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Jason and Mike react to ESPN acquiring NFL Network/Red Zone. The guys explain how Shedeur Sanders is going to play in the Browns preseason opener. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joined the party!

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
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about that. No baseball games tonight. But I thought you

(00:59):
were okay, you were better cancer.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
You tried to sell it on Twitter at how about
a Fresco You tried to sell it to me. It's
like you were workshop against Like the speech Clooney gives
when he's trying to convince Brad Pitt to undergo the heist.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, games are all canceled.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
A game cancer, Hey, what was this one time you
have the opportunity and you could take the house and
did I rush it?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah? That was the whole thing. He's like, oh, you know,
we had hope.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
But then with all of this, you know, I really
should be thankful of where they are.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Like, that's loser talk. No, no, no baseball tonight. Just
so you know, no baseball tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I heard it.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Steve's update, very emphatic. No no, no, no, especially no baseball,
no baseball on the East Coast. No baseball tonight. But
even Aaron Judge came back. No, no, no, come on.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Last last night though, we gave everybody that the grand
idea of how the Yankees can fix, at least from
a public relations standpoint, all of their problems.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Tell me, man, how close how far away are you
from dumping boon forgeta Uh? It's funny, Gita backing geta
back forget at least don't let him run the team
and make the trades. But then to manage a team
he knows, he knows the game. Bring geta back? How
close can we possibly beat a Jeter?

Speaker 4 (02:09):
But we were chugging because earlier today, right it's that
time of the year, congratulations, fantasy football chatter coming and
rankings and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
But we were.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Getting the the invite from noted friend of the show
and Yankees fan, uh, Mike Fabiano, about hey, you guys
gonna play in this, And then it became this whole
thing about he would be Yankee managers, and we left
no stone unturned with random Yankees. The only guys we
didn't get in were like Rudy May and a few others.
But otherwise, I mean, it was a veritable who's who

(02:40):
of who might manage.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Telling led by Jeter.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
He proffered the maddingly things like now we've been down
that road, it's time we said it last night. Look,
Aaron Boone's not going to survive another couple of weeks.
They're zip zip with the Rangers in the seventh right now.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Uh, he's not. And I'll tell you Jeter's been very
public and criticizing the Yankees, criticizing Aaron Boone things that
are let that, look, the Yankees a horrible fundamental team.
And I don't mean I feel like it's a team
that's not practiced in maybe like three or four years. Uh,
and Jeter's not shy about criticizing Aaron Boone. I tell
you what, man. Another another couple of weeks, all of

(03:17):
a sudden, the Yankees are two three games out of
the playoffs. Hey, Jeta, gedda you want Hey, let's do
five weeks and then, uh, then we'll figure it out
if you want to come back full time next year.
You know what.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
The Yankee broadcasters making fun of Jack Peterson. They've unleashed
a beast. It's that laser home run last night. He's
two for two tonight. Look out, Jeta.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Meanwhile, look a big story that has so many people
need you know, you know, it's a story like this
where I realize, boy, we we sometimes the entire nation,
we just all need to heal. Uh, takes some time.
ESPN is acquiring NFL Network and other NFL league media sets,

(04:00):
including the rights to the Red Zone Channel. Okay, so
we knew this was coming. We knew that this this
deal was out there. Uh, and it closes that today
that ESPN is going to get the NFL Network, NFL
media assets. They're getting Red Zone Channel, Scott Hansons. They
already said Scott Hansen is in. He's year deal, He's
in for He's in for this year for red Zone.

(04:20):
Don't worry. They're also gonna acquire the NFL's fantasy product.
And now it's gonna be the NF. ESPN is gonna
be the official fantasy home of the NFL.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
What do they do with ESPN bets uh good I
don't have it. That's the part of the equation that's
kind of funny. Roger Goodell tap dance on that one.
Now give on the old rale. He's got the glitter
suit like Richard Gereto.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
The people who are upset about this, and all of
a sudden think that all of these, all of these
uh arms and all of the NFL product that ESPN
is getting is suddenly going to go down the tubes
and it's gonna be it's gonna be Oh, they're gonna
put commercials on Red Zone all the time. Forget it, man,
So not gonna be Scott hand It's gonna be somebody
I don't even know. He's gonna have to interview somebody

(05:04):
from an ABC sitcom uh during during the Red Zone
on Sunday. All people are so worried that ESPN getting
these products from the NFL, right, get taking over NFL
network and taking over Red Zone channel, like all of
a sudden, there's gonna be all these ridiculously stupid decisions
like it's a movie and and you know it's it's
it's sitcom characters that are that are running ESPN going, well, yeah,

(05:27):
why not we have big viewership on Sunday during our
Red Zone. Why don't we, uh, why don't we get
Lena Olan on because she's gonna be in that new
show that we have coming on in the fall ten
o'clock on Thursday night, So let's have her on and yeah,
she's a football fan, so let her talk like people
think this is what's gonna happen to the product, which
really tells you, okay, which which tells you a couple
of things. Number One, people really just won't want to

(05:49):
be mad about stuff all the time, which is why
we need to heal. But secondly, this shows you what
the overall impression and an optic of esp is right
now that that here's ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports,
you know, self proclaimed worldwide leader in sports, that acquires
the NFL Network and acquires NFL Red Zone, the worldwide leader.

(06:14):
What's gonna happen? And the vast majority of people think, Oh,
they're gonna ruin the product. They're just gonna ruin everything.
You gonna it's gonna be woke, it's gonna be it's
gonna be doing things outside of football. Taylor Swift is
gonna be everywhere. Like people think all of these things
are going to happen, and it's gonna ruin the product.
And suddenly NFL Red Zone Channel is gonna be different,

(06:34):
and Scott Hansen's gonna have to sit there and talk
with Berman uh doing updates. People think that's what's going
to happen to this product, and and it's I'm just
just stop for a second. Okay, understand that that that
that organizations that do sports for a living, especially as
long as ESPN, they're not gonna ruin a product they
didn't that gonna spend all this money to go out

(06:55):
and say, yep, now we can do what we went out.
We can disneyfy it. We can disneyfy it. Now, see
what we can do and big everything Lo, we're gonna
do to the NFL. There you already love the NFL.
That's not gonna happen now. I will say, eventually, could
we get to something like commercials on red Zone, Like,
while you're watching the red Zone on the side, could
you see something visually or something that is a voiceover

(07:19):
but you still get to watch the action? Yeah, I
can completely see that, because that's a missed opportunity. You
could have done that before and had some sort of
advertising where we're not taking away you're not not seeing
something on screen. You're either seeing some kind of bug
or you're getting some kind of voiceover, but you're not
missing any of the act. Could I see that? Yeah? Absolutely,
Can I see it on a bottom on a bottom line, yeah,

(07:39):
one hundred percent. I can see that. But that's not
gonna take away from the game. That's more of a
and that's more of an evolving of the product to
the point where, Okay, we got to make some money
on this, right, you thought Twitter was gonna be free forever.
No Elon Mustin, Oh boy, I paid way too much
for it. Now I gotta find a way to get
some money in here. So now you gotta pay for
blue check marks, and it's not quite the same thing.

(08:00):
So yeah, there's gonna be a little bit of changes
on there, but overall, the product is gonna be fine.
Red Zone's gonna be fine, NFL network is gonna be fine.
I don't I'm not worried about any of that stuff.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, folks can get all up in arms, and immediately
it becomes the how how soon before I'm indoctrinated with
this this particular character of the ESPN drama or deciding
where there's oversaturation, they'll they'll know where that tipping point
is and they'll they'll bro they'll broach that line.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's the way it works.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
By the way, out of all of those things you mentioned,
the Taylor Swift thing is probably going to happen if
they can make it happen, because that brings more eyeballs.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
So just let's let's all beware.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
We go back to one of the classic songs released
all the way back in two thousand and two, uh,
talking about well the radio and record business by Tom Petty.
All the boys upstairs want to see how much you'll
pay for what you used to get for free?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
And how many times did you have stuff on the web?

Speaker 4 (09:04):
And it was like, all right, it's gonna try it
behind the paywall, as you know, pay for clicks and
whatever else kind of went out the window in some
of those earlier models. Trying to put the genie back
in the bottle for many companies did not work. They
had to find different ways, partnerships, revenue streams, consolidation.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Et cetera. In this case, yeah, there's going to be changes.
Of course.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
You now own the property. You can do with it
what you will, whether it's picture and pictures, you say
a bug a lower third. When a game goes to commercial,
it's not the commercial running from CBS or or Fox
or whatever, or it's and it's overlaid as part of
a deal that gets broken. Yeah, all of those things
are possible. Commercial breaks for a minute or two, maybe

(09:49):
a bathroom break for Hanson.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Who knows.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
All of those things could be in the offing. But
guess what if you don't have an alternative, you're not going.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Anywhere, So suck it up.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
I mean, be mad if you want you don't want
to see McAfee, don't watch you don't wanna watch Steven A.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Smith, I'm sorry. Don't watch anything having to do with
the network. Don't watch their soap.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Operas on ABC. I mean, he's going to show up.
He's gonna pop up. That's the way it works. And
they're not spending that much money to not include their
prime time players. They'll they'll be part of the action.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I cannot believe the Jets are in the red zone
so early in this game against the Patriots. What is awful?
This is ridiculous. How are you in the red zone?
This ruck? This game is not even two minutes old
and doesn't feels is terrible.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
We didn't even get settled in. He's already screaming at me.
He's already laughing up. I kind of want Stephen A.
Smith to be the red zone host. I'm telling you
it's it's inevitable, but it is the fan O snap.
We got other news in sports today that was inevitable.
Is this thing's been just dating a while? This Cowboys
touchdown was horrible. It was ridiculous. It was abominable. It
was embarrassing. It should have never happened.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't understand why it's it's seven to seven in
the first quarter. It's utterly, utterly ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
You missed six other scores because you were yelling about
Jerry Jones and the bad negotiations. But all of it
is is all the handwringing and misery and everything else. Right,
it's the when the NFL package right Sunday ticket goes
to YouTube TV. You gotta pay the eighty three bucks

(11:25):
a month for YouTube for for the tv base subscription
plus your NFL package. But they're gonna do your favorite.
They'll stretch it out over twelve months for you. Now,
guess what they're still gonna do. Bond zone numbers. It's
gonna be off the charts because people can't get enough
and they know it, which is how this deal got consummated.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
But everything's gonna be fine. Yes, are they gonna put
some of their people on NFL networks, Yes, but it's
it's gonna it's going to be fun. It's like this
is not like, Hey, some kid just showed up with
money and bought the Pride. Well, now I gotta figure
things out. Like ESPN's done. I'll second ESPN's don sports
for a long time. I'm pretty sure they'll put out

(12:03):
a pretty good product when it comes to NFL Network
and when it comes to the red Zone, I'm pretty
sure things are gonna be fine. Yeah, and again, if
you're if Mark Channel bought it, I would understand that.
Oh my goodness, I'm gonna get Lacy Saber is gonna
be on Red Zone. If I get Jennifer Love Hughes
telling me that it'd be great, and then there's gonna
be a movie about how Hey, here's tears. Two women

(12:24):
who took over, uh, the the Red Zone channel. But
they were unpopular. But now here's a producer or a
director that they fall in love with, and they they
work with each other and they try to, you know,
make the show even better, and then the ratings increase.
But then there's some sort of uh new person involved
that's going to come in and they have to plan
a fall festival and there, you know, they're they're there there,

(12:44):
their attention is getting split. I mean or or I
mean that's not I mean, I understand.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Great, get that start there, you know, get get a
document up, get get that flowing. But yeah, look all
of the excitement, all the anger.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
To it, and go do something else. Go to a
fall festival, right, go to to any town, USA and
do that on a Sunday afternoon. Then you come back
and you can listen to Fox Sports Radio and we'll
catch up exit out by the Fresca Exit Swollen Dome.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Welcome back after a week off, because now I think

(13:20):
you spent the last few days buying Super Bowl gear
for the Chargers. Chargers go out win over the Lions.
Justin Frossburg, justin, welcome back and congratulations on Trey Lance
spoke to Roger to good Dell. I want to assure
you you're only going to be missing one thing with
red zone. Okay, what's that Chet's touchdowns?

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Something seems to have been left out of this year's package.
I can't quite tell what it is. Hey, real serious,
I got a serious question a week off?

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
That is that what it was? Well, well, week away,
you were working. Well, then I need some vacation days
put back in my account. Okay, well here's what I need.
I need you serious? Now, okay, how about justin fields
for Tree Lance? I mean, come on, how about that.
Let's let's do it. Trey Lance is way better right,
justin fields in a couple of drafts about that?

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Just like that, He slapped his hands on his shoulder
pads and he said, you are healed, but you are heal.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
But just think about that the optics that the worldwide
leader in sports is acquiring one of the biggest football
products you can and the general reaction is they're going
to ruin it. Like that's that's a look in the
mirror where ESPN's gotta go, oh, okay, we really need
some sort of change here, because this is this is
not confidence in the product. This is this is how

(14:32):
do you feel about buying a car that you just
but oh I love the car that like this is
this is a real problem when it should be a celebration.
Oh hey, ESPN's finally they're taking care of No, no, no,
everybody's worried the general they're gonna ruin it. Like that's
really something, man. You got to say, how did we go?
How did our public impact? How did our public optic go?

(14:52):
From we are the we we are the worldwide leader
in sports, and yes we can be the evil Empire
from time to time. Oh but when we were doing
sports are gonna be great? No, you're requiring something in
sports and people think we're just gonna ruin Well.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
We could talk about living on the edge and chaos
theory and whatever else. Those guys aren't getting you know,
nine figure deals because nobody's paying attention.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Exit at about a Fresca exit swalling Dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming
up next week, got more from the NFL. We got
guys getting paid and quarterbacks who are being We're being
told be patient. No, no, not happening. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
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Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well. Welcome back, Max, Munsey.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, they're busting out the whooping sticks over at Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
On Hello Kitty, Cross Body Bag Night Fox. The fact
that you knew that off the top bag, The fact
that you knew that, the fact that you say that
makes me think that you kind of either had a
decision make tonight to either come do the show or
go there to get the what is it, the crossbody

(16:50):
cross cross body, bobblehead, hell cross body bob body bag. Okay,
then you got me thinking about bobbleheads okay, the cross
body body bag Okay, makes me think that you were
either going to come do the show or go there
to get it and sell it on eBay before the
night is over.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
No.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
I mean, look, they had a great success with the
one piece promotion. I heard the guys Petros and Matt
and Tim Kate's talking about it a little bit earlier
on our flagship here in La As. I went to
the grocery store and five seventy La Sports Uh, and
they were talking about it. Hey, you gotta go early
because you need to get there and get your bag procured.
Because the one piece cards that they gave out, they

(17:27):
didn't get one to everybody. But a couple of weeks ago,
they're selling raw for five hundred bucks. Wow that maybe
maybe maybe you should have got to do that. Gen
Ten's well, I could have just pretended that you were
still here. We could have just played some some of
your d.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, let's go. Few people wouldn't know. It's like, right,
why does harmony doesn't matter? He just keeps saying yeah,
just keeps injecting that in every conversation.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Max Munsey with a two run homer, Dodgers lead to
to nothing. Still batting tasker Hernandez with a double uh
in the first inning. So a little bit of different
start for the Dodgers tonight. I'll probably smoke something against
the Cardinals and look, Monsey is back, and suddenly the
Dodgers are hitting a little bit more, that little bit more.
So if you want to go get that that cross
body bobblehead block of cheese brow hello, go grab we

(18:16):
can be done good. That's good. But by this point
I'm sure they've given them away.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Otani doubled. There was a ground out Freeman with the
sack fly and then Munsey homer. So yeah we got chaos.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Uh uh So this is where we sit right now
again a big again, this is the only baseball game going.
All the other baseball tonight was canceled. Oh no, don't forget.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
We're still waiting for Derek Jenior to walk out to
make a pitching chance.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh well that is true. Yankees and the Rangers zip
zip in the eighth inning. But the Rangers have the
bases loaded in one out. We could be get closing
in on the Geta Era. Yeah, it could manage the Yankees.
Get Gea in here, get Geta in But big stuff
out of the NFL today. We got quarterback decisions.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
We have.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Quarterback indecisions. But one of the Justin Field's face just
went through. Yeah, well, because what can I say about
Justin Field's indecision. But let's start with the first bit
of big news. Schadoor Sanders will start the Browns opening
game this week. He will start the first game of
the preseason, likely because well, okay, Tyler Huntley just got signed,

(19:24):
doesn't know the playbook, Okay, Dylan Gabriel is hurt and out,
Kenny Pickett hurt and out. Joe Flacco is forty eight
years old. They don't need to play him. So hey,
you know you could kind of sit here and say, hey,
the Browns are showing great confidence in shaudor Sanders, but
really else you coulda put out there.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
There's a great meme that started making the rounds last
night out there in the aftermath. I don't know if
you've seen it before, where it's a bunch of kids
and like they're splashing around. So if you want to
go and let your brain go to the worst place,
it's like they're flailing to try to stay afloat, right,
they're struggling, and then you've got somebody inserted off on

(20:02):
the side who's kind of looking in at them. And
then there's the second part. As you move your eyes down,
someone's chained to a chair and it's a skeleton and
they were putting all the names of the Browns quarterbacks
are struggling. There's Hungley coming in because he hasn't been
there yet. And then well, in that chair is Deshaun Watson.

(20:24):
So all of that to say, is in a chair
like underwater.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, exactly, like he's delivering Colonel Sanders down to Davy
Jones Locker right, exactly what you bet to start believing
in stories, you're in one that's kind of where we're at.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
So, yeah, Chador gets the a day after you start
talking about, well, how short is the the rain for
him in.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Cleveland, It's like, well, here you go. You get first reps.
Fantastic for we'll be back to the fantastic. Now you've
got Franklin is in Tyler Huntley. They got Franklin. They
got five quarterbacks now, No, but to be serious about
this for us second, right, Really, you could look at
it and say, hey, the Browns are giving you this shot, right,
that's awesome, and you can say, boy, but who else
is it really gonna be? But I want to say

(21:08):
because this would show and the Browns could prove that, hey,
we're actually a big league organization, right, we're not just
some kind of crazy ass team that just does the
draft like we're walking into a fantasy draft with no prep, right,
trying to figure out our quarterback situation. We'll take Dylan Gabriel. Boy,
I tell you he's really good, but boy, he is
not big. And we'll take Shador Sanders after we pass

(21:30):
on him four times and then make him believe that
he's our future when we got him in the fifth round.
But you can show that you are a big boy franchise,
and you really do do business well and not just
the way we think you've been doing it for the
past few years. If he plays well, he keeps the gig, right,
If he plays well when the lights go on, now

(21:50):
give him a little bit of extended play. You have to, right,
you only have a couple of guys on the roster,
so it's not like you know, Chaudoor Sanders is going
to have a cameo appearance. Like Shadoor Sanders should probably
play the entire our first quarter into the second quarter
most likely, right because if you're because it's Flaco, Flacco's
not gonna play with the backup, so you have guys
that are really gonna need to see some time. So
this should be some extended time for Shador Sanders. Now,

(22:13):
is he playing with backups a lot of it?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Is he playing against other teams backups? Yes, But if
he plays well, let him keep the gig until he
shows you he can't do it. You know why, because
you gotta see him at some point, right and you
gotta see you got you have to see Shador Sanders
at some point this season. Right now, we went through
this whole great story a week ago where I think
all four guys are gonna start now maybe all five,
fantastic five. All four guys are gonna start at some

(22:36):
point this year for the Browns. But you're gonna need
to see Shador Standa. No matter what, the guy you
need to see this year play quarterback is Shador Sanders, Right,
you cannot see if it came to it. Do you
really need to see Dylan Gabriel?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Do you need to see Kenny picking his baby hands?

Speaker 3 (22:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Do you see Joe Flacco again?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Do you need to see Tyler hunt leet know? But
you need to see Shador Sanders. He's the guy that
the team needs to see, that the franchise needs to see,
the fans need to see. You need to see him.
So if he's playing, well, okay, let him run with
a little bit. I'm not saying give him the job.
I'm not crazy. I mean I'm a little crazy. But
if he as long as he shows that I'm not overwhelmed,
I can make the throws, because that's all. That's the

(23:14):
big thing I always look at for quarterbacks beginning of
the year, when they get into game, do they look
like they just need some time but they're not overwhelmed
by the moment, overwhelmed by the situation. And if he
is not, and he plays well, guess what, sha Drew
Sanders gets your first team reps in practice, and cause
you got to give somebody first team reps, then you
gotta let him because you need to see him at

(23:34):
some point. And the faster you see him, the faster
you know if either you somehow got your quarterback of
the future and present, or hey, we got to move
on from him, and it's Arch Manning next year, and
it's Kenny Pickett in week three and Dylan Gabriel in
week five and Brian Sipe in week eight, and then
it's Joe Flacco. But you need to see him at
some point, So why not if he plays well enough,
let him run with the gig for a while, because

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you have to. So Trey Lance. No, I A no,
that justs are gonna get Trey Lance. We need Trey
Lance because Justin Fields is terrible. But we'll get dam
Let's let let that marinate a second.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
I think some of the the discussion with this is
is it's just the obvious, right, you got a couple
of injuries that preclude them I don't know why you
had decides wipe picket like that, but I mean, that's
that's just showing your your hatred towards uh well, towards
Kenny Pickett and what he could or could not be
now that he's no longer shackled by the offensive constraints

(24:31):
in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh wait, he's gone to Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
It really is the big question of how quickly they're
giving up on the season, right, Because if you're gonna
try to install Shdor Sanders, you're basically for Jimmy has
limits the fun of watching the sort of damnicles hanging
over Andrew.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Berry over there. This is his guy, this is the
guy you wanted.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
And with every bad tempt, bad interception, futile possession that
it becomes clear and clear that you have a change
in your front office imminent. But for Shador Sanders, you
might as well showcase and see what you've got. We've
talked about the fact that you do have four five.

(25:18):
We'll see how many more guys come walking through that
door before it's all over that maybe there's someone that says, well,
we'll fix him and we'll take him off your hands
and you can get back a late round pick again
talking completely there, or you're you're validated by the pick
and you just say let's roll the dice because are

(25:38):
over unders four and a half. Anyway, we live or
die with this situation.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
This is not a season, This is not everybody knows.
This is where we're starting over, whether it's Arch Manning
a year from now or Shador Sanders here. Hey, we
had a run, and you know now we're dismantling the
team and clearly we're in a tank mode for this
year because look at what we're doing at quarterback. But again,
you need to see him. So if he shows that
he's okay, and I'm not saying he's got I don't

(26:02):
know he's gonna be great, but as long as it's
not too big for me, he can play until he
came anymore.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
There's been nothing coming out of the camps that that
I've seen in any edited uh data and video that's
you know, been like, oh, he's electrifying.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I know we had a couple of those throws early on.
With quarterbacks, you gotta see him play, and that's whole thing.
You gotta see him when the lights go on. You're
gonna go through practice all the time, and they can
be good, bad and different. But you gotta see him
when the lights go on and the lights are on,
and you know you're gonna get the great effort from
him because he's not a veteran where hey, it's the preseason.
I'm gonna play if you know, he's gonna play just
like he playing in college. He's played with the same

(26:38):
sort of fire and and and attention to detail that
he played with in college. You were gonna get his best.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
You know what, Travis Hunter is not walking through that door.
You're not playing a bunch of second great secondaries as
we saw with great regularity on those Colorado schedules. Oh
by the way, he didn't win those games either. Just
you know, a nice little reminder in all.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Color didn't win a lot in college and he all right,
bad example, Sorry, go ahead, sorry, I mean, are they're
gonna say why a side swipe and smoking Jacob? I
just you took Vanderbilt in a little little different circumstances.
Someone's got to lift a program. But Kyle McCord lifted
Syracuse up to a big Bowl game last year at

(27:21):
ten wins. Kyle McCord did it in Syracuse do you
take money. Yeah, I'm sure stuff.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
That's That's the other part of the college stuff that
I love is you know, it's like it's all above board.

Speaker 7 (27:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I was like, no, it's not who you are kidding
yourself in transparency my ass.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
But it comes back to to the question heire.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Remember Joe Flacco, even when he won Comeback Player of
the Year, Joe Flacco was not terribly efficient. They won
games in spite of him. Yeah, all right, because his
touchdown the interception ratio wasn't exactly otherworldly. Uh, they scored
just enough and the defense did their job, kind of
like you've been hoping. We'll talk about the Jets in there.
Sixteen to ten wins.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Perhaps that was Joe Flackham. I mean for the most part,
maybe a little higher scoring, but it all came down
to what Miles Garrett and that defense were able to
give him. So here we are. Yeah, I say he's runned.
Let him run with it, man, let him do it
just so why not? Right? Like Kevin cost at the
end of For Love of the Game, when they bring
up the kid that that day he played with the

(28:24):
kid's dad and he meets him before the game and
they go now batting, you know, of course, because actually
do you send a rookie up to reckon no hitter
in the middle of the pendantes now now available on streaming.
But he looks at the kid coming up, he goes, ah,
why not? Right, like, here's the last out? Why not?
Like if you're the brown, why not? If he's good,
why not let him keep the gig? What else do
you do it? What are you really doing here?

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Ruining him forever time now to find out what the
other thirty one franchise that passed out him repeatedly wrong?

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Fiery Andrew Berry.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
We got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports. But guy who's been called the Joe Flacco
of Fox Sports Radio again, most of the time he
sits on his couch, but then he shows up and
does great stuff. It's Steve de Sega, slightly better pay
for him. I am starting to get people on social
media give give sample introductions for me that they want
me to say to you. When I introduce you, it

(29:12):
seems never ending. Yeah, well I I'll do one next hour.

Speaker 7 (29:15):
Speaking as the person in this chair, it seems never ending.
Rookie quarterback shoot or Sanders will start the Browns preseason
opener on Friday, and Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson will start
Thursday's exhibition against the Ravens. Then quarterback Daniel Jones will
start next week for the Colts.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Bengals.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
QB Joe Burrow and other starters will play several series
on Thursday's Thursday's game against the Eagles, however, the Seahawks
will sit most of their starters on Thursday. Saints running
back Alvin Kamara will not play Sunday at the Chargers.
The Chargers signed free agent wide receiver Keenan Allen one year,
eight point five million dollars. Wide receiver Mike Williams had retired.

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The La Rams gave running back Kyron Williams a three
year extension. We're twenty three million dollars guaranteed. He's going
into the final year of his rookie contract. Tampa Bay
signed veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, although Kyle Trask is still
the backup there. Bucks starting QB Baker Mayfield returned to
practice today after a bruised hand. On Thursday, they'll have
a joint practice with the Titans in the WNBA. Wins

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for Chicago and New York, although Angel Reese is still
out for Chicago and Breonna Stewart is still out for
New York. In Major League Baseball, the Reds are leading
in the bottom of the ninth at Wrigley five to
one over the Cubs, who might be down four games
in the standings back of the first place Brewers in
the NL Central because Milwaukee has already won. They won
five in a row, seven to the final in Atlanta.

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Winning pitcher Freddie peraltis thirteen and five and the Brewers
record the last sixty games is forty four and sixteen.
Boston pitcher Garrett Crochet is thirteen and four. After the
victory at Fenway tonight six to two over Kansas City,
the Red Sox have won seven in a row. The
Yankees are getting shut out in the ninth. That is
just going final apparent two to nothing Texas with some

(31:02):
late scoring. This was scoreless for quite some time now.
Back in the lineup is Aaron Judge of the Yankees,
off the injured list today after the elbow problem.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Can't throw. He's the DH.

Speaker 7 (31:13):
He's zero for three with two strikeouts, and it is
final Texas to nothing with two runs in the eighth,
the first place blue Jays are up.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yere, it comes Gita to manager Yankees, here we come.

Speaker 7 (31:25):
Actually, they could just use him to hit at this point.
They went two for twenty eight at the plate in
this game. I bet at age fifty you could get
a hit.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
It probably a better shortstop still at this point than Bolty.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
Oh yeah, if you've seen Volpi this year, Yeah, you're
not kidding. A first place Blue Jays up seven to
four and the seventh at Colorado. If the Rockies lose,
their record will be thirty and eighty three this season.
The Rays are already up seven to nothing on the
Angels in the top of the fifth, Mariners three to
one over the White Sox. Bottom of the fourth. Dodgers
tied two to two with the Cardinals. In the second.

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Max Munsey with a first inning homer for La Padres,
tied two two at Arizona. In the fourth, road wins
for Houston, San Francisco and Minnesota, What's left of him
got to win at Detroit six to three. The ashy
Langeliers hit three solo homers sixteen to seven. Athletics wanted Washington.
The Nats have lost six in a row, and yes,
there were ball games in the NL East tonight. The

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first place Phillies lead by two and a half over
the Mets. Phills five nothing beating Baltimore, while the Mets
lost at home three to two to Cleveland. The Mets
offense went four for twenty nine, so actually better than
the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it doesn't matter. I just I'm
a sneaking suspicion. The Mets have sniffed first place for
the last time this year. Yeah, a good run. We're
not even through the first week of August. Steve. We've
been terrible for two and a half months. Steve, it's
been awful.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
You should have seen my guy out in the hallway
try to rationalize all this been awful. He was pacing
and walking in a circle like he was trying to
create a safe space for aliens.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
I've gone. I've gone from thinking I can't believe the
Mets are on the slide for two months and now
thinking it's amazing we're still ten games over five hundred.
The fact that the Mets can't hit and a starting
pitcher can't get out of the fifth inning, how are
we ten games over five hundred?

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Right?

Speaker 7 (33:07):
Now it's Mets and Padres, the last two wildcard teams
in the Yeah, it doesn't look like anybody's gonna catch
those two, right.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
You know.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
The other fun fact though, Steve, go back to the
Yankees a second. Since June first, the White Sox have
as many wins as the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
How Gina's coming in to save it all. Thank you, Steve.
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(33:46):
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Speaker 2 (33:48):
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Speaker 1 (33:56):
Can't go five innings? Our starting pitchers think we're gonna
be the bed ut of the play of the night.
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to tell you about coming up in a couple of minutes.

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(34:38):
I have a feeling a tie breaking run in a
very specific game tonight is gonna be the play of
the day.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
Hits it back up the middle base, hit into center field,
caps coming around third will score. The throw to third,
the slide, the tag safe advancing the second on the
throw is kwond Cleveland takes a three to two. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
There it is Guardians Radio Network on the call telling you, man,
the Mets have sniffed first place for the last time
this year. It has just been a steady, slow stream.
This suck. That's what it's been.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Man.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
That ball had eyes. That was a slow ruler. That
was the painful thing. If you're a fan, like all right,
we're gonna get I mean, we're not the Yankees who
absolutely who are absolutely in way worse shape unless Geda
comes in. But i mean still, it's it's it's rough,
it's really rough. Well, it's it's hard times. It's not
the hard times Dusty Rhodes.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
Talked about all those years ago for the oil workers,
the steel mill workers and all those folks. But for
Mets fans who had great hope, I promise of great things,
it's all been torn asunder. And now Kyle Schwarber cannot
be stop. Oh he's gonna have seventy home runs and
seventy five RBI this year.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
It's gonna be. So we talked a few minutes ago
about your quarterback decision is starting to get made for
Week one NFL preseason, Shrudura Sanders will start for the
Browns and in Indianapolis, Anthony Richardson will start for the Colts. Oh,
Anthony richards go win. No, Daniel Jones is gonna wind

(36:14):
up winning this job. Okay, And I'll tell you exactly
why they still have a lot invested in Anthony Richardson.
It's still a neck and neck competition. They have both
looked so far in camp. Hey, sometimes I have bright moments,
but generally it's kind of been a flat competition between
the two. But Daniel Jones is gonna win simply because
after you read about what Shane Steiken, the head coach,

(36:36):
says he wants from the quarterback, tell me who this
sounds like. He said. He wants the offense to be clean.
They want to protect the ball, play situational football, be consistent,
move the offense up and down the field. That is
not Anthony Richardson. Okay, that's not Anthony. Anthony Richardson has
not played enough football. He's been hurt, he's been ineffective.
He's not suddenly going to be this guy. And you're

(36:59):
gonna see a bit pushing the NFL now to go
away from quarterbacks that haven't played enough in college. Right
the old Bill Parcells, I wouldn't draft a quarterback unless
he had fifty starts in college fort or forty starts
in college football. Over the course, that was a big thing.
You're gonna start seeing teams go back then get away from.
I'm just wowed by the guy's talent. Because Richardson has
not been able to be consistent enough, He's not been

(37:20):
able to pick up the position. He's not been able
to stay healthy. Daniel Jones, what's the one. The guy's
been consistent, He's been in the lineup, he has started
for a long time. He started a lot of games.
You have a lot of weapons in Indianapolis. But when
you hear the coach say, I want to clean offense,
protect the football, which is not what Anthony Richardson does. Right,
situational football, consistency, all of these things, this is what

(37:41):
Daniel Jones does. Does he do them great?

Speaker 3 (37:44):
No?

Speaker 1 (37:44):
But can he do them well enough? Because the Colts
offense is that loaded with talent. Absolutely. You have four
terrific wide receivers, you have a really fantastic running back,
you drafted what could be a great tight end. Like
this offense can explode and you don't need some kind
of crazy talent to do it. You just need a
guy that can execute. You need a Sam Darnold to
come in and have the kind of season like he

(38:04):
had with the Vikings last year. Hey, I'm in Trouble's
gonna throw it to Justin Jefferson. Well, okay, go ahead,
that'll be fine. So Daniel Jones is gonna be this guy?
You know Anthony Richmond will get a chance to show you,
but I've not seen it. And now you're talking about
three plus years into his NFL career. He just hasn't
played enough, man, and that's a really difficult thing. So yeah,
when it comes down to it, Daniel Jones ex giant

(38:27):
Daniel Jones. He's gonna be the quarterback, but it.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Comes down for him. Can he stay healthy? And I
just had to look up his hand size, since you
decided to swipe Kenny Pickett before nine point seven five
inches falls within the range. So the fact that he
fumbles the ball a lot stump much more problematic. We
can't just equate that to hand size. But when Jones
has been on the field, we go back a couple

(38:50):
of years ago before he got paid, and everybody gets mad,
it's not your money, shut up?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (38:55):
The The thing with Jones was we're gonna build around
and we saw enough proof of concept with Dable that
he was going to take that next step forward. Right,
maybe the numbers would fall in line, but you played good,
operationally efficient football and your td'd interception ratio was okay
when Saquon Barkley was healthy, and all those things well,

(39:18):
now you got Jonathan Taylor. As you mentioned, you look
at all these wide receivers. You also have a very
interesting part for Shane Steichn is you don't know what
his length of time there is. I mean, Jim Eersaid
tragically passed away, right, He's a guy that had for
years wanted to do it his way, right, and you
saw that with Ballard, and they would bring in band

(39:40):
aid guys, veteran quarterbacks to try to move things along
after the abrupt retirement of Andrew Luck. Right, we saw
Matt Ryan, we saw Philippers, we saw these guys. Well
then they go the other way and you bring in
a guy and Anthony Richardson. To this point, the most
damning thing from all the turnovers, health issues, protect yourself,
all of that stuff, is when he tapped out of

(40:00):
a game because he was tired. Now you still try
to win people back, including your coach, because you make
him look like an ass in that process.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Is what I would like to go out there, But
I just want to sit down and play a couple
of games. Yeah, I'm gonna play some Solitaire and then
spider Solitaire, I mean on next level, and they'll be
ready to go back out spider tired right now?

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Tire So yeah, Richardson will start the first game, they said.
In the second game, that'll flop Daniel Jones. He will
be your quarterback.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
You cheat, doctor Jones Exit Alt Valafresca, Exit Swollen Dome.
Speaking of quarterback, one team said, Hey, you gotta be
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So how close are the Yankees depressing the panic button?
Are the Red Sox really the best team in baseball?

(41:14):
Joining us now in the hotline for all the big
one week post trade deadline stories. A man who well,
I want to give him the nod because after a
very difficult last twenty four hours, he's joining us tonight.
Because on MLB Network last night they put a pole
in the field about who the best JP of the
night was, and the choices were JP Sears, who has

(41:38):
since been sent back down to the minors after last night, Jakepeve,
who was in studio last night broadcasting FROMLB network, and
John Paul Morosi. And I think John Paul, I think
they did you wrong. You were the only one not
on the air, and I saw you came in third,
even though I voted for you multiple times to be
the JP of the night last night. So I last

(42:00):
day for you, Thank you for joining us.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
I appreciate it. It is a blessing to have great
friends like you and like Mike appreciate your support. As
they say, vote early and often, and so I appreciate that.
The genesis, I'm not sure if you had caught this
part of the segment as to why my colleague Greg

(42:23):
ham Singer was having so much fun. He basically and
I don't even know whose idea it was still as
we have this conversation right now, but the MLB network
feed was playing over the main scoreboard and sounds estem
at Chase Field, and so of course it's going to

(42:44):
be on a bit of a delay just because of
the way that television works, and it was on about
a thirty second delay, which any of us have ever
done broadcasting. When you hear yourself on a one or
two second delay over a loudspeaker, it's moderately is moderately problematic,
but you can just kind of get through it. You
just keep going. But when it's like thirty seconds, you

(43:07):
you lose the plot very quickly. And about the second
answer I gave, I think Greg could tell. I mean,
it was all just kind of a joke, but there
was a moment there where I just had no idea
if I was speaking English, Italian, Spanish. I mean, that
was everything. All my wires are getting crossed. So that
was how I even came to be nominated for that award.

(43:27):
Even though so if you go back and queue it up,
you will see just how utterly clueless I was about
what I was even saying on the air, which was
which I would generally not recommend that you try this
at home, but it was it was fun TV. As
I said at the outset of my little intro to

(43:49):
the segment, I said, this is either going to be
great TV or such awful TV that it becomes great
TV one of the other. It's gonna be one of
the other. And I think it was probably the latter
that I was so bad it was good. Uh that's
at least what I hope it was.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
So who do we make for the third JP? Well,
we got Jake Pevy, we got jpc herees, John Paul Geedey, No,
come on, we gotta have John Paul Morosi, come on, Firesen, right, J.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
I mean, if you want to go into other realms,
the great JP parise of course following sure there are
some great jps.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
JP Moore, Yeah, yeah, yeah, mean you got up, you
were you were on the metal stand. I mean again,
I voted for you a couple of times. I'm sorry,
I come from Chicago multiple times.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah, I'm gonna say that whenever all votes the next
time we do this, I'm gonna speak with Am Singer
and make sure that all votes coming from the Fox
Sports Radio studios count one hundred times the actual value.
And as long as we can do that, I like
my chances.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
All right, So let me bring you in. We'll start
off with what we've talked about a few minutes ago.
Here actually has been a big topic the last couple
of nights on the show. The Yankees lose again. They
get shut out by the Rangers. Aaron Judge comes back,
it doesn't matter. The Yankees are now at the point
where they've given up twelve games in the standings over
the course of the past five or six weeks. And

(45:15):
we talked about this last night. The Yankees aren't gonna
go quietly. And if they don't turn things around and
they sit here in the next couple of weeks and
they go two three games out of the wild Card,
they'll get rid of Aaron Boone. They'll do something because
you can't bring any players in because only one deadline.
And the funny thing is, is that, okay, if you're
moving on from Aaron Boone, Derek Jeter's been okay being

(45:36):
critical of the Yankees over the course of the past
few weeks and critical of Aaron Boone. I called Derek
Jeter and say, Cap, you want to come in here
for the last five weeks of the season and help
us out. What do you think JP?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
I would doubt it. I would doubt.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
I voted for you twice. You said that's the best
idea ever.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
I appreciate it. Now comes the time of this segment
where I just give you my honest answer, and do
I think that there is a chance that Derek Jeter
is managing the Yankees by the end of this season,
I would say highly, highly unlikely, remote in the most

(46:16):
remote possible realm. Now the separate question is is Aaron
Boone in trouble here? And I think the answer to
that is no, not certainly, not yet. There's just this
team is not playing good baseball, and I realize, listen,
there are any number of circumstances that go on in

(46:38):
internally that lead to coaches or managers being in jeopardy.
The way I see it, guys, there is such stress
and such turmoil with this team right now that to
bring in anyone unfamiliar with the dynamics right now, I

(46:59):
think would be doing a service to to everybody. You're
you're just now getting Aaron Judge back. You're trying to
figure out how you're going to be able to utilize Stanton.
What are you going to do with Devin Williams who
gave it up again tonight. You acquired a reliever last
week and you've already sent them down to the minor leagues.
I mean, it is complete turmoil right now. And when

(47:19):
that's the case, you need familiar and not and not
just pulling additional panic levers. It's I get it. It's
it's not a good situation. They are still, ever so
barely clinging to a postseason spot. And and you prefaced
it by saying that by next week, if they're three

(47:40):
or you know, two or three games out of the
playoff spot, what do they do? Then it might be
a separate conversation because then you're there on the outside
looking in. I think is and again it's it's amazing
that I'm saying these words, But they got to just
see how how things go with the next few days,
getting judged back in there and seeing if they can
find a way to just get some coherent play going.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Again.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
That last weekend against the Marlins, I think really really
made them look vulnerable because they just were not playing
good baseball and this and by the way, the lack
of fundamental found this. There's a lot of discussion right
now about how much is it the manager's purview, and
I guess you could bench guys here and there, but
it's a fundamentally flawed team and that they don't do

(48:27):
fundamental things well and have not since last year. This
was part of the reason why they lost the Dodgers
of the World Series and it wasn't fixed. And if
you're not gonna all of a sudden become the eighty
five Cardinals overnight or the early aughts Minnesota Twins with
great fundamental play, it's just they're not that kind of

(48:49):
a team. And that is not the fault of Aaron Boone.
No matter how many calls there are from the bench,
you could bench Jazz Chisholm. Okay, well, I suppose you
could do that, but it seems to me that the
issues with this team go far beyond Jazz getting picked
out in first base a couple of days ago.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Yeah, I mean, this is where Jeter can really help.
You could play a little bit of short and maybe
is ob obp is still pretty high relative.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Not a bad thought, But I just I I get
we have we have had, we have We have offered
many an idea in our many conversations over the years,
and including, uh, including my belief the Lions will win
every game twenty seven to fourteen.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
It's true.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
I just I just don't think that it's quite gonna
happen in this fashion for the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
The kid, well, we just went to the break glass
in case of emergency in a scenario here, So we
continuing with that Smith's walking around the studio is all
calm collected, going, well, we shouldn't even be anywhere close anyway,
because of all these injuries or whatever. Can the Mets
do anything with the roster has currently constructed to try
to claw back against the fight in films?

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Yeah, the Phillies to me, have had the momentum now
and certainly that they bring in Joan Duran and his
entrance and the way that he's pitched so far has
given the Phillies a real swagger that they have not
had in a long time, especially in the late innings.
That their bullpen was the reason why they did not
win the World Series or get there in twenty twenty three,

(50:23):
and even in twenty twenty two against the Astros, that
you could argue that they were a reliever or too
short in that World Series as well. To me, the
Mets and again another low scoring loss tonight, they tried
and I think made some decent upgrades of the deadline,
but you're right that they just have not been a
very healthy team this year in terms of what they

(50:45):
thought they were going to get from montas Manaia. At
different times they just have not been able to get
consistency there. So I would be surprised if the Mets
win this division. I know that that's not what Jason
wats their right now, but I just think the Phillies.
Look at the way Brandon Marsh's play at another big
start tonight from Taiwan Walker, the Phillies to me seem

(51:07):
to have all the momentum. The Mets can still certainly
make it to the playoffs, and they can win a
round or two, but it just does not seem to
me that the Mets have the have the pitching depth,
nor the top to bottom lineup depth, just with the
healthy bodies right now for them to win the.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
World Series this year.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
So it's the whole idea of signing so too, of course,
is that it's going to give you a chance to
win every year, and they've had a chance to win
this year. It just doesn't seem to me that they
are the top of the league and even the top
of the division. The fascinating thing is that out West,
the Dodgers look as beatable as they have in a while,
and they're just I think five and five in the

(51:51):
last ten games of the Padres. They lost a very
winnable game last night against Arizona, So there's there are
Certainly I would say that the National League is more
wide open than a lot of the initial prognostications would
have you believe, and that might be the one thing
that eventually works in the mets favor.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Well, maybe the Dodgers said needn Max Munsey to come
back two home runths tonight they're beating the Cardinals. Maybe
Munsey was the missing ingredient.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
He may have been. And actually it was interesting. I
was I was texting with a Dodger official at the
deadline and I said, you know what else is coming?
Any other moves? What do we think? And the response is,
we're getting Monsely back at the deadline. That's the monthy
is our deadline acquisition. And of course Tommy edmund went
on the iel to clear the spot for Monsey. Edmunds

(52:40):
just had one of those injury plague seasons again for him,
but monthly in my view, if he's able to hit
like this, and certainly he changed his eyewear earlier this year,
so he's got the eyes fixed. He's feeling feeling better now,
help health wise with his body. So if he keeps
swinging it like this, he may be the guy they

(53:01):
need because as we know, they've tried different things with Mookie,
his Steason just has never quite gotten off the ground.
So it's again, it's not the same club they had
a year ago, but if they have monthsly re emerging,
that will go a long way towards helping them hold
off the padres there in the Nation League West.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
So funny addition, through subtraction the Red Sox and finding
their strides after vanquishing Devers from the squad, changing up
their lineup. We talked about the Yankees quite a bit
there JP, but a couple of weeks ago, I mean,
the Red Sox would have been one of those teams
we were looking at as potential sellers. And now all
of a sudden we're talking about the al Pennant and

(53:39):
with crochet at the top, perhaps you know this ex
White Sox guys can lead very impressive.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Garrett crochet I shared a note statistically earlier tonight on
AX about a left hander and again at Fenway, it's
hard to be a left hander because he got the
wall right there. It's not traditionally been a good park
for left handed starters. Crochet right now has one of
the eight lowest eras ever for a left handed starter

(54:10):
of the Boston Red Sox who made at least twenty
starts in that particular season. Actually on that list of
eight is Babe Ruth twice. By the way, Chris sails
on that list once. It's just he. And this is
where it's interesting. The Red Sox were criticized for not
doing more at the deadline. Okay, well, they haven't lost

(54:31):
since the deadline, and the big move they made is
the one you're describing, which was moving on from Devers
when they did, and they've had one of the best
records of baseball since then. The Blue Jays now have
to worry about the Red Sox, not the Yankees catching them.
It's the Red Sox with the momentum. And while I
would have loved to have seen the Red Sox do
a bit more at the deadline, my goodness, Scare Crochet.

(54:54):
Right now, there's a real discussion about who the most
overpowering left Tanner is in the American League, between Schooble
and him. I still give the edge to Schooble, but
it's a fun Thy Young Award conversation down the stretch
in the American League, and you got two first class
left handers that I would I'd like to see matchup

(55:14):
in a playoff series at some point in time here
before the month of October is done.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
He is the real JP with us here at Fox
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You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi MLB
Network insider John Paul is always buddy appreciated man. And hey,
if I haven't talked to those people in the MLB
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them and I'll make sure that they know that you're
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Speaker 3 (55:39):
I appreciate that. Jason, thank you very much. And by
the way, full marks for your proper New Jersey pronunciation
of sea Caucus, which I wish I have spent a
lot of time when I really want to sound when
I really want to sound authentic, when I'm getting my
when I go into Deli's there in New Jersey, when
I'm in studio, I always call it Seacaucus, and it
gives me a lot of a lot of cred there

(56:01):
in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
And also i'd be remiss if I didn't give you credit.
I keep forgetting John Paul, that big rookie in Kansas
City that everybody likes to talk about. I keep, I
keep forgetting how to pronounce his name. Callian, you're the best,
taking everybody. We'll talk to you John Paul Morosi and

(56:24):
visit with him