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Speaker 1 (00:49):
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Edwin Diaz. Today, Pete Alonzo now finalizing a five year,
one hundred and fifty five million dollar contract with the

(01:31):
Baltimore Orioles.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well Way, Jason, the Mets made an offer, right.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
The Mets offer was, hey, we'll help you pack. That
was the offer of the Mets made. The Mets did
not make an offer to Pee Alonzo right now. Let
me just say, let me let me do head in
heart first, okay with this right here, because obviously it's
been a it's been it's been a last cup. Look,
today was a rough day in my household. Man, Pete
Alonzo gone, Sharon Moore fired with cous Michigan. Me and
my wife were going, hey, who's got it worse than us? Nobody?

(01:59):
Your kids.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
You just kind of skate around. She was like, I'm
not coming home today. I'm staying something myself in school.
I had a nice balanced lunch, I did pretty well
on a quiz and we we played some games in
the last No, I ain't coming home.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Don't put that evil on me, Ricky, Bobby, I am not.
I will see you when the dust clears, this is
a man hopefully hopefully Benny you know, stepped in upun
or so yeah, yeah, maybe Benny. Yeah, maybe Benny went
to the bathrooms a supposed to. That'll be how it
goes through. Uh, but let me just say this, right,

(02:36):
all of all of today, Pete Alonzo leaves the day
after and let me let me do the head things first. Right.
Oh no, you again, Look, Okay, the Mets don't play tomorrow,
so they don't have to worry about putting a team
out there tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
So you sound like Cohen. That's exactly what we started
trying to again because I said it last night. What
did I say last night?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wait, do we have to go to our bullpen tomorrow
and and figure out no, we're not playing again. If
in the middle of February we don't have Kyle Tucker
or Cody Bellinger or Suarez, or if we don't have
any of those guys, I'll say, Okay, I'm a little concerned,
but uh, it's clear the Mets have a plan, and
I give him a lot of guts for sticking to it.

(03:16):
Because David Stern's nose, he's the most unpopular GM in
the game of baseball. He has put a bull's eye
on him. But this is but this is him saying,
I know what we need. Last year was a real disaster,
and I get it because they've gone as far as
they can with this core. Do you really think just
trotting out the the same guys again next year? And
Diaz and Nimo and and and and Alonso, who these

(03:37):
guys whose contracts are coming up, do you think if
we trotted them out there, the result is going to
be different. We'll just spend more money. We'll spend another
two hundred million dollars on a combination of Alonzo and
ds two hundred and fifty million. I'm just bringing the
two of them back for a team that Oh, by
the way, I don't think I missed any any banner hangings.
I don't think I missed any parades in the World
Series of last years with these guys. They're good players.

(03:59):
Pete Alan this is a good player. He can't field
at all, right, he's got real difficulty in the field.
Doesn't matter because hey, he's he hits, he hits terrific.
But he's thirty. He's over thirty. He's got a five
year deal it's way too much money for a guy
that only can do one thing. And if you want
him to DH, you go want other guys to DH.
I get not going in. And the Mets plan clearly was, Hey,

(04:22):
Pete's gonna be too much for us, So why they
didn't make him an offer? Right, That's why didn't make
him offer. They knew that someone's gonna give him more
money this time around because he's coming off a bigger year.
So we're just gonna say goodbye. And they said goodbye.
If Alonzo would have said, hey, two, three years and
maybe you know, you know, ninety million or something like that,
the Mets might have said, oh, okay, maybe that's that.
But you got to get five years, one hundred and

(04:43):
fifty five million dollars when you can. Right, that's the
biggest contract we've seen in a little while. And Alonso
gets it. I get it because like Jim Behein used
to say, I just want to win. I give a
I could give a blank who plays, right, I don't
care who plays. I want to win. So this is
the beginning, the beginning of the art. There's lots of
guys out there, and if they don't get any of

(05:04):
those players over the next month or two. I'll like that.
I'll say, Okay, now we really have a conversation. But
I feel like there's a plan in place, and Alonzo
and Diaz maybe DZ fit a little bit, but Alonso
clearly didn't fit. You've seen his best. I don't think
anybody was jumping up and down for the Cardinals the
year after they got rid of Albert Pools to the Angels.

(05:24):
They wanted ten more years of that contract? Or are
they happy to dump them off? Because yeah, we saw
his best. We got as far as we could with him.
Now it's just gonna be diminishing returns the rest of
his career. That's kind of what it's gonna be for Alonzo.
So yeah, it sucks because the the emotion part of
it is, Mike, Yeah, today was tough, Man, Today was tough.
I almost cried a couple of times because seeing the

(05:45):
home run, listening to the home run against the Brewers,
and this is what's typical Mets. The big home run
off Devin Williams two years ago to win that game
and put him into the nl DS against the Phillies,
my biggest home run the Mets have ever had, It's
typical Mets that we have the that gave up the
home run and we don't have the guy that hit
the home run. Right, That's Mets. But like it was emotional,

(06:05):
so it doesn't mean today wasn't necessary, but it also sucked.
Both things could be true because I wanted Alonzo to stay,
you want to retire and met the guys hold the
all time record for home runs, like the guy, guy's
a great player home run. I want that, but I
want to win, and I saw what happened last year
wasn't good enough, so it's time to make changes and
bringing other players. And I like that they have a

(06:27):
vision and I like their sticking to it. But yeah,
today still kind of sucked because I love the Alonzo man.
Just thinking about that home run again and watching it
over and over and over again over Devin Williams, it
was awesome and it made me sad, But after a
couple minutes, I wasn't sad anymore because I get that. Okay,
I want to win. Always go back to that Mike Harmon,
Always look to that.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Now he is only thirty one years old, so it's
not like this is guy that's in his mid thirties,
and you're looking at those last four or five years.
It's not a ten year deal. It's in line with
what Schwarberg got, obviously, hits from the other side of
the plate, all that institutional love and fandom and all
that stuff. Just as you gave me a little bit

(07:09):
of your best Steve Cohen impression of hey, we don't
have to play today, there's a lot of time before
game one. I remind you of the great Dave wanstat
ahead of the nineteen ninety six Chicago Bears season. All
the pieces are in place. They we go on to
finish seven and nine that year, and in the end,
you know, three years. I get it, you know you

(07:33):
it's not a normal three years. It's not quite dog years,
but not the same aging process as you know a
normal man or woman in their professional lives.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
But you know what, would I rather spend one.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Hundred and fifty million on Pete Alonso or four hundred
million or three point fifty on Kyle Tucker?

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think I'll take what.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I know.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I think I'll take it. I know, I get it.
But the but yeah, but but the thing is, remember now,
and this is what what what? So many you know
fans forget, Oh, we have no plan. No, no, we
have a plan. And Pete Alonso is a limited guy.
He do one thing right and hits and that's awesome, right,
But if you can pay one hundred and fifty five
million dollars for a guy like Bellinger or Kyle Tucker
that can play a couple of different positions, gonna give

(08:15):
you some good stuff in the field. At least little
bit better stuff in the field they're gonna get from Alonso,
especially a guy like Bellinger that can play first base,
all the outfield positions. Yeah, I understand that. I understand
saying that's a guy we feel a little bit more
comfortable giving that kind of money to. I completely understand that.
And and you know, I love what Alonso did. Well,
we saw his best and we got to the NLCS

(08:36):
two years ago and that's where we got. The Mets,
didn't It didn't hang any banners over the last although
I mean they probably should hang one for the NLCS,
But like they went as far as they could with
this corps and they had to make change. You can't
just run it back after you collapse out of the
playoffs like they did last year. That's not a run
it back situation. I mean sign Jevin Williams.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
I mean he's clearly shown the acumen and versatility and
and resolved to show up in big Oh unless no,
I understand this had to be a difficult day, no
question about it, because as I said, as we started things,

(09:14):
you know, when you talk about a changing of identity
of an organization, it is difficult.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Peter A.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Lonzo is that guy? Today was a release of a
Big Tops baseball product. Uh And one of the big
Chase inserts is alter egos in like an anime kind
of format.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
And there's a really great.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Polar Bear card that no longer has that meaning because
it's not the same thing for who today?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Who Was it difficult for him.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Struggling? I mean it might have been difficult for me.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well you you kind of chuckled about it because you
think everybody did well. I think Mets fans are a
bit salty. I mean behind door number two is Tucker
Bellinger man.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
In sports Frostbry Oh you kidding, man. You would love
to have my owner just worry about the Spurs night,
worry about a missage did you send to Sterns today,
worry about joining the Knicks in the in the E
Cup semi final four. Okay, just worry, worry about beating
this person night, right, that's all I want to play Cup.
Worry worry about that guy. Look. Oh, by the way,

(10:21):
I love the fact that Lakers said, Blake, you we're
not going to put our E Cup floor out there.
It's ridiculous. We're going with our normal floor to floor
was unsafe.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
They decided it wasn't potentially a problem.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, I don't know. Was it really unsafe or was it? Man,
I can't look at that floor again. Yeah, we'll just
say it's unsafe. I mean, I don't know. I'm just
saying I look at that, see something, look at that
conspiracy theories over something such great and there's such greatness
as the Emeralds Cup.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
By the way, that early game, well, I want to
waste the time that was. I'm glad I to invest
a lot in watching the backups of the Oklahoma City Thunder,
although their second squad might run through a bunch of
the NBA teams right now.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
But back to the task at hand. It won that
game by fifty over over Phoenix, Phoenix by fifty to
night that in an E Cup game man.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
They were hanging out his third deck passing out peanuts.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
And Phoenix is having an okay season, way better than
anybody thought they were going to have it. Fit man,
this thing was, this thing was over quick.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Shows you how much it means to the Thunder for
the extra five hundred grandy. Again, I keep waiting for
Pirate Steve to roll out a giant chest in Vegas.
But yeah, for your mets, I'm curious to see what
the plan is. To your point, that's fifty million dollars.
It's of salary.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Shed the furthest you guys are ever gonna go. The
rest of their history is the nl Whatever it was
against the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
That was the NLCS that thanks for Thanks you for
whatever that was, Thanks whatever it be. Five Oh by
the way, pretty sure last year we went out and
signed the guy who's our identity for the next ten
to twelve years and one. So just just remember guy
that contract did just to finish Alonzo.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Because of that contract and else he got his casino.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
We have good, We have all kinds of money. Everything
is fine again, How is everything fine? Because it's the
beginning of the off season where Chaps comes everything Everything
is fine. Again. If we had to play tomorrow, I'd
be a little concerned. I'd be a little worried there.
But we don't. We don't have to play until the

(12:30):
beginning of play again. It's it's everything is okay.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Look, it's it was azation folds.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, the way we're we're not playing anymore. We're just done.
We can't do this anymore. We just can't do it.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
No.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
I mean, look for for Alonso and look the Orioles.
Get a guy who's gonna come in and his I'm
not gonna I don't think it's going to age poorly.
But the Alonso contract is going to age kind of
like Kyle Schwarber's will, right, because we've got Kyle Schwarber
the next like you know, got the five year deal
thirty two years old, only dhing. Okay, maybe the last

(13:05):
year and a half of that deal is gonna be rough,
right because he's he's not gonna age really really well. So,
but the first three years is fine, and the next
and the last year and a half, okay, you'll you'll
be palatable whatever that is. It's gonna be the same
thing for Alonzo, right, the next two to three years
might be okay. Now you changing teams, changing changing leagues,
a lot a lot of things. But the next couple
of years are gonna be okay. But i'll tell you

(13:25):
what it might be the middle and next season when
they say, hey, Pete, we want you to be the
full time DH because he outside of picking balls at
first base, he is brutal in the field. And and
they're gonna say, Pete, you wanted DH, and he really
didn't want to do it. He would rather stay and
play first base. I understand guys that want to do that,
but that's gonna be the conversation in a little well,
probably midway point in next season, Hey, really quietly, Pete,

(13:48):
A Lonzo will move to designated hitter. But that's how
the contract's gonna age. It'll age like like Schwarberz. The
next two three years, I'm sure it'll be okay. The
last couple of years, year and a half, it's gonna
be rough because he's never been a guy that's kept
himself in great shape and pulled a bear for a
long time. And as he gets to thirty four thirty five,
that's what's gonna happen the next three years. I mean, look, Hey,

(14:09):
great for the Orioles. Their lineup is fantastic. You're dropping
them right in amongst a bunch of guys that can
really hit. I'm excited. Look, Alonzo's a good dude, and
I loved everything he did for the Mets. I love
staying and still being excited about being being a member
of the Mets last year, even though he wanted a
big deal and the Mets didn't give it to him.
And he's only back there because he couldn't get a
bigger deal in free agency. And he was a big
pro like I get, and I wish him all the

(14:31):
best in the world. Man, he's an awesome, awesome dude,
and that's how it's gonna go, and things will probably
be fine. And he's a big get for the Orioles
to PLoP him right there in the middle of the lineup.
But yeah, but that's how it's gonna be. And the
Mets need a little bit more in you know, with
their team than just Hey, we're giving a lot of
money to a guy who in a you know and
a half year, he's gonna dh for us, and then

(14:53):
we got to go out and get another first basement, right,
So I mean that's what it is. It's necessary. Everything
Mets did today, I was fin. I said goodbye to
Peter Alonzo when he hired Scott Boris as his age
I knew two years ago he's gone. He hired Scott
Boris because he was upset at his first push it
free agency. He hired Scott Boris. Now that said that
he's gone, there's no way he's staying. He is absolutely leaving.

(15:14):
So I said by goodbye him. A couple of years ago.
He stayed an extra couple of years. That's awesome. And
today he left. And while it was somewhat it was
emotional at times, it wasn't other times. I get what's
going on. It's I'm telling you, like I said with
Diz yesterday, it's fine.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
The Orioles in theory get their veteran leader with all
those young guys. And I already have people in writing
me notes. This will end up better than Chris Davis, right, right, oh.

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(16:03):
what was an emotional, really difficult day in the Smith household.
As Michigan is now looking for a new football coach
and the Sharon Moore story just gets crazier with every
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my bas
friend Mike Harmon brow NBA Cup action underway. We are
one game away from figuring out the final four of
the E Cup. Who will join the Knicks and the
Magic and the Thunder in Vegas for the E Cup

(17:26):
Final Four. Lakers lead the Spurs right now eighteen to twelve.
No wenby for San Antonio, and the Lakers are playing
on their normal floor, so understand, even though that's the case,
we are still playing an E Cup game. Don't want
anybody know it's not happening. It is still an E
Cup game.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Feels like you need to superimpose a bunch of extra
graphics on the court, like floating logos for the television
audience so they know this time it counts.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Why do we not just go to different jerseys, like
you know, teams are like hey, especially if they're like
cool like color or rush jerseys or something the end,
or they go to throw back jerseys or some kind
of Why not do something like that and you can
sell more merch rather than say, hey, we're gonna make
the floor look different. Why not have NBA E Cup
specific jerseys like I just go wild with it so
you know right away when you turn on the TV. Oh,

(18:17):
it's an E Cup game. Look at what the hell
the Spurs are wearing?

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, like the bumble bees for the Steelers, or in
uniforms that the Bears wear, you know where they look
like guards.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, some kind of some kind of like city connect
you know, like they could have like the River Walk
or the Alamo or whatever it is. You know, LA's
got the Hollywood side just says the Hollywood sign logo
across the front instead of Lakers like something like that.
Why not there's a picture of the Hollywood Bowl.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Why don't you make it a moving digital billboard on
their jerseys and every time they're on screen, you have
no idea what's going to be on there?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, like Harry Potter. Yeah, see, we're close to that
happening next.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Level where you could do the thing like when you
had the pandemic and you can get the cardboard cut
out of yourself for fifty hours. You can appear on
Luca Doncon's chess for three seconds of the game.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I mean, come on, isn't isn't this better than just hey,
we're gonna make the floor different, Like.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Come on, a button, Come on, those courts make me
know that my eyesight stile is functional because it.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Offends the senses. Yeah, but when you look at it,
I can't look at that. I can't look at the
game for more than three seconds at a time. I
start to go blind. It feels like I look up,
but I'm looking away. Look up, but look away? All right.
So we'll have more on this game tonight again. Lakerspurs
three point game early on here for that. Uh yeah,
part of the rough day in the smith household. Today,

(19:40):
Pete Alonzo goes to the Orioles and the University of
Michigan is now looking for a new head coach after
firing head coach You're on Moore earlier today. Uh, it
was a bombshell. No one thought this was coming. And
when this story first broke and I saw the banner,
I said to myself, Oh my god, what the hell

(20:02):
happened here? And I'm thinking to myself, wow are they
I didn't even hear anything from anybody, you know, you
know pants fits of that. They You know, everybody lives
and breeds Michigan football in Michigan, like no one's ever
said anything like, Hey, there's a lot of whispers about stuff.
There's this going on, there's this going on, and all
of a sudden he's fired, and I'm thinking, what is

(20:23):
Lane Kiffin showing up like as all of a suddenlane
kiffn did he did he pray? Did he pray that?
Did he pray that? You're on? Moore get fired? And
he would not say, Hey, I gotta go take this job. Everybody.
I know I'm at LSU, but hey, I'm here. I'm
getting off the plane. I'm flying to ann Armor. It's
the job I really want. And then we get the
details that are just getting more and more crazy as

(20:43):
time goes on. It was just moments after this story
was announced that Brett McMurphy, longtime college football insider, said
that Moore was fired following an investigation into Moore's conduct
with a staff member. Quote, Sharon Moore was terminated with cause,
effective immediately, school saying in a statement, following a university investigation,

(21:07):
credible evidence was found the coach more engage in an
inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Now there's lots of
rumors out there on social media about what it was.
And Sewan Moore is married, he does have kids, and uh,
you know there's look you could get you can get
the sordid story out there that nothing's been proven yet.
And I've seen a couple of people linked to this
story like, Okay, that's not the person they were talking

(21:29):
about before. That's so it's an inappropriate relationship he had
with a university staff member. Compounding that is that shortly
after he was detained by police and sale Michigan and
was later turned over to a second area police department
for investigation into potential charges. Now, again, these have not

(21:51):
been let known. Even TMZ won't spend when TMZ's not
gonna speculate, you know, Hey, wait a minute, this is
we don't know yet. Again, lots of crazy rumors going
out online what it is and what happened that he
winds up being detained by police. So these are the
last couple of shoes we're waiting to drop here, like
what happened with this story. I assume in the next

(22:12):
twenty four hours we will know a lot more to this.
But these are the concrete facts that we know. He
was fired by Michigan for cause it means they're not
going to pay in the rest of his twelve million
dollars salary. In appropriate relationship with a staff member and
now turned over after being detained by a police department
for investigation into potential charges. Now what these charges are,

(22:33):
we don't know. But this is the story for Sharon
Moore as it sits right now. And the first thing
when I saw this was I sat back and I said,
on the list of great jobs in college football, Michigan
has been on that short of short list for the
last couple of years. Right, they won the national championship

(22:54):
two years ago. All of a sudden, it's a new
era in Michigan. Jim Harbaugh's leaving, Michigan was beating Ohio State. Look,
Michigan's long been royalty in college football. They just haven't
won enough. Now they're winning, and they're beating Ohio State. Like,
you look at any metric of the best jobs in
college football, and Michigan and Ohio State were at the top. Right,
they're at the top of the top five or seven

(23:15):
jobs everywhere in college football. They're right there, right, Alabama
is at the top of that list. Right, these are
teams at all at the top, all the heritage teams,
they're at the top. Sharon Moore goes from the offensive coordinator,
and he slides in when Jim Harbaugh jumps to the NFL,
and I really, and I don't know if it's just

(23:36):
because this is me and not that I feel like
I hold myself above anything, but I just sit back
and I go. This guy slides in to one of
the greatest jobs in college one of the top five
jobs and all of college football, and he blows it
up for a relationship with a step whatever happens, he

(23:56):
blows it up over relationship that that winds up get
him fired. He's lost everything now, he's lost his career,
he's lost money, maybe he's lost his family, like he's
lost at all because I'm involved in a personal drama
when my number one goal is coaching Michigan and not realizing, Boy,

(24:17):
do I have a great gig right now? Do I
have a gig that that ninety nine percent of other
coaches would leave their gigs for? I have that gig.
People spend their entire lives try to work their way
up and win at smaller schools so they could maybe
get the head coaching job at Michigan or the head
coaching job at Ohio, statement the head coach a job
at Alabama and Searon Moore comes in, Hey, I'm the
Ocenie win the national title. Guess what, hey, Jim Harbass suspended.

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He blows up in front of me. I wind up
getting that opportunity and he winds up getting getting a
job that you scratch it and go, wow, man, he's
in the right place the right time, and he was
doing great. He'd beat Ohio State twice, won last year.
Everything was looking fine, and now you look at his
career and he gave it away, and I just can't.
It really is hard for me my to understand how

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guys that have this kind of of opportunity and have
this kind of professional life when they're in the top
one tenth of one percent of what they do, and
they wind up blowing up and doing and doing themselves in.
I still I can't get over that. That's that still
happens to so many people that can't figure things out

(25:22):
and can't handle success. Because all Searon mooreri has had
has been success. Now, did he win this year? No?
Did he keep the team in contention all the way through?

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Did he maybe have the right guy a quarterback?

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:33):
I don't know, Underwood, maybe not, maybe not the guy
they thought he was. But still Michigan won nine games
going to a big Bowl game that you know, the
NFL talent is coming back in flowing through. It's a
great program again, and now here it is. And he's
lost at all because he couldn't handle success and the
power that he wound up getting went to his head

(25:53):
and he wound up getting out of control. Now, maybe
maybe I would wind up falling victor to that power too,
if all of a sudden I'm put in position of Hey,
you're the head coach of the biggest uh one of
the biggest schools in the country, and all of a sudden
people are fawning all over you, and you have that
sense of power when you walk into a room. I'd
like to think I know how to handle it. Maybe
I don't, but wow, imagine the dig Oh man, hey

(26:15):
you want to be yes, big Mac? Where where a
big back?

Speaker 3 (26:17):
What room?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
What room do you need to go to for a
big Mac? Yeah, I'm there, I'm there, I'm there. I'd
like to think I'd be able to handle Maybe not,
but you would. And when when I see this, I go,
how do you? How do you give this away? I mean,
I couldn't I couldn't get away from that today.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Mike, rationality sometimes rolls out the door. I mean, it's
sometimes best expressed as we often look to uh our
muses and music. I'll look to pop superstars and actress
Selena Gomez. The heart wants what it wants, uh uh
uh uh uh.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
So it's you have no idea, and you know behind
the scenes, I don't pretend to know the man's relationships
or or those statuses.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Here.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
He's fired with cause, so you know, whatever the investigation
has yielded, there's there's certainly a lot of details, even
this being detained by the police. Very sketch, you know,
we've got a very pencil sketch with it, with a
lot of blank space on the canvas right now. In
terms of where this story goes, you feel for the family,

(27:23):
for those associated you know, and friends and colleagues. And
he's the guy that had to wear a bunch of
the suspension stuff during the time at Michigan. Doesn't mean
that you know, off the Connor Stallion stuff. It's always
the question of who knew what when, howeer and everything else.
But yeah, great power, great responsibility. Obviously the steward of

(27:44):
a huge brand. The Underwood side of thing is interesting
because immediately you start seeing all the missives from all
sorts of schools where you have gotten new coaches or
maybe a quarterback who's getting.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Ready to leave.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Hey, you should go get Underwood now because it open, right,
the portal opens, because the coat, not that it's ever
closed really, but you get that extra piece if a
coach gets fired or or leaves of their own accord.
So you have that swirling in the background. Nine and
three seasons, still pretty strong. You know, you lost the
game that everybody points to, right, you'd won the last

(28:19):
couple against Ohio State, and then this year not so,
you know, timing is is curious how quickly this comes
to the bear right after a season. And at this
point it's a lot of speculation. But we see men
and women of great power and repute felled all across

(28:41):
the business and sports landscape with some regularity.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's the human condition, right, you know.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
We you never know what's going on behind someone's closed
doors that lead to such things. And you know, the
old he want you want to judge and throw stones,
you know, look inward, have a little bit of grace.
But for this one certainly will wait on more details,
right it Like it's just a lot of wow, what

(29:09):
happened and how and what because you've got a lot
of pictures and a lot of theories of what, how,
where and everything else going out there without a lot
of backing to it at this point.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
You know, I always think about this. It's very rare
that I remember certain advice I get in life in
my career about certain things, because sometimes people say stuff
just to say stuff, right, like, you know, like oh
you think this? Do you really think that? Or did
you read that somewhere like on a calendar. But early
on in my radio career, one host that I used

(29:43):
to talk to a lot said to me, he said,
you know, you will find in your career you will
get more opportunities because of people who blow up in
front of you than you will on your own talent.
Just watch you watch how people just can't handle the
success that they have. You will get more opportunities because
of that. And sure enough, I've seen that so many

(30:05):
times people that can't handle success or or are only
happy when they're miserable, and they wind up finding their
way out because they don't know how to act. And
there's chances that happen. Hey, look, and I'm getting an
opportunity because of it. Right, How did Sharon Moore get
his chance because Jim Hart bought Wait, wait, we got
a big sign stealing scandal going on. He's got to
run to the NFL. Right, he wasn't gonna leave. But

(30:25):
when he got in trouble because of the sign stealing scandal,
he ran to the NFL. And now Sharon Moore got
the chance of a lifetime. Right he couldn't handle success.
Now somebody else is getting the chance of a lifetime
when they hire whoever it's gonna be, and said, I mean,
I really, there is no more true advice that I've
gotten professionally than hearing that you'll get more opportunities because
people in front of you or that are ahead of

(30:46):
you can't handle it and blow up and torpedo their
own careers than you will because of your own talent.
I've seen it so many times and it was on
display today.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, and I mean that could be in any capacity.
That could just be slap fighting verbally with a boss
that decides they don't like you, right to go manage
up and down as it were. But like for this one.
We still have a lot of questions as to you know,
the police get involved the investigation into potential charges.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
What does that mean? I don't know, exit out about
a Fresca exit swelling dome. Jason Smith, Mike Harman live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time now to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports from Martin,
Wisse and dub What do you got for us?

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Uh, you guys just touched on most of it.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
Your own Moore busy today fired and he's now in.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Custody and county jail.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
He's in the Pittsfield Township jail, which means something to
me and Kelvin Washington and nobody else.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
Unless you were living near ann Arbor.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
But they're gonna say for a second, because Jason Martin
is sitting here in a Michigan sweatshirt trying to absorb
this and.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Ool, that's a that's a tough wear today. Did you
know what you were wearing going out of the house
or did you wear in the car going? Oh man,
this was a bad choice.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
Further record, I definitely had grabbed this, woke up from
a napp, grabbed this, got in the car and about
twenty minutes later, but I still went there.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's just going away.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
You paid with your blood, sweat and tears through the
Michigan exactly.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
And now, Charon Moore, you cried a year ago today
after beating Ohio State just about but now. The statement
released by the University of Michigan stated head football coach
Charon Moore terminated with cause, effective immediately. Following the university investigation,
credible evidence was found that coach More engaged with an

(32:40):
inappropriate relationship with a staff member. This conduct could constitute
a clear violation university policy, and um maintains zero tolerance
for such behavior. Sarreon Moore was coach of Michigan for
two years. He was assistant coach starting back in twenty eighteen.
It since seventeen and eight record, nineteen and eight record

(33:01):
won in one record against Ohio State. Philip Rivers officially
signed with the practice squad today, the forty four year
old quarterback coming out of retirement. Colts rookie quarterback Brett
Riley Leonard full participant in practice team activated quarterback Brett
Rippon from their practice squad. Jaydon Daniels not playing Week
fifteen because reaggravated that elbow injury. The Commanders played the Giants.

(33:24):
Gino Smith not likely to play against the Eagles. Can
He Piket in line to start against his former team
for the Raiders. Mike Evans activated from IR expected to
play on Thursday Night Football. Drake London the opposite. He's
ruled out for the Falcons. NFL solidified week seventeen, announced
that the Chargers will Texans will play at the Chargers
and the Ravens play at the Packers on Saturday, December seventh,

(33:47):
twenty seventh. And in news That's happy for everybody who
watches this TV show, the NFL noted five teams. They
are cutting the amount of times that teams have to
make a first round picking the NFL Draft from eight
minutes to ten minutes. Thank you for that. In the NBA,
right now, end to the first quarter of the Spurs
no wemby, but they do have the first quarter lead

(34:07):
in the Western Conference NBA Cup quarter Finals. It's thirty
nine to thirty Spurs being led in scoring by Keldon
Johnson with thirteen points to the Lakers.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
Luka Doncis has eleven.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Earlier tonight, we saw the Oklahoma City put B to
A to the Phoenix Suns one thirty eight to eighty nine,
Oklahoma City's twelve and zero at home twenty four on
one on the year, and Shay Gillis Alexander had twenty
eight points to twenty seven minutes. Chat Holmgren twenty four
points to twenty five minutes. I don't know, boys, what
do you say? Good night at the office?

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(35:02):
It's not just you're on more two huge stories out
of college football, all revolving around the playoff and the snubs.
It's coming up next. Right here are we on the
cusp of a big change. That's next Jason.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, time out on the floor,
and boy, the Lakers need a time out. The San
Antonio Spurs thumping LA right now, forty seven to thirty.
This is without Wemby again. It has been a big

(35:42):
night so far. Castle's got seven, Fox has eight, Johnson's
got thirteen off the.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Un stop Keldon Johnson, they got they got twenty seven
points off the bench already, Dylan Harper seven points in
seven minutes, and Lucas sitting down and like, hey man,
I can't do this, every man, I can't score twenty
points in the first quarter all the.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Time shape Baye seven. Oh. It is a forty seven
thirty lead right now for San Antonio with a with
a spot in the NBA E Cup semifinals awaiting the
winner of this game.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Just a miserable start to the game for the Lakers.
Maybe it's the court, maybe maybe maybe they needed the
incentive to remind them that it is a cup event.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Well, there's a timeout on the floor right now, so
maybe when they come back, you'll see the crew just,
you know, frantically trying to put it in little pieces
of it to make it look like an e Cup court.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
We're gonna be in because they put a banner up
when they want it right, so I you know, hey,
someone needs to point and say, hey, that's a lot
of bonus money. Yeah, we got families that need Christmas presents, presence, whatever,
let's go.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
So we'll have more on the big Searon, more controarsy
story that's just taken over of the last couple hours
coming up in about ten minutes. But uh, elsewhere in
college football. Maybe I'm the shadow commissioner of college football,
maybe because my idea is always seem to work, right.
What did we say on Monday? One of the big
byproducts of Notre Dame getting left out of the college

(37:12):
football Playoff was that, trust me, they couldn't come together
this year. Somehow the different conferences on a sixteen team playoff.
Even though you need a sixteen team playoff to solve
the issue of what do you do with teams who'se
third losses in the conference championship game? It needs to
be more. You gotta get to sixteen. That's gonna be
a thing. With Notre Dame getting left out, We are

(37:35):
going to sixteen teams next year. It is an absolute certainty.
Watch how smooth it is. It's not even gonna be
a discussion. It's gonna be sixteen sixteen orange whip orange
of orange at sixteen shoes. Still, okay, great, we're going
We're going to sixteen teams. It'll be that after they
couldn't do it this year for whatever stupid reason they
couldn't figure it out, it will magically happen next year.

(37:56):
That was on Monday. Now, what do we know that's
come up? Brett, your big twelve commissioner says, yeah, sixteen
team playoff? Okay, he wants more teams in today. ACC
Commissioner Jim Phillips said, yeah, we need a sixteen team playoff. Quote.
They're such hard ache get that cut line right now.
And what I would say is my barometer about what's

(38:17):
enough and what's not enough is if you're leaving teams
out of the playoff that could win a national championship,
then you don't have the right number. Again, we're going
to sixteen teams for next year. It's happening everybody because
again they're not doing this because oh you have this
elect more teams from the ACC, and this elect more

(38:37):
teams of the big twelve in the SEC and the
big ten are gonna say. Yeah, he's gonna say, now
we're gonna get six teams in each Yeah, we'll say yes,
because we're gonna we're gonna we know how to do this.
We're gonna we're gonna bully push through six teams from
each of our conferences and you're still gonna be fighting
for one or two spots. Yeah, we're okay with sixteen teams,
but we are gonna get sixteen teams next year. It
is an absolute certainty.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
So when Phillips was talking, were we able to surmise
whether we were channeling the other guys and Samuel L.
Jackson what he says, take my hand dot dot dot
and work your mouth like a puppet, because I think
that's kind of where we're at in this, Like, Hey,
this is how I make Bovakua like me again. Getting
Tom Cruise to send him one of those cup coconut

(39:20):
cakes isn't gonna be enough. We're gonna need a little
bit more. We're gonna need to smooth this over. So
he stops holding his breath. He's turning blue in the
corner at this point, crying about this circumstance. So yeah,
you need to go and you become the mouthpiece. I mean,
it's it's as transparent as anything, right, as inevitable as

(39:40):
the Fano snap that Phillips and anybody that has any
business ties to Notre Dame would suddenly be like, you know,
we really need to clean this up, We really need
I was surprised they didn't stand out in front of
the Bellagio fountain and say, you know, the betting gods
said they were one of the top six options.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
You want the money quote from Phillips. Now again, I
told you it was gonna happen. Here's the money quote
from Phillips. I'd prefer not to wait another year, but
I only speak for the a c C. Again, hand
mouth puppy. It's happening, we're getting it, and still next
year it's gonna be maybe gotta go to twenty t's.
We're still only getting one team in and there're sixteen. Hey, Jim,

(40:22):
did you fix the timeebreaker? Jay, Jim Maryland should not
be getting in ahead of us. Okay, Vanderbilt's not getting
it ahead of us.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Hey, Vanderbilt's cooking and they've got the conference lobbyists that
are in the room already so.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Told you was gonna happen. It's gonna happen. It's that
simple exit out by to Fresca exit swollen down The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Coming
up next, we get back into the biggest story of
the day, Michigan looking for a new head coach. I'm
pretty sure I know who it's gonna be. It's gonna
upset somebody on the show. Fuck Fox Sports Radio. This

(41:08):
might be my favorite now ty shirt and I don't know,
I don't know. I might like this one better than
what was the one last night? Metallica is won and
what'd you match up?

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Dude, I've done a bonch. Let's just keep your new
favorites the Jason It's called the Orioles by Pete Alonzo.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Oh what do you stop? Get back into that over
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Speaker 4 (41:29):
Now he's over the hill. The other guy can't close
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Speaker 2 (41:57):
Jason, those are all things you use after a Jets game.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
No, no, dude, come on me. They're Mets games, Jets games.
I know what's happening now. I go. Okay, Sunday, when
it was the eight minute mark of the first quarter,
it was fourteen to nothing and the Dolphins had the football,
I said, I don't need to watch the rest of
this game. This game's over right. I could. Of course
it did, because I'm I'm that guy. I watched bad football,
so you don't have to. And look, we had great
points about the Dolphins because of it. I was the

(42:21):
only one that watched that game. So I had great
points last night that we talked about because of it.
But I knew how it was gonna end. Not wasting
my energy on that. I knew how that was gonna go.
Come on, man, Syracuse had a better start against Notre
Dame than the Jets had. Against Miami on Sunday, and
that's saying something.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
You run those in parallel. It's a torture torture show,
you know, kind of like the ACC Network rerunning Notre
Dame Miami repeatedly.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
So before you endo a big story that's being broadcast
on TV tonight. Look, we're talking a lot about the
Sean Moore situation. Fired as Michigan head coach. He was
found by Michigan to be a suspect and alleged assault
after he was fired for an inappropriate relationship with a
staff member. Now there's lots of different things happening at

(43:09):
this hour. I assume by this time tomorrow we will
know a lot more details. Lots of stuff floating around
the internet right now. But a few minutes ago we
started talking about who the next head coach at Michigan
might be. I gave you Jesse Minter or Nate Pergatzi,
either one. They've never been seen in separately. Frostburg is
gonna lose his defensive coordinator. He was there at Michigan,
he was the DC when they won the national title.

(43:31):
He went with Harbaugh to the Chargers. But harm you
got somebody too, You think it'd be a great one.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Yeah, I think old Mivakua could be in trouble because
there might be more chaos. How about a guy with
a contract through twenty thirty that by my math only
accounts for maybe sixty million dollars, that's in dropping the bucket.
You got a lums that can drop that at Michigan.
I'm talking Marcus Freeman. Yeah, currently minus two hundred to

(43:56):
be the next head coach of your New York Football Giants.
But we've watched framan I leave the Irish what is he?
Forty three and twelve overall, had the glorious run a
year ago. He's a guy that has been part of
the politicking and lobbying the stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
All right.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
He was part of the uh the Today Show last
week even talking about his team and what they're doing.
So from Michigan, go swing for the fences. He's your
best guy that you can go and poach and you know,
make Mabaqua have to go and cry about, you know,
the the coaching cycle and how it's all unfair and whatever.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yeah, yeah, but can you poach him like the Giants
can poach him clearly, And the Giants, I'm sure they
had the fifty million dollars for the buyout for Marcus Freeman. Yeah,
but like is leaving Notre Dame to coach Michigan? Is
that a big step up?

Speaker 4 (44:54):
It's not a matter of a big step up. Is
a matter of a clearer path with a con deference
with the resources that they have that you know, certainly
Notre Dame does, and they've got their NBC deal and
everything else. But you know when and again this comes
out of the ad victimhood kind of stances with Michigan.

(45:15):
You've got a much clearer path as things stands. Now,
does that mean that things don't change at Notre Dame
with how they operate? We already have the may well,
you have assurances if you're in the top twelve again
that you'll you'll get in. Okay, that's all fine and good,
but Michigan rivalries the big ten.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
I'd say you go and start fishing. Now. Is he
a guy that stays forever? Sure?

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Perhaps he's that guy, But but it would I rather
go to the the NFL and the Giants. Maybe maybe
that's the aspiration. Never know what's on a man's heart.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
I just I feel like there's more, even though Notre
Dame got left out of the playoff this year. There's
more in the way at Michigan because by the what
you're trying to get by Ohio State every year.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Yeah, you're not trying to get passed off Bio State
or yeah, all this, I get it.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Who do you have to You don't have to get
past that many teams at Notre Dame. You're Notre Dame, right,
I know you got left out this year and that
was bad. And now whatever changes we have, Notre Dame
is not gonna get left out again because we're Notre Dame. Yeah,
I think it's a little bit tougher. So I think
it's the path of more resistance. Actually at Michigan trying
to get through Now, you got to get through Indiana.
You know, if you're miss if you're gonna spend money, Hey,

(46:28):
Kurt Signetti's buyout is only fifteen million dollars. Hey, Kurt,
come on here, man, We know we love you here.
We always thought you were great and you're doing great
things at Indiana. How would you like one hundred and
fifty million dollars to come coach at Michigan? How long
are you going to keep that going? In Indiana for
come on, Kurt, come here. I just like the potential
of the chaos. The Signetti's even better Google me, I win.

(46:51):
I'd love to see contract negotiations with him. And he
just pulls up the Google page and does that little
Denzel Washington, you know gesture of up there you go,
there you go. That's what you got.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
No, I'm just I just throw it out as a
if we're gonna go big game hunting, Mintor's a solid choice,
no doubt, and certainly it's a horrible or whatever.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Justin wants no part of it.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
I would just wonder if, again, going to the fact
that he was part of those scandals, that you don't
just try to get away from that era.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith
Mike Harman live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. I
will get to what's trending coming up in a few minutes,
but you know, this is one. It's been a couple
of minutes on this tonight because it's it's been a
big deal today and I know, you know, people are
starting to really talk about it on social media. The
thirty for thirty ESPN on the Life of Stuart Scott

(47:47):
is airing tonight, and you probably saw a lot of
people talking about it leading up to it. Stu's life
and it looked gone way too soon. Fought cancer so
bravely for so long and one of the guys that
still cuts through his career at ESPN. So many things
he's able to accomplish. And it wasn't always great, right,

(48:10):
It wasn't always rosy for him there, and he fought against,
you know, a lot of things, you know, to continue
to be famous and to have his career there at ESPN.
And you know, a lot of people have talked about him,
and look, there certainly are people that know that knew
him a lot better than I did. You know, Rich
Eysen saying a lot of great things about him, like
they were anchors, you know together. But you know, the

(48:30):
thing is a couple of things to just talk about
what Stu was like a little bit because I work
with him for a long time. When he first got
his big break at ESPN, when he came to ESPN
two to host Sports Night with Susie Kolber back in
the mid nineties, Right, this is when ESPN saying, hey,
we're branching out now ESPN two is brand new. We're

(48:51):
going to put new shows on, and they put on
the show called Sports Night, which was the flagship show
of ESPN two, which was basically, they're going to focus
on sports that don't get enough attention on ESPN. So
every show was about like, we had NHL stories, we
did any kind of college story you could possibly want
that we had. It's where the X game started, you know,

(49:12):
bike races, Formula one, Tour de France, like, this was
what Sports Night was. And Stu Scott was the and
Stu Scott and Susie Cobber the everyday host. I worked
on the show with Stu for a long time, and
to try to tell you what he was like in
in in the in a way that maybe you haven't
heard so far, is that Stu really was a guy

(49:35):
who turns out to be ahead of his time. The
person that he was. You look at him and say, man,
he is the conduit that got people to some of
enjoy some of the careers that they have right now,
right you go back, I go back to that line
of Moneyball when John Henry wants to hire Billy Bean.
He says, hey, Billy, I know you're taking the teeth

(49:56):
out there. But look, the first guy through the wall
always gets bloody, right, the first guy trying to do
it's always more difficult than people that come after him.
It turns out to be a little bit better. And
you know, Stue comes to ESPN in the mid nineties
and he, you know, all of a sudden, here's an
African American sportscaster who was anchoring one of the big
shows at ESPN. And he always knew that. He always

(50:18):
knew that I have a big responsibility and I need
to be able to make sure that I'm doing this
and I'm doing this to the best of my ability,
and I'm doing it for people that are coming after me,
and I'm doing it for everybody else, right, Like that
was kind of what he was like, and he kind
of known That's what I mean, he's like the conduit.
There's so many people that enjoying great careers today because

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it wasn't always easy for Sue Scott. Like yet, he
had bosses at ESPN telling him like, I don't know
what you're talking about. I don't know what you mean.
I don't know, I don't know what you're trying to say.
When you say things like this. It's like, wow, man,
what the hell like this is some of the stuff
that he fought against and to tell you what it
was like, tell you what he was like, and this
is someone that had this kind of prescience in the nineties. Okay,

(51:00):
going back to the nineties now, which is thirty years ago, right,
thirty years ago, when we would do the show every day,
we would always do fun sketches on the show, right
cause that was the kind of show it was. Was
open to do anything, and they love putting me on
that show because I was a lunatic. Yeah go on, yeah,
you're great for sports. Yeah, great, great, great. So we
always would do fun teases or sketches about something going

(51:21):
on at sports and so, like I was, I come
up with some ideas. We'd get to you know, shoot
stuff over the course of the day. And now just
to take you in because this is this is this
is part of the story. Like my job as a
production assistant associate producer was I would have like seven
or eight jobs over the course of the day to
do before we got on the air. Everybody, everybody busted
their ass to get a lot of jobs done. You

(51:42):
had a lot heaped on your plate. So when I
had to do a sketch, it was always okay, I
need to be able. I can take an hour to
do this sketch, and then I got to be done
with it because I got to go on to other things.
So whenever we would have an idea for something and
we needed a production assistant to be in it, we
needed a security guard to be in it, or somebody else,
I would just want I say hey, can you be
in this for a couple of minutes We're doing a

(52:03):
sketch and they would say yeah really not okay, great,
and I move on to somebody else, right because I
got to get this done. So the first few skits
we do I do with Stu and he says to
me after like after like the second or third one,
he says, hey, can I talk to you about the sketch? Yeah? Sure,
what's up? He goes, Man, that was really good in
this this and Stu was a great dude, and he goes,
I just want to say, he goes. You know, whenever

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I do something, when I do a sketch like this,
I always want to do something and make sure that
a black person and a woman is in the sketch.
Because I want a spotlight that that you know, that
they should be sharing the camera to. And I said, wow, okay,
I said, hey, I'm with you. I get it. I said,
just from my perspective, I'm just trying to get people

(52:44):
that want to be in it, right, like I can't
take time. He goes, oh, no, no, I completely get it.
I completely get it. I said, no problem, just sor
but I'll try to do that. He goes, well, what
if I help you? What if I give you a
couple of people that would be, you know, that I
think might be good for the sketch. I go, great,
give me those names. I'll ask him and I'll put
them the sketch. Awesome, right. So then so the first
time he gives me like three or four names, I asked,

(53:05):
and these are all again like PA, security guards, the producers,
everything else. And a couple of people said no. So
we do the sketch for the day. You know, Stu
doesn't see it until it goes on the air, and
he goes, hey, I gotta ask it. Jays. You know,
I gave you some names. I go, Stu, I said,
I asked all of them and they said no. He goes,
what I said, Stu, I asked, those are the first
four people that I asked and they said no. So

(53:27):
I asked other people to be in the sketch. Those
are the first four people I asked for you. He goes, oh,
man cause, he goes, hey, I love who you had in.
It was great. You know you put this guy in.
This is awesome. He goes, I can't. I said, okay,
I just wanted to tell you that's what it was.
So then the next day he comes in, he goes, hey,
from now on, when I give you a name, when
when I give you names to people, he goes, don't
worry about it, they'll do it. And I said okay.

(53:48):
From then on, there wasn't one person who said no,
well whoever. Stu talked to everybody, and every single person
I want to say, hey, well yes, oh stud yeah yeah, yeah,
I want to be. I want to be and I
want to be in. Well, how did you sell the sketch?

Speaker 4 (54:01):
When you when you went now and I'm talking about
your selling abilities.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
It would be it would be something like it'd be
something like, hey, we're doing a sketch. It's the anniversary
of the Vic Wurtz catch off of Willie Mays, and
we're doing a bit on how Stue is trying to
find out information and you're going to be a researcher
that doesn't know what they're doing. Yes, absolutely hundred percent,
I'll be I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do
it like this is kind of stuff that's funny. We
would just do for like thirty forty five. So I

(54:25):
get that.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
But you know, in those pitches when folks churned you down,
did you really sell the fact that it was Stuart
Scott asking for them.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
You?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Oh? No, No, they all knew that we were doing
sketches like I like they knew I would come and ask, hey,
do you want to be in this? Do you want
to be in this? Okay, that's great, But now Stu
was was actually taking it upon himself to go and
ask people. I had to take Hey, when Jason does
this and he asks you, will you be in this sketch?
And I'm telling you, I swear to God, might not
one person said no? After that? Like we would have

(54:54):
an idea and say, hey, who do you think for this?
And we would say, all right, try this person, this person,
this person, every single person, and ste said, hey, ask
these couple of people for this sketch today, they always said, yes,
like that, that's the that's the That's how much he
was cognizant about what he wanted to do, the belief
in what he was doing was right, and how he
felt a responsibility that was bigger than just here I

(55:17):
am on TV. He could have just sat back and
enjoyed his career and been on TV and on ESPN
and all kind but from the beginning he always wanted
to make a bigger difference. And maybe you know, people
didn't get it as much back then, but but like
you think, that's what you think about now, like this
is something that happens all the time now, right, Like
this happens all the time, and this is thirty years ago,

(55:37):
and and Stu was trying to do this and and
and that's the kind of guy that he was man
when he would do that. So I hope you know, again,
I haven't seen the show tonight, but I hope you
get some stuff like that, because that that's kind of
the guy Stuart Scott was.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
Yeah, I certainly, you know, we know a lot of
folks in the business. You worked with him personally and
hold him in the highest regard for you know, a
land a land shifting in terms of how highlight shows
were done thereafter. So, yeah, I only had the pleasure
of meeting him once, very brief at a well at
a Super Bowl event. I think it lasted all about

(56:11):
two minutes and then he headed to the dance floor
and that was the end of that.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Yeah, exit out, Vuta fresca, exit, swollen dub. He was
trying to I'm gonna go to the guy. Don't want
to talk to harm anymore. I'm gonna I can't find out, man,
Let's find out what's trending right now the wide world
of sports and Martin Weiss and what you got for us.

Speaker 6 (56:34):
Well, first, I have a report from the Detroit News.
Say police chief confirmed to the Detroit News earlier on
Wednesday that the Pittsfield Township Police Department was handling a
complaint that involves Charon Moore. Here's the rundown. At ten
o'clock on Wednesday, Pittsfield Township Police confirmed it handled and

(56:55):
assaw the investigation without actually naming more, but they did
say that investigation started at four ten pm, which was
just a few minutes before the University of Michigan had
announced Sharon Moore was fired. The Pittsfield Township Police said
that the incident does not appear to be random in nature,
so the ongoing into investigation. No more further details, so on,

(57:17):
and so forth. Go back to the first press contra.
The first statement released about Sharon Moore today was from
ad Ward Manual at the University of Michigan, saying there
is credible evidence that Moore had inappropriate relationships with a
staff member, and for that reason, he is fired. With
calls from the University of Michigan, Baltimore Orioles and Pete

(57:38):
Alonzo agreed to a five year deal with one hundred
and fifty five million dollars. Philip Rivers officially signed his
practice squad deal today with the Colts. Riley Leonard a
full participant in practice, and the team also activated quarterback
Brett Rippon from.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
The practice squad.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
Jaydan Daniels likely won't play Week fifteen against the Giants.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
He's at an elbow.

Speaker 6 (57:57):
Raiders quarterback Geno Smith not likely to play against the
Eagles Sunday with a shoulder injury, lining up Kenny Pickett
to get a revenge game start against his form one
of his former teams, Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans was
activated against from ir expected to play tomorrow against tomorrow
against the Falcons. Officially, this is questionable. Drake London listed

(58:17):
as out for the Falcons. The NFL solidified Week seventeen.
The Texas at Chargers and Ravens ad Packers game is
gonna be played Saturday, December twenty seventh. NFL is taking
the first round draft pick time between picks from ten
minutes to eight minutes. In the NBA Maverick Center, Derek
Lively will miss the rest of the season. He's gotta

(58:38):
have foot surgery and the NBA Cup quarterfinals. In the
Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs with an eighty five
to sixty four lead over the Lakers. Right in the
Spurs I was scoring them with nine points in the
third quarter right now, but I'm just under nine minutes
left in the third quarter. Stefan Castle, Deer and Fox
Harrison Barnes all in double figures, the Lakers being led

(58:59):
by Luca Doncras with twenty four points, Lebron James and
DeAndre Ayton with twelve and eleven respectively. Earlier tonight saw
the Oklahoma City Thunder one thirty eight to eighty nine
over the Phoenix Suns Okay see starters, none of them
played over thirty minutes. In fact, yeah, nobody played over
twenty eight minutes. Miche Gilders Alexander had twenty eight points

(59:21):
in twenty seven minutes and Chad Holger with twenty four
and twenty five minutes, so it's just quick work. The
Thunder made of the Phoenix Suns without Devin, Booker and
Grace all ended up getting ejected after getting his two flavorfowls.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Back to you guys.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Thanks bunch, Martin Boy. We'll have more on that developing
Searon Moore story coming up, But straight ahead, a couple
of quarterbacks who may or may not play Sunday. I
hope neither of them does. We'll tell you why next