Justin to
accept this resolution and close this matter. The people who
know Justin best know his character and understand that he
is deeply dedicated to his most important lifetime roles as
a father, husband, and friend. Unquote excuse me for a second, guys, Sorry,
(34:05):
I find that found that a little difficult to.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
So you know, I got to know. I got it
from you.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
In Major League Baseball, on Thursday night, Jason's New York
Mets shut out the Atlanta braves Ford and Nothing to
take over first place in the National League East by
half a game over the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That was what you say, I know, we haven't been
playing well. Can you say that again? First place?
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
First place?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Because the Phillies lost at Houston earlier, so the Mets
are now in first place. That means they have the
best record in the National League East, first place.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
So that was the good news.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
The bad news Mets starter Griffin Canning had to leave
the contest due to a non contact left achilles injury.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It looks like he blew his achilles another pitching it.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh, we we're just sensitive to it.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
But he is going to have imaging, however, sensitive to
it obviously because of what happened with Tyre's Halliburton in
the NBA finals. And finally, speaking of the NBA, Round
two of the the NBA Draft concluded moments ago, and
for the record, the final pick of the draft, aka
the NBA equivalent of the NFL's mister Irrelevant Tennessee Volunteers
guard Jamia Mayshak picked by the Memphis Grizzlies. So from Tennessee,
(35:17):
he goes from Knoxville to Memphis, so he stays in
the state.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Back to you guys, thank you, Ilo, thank you, kersh
appreciate it, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, and Clayton kersher a
lot from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Well, coming up next,
Now that the night two of the NBA Draft is
in the books, we're looking ahead at what we could
see in free agency.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And I got a big Bowl prediction.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'm gonna scare you, Mike Carmon, because there is something
I said was gonna happen. Now I no longer think
it's gonna happen. Oh okay, thing it's good now, No
longer is it gonna happen. That's next right here, Jason
to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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a sneaking suspicion it's going to be a strike three.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Now, the payoff pitch cold Strike three.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Three to go, Joe Davis Dodgers TV on the call. Yes,
Clayton Kershaw, Now.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Three is not Joe Davis. That's not Joe Davis. Three
strikeouts away from three.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Thousand for his career. We talked about that a few
minutes ago. We'll have more baseball on the way. But
as we're looking at the end of the NBA Draft
Round two, Uh, I'll tell you what, Mike, there's one
thing that I said was gonna happen, and I was
sure it was gonna happen. I'm convinced it was gonna happen.
(37:19):
Now I think it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I said, Okay, that's a lot of circular way to
get there.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
It is. It is like something I said.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I'm like, no, absolutely, but you know, I look, it's
like that, you know, the Colin Coward promo with with
new information, you know, your your opinion evolves, right, different
things happen. You can't ignore new information.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I said.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
When the season ended, I said, Okay, Knicks are getting
a new head coach. Karl Anthony Towns is gone. He's
absolutely gone, and the Knicks are going to try to
find a way with a new mix, new head coach
knew everything. After the last week or so, I no
longer think that's gonna happen. I think the Knicks are
not going to do anything big in the offseason except
maybe try to bring in some to take some of
(38:01):
the burden off of Jalen Brunson or a couple of
guys so they can have a little bit of a bench,
because look, clearly that was one of uh Tibbs's faults.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Was oh man, uh we did you know? We didn't
have a bench.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
We had to play the same five guys. But looking
at the Eastern Conference, right you have the Celtics without
Jason Tatum, who knows, and they getting rid of Porzingis,
They're ridd of Drew Holiday. They are gearing up for
another year from now. Okay, so scratch the Celtics. Right
here are the Pacers NBA finalists, a game away from
winning it all. No Tyres Halliburton likely for the entire
next year. Okay, cross them off. The Knicks are gonna say,
(38:36):
why are we going crazy? Maybe with a new head
coach with a little bit different philosophy, a little bit
more of an attention to detail on defense, that can
maybe hide Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Jalen brought to it a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
You can't hide them both when they're on the court together, man,
Maybe just.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Put them right next to each other.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Okay, spread Now, I know Wenby's learned some of that
stuff from doctor Strange where we can be in two
places at the.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Same time and all. But I don't know, man, But I.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Know longer think the Knicks are gonna do anything big
and they're gonna say, Okay, how do we re how
do we combat this that we still think except well,
if Doc brings again, if Doc brings Giannis, then all right,
then if Doc brings Jeannie, but the but the but
the Bucks are saying they're hoping that that the Doc
(39:19):
staying would hope Jannis would still wondering what what that meant.
But I I really I don't. I don't see the
Knicks doing anything. Look that they'll go get depth and
they'll go out and they'll make moves in free agency
because they need you. They need to need another guy
that can score another option somewhere.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
They will do that, But the big.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Moves not gonna happen because they're the Eastern Conference favorites
coming out of this season. Right, Yes, the Cavaliers had
a great year, but boy they got They got knocked
out of the playoffs really easy in the second round.
The Knicks go into this saying, and I can see it.
I don't one hundred percent agree with it, but I
get the philosophy of, Hey, we don't need to go
crazy doing stuff because two of our biggest competitors are
(39:59):
without their best player. It's for likely most if not all,
of next year. And the Celtics already seem like they're
they're rebuilding on the fly, and who knows what the
Pacers are gonna be. Was this just a moment in
time for them? So yeah, maybe we don't need to
do that. Maybe maybe we need to just try to
figure this and wait till the trade deadline. If we
need something to trade deadline, we can do something of
the deadline. But now I think the Nix will more
(40:19):
stand pat and it's gonna be their next head coach
comes in and this is gonna be a new way
of doing things, and the new way of doing things
will be what the Knicks hope does it in the season.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Well, I mean, you don't want to act out of desperation,
and certainly the marketplace when you see what Durant's trade
value was, what are you getting? I mean, I obviously
there's an age difference, but Carl Anthony downs as a
much different level of deficiency at one part of his game.
Even if we do the chronological thing of hey, he's
(40:50):
that much younger, so dot dot dot.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
At least Kevin Durant play some defense.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
So you know, if you if all you're gonna get
is a would be could be kind of guy and
a bunch of second round picks, why go into the marketplace,
look at your Eastern conference and reevaluate as the slew
of things begin across the league.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Telling you I thought there would do something big. Now
they're not. But speaking up big.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
It's not every day somebody turns down a max extension
in the NBA, But that happened.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
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start the summer, so big deal in Major League Baseball.
Tonight we watch Clayton Kershaw get three strikeouts away from
that magical, mystical number of three thousand. We may not
see it again for a while after this. Joining us
now on the hot line for more on this and
(42:23):
all the big news in Major League Baseball. MLB Network
insider Extraordinaire John Paul Morosi, Who I believe.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Are you in Italy right now? Are you with the Pope?
John Paul? What has happened?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
My goodness? Well, I will say this, Blana said, I
am back in the States now. So if I were
in Italy, let's see, it would be a good morning
call from there. It'd be five, let's say five twenty
am in Rome. My Circadian rhythms are still sort of
(42:54):
playing catch up a little bit. But I am back
in the States. We got that actually almost twenty four
hours ago, so adjusting and loved it. Did not interview
the Pope unfortunately, but however I did interview the president
of the Italian Baseball Softball Federation. How about that? So
(43:17):
I met him. He joined us for dinner. Moco Moraco
Matzieri Modica Mazieri, a dear friend of mine. We actually
met for dinner and I interviewed him. The part of
the interview we're hoping is that it will air on
MLB network next week. And I also drove a car
(43:42):
in Rome, which was its own very challenging and beautiful experience.
I will tell this very quick story. I was trying
to leave Rome to go to the airport. I had
parked my rental car, which again is a leap of
faith in and of itself. I had parked the rental
car down a one way road, which is a generous
(44:05):
way of saying that I probably shouldn't even have parked
it there, and I was trying to get it out
to go to the airport when I realized that I
was stuck behind a tomato truck that was unloading and
was not going to be move in for a very
very long time, and I said, this isn't good. I
got to go to the airport with my family, and
(44:25):
so I decided to rather than wait and potentially miss
my flight, I decided to put the car in reverse
and drive backwards down a one way in the opposite
direction of what I was supposed to be doing, much
to the astonishment of all the Romans who were watching
this American crawl backwards down this one way road. And
(44:49):
as I looked to my left, as I was about
halfway down my journey, when I was moving about a
foot every minute approximately, I looked at this this guy
on a vespa, because if my window was rolled down
on the course in Rome, like you know, you can
basically reach out and you know, I could have given
him a high five, but he was not in a
mood to do that. So he basically he saw me
(45:12):
doing this, and he looked at me and he said
to say, moato, which means you are incompetent.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
It sounds so much more elegant the way they say it.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
Yeah, it just sounds a little better to Sato, to
which I wanted to say, like da Veda vedo, you know, soul,
like I know that I am, But what the hell
am I supposed to do here? Guys, I gotta get
the car out of the street. So it was pretty funny.
I made the flight. We all made the flight, and
(45:47):
we got a fun story to tell.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
So did you like drive around the Vatican yelling Pop
John Morossi MLB Network come on out.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
I'm I know he had that.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Pig ad Manda bullpen the Chicago White Sox. That was
That was what I was trying to say. But somehow,
somehow that wasn't good enough. But but again, a wonderful
time in so many ways. Got to spend a little
(46:20):
bit of time in a small seaside village called Porto.
So if you have ever a chance to look at
it in the map or go there, I would highly
recommend it.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
I saw that from the I saw the guy from
the Chosen who plays Jesus in that he got a
picture with him yesterday at the Pope's big thing.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
I was like, oh, maybe maybe you needed it more
of a religious opening, John, And.
Speaker 5 (46:46):
Again, like my my thought on it was this, would
I have wanted to sort of spend an entire day
of the of the vacation waiting in line? Or or
did I want to see Rome with my and and
again when you got a family of five and the
other four people who obviously are the most important people
(47:07):
in my in my world, love them all so much,
but they they like, they liked none of my ideas.
None of them like any of my ideas about what
to do. So when you're that situation, I don't know
that would have been that would have been risky. I
think if I would have said, Okay, hey, girls, we're
just gonna stand in line for a whole day. I
(47:31):
wanted to do it so much, but I felt as
though discretion was the better part of valor on this one.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
Well, I eventually you have to go home with your family,
and the Pope is still going to.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
Be in that That's right, That's right.
Speaker 5 (47:44):
I'm I'm staying a prayer and at some point maybe
i'll maybe I'll have a chance to meet him. But
I'll hopefully that's the next time.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Now, Look, obviously, look back in the States here as
you are the big story. Hey Clayton Kershaw now three
strikeouts away from three thousand, and you know, these are
fun conversations.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
That we have once in a while.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
And I look at it and I go, Okay, Kershaw
is going to get there the next start. You may
get there in the first inning against the White Sox.
Chris Sale will probably get there in the next two years.
But after that, John Paul, we may not see anybody
get the three thousand strikeouts again in our lifetime.
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Well, it's a great question. And do I think Paul
Skeen's has a shot. I do. I think Skens could
do it. But the thing about these numbers that I
love about baseball is that you've got to be great,
and you've got to be great from a very young age.
(48:46):
And obviously the durability element with pictures especially is real,
and the amount of injuries even for Kershaw. Let's think
about this way. Kershaw different from Skins. Kershaw was a
high school pick. He started accumulating these strikeouts at the
age of twenty and was about as dominant as you
could possibly imagine for a decade and a half. And yeah,
(49:08):
of course there have been injuries that have intervened in
the time more recently, But so I think Skeens has
a shot. He of course is a college pick and
not a high school pick, and so that that makes
it a little harder for Paul. But he does have
that kind of ability, and he's off to that kind
of start. Look at his numbers so far, but it
(49:31):
is unbelievable what he's been able to do. So Skeens
is probably the one guy that I think has has
a shot to do it who's active right now on
the younger side. But you know, you look at recent times.
Felix Fernandez a very interesting case because Felix was was
great early, but then we just saw the inability to
(49:52):
stay durable. And that's why I'm a big believer. Three
thousand strikeouts, these are special numbers. It'd all be very
I think appreciative of watching an all time great like
Kershaw achieve a number like this.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
Yeah, and it gets to go against my White Sox,
so that makes it all the better for me.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
And and by the way I heard Jason's that was
a very interesting comment that Jason may that he might
get in the first innings. He's saying he might strike
out the side in the first inning to get it.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
That would be a wizard that.
Speaker 5 (50:23):
So we all can do the math here. We all
know with three strikeouts the first.
Speaker 4 (50:28):
Inning with me, Well, the beauty of it, though, JP
is he can try to match Miserowski.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
I mean you mentioned schemes, let's go to the other.
Speaker 4 (50:36):
I mean, we get fifty four thousand for a Pirates
and Brewers day game.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
How great is life for baseball?
Speaker 5 (50:42):
Unbelievable? And that's where Misserowski man. He has been in
so many ways just as impressive. And listen, he again,
it's so early to start putting three thousand strikeouts on him.
We haven't. We haven't seen him him quite for a
full season yet. But my goodness, electrifying, simply electrifying. And
(51:09):
and this is where you're exactly right. A matchup between
the Pirates and the Brewers was the talk of the
sport for a day. I was even hearing about it
over in Italy. So that that's that's what a big
deal was. So I think that for for Miserowski, he's
given the Brewers a real boost. I think, you know,
there's his arm and just the way that he has
(51:31):
gone about it and taken the sport by storm. Hopefully
we see him join Skiings in the in the World
Baseball Classic in the spring. I would love to see it.
I just think he's he is special and uh, it
gives me as a as a Midwest smaller market guy.
It does give me a lot of joy that that
(51:52):
I realized that the pirates are not really able to
capitalize on skins is brilliance right now. But it is
pretty cool to see two of the smaller marcus in
the game having two of the very most talented pitches
we have seen in a very very long time.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Fox Sports Radio, John Paul Morosi, our guest Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
Sports Radio studios. All right, so, John Paul, here we are.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
We're getting set. We're about a month away from the
trade deadline. We're getting to that point. We're getting close.
We're getting close to to July here, and we see.
Speaker 3 (52:24):
Some teams heating up, some teams doing some things.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
If I had to say to you right now, what's
the name that we're going to be talking about a
lot over the course of the next few weeks. Today,
this is going to be the guy available.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
This is gonna be you teams. This is the big fish.
Who would you tell me?
Speaker 5 (52:43):
Well, good framing of the question, because I will say
Sandy A of the Miami Marlins, big fish. Good well
played by you on the question. But I have the
other name in addition is sandy that I'll say that
I actually discussed today on MLB Network is Chris Bubach,
(53:03):
who I think is not a big name for a
lot of people in baseball, but he is to me
an all star. He is, I think on his way
to a career year, and with the current issues that
the Royals have scoring runs, I'm just not sure they're
going to be able to get into this race in
(53:25):
a meaningful way. They're below five hundred right now, They're
double digit games behind the Tigers right now in the
American League Central. So if I'm the Royals, I'm listening
intently on the potential of someone giving me two bats
to get a Chris Bubach. Does that end up being
a Chicago Cobbs, for example, just given where their needs
(53:46):
are for getting one more starting pitcher. I mean that that,
to me is where I'm going with this, that Boubach
should be at least as intriguing to teams as al
Conta is. I think al Conta is probably a little
more of a easy, easy name to mention because the
Marlins are such obvious sellers. But Boobach is in the
(54:06):
same service time class free agent after twenty twenty six,
and for me is at the absolute peak of his powers.
It's made some adjustments this year, he's going to be
an All Star. So I think the number one is
Alacantas simply because he's so obvious and the team is
so so certainly going to listen to offers for him.
(54:29):
But I think a close second for me is Boombach
because if the Royals can't figure this thing out offensively,
very very soon, they need to listen. And I do
wonder if, because Boobich is so so affordable right now
and also under contract for next year, if there might
be a team or two that steps forward and makes
(54:49):
a real strong offer that creates the type of market
that will force JJ Piccolo the Royal team to really
consider moving him.
Speaker 1 (54:58):
He's on ax that John morow see that as at
John Morosi MLB Network Insider and before, because I always
forget John Paul I need to. I forget who's that
new player on the Royals that came up.
Speaker 3 (55:09):
He's such a highly touted prospect. What his name always
escapes me? What's his name?
Speaker 5 (55:14):
Goleanoneone? Jack Glean Okay, And basically I was I was
saying it that way. I just I was walking down
the street glee. And by the way, I was I
was reading, uh, reading the very fittingly Anthony Door's book,
(55:36):
which is Four Seasons of Room. Highly recommend it, and
in it he said he said something that I think
is very true that certain words in Italian sound like
a song when you say them gallianone is one of them,
but the other, the other one is the actual the
number five hundred and fifty five. Chink wichento chikuan ta cinque.
(55:56):
That's how you say it, shinkui cento, quanta chinkwe. It's
just like there are just certain words in the language
that that sing ge is now one of them.
Speaker 3 (56:08):
Why, I tell you, got my dad doing it? Now?
Speaker 1 (56:09):
My dad will come over in the first thing, He'll
say walking in and I'll go k. He just comes
in and says that now you.
Speaker 3 (56:17):
Got to do it.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
Say it nice and slow, and then maybe it's gonna
catch on because they say said the official pronunciation the
MV pronunciation guide is caglione. Guys, no, absolutely not the
official pronunciation. We're gonna We're gonna go with what does
(56:38):
it say in the MLB official pronunciation or what does
it say in the entire country Okay. If you ask
anybody from the entire country, how do you say this,
they will all say it.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
Yeah. One is romanticized.
Speaker 4 (56:52):
The other sounds like he's ready to take you out
back and whack you.
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Again. The romance. The romance wins, like romance always wins.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
John Paul is always buddy, appreciate it. Uh, glad you're back.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
Have fun, great to be back.
Speaker 3 (57:13):
All right, we'll look up and make sure you can
send it on the radio. All right. I'll make sure I.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
Think you said I'll see you in hell, because that
would fit with John Paul BARROSSI.
Speaker 3 (57:22):
I just told us we'll see us in hell.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
Like well, I mean breaks character when he changes language.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
I mean, I don't know, it's a different personality.
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