Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon are missing Chris Berman on Home Run Derby night. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the knuckleheads for all the latest news from training camps.  And Jason tells you if Lebron James is getting traded. Plus, a visit from Twins All-Star Pitcher Joe Ryan! 

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

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Monday, the Jason Smith Show with
my base friend Mike Harmon, who is back.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
After a week vacation. Just let you know what he did.
He went out, did I do?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
He stole a lot of baseball cards from her shop,
sold them on eBay, tried to get out with the money, couldn't.
He is now a waiting prosecution, but the ankle Braceley
as on will allow him to do the shows until
that until that day comes.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
You know, it's kind of funny because there's been a
lot of that in the news, trading card shows and
Pokemon being thefted.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Ah, so you're taking Pokemon cards now, I would know
what battle it was. Pachu Pikachu and mega charges are. Yeah,
mega charges are. That's a big one.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
The charge as aren't always the big ones. And now
you got Gary Vee's got his whole line of like
crudely drawn animals that that he's got a set and
like it. It's crazy times. But yeah, I did go
to one card shop. I bought an Englbert humperdink. So
take that? Really there you go, Wow, you bought it.
You went to a well okay, so wait wait, wait
all the sports collecting cards and you bought Engelbert humper.

(01:38):
I bought a Rookie Shack card, a Dick Stockton autograph card,
a Jerry Glennville autograph card, and an Engelbert humperdink. That
is the kind of vibes that I bring to a
card shop. You want what for this guy that's only
played eight major league games? No, give me the Engelbert. Okay,
tons of hits still going strong. No, but I mean

(01:58):
fun trip to Virginia. Obviously I missed being with y'all
last week. We tried to make some stuff work, and
well we took some time for soccer and movies. That's
kind of what we did. I signed up for a
letterbox to count I'm really excited. I'm gonna start blitzing
the hell out of that. Yeh okay, all right, well,
very very good. Hey not nice little vacation in the

(02:19):
middle of summer? Are yeah? You good? It worked? I mean,
other than those pesky thunderstorms and lightning strikes, that's what
you're gonna get. That's why you keep going back to Virginia.
And I shake my fists, going, why am I spending
a lot of money to come to Virginia for a
thing where you're gonna cancel half the events. Just gotta
avoid the lightning. Just avoid the lightning. I tried to
drive the lightning. Yeah no, but driving in the rain,

(02:40):
you know, that was that was an interesting experience. Now,
much like we are seeing right now, try to avoid
the lightning. The home run derby happening right now. All
Star Week has begun and commenced in Major League Baseball.
We are nearing the finale, and I want to say this,
right as we you know, we take a look at

(03:02):
a lot of fun stuff was going on.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Look on Neil Cruz's home run, which was what eight
thousand feet earlier tonight, Poor cal Rawley, big dumper, did
not was not able to hit him with a pitch. Yeah,
I know, Well I think there's some issues that maybe
they have to work on. If your dad hit you
with a pitch, there's some ursues you gotta work on.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Dad, you hit me. Yeah, okay, we gotta we gotta
work on you never went inside on Zoe when you
were We gotta work on this. But you hit the
you know, throw it a little bit hard inside just
see hey, you know, get her off the plate. But
there Look, there's two things from the home run derby
right which we're seeing right now, the semifinal uh Buckson
and Junior Camenero cal Rally and O'Neil Cruz. The first

(03:44):
thing I want to say is this, It is the
one day a year, maybe more so than any other,
that I missed Chris Berman. Like, you really can't have
Berman come out just to do that. The guy built ESPN.
You can't have him come out and do his back
by back back for all five thousand home runs that
are hit, I mean, like my favorite was always watching

(04:05):
when you get into the third and fourth rounds of
Berman's voices gone in its back brack brack god back
buck back buck back back like the number of backs
he must have said, Like I don't know what the
most backs he has ever said in one home run
derby is. But I mean, really like.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
NFL Primetime with all the nicknames, right and and and
this and really the home run Derby, like this is
where Berman should be out telling stories about things and
Frank Thomas back in nineteen ninety three with it Jim.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
And you know, give Tom Jackson with a put tj
now even though he doesn't know baseball, fine, yea though,
Really I mean I say it every year, and I
hope at some points like it, Okay, Burman's gonna be said,
Bourbon's just turned seventy. I'm like, okay, let you know,
let's let's get him out here. I mean, it's great
to hear Carl Ravings go, oh my goodness, what a drive?
Oh how long was that yet? But you know, I
really would like to hear once and all. I mean,

(04:52):
is it too much to ask for Hespan to go, hey,
you know, dust off the guy that helped build the place,
and put him out there for like the big signature
event you know he would love.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
So we can just go back back back back back
back back back back back, god, back back back god,
back back god.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah. I'm not sure it was on the radio call,
but I heard a little of it as I was
driving in and they were guessing, So I have no
idea what their vantage point was. Like it's it, man, Like, wait,
just watch you watch it on TV and do the call, okay,
and then we'll actually have some semblance of certainty. Do
it all. But to your point with Berman, isn't he
still under contract with them? They still pay him?

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah. Tops did a big set, right, They did
a tribute with a baseball set where they had a
full nickname insert set bo did Lee Jackson.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I think he's still doing the whatever the prime
time on ESPN Plus. It's like, I think he's still
doing those two things like that, you're still.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Paying his ass. I mean you brought him out. Let
him do it, hey, okay, let him do it. I
mean really, I mean, just to hear you know, you
have to send him that I have him be in
the studio just.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Back back back back back back back back back back
back back back god.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Even if you don't want to have them on the
main telecast, you got forty seven channels. Give me that
as an uption I. In fact, you don't even say
anything else. Just have them on, just saying back back
back back back back god.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
And then if it's not when you just hear you
hear the crack of the bat and you don't hear anything,
you know, Okay, it's it's not a home run.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Pop it on a string. Yeah no, just just tell
you pull the string. It doesn't yell there's a snake
in my boot. No, it just goes back. Save your voice,
save your voice. And just when it looks like a
home run, back back back back back back back.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Back god, line, drive down, yep, pop up, pop up,
swinging a miss taking pitch, well you bust out.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Back back back back back back back back back.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
God, but bust out the old replay machine. You only
need to have like ten things on there. Foul ball,
foul ball, just dressed it. Line, drive, pop up, oh,
pop up, pop up?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Back back back back back go on back back back
back back back back back back go on.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
And that's say gone, So you know that that's a
home run because he goes back back, because sometimes back
back back back, and then the next pitch has already come, and.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
That's back back back back back back back, gone.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, because every once in a while you would have
a Harry Carey like in situation that would unfold r yeah,
back back back. It caught it at the edge of
the I'll field grass, Dunstan juts it back to the infield.
That's too way.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Like the other other thing is now is again We're
in the middle of the semifinal round. Junior Camenaro hits
eight home runs and twelve swings with a minute left
to make it to the final.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
So now it's gonna be between cal Rally and O'Neill
Cruz to get to the final.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Every everybody wants to fix the home run derbt, like
as we just tried to fix back I had fixed
with a whole other event.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Everybody, everybody wants to fix the home runder just like
they want to fix the NBA All Star Game every year.
Let's fix that. Let's fix this, like, let's become the thing. Now,
how do we fix the home run derby? Okay, first
of all, understand that there's only so much you can do.
It's a guy throwing the ball and guys trying to
hit home runs like that's what it is. There's there's
nothing else it's it's a guy throwing pitches and guys

(08:18):
trying to hit home runs.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Like that's what it is the only thing I can say.
And I'm being realistic now you're talking about Okay, I
not to fix it, but the event is a little long.
But I understand that.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
But the first few, the first round, the matchups are
just way too long. There's too many pitches, there's too
many swings, and then you have the extra pitches that
you earn, like there's just two, like like three minutes
to hit in the beginning too. It's just too long, right,
And to get through all the first round matchups, it
feels like it takes forever. You're like, okay, and the

(08:49):
next matchup coming up here, it's a you know, we
have only three more matchups in round one. It's like,
oh my, come on, man, you have more matchups. So
they're a little too long because there's not a lot
going on other then these guys swinging, you know, hitting
dingers like if you wanted them.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
It feels like you're making fun of Jazz Chishem. You just, hey,
Jazz Chisholm is a volume swinger, all right. He is
a volumes not.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Volume home run hitter because volume run here would be hey,
he gets like one hundred and fifty pitches to hit
twenty five home runs. No, he's a volume swinger because
he was forty pitches for four home runs. He is
a volume swinger. Okay, that's what that's what jazz chishlm is.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
But like, just to make it move a little bit fast,
that's all I asked for. That's not anything. Oh look,
what would you do? How would you fix it?

Speaker 6 (09:30):
Now?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
The only thing is it is just a little slow
in this bit of front. Once you get into the
semi five of five. Okay, great, yeah, that's awesome. Okay,
that's fine. But the first round, because you're getting all
these stories and then here's who this kid is, and
then here's who this guy is in a store, and
it's just it's just too long. And again I'm talking
about something three minutes that's just too long. You know,
that's what she said, three minutes is just too long.

(09:52):
I was watching the Office before I came in tonight's
watching it. It's just okay, that's the only thing I
feel like. Okay, the first round kind of dre a
little bit, right, so you can find something where hey,
instead of instead of this, you're gonna get ten swings
or but you want to see a volume home run,
So I get, but just some just juice it a
little bit, so it's not quite as slow in the

(10:13):
first round. Yeah, but it takes guys a little bit
of that time to warm up and get into a
groove and then and then it starts to flow right,
And obviously when we get to the later rounds, you
worry about fatigue and have you swung yourself out like
you're a prize fighter. So I understand a little bit
of that. But but all in it's you know, you
get get what you signed up for. Everybody swinging for

(10:34):
the downs. H Well, it's really an emblematic of the
Major League Baseball game that we have now right, three
outcomes and occasionally your dad hits you with a pitch.
But it's the just the idea of for the timing
and moving it along. Like if you're into it, you're
you're in right. Like to me, I'm only moderately intrigued.

(11:00):
I don't have the sound of a Burman background, which
I have you sitting with me in studio back back
brack breck breck brag so I don't fill it in yeh.
But but in general, it's like it's an event that
was never you know, my favorite there were a couple
of years where you got interested, right, Josh Hamilton's year,
SOSA and those guys when they participated kind of a

(11:20):
big deal and and I like that Common Arrow and
some of the young guys and cal Rawley capitalizing on
what is a massive year because even when they went
to give him a towel to wipe his face during
the time out, it had the big dumper brand. Uh,
you want to talk about it. You're trying to sell
that man, of course, But that's the thing, right, lean

(11:40):
into it. Likewise, if that means a couple extra minutes
of screen time, have at it. Yeah, I mean, look,
it's it's every everything else. You can only ask all
Star Games events like this. You can't ask it to
be something it's not. But yet we've we've fixated on
these things like that has become a default topic. Like
every Okay, the home run derby had Okay, yeah, it's okay,

(12:02):
So it is the only thing going on, you know,
the only big I mean Summer League stuff going on, obviously,
but the big events, Okay, it's not a whole night
of baseball. So I get it, and there's a lot
of scrutiny on it, but it's really it's guys hitting home.
I mean, sometimes I don't know what people want. The
old thing that we bring up all the time, Kevin
Durant don't like it. Don't watch right if it's a

(12:22):
little bit long, long winded. As long as the guy's
telling some stories, right, keep bringing guys, trotting them through
the former players that are hanging around luminaries and get
everybody to give you a nice spin, a nice yarn.
While we're waiting for the thirty eighth pitch of jazz
Chisholm's time just to run out thirty eight swings guys,
three home runs, three home runs, volume all you swinger,

(12:46):
you know. But I'd also like to add another event.
I mean, I was watching video of the Korean bunt derby, okay,
right from the Korean League. So you got to get
it in zones and you get scores based on how
well you get a bunt down. Give me that, Okay,
some skill involved, as opposed to I'm just swinging out
of my shoes. GJ. Welcome to the Pepper Championships here

(13:07):
on the side right next to where the sign says
no Pepper, We're having the Pepper Championships. You like me
being full nerd? Then DJ brought to you by Doctor
Pepper and Diet Doctor Pepper for the Pepper Championships. Also
Pepper Martin will be here as well. Julius Peppers. I'm

(13:30):
out of Peppers. DJ. As long as they don't you
like to be a Pepper two, be a pepper drink
Doctor Pepper. As long as whoever is pitching the ball
isn't throwing an underhand like the Doctor Pepper competition. No
chess passes, so cal Rawly is done.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Now Neil cruzes up to try to make it to
the finals. We love more on this, but coming up next,
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Speaker 3 (15:45):
Jay, what's happening, man?

Speaker 5 (15:46):
How are you? I'm doing okay? How are you guys?

Speaker 3 (15:49):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I'm doing pretty good. Did you bet on the home
run derby tonight? I know you got that going on.
Did you do you have any any big picks for tonight?

Speaker 3 (15:56):
For this one?

Speaker 5 (15:58):
I was on James Wood, so that first not always
most conducive to winning. So yeah, I was on James Wood,
And uh, I don't have to pay too much attention
to now you only to look at it is you
kind of knew about halfway through O'Neil Cruz that Yeah,

(16:19):
I don't think he cares what's gonna been?

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Well, at least you didn't suffer through thirty eight swings
of Jazzism as a long shot. Yes, volumes volume swinger.
All right, So this gives us a chance to get
to all the big NFL stuff right Like last week,
everybody's on vacation and joined the end of stuff. But
now this week we got some stuff happening.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Uh, and clearly the best wide receiver in the history
of the NFL finally gets paid today Garrett Wilson signs
that four year, one hundred and thirty million dollar contract extension.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
With the Jets. Now I had to be serious, Jane.
He's like, this is a guy. Now, I kind of
feel like, to be honest, he's like the the modern
day Tim Brown, a guy that somehow is it up
numbers that he has.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
The last year no quarterback with no ball at all,
different quarterbacks, like six quarterbacks so far as first three years.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Like he's probably the most underrated receiver in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
I'm gonna have to think about it. But yeah, and look,
it's going to be probably a little bit of a
chore this year. And if you'd be doing a fair
amount of blocking this year, because you got a defensive
mind and head coaching there who I think will be
able to get the defense playing maybe a playoff caliber defense.
And so what's he gonna want. He's gonna want ball control,

(17:31):
He's gonna want eth it simple, stupid. He's gonna want
justin fields, managing the game a certain way, that's not
to say that there won't be big play action shots
to take, et cetera. But I don't think it's going
to be a huge volume passing game for them. But yeah,
I kind of like the Jets more this year than

(17:51):
I have in a while. Like I've I've played some
bets in that division, like them finished the second, you know,
like exact order, you can get some pretty good I mean,
I want to say it got plus six eighty five Buffalo,
the Jets, the Patriots in Miami in that order, and

(18:14):
even just for one two you know, order finish Buffalo
and the Jets. It can get you a pretty good payoff. Like,
I kind of think they're in a good spot this
year for the first time in a long time.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Look at that Guinella and the Exacts. I mean, I'll
beyond after.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm always at the point for the Jets when there's expectations.
I'm nervous when there's no expectations.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Great Jets have never been able to handle success in
the fifty years I've been rooting for them, So that's
kind of what it is.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
No, Look, I think, I mean too how much talented
Pittsburgh had last year and they were four and two
with this kid as their quarterback. And I know people
want to slag him and write them off, but like
over five and a half rushing touchdowns, yeah I'm there.
Over five hundred and fifty rush yards, yeah I'm there,
and again win totals like not everyone needs to be

(19:05):
evaluated the same way. This is an old school quarterback
in a lot of ways, right, I mean it's it's
it's about canny limit turnovers. Can they win games? Can
he be an effective runner? Can he help them finish
your eyes with his legs?

Speaker 8 (19:18):
You know?

Speaker 5 (19:18):
Can they be smart about what they asked him to
do in the red zone? And I felt like the
red zone rushing attack in Pittsburgh was really then he
gets stride right when they decided to make the switch.
So I think, like, I think they're an interesting team.
I think they're gonna, you know, like cod they go

(19:39):
nine to eight. I don't. I don't think that's out
around the possibility at all.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Look at that we're getting above five hundred ball from
the Jets to new era and Smith will start wearing
Jet stuff tomorrow. Since you said that, mister locking for
all right, anytime there's a headline to a story that
says I think that's blank. I'm going to click on it.
Nick Sirianni, responding to comments about Jalen Hurd, it's kind
of just being dragged along in the championship run. Uh

(20:05):
lower completion, number of completions, No, lower passing. You know,
when you got a guy that it runs for two
thousand yards, you kind of go to balance and definition.
Do you think Hurts gets dismissed too much and too
much credit given to everybody else for his acumen on
running the tush push and everything else.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Uh? Yeah, I think he's a pretty damn good quarterback.
They look they've found a meeting of the mind there
where they've they've gone through a couple of different iterations
of sort of evolving or devolving as an offense or
whatever you want to call it. And they know what
works for them, and they know what's fits, and he fits,
and I think they'll probably throw the ball a little

(20:47):
bit more this year. You know, I don't think Ka
Kwon is going to go off of quite like he
did last year. And they've got plenty of guys you
can catch the law. I think Kon catches more balls
this year. A good football team and a really good
offensive line, and they can do certain things in this
league that are pretty much unstoppable. And as you want

(21:07):
to quibble about, you know, is it's just brawn. How
much you know Paul is involved in calling your touch
post this or that. I don't see any other teams
doing it as effective as them. I mean, that's it's
almost like a efficacy play. Those those don't exist in
modern football, and they've got one. They've got one to

(21:28):
the point where people were bitching and moaning and trying
to take it away. Dalen Hurts has been through quite
a bit in a short career, and he's only a
couple of plays away from having two rings to his
credit already in an era that I think we're going
to look back on it like we did the sort
of Brady Mahomes era and say, boy, there are only

(21:51):
a few other guys who got there bright at the Apple.
You know, Roethlisberger got a couple, Flaco got a couple,
Russell Wilson got one. Like we're back there again with
this whole sort of Mahomes thing. And I mean for
him to have played that well in that Super Bowl
as Mahomes floundered and I get it he had the
better defense on his side, Hurts did, But I get

(22:14):
where Sirianni's.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
From of them, Jay miet I look at that. Just
look at the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's one of the best played Super Bowls a quarterback
has ever had. You have the efficiency in production, the
game was over at halftime.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
He was phenomenal. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
I get the Kansasity defense that has been pretty damn
good and the strength of that football team for a
big part of the season as they tried to reconfigure
their offensive line and without their number one wide receiver
and with Kelsey and a down year, the defense, you know,
and with their number one back hurt a lot of
the year and defense carried them. And he absolutely obliterated
that defense. You don't see people do that despag in

(22:49):
a money game like that. So yeah, look, there's some
narratives in this league that just aren't just about football,
and they seemingly will never die. And people wanting to
the little or break or say that certain stalling solid
quarterback is less than it's asinine, but it's it's still

(23:13):
here at least to some degree.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Now, it seemed like everything was getting moved out and
we were getting back to business in San Francisco, US
Jack saying, hey, Christian McCaffrey's back.

Speaker 8 (23:23):
I know.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Juwan Jennings says, I want more money, I want to rework,
or I want to trade. Boy, it was nice and
quiet for a little while.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Yeah, it's tough, man. You know that there's a window
closing and they're just not They hadn't been to nice
to make it very realistic about it. And it's got
nothing to do with the quarterback. It's all these other
antile personnel decisions. I look, I've bet them to miss
the playoffs. I stated them heavy last year and it

(23:53):
helped my bank account, and I'm kind of back there
with them again again. This I think the end see
as a whole, will be better. I think that the
team that doesn't run roughs out over that division anymore.
Sanahan doesn't have this magic a Litzer over Nickvey anymore.
And you know, Seattle won ten games last year with

(24:15):
a rookie coach and without touching the roster. It was
Pete Terrell's roster, right. They just took the year to
sort of evaluate and see what they had, and now
they've upgraded. So I know, I don't know about the
Sam Darneld thing, how that's going to work out. But
you know, the Gino thing worked out a hole lot
there than anybody could have hoped for. So I don't
know that they're not champions just for the third best

(24:36):
team in that division. I don't like the secondary, and
the pass rush has been very sort of dependent on
an individual or two. And you know, the younger Bosas
reaching about the stage of his career where a big
brother fell off a cliff and didn't really play football
that much anymore. I don't like the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Doesn't like the offense my last year.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
I'm old enough to remember that running back pretty much
his entire career prior to the last couple of years,
always missing it chunk of time. So no, I have
major reservations about them all the way around.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, sitting at ten and a half wins. Jay with that,
sitting at ten and a half wins. I think it's
bolstered by the fact that they play the AFC South.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
Yeah, mischeduled. About to say the schedule, I know the
schedule on paper looks like it's in their favor scenario
where they're not in the postseason and they're going to
have to threat a real needle from a health standpoint,
because it's it's a top laden roster and it's not

(25:42):
nearly as many of those guys are in their prime
now as they were three or four years ago.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
All Right, So lastly, Jay, you take you out kind
of outside the NFL, but kind of coming back a bit.
We had a bit of.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
A story today that potentially Nick Saban could be looking
to get back into football. Greg McElroy saying, hey, someoney,
try us he talks to. Saban could be trying to
find his way back in. Is there any way Saban? Hey, look,
I'm done with the college game. I just can't stand everything.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
With an IL transfer and an NFL job pops open
he could get.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
I mean, I love the age thing could work against
him a little bit like he did with certainly Belicheck there,
but this guy's career speaks for itself. And if he
feels like the college game has become the program, and
if that is part of why he got out, and yeah,
I mean, can you turn an NFL team around in
three years? I mean, look at Pete Carroll right now,

(26:36):
I mean how long is he going to be in Vegas?
And that's you know, starting from pretty low and he
got an opportunity. So, I mean, you have to be
the right fit, the right owner, of the right scenario.
But what six to eight of these jobs open every year,
and you're telling me that if he wants to get
back in in January, that there's going to be six
to eight guys more qualified than him. Yeah, I mean,

(26:58):
I have no idea to the veracity of that. I
know Greg a little bit. I mean he's obviously he
knows that program plug in there and if that's accurate,
he wants to listen, you know, he wants to talk
to NFL teams. I think there's a we have several
owners who want to listen.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Famm on Twitter at Jason Lock and for that is
at Jason Lock and for Odyssey one oh five seven,
the Fan Washington Post. Jay has always by the appreciated man.
We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Have fun, how a great week, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Thank you everybody there. He goes Jason Lock and for now.
Look the whole Garrett Wilson thing right, four years, one
hundred and thirty million. I mean, look, it's not just
me being Jets fan. He's the most underrated wide receiver
in the game. He's kind of like a like a
like a combination of Keyshawn Johnson and Tim Brown. Keyshawn
in which he can do anything on the field. He

(27:49):
can he he's a red zone threat, he goes over
the middle, he can test balls, he's got great body control,
like he's a receiver that can do it at any
part of the field. And from that Keshawn, But the
Tim Brown thing, I mean, look the guys that he's
been catching passes from the last three years, Zach Wilson,
Mike White, Joe Flacco, Trevor Simmy, and Tim Boyle, Aaron Rodgers.

(28:11):
Like this is the gamut from Hey, guys who we
thought were.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Really really good and are still okay, to guys that
are absolutely terrible. And still this is a guy that
every year more receptions and and and split the gig
with DeVante Adams when he finally got there last year
because he was Aaron Rodgers guy still get to one
hundred catches. Like his three years in the NFL with
looking what he's been playing with has been incredibly impressive,

(28:35):
Like Tim Brown, all those quarterbacks he played with the Raiders,
and now he's got his guy from college that hey.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Comfortable with justin fields.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
There's all The number two receiver on the Jets right
now is probably Josh Reynolds. So which tells you where
all the balls are going to be going this season? Right,
Everything isn't gonna be going to Garrett Wilson.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, he's the guy you give that money to, most
underrated receiver in the NFL. Scheam it up. I really
hoped you weren't going to circle back and mention Rogers'
name again, because the way you said it up was
beautiful guys that were pretty good, Guys that you know
are terrible, like Aaron Rodgers, but it's pretty good, like
Mike White and guys who were too right, Mike White,

(29:11):
who you wanted to deify and put a statue out
in front of the stadium after three weeks. Yeah, but
you look at what he's been able to do production wise, congratulations,
but also do Zach Wilson. You know on his nuptials,
you know he got married. Oh yeah, that's good, that's
it's good. But finally he finally he was able to
acquire his target and and yeah, now he's able to
How about that? You're gonna throw a jay Cutler joke.

(29:34):
Come on, come on, dude, a guy don't want to
get that. Folks were doing that too, can But no,
for Garrett Wilson, you're you're going off the idea of
all right, we'll pay him top dollar that he's going
to be that guy moving forward. He's already got proof
of concept with trash, as you so eloquently laid out.
Now you do still need to go find a second receiver.
I like Josh Reynolds as a gadget third guy the

(29:55):
occasional run him out and look, Tyler Conklin is a
top ten fantasy tight end.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
No, only if Jason Taylor's gonna wind up getting that job.
But I mean, like there's nobody else like the drop
off from number one to number two. I don't know
that's greater on the Jets than any other team. But
you got two tight ends that can go play. Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah,
we're gonna run the football a lot. We don't have
three tight ends all three. We're gonna see the field
at once. Hey, Brace, how are you holding up?

Speaker 8 (30:19):
All right?

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
You and Brailer that one you're gonna work a lot.
We're gonna put We're gonna put nine men in the
line of scrimmage and the quarterback in a running back
You can't do that, doesn't matter. We're gonna do it.
We're gonna do it. You're gonna put them all your out?
What what page of that dog eared rule book you
can steal from Belichick's old playbook? There exit out about
a Fresca exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live

(30:41):
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time now to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. So
someone who's been called the Garrett Wilson of Fox Sports Radio,
he didn't like the guy who was working with last year.
He likes us a lot better. It's Steve Desager. I
was paused.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
Wait, he's got ninety million guaranteed coming to him. Not
so Home Run Derby is winding down in Atlanta tonight.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
They're in the final.

Speaker 8 (31:06):
Junior Camanero, age twenty two, he just turned twenty two
this month for Tampa Bay. He is in the final,
about to start, but a very impressive eighteen homers posted
by Seattle's cow Rawley just now with his dad pitching
to him and his fifteen year old brother as his catcher.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
By the way, Dad too high, Dad, Dad too high?
Come on, like that hasn't been said before in their lives.

Speaker 8 (31:26):
Roley won his semifinal against O'Neil Cruz nineteen to thirteen.
Cruise of the Pirates did tie for the most home
runs in the first round with Kaminaro. Cruz hit one
estimated at five hundred thirteen feet. In the last decade
of the home run derby, the four longest homers have
been ones when it was at cors Field four years ago.

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As for non Colorado, the non altitude homers, that's the
longest of the last decade, Cruise hitting one five thirteen.
By the way, Jazz Chisholm of the Yankees had a
robust three homers in the first Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
But he Haddy'll had but he made up for We
only had forty five pitches they those three home runs.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
On that was to say the least to the lowest
total of the night, and I don't know, maybe the
lowest total of our lifetime, So.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
I would have to look at the record book.

Speaker 8 (32:11):
But Junior Camanaro about to get into the box in
the final as he's trailing Raleigh for the moment, dhho
Heotani will lead off for the National League and Tuesday
Night's All Star Game on Fox TV. Atlanto's own Ronald
Acunya will bat second. For the American League. Aaron Judge
will bat third, and then Cal Raleigh in the cleanup spot.
Raleigh of Seattle committed to play for Team USA and

(32:33):
next year's World Baseball Classic. The team's captain is Aaron
Judge of the Yankees. Also playing for the US next
March will be pitcher Paul Skeins of the Pirates. The
starting pitcher Tomorrow night for the National League All Stars.
Detroit's Trek Scooble will be on the mound to start
for the al By the way, the Tampa Bay Rays
will be sold for one point seven billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
According to The Athletic.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
The buyers are led by a Florida based developer, the Jets,
Gabe wide receiver Garrett Wilson a year extent potentially worth
one hundred and thirty million dollars. Since he was drafted
in the top ten from Ohio State. Wilson's had three
straight thousand yard seasons and he had one hundred and
one receptions last year. Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams will
start training camp on the pup list physically unable to perform.

(33:16):
The preseason schedule starts with the Chargers Lions game in
the Hall of Fame or July thirty first, So those
two teams veterans report to camp this coming week.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
But he knows where the red line is on the field, right,
Mike Williams, he knows the red line. He knows the
run in the red line. When he's back out on
the field. The red line, the red line. You're the
red center of the ice. You gotta run the red line.
You gotta run the red line right.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Center of the ice. Yeh. Why is why he's a
Charger Now he doesn't know the red line. So you know.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
There are more red line comments that I certainly will
not make. Most teams will have veterans reports a training
camp next week July the twenty second. It's first center
Victor weber Yama is cleared to return after the blood
cloud in his shoulder last season.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon Lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
Up.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
We got the play of the day, and I'm telling
you every day. We keep getting closer to an incredibly
large trade in the NBA and more evidence that it's coming.
After what's gone on the last few hours. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah,
finals of the home Run derby right now, Junior camanarero
Cal Rowley. But it doesn't matter what happens here. I
think we already have the home run. We know that's
going to be the home run that everybody talks about.
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Speaker 2 (35:19):
The longest one of the night.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
He can't believe he hit it that far.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
ESPN on the call. Now, would you want to hear
Berman going back back back. I can't even keep saying
it so far back back back. I can't see it
back back way back, an absolute rocket. Does he get
credit for two on that one? I would give him three.
You've hit some guy. That jump. The bonus is just
where we started playing, Like its just jump right the
moneyball or rockin jock or something like that's like, yeah, yeah,

(35:52):
you put the you put the little moneyball in there,
because if you get to uh you know, to the
corner at Yankee Stadium, I mean you can that's almost
home runs. Oh yeah, sure, yeah, Oh they have this
Yankee Stadion and the numbers are being insane. That's two
home runs. That's two home runs. That's two home runs.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
So again, Kevin Arra cal Raley will bring you updated
finale after this happens right now in the in the
championship here to see who walks away with the Golden
Mustard belt. But we talked about this last week a lot.
Every day there's new evidence that tells you how bad
the relationship is between Lebron James and the Lakers right

(36:30):
to go over everything. Since the acquisition of Luka Doncic,
Lebron has been out of the mix. He's been on
the outer circle. He's not in the circle of trust. Greg,
you are outside of the circle of trust they're building
around Luca and Lebron James is someone who they are
daring him to ask for a trade. Everything they do,
they are daring him to ask for a trade. And
now what did we get this weekend?

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Right?

Speaker 1 (36:51):
More ratcheting this up to get to a point where
each side it's like they're the Old West. They're waiting
to draw on each other, like someone's gonna we're gonna draw,
We're gonna draw. For teams apparently have called the Lakers
about or called the sorry sorry, called Rich Paul about
getting Lebron James, which again, both sides are ratcheting things

(37:11):
up because Lebron doesn't want to ask for a trade.
The Lakers don't want to say we're going to trade you.
The Lakers want Lebron to ask for a trade, and
Lebron wants the Lakers to say, Okay, let's figure something
out where we can get you where you want to go, which,
again Cleveland, it's the only place. So four teams apparently
have called Rich.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Paul about about getting Lebron James And when Lebron was
at Vague was in Vegas this weekend taking in some
of the Summer League action. Dave McManamon, long time basketball insider,
asked to said he asked Lebron for a couple of minutes,
you want to talk about your future with the franchise,
and Lebron responded with I ain't got nothing to talk about.

(37:49):
Then DAVIDC. Medimon had this bit on ESPN over the weekend.
So again, I want to say this for everybody who
thinks Lebron's not getting traded because it's too difficult. One,
you can always make the money work. It may take
a bunch of teams, that may take ten teams. You
can make the money work, especially if the players are
out there. But the bigger thing is this, can Lebron

(38:09):
really come back and play for the Lakers after all
that's gone on. Lebron is an alpha male of the
highest priority. He's not a guy that well, I'm okay
with coming back and I'll figure things out. I'll play
this year Roun. I'll go he is the straw that
stirs the drink. He has been this way in the
NBA for twenty years. Is he really an alpha like
Lebron gonna come back and be an ancillary part or

(38:31):
not so much that you're not the focus, but we're
gonna we're gonna beat you over the head with the
fact that you are not the focus of this team.
Can he really come back and play for the Lakers?
After all this is going on. This is why a
trade can happen any day. I can see a trade
any day for Lebron James.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
I mean the Cleveland thing is curious because they are
in the second apron, so they can't aggregate salaries to
make a deal. We'll just add the fourth apron so
he s starts seven up. The new rules make that
difficult for them. The buyout process would be great. Lakers say, uh, yeah,
you're gonna take We're not paying anything. He can make
the money work.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
You can make the money work by by adding other
teams that you can make it work for Mobile, you
can make it work for Darius Garland. You can make
It's a decision of whether you want to excize them
from your squad after what you've built. But to that
point you're in the second aproncy can't aggregate h So
that makes the trade far part with the the caval
cavaliers at least a little more difficult. Now when when

(39:28):
we look at the no comment, I just took it
as that I'm here, I don't I don't really want
to get into this, right. You could come out and
say anything he wanted to. Lebron doesn't want publicity, Come on,
but he gets more publicity by not He could have
said anything. He could have come out and said anything.
Instead he said none, I got, I got, I got
nothing to talk about. That's not but that's the statement
without making a statement deal.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
That's meant.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
He could have just said I'm sorry, I don't really
want to do it tonight, okay, instead saying I got
nothing to talk about because he knows Dave mcmanhamon is
gonna report it that way and that.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
He's gonna get him out. But he's like, what did
the sound happened one of his guys? But then that's
exactly what he wants to get this out there, and
that whole four team thing with Rich Paul wretching things
I want to see the league actually do something for
crying out loud Rich Paul a couple of weeks ago
with the draft manipulated the draft, and we had video

(40:19):
and audio evidence. And now a damn thing was said
by the spineless commissioner Adam silver High commission and now
this at least four teams like, no, they've got to
contact the Lakers. Jmore, maybe out in lay Town, ride
on a jet ski. But he still matters.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Damn it.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
He'd be the guy that would make the trade too.
Oh hey, Geenie, by the way, I made a trade.
I traded Lebron. But wait, I traded Lebron time after time.
They're still saying it's our rules when it's not telling
you any day a Lebron trade. You think it can't,
it can.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Coming up next, we got a big story out of
the NFL surrounding Dad.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
We gotta throw suspicion off. Just hit me once or twice. Yeah,
I got it, but not really hard, just like you know,
just make it look good. Okay, just make it look good.
Now you go back into the odds, Raleigh was the
favorite at plus two ninety five. James Wood had the
most money bet on him. He was nearly five to one.
O'Neil Cruz was the second favorite plus three thirty. He

(41:17):
gave you a thrill with that five hundred and thirteen
foot home run. Got to the semi long shot was
actually Junior common Earo, who was a long had longer
odds than Jazz Chisholm, who gave us three home thirty
eight swings. Yeah, yeah, yeah that was you look at
the home runs in the first round sixteen seventeen, twenty one,
twenty one, twenty three, seventeen fifteen. Oh, Jazz Chisholm. Come on, man,

(41:41):
come on, and I mean he had to be rooting for,
Like there's three guys that were making less money playing
this year than they would have gotten as their prize, right,
because he gets the the cool looking chain. Uh huh,
she gets the championship belt. Yeah, not mustard colored, but
it gets it's good. No actual mustard was used in

(42:01):
the product. And then he gets a million dollar prize,
a million dollar prize again being a larger than the
salaries of three of the other participants in these year events.
My dad is real upset too, because Chisholm's one of
his favorite, like his three favorite Yankees are Judge and
Chisholm and Coal, and so he's like when Judge, yeah,
got to see you. I bet you this kid, my dad,

(42:22):
I bet you this kid wows everybody.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
And I'm like, oh, so I tell you. I text
him about a half hour ago. Hey, my my internet's down.
How did jee just doing a home run Derby? And
I have not gotten a response yet. No, I wouldn't
suspect you won't. I bet you this kid he loves
Jack ever since they got him. It's like, I'm like, Dad,
you talk about him like he's Mantle and Mares, but
those are his three guys.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
But he got a lot of swings in sure, sure, yeah,
oh yeah. Volume anticipation though, that's more of it. When
we talk about the home run Derby, right, did he
get it all?

Speaker 8 (42:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (42:53):
He got none of it. Volume sweat he was swinging.
If you from if you take all my outs and
put them, you know, back to back with each other,
like would they count for home runs? Like if I
had two hundred and fifty popouts, could could you put
them together? Give me a home run down the line?
Can that work? I gotta get that. I mean, he's
got seventeen home runs on the year, so it's as

(43:14):
solid amount. Yeah, not exactly. No one has a home
run gone. I gotta I gotta think this is probably
and I mean, as I know it's a hot take,
this is probably his last home run. You think I
don't know that he's going to be back in after Well,
you might really train for it. He might just decide
to help with it. I'm no longer going to try
to hit for any now home runs or nothing, home

(43:34):
runs or nothing. That's what I'm doing home Man, he's
only a two fifty hitter, so he's not doing the
other part too much either. But all of that to say,
he gave it the old college try sure. Sure he
showed up. Yeah again, home runs in the first round
sixteen seventeen, twenty one, twenty one, twenty three, seventeen fifteen. Yeah,
but it's like a bad first pitch. You're always going
to be remembered for this. That's true. So that's sounds true.

(43:56):
That's the first All right, okay, all right? Well that
three home runs? Could that be the least ever?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Could be?

Speaker 3 (44:03):
I don't know, I don't know, And you can anybody
pull up lame after does I can't imagine he had
any less.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Does the great researcher Sarah Langs have a thing on
the fewest home runs in the first.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
You know, in the first round of a home run Derby.
I gotta think that that's got to be close to it. Really,
I think they even hit more home runs per inning
in the old Home Run Derby show, which was actually
played like a baseball game. So congratulations to the big
dumper cal rally fixed. Wait, no, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Win's the home run Derby tonight again getting in with
by the by the hair of his chinny chin chin
in the first round and then is able to do
one thing that we don't normally see, and that's hey
get better as the rounds going. Usually guys get a
big first round, they get tired and they can't hold on.
He got better as it went on.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Now I'm going and doing the research. We actually can
get down to a zero. I think, really there was
someone who had zero home runs. Please tell me it wasn't.
I met actually gotten with nineteen guys with zero since
its inception in nineteen eighty five, nineteen guys at no
home run in a Home run Derby, Nineteen guys of it,
No home runs. I'm going, I'm I'm finally in a

(45:14):
quick search. We gotta call Sarah Langze. Yeah we got
I mean we can't. I mean some of the names
that are that are listed here, I can't. I can't believe.
Oh give me a cause, I'm trying to go back
to the old format. Like what am I missing? Because
you got guys like Beniha, Chris Sabo, Piazza twice. Oh

(45:35):
no home runs twice in a home run der That's
the thing. Like I'm trying to tell me, wasn't a
met Tell me wasn't a met for that? Tell me
what was before Time brown which started in twenty fifteen, Okay,
before Time Browns? When you know, the answer is jazz
Chishom Junior. Okay, so changing the so what Frostburg saying
is the modern era? It's jazz jay Okay, very good,

(45:57):
but still it doesn't change the fact that Mike Piazza
no home runs and yeah, so Gary Guy, Eddie Ken
Griffy Junior. Sighting like there's a lot of names out here, Okay,
all right, makes me want to go back and watch
old home run derbies for the thrill of the potential
of them getting a big.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Zero and now we can let Sarah Lanes off the whole. Okay, good,
we got it. We're good, we had it.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
We got everything. Now. Big story out of the NFL,
actually two stories.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
One.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Let me just say this. One of the big stories
earlier in the day was ESPN surveyed coaches, scouts, insiders,
personnel men across the NFL and had their list of
the They ranked the quarterbacks one through thirty two in
the NFL. Okay, this again, coaches, scouts, personnel men, everybody

(46:46):
ask them all, hey, give.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Us your list your top quarterbacks. Okay, yep again, coaches, personnel, scouts,
numerous people people out the league to come up with
a top five list that we gave you in bleep
in January that were the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. Right,
I'm looking back January sixteenth when we talked about this

(47:10):
because I see it it's on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
We talked about it.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
I remember saying, there's four great quarterbacks in the NFL
from the perspective of guys that win, that can win
games themselves and make everybody around them better. Right, that's
the mark of a great quarterback. Obviously, you got to win.
You have to be able to win games by yourself,
and you got to make everybody around you better. Suddenly
all the list of elite quarterbacks gets get shaken down.

(47:34):
And I said, there were four guys, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
Patrick Mahomes, and Joe Burrow. And at that point you said,
you have to add Jaden Daniels to that list. There's
your top five quarterbacks in the NFL that win win
games by themselves, make everybody around them better. That's the
five guys who do that. Burrow, Lamar, Alan Mahomes, and

(47:55):
Jaden Daniels. This tells me I cannot only be a coach.
I can be GM, I can be a scout. I
can be a personnel guy. And you're saving money because
I can do all of these jobs. Apparently these were
the guys. Like in January, I gave you're your top
five quarterbacks in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
This was the list. This was the list right here.
You're so proud of yourself. Well, I haven't thought can
you keep jobs?

Speaker 5 (48:19):
Man?

Speaker 1 (48:19):
I can't sound surprised, but I mean really, I mean,
I'm like, I'm like my own personal AI like I
like the Daniels thing, worried about Jays Numbore.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Hey, hi, Jason Smith's gonna come.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
He knw stuff in January that we had to talk
up to the whole league about and he said, hey, well,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
We do the ahead of the curve. I mean all
the time. I mean, there's no question about it. The
Daniels and this is sixth rs ahead of the curve, right,
Daniels ahead of Jalen Hurts. We talked with Jason locking
for a little bit last hour about the the Siriani comments,
and you know it's bs. You know that this guy's
not just along for the ride. So he's the guy
that that is always got the big question mark next

(48:53):
to him. You got a bunch of other guys who've
performed well in regular seasons, but we've seen postseason meltdowns
Jared Goff, We've seen other guys that were once great
or can have runs. You know, you got a guy
like Matthew Stafford, who is everybody's favorite quarterback that didn't
win until he left Detroit to head to LA and

(49:14):
then started getting his run. But now you're questioning where
he's at on that Panthea had a great finale to
last year, the second half and certainly a good playoff run.
But all of that to say, yeah, there's a big divide.
And this is where we've always been with the quarterback position,
going back to when you and I started chatting about
fantasy football many many years ago. What have we got?

(49:36):
All Right? You got five, six, maybe eight guys that
you really feel good about and everybody else, And why
did we have it as low as eight? Those were
the only guys that played sixteen games in a season.
That's why we would always have it down to eight,
because after that it was all right, that guy played twelve,
that guy played ten, that guy missed two months, all
of those things. So we talk about that kind of process.

(50:00):
And for this current list, yeah, the fantastic four. I
was actually just seeing the memes that are going out
and people making fun of the fact that they're putting
up the four horsemen symbol right at all. They're pressing here,
here's the four and arn Anderson was pissed, Hey, you
can't steal that from us. Now wait a minute, he said,
And I agree with him, but it's that you've got

(50:22):
those four guys, and then you start to argue for five, six, seven,
But certainly Jayden Daniels acquitted himself quite nicely to that effect.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
And you know, look, and it's funny we talk about
this because the guy that's we had sixth on the
list after the Super Bowl, when I said, hey, the
guy sixth on the list is clearly Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Right, Jalen Hurts is clear said the Super Bowl he
had the playoffs dat he had. And that goes into
the story today about how Nick Sirianni had to defend
his had to defend Jalen Hurts among criticism that the
Eagles carried him and was along for the ride during
their Super Bowl run. Sirianni's saying today, quote, I think
that's bull blank. Yeah, it's Sirianni that the Eagles carried

(51:04):
Jalen Hurts. He said, quote he plays the most important
position in all of sports, and it's the most ultimate
team game there is. Okay, so we have that bit
with Jalen Hurts to get to coming up in the
compins because yeah, we had the top five. Great, we
told your top five. Jalen Hurts is right there.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
He's part of a big story today, but also, as
we said, part of a big story home run derby,
which was just won by Cal Rawley, joining us now
on the hotline. Minnesota Twins all star Joe Ryan, who
took in the derby tonight. Joe, what's it like as
a pitcher seeing all those home runs go flying out
of the ballpark?

Speaker 6 (51:37):
It is kind of weird, I'll be honest, and I'm
like rooting for him, but it feels a little different.
But Col's a special hitter, so it's cool to see
him those great seat back out there doing the thing,
and sure that I was his boys, But yeah, a
great night overall.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
What do you make of O'Neil Cruz's home run that
was apparently nine hundred feet still going?

Speaker 6 (51:57):
Yeah, I mean we just played them the other day,
so it was something I was thinking about.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
I mean, he's got.

Speaker 6 (52:01):
Power with one arm and then you give them both.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised that the.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
Life five hundred feet.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
It's pretty special.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
As a reliever, and as you throw the you know,
pitches and what the crack of the bat? Right we're
watching it and you hear that. Do you have flashbacks
when you hear the crack of the bat?

Speaker 5 (52:21):
No? Usually in my head.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
I mean with some of these guys, you can't get
your head around flicking up, it's already out of the yard.
So I mean it's a it's a cool perspective. It's
great to see everyone out there.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
It was awesome.

Speaker 6 (52:32):
The fans were great here, and it's just like we're
all an awesome experience and cool to see Junior do
a thing too. I mean, he's so talented at such
a young age. I mean, he had a really good
shot of doing it and just it was in a
flow and it was fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Now, I know you said that a couple of things
you want to do with the All Star Games. You
want to talk to Yamamoto, You want to talk to
Jacob deGrom and kind of pick their brains.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
A little bit. Have you had that chance to talk
to anybody who wanted to yet?

Speaker 6 (52:55):
Yeah, the groom was holding court for a group of
guys today and just kind of going over his grips
and what he's thinking, and it's just cool. I mean,
he's obviously one of the best to do it, and
just seeing him, I mean take the time there and
just talk to talk about getting better and what he's
working on. Smart guy and so always always going to
listen to him.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
So as as you get into these kind of events,
like what what's the first thing you want to do
as you get around you go around and getting autographs?
Is it just catching up?

Speaker 8 (53:24):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (53:24):
You know what?

Speaker 6 (53:24):
What what's the people and taking it all in and
enjoying everything it's been. It's been super fun so far.
So I'll enjoy everything tomorrow and get out there and
uh throw the ball hopefully have a good one and
relax and enjoy the rest.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
All right, Maybe you'll get to face some of the
guys in the home run derby tonight. Maybe they'll be
back to back to back to back. All the guys
in the derby tonight we'll get to face.

Speaker 6 (53:47):
That would be crazy, that'd be cool.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Hey, before we let you go, like where where do
you come down to this?

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Obviously the inclusion of Jacob Mazarowski only five games into
his into his career, which has been a phenomenal start
so far. Like half his pitches are over one hundred
miles an hour? Are you okay with that? Did you
okay with seeing him? Would you rather see somebody with
a little bit more experience, more of a resume in there?

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Where are you on it?

Speaker 8 (54:10):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (54:10):
You know, I I think it's I.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
Think it's it's cool for him.

Speaker 6 (54:15):
I think it's awesome to to have him, to have
him here. I mean, I don't know what happened with
other people and availability and all that stuff, so I
think that plays into it a little bit. But I mean,
he's a talented pitcher. I mean, I don't know what
the situation was, if he should have been up early
or not. But you know, he's here now and we're
gonna have fun watch him and support him. And at

(54:37):
the end of the day, I mean, it's not his decision.
So yeah, he's gonna go through the ball well. And
he threw against us and it was electric to watch,
so I hope the fans enjoy it, and that's what
it is for. So it'll be good.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Twins All Star Joe Ryan looking forward to see a
pitching tomorrow night. Best of luck. Congrat you. That's all
that's a luck John, thank you all right now, I
give it very Hey listen, good for him, And that's
been that's been the reaction, right for Misslerowski and people
not knowing so much about or the two reactions either Hey,
I am upset that he got there, or I'm okay

(55:10):
with it. But generally you want to see is hey,
it's not his fault, right, Hey, look what would you do?

Speaker 5 (55:15):
Right?

Speaker 3 (55:15):
I'm glad that people are getting the point where they're
not blaming him for going, because what's he going to do?
Say no, we a'll let you come to the all stage.
I don't know, man, I don't know. Of course he's
gonna come, of course he is. Of course it's him
and folks that are mad. They don't like fun or
promotion of the sport that we always lament doesn't promote
itself well enough