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Jason Smith explains why he’s 100% OK with the Mets letting Edwin Diaz go to the Dodgers. How can you not be romantic about football? Tension is rising between Giannis and the Milwaukee Bucks. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi drops by from Orlando at the winter meetings!  

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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh, how glorious this is. It's no longer yours.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Jason Smith's.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Uh, that's Timmy L. Trumpet, Frostburg. That's Timmy L. Trumpet
for you. It's capital L. Now it's a capital L
for loss. Timmy L. That's your la, Your Timmy L trumpet.
Now your tim Now. You love the guy. He is
the danger. Just like that.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
It flips. It's the old rule of thumb. I hate
him when he's on the other team. I got a
laundry list of guys. I hate him when they played
the White Sox or the Bulls or the Bears. But
as soon as they donned your uniform and they were
the agitator that they always were, that's my guy, my guy.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's kind of it. I kind of feel this way
there was like like if there's a there's a girl
you like and or when you like and and you're not
sure if she likes you, You're like, yeah, like what
do you think about it? You're like, yeah, I don't know.
She's kind of too cool for school A lot of
she never really we've never really connected. Yeah, I'm not
I'm not the big I'm you know, I don't know.
I think she's okay whatever. That's Frostburg, right, But then

(01:32):
you find oh, hey, so remember we talked about we
talked about her. Uh, she told me she likes you.
She's waiting for you to ask her out, like, oh
I love her. Yeah, I'm going to ask her out
right now. That's Rostburg right now. Oh I love it.
I love Edwin Diaz.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
I love it always in that fluidity there and just waiting,
waiting for the push, waiting for that sign. And here
we have it today as the Winter Meetings go, Jason,
I cannot wait for you to wear that first start
of his.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
When he comes out Bullpen.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. I want to let you know one thing justin
because in this I want you know I'm gonna be
You're gonna wear that real I'm gonna be here for you.
I'm gonna be here for you to say thank you
the first time he comes in and it's a one
two three ninth inning with three strikeouts and twelve pitches,
I'll be here for you to say thank you. I'll
also be here the first time he comes in with

(02:21):
a three to nothing lead in the ninth inning and
two walks that hit by pitch. Later it's bases loaded,
nobody out, and you're going, uh, Cofax is getting up
in the bullpen. I'll be here for that too, because
that's also Edwin Diaz. Don't put that evil on us.
That's both, that's both. How long does Timmy L.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Trumpet capitalil uh come and hang out with the with
the Dodgers a home? I guarantee you looks because say
he blows the first save that he comes in the
desperate gas.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
No, no, no, no, I'm telling you what's gop. Right now,
I'm calling Pablo Tory, who you know is gonna have
some kind of investigation because you know Timmy L. Trumpet's
gonna get some sort of record deal being in LA. Now,
how did you get a record? I'm a DS signed
for that kind of money? How do we do it. No,
Pablo Torri will find out. He's gonna find out. How
you watch, I'll call him up and say, yeah, you
make sure Timmy L. Trumpet when he's signed to Arista

(03:09):
Records or whatever it is. Yeah, you make sure that's legitimate.
Forget about Jalen Brunson. Don't worry about that. The Knicks
are fine. You worry about how how Edwin d has
a Timmy L. Trumpet got all the way to Los Angeles.
Now I get to call him Timmy L. Trumpet.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
It's kind of fun three years, sixty nine million dollars
to do that when your former team didn't engage allegedly
until the last twenty four to forty eight hours and
didn't want to meet your terms expectations, and the Dodgers said, hey,
thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
All right now let me give you. Let me give
the reality here, because I'm gonna give you. I know
you think I'm going one way on this, and I'm not,
because I've told you you are wearing a missing if
you listen to what I've talked about Edwin Diaz the
last few years, I will tell you this. Number One,
everybody who lost their minds today. It was all over
social media, the Mets with the number one trend. How
do you let Edwin DZ go? How do you let

(03:55):
Edwin die? It's awful you let Edwin ds go off
of Okay, time out for one second. I'm the biggest
Mets fan in the world. Maybe he wanted to go
to the Dodgers because I understand wanting to go to
the Dodgers. I really do, and I think every baseball
fan understands, well, if I can get to the Dodgers,
they clearly have shown the last decade, they win World Series,

(04:17):
they win National League penance, and I want to be
part of that. So I there's only so much you
can do. It's well what we're gonna do? Right, Because
this gets to the second part of it is that, Okay,
maybe he wanted to be a don Clearly he did
because the Mets money. Mets did the same thing they've
been doing with Pete A. Lonzo is at hey, let
us see what the money is at hey, three years
sixty nine million for the Dodgers and the Mets. That

(04:37):
we can do about the same stuff. Right there. Offer
was three years and sixty six million. They had some
money deferred. The Dodgers had some money deferred, but in
the end, Edwin Diaz wanted to go be a Dodger,
So okay, so he's there. The second thing is this,
I am really okay saying goodbye to Edwin Diaz. I
really am because Edwin Diaz has been I would say

(05:00):
sometimes he's been great and sometimes he's not been. His
first year with the Mets was awful. His second year
was fantastic, got a big contract, third year got hurt
out for the year, next year was terrible. Last year
he was really good. He's an every other year reliever.
And I'm not gonna give one hundred million dollars to
a guy for the ninth inning who's been as volatile

(05:20):
and up and down as Edwin Diaz because this is
what the guy does. Yes, sometimes he comes in it's one, two, three.
Sometimes it's why does he have to walk the first
two guys? Why does he have to hit a guy?
Why is it throw a wild pitch? Right? You talk
about is his wild pitches and and and uh uh
and and another and other uh uh situations that he
comes into that's not clearly I can throw strikes and

(05:41):
get out of situations like I think last year he
had to combine fifteen or seventeen hit by pitches and
wild pitches. Right, So that's like every every three innings
he gives you what he gives you one, one, one
or both of those. Right. He's a very volatile reliever,
and he's coming off a great year. So is he
gonna be great again? Yeah? Maybe, but maybe not because

(06:02):
as we've seen with relief pictures, it's very common to
see guys I have a great year, but I was overused.
My next year is not great, then I'm bounced back
a year after that. Relief pictures from year to year
are really difficult. You're trying to catch lightning in a
bottle and you're trying to catch guys on the upswing.
So that's why, Hey, we'll give Devin Williams fifty million
dollars because we saw him be really, really good two

(06:23):
years ago. Last year not so great. But we know
we can fix him. We're on the upswing. We're not
spending as much money as what on Edwin Diz. So
I get it. I get not give what's the money
to give Edwin Diaz? You're gonna give seventy five million
dollars to him to close for four years, you're gonna
do that. I mean, you have other needs to figure
out that are bigger than the ninth inning. Not the
ninth inning's not a big deal, but you have other

(06:43):
needs that are bigger than figuring out the ninth inning,
especially with a guy that every time he came in
you didn't know what you were gonna get from year
to year, right, because that's what he's been. Great, terrible, injured, terrible, great. Okay,
I'm I'm really okay with not giving him one hundred
million dollar contract just to keep him in in Queens.
Oh my goodness, let's keep that Edwin Diaz. That's okay.

(07:03):
I am okay with him going. And congratulations to the
Dodgers for forgetting Edwin Diaz. It's awesome. I'll get to
see him here, sincerely, I'll get to hear Narco. I'll
get to hear Narco and you will be sweating him
like we sweated ken Lee Jansen for the seven year running.
Had a Dodger closer, you thought sweating Kenley's possible. This
is gonna be sweating like Robert Hayes an airplane in that.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
But he's just then his.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Head like kimberl and Jansen at the same time.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh yeah, it's like they bought like some sort of
super vultron to throw right and lefty. That's how much
you're going to be sweating Edwin Diaz this year.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
The curiosity is how do you follow up the magnificence
that he was. You mentioned the hit by pitches in
the wild pitch. Yeah, it got to fifteen in his
sixty six innings of work. Still a whip of about
point eight five eight six, whatever it was, and a
strong era four point six strikeouts per walk, all of

(07:58):
those metrics that are fantastic. And when we're talking about
the Mets, we're talking about the Dodgers, we're also talking
about a couple of teams that play in a different
it's the same game, different sport or vice versa. However
you want to do it, because there's only so many
teams that can play in the Hey, we have the luxury.
We already signed a reliever. What about this other guy. Yeah,

(08:21):
we could go in for that, but he wanted to
feel loved and evidently felt more love with the Dodgers.
Talk about change of scenery, opportunity, the winning and consistency
that is there versus some of the uncertainty in Metsland
as we have the re signing of Babe Schwarber there
in Philadelphia. But all of that to say three for

(08:43):
sixty nine. Look, last year, the Dodgers went in on
a couple of closers and they said, Yeah, that didn't work.
That's fine, Let's do it again because they can well.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
And that's the thing, and that's the part about closers
that people don't get is that just because you get
a guy with a great year the year before, everybody
thinks that every every closer when they hit the big
time is Rivera and Hoffman and they're not right. Oh,
Josh Hater, Josh Hater's not Josh Hater anymore. Right. You
get guys that they get up there, they have a
couple of big years, they get figured out, they're up,

(09:15):
They're down, They're up there down. That's how it goes.
Edwin Diaz is the quintessential superstar closer in Major League Baseball.
Year to year, his production varies wildly, and we're coming
off a big year. So okay, am, I am I
okay with seeing him go I am because this is
how it goes. With the relief pictures you're you're really
you are trying to catch lightning in a bottle with

(09:37):
relief pictures every year. And we thought last year, right,
just for the Dodgers, all the look at this move
the Dodgers, the Dodgers and Dodgers. Yeah, okay, yeah, great
move on paper. We were saying the same things last
year when it was Tanner Scott and all of a sudden,
they have three closers, And now how you're gonna beat
this Dodger bullpen? Now they got three o'clock. The end
of the year, was anybody close, Roki Sasaki come in
and close. We have nobody else. Right, Just when you

(09:57):
think they had it all settled, they were still looking
for guys, desperate for guys at the end of the year.
Just so when you understand Edwin Diaz, that's kind of weird.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
No, but that's it, right, it's but it's the ability
to adapt and move, recognize your your bad decisions. We
talk about it all the time, sunk costs of things
that went badly. Dodgers. Look at the guys that they
signed last offseason. None of them were active for the
playoffs because they stunk. They just said no, no, you
guys are We don't know, no need you you know
Canfordo and I know a bunch of that money came

(10:26):
off the books is what people forget as well, right,
Clayton Kershaw Conforida like all this stuff. You know, you're
looking at players that it really amassed a pretty good
pay rate when it's all said and done.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
But for the Dodgers, you.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Look at the and evaluate what you have sasaki by
all estimations.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right, where is the fourth or fifth in your rotation
this year?

Speaker 5 (10:52):
Right?

Speaker 4 (10:52):
And they'll move there unless they have to do another
break glass in case of emergency, because you already have
proof of concept that it's not too big for him
if he needs to do that. But you have the
opportunity to go into the marketplace. Mets already signed a guy,
and maybe Edwin Diaz was a little salty about that
because once upon a time before you broke him and

(11:12):
we had that video that went viral a little bit.
Thank you to everybody that found that in TikTok and
land in instagram of you broke him, and now you
get to bring him back and try to repair him
like the six million dollar man. You know, it's a
little more expensive, bigger faster, stronger.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
But it's that idea. It's funny you say that. I
actually listened to the ninth inning of that game driving
in tonight like I was. So, I'm like, no, I'm
cool man. You know what, Oh traffic, I'm gonna listening
to the ninth inning of the Mets Brewers from two
years ago. I'll listened at ninth inning and I'm and
I'm calling this. I'm calling the play by play for
Howie Rose. This is not the dominant Williams that we
have seen before. It was great to put me in
a great.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Coming out well, but sometimes sometimes you go back and
find your biggest wins, and for Jason, that's that's where
he decided to Listen. Dude, I gotta go back to
eighty five or two thousand and five. That's all I got.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Brighter days though. The White Sox have the number one
pick in the draft, but wow, you know what on it?

Speaker 1 (12:05):
And I can be honest, I thought, going on a
go how long until Harmon mentions the White SOA's got
the number one pick in the draft? I said, first
ninety seconds, you made it. Ten minutes I was waiting,
I said, you guys, gonna get in the first ninety
You're gonna get that in now you make ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
I mean, thoughts here on Edwin Diaz, Right, the greatness
nice of whether the trumpeteer is now on the team payroll.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
But I'd bean, look, it's a it's a great signing
on paper. He's a terrific reliever, but he's not the
model of consistency. If he was, if he was year
to year forty saves an era under two and his
war was three, the Mets would have given him another
hundred million dollars. He would have stayed. But he's not.
And I think the fact that the Mets know him
more than anybody and they still said, well, we would

(12:47):
like you if you are this kind of guy. They
feel they can eminently replace him. And I'm fine with it.
It was I was a little upset to them. Everybody
saw all the Mets let him go, to the Mets,
let him go. The Mets have bigger problems than ninth inning.
Well again, right, it becomes the you know what's the
tipping point?

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Was it a non engagement period that he thought he
would get more love, right, because feelings are real. I mean,
look at look at the guy. Look at our guy, Bivaqua,
he's still crying. I think he has a press conference
schedule for tomorrow morning to talk about how Rudolph didn't
get to play in the rain to your games or something. So, uh,
you know you've got that part of it, the human

(13:27):
side of it. Devid Williams shows up and it's like, well,
what about me? Like why are we not taking care
of me and my needs? And whether it comes down
to years and dollars or there's a divide there that
the Dodgers decided to give him the the higher average
value a twenty three a year. And let's face it,
it's Los Angeles. They win a lot. You're gonna have

(13:48):
a lot of opportunities, and uh, if you win, big boy,
you're a hero. Immediately you'll get look at all these guys, right,
great move by the Dodgers, But understand that's that that's
what you're gonna get with Edwin Diaz.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
You're gonna get great games. You're gonna get games where
you say, what the hell is going on here? And
you're just coming off a great year. You thought you
had the bullpen solve next Look, great move on paper,
but I'm telling you what. Nobody knows the guy who
seeing the guy ups and downs in better than I do.
And I'm telling you I'm okay with him going. I
really am. But he's a closer. Mariano Rivera is not
walking through that door.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Hall of Famer slinging Billy Wagner in the regular season
for is not walking through that door. Trevor Howkmins not
walking through that That's it, That's all you got. Otherwise
I gotta go back to suitor.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
You just wait, rolly fingers, sure, it's a long time. Wait, Okay,
it's all right. Cross be damn you man.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
You're dancing the Narcos like a flamingo.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
You think he's gonna flip and suddenly do like a
college recruit where suddenly he's.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
A Dodger fan because of Edwin Diaz. Uh no, yeah, no, no, no,
no not Can he be the guy that was great? No,
you don't learn to play the trumpet. No, no, no, no,
I'll tell you Diaz really good. It's okay that he's gone.
Telling you it's okay that he's gone. Of course it is,
because he's good. It's okay.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
But unless they I mean, if Devin Williams isn't fixed though.
By the end of April, you're singing a different tune.
They get Suarez, They're gonna get somebody else. They have
somebody else in my trust me, trust me, everything is fine.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
It's okay. They didn't do this, It's okay. You want
a guy coming in that's on the upswing, that could
be on a big year. You get a guy coming
off a bad year who has alternated good bed every
single year. What do you think is gonna happen?

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Like?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
No, what bet on the Giants to win the World
Series and the teens when they were coming off the
World Series? They bet on them the year after when
they're stunk, and then it won the next year. Telling
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(16:07):
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Speaker 1 (16:56):
Not only Edwin ds will do that is not want
a john of someone who closed games out. I want
to reliever who load the bases with nobody out the ninth.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
See now you're obsessing. You're trying to put bad voodoo
on on Frostburg and the Dodgers. Because you're you're sad
that Edwin Diaz and his trumpet playing friend and a company.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
I am no longer, way more than sad. You know what,
I'm sad for all day? I am. I am only
sad because I was really expecting that to be a
mash up tight shirt. I was expecting to hear I
want Hippopotamus or Christmas like with Creeping Death by Metallica, Like, well,
where was that mashup man.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
That's coming up next hour?

Speaker 1 (17:37):
All rights? What a man? I mean, come on, you
let the cat out of the proverbial bag.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
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Speaker 3 (18:07):
You just wait for the Narcos Christmas edition.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Oh sure, yeah, you're right, Okay, No, that's fine, it'll
be great. Timmy l Trumpet I'll enjoy hearing Timmy L.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Trumpet his Christmas Album's Off the Chains.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's it's already out there. He's doing stuff with like
the La Phil r Mont. Yeah, dudea mel is appearing
on his uh oh wow, Okay, ready, are they actually
gonna put him over as you're driving on the freeway
instead of the dude that's been on that billboard for years?
It's not Timmy L. Yeah, no, I think that. I
think the woman on the billboard has been there. Wait,

(18:39):
like the soloists like forever. That's like a twenty year
old picture on the side of the room.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Does that get refurbished like a bridge, like every every
year they go and touch it up?

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I mean, I gotta know. So maybe the most unwise
unretirement we've seen in the NFL in quite some time.
Philip Rivers is official. He is unretiring from the NFL.
Remember he walked away in twenty twenty, his seventeenth year

(19:08):
in the league. He is rejoining the Colts on their
practice squad amid an injury crisis. It's left them without
all of their quarterbacks, right Anthony Richardson. Remember he was
on the injured list with a facial injury earlier this season.
He's still not ready to come back. Daniel Jones done
for the year with the torn achilles Riley Leonard week
to week with a knee injury. He worked out for

(19:30):
the Colts last night and on his forty fourth birthday,
and the Colts decide, yeah, we're going in on Philip
Rivers right now. See this is why this is a
bad idea, because immediately can you get mad about it
for me and just turns out screaming. You go and
look at the Colts schedule and you say, oh, this
is not gonna go. How Philip Rivers thinks it's gonna go.

(19:52):
First of all, you're at Seattle on some day. Now,
maybe he plays in that game, maybe not. Then he
got San Francisco Jack's and at Houston. I mean, I
I don't know if I want to watch game week
eighteen or if I don't want to watch, because my goodness,
the Texans right now are taking bets on sacks and interceptions.
I mean, this is his time to get rid of

(20:15):
the ball, that's the question. I mean, we've got to
be like one point four seconds gone. Now, look, I'll
give you there's a little bit of a sliver of
sunnyside before I tell you why this is a horrible idea. Look,
when the Colts got Daniel Jones in the offseason, that's
why I said, hey, they're my long shot pick for
the Super Bowl, because Daniel Jones will work in this
offense and they have enough playmakers and he'll be able

(20:36):
to do it. And what happened. First eight weeks, Colts were great.
They were the best team in football. Right, they were
one bead ad Ni Mitchell drop ball away from being undefeated.
Now the hard times have hit and they're desperate because
they went in. They went in to get Sauce Garter.
They made a big trade for that, and now that's
not really working out. That becomes a bigger thing for
the future of the squad. Right, because you thought you

(20:58):
had your quarterbacks. Daniel Jones is going to take a year.
Oh yeah, you know, to get ready. You don't make
that trade for a sauce gardener unless you think Daniel
Jones is our long term solution. We're pushing all in.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Yeah, we're going to try to win it this year,
four to five the secondary and we'll give up those picks.
And now you're kind of a Nomad's like, now, Daniel
Jones will probably come back on a song sweetheart deal.
Yeah right, he'll probably come back somewhere like what like
probably another one year.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Fifty whatever, see when he comes back together. But it's
I get the desperation and I get the idea that
romanticism of here comes Philip Rivers, Here comes Philip Rivers. Here,
here comes Philip Rivers, who played okay enough in twenty twenty.
But you saw at the end, he was at the end,
and yes they threw the football. Well, Philip Rivers. Look

(21:46):
Hall of Fame quarterback, right, Philip Rivers, he was great.
He's forty four. He's been away from the game for
five years. Okay, understand that, Like a lot of people
get confused when, oh, they hear a name and they
look at the back of his football card and say,
we're getting a superstar. You're not getting the Philip Rivers
of two thousand and seven. You're not get the Philip

(22:07):
Rivers of twenty fifteen. Not in the Philip Rivers. You're
getting a guy who's been out of the league for
five years. And it's not like he went out of
the league at twenty two and he went on some
kind of you know, walk about and now I'm back.
Now he's forty four. Man, how do you think this
is gonna go? I really I want to know what
the hell could he possibly have showed them in his

(22:29):
tryout to say, yes, we're gonna sign Philip Rivers. I
don't there's guys on practice squads across the league that
are younger, that have more reps that you'd be better
signing a third string guy off of somebody's roster to
bring him in, right, I mean, this is not gonna
go how you think it is. I get that people
love it because it's a name from the past that's
coming back. And when you hear Philip rivers name, immediately

(22:50):
you're five to ten to fifteen years younger because you
remember his prime. So it sounds great to you. Whatever
that that that chemical in your brain is that that
makes you happy you hear about something in the past.
It's why it's scope. I got a good book on it.
It's it's fun. It's why people, you know, when they
get old, they talk about the past because okay, because
I was younger, and oh things are better when I

(23:11):
was younger. Yeah, things are better when you're younger because
you were younger and you were more outgoing and doing things.
I get her. This is just five years right, we're
going back the philip Rivers. You are getting what do
you really think you're gonna get hurt? I don't know
what the hell are the Colts? Like? I mean it,
man like this, like, I feel like the Colts ran
this team in the off season, and they ran it
really well, and all of a sudden the spotlight got

(23:33):
on them and they wilt it because they panicked to
make a big trade for Sauce Gardner. And now they
panic to make this move for Philip Rivers. And I'm saying,
what are they doing they? Is the world spinning too
fast them? Because I think it is because I don't
know in what world. Hey, he's familiar with the offense.
Oh so other guys couldn't come in and grab the offense.
I mean they have good playmakers and watch Daniel Jones
come in. So I get while you think, well, we

(23:55):
can have a few guys come in and do well.
But again, forty four not in football shit. You talk
about guys being in football shape, not being in football shape.
That are guys who are twenty four to twenty five,
but they miss a month and a half of training
camp and it's well, hey, God has some time to
get back and really not going to be this this
player until the middle later part of the season because

(24:16):
they missed so much. Got to get back in football. Show.
Five years he's been gone, and it's not like he's
been working out all the time. Hey, I'm ready to
come back. I'm ready to come back, Ready to come back,
Ready to come back. It's not Colin Kaepernick where you got.
I'm still working out. It's still working out. This is
he's been coaching football and having more kids. Also, Hey,
I'm right, like what, I don't understand what the Colts
think they're gonna get with this. I don't.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
I don't understand seven thirty two and eighteen seconds before
you uh you mentioned Kaepernick because I knew that would
come up as it did.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Of course, of the last years. You know the guys
that are working out, right, not not that you know
Kaepernick's a bad idea too, because he's been gone for
even longer. What I'm saying is that there's guys who
are still working Yeah. No, I hear about the kickers
all the time, right, I've been kicking on this high
scho field, looking waiting for the chance, waiting for the chance.
All of a sudden they call up, they get a
chance out there. They're an all pro kicker and they've

(25:06):
got like a five year, fifteen million, good old young
way coup.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
He was out of the league and then became accurate
and then well he was out of the league.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
But bach, hey, he had a good run. Dude, he
kicked the ground. Yeah, but he had the ground. Yeah,
until he kicked the ground. He had a good run.
He kicked the ground.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Man.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
No, it's okay, But that's the thing. It will always
be remembered. We all want to be remembered one way.
I mean, how you're remembered. You can't choose. But for
Philip Rivers, it comes down to this, right Obviously, at
lot's been made. He and Stike and talk talk about
the offense similarities of what he runs with the high
school team that just had its twelve and one season

(25:47):
and everything else, and yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
There's probably a guy on a practice squad, whether it's
Bailey Zappi or somebody else, that would be a more
easily insert here. If you're looking for a full, full
skill set as it were. Philip Rivers has it run
in forever. He was a guy that they couldn't run
a quarterback sneak with, so it's not like he's diminished

(26:11):
in any of that part of it.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Can he drop back?

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Daniel Jones the last couple of weeks on a broken
leg couldn't run either, so they had to change the offense.
I'm not saying this ends well, it starts with Seattle.
You can get to run him out here against that squad, no,
thank you, But it's the I'm captivated by it for sure.
I'd love the behind the scenes. This is where I

(26:34):
need an in season hard knocks of Well, we can
call Phil. I talked to Phil every week. Let's get
inmate here for work out. Look at the arm might
still be live and have four weeks in.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Did they sit down Sunday night and say, Okay, we're
gonna order food and no idea is stupid, right, like
no ideas to put it up on the board that
someone said, Hey Burt Jones, Nah, Burt Jones a long
time ago. Yeah he was good. Yeah, but I'm no,
I'm not sure, Okay, Mike Pagel, No, Mike Pagel a

(27:06):
little too long ago, Archleister, No non starter. No. Now
with gambling, it's a bigger problem too. Oh maybe now
he can come back, though gambling is more?

Speaker 5 (27:16):
Is more?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, do Philip Rivers? Hey, wait a minute, Hey wait, wait,
wait wait wait, you might have something there, Philip Rivers, Hey,
twenty twenty was pretty good. Twenty twenty was not yesterday. Okay,
you're going back to the beginning.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
In twenty four and eleven, I think was his final
touchdown to intersection.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
End, and I remember him at the end. I remember
him in the last game of the playoff games. Ooh,
he's he's he's done.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
No, I mean on the plus side, Look, he might
be the human jugs gun for the the receivers there
with his high school squad.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
He might.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
He might have been training. I mean, if nothing else,
he's chasing around kids and grandkids.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
We know that. Look, when you go into your doctor's officer,
you're getting exercise while I'm chasing around my kid. The
doctor goes, yeah, not not even close. Oh, I'm chasing
around my kids. Oh, Philip, great, sign a contract with us. Yeah,
come on in.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Oh no, I'm certainly not endorsing this from a football perspective,
I have many, many questions from a fan, Give me,
give me some bomb poms to cheer for a forty
four year old guy happy birthday yesterday.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
I mean, look, I hope it. I hope it goes.
But it's just not it'll go better than the Jets gain.
It's not. Oh, he could beat the Jets easy if
he If you would line him up as quarterback across
from the Jets right now, he would Could he have
beaten the Dolphins last Oh? I don't know about that.
I think playing quarterback for the Dolphins, he could have
beat the Jets. They're just gonna hand the ball off
every time. That's all you gonna do. I mean, right,

(28:34):
how do people think this is going to go? I mean,
I mean I get the desperation. No, no, no, But but
that's the thing, right, it's an absolute curiosity. I don't
understand the vitriol towards it. Right, you're in a break
glass in case of emergency, and what's gone and transpired
over the last month for the Colts is about as
much of an emergency situation as we've seen from a

(28:57):
team in a while. I mean, this, how do you
think this is a go I mean week eighteen, I
mean I can't. I mean that game against the Texas,
I'm gonna watch with what my eyes open and one
eye closed, but one eye like you're watching a horror
movie when you're scared, and you are, but I still
want to see what's going on. That's what I'm good.
That's how that's going well.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
I mean, you're hopeful that by then the Texans will
have wrapped everything up and everybody's sitting down and watching
like it's a bowl game.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. You want to know how long Philip
Rivers has been gone? How long? Because Steve De Sager
could be Philip Rivers kid. He's got what's trending right
now in the wide world.

Speaker 8 (29:34):
Steve that's the quarterback who won the last Charger game,
as I recall, in the playoffs, because you know, they've
won precious few playoff games in the past decade and
have not hosted a playoff game since they moved to
LA twenty seventeen, and as good as this season is going,
may not be hosting a playoff game this year. If
you go back to recent history of Chargers football. Philip

(29:57):
Rivers name is all over it. But that whole becoming
a semi finalist for the Hall of Fame. Yeah, let's
restart to clock on that one now five more years away.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
But that's when he gets on the field. If he
gets out there and sees against all, there is a
bad idea. I don't think he. I think he still
keeps that clock, right. I think he's got his only
practice squad now, but he's on the active roster.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
Right, they have no quarterbacks, so how does he not
get up?

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, that's exactly it, right, I'm saying. What I'm saying
is there's three days to make three or four days
to make a different decision.

Speaker 8 (30:29):
Here, put it this way. They have three injured quarterbacks.
Daniel Jones is having achille surgery this week. The backup
Riley Leonard has strained knee ligaments. And yeah, you mentioned
the accident, shall we say, pregame locker room with Anthony
Richardson where a bar broke hit him in the face,
literally broke the orbital bone, and he's been slowly coming
back from that the last couple of months. These Colts

(30:51):
started the season seven and one. They've lost four and
five since. What you can't forget in this story is yes,
Rivers hasn't played in five years.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Bold type for that one.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
But Rivers is a former Chargers quarterback and the Coltag
coach Shane steike In was his quarterbacks coach there. Falcons
wide receiver Drake London missed practice again with a spring knee.
Atlanta place Thursday at Tampa Bay. The Steelers say wide
receiver dk Metcalf should play Monday despite stomach pain. He
was hospitalized after a hit last Sunday. Bengals defensive end

(31:21):
Trey Hendrickson is out for the year after core muscle surgery.
San Francisco cutkicker Matt Gay. Last Saturday Night's Big Ten
title game drew over eighteen million viewers on Fox TV.
The first Bowl game is this Saturday Saturday night in
La Boise State against Washington. The College football Playoffs starts
a week from Friday. In the NBA, we have only

(31:44):
two games tonights, and the Knicks are pretty much dominating
the one going on right now. These are NBA Cup Quarterfinals,
and you know you can't keep the Knicks down when
something's on the line like this. Nicks and the third
quarter with a lead at Toronto of ninety four seventy nine,
Nick shooting percentages down to fifty five percent. Jalen Brunson's
twelve of seventeen from the floor for his thirty three

(32:06):
points so far.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
We want the Cup. We want the Cup. We want the.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Cup under a blood red sky, I mean on a
blood red court.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Well.

Speaker 8 (32:15):
I did read that the Knicks are the only team
to reach the NBA Cup quarterfinals in all three seasons
of this tournament.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
So that banner at MSG enough said three time Cup quarterfinalists.

Speaker 8 (32:27):
Well, given the options in Nick's history in the last
fifty years, I guess you may as well. Top seed
Orlando eliminated Miami one seventeen onea Desmond baying thirty seven points.
In college hoops, there's a doubleheader at Madison Square Garden.
Number ten BYU was down by twenty one points at
the half and still be Clemson on a three at
the buzzer halftime. Yukon over Florida thirty nine to thirty two.

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Among the NHL games tonight, Anaheim scored at the end
of regulation and then won at Pittsburgh in a shootout,
four to three. Carolina with a whole win for to
one over Columbus. Dallas was in action tonight, winning four
to three at Winnipeg. Lionel Messi was named MVP of
Major League Soccer for the second straight year. Shoho Tani

(33:11):
was voted AP's Male Athlete of the Year for a
record tying fourth time for the last five years. The
Phillies re signed Kyle Schwarber. It's official and Schwarber will
be on Team USA and March at the World Baseball Classic.
Philadelphia gave manager Rob Thompson a one year extension for
twenty twenty seven. The White Sox won MLB's draft lottery,

(33:31):
and yes, the Dodgers are signing closer Edwin Diaz from
the Mets to a three year deal. His ERA last
season was one point sixty three, while the Dodger Penn
blew twenty seven saves last year.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
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because a big trade is coming. That's next. Jason to
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Speaker 2 (34:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 4 (34:32):
Oh no, this is my new favorite. You wanted your Metallica?

Speaker 1 (34:38):
There you go. Let it breathe now, Just picturing the
guy on the from the video on the table bouncing
up and down like to this song.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
You know what, Johnny got his gun? Not a Christmas movie? No, no, not.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
A Christmas movie. Not a Christmas movie. Good book sure terrifying?
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Jason Smith Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. We have, Believe
it or not, there is more drama surrounding the college
football playoff process. Wait did we tell you what was said?
Just a little while ago. We got that coming up
in ten minutes. But let's revisit a Big Bowl prediction

(35:35):
we made going all the way back to the end
of last year, when we said, by next trade deadline,
Jannis is on a new team. All right. They tried
to make it work. It didn't work. You could see
there was tension. They're going to make a move. Now
this passed off season, Jannis sort of let it be
known he liked the Knicks. It didn't work out because

(35:57):
the Knicks, hiring a new head coach, wanted to see
how they went. We're gonna wait, Jannis, I'm sure a
little embarrassed by that. Dude, I'm yanis, okay, that's great.
Then he tried to say no, no, no, I don't
want to play there. Then a couple weeks ago, at
the start of the Buck season going poorly again all
Doc Rivers fault. Uh wow, we had the final public
reports that now Janis and the team are talking about

(36:20):
his future and that whether it involves him staying with Milwaukee,
you're going to another team. Just so happens, on that day,
Jannis gets hurt cath injury. He's out two to four weeks,
so he told you last off season, by the deadline,
Gianic is gonna be traded. And then we told you
that night that Jannis has played his last game as

(36:42):
a Buck because if you're trying to trade for him
and now you've gone so far down that road that
he can't stay at this point, right, you know it's
not working. If there's all this talk about wanting out,
wanting out, how does he come back? And you have
the Shams Tarani report earlier today that says Bucks players
are all feeling all the tension amid Yannis's situation. Quote,

(37:04):
we can feel the tension of play here as he
talks about his options with the franchise. You don't come
back and play after you this far down the road.
You know he is gone. And the reason we said
he's played his last game as a Buck is that
the next month, it's two months to the trade deadline, right,
you think about it so far away. Oh, it's got
a couple of months. He's gonna be out for the
next month of it. Okay, So if he's out for

(37:25):
the next month, teams that are gonna trade for Yannis
don't want him back on the floor. They don't want
it back. No, no, no, we don't. Don't show us
he's healthy. We're fine, We're fine. We want to get
him in our building. We want to be able to
look at him and make sure and monitor his his recovery.
But we don't want him back on the floor. You don't.
We don't need to worry about you putting him back
out there showing us that he's healthy. So you see

(37:48):
this every day, it just gets more and more to
the end, the natural conclusion that Jiannis is gonna be
on another team. It's gonna happen by the deadline. Maybe
before then. Uh like maybe you say, if he's cleared
to come back and he's feeling healthy, that's when the
trade will happen. So it could happen beginning of the
new year, because anybody that wants to get Yannis want

(38:08):
him for longer and not have to wait till the deadline.
But he's played his last game for the Bucks. I mean,
I'm trying to find a way to see a scenario
in which he's back out there playing for them again,
and as long as he's got more than one team
that wants him, because the more the Knicks win, the
less they're gonna want to say, hey, we're gonna upset
our team for Yannest. But there's gonna be a couple

(38:28):
of teams out there. He's got to have a couple
of places he'd rather go, at least for this year
before they figure things out. I don't see there being
any situation in which, yeah, we put them back out there,
because then you're screwing with the trade, because the trade
is inevitable at this point.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Well, folks also saying, hey, Yanni's bought real estate. You know,
that's the number one own unless it's not unless guys
with a lot of money, you know, by real estate.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
But all of how many real estate stories have we
heard the last like twelve years of all the guy
bought a house here on right and not getting trades.
It's got nothing to do with it. It's just a
guy that's diversifying his holdings. Real estate a good investment.
I mean, what are you gonna do? But it's for Yiannis.
It's hit that point. We talked about it a lot
with the Bucks going back during his entire tenure. Right

(39:15):
we're in year thirteen of Giannis. He's not the bright
eyed young guy that he was once upon a time,
when he was being introduced to taco places and all
of that stuff. They had that run up where everything
worked and they want a title. Otherwise, there's been a
lot of early exits, a lot of frustration, the failed
marriage with Damian Lillard. He gets hurt, goes back.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
To Portland, like all of these things that you've got
a system. Now you're ten and fifteen, you're tenth and
grasping its straws, trying to find some semblance of a
rotation that works.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
He's out a.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
Month and you lend some of it to the all right,
we need to get something done. Whether he wanted Dock
fired or not, we don't know. But in terms of
trying to get the ancillary parts and make a trade,
I don't have the assets to go do that. So
now it becomes the inevitable. All right, where does he
go to finish out his career? Because as much as

(40:08):
you want to be loyal, as much as you want
to run it out and be that one team guy,
at some point you're bashing your head against a wall
trying to break through and get yourself back into a
deep playoff run, which is clearly not happening with this roster.
No Sometimes you just get too far down a road
where you know there's no way to get back from it,
and there's no way back from this. You imagine you're
honest again saying oh no, no, I'm good. I want to

(40:30):
stay dude, that's not happening. Well, but he went in
public before he got hurt, right talking about how frustrated
he was and he wasn't used to losing at that rate,
and that it was starting to wear and certainly that snowballs.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Exit ab out a Fresca exit Swelling Dome. More NBA
on the way. But coming up next a new crazy
part of the college football playoff controversy. This is going
to be Ride the Lightning. But I got something you need.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Is to the.

Speaker 9 (41:08):
Carg Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
It feels like Christmas. I remember that hose A Feliciano
van Halen Christmas special from the early eighties that was
really fun. It rivals the Paul Lynde Halloween specials. So yeah,
the Dodgers get Edwin Diaz for three years and sixty
nine million dollars. Babe Schwarber re ups with the Phillies

(41:44):
for one hundred and fifty million. They get him for
another five years. Big Moves today, Big moves to come
joining us now from the Winter meetings in Orlando. Nobody
better the longtime ALB Network insider extraordinaire. He is on
Twitter at John Morosi his new entrance music. It is

(42:09):
the Pope, John Paul Morosi. John Paul was having.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
Buddy, how are you, Jathan? I know that that Justin
is quite serious and quite joyful about this now becoming
my new walk up song for this segment. I will
leave that to the two of you to sort out.
What I do know is that the Dodgers will very

(42:34):
soon have their closer with the best entrance music since
Kenlly Jansen. I was quite partial to Kenley coming into California.
Love that was a really fun way to begin the
night ending at Dodger Stadium. But I think we're gonna
hear the trumpets at Dodger Stadium, and truly, the rich
get richer, the best team in baseball, the reigning World

(42:56):
Series champs, get one of the best closers in the game.
And Jason, my friend, your Mets have some work to do.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
John Paul, let me tell you right now, I am
absolutely okay with waving goodbye to Edwin Diaz and the
roller coaster closer that he has been he's gone from.
His first year was terrible, his second year was good,
His third year he was hurt. His next year was terrible,
last year was good. Right with relief pitchers, there's no
Rivera out there, there's no Trevor Hoffman. You're trying to

(43:26):
find somebody. Year to year he was. He's very volatile,
and as I said at the beginning of the show
to everybody tonight, Hey, I'll be the guy you want
to think when Diaz comes in and has that one, two, three,
ninth with three strikeouts and twelve pitches, I'll wants to
be the guy you're gonna say what the blank to
when he comes into three nothing leading the ninth inning
and after two walks and hit by pitch, there's bases loaded,

(43:47):
nobody out. That's the Edwin Diaz experience. I am okay
with spending that money elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
Well, a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
And you tell me that you called Sterns here right
after week it off. You call your college David Search,
you tell them I said that everything is fine, fine.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
I believe actually that Jason, that's gonna be the headline
in the New York Posts tomorrow morning. I think it's
actually the headline everything is fine, Everything is fine. I
think that's exactly what the headline says. Listen. Uh, they
probably don't have as I'll actually take the word probably out.

(44:31):
They do not have as good of a bullpen now
as they did when the season ended, and that bullpen
was not good enough for them to even make the
playoffs that they were beaten out by the Cincinnati Reds.
So on that part of the club. They also, by
the way, have Pete Alonzo onside. And this is where

(44:54):
I find it interesting where teams sometimes feel the need
to hold the line on a particular cock tracked a
particular player. Okay, fine, but then if you have to
turn around and overpay because Scott Boris now knows that you,
as the Mets are, are trying to satisfy your fans
on some level. You've you've already traded away Nimo, albeit

(45:18):
in a move that makes some sense. You've you've let
Diaz go to the Dodgers, and now Pete Alonso is
still out there and he's one of the most popular
players of this generation. Maybe the most as a New
York Mets all time home run leader as a New
York Met and he's still out there in free agency
and you've got teams like the Red Sox lurking. I mean,

(45:41):
can you imagine Jason if if Pete Alonso signs with
the Red Sox tomorrow, I think the headline in the
post will say, everything is really really fine. It is
everything is.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
John Paul It said, It's not like the Mets have
to play a game tomorrow. They have a whole off
season to make the team better. You need new guys
after the collapse last year. Look, I said goodbye to
Pete A. Lonza when he hired Boris as his agent.
I knew it was only a matter of time when
that happened, So I called my goodbye to Pete Alonzo.
It's fine, Okay, everything is a tell Sternsy, everything is fine.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Fully prepared to just support you on your descent into
the abyss of Mets misery tonight and and basically be
your be either your spirit guide or your met therapist.
And it sounds like you don't need me to do that,
which is great. Listen, Devin Williams, is it is excellent.

(46:40):
I think he he had a little bit of an
aberration with the Yankees, but mostly mostly was pretty good.
I thought that in a Yankee uniform in twenty twenty five,
especially when you look at a lot of the underlying numbers,
so that that acquisition in and of itself is fine,
But they also need a starting pitcher. They also at
least one outfielder. Now, if they now here's here's how

(47:04):
the Mets, I can't believe, I sound like a Mets
fan right now, would be amazing. But the way they
can totally redeem themselves is if they signed Bellinger away
from the Yankees and Ranger Swats away from the Phillies.
If you do that, if you find a way to

(47:24):
compromise two of your biggest rivals by signing away their players,
then I think you can say that the offseason has
been a success, but they've got a lot of work
to do. You're right, the team wasn't good enough. And
in fairness to David Sturts, he's not disassembling twenty seven
Yankees here, but this team's gonna look a lot different.

(47:45):
And if Pete also walks through that door, wow, out
of that door, then you're talking about no Demo, no Daz,
no Pete. All in one offseason. That's a lot of.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Change, all right, JP, as we look at it, we
got the closer done and schwar Marie signs in Philly.
You're talking Bellinger, Kyle Tucker. What did his second half?
Due to his prospects for the long term balloon contract?

Speaker 5 (48:12):
That Tucker's market is narrower than it was when the
season started, which or at least when we were at
the All Star break. The Cubs do not seem to
be involved. One team I heard today is Baltimore, which
is interesting. Of course, Baltimore's president of Baseball Operations, Michae Elias,
was the scouting director of the Astros when he drafted

(48:34):
Kyle Tucker back there about ten years ago. There's a
relationship there. The Orioles in general are a very active group.
They actually I was told they're trying to acquire Mackenzie
Gore from the Nationals. Now, the Nationals and Orioles have
never made a trade.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
Never.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
They The last time there was a trade between those franchises,
Tim Rains was involved and it was the Exposed and
the year was two thousand and one.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Rock Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
I think You're exactly right about that, so that that
goes way back into that era. So I think in general,
the Orioles are are active on a number of fronts,
and Tucker is one of them. But in general Tucker's marketplace,
he is not really hot with the Dodgers right now
from what I can gather. Maybe he's a fit for

(49:26):
the Giants, but but Kyle Tucker's market is smaller than
I thought it was going to be. The Blue Jays
certainly are involved, but it is I think the number
of his contract will probably start with a three. Maybe
it's thirty million dollars per year over ten years, something

(49:47):
like that. But I do not believe he's going to
get to four hundred. I think it's somewhere in that
thirty million dollar a year of range, which is by
the way, really healthy and maybe a little bit north
of that, but not I think Schwarber's thirty million bucks
a year looks pretty good right now, and I think
Tucker may may struggle to be able to get to

(50:09):
that level here going forward.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
At the winter meetings with US in Orlando, John Paul Morosi,
MLB Network insider, All right, John Paul, So, now with
these moves that we've seen today. What are you hearing?
What's a couple of big things that would not surprise
you coming up because of what you have heard there already.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
Is I think is on the move in the next
couple of days. I believe that there's a pretty decent
chance of that happening.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Oh we watch you there? Who did you say? The
first one?

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Brandon Lao? Brandon Lau? I think he's of the Tampa
Bay Rays. I think he's a guy to watch carefully.
Brandon Donovan has one more I think than to watch
in that second base trade. Marker can tell Marktay's name
has been very popular a little bit here over the
last couple of days. I think he is someone the
Boston Red Sox that's some interesting among the relief pitchers.

(50:58):
Robert Swatez is someone that I would watch carefully. He's
kind of the next guy to sign. And now that
Williams and Diaz a both signed, and I think in
the starting fishing market, if I was to say one
name that could go first from but about vez of
the the Houston aswers, I think that Fromber is probably
the guy that has the best chance to sign relatively soon.

(51:20):
The Giants, the Astros. The Astra is probably lesser there.
But I think actually the Mets are a team that
are still looking at a starting pitcher. Given the state
of their rotation, and whether it's Avalez or whether it's Swats,
Rangers sUAS, that is, we could certainly see the Mets
still answer in a way that makes Jason Smith feel

(51:40):
even more optimistic based on what we're seeing right now.
So I think that's that's my sort of big picture. Look.
I don't think we're close on Bregman. I don't think
we're especially close on Alonso, but I think some of
the other names that I mentioned, and Boba Jet probably
is a little bit later on in the game as well.
He will likely have to wait until after a lot
of these second and they trade happens, whether it's Marte, Donovan,

(52:04):
Brandon Lao, I think those names probably will move at
least two of those three before we see Bobachett sign
either with the Jays or a different team.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Now, we don't often get to talk about the Yack
Colt swallows, what happens with Murakami.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
Taka Murakami of the Tokyo yak Oult swallows one of
the uh, they are the junior team in Tokyo. Of course,
that's the big team in Tokyo, the Yamuri Giants. So
move to Taka Murakami, big time power. And what I
can say is the way that this market has been breaking,
it would not shock me if the Pittsburgh Pirates land

(52:42):
either Murakami or Kazumo Okamoto, because they have been in
there on some of these offers. They made an offer
dish war where they're trying to establish themselves, and I
think that the one of the better ways to establish
yourself globally is to is to sign a significant in
Japanese star coming over. And there are two bats that

(53:03):
fit that inscription right now, so I think the Pirates
are a sleeper candidate to be active there on both
Murakami and Okamoto. Maybe the Mariners are an option there.
I can see the Tigers being a fit there too,
But those are some very intriguing possibilities right now on
the position player front, So do not be surprised if

(53:26):
the Pirates done the baseball world by acquiring either Munataka
Murakami or Kazuma Okamoto, who does play or has played,
by the way for the Tokyo Yamiri giant.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
All right. So lastly, John Paul with the Schwarber deal
going back to Philadelphia DH only getting to his mid thirties,
Is this a good deal for the Phillies for the
next two years? The next three years is a good
deal for all five years?

Speaker 5 (53:55):
That's going to be good for the next three years,
and the last two years will probably be dependent upon
health and sustainability of success. I'm a big college forber guy.
They and they're probably looking at it like if he
has another year like y had in twenty twenty five,
that's like a fifty million dollar year, and so you're
almost just hoping that he puts together three more years

(54:16):
like that and then if he's whatever he does and
then in years four and five is almost a bonus.
But he's just got to keep doing what he's done.
This is the next few years, which is asking a lot,
But I think within the realm of possibility for him
just an excellent player, phenomenal leader, someone that has looked
to by his entire organization for what he represents. So

(54:38):
I think that is in an overpay, they got the player,
and in this market for good players, you usually do
have to overpay and the good news of what I
like about that for the Phillies, they paid a lot
for what I consider to be an a level person,
a level player, durable player, winner. He's always playing every October.

(55:00):
He's a special, special player. So I think the Philly's
got there. Man. There's the reason why he signed first,
is to get a lot of teams like the Orioles
and the Reds. We're in there and realize how much
value Kyles Swarmer brings it in. By the way, walking
graduated the team that won the NLB Draft lottery today,
that being the Mighty Chicago White Docs of Mike Harmonsville.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Here we go. He should be a new world order.
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network Insider. He will be on MLB Network
all day tomorrow from the Winter Meetings. He will be
on the big screen with most of the top half
of his body taking up that big screen as he
tells you everything happening from the Winter Meetings. John Paul

(55:43):
is always appreciated. And when we get big news, we'll
talk again this week.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
And yes, the act you part of the contract, the
camera shot framing, it's got to be a very particular way,
and I insist on it, and somehow it works.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Take it easy money, We'll talk to you. Like the
Wizard of Oz. Love when they put him on and
you see him on the bait, like you see all
of like Lauren Shahati or whoever is hosting, and like
their whole body, and then it's just whoever is in
that screen, it's just their head. You're giant, huge. It's
like I'm waiting for him to say, I am canceling
the Avengers Initiative effective Now you will go and arrest

(56:21):
Tony Stark and captain America. And it's it's what it
looks like, you the whole president, big, big ahead, big.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Bring me the broom. I love the Wicked Witch. Yeah,
I know it's good. It's next level stuff. JP all
over it can't wait to talk to him later in
the weeks. More Domino's fault