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(00:32):
Welcome inside. Happy Thursday, probably the happiest for Kyle Tucker,
The Jason Smith Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, where big news
coming in just moments ago. And look, and I don't
like to sit here and tell you you know, I

(00:53):
was ahead of the curve and told you about this.
Except I told you about this and tweeted about this
last night last night.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes you know, I'm still squatting on the uh the
website and domain. I hate to say I told your
show dot com this would be at the top. I
think we might ask to gain Elijah to clip this
off so we can make that the first post.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
What did I tell you a day ago? He was
going to the Mets. Kyle Tucker, who is what number one,
number one free agent in Major League Baseball. Kyle Tucker
had a short term, big money contract from the Mets
on the table four years and two hundred million dollars,
which that extra year, right, it was three years, they
wanted four, they went four. Awesome, Right, that's what he's got.

(01:35):
So four years, five four years, two hundred million, fifty
million dollars year, second highest paid player in baseball. He
also had a long term offer from the Blue Jays
on the table for potentially ten years, three hundred and
fifty ish million dollars. So it's it's more security, it's
more money, but it's less money per year. Yeah, three
hundred and thirty Canadian. So everybody's saying, oh, he's going
to be choosing the Mets and the Blue Jes And

(01:57):
what did I say last night and what did I
tweet out? He's he's got both offers that he wants.
If he wanted those teams, he would have picked those teams.
He was gonna Kirk Cousins his way to get to
where he wanted to. He got the offers that he wanted,
both short and long term, from the Mets and the
Blue Jays because he really wanted to go someplace else.

(02:18):
He wanted to go to the Dodgers. So I'm waiting
for this to so wait. I said, the Mets aren't
going to get him. I don't know what everybody's going
crazy about. He's gonna go to the Dodgers. And honestly,
Kyle Tucker, I would it would have been great if
they got him. But it's not something where, oh my goodness,
we failed completely. Right, I'm okay with not paying Kyle
Tucker fifty nine dollars a year. No, I was he
There's lots of guys out there. There's lots of things

(02:39):
to do. Kyle Tucker's a terrific player, right, but he's
not perfect, and you overpay to get him to get
him early. Okay, I get that, but I'm not I'm
not nearly as upset as I was, Like, boy, if
we lost out on somebody that was so so huge, Like,
Kyle Tucker's a good player. Is he great? No? Is
he worth fifty million dollars a year?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
But he's a good left fielder. He's got a pretty
good war when he's healthy. Did have a horrible back
half of the second half last year. But now you
put him in that Dodger lineup and suddenly, you know what,
watch watch the watch the balls fly out of Chavez ravine. Right.
But but that's I said. When this is going on,
this is leverage because he has he has the offers
that he wants, the short term, the long term. Okay, now, Dodgers,

(03:21):
can you get close? Now? We don't know what the
official terms are, but it is a short term ish
deal to go to the Dodgers. I assume it's something
along the lines of four years and two hundred million dollars,
maybe a little bit less, maybe a little bit more,
whatever it's gonna be. But I knew if he wanted
that deal, he would take it. You don't, you don't.
You don't say no to when you have the two

(03:41):
trades you want out there, the two off you want
out there, and you don't take it. Okay, this is now,
can you get close? Okay, Dodgers. This is where I
really wanted to go. And the Mets and the Blue
Jays got used his leverage and I knew it. I
can forget Jeff Passing and Ken Rosenthal and all those guys.
Come on, man, I told you last night he's going
to the Dodgers, because that's where if there's three teams
in it, and the two teams a few of them

(04:01):
contract offers that he would take short and long term,
and he hasn't taken one from those two teams. What's
left Dodgers? Everybody? Baseball insider Jason Smith, Yeah, anicually done.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Look, all of it comes down to how much can
you play the waiting game? Because everything gets stopped up
behind him right until this domino falls, the rest of
it waits, and so you're waiting to see, all right,
how much more will the Mets give him another year?
Will the Blue Jays account for the fact that his
money's worth less in Canada? I mean all of these things.

(04:32):
Will there be the old mystery team that comes on board?
And really, what it says to me, and this is
where you just have to wear it, is that nobody
wants Steve Cohen's money.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I don't know that, Jake.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
He keeps coming back to Hey, he was supposed to
ruin baseball with all of his big contracts. He's gonna
throw money around and then nobody wants to show up
and play in New York?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Are they afraid of the pizza reds? We just get well,
I would be afraid the rats are getting bigger in
New York if you know that they're getting you I've seen that,
ye know, and they're yetting bigger geometrically, we might have
to look at the rat rankings from a whole different level. Well,
I mean, remember it was just it was just this
time of year ago where you know, a certain someone
got seven hundred and sixty five million dollars who took
Steve Cohen's money. So I'm not worried so much about that.

(05:15):
I get wanting to go to the Dodgers. I understand
if he if he turned down the Mets to go
to the Rays or the Reds, and I'd be like,
oh man, that sucks. But I get going to the Dodgers, right.
But you bring up Steve Cohen, and this is what
this is one thing where I feel vindicated for Baseball's
as so many people in baseball, we're worried Steve Cohen's
gonna gonna outspend everybody. So let's put in the Steve

(05:35):
Cohen tax to make sure that that people don't. You
know that he can't do that. He can't just spend
all kinds of money because Hey, it's not fair to
be able to do something like that. It's not fair.
Let's put that in place to stop Steve Cohen. Yeah,
you're worried about the Mets, right, under say, worried about
the Mets. Meanwhile, the Dodgers sat there and said, okay,
so this luxury tax was put in here. Let's go, okay,
lez will do to get around that? All right, show,
Hey is gonna defer money. We're gonna sign here and

(05:57):
do the Yeah. So now the Dodgers are building and
have been building a super team year after year after
you were worried so much about Steve Cohen, Right, I
mean this, Think about this. How stupid is everybody? How
stupid are all the other owners? Because all the underwas
are gonna be mad about this that here's the Dodgers
who go get Kyle Tucker, the number one free agent
out there? How do they do this? No, no, no,

(06:17):
it's your fault because you thought Steve Cohen was the guy.
You thought Steve Cohen was the guy you had to
worry about. Turns out you didn't have to worry about
Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen's go, yeah, I got my guys,
I give my guys money. Everything is fine. We're paying,
we're we're bringing people in. It's okay. No, the Dodgers
now every single year they just continue to reload. They
need something, they go get it. They have money. Eventually
they're gonna have to spend money that they don't have,

(06:40):
and that's when they'll sell the team. Right when they
start having to pay Otani thirty eight million dollars a
year of forty eight million dollars a year in eight years,
that's when they'll sell the team. But I mean, this
is where we're at right now. They're worried so much
about the Mets, and the Dodgers have come in and said, yeah,
what the Yankees did in the eighties and nineties, that
looks like a kid giving out candy compared to what
the Dodge I've invested.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, I would estimate that the money for Otani's contract
has already been earned based on all of the contracts
and the globalization of what the Dodgers have been able
to do. My guess is that's nice escro account just.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
To say, you really think it's just sitting there in an account.
They're not using it.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's not you, no, but it's making more money is
the point, right, It's reinvested and making more money. Like
they're not suddenly going to be broke when they need
to pay out these deals. I mean, you kick it
down the road.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
What do you do?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
You work with other people's money. And if the rules
of baseball allow you to do this, then if it's
a problem for the other twenty nine ownership groups, then
they're a bunch of dopes, right, and you're playing in
the wrong game. It's not a toy anymore. It's a
multi billion dollar organization. The Dodgers before Tucker, according to
you know some of the reports, what is it, three

(07:51):
hundred and seventy four million on their payroll, the Mets
at three oh one, the Blue Jays just shy of
three hundred, Phillies just shy of three hundred, and keep
going on down to where you find the White Sox
at eighty seven million and the Marlins.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
At seventy two.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
All of that to say, you know, they made made
these rules and if you can find the loophole, right,
it's what people are getting ready to do, is they
start getting all their information together on taxes, yeah, you know,
writing off meals and never had there were eight people
at that meal. No, you just ate at the trough.
But yeah, divide it out by eight.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
We gotta pay Kyle Tucker. How much was that meal?
All that meal was twenty five million dollars the caviar
and champagne that we had. Okay, twenty five million our
right there.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
But the point being right, if you can move that
money around, it's creative accounting. And in this case, if
you can defer it and you haven't put in rules
to defer it, and they can wave at you and
smile while they assemble the The Avengers Part two, Part three,
beyond Thunderbolts, that's what we're looking at here. Then then
too bad you all you all got got got.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, now what's going to happen now? And I who
knew Kyle Tucker was going to be the guy, right,
But here's Rob Manford again, who was so much in sense.
So let's put the Steve Cohen Tach said, yes, let's
stop it. While the Dodgers have run rampaging and then
were rampaging over major League Baseball the last four years,
continuing to sign players, continue deferring money for showy Otani. Look,

(09:12):
Dodger's not doing anything outside the rules. As you said,
I would want my team to act this right because
you can do it. However, Kyle Tucker, this is gonna
be the moment. This is gonna be the moment where
major League Baseball says, okay, because you had so much
a no, no, no, Tucker. But it's gonna be because he's
the number one free agent this year and how do
the Dodgers get him with all the money they spent

(09:32):
on guys and how do they keep they're putting the
super team together back to back World series. This is
going to be And I didn't think it'd be Kyle Tucker,
but it's gonna wind up being I thought it would
be Otanian deferring the money that this was going to
be where there were teams would say, okay, you have
to stop this now, right, But now there's gonna be
so much momentum from the other twenty nine team to say,
all right, this really doesn't help any of us, and

(09:57):
it's you know, while it may be great for baseball
because it's the Dodgers of the new Evil Empire, right
they think they've gone to that now and that's great,
but it's not great for us business wise, and the
owners are gonna be pissed and they're gonna say, now,
we need rules in place to stop this from happening,
to stop the Dodgers from every year being able to
go out and get the number one free agent, get
whoever they want to because they can defer money, work

(10:17):
around whatever it is baseball. This is gonna be the
moment where Rob Manford's call the Dodgers very teary eyed
because you know he doesn't want to do you want
to issue Dodgers is gonna say sorry, I have to
do something because everybody else is outside my office like
it's Frankenstein and they're all banging on my door with
torches saying you gotta do this. So this is gonna
be the store. And it's weird because Kyle Tucker again

(10:38):
is a nice player. He's a good player. Is he
absolutely great?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
No?

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Does he have faults? Yeah, you've heard about his work ethic.
You've heard about the fact that hey playing in under
a big microscope might not be for him where maybe
Hey fitting into that big star studded Dodgers team is
where he's more comfortable. So it's weird that Kyle Tucker
is gonna be the case, but there's no doubt that
very soon there will be things voted into place to
stop this ra happening, to stop the Dodgers from being

(11:05):
able to do this, because this is this is not
putting confidence in Major League Baseball's not putting confidence in
a lot of fan bases. And mainly the owners are
going to be pissed. We want to be able to
get a fair shake at these guys, and you don't,
and you don't do it, and we don't get a chance,
and when when they're allowed to continue to spend and
then there's no emergency break force. This is bad for

(11:25):
all of our businesses. So they're all going to be mad.
This is going to be the moment that and I
don't know what it's going to wind up being, but
it will be a certain, It will be a certain,
it will be this will be where all the stops
are put in place so the Dodgers won't be able
to do this. Yeah, I'll be.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Curious to see how many of them rally rally around, right,
because now we get into the fuzzy math and the
accounting of it all. Are they making more money year
over year? If they are, then they'll try to protest.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
But it'll be hollow. Right.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
We look at Kyle Tucker second half of the season,
as with many of the Cubs players. Five home runs,
seventeen RBI two thirty one, and he's your sought after guy.
He's only twenty eight, still some good years ahead of him.
But in the end, the Dodgers can only have how
many guys what mid twenties, right, that's it, and a
couple of guys that are just hanging out off injury

(12:17):
contracts and whatever else and waiting to be activated. I
think the bigger issue for the Dodgers was the fact
that they were able to have all their pitchers just
hang out until July.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Until hey, you ready to throw?

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Now?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, let's get after it.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's the bigger itsue didn't matter of being able to
sign players because there's only so many guys you can
have on a roster, But for the economics of the game,
that's really what rules it all.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Right.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
We talk about competitive balance, Well, that's always been a
bit of a hazy space because if the Dodgers had
lost either of these last two years, does that change
anything or are we still crying no? But because they
don't find you're saying they almost got beat in each
of these two runs to those the World Series. Right,
if they lose either one of those, I know that's

(13:04):
in ifs and ans and butts and whatever, But if
they lose one of those, does everybody just be quiet
saying hah ha ha look at all the bad money
they spent. Instead, it's oh man, we don't even have
a chance.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
But look, right or wrong, that's going to happen, right,
and if you can whatever you can do to make
your team better, great. Look I'm not gonna complain because
I wanted that's exactly what you're doing. To know, I
wanted Steve going to outspend everybody I wanted to use.
This is what you have that you why you bring
in a multi guy with the kind of money. I'm
simply telling you this is how the other twenty nine
owners are going to re Now you are trying to

(13:37):
sound the alarm that's never gonna go on. I don't
think that the alarm. Trust me, the alarms. There's a
Kyle Tucker. There's a big text chain going on right
now between twenty nine or right maybe like all right,
I was gonna.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Say no, I read right off to what the White
Sox just spend.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Maybe twenty teams that are gonna say, hey, we have
to we have to stop this from happening. I'm telling
you this is again, Kyle. You would think Otani would
have been that with oh wait, you're deferring money and
now you're low waight no no, no, no no. But
that still was.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
But the other thing is, I mean, in this particular case,
and with some of these others, there's twenty five teams
that know they have no chance in.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Hell, so they're not mad about it.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Like Kyle Tucker, for most of these teams, it doesn't matter,
like he had already narrowed it down to what a
handful of teams, right, we'll put up the King Kong
Bundi five count. So the other twenty five did they give.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
A damn No. No, I'd be like if they weren't.
And the thing is, if they weren't. Before the Dodgers
are now officially the new evil Empire, they were still
a team that people rooted for across the country. Wasn't
the Yankee? Look, we hated the Yankees for so long
and everything they did and all the money they spent,
and how and angst and Hank and House stein Brenner
and George Steinbrenner and oh yes, easy, I hate the Yankees,

(14:44):
I hate the evil Empire, I hate they win. I
hate all of this. The Dodgers knew evil empire. I mean,
now they've gone from all look how fun they are
to root for, and they got Otani and all fun.
Now they're just gonna be hate. The every fan base
across Major League Baseball is just gonna absolutely hate them.
And now they're gonna be the hunted and the hated.
And then we got to come with a better word

(15:05):
than evil empire. But that's exactly what the Dogs. We'll
figure out a new alliteration for. And all, yeah, let's
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(16:58):
the Kyle Tucker contract with the Dodgers, and hold onto
your hats, Juan Soto, you had a great run as
the highest paid player in Major League Baseball. It's great.
You had a great run. It was a year long.
You had a great run the Kyle Tucker contract. Remember
the Mets had offered him a four year deal worth
two hundred million dollars, So fifty million dollars a year. Right,

(17:20):
we've said a few minutes ago, I told you last night.
If you didn't take the Mets offer, didn't take the
Blue Jays offer, he wants another offer. Forget Jeff Passon,
I'm your baseball insider. He wants to go to the Dodgers. Well,
he goes to the Dodgers. Okay, So if you really
want that, I was thinking, okay, we're gonna get the terms.
It's going to be somewhere close to fifty million a year.
Maybe it's forty seven. Forty should be right at fifty

(17:40):
could be the same thing. Hey, the Mets are giving
me this, what are you giving me this? The Dodgers
are paying Kyle Tucker four years and two hundred and
forty million dollars. Kyle Tucker is getting paid sixty million
dollars a year buy the Dodgers for the next four years.

(18:02):
For some ridiculous reason, there's an opt out after the
second year, Like, ok, I cause we can't. I could
make seventy five million dollars. Well no, I mean on
both sides.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Right, For the Dodgers, it's the all right, if you're
the guy that you were in the second half, well
then then we've got some some data and we probably
don't love you. As for Kyle Tucker, if he comes
in and does what they expect him to do with
that kind of money, he says, well, what's the market
in two years?

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Why not I get seventy five million a year?

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Why I I'm and if I suck, I'm still gonna
get the other one hundred and twenty I where's the loss?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Not opting out after this? I really I am more
than okay not paying Kyle Tucker sixty million dollars a year, right,
I mean, look, and I'm being honest with you, if
I would be pissed, if I look, I wear my
heart on my sleeve. I'll tell you how I feel
all the time about stuff. Right. If I really was
pissed about the Mets losing out on Kyle Tucker for this,
I will tell you no, I'm not really because we'll

(18:56):
get somebody. We'll just go give Cody Bellinger five years
and six hundred billion dollars. Now, there's other guys out there.
These guys, get out there and trade them. That's having
the number one farm system in baseball. I'm not worried.
Getting Kyle Tucker would have been great. Not get against
the show goes on. This is not this is not
this is not a thing. I am more than okay,
not paying him sixty million dollars a year, Okay, I

(19:17):
really am KYD. You're talking about the wrong guy setting
the mark for most money in baseball. Remember how now
the Bryce Harper thirty million dollars year contract sounds quaint
and that was just like four years ago. But that's
that's great.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's where the calculus has changed at all of this,
and when we go down to these top teams, and
again it's only those top five to seven teams that
are even looking at the top free agents and even
trying to get a bit in, and depending on their agent,
they may not even bother Scott Boris may not pick
up right for a lot of these teams along the way.

(19:56):
But it just is the what the market will be.
We're at a different time and for guys like Cohen,
for organizations like the Dodgers, it's funny money, right. It's
not precluding you from going back into the marketplaces don't know,
as long as you're willing to pay what the luxury
taxes are. And maybe that's where one of the big
changes happens. Right, to preclude squads from loading up is

(20:21):
all right, we're really gonna make those even more substance penalties.
And they're gonna laugh, and they're gonna say, Okay, keep going, right,
because I'm still making that much more money and I'm
still playing meaningful baseball in September and October, so you're
not gonna stop that train. But for Kyle Tucker at
this number, in the end, it is a huge deal,

(20:43):
and it's eye popping because Kyle Tucker's not a guy
that it screams that it should be this, but we
do this every year. We're talking a lot about the
NFL draft. There's guys that go in the top five quarterbacks.
Why because you're so thirsty at the position, Like, I
don't think that's gonna work. I mean, you're a Jets.
How many times you did you draft a guy?

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Go?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, Well, I mean, look, we're drafting there.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
We need a quarterback. It's a quarterback. It's the same
thing here. In a year where there's not a bunch
of monster free agents, guess what somebody's gonna get paid
and exhorbitant amount tuna.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
There he is. He's a twenty five and ninety guy.
He's a twenty five, ninety two seventy hitter. That's a
nice player. You know, many guys are twenty five and
ninety major League Baseball. There's like thirty of them. Really,
there's like thirty of them. And good for Kyle Tucker
getting this money, because hey, he took advantage of you know,
some years, a player like Kyle Tucker's your number one

(21:38):
guy in frame. She sometimes a guy like one, so
that's it is your guy, right, But I mean, really,
I am not unhappy that we didn't. We didn't pay
a twenty five ninety two to seventy guy sixty million
dollars a year. I'm really okay with that, honestly, I'm
okay with it. I'm okay, no.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
But it's only an issue if it's going to preclude
you from making other moves. And that's the larger point,
right for Cohen, that would have been okay, cool, we
got him now, moving on now it could if he struggles,
then it becomes the all right, it's the back page
of the fish wrap of we paid this guy how much?
And that's just fans getting and bloviators getting all in
a what because it doesn't matter, right, it's what once

(22:17):
the guy's check Star Clay, I don't care. It's like
is he hitting or is he not? He's either good
or he's not. I'm not looking at each hit of
You know that base hits worth four hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
I don't care. That's a four hundred thousand dollars, right, I.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Don't give a damn. Does he perform in the clutch
or does he not? I'm not I'm not parsing guy,
just like you know that walk was worth one hundred
and twelve thousand dollars. That's that plate.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
It's a two hundred grand, oh and two count You
better come back on this year.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's like I'm not sitting there doing that. Is that
how we're gonna watch baseball this year? You and I
We're gonna have little toggles. Hey, you know this, this
hit bat, this plant appearance right here with running runners on,
based on my calculus, is worth this?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, what's it's spent and spent. But look this is
why And said this a few minutes ago in Frostburg.
You know when he brought up I said, hey, all
the owners are gonna be pissed and this is gonna
foster a big change now because they're gonna be mad.
The Dodgers are allowed to do this year after year.
That's gonna be it. But you didn't need anymore. But
I'll give you something else because the fact that Kyle

(23:18):
Tucker is the guy to now said agents are happy now,
players are happy now because Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker is
the highest played player in baseball when it comes to
average salary at sixty million dollars a year. This is
the same thing as when the Browns decided we'll guarantee
to all two hundred and thirty million dollars Deshaan Watson's contract.

(23:39):
Thirty one other teams in the NFL are saying, are
you kidding me? What are you doing? What are you
doing to the business model? Why you make you know
what you've just done to all of us? Because you're
so desperate for a quarterback and and and you want
a guy that's got all kinds of problems. Well, by
the way, it's gonna be bad headlined for you. And
the karma has come back to really ruin the Browns
after that, Like you saw what that was like and
what that did. Teams are now pissed, right The Jaguars

(24:02):
are going, yeah, we love Trevor Lawnce. We don't have
to pay him fifty five million dollars a year, but
yet we are because we have to. But they did.
So that's another reason why you're gonna see change, because
it's gonna be. Hey, if another Jan Soto was out there,
another Shoho Tani was out there and they gave him
sixty million dollars a year, well, okay, but now Kyle

(24:22):
Tucker has set the mark for highest paid player in Baseball,
and all that's gonna do is piss off all the
other owners because they're like, now, every free agent we
want to sign is way more money. Every single They
just put the value of every single free agent through
the roof because of Kyle Tucker. Right, I understand. So
you put those two things together, and that's why the

(24:45):
Tucker that's gonna be Kyle Tucker's legacy. Kyle Tucker, who
signed a contract with the Dodgers, became the reason for
the new change in Major League Baseball where no one
can spend any money. We're calling it, they call it
the Tucker rule. Right, you're ready, because I love fun
with numb. You were throwing out, like what his basic average?
I was, all right, twenty twenty five, ninety whatever. Based

(25:06):
on his numbers from last year. Fun with numbers.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
He was tied for sixty fifth in Major League Baseball
with twenty two home runs. He was tied for seventy
seven with his seventy three army.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's Kyle Tucker. Sixty million a year, that's
Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I mean, God, I wish I could hit a base
He's he's in trouble with the curve, Like I said
he's a good player, but I am more than okay
with not paying him sixty million.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Now for the Dodgers part of it, Now, do you
get to the Dodgers part? I mean, what else do
you need? Man? Whatever they need, we're gonna go get.
We're gonna find a way. Where are the pi? The
Dodgers didn't even need Kyle Tucker and they wound up
getting kind Oh they went Oceans eleven. Didn't you think
we need one more? Didn't it?

Speaker 2 (25:47):
No?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
And this is where they say no Brett bred Pitt
with his head down to drink. No, we're gonna do
I'll get one more anyway. I'll just get one more anyhow.
That's fine, that's fine. We'll continue to do this. We'll
continue to ruin baseball.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
F Dave Roberts has he tweeted about ruining baseball?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Baseball? How are they that's ruining baseball by being in it?
Is that what you're gonna say? Well?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, okay, I mean sometimes he's the line from A
to B.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I mean they take the simplest path. How do you
feel about them tanking? Yeah? Or you we're not gonna
sign anybody where? Yeah? I mean, look, well, we'll wind
up selling one Soto off, like just parts of them,
you know, to make to make the most money out.
Here's his arm, here's his here's his arm. You know,
here's his knee, here's his two feet. We're gonna stop
in parts. We're gonna make more money at the end.
Report we'll sell.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
You know, they sell W W E figures like that
where you have to buy five different figures to put
together the manager. So maybe you did that with one,
so okay, so like in one package you'll have the
guy's head. Yeah, and just go on down the lines,
like how many of these do I need to buy?
I don't want that guy does come on a megaphone,
some of them do. But yeah, Jimmy hard is out there.
You think of the Dodgers being able to do this,

(26:56):
and it's really it makes it makes all the others
spending you have ever seen in baseball look look like nothing,
look like downsizing, right like, because you go back and say, okay,
the Yankees in the eighties, nineties and two thousands, when
George Steinbrenner would go out very famously and trade for
a guy at the deadline, high priced guy because he
didn't want another team to get him, right like you

(27:16):
did that. He went out and traded for Jose Canseco
because he didn't want the Red Sox to get him,
and he heard, okay, well trade him, not play him,
and everything else like and this is where, wow, look
at what the Yankees are doing. Look at what they're
doing and all that. This because of the sheer tonnage
of the money and the sheer number of all stars.
I mean, this makes everything else we've seen before it's

(27:37):
minor league. I mean, this is last year when it
was they went out and got three closers, We're going
to get three closers because we can, and then they
didn't use any of them because they all start.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
We're gonna go out and we're gonna have we're gonna
have six starting pitchers in with contracts in the hundreds
of millions of Dodgers. And it still wasn't enough because
I still got hurt. No point move out of the
bullpen to win games.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
But that's the point is you can spend a lot
of money and people get mad about it and guys
get hurt.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, what does it allow you to do?

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Well, that's too bad, right, You signed a couple of
closers at high prices, and then they stunk, so you
moved on, Like you say, you go to Yamamoto. Hey, Sosaki,
you got an inning and you let's go. You still
have to be inventive, still have to demand and still
have to play out a full hundred and sixty two plus.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
This is absolutely stunning. It is absolutely but it's like
off the space. Fix the glitch. I mean, you don't
like it. Fix the glitch.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Go take away the deferred monies and all those things
and change those rules.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
You thought you thought that was big money on Yeah, okay,
just wait, that's nice, that's cute, that's quaint. That's nice.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
That we'll show you what'spend would be even better though,
as if Kyle Tucker doesn't have to play it on
July first. Ye like all those pictures.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Hey, hey you ready, Hey, come on, crossfer yunny inside
info on what painting the Dodgers are gonna sell to
pay for Kyle Tucker. The Steve Cohen painting. The Steve
co Okay, very good, they're just worth much but okay,
but the brushstrokes are really really great. It makes it
look real right, yeah, no, that's like a mirror. Yeah, uh,
time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports with someone who about forty minutes ago,

(29:09):
I walked in and said, hey, congratulations, blank face, you
got Kyle Tucker. It's Steve de Sega.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
That was quite harsh, by the way, I don't think
Steve was ready quite like what did I do?

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Exactly still remains the question. But again, I made you happy.
I made you happy.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
No, no, I don't have a front office chop on
the side here. I'm just here at the news desk
for credit loud. Kyle Tucker is a Los Angeles Dodgers.
They're signing the right fielder reportedly to a four year deal,
with an opt out after year two and an opt
out after year three. He did play through a couple
of injuries last year, and maybe that explains the two

(29:47):
thirty one batting average in the second half of the season.
One of those a hairline fracture in the hand. But
he was a top five overall selection out of high
school in Tampa a decade ago, a lot of years
with Houston, including a world title All Star. Of the
last four years, he's a career two to seventy three hitter.
Had five hundred at bats even with the Cubs last year,
twenty two homers, twenty five steals, over ninety runs scored.

(30:11):
Kyle Tucker, a Dodger. Newly retired pitcher Clayton kershaw X
of LA will be on Team USA in March for
the World Baseball Classic. The Reds traded Gavin Lux to
Tampa Bay at a three way deal. The Angels got
outfielder Josh Lowe. The Rocky signed infielder Willie Castro. In
college hoops, We've Got Gonzaga rang ninth in the country

(30:32):
at Washington State and trailing the Cougars twenty two to
twenty one in the first half. In women's hoops, Number
two South Carolina picked up a home victory against number
four Texas sixty eight sixty five, Number one Yukon ninety
nine fifty over Villanova. NHL Buffalo beat Montreal five to three.
Ten NHL games tonight, including now final at Boston, Bruins

(30:55):
four to two over Seattle, and Winnipeg Jets won six'
to two At minnesota to THE nba four and a
half minutes left big lead For dallas Over houston one
thirty four to one oh nine even Though Cooper flag
is out with a sprained. Ankle Jalen brunson of The
knicks out tonight with a sprained. Ankle New york leads
At Golden state late first quarter thirty three twenty, eight

(31:16):
the late game about to start In La lakers Hosting.
Charlotte wins For boston And San. Antonio Oklahoma city won
its fifth straight game one eleven ninety one At, houston
wins For detroit and For, orlando which played In berlin,
today Beating memphis in a comeback one to, eighteen one.
Eleven Jaron jackson thirty points in. Defeat John morant did
not play due to a bruised. Calf they'll play each

(31:38):
other again On sunday In. London seahawks Quarterback Sam darnold
says he'll Play saturday night despite an oblique. Injury he
had to leave practice early, today returning from injury this
week For seattle or Tackle Charles cross and Safety Kobe.
Bryant forty Nine ers Linebacker Fred warner is still out
this weekend after a broken and dislocated ankle In, october

(31:59):
but he could play in AN nfc title game If
San francisco Advances niners wide Receiver Ricky pierso questionable for
this week with the knee and ankle, injuries he said
he will. Play and one note on THE. Nba in
THE okc win, tonight exactly twenty points For shay Giljis.
Alexander he's now the first player Since George gervin to
score at least twenty in forty plus straight games to

(32:20):
start a. Season gervin did it in the first forty
five games of the year nineteen eighty one eighty.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Two back to, You thank, You steve Ol have you
ever wiped through the piece of dry toilet paper and
wondered is this as good as it? Gets, well it's
not switched to life changing wet extra large Flushable Dude
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well we will have more on The Kyle tucker. Situation four,

(32:47):
years two hundred and forty million dollars to The, dodgers
because of course The. Dodgers but coming up, next we
got the play of the day and what nbaighteen is
on the cusp of making a big trade that's getting
them back to the superstar super team level they were
at a couple of years. Ago pretty sure that's gonna happen.
Soon that's next right, Here.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
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Speaker 1 (33:13):
Pacific have you ever wiped with a piece of dry
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well WHAT nba team is set to make a big

(33:35):
move for a return to? Glory, okay that's an, okay
guess it's not but that's an, okay, guest return to glory? Change? Maybe,
okay ty shit not? Bad how do you not? Bad?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Well, yeah you had been pushing that whole lebron thing
for a long, time, RIGHT i, mean but, It'skin but
it's Not cleveland's gonna.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Happen it's Not. Cleveland, Okay, well, NO i know BECAUSE
i know What i'm going to talk. About oh, yeah
it's not gonna be clean how do you know that
you know you're going to talk about it Because i'm
from the future And i've seen, this AND i come
back and, know, okay this will be.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Talking welcome to the, future where the present is The, Listen.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
I'm the one who traveled back from the future and
took care of all those pesky murder hornets that were
supposed to come into The west coast and put a you,
know run rough shot over the. Country, gosh you took
out all the bees with. Him wait a, minute not, well, listen,
hey collateral damage it you know it's greater. GOOD i
got to get rid of the murder, hornets, RIGHT i
had to get rid of. Them. Yeah how come you

(34:30):
use the almanac and bet all Those mets? Losses what
makes you THINK i didn't because you be very? Rich
do you really need an almanac to Bet mets?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Losses he's a much better actor THAN i.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Think you can Bet mets losses without having any knowledge
of the. Future how about the big one they took.
Tonight it is a big L we'll have more on
The Kyle tucker situation coming up in a. Bit to
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the play of the, day and deservedly. So it Is,
Wemby Chase, BRISCO nascar superstars stay with what tuddle handed rejection?

(35:34):
Castle is it right back to? Him victory SPURS tv
on the? Call? Okay is it what's more Powerful wemby
when we thought he was only seven four Or wemby
with the bald? Head which one is more? Passed wemby
with the bald head one Nineteen wemby when we only
thought he was seven four one oh.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
One he may be channeling some mysticism with his new
height and dance. Skills WHAT i want to know is
what was he talking To giannis about after this game?
Ended that that was IF i could get the parabolic
microphone and point it in any general direction from any
of these games or anything going around in the sporting.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Universe that's WHAT i.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Want Because giannis kept doing that cupping over his mouth
thing so nobody could read his. Lips, hey you, know
not Like Jackson dard a couple of weeks. Ago you
think we can, coexist play. Together you want to come?
HERE i MEAN i can't come there Because i'm on Bur,
rookie deal with. That you want to come, here you
want to come. Here we got a super team. Punch
come here and. Play, yeah come here and. PLAY i,
KNOW i.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Know just the. Thing don't boo the. Fans, okay just
he just can't do. That all, right, great, thanks we'll.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
See i'll let you bang the, drum you, know after
each win or whatever. Else but he is channeling a
little of that cane and kung fu kind of.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Look Uh, so while we're on THE nba, topic it
take you. Back you remember it was about this time last,
year maybe maybe maybe about eleven and a half months,
ago right after the trade, deadline when The warriors traded
For Jimmy. Butler, right what DID i say at the?
TIME i said this is part of what's going to
be a two Part warriors plan to get back to

(37:03):
being AN nba title contender and not waste the last
few years Of Steph curry's. Prime they need another move,
though because, Look draymond is too old to be that guy.
Anymore Klay thompson's. Gone they need another, star, Right they've
been someone that when they had three stars they worked
out really. Well right when it Was steph and it
Was draymond And clay are that it Was steph and

(37:23):
it WAS kd and. Class so but is this offense
and this team has worked when they've had three. SUPERSTARS i, Said,
Now Jimmy butler is a great first, one but they
need that. Second they need that third. Guy it's a
two part, plan AND i don't know if he's. Available
during the, summer we talked about it potentially being a
guy Like Joel. Embiid who. Knows but now today they
are loading up for that. Move. Right we saw the
story earlier today That jonathan kaminga of The, warriors has

(37:46):
demanded a. Trade right reports that his relationship With steve
kerr is now not even tenable. Anymore STEVE kerrz talked
about how upset he was and how disappointed he was
that things haven't gone. Well kaminga is twenty three years.
Old feels like he's been in the year for, yeah
and he was going to be generation next for The. Warriors,
hey as they rebuild their, dynasty you bring in the young,

(38:09):
players and now he's going to be someone where the
end Of Steph curry we get in The Jonathan kaminga.
Era now he has shown in the past that he
is a pretty good, player, Right he's had a couple
of really big, years but now the last year and
a half In Golden state not been, great not in the,
rotation took too injured to, play and now Will warriors
have to move. On he is a young player with

(38:29):
a lot of. Upside that is a change of. Scenery. Guy,
again you have seen. It and he is only Twenty
three's not thirty. Three he's twenty. Three this is where
The warriors are now going to throw Out Jonathan kaminga
and some of those big picks they, have those first
round picks they, have and this is where they go
get their third superstar player to pair alongside With steph

(38:51):
And Jimmy, butler and this is where they make their.
Run they started this season as well as you. Can,
Right steph was. Hurt you're not as, great but you're
a couple of games over five. Hundred, right it's not.
Awful you're not sitting around on the plane a. Situation
but this is where they, go and this is where
The warriors make that big trade for another. Team maybe It's,
giannis maybe it's somebody. Else maybe It's Karl Anthony. TOWNS
i don't, know but it's somebody out there that's gonna

(39:14):
be their third, superstar and it's gonna Be kminga and draft,
picks it's gonna get.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Him, YEAH i don't know how much value. THOUGH i
get he's only twenty. Three they've had need for him
to be a bigger piece of this puzzle and he
hasn't been able to do it and falling out of
favor With Steve kerr and how much that may have
tanked what you're gonna get back in.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Return but.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
You've Got Jimmy butler going to the podium and saying
we're mediocre at. Best we're in the worst place of THE,
nba not good and not just absolutely, terrible to where
you can see hope in the. Horizons so For, kaminga
it's just been an interesting what is this your five
or any?

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Right that's the scary.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Thing he's been on the radar of that long and
trying to, see you, know when he's gonna have that.
Breakthrough and maybe he's one of those guys that just
needs to go to a bad team and be that
guy that is just a stat filler somewhere. Else but
certainly falling out of favor With Steve. Kurry he's not
one to mince words when it comes down to what
your value is or isn't to his.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
OPERATION i, mean just trust. Me The warriors are not
gonna try to waste. It they understood that last year
we did the best we. Could now, look home court
advantage doesn't, matter but they're gonna make that. Move teams
are gonna want to get out from under some, salary
and that third star is coming To Golden state by the.
Deadline just watch well you might end up In sacramento

(40:33):
as the rumor you know that team that beat your
ass coming up. Next Jalen brunson didn't even play. WELL i.
Did what big story out of THE nfl? Next this Is.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Fox it's never fault a good. Strategy you had. Nothing
you're not scheduled to show up at spring training, Anytime
so sit and play your video, games enjoy THE nfl,
playoffs maybe some college, hoops enjoying all of THE nba
action that we've got in front of us on A,
thursday and just sit around and. Wait you can know

(41:03):
your Whole cushman thing all. Right you can just hang
around shrumming a, guitar waiting for things to go.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
DOWN i got Cushlash, MAN i got cush slash cush,
lash cush lash cush slash cushla.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Waiting waiting for everybody to really talk about him and
get all excited about free, agency, because let's face, it
there ain't been a lot of chatter except for the
last couple of days when these numbers started floating about The.
Mets three, years fifty eight.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Year it's, like you think we need one, More, okay
add the.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Fourth so that was the rumor of two hundred The
Blue jays with the funny money three fifty to three
seventy five due to your, converter and then the mystery
team ends up being The.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Dodgers and the thing, IS i knew if you didn't.
Know Then Steve, COHEN mets, owner put out a tweet
a few hours ago, saying let me know when the
smoke goes, up, right and making a reference to what
white smoke comes out when the pope is, elected black
smoke when they don't have a or like the white.
Flag and WHEN i saw, it, dude we have. Soda
i'll see you in THE nlcs. Again it's. Fine uh,

(42:06):
no except now we're gonna Have nolan McLain making making
three starts in THE nlcs And john, mcclin, well, hey
anybody do you mean the Former devil's guy? Barefoot? Oh,
okay uh, hey if that, works he'll be shoeless Blood
john McLean uh is that he puts that tweet out,
there AND i know people went rampant on social. Media
oh he knows. Something he's, saying wait for, it AND
i go, no that's WHEN i that's WHAT i really officially.

(42:28):
Knew he's not going to be a bit with a
long faces and talking about that. Tweet this Is Steve cohen, saying,
HEY i don't know what's going, on let me know
when the smoke gets. Up and the fact That Steve,
cohen who's The mets owner and has been really was
really involved with The Kyle tucker. Negotiations that's WHEN i, Knew,
okay if you thought he's going someplace, else he's, going he's.

(42:49):
Not if the owner doesn't, know and he's frustrated enough
to put that tweet out, there because you don't put
a tweet out there to maybe frustrate or upset the
representation or the player you're trying to. Get, right he's
not put that out there For Kyle. Tucker if if
he wants him to, sign or thinks he's going to,
sign he's put that out there because Maybe Kyle tucker's
people blew him off radio. Silence we know he's going

(43:10):
to the to the another, team and he's using The mets'
his leverage and The Blue jays' leverage as. Well so,
okay like at that, point, okay getting, him he's gonna
go to The dodgers and he's. THERE i mean, IT
i am all these baseball, insiders, MAN i MEAN i
told you last night it was gonna. HAPPEN i said
it was Absolutely, NO i never. DID i Never frostburg
stopped When i'm, right the text the.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
PROOF i do.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Not, yeah let me see. It let me see that,
Text let me see. It show it to, Me show
it to, me show it to. ME, whoa don't show me.
That don't show me. That just, Incense come, on show.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
That most of the tweets that are showing up in
the timeline related To Steve.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Cohen it doesn't look it doesn't. MATTER i, mean LIKE i,
Said Kyle tucker is a good. Player i'm okay not
paying sixty million dollars a year for. Him he's now
a thumper bat in the middle of The dodger, lineup
and The dodgers are gonna roll towards THE nlcs again
in The world. Series that's just how it goes every.
Year is? That that's the way of the.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
World.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Now by the, way the tweet just it's it's just
a bad look like it looks like you're.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Crying it looks like he's definitely someone who has shown
his frustration on social media before he's dialed back what
he does on social media probably could have. Done BUT
i think that was maybe him trying to everybody down, easy,
hey just to get you. Prepared we're not Getting Kyle. Tucker,
Okay just so you, KNOW i want TO i want
you to be mentally ready because when the news comes,

(44:28):
out you're gonna be really. Mad we're not Getting Kyle.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
TUCKER i, mean what's even worse is your guy had you,
know a number One mets fan out there that everybody
chronicles IF i wor, yeah, YEAH i.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Worry For frank The. Tank, Yeah i'm worried about.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Him, yeah right right, now he's one of those that
you're waiting.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
For i'm. Worried i'm. Worried uh swallow more on this
story developing throughout the. Night Here Kyle tucker to The
dodgers four, years two hundred and forty million.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Dollars, now and how is your day to steal from
over the colleague of.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
OURS i told You i'm okay with not Getting Kyle.
Tucker there's other guys out. There he's a he's a
he's a good. Player he's not a make or break.
GUY i am also, okay especially after seeing today the
reaction to the potential injury Of Sam, donald who all
of a sudden popped up on the Injury report this
week with AN o with a with an oblique injury

(45:20):
where he, said, listen getting treatment for. It he, said
you know, Nothing burger everything is. Fine and judging by
some of the doctors THAT i follow on social, media Sports, dodgsley,
listen this is Doctor David chow, Said, LOOK i put
this injury For Sam donald on a two on a
scale of one to, ten and you know he still
has a couple of days to go by to get
treatment for. It but just seeing the reaction Of seahawks

(45:43):
fans and people on social, media, no, NO i can't believe. This,
No Sam donald can't be. HURT i shook my head
AND i, said MAN I i this is this is
just something to see people reacting this way About Sam
darnold not playing that he's he's the end all be. All,
well he's the living. End i'm going all grease on you.
Now he's the he is. It he is the alpha and.

(46:05):
Omega if he's, hurt we're never gonna. Win no one's
ever said that About Sam donald, before and here he.
Is and the first, Thing i'm, Okay i'm okay With
Sam donald being the quarterback that he is playing as
well as he. Is it's here at The, seahawks who
have home field advantage all the. Red he's stunk for
three other. Teams he's been good with two. Teams i'm.

(46:26):
Okay if he's stunk with The jets and when someplace
else became a, Star i'd be really. Pissed but other
teams showed you, That, hey it's all about the right,
system and he was unfortunate to not be in the
right system for three, teams fortunate for two, teams including The.
Vikings SO i am okay With Sam donald being this
guy being. Good i'm happy for. HIM i hope he does.
Well it has no. Bear my team's. Terrible we don't

(46:49):
have a good we don't have good players who don't
have a good. Coach we have good, Anything it's. FINE
i have nothing to be crazy jealous. For i'm happy
For Sam.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Donald, yeah that was a long way of saying he's
still living in your.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Nightmares.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Now remember the class picture for The panthers a couple
of years ago Had Sam donald And Baker, mayfield and
they didn't utilize either of.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Them how you, Doing Matt ret more of a worse
fail than The Jet The jets just failed with one
of those.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Guys, Well but but you do them in. Sequence they
did it once and failed. Spectacularly with you guys in the,
room you were just, like all, right.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
We'll get that next.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Guy, sure, yeah, wait we changed out THE gm and
the coach and everything, else and that guy failed and get.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Loan and then get line and oh, yeah all those.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Solid but with this it's interesting BECAUSE i was fully
expecting it to start going the other. Way of all
the excuses are built in if he doesn't perform, well
that it was going to become that narrative of, oh
look at, this and the fact that there are well
wishers For Sam donald means we've really turned the corner
and we're trying to find some positivity in this. World

(47:54):
this is. Good go back to That jacksonville reporter that everybody.
Hated it was, like it's good to have a little
field good every now and, again isn't it once in
a while where you could just, say, DAMN i want
to see what this looks. Like by the, way he
has a defense that swarms like THINGS i watch on
The Nature.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Channel, YEAH i, mean.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
But where the hell that eight other jackals complying? From
that's that's the way The seahawk defense rallies to the.
Ball but For Sam, DARNOLD i like that there's a
little bit of positivity and for. You it's took six
degrees of separation and a lot of miles in. Between
maybe some, therapy maybe an extra. SANDWICH i don't, Know,
sam but you're. Better he is on the list of.

(48:32):
That he is like so low on the list of
Things i'm upset about as a jet, Fan Like i'm.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Not Even he's, like does he make the top? Fifty
how don't you, think, well maybe the top. Fifty maybe
he makes the top.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Fifty there's so many WHAT i, say the term Running,
man do you think of the movie With Glenn powell
Or Arnold. SCHWARZENEGGER i don't even think Of Aaron.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Glenn. NO i think more of the mc Hammer dance
are doing The Running. Man you go back to.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
That by the, way you mentioned a couple of grease
lines tonight first ever drive in movie at The santa
monicappear so.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Now because we did have positivity, there we have to
bound because The Sam donald. Story AND i just love
bringing this up because it's just it just gets worse and.
Worse is THAT i really don't know at this point seeing,
THIS i don't know How kevin O'Connell and Adel Fa
mensa still have jobs In. Minnesota it is fireable to

(49:24):
miss on a quarterback this, Badly, okay because think about
Where Sam donald is right. Now, again we know, this
he was in the. Building he had A Pro bowl,
year four thousand, yards thirty five. Touchdowns he had two
downish games at the end of the year that used
that to, Say, nope can't have. You we're stuck With
we're gonna go WITH jj, McCarthy even though we've never
seen him play and he's been injured all. Year we

(49:46):
found we figured out the most important position and know
we're gonna be stubborn as hell and kick the other
guy out when we could have Kept donald for one
more year easily and gone To jay and and figured
out IF jj McCarthy was really any, good or he
could have kept say and TRADED jj McCarthy and recouped
a first round. Pick, Right no one cares if you're
trading away a first round. Quarterback if you have the

(50:08):
quarterback position, solved it doesn't. Matter but this now has
become fireable for The, vikings because for YOUR gm and
your head, coach because this is how bad you have biffed.
It now the team that he went to is the
number one seed in THE Nfc playoffs and is the
favor to get to The Super, bowl and you blew
it because you decided to be so stupidly stubborn on

(50:30):
a guy That now at the end of the, season
The vikings, said we're bringing in competition FOR jj McCarthy next.
Year this is an epic fail storyline that just gets
worse and worse as it goes. On all, right and
think about it like, this, right think about it like.
This let's this decision nobody would make in the. World
let's say you want to sell your. House, Okay let's
say you're gonna Sell, Okay, yeah you're gonna sell your

(50:52):
house in a. Year, Right, Well i've got to sell
my house in the. YEAR i got things going on
in my. Life gonna sell my, house and you want
to move whatever it is you're gonna sell your. House
realtors that you can have sell your. House you Got
sam and you GOT Jj, okay all, right? Great, NOW
jj hey graduated from real estate, college real estate, school
took a class, online and he's got all The, hey

(51:12):
he could be a great real estate. Agent sam has
shown you. Egg i've done it before in the. Past you,
know Maybe i'm not great but who. Knows but these
are the only two guys in. Town let's just say
for your argument to, say only two guys in, town
so you got to pick one of them over the
course of the next. Year, okay, well, great so you're
getting your house, ready you figure, that and you watch
you watch Realtor sam start selling tons of. Houses everything's going,

(51:32):
great he's making a lot of. Money now he has
a little bit of a down month where maybe he
doesn't sell a couple of, houses but, overall it's a great.
Year he's even being, uh he's even being named to
realtor of The year lists across the, country like he
is on the national scale of one of the best
realtors in the. Country, okay, MEANWHILE, jj WELL jj was,

(51:54):
sick he was, hurt little carpal, tunnel didn't sell a.
House still, learning still go the class and learning how
to sell, houses right. Understanding, okay we don't say, old
we say, vintage got, it got, it got? It, okay, Great,
Okay so that year comes up and, okay you have
to pick a guy to sell your, house and the
fights like The viking, said, yeah, wow That's. Sam we're

(52:15):
going WITH jj because you know he looks, LIKE i
can't miss, guy and we really like this. Guy so
you want the guy that's never sold a house before
when you have a guy right here that boys sold
tons of. Houses you watched him do, It you watched
him do it in your town for the entire. Year
you would, no, no, no still going with that guy
who has REALTOR jj make that? Sale nobody? Does?

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Nobody, WELL i think you do if you start looking
at the dollars spent On Sam darnold relative to other
pieces of the roster. Puzzle and this is where you
get To kevin O'Connell and quarterback whisper, talk et. Cetera,
right and option number three Was Daniel, jones but it

(52:58):
was clear he wanted to start some where and had
the opportunity to go To, indianapolis so that was really
a non. Starter but for The Sam, darnald, yeah we
always talked about. It, right do the dollar cost averaging
first round, quarterback first year of his deal against a
guy that has just shown so, well you franchise him
and then see what you, got or make the trade of.

(53:21):
McCarthy it makes, sense, Certainly but they were invested in
McCarthy and decided that was the way they were gonna
go and be true to him that he wasn't gonna
lose the job based on the. Injury it also Pushed
Sam darnold out the. Door whether you identified something in
those final couple of games that you didn't think was,

(53:41):
solvable only they know in their clandestine meetings with ownership
and everything. Else but certainly we expected a regression this,
year not to the level Where Justin jefferson's doing jumping
jacks wishing for the, football telling, you, man that is.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
The biggest epic fail in THE nfl this, year because
you had all the information you. Needed you. Had it's
not like all you had to tell the. Future, no
you had all the. Information i'm not in a situation
where the coaches and THE gm can, say well we
know more about football That. NO i Watched Sam donald
play great and you still decided to NOT jj. McCarthy
you know what's.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Best you've ended up Putting Sam donald in a yellow
jacket in that, analogy and it was a century twenty
one like they used to give the gold jackets showing.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
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