Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Welcome to the Mets Roast! The Mets DFA Jorge Lopez after he got ejected, threw his glove in the stands, and said he was on “the worst BLEEPIN team in the MLB” As expected; Bronny James will keep his name in the NBA Draft. Plus, an appreciation moment for Tarik Cohen!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
This is the.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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(00:55):
we don't have any NBA tonight. And I realize the
spotlight is so huge on us now because hey, whatever, whatever,
the most embarrassing story and the sport happens, and it
has to be with one of Jason's teams. I really
got to hear what that's all about. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
luckily there's no NBA, because hey, we're gonna get to

(01:16):
laugh at the Mets for the next few minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
But you know, we couldn't just get said a few minutes.
I said few minutes, about couple of hours. You can't
just get swept four hours. We can't just get swept
like every other team that gets swept. And no, no, no, no, no, no,
can't do it. Can't do it. Oh boy.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh well, you know, I was trying to explain the
show conceptually to some people as I was walking the dog.
Somehow I seem like I'm friendly, even though I have
giant oversized headphones on. Uh, and I'm really trying to
just be left alone so I can walk my circuit
either way. So someone told me you're in radio. I
was like, yeah, so what do you do. It's like, well,

(01:56):
we kind of laugh at ourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And our own our home home teams so that the
rest of the world feels a little bit better and
they forget.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
About the outside world. So they, oh, yeah, pile on us.
You'll forget about every network. And I go, well, our teams.
He's a New Yorker and I'm from Chicago. Teams aren't
very good. So yeah, it's it's a lot of just
pile on us. So it's good.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, a few years ago, we had the show
So Totally Mets that we you know what's right. It
was part of our twenty four hour network. Yeah. Sure, like, hey,
you know, thirty minutes of embarrassing Mets stories a night
would be a great show, right, we'd call the show
So Totally Mets. We had the theme from Ren and Stimpy.
It was great. Right. Eh, it's been a while, but no, no, no, now,
I mean there's embarrassing stories for an organization. And there's

(02:42):
what happened just a little bit ago after the Mets got.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Swept by the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, hey, if you have a if you're having a
rough day, if you had a bad day at work,
if you found out your significant other left with the
mailman and you don't even get mail, something like that happened.
If you're stuck in gridlock somewhere. If you bought shorts
in their three size is too small, but you still
wear him into work, like Harmon does listen, we have
as well as Hemmy. I'm just saying, I mean, if

(03:07):
you know, you realize this, you got to show off
the goods shorts or too small. I'm still gonna wear
you want to look you want to look like Dave
Bautista and glass onion. Sure, go ahead, but uh, this
is what happened. This just a little bit ago with
the Mets. Okay, So the Mets get swept by the Dodgers.
They lose today and embarrassing fashion, they lose ten three

(03:28):
and as we're never gonna win again, there for the
people in the back, never gonna win again. So they
lose ten three. But part of the drama was in
the eighth inning when the Dodgers put six runs across
Jorge Lopez, who is now an ex Mets pitcher. He
was pitching for the met not sent down, No, he
has been dfaight. After this, he gives up a big

(03:52):
he gives up a few big hits. Right, he does
not have a big game pitching. He's very upset the
big six run eighth inning for the Dodgers, and he
gets really upset after giving up a home run to
show Heyo Tani right makes the game eight to three.
In the game is basically over because the dodge batting in.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
The eighth inning.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, Freddie Freddie Freeman comes up next, and the first
pitch to Freddie Freeman is a check swing, and Lopez
of course wants to see, hey, maybe I get a
call here on a called strike, because you know, I've
just been getting drilled up and down, giving up six
runs in the inning.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And here is what.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Happened with a Will Smith home run capped by a
show Heyo Tani home.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
Runtani's first home run here at Citi Field.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
He did homer here with the Angels high been.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
Someone just got tossed by Ramon de Jesus.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Who was it?

Speaker 7 (04:45):
Who knows?

Speaker 5 (04:48):
I think it was the third base off plat, Yeah,
it was DeJesus.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Sosh's got a short fuse and he threw Lopez out
of the game.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's that old bit.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
I don't know it's saved him.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Well, that's adding insult to injury because.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Now the Mets have to bring in a cold reliever, right, you.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Bring a position player in now?

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Wait, that's frustration by Lopez. Yet, I don't know Lopez
and Ramonte Jesus would have anything to say to each other.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just hang on, let's get Kitts bos there.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Hang on, Well, what has been a bad day all
the way around has just gotten worse. Whoa And Lopez
responds by tossing his glove up over the netting and
into the crowd.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
And that's where the Mets are at right now.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Ron Dorley summing up the twenty twenty four New York
Mets in one sentence.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
So it was borderline cadence of Marv Albert. That is
where the Mets not exactly what or Lopez had in mind.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Uh So, he's upset that he doesn't get the check
swing strike call from the third base umpire, and he
starts barking at him, and hayesus throws him out of
the game right away. And you know, he untugs his
his his jersey and he walks off, and he takes
his glove and he throws it into the stands. Okay,
normally that would be enough to be really embarrassing because

(06:24):
you don't see the player throw his glove into the
stands off oftentimes doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
But I mean it's it's the baseball bat to the
water cooler kind of thing with that point.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
But remember remember Mets, So I mean anything is possible,
right it is Mets, sure, Mets, so anything is possible
throws his glove into the stands. Well, all right, then
things are really difficult and there's some stuff going on.
It's just another bad day and a bad Mets season
where they're one of the worst teams in baseball, and
it's just embarrassing as hell. Right, Okay, that should be enough. No, no,

(06:54):
no no. Following the game, Lopez at his locker and again,
I say, for the last time, as I met, was
asked if he had any regrets, because look, throwing your
glove into the stands, it is a little childlike, it's
a little embarrassing. Do you regret throwing your glove into
the stands?

Speaker 7 (07:12):
And?

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh boy, listen to what Orgelopez has to say.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
is unacceptable looking back on it. Do you regret doing that?

Speaker 9 (07:26):
No? I don't. I don't regret it. I think I've
been looking the worst deam in probably in the whole MLB.
So you know, whatever happened happened. So whatever they want
to do that, I'll be tomorrow here if they want me.
You know, whatever they want to do. So I'm gonna

(07:46):
keep doing this thing, you know, so I'm healthy on whatever,
you know, whatever to do. You know, I'm I'm ready
to come back tomorrow day. Want me be here, so
I'll be here.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeaping No, when you call the team you play on
the worst team in the whole blanking MLB, we'll hear
it again in a second.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Is uh it's not the baddest cat town. I mean,
this is just a negative. We would sweep the White Sox.
Come on, man, let's not be be silly here.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Uh he called his team the worst team in the
whole blanking league. I mean, and uh, you know when
this story comes up and I see him trend and
I go, why the hell is he trending?

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh boy, oh boy?

Speaker 1 (08:28):
He called his team the worst team in majors back.
You know what I feel like sometimes when I see
stories like this, like when when Homer had the time
when when uh uh remember remember this episode where Bart
was like leading the kid revolt and it was on
the news and we're here with the young lad who
is spearheading this revolt, and and Ober goes, don't be
the boy, don't be the boy. Don't be the boy.

(08:49):
And it's him Like I see a story like this
and I go, don't be the Mets, don't be. The Mets,
don't be. Nope, it's the Mets. And and or he
low best calls the Mets the worst blanking I don't
regret throwing my glove in this stands because it's the
worst blanking team in all of baseball. Listen to it
again and you'll hear it. Go ahead, let's hear it
from the beginning one more time.

Speaker 8 (09:06):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
was unacceptable looking back on it, Do you regret doing that?

Speaker 9 (09:16):
No?

Speaker 7 (09:18):
I don't know you even hesitate.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
I think I've been looking the worst dem in brought
in the whole MLB.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
So No, he said it, he said, I'll tell you
it's whole place. I mean, is he is?

Speaker 7 (09:35):
He?

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Is he wrong with how bad the Mets have been?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
No?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Do you say that about your team? What the hell
is wrong with you? Man?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Ready for Francisco Lindor boy.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
And a second?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
So Steve Gelbs, who is the Mets sideline reporter, silent
reporter in game reporter went on and asked Lopez again, hey,
you know, he gave him a chance to clarify, like
maybe you got you got a little loose, a little
bit of your little upset, he said on his on
his tweet about a little while ago, about a half
hour ago. I gave Lopez a chance to clarify, and
he confirmed that's what he meant. So you sure you

(10:08):
mean the Mets the worst sea worst team in all
of baseball? I am confirming it. Oh my goodness, come on, man,
this is what a what I mean every time I
say to myself, hey, we have a great owner, We're
gonna make money. In the last ten years, been of
the playoffs three times, the World Series once. This is
a bad year. We got a great guy running the
team in David Stars. Oh my god. No, we gotta

(10:30):
be an absolute tire fire man. There is none. The
Mets just can't be a professional franchise for more than
five bleep in minutes before something like this happens. And
this guy, he's in the locker room and he knows
him to No, I'm in the worst blanket team and
made I can't believe. You know, hopefully nobody heard this
because I can't believe nobody walked over and just said,
what the blank is? What? What the hell did you

(10:50):
just say? Man? What the hell did you just say?
Get the hell out of this clubhouse? Get the hell.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Did that umpire give up six runs?
Did he give up the home run to show him?
I'm sorry that happened. Who gave up all these runs?
Whose fault is it? You're giving up runs when you're pitching?

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Who is that? Who is it? Somebody else? I mean,
I know the Mets defense isn't great, but it's not
like a little league team where ground balls is the
second basement, go through people's legs. I mean, I know
it is the Mets, but I'm pretty sure it's you
giving up all these runs. Pretty sure it's you getting
tattooed all over the yard. Pretty sure? Was you giving
up an opposite field home run to show Aotani and
then being upset that you didn't get a check swing call? Dude,

(11:25):
Come on, man, be a bleeping professional. But nope, it's
gotta be my team. It's gotta be the Mets. So
here the smile that's on everybody's faces right now, Mike Carmen.
It is worth it for me. It's worth all the
cards I'm gonna get, all the thank yous I'm gonna get.
It's worth it for me because I can bring this
kind of attention to all of the all of our audience.
And it has nothing to do with any of their teams.

(11:47):
And it's my team which just can't get out of
their own way.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
No, and it's been just one thing after the next, right,
some ineffectiveness, Now injury.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Your guy Diaz goes to the IL after all of
his struggles in the closure role.

Speaker 10 (12:02):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
We we talk about Batty yesterday and that that play
and whether he needs to go back to the minor
leagues or if you just have to accept the fact
that he's a d h that.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
You have to play in the field.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Right, and even then, is he really that I'll give
you one one thing that will make you feel a
little bit better. The White Sox right now are are
looking to have their first homestand of seven or games.
Seven games are more where they go winless in team history.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, but you know that's the thing. You're doing it
anonymously like you're doing it. Hey, we're gonna lose, But
we're not We're gonna well, you know, the White Sox,
the White Sux, you're like mister cell of fame. Hey.
At the end of his song, John c Riley says,
I hope I didn't take up too much of your time.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, I identify with that guy. That's the problem, John
c Riightley is me.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
The White Sox are like, hey, you know what we're
doing our updates tonight, whether it Steve de seg or
Kevin Wyatt or Nick Kope, whoever it is, it's it's uh, hey, sorry,
I had to give the White Sox score. Didn't take
that much of your time at all. Let's go laugh
at the Mets. Look at the Mets. We make these mistakes,
big bulding out loud and all kinds of crazy colors.

(13:11):
You can't miss it because this is the Mets.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Mike, I got one.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
This boy, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
We haven't even hit it yet.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
No, I think we've hit the best part.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
We heard this go ahead.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
That was after a twenty minute closed door meeting.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Right, closed door meeting with that Lindor had called after it. Yeah,
So after that's done, and then they got to talk
to Ottavino and Lindor and the Lindor is the best quote.
If our manager says it's unacceptable, it's unacceptable. With that
being said, I hope tomorrow he feels completely different. He's
still in the heat of the moment and he carries
things a little longer than the other players. So hopefully

(13:50):
tomorrow he feels different. If he doesn't, at the end
of the day, he's our teammate and we have to
compete day in and day out, and I'll back him up.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
Jason knows how this is, Mike.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, he's part of the team. Yeah, and figure it out. Yeah.
Well yeah, well he has been He has since been
DFA by the Mets. So his career is a Metazo.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
Him up and he'll win twenty games.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
No see. But but here's here's the issue now, and
here's a bigger issue, Cout. We'll talk about this for
like four hours because it's the Mets. Is that you
have a situation where you had a you had a
teammate call your team the worst team in all of baseball,
and you had the first two guys come out and
make excuses for him and say, yeah, he's our team
and his dude, he said you were the worst. Who's

(14:37):
who's got a spine on this team. If I am
David Searns, I am trading everybody tonight. I'm saying, you
know what, call I'm like the irate fantasy owner who
wants to leave a league because I can't stand the commissioner.
And I'm like, you know what, call me whatever all
for you give me. I'll give you my guys. I
give my guys at a really discount rate because I
don't care because I can't stand the owner.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
They should trade everybody after tonight.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Really, I get I go through this mode like three
or four times a year when they trade everybody. But
I mean, this is one of those Hey man, this
is I mean, what the hell, man, I mean, have
some pride, Have some pride? Man? Oh, this is just okay, yep,
Well we'll have teammate. We've gotten back. I know, I know,
I know. It can't without being an absolute tire fire.

(15:19):
This is the Mets.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh boy, Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
We have more on this big breaking story coming up,
and we'll laugh at the Mets throughout the night on
the show. Again, I assume you are feeling a whole
hell of a lot better than you were ten minutes ago. Boy,
I don't have Jason Smith Sports Life. This is fantastic,
so we'll have more on this and coming up next
we have some big NBA Draft news. Keep it right here,
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Speaker 1 (16:43):
That's expresspros dot com. So, yeah, congratulations about how bad
things are for your team. I see your team, and
I raise you. The New York Mets.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
I don't know if my team's bad enough that they
had the manager two days in a row said our
guy are lazy, shiftless due it sucks and.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Look, and they haven't even fired the guys. Stop nobody.
You're not to fire a manager anonymously. Nobody, you're losing anonymously.
You're doing it the way it should be done. Well,
I need to shout more. I need to shout more
and take over for you. New York clown. You cannot
outclown the New York Mets. Come on, man, what the

(17:23):
hell is wrong with you? You've been doing the show
for more than five minutes. You're not a rookie. You
think you can outclown the Mets. Come on, No, no, no,
I need you to say I apologize for the most
ridiculous thing I've said in ten years. I could outclown
the Mets, because you know you can't. You know there's
no way, not even the Jets can outclown the Mets.
And that's close, man, that's really close.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
It's like, well, you know what, man, we'll find out
in about two and a half months about that one. Yeah,
I mean the White Sox are I mean, nobody cares.
Come on, there's like five of us.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Can't outclown them and whoever they can jole into your
throwing out the first pitch cream abdul Jabbar a couple
days ago and whatever. So here we go again. In
case you m has sit the sound bite. That's gold.
That's gonna be everywhere for the next twenty four hours.
Mets lose to the Dodgers. They get swept again, and
the Mets lose an embarrassing fashion and now former reliever

(18:17):
Orge Lopez victim gave up six runs in the eighth inning.
So upset after a Otani home run, he got tossed
by the third base umpire arguing a ball strike on
the next batter, Freddie Freeman. Lopez gets so mad he
walks off the field. He throws his glove into the stands. Okay,
you don't see that every day. But again Mets. After

(18:40):
the game was over and after a twenty minute meeting
that Francisco Lindor called, which, hey, let's talk about this now.
Oh great, let's have a closed door meeting. Now the
season's bleeping over, the season's like, okay, we'll get to
that part of it. But how about a closed door
meeting when when you are like five hundred or about
Let's have a closed door meeting now when you're ten
games under five.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Runner, No, this is when you have to because this
is around. You played different musical acts every day?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
This right? How many? How many bands did you lose?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
For forever?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
The season's over, We're gonna play Fleetwood Mac. It's gonna
change the feel in the locker room.

Speaker 7 (19:17):
How great is my bet looking, Jason?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Listen, listen more wins.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
You might be right, man in the Mets.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Might be right.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
I uh look, I uh, it might be my fault
because why the Mets were twelve and eight. They were
a season I four games over five hundred. Then I
went to my first game live this season. Since then,
the Mets are now ten and twenty five. So since
I went to a game, they are ten and twenty five,
Apparently it's my fault. But this is not my fault.
So here's Lopez. He throws his love into the stands

(19:44):
and bets have a meeting after Okay, that's great. And
here's Lopez being asked about his actions if he regrets them,
and then he gives you the statement that is just
going to completely take over every new cycle.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
In the country.

Speaker 8 (19:57):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
particular action of throwing your glove into the stands is
unacceptable looking back on it, Do you regret doing that?

Speaker 9 (20:07):
No, I don't regret it. I think I've been looking
the worst team in probably in the whole MLB.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
So yeah, I've been playing on the worst blanking team
in MLB. This is what he says about his team.
The Mets have designated him for assignment and will be
official tomorrow. I'm sure he'll go something like, yes, the
Braves will sign him, the Phillies will sign him. He'll
be a great, lights out middle reliever in the pen,
and it'll be the eighth inning of the NLCS.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's gonna go. Boy.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
You know, what a what a journey for Jorge Lopez.
You know, you had that horrible misfortune with the Mets
and being on the Mets, and then he gets his
way out of New York by being a baby, and
look where he is now. A sparkling era of one
point seventy nine, as he's been the best setup man
in all of baseball since the beginning of June.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
I could just see it.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I see it.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
The first line of that is the fiery reliever found
his space once he was extricated from the New York
Mets locker room. So in you know, since you said,
what ten and twenty five, since you saw that game? Yeah, yeah,
it's my keep in line with the mister cell of
fane comments, let's grab a dethern musical.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Uh it was your fault straight out of into the woods?
Come yeah, no, it's I mind you Yeah, no, no, no,
it's uh it really it could be my fault.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
It could be my fault.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Now. And here's where I am right now. Here's to
tell you the depths of where I am of the
embarrassment of this story where now you know it's it's
it's when a guy on your team says we're the
I've been on the worst blanket team in all of baseball,
like this is you know on eBay today, I was
really excited because I found you know, no no, no, no, no, no, yeah,

(21:44):
I know, like, well, all Mets gears should be free.
Now forget about fifty percent off. I told you last night.
All Mets gears should be fifty percent off wherever you
buyed eBay, Craigslist, MLB fan Shop, you know, Etsy, whatever
it is, meta, No, now it should be all free.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
So I was really jersey of this guy for a
buck though, just to wear it back into the studio
to taunt you.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
If you give me a dollar, I'll wear it. And
so I found the City Connect hat, which is pretty sweet, right,
the gray hat with the Queensborough Bridge and the purple
button on the top of the bill. And they had
it in the new ninety stretch snap that I told
is my new favorite kind of hat to I'm like,
oh my god, I'm gonna get And they had one
on Eba. I'm like, I'm gonna buy it. And I
was so excited to get even with the Mets loss,

(22:26):
I didn't care. Now this, I'm like, can I return it?
Can I cancel it? I really I want to cancel
a transaction, Like how can I how can I wear
any Mets?

Speaker 3 (22:33):
How can I wear any Mets gear? How can you
do it?

Speaker 4 (22:35):
I I'll get you one of these. I've got one
for some of my my Goren hats.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Right.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
So it's it's a plastic plastic shelving system and it's
got a nice drawer that you can pull out and
then you can go in and select the one you want.
So what you can do right now is retire all
the Mets hats, get all the Jets ones back in
circulation and Syracuse ones, and then eventually the Mets will
have a stretch where you start to believe like a
dope again, and then you can pull those back out

(23:01):
and they'll be dust free, they'll be ready to go
and ready to put right back on your head.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
How about that? How about I pull that off for
you to save you from yourself. I mean, dude, it's hard, man,
it's hard. I mean I could say I'll feel better tomorrow,
but no, And I'm gonna deal with the after effect
of this. Ah. I played for the words blanket team
in Major League base The after effect is where does
he sign to come back to screw you? That's really all.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
That's really the end game because the rest of the
team's still gonna suck. It's not like, Hey, that guy
said we sucked, Now let's go.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
We're ready to go. The Brave look the Braves. Look,
the Braves do this just to troll the Mets. Oh
you don't think Travis Darnau can catch away. We'll have
Travis Darno and the guy turns into now a guy
that that stays healthy and produces. Hey, we traded away
Jared Kalnick, but we traded under the American League.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Was a really bad trade.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh hey, now we'll get him as the Braves and
we'll left Jared Kalnick. So you can see that. I'm sure.
I'm sure the Braves have sent some kind of private
jet to pick up Lopez from wherever he's staying in Queen's.
That's gonna bring him down to Atlanta for the next game.
I'm sure that's what's happening. Well, that'd be pretty cool.
The Quinjet shows up. Yeah, yeah, the Avenger's Quinnjet is there. Hey,
it's being piloted by Iron Man. It's so embarrassing. I

(24:15):
really want to try to return this. I'm like, really,
I I I have to be able to write. I mean,
it's only been there, dude. The hat is pretty sweet,
but I can't even get excited about it. I can't
even get excited about it. If you will know that
I wanted you will.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Know when it shows up, you're gonna talk about it
and you're gonna bring it in. You're gonna be so proud.
And then Ben's gonna come in as we finished this show.
It's like, that's a good looking new hat, buddy, and
then you're gonna talk about how you got it. Look,
it's the flex fit and you're gonna do a whole
sales job like you're you're shilling for the company that
makes said.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
And then he's gonna like he's a girl at the bar.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
I don't know, but I don't know.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
You do know, though, this isn't gonna stop you.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
This is just all it's weird.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Look, man, we've been doing this cycle with you for
a decade. This is this one might be a little.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Bit more embarrassing, but in the end, it's it's all
just losing and sucking. With the exception of that World Series.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
Run, Jason, you don't know how to not come back
for more.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
It's it's hard, man, You're a glass of punishment. It's
it's really hard, man, it really is.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
I mean I just add, like I said, I needed
the next you know, I always say, I need my
teams to get me to the next team, right, get
me to the next team, and get me the next
team to get the next team. I need the Knicks
to get me to the Mets, to get me to
the Jets, right, And that's how it goes. But what
did I say during the playoffs during the NBA play
I needed the Knicks to fly me over the Mets,
Fly me over the Mets and get me to the Jets.
Because the Mets are doing anything, I gonna fly me

(25:43):
over it. And then come all the way down. You
got a minor league team you can attach yourself to.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Over it and all the way down. I mean, I mean, you.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Want you want to become a trash Pandace fan or something. Dude,
get one of those sweet Star Wars jerseys they had
and start rocking that roundtown.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
But I mean, but just but just think about that.
I mean, just you know, this is how bad the
season is, and the Mets wait until now. Now, we're
gonna have a closed door meeting right now. We're gonna
have now when we've gone ten and twenty five, okay,
ten and twenty five over the last month and a half.
Now is Hey, we have to have a meet. We
got we got to talk things out here.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Well, maybe I believe Steve Cohen when he kept saying,
everything's all right, we'll still.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Figure it out.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Maybe they believed what he.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
Was saying because behind the scenes he was given them
the same stupid message that he wants to the rest
of us.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I mean, I don't know what to say, man, I
really I don't know what to say.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
Just say you're gonna come back from more tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I can't, I can't, I can't, dude, this is what
he us. It's awful. I mean now, I mean, this
is and this is what always upsets me so much
about seasons. Whenever coaches or a team when they struggle
out of the gate, every says, don't worry, it's early.
There's so much ball to play. We go through these
ups and down. It's no all these games count, man,

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And every time the Mets would lose a series or something,
it would be here Carlos Mendoza saying, hey, it's early.
We know we have to start picking it up. We
know we have to start playing better. You have the
fourth worst record in all of baseball. You've been terrible
for a month. And a half again, worst record at
all of baseball the last month and a half. That's
how bad it's been. But no, no, everything is early,
and we don't want to panic. And David Stearns yesterday saying, hey,

(27:19):
I don't know what kind of team we are and
we have to wait and play out of But have
you not been watching the last month? And I mean
I've been watching. I know how bad this team is.
I know what they can't get any hits, runners in
scoring position, and they just have overloaded a tax bullpen
and the starters which were pitching okay in the beginning
of the season. Now I'm back to regress to the mean.
I mean, what's everybody else watching? Oh it's early, it's early.
The season is over. It's over for them before we

(27:42):
even hit June first. And they're still saying as recently
as yesterday, hey, we don't we don't know, we don't
know what what's going on. We've got to wait and
see what kind of team. We're not sure what kind
of team?

Speaker 9 (27:52):
Right?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
No, I know what kind of team. I know exactly
what How do you not know what kind of team
we are? I don't draw a paycheck from them? I
don't get paid. I know what kind of team? How
do you not know? Oh now let's have a meeting now,
it's oh that's great. Thanks appreciate that. As we talked about.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yesterday, some of that is you've got to play it,
play it out because the teams that will be buyers
don't necessarily know their buyers and all of that psychology
that you're playing as a general manager, as well as
you know, just not going in front on anybody, throwing
things into the crowd and saying we stick like your
players did.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
But I'll put it.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
In the language that you understand, and that the parlance
that we've used for a decade together here for our
global audience. Remember that episode when Aunt Gladys dies on
The Simpsons and Homer gets that giant sandwich. Homer, have
you been eating that sandwich again? That's you and the Mets.
I could never stay mad at you. And he's hugging

(28:48):
the sandwich. That's you and the Mets, buddy, right, it's
like deteriorating. Yeah, yeah, it's gray and discolored. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 (28:58):
The Mets are eating sofas right now.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Oh this is this is so embarrassing.

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I've been thinking about your analogy, and now I give

(29:28):
you credit because you made the worst one a few
minutes ago, when you thought you could outclown the Mets.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Can't do that.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
But I think, yeah, I internalized it from my own clowndom.
I think Homer in the sand I think that's kind
of me in the it's Homer in the sandwich. I
think it is. I think I think you're right about it.
I want a sandwich, which, well, you don't want that
sandwich because it's bad, you know.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
But I think, look, I'm trying to lose a little
bit of weight. I go clean in the gills and
it's not going to be digestible.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Now that's a dumpster sandwich.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Do you lose your weight oh, I had stomach virus
for couple of days. Man, it was great. I lost
eleven pounds. I feel fantastic. Right, I'm going to buy
new jeans.

Speaker 7 (30:05):
This is fan Jason. You know what's in a dumpster sandwich?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Uh? What frostburg, mister mettster.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Oh wow, you know, mister Mett doesn't need to catch
any strays on this story.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
Okay, Missus Mett's gonna leave him after that.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
No, come on, Missus Mets in it for life, man,
there's no after this. No, no, no, missus mister Mets
in all the little Mets are in all the med
The Mets are all in right, the Mets are There's
only room for one clown franchise, and it's my team. Okay,
just so you know.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Yeah, the spring training, though, suddenly miss missus Met looks
a lot different. Missus missus Mett is wearing an Otani
jert and the well becomes some giant story.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's like she was blind, Like did she just dye
her hairs? Wait, that's a different Missus Met. No, you see,
he couldn't take it anymore. You see a pictures like, oh, hey,
you know, I know Otani just got married. But here
he is with a mysterious woman at dinner and you
just see like one of those zip Bruder films, and
it's Otani and this huge with a Mexican sitting across
from dude.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
Missus Mett's gonna start showing up the games with a
veil on.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh Jesus showed up to games with a bag over
it with the big head and the biggest bag you
can get.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Over her head.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's oh, man, I'll tell you this is this is this?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
What man?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
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Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Trust me, we'll have more on Mets because this story
actually has another new wrinkle just in the last couple
of minutes. But straight ahead, you want the best news
from the NBA Draft coming up? Oh, we got it
for you.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
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Speaker 1 (31:44):
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Believe it or not, there's a new wrinkle coming up
with this Mets story. Oh boy, you know it just
keeps giving, you know, it's yeah, I mean it just
just when you think, okay, the night is gonna end
at some point for the Mets, no no, no, no,

(32:06):
no no no. Now there's controversy and it just gets reinforced.
Uh but again, we'll have that coming up in about
ten minutes. We need to break from the Mets. I
need a break from the Mets for ten Can you
give me a break for ten minutes from the Mets.
I need a ten minute break from the Mets. Ten
minute break, ten minute break, gets a timeout on the court,
I prompt. Jason Smith is sick and tired of talking
about the Mets. He needs to talk it over with

(32:27):
Mike Furtello. So we got great news in the NBA today.
Bronnie James is staying in the draft. Yeah wait, what
what do you mean? What? Chase? Wait a bit, you've
been tripling down on what you think is gonna happen.
He's not gonna get drafted. The Lakers are gonna sign
him at the end. He's gonna wind up being there.

(32:48):
That we've seen Rich Paul and Clutch Sports say Hey,
we're only gonna work out for a couple of teams
and we're not gonna do a two way contract. He's
scaring everybody off to get Brian in the Lakers. Yes,
but here's where Isa, when you think I'm gonna zag.
This is an NBA draft that, let's face it, does
this have any buzz? Do you have any real desire

(33:09):
to watch the NBA draft. There's no Wemby, There's no
players that at the top of the draft that people
even know a lot about who they are. Look, I
told you the guy I take is to Fon Castle.
He's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
That's the guy.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Take number one. I don't care about anybody else. I
know the kind of player he's gonna project to be
in the NBA. That's the guy I take. He's a Goya.
Take number one overall. But it's not exciting. It's not
an exciting draft. There's a lot of players that people
don't know about. The big players in college aren't players
that are gonna really translate.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Into the next level. They need this.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
The NBA draft needs Bronni James in because this is
the This is the best thing for the NBA draft.
Bronnie James is not scheduled to be taken until sometime
in the second round if he is drafted right now.
Normally what happens the NBA draft begins. You watch the
first few picks, and then you get to a point where, okay,
I'm kind of checking in, right, I've well saw the
For the people I all know about, they've all been drafted.

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Now here's a bunch of European big men or guys
I don't know about.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
I didn't see this guy play. I didn't see it,
and you're done. Now.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
As the draft goes on, it just gets more interesting.
Is somebody really gonna draft Bronnie James? Are the Lakers
really gonna draft Bronnie James in the second round? Are
they gonna somehow get an extra second round pick so
they can take Bronnie James? Doesn't so it doesn't look like, oh,
we're just cow telling to lebron and using a second
round pick on it. And then you go all the
way to the end. It's like watching the finale of

(34:32):
a TV show. You gotta watch it gets closer to
the end because that's where all the big drama is.
Like all the big drama for the NBA Draft is
gonna be as it gets on, it gets closer to
the end, and when it ends, if he's not drafted,
then it's gonna be where's he gonna go? Because you
know he's gonna sign someplace right after the draft is over.
It's what happens, right where is he going? What like
Bronnie James is the draft and even and even the

(34:54):
fact that we might not hear his name called it
all and if we do, we're gonna hear it very late.
This is the best thing because you're gonna watch the
whole draft, pay attention to it. I'm hearing rumors, what's
going on. What's Adrian wol Jerowski saying, Hey, here's somebody's
interested in Bronnie James. If he's there at twenty one,
if he's there or at thirty one or forty five
or whatever it.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Is, you are gonna watch this entire thing.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
The NBA draft needs Bronnie Jay, whether you like him
as the player or not, when you think he's good
or not, how much he needs before he really gets
into the NBA or not, The NBA draft needs him
and they need him so much. And that's why this
was such great news today that he's staying in the draft.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Well, that's the thing that's just so chaotic about it, right,
is that you've got some of these guys you mentioned Castle,
and we'll see where Ed and these other guys get picked,
and you know they're projected second round. A lot of
these guys are second round the names that you actually know.
The problem with college basketball at this point is those
guys that.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Hang around where they became household nan.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
It's like, oh, there's gotta be something wrong with him,
or this doesn't translate, or whatever the case may be.
But for Bronnie James, yeah, every pick in between. Who's
that guy from Yeah he's from Serbia, got any footage? Nope,
let's talk about Bronnie James and what Rich Paul wants
to do and how they're gonna control free agency and
everything else, right, because you're going straight into the opt

(36:10):
out season and all of that fun stuff where we've
heard all the rumors and conjectures you mentioned, Hey, Bronnie's
only gonna work out for the Lakers and for the
Suns and Budenholzer and these ten teams have been told
to pound sand and on and on and on. We
got we got a month of that now with him
staying in a bunch of other players went back to school.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Go get your nil, go get better more.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Seasoning, whatever. Bronnie James, while he may benefit from much
the same, the machine needs to be fed. And Rich
Paul and Lebron James. Look, if you've got leverage and
you can push buttons and make it all about you,
damn it isn't that what everybody wants? Someone to give
a care about you for two minutes, and Bronnie James

(36:53):
is gonna have a whole month of it.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Oh yeah, look look just think about the time leading
up where hey, so and so wanted him to work
out and they said no, Oh, now is Rich Paul
pulling strang like it's it's the drama that we normally
get with Lebron, except now we're getting it with Bronnie. Hey,
he's working out for the Lakers, he's working out for
the Suns. What's another team he's gonna work out for.
Here's a list of teams Bronnie James is gonna work
out for. And of course, while all this is going on,

(37:17):
Lebron is going to do nothing to make anybody think, hey,
I'm coming back to the Lakers. He's gonna want Bronni
to have his entire moment because it's all about him.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
So you're gonna get nothing.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
It's gonna be all kinds of rumors and as you
like to say, rumor, conjecture, speculation. It's it where's Lebron
gonna go? Even though he's staying with the Lakers, Like,
where's he gonna go? Could he really leave to go
somewhere with Bronnie?

Speaker 3 (37:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Look, the Mavericks are working out Bronnie. Could Lebron go
there and be another guy there? And Lebron plays with
Kyrie here and Bronni's there too, Like it is it is.
It is a lead up to the draft about Bronnie James.
It's a night about Bronnie James. It's the majority of
the broadcasts of the draft about Bronnie James. And after
the broadcast is about Bronnie James. I mean, it's gonna
when you wrap it up, dude, the first line and

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every update is gonna be blank. Blank was taken first
overall in the NBA Draft, and Bronnie James is with
Blank after getting drafted in the second round or signing
as an undrafted free agent. That's how good, that's how
big a deal this is for the NBA.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
The run with it, right and sell it. However, you
can all sorts of anonymous quotes about his aptitudes and
every oh yeah, no, this is great.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
They'll have a coach. Yeah eventually, but that's a yay. Hey,
you gotta let Bronnie have the have the spotlight for
a while. Man, All in good time, All in good time.
Just wait, I think Doc's still getting paid by the Bucks,
So I think we're okay, exit out about it, Fransca exit,
swollen down. I mean, a huge gift to the NBA.
Congratulations up next, Yeah, and even newer wrinkle in this

(38:46):
crazy ass Met story Fox Fox Sports Radio, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon, and you
know you want We're gonna get to a little bit
of positivity here.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
We've been laughing at the Mets for the last hour
and a half.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Positive does everybody frame of money?

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Except that is true?

Speaker 7 (39:07):
Really the last ten years?

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Uh no, come on, we went to the World Series
in twenty fifteen when you got smoked, not nine you No,
we didn't, we didn't. Okay, okay, we went Okay, you
know what I need. I need.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
I need yoga, I need meditation, I need to.

Speaker 7 (39:21):
That's not gonna help go.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Uh this is you know, I am going to now
do something I don't think I've done since like the
last like since I was like I don't know, ten,
ten years old, Like, you know what I need right now?
With with all that, you know, there's no basketball tonight.
Most major League Baseball is over John Wick Marathon right
now on Paramount. I'm going to scream and yell for
him to kill as many people in this movie. You know,
I've seen it a hundred times. Kill that guy, Yeah,

(39:43):
kill that guy, kill that guy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean
I need something, man, I need something after this ridiculousness
with Jor Lopez and I calling the Mets the worst
blanket team in all of Major League Baseball. Again, the
man was honest. Yeah, no, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
I had the opportunity because as that question opened up,
I mean, you know, he had the opportunity to just
say yeah, you know, in the heat of the moment,
it's been a frustrating a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Nah, he just went full on mm hm.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
So I had a chance to back away from it,
had a chance to back away from.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yeah, but now it's lensed all sorts of questions of
what the hell kind of conversations have been going on
behind the scenes.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Look, dude, he just pop that one, buddy, Dude, right now,
Tommy fam is going I was right. I told y
all last year the Mets were a bad bunch of guys.
I told you, man, I told you, I told you.
Now you coming around to me, look to be serious
for a second, because I'm gonna wind up owing Frostburger
steak dinner.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
I never thought i'd have to pay for Wow.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Uh, look this is where and I talked about it
last week, but now after tonight, like you can't not
look at this. You had a guy who was on
the team they're gonna dfa Jorge Lopez Mets reliever who
who threw his glove into the stands today after getting
kicked out of the Mets loss to the Dodgers and
afterwards said I play on the worst blanket team in
all of MLB. He was asked a follow up saying, hey, wait,

(41:00):
just want to clarify, did you say you plaan the
worst team in Major League Baseball? He said, yeah, probably so, yeah,
you know, I mean, I don't know what else to
say about that. That's the Mets, but this is where
they need a complete and total overhaul. This is where
you need to clear the decks. And anybody you can trade,
you can trade. If you could trade Lindor, trade Lindor,

(41:22):
you'll trade Alonzo at the deadline, trade Nimo, trade JD Martinez,
trade Jeff McNeil. You've had this core, these core guys
for the last four or five years, and it's done.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
You've seen their best baseball. They're all thirty years old.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Whatever you need to do to move on from this,
Spend money in the offseason to bring in new players.
You got a lot of young players that are gonna
come up next year. It is time to clean house,
and all of these guys should all be out that.
You should be taking phone calls on everyone. Alonzo, Lindor, Nimo, anybody, anybody.
There's nobody that's outside of Christian Scott and Francisco Alvarez.

(41:57):
I mean, really, take phone calls on every everybody else,
everybody else. You could take a phone call on Marte. Sorry, yes,
take a phone call everybody else, although not Harrison Bader
he's our best player. Everybody else take a fall, but
he's only in a one year deal. Trade him too,
everybody else, everybody else you can trade. You can move
on from everybody else's organization. Trade DS two if you
want to, if you can get anybody to take them.

(42:18):
After blowing all these games and now he's on the
injured list, this is where I'm serious. You need to
say it is time to start over, and you can
start over in one off season. You can sign a
couple of stars. You have a bunch of young players
coming up to need playing time. This is how it works,
and this is what the Mets need to do.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
It's time.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
It's time for everything new, because this is about as
embarrassing as it gets. The team is just getting worse
and worse. And you've seen the best baseball of all
of these guys. They're all thirty years old or older.
Now it's time to move on. If they started trading
guys tomorrow, yes, that's what's going to make me excited now.
Is like when I go to bed at night and
I sometimes to calm myself down, I start thinking about

(42:54):
different things and I always go through stuff like, hey,
if the Mets did this, or if the Mets did this,
the Mets did this, Like who the Mets could trade
so and so for? And who I hear about in
somebody else's organization. It might be a big trade bait
for somebody else. Like that's what calms me down a
little bit, and that's what I think about when I
go to bed. Let me, let me try to do this,
Like if the Mets started doing that, they need to
go ahead.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
It is time to do it.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
The old joke was always think about baseball in other
situations of nocturnal activities. Sure, literally, you're thinking about baseball
to calm yourself down. Yes, you might be the first
person I've ever heard actually admit to this being a strategy,
because really this should be exasperating you. Your heart rates

(43:36):
should be elevated thinking about, you know, the the damnation
of the squad that you've acquired there, the assets that
are untradeable, the owner sticking his head in the sand.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Anybody you can, anybody you can, anybody, anybody.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
You can go.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
I tell you two guys, two guys, Christian Scotts. He
looks like he's gonna be really good. He's a young picture,
he's a few and Francisco Alvarez.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Those are the only two. If you if you, if
you turn the entire team over, I'd be fine with that.
I'd be absolutely fine with You'd be fine if they
got rid of those other two guys too. No, shoot to.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
Jason. If you want to calm down and relax, you
can just load on your walkman Otani's crack of the
bat on his home run.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
No, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
That's that's the crack of the bat that ended the
Mets season and turned it into an embarrassment. That was
the one that did it.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Come on now, now, who's saying foolish?

Speaker 11 (44:34):
Well?

Speaker 1 (44:34):
No, no, what happened after that? The next pitch after
that started this whole thing. He gave up the home
run to Otani, which is what pissed him off. And
then the first pitch to fro I'm sorry, Freddie Freeman,
check swing. No, it was a home run to Otani.
There was an opposite field home run. It's nine to three.
Everybody's booing. The next pitch is a check swing by
Freddie Freeman, and that starts everything. Tossed out by the umpire.

(44:56):
Throw my glove in the stands. I played for the
worst team in Major League Baseball. Out of what else say?
I don't know what else to say. No, this is
just the next man, I'll tell you. It's a long play. Man,
this is Shakespeare and stuff going down here.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
You think this is bad, Jason, just wait for the Jets.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Oh no, no, dude, That's all I have is the Jets.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Man. Stop, you can't take that from me.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
I'm I'm I'm at the point where I am now
breaking down Aaron Rodgers Ota passer rating from day to day. Hey,
you had a really good day, eleven out of thirteen,
three touchdowns. Ah, not as great today, he was. The
Jets were zero for four in the red zone. Lizard
had a big drop, because that's what that's what I
do in the morning. I'm following the Ota. Lizard had
a drop. Not that great, but still Rogers was all right, now,

(45:37):
this is what I have, man, I have the Jets.
I have.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah, well, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
That's true. Now, speaking of the Jets, this is a
positive and it's not just about the Jets. It's about
the player. And this is a great story because this
talks about this is this is perseverance for a player
who was one of the most exciting young players in
the game and then could and stay healthy. After four
years away and three injuries that could have ended his career,

(46:07):
the Jets signed former Bears running back to Ricohen and this, oh,
this is this is exactly a little bit faster than
you though he's a little bit fatter, just a little
bit even with multiple surgeries, just a little little bit faster.
But look, but let's have an appreciation moment for him

(46:28):
just first of all, being and he's a guy everybody
knows because everybody plays fantasy knows Tarikoh. And when he
when he came on the scene, how many leagues are
you win where people used all their free agent money
to get him? Right, because what his first game he
had like a seventy three yard touchdown or something like that.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
It was very first game in the passing game. Yet, oh,
the guy that suddenly had some great value.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
He was someone who was a great PPR running back
flex for like three years, Like he was a solid
ten part. He wasn't someone that you had that suddenly all, man,
he's my RB two or he could be an RB no,
but he was someone who he's in my flex position.
I could play him during bye weeks because he caught
a ton of passes out of the backfield. He was
an exciting player. He was gonna be one of the

(47:09):
next great players for the Bears, and again, I know
the world is filled with a lot of those guys.
But then he just couldn't stay healthy. You know, three
different injuries. Tried to come back after twenty twenty, he
couldn't try to come back. After twenty twenty one, he
couldn't try to come back. After twenty twenty two, he
got hurt again. I think that's when he tore his
achilles in a workout. And he finally made it back
to the NFL last year, but he never got on

(47:31):
the field. He's never activated for a game, and now
here he is as a guy who could potentially contribute
for the Jets, because look, you're looking for a third
down running back. I mean, you drafted a thousand guys,
which I don't really get, but okay, you know Breese Hall,
someone that's gonna need to breathe. You want somebody who
can return kicks. Now that things are a little bit
different with the kicking rules, and now Tari Cohen may

(47:51):
have a little bit of value but it's really fun
to root for him, because again, four years go by.
If you don't do something for four years, do you
really have that desire to really say I still can
make it happen. I mean, at some point you say
I did it. I went as far as I could,
and I went further and it's just not gonna happen.
So I gotta give up. I gotta move on to

(48:12):
something else. And instead, here's Tarik Cohen, now in his
late twenties, trying to get back on the field after
three bad injuries, and here.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
He's with a chance to make the Jets.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Not only that, but have a pretty decent role as
a third down back, you know, sort of a kick returner.
I mean, this is this is a phenomenal story for
this kid.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
Yeah, I think some of it comes down to it
and anything you're doing, you got that last ditch effort,
right all right, I'm gonna give it one more go.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
And if you a football player.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Basketball player, I mean, how many guys do you talk
to that still get a little bit of that thirst
when training camp comes around. Now they realize physically that's
long gone in the past and whatever, but there's still
that camaraderie, the locker room, all those things that players say,
it's hard to leave that life, and right in transition
to the next thing, you treat going and you see

(49:01):
how much the running back position gets cycled through guys
that get shots, guys that we have questions, why did
they never right? Why did this guy coming out of
college get a cup of coffee and never be seen again.
It's a position that if you can just find one staff,
one general manager, one scout that believes in you, you know,

(49:24):
you get a puncher's chance to make your mark. And yeah,
root for him as we get into training camp and
everything else. And no guarantees in that business, no matter
how good you may be. Right, a lot of head
scratching roster decisions through the years, but you always want
to see a guy be able to at least go
out quasi on their own terms, you know what I mean,

(49:47):
as opposed to all right, injuries just failed him, Like
if physically he's just not there anymore, then you'll find
out pretty quiet quick for your jets because you've got
running backs on the roster, but an opportunity to potentially
be a part of a team that could be pretty
good and I say, could be because everybody else is
anointing them, and you know, I don't want to build

(50:08):
your hope hopes up, buddy, particularly because we've been talking
about the demise of your other team home.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I know, I know, so I can't go on the
other way and start building you up for this one.
But look, but here's the thing is that this is
what it's going to be for the Jets this year. Right.
Last year, they were the talk of the offseason with
Aaron Rodgers, right, and the build up to the season
was immense. I mean, I thought the root that the
earth was gonna split in half. He's carrying the flag
out for the game against the Bills, and oh my god,

(50:35):
this is what we've been building for for the last
five or six months since Rogers got traded finally and
then it's over after four plays, right, So it's going
to be a summer where there are more storylines than
just rot because Rogers overwhelmed everybody last year, right with
with it? It just what he's overwhelmed everybody the last
three years with all his odd Should I leave Green Bay?

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Do I not do?

Speaker 1 (50:57):
What do I do? Do I stay? Do? I don't know?
And it overwhelmed everybody. But now you're gonna have other
big storylines that you follow. Yes, Rogers with the Jets
is going to be a big storyline, but all the
new quarterbacks and new places are gonna be big stories
because they're all gonna get a chance to start. Kirk
Cousins is gonna be a story. The Cowboys will always
be a story, right, Russell Wilson. There's gonna be so

(51:17):
much attention there. But when the season begins and Aaron
Rodgers is healthy, that will become the number one story
in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Again.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
It's like every we gotta hold our breath a little
bit and wait and say, okay, let's let him get
to the season. Let's let him get through a game
and see where we're at. But once he's on the
field and he's playing and he's not injured, you know,
knock Wood, then the Jets will take over as the
biggest story and all these other stories out of it.
I'll still be big, but Jets and Rogers will move
past them. But until then, it's gonna be part of

(51:47):
the other stuff. Just because we got burned on it
last year, it was so much looking forward to it,
and then he was hurt, so it's gonna be that's
the way the summer's going to go. But then in
the fall he's healthy. He's playing because whether if the
Jets are great, it's an unbelievable story. The jet stink,
it's an unbelievable story. Now remember the jets. If they're
middle of the road, it's an unbelievable story. Because this
is it for Aaron Rodgers. So you just got to wait.
As long as he is playing, they will assend to

(52:09):
me that story. I gotta say last year, the only
person that really looked forward to it.

Speaker 7 (52:12):
Was you exactly.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
We we we were both h I'll speak for Frostburg here.
We were. We were kind of done before that first
or fifth snap. Okay, you guys might have been, but
but but you know, remember we do the show for
everybody else.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
We don't do the show for you guy. I don't
show for you.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Well, they were kind of I think America was kind
of done with it too, but hey, I'm watching is
a real thing.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
So you know, you got that.

Speaker 7 (52:36):
Tunnel with the Russian flag this year.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
That would be uh, the last heal turn he could make.
He Nikolai Volkoff's he grabs the microphone and starts singing
the Russian national I am but you know what I mean?
But I want to see it.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
But when he goes to sing it in week two,
does he use the same lyrics or does he get
creative like Volkoff did?

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Kind of same vein Exit Out about Nebraska Exit Swollen
Dove The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carvin Live from
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We got more coming up in ninety But first, Nick
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Nick Bud, what do you got for us?

Speaker 7 (53:17):
All right? Guys?

Speaker 10 (53:18):
Game four, the Western Conference Final of the Stanley Cup
Playoffs is over. The Oilers erase in early two goal deficit,
go on to beat the Stars five to two, and
they have even the series at two games apiece. In
the NBA, the Clippers and coach tylu have agreed on
a new five year deal worth seventy million. Wizards removed

(53:39):
the interim tag from coach Brian Keef. He's now there
full head, full time head coach. Today's the deadline for
college basketball players to withdraw from the NBA Draft. Some
of the notable names returning to school include Yukon's Alex Caravan,
Arizona's Caleb Love, and Alabama's Marcus Sears. In the NFL,

(53:59):
the forty nine re signed receiver Jawan Jennings a two
year deal worth up to fifteen point four million, including
ten and a half million guaranteed. Jefferson County DA's office
in Kentucky has dropped all charges against Gotti Scheffler, all
stemming from the incident prior to the second round of
the PGA Championship a couple weeks ago. In baseball, Pirates

(54:19):
and Tigers split a doubleheader. In Game two, rookie Paul
Skeen struck out nine in six innings, all on his
twenty second birthday as Pittsburgh won ten to two. Philly
salvage their series against the Giants with a six to
one win. Nationals over the Braves seven to two, Orioles
six to two over the Red Sox. Gunner Henderson had
the big hit in that one.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
The Pits.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Cunner hits his tight wakefield way back, way back.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Hits on my Grand Slam for Gunner Henderson five to one.

Speaker 10 (54:51):
Baltimore Orioles Radio Network Rangers finished off a sweep of
the Diamondbacks six to one. Of course, the Dodgers also
finishing off the sweep of the Met's ten three royal
snap to three game losing streak six to one over
the Twins, and the NL Central leading Brewers had six
extra base hits and at tend to six win over
the comes Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, back to.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
You, Nick, Thanks a bunch, my friend. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the
tire IRAQ dot com studios. Uh again, now it's okay,
it's time. It's like every hourly go check my blood pressure.
Need a break from the Mets. I need a ten
minute break from the Mets. Ten minute break.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Coming up next a big story out of Sports Today
where I'm pretty sure Mike and I could be district
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