March 7, 2026 • 54 mins
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really seen a bunch of trades. But I don't know
that anybody can win the off season more than the
Ravens have big, big NFL news. Just a few moments ago,
you had to We'll get to Aaron Judge grinding into
a double play against the high school pitcher. We'll get
to Jason Tatum and his pesky return.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
What about error?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What that didn't happen is not on TV? There's there's
no error. No, that's AI. It's all AI. That didn't
actually happen. Uh, the you should be happy, Frostburg, you
got rid of, You got the greatest pass rushers in
the last decade. Is out of your division?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Has Joe Burrow asked for a trade yet?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Joe Burrow? Yeah, Joe Burrow is uh like, why is
Joe Burrow trending on?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, because he's got to face a bunch of dudes
now twice a year.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Six games out of your season.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is just a few moments old, maybe a little
bit less than a half hour. The first big domino
of the offseason has fallen, and again the Ravens have
already won. In the offseason. The Raiders are trading Max
Crosby to the Ravens in exchange for two first round
picks twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. So now
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they're gonna pick first and fourteenth. They got a first
round pick next year, the Ravens, beating out the offer
of the Dallas Cowboys, who are willing to offer a
first and a second round pick to the Raiders for Crosby,
who when Zed goes to the Ravens, he's a big
toy for Jesse Minter. And I'll be honest, Mike Carmon,
I'm coming into tonight and I'm going I can't believe
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no one's made this trade for Max Crosby. How is
Max Crosby still a Raider? How is Max Robiz the Raider?
I would have given up more for Max Crosby. You
are not gonna get a guy this good, still with
at least three, maybe four peak years left to wreck
havoc like he has for the past six or seven.
This is a two time All Pro and a five
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time Pro bowler. He averages ten sacks a year. You're
not gonna get better this.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Hell yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Trade at least two first round picks to get Max Kraws.
This is it. He is the definition of a plug
and play guy. He doesn't need to be coach. He
doesn't do anything. His motor, his attitude just show up there.
It is Max, Go get the quarterback, Go do your
thing like he is. You can just pick him up,
bring him over, PLoP him down, and he is fantastic.
He wanted out of Vegas. Vegas had to make a deal.
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I'd give him up more for him. This is a
tremendous move for the Ravens. Yes, first two first round picks.
I get it. But you're getting one of the top
edge rushers in the game the past decade, that's still
twenty eight years old. Yes, you go get Max Crossby.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, we were talking about it a little bit as
getting ready to come into the studio. It's like, you know,
I and Roddy are producer on the iWatch of Flex
and part of our team. Here he goes. The Jets
got more first Sauce Gardner like, yeah, that is that
is true because you got Adi Mitchell. He got a
couple of first round picks. Now, some of this becomes
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the question of you know, where you're trying to do
Crosby a solid not sending him to Football Siberia if
the offers were the same. But it seems like an
opportunity to truly maximize things. And you know, conflicting reports
of how much he wanted in or out. Yes, he
was upset at the last regime for Operation Shutdown, But
could that have been remedied all of this stuff with
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Guerrero and everything going on, and whether you got moles
and guys that are trying to exert some clout where
they had should have none and unrest there. But to
get this type of player for two draft picks. I
got like four texts from all my guys in Baltimore.
I can't read any of them because they're all so
expletive laden about picks. And I mean it takes everything
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that the rams have said, and you know they added
all the extra extra language to adjacent I mean, it's
like they'll still lay an egg in the playoffs was there,
but you've now pushed all in. You needed a pass rush.
I would have thought you would have just signed O
ways since we saw mintor unlock him here in Los Angeles.
But it doesn't preclude that move, dud. But you make
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the big push here and you go get the guy.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
He's a terror. Max Crosby is an absolute terror. He
is a lunatic in the best way possible, right like
his attitude, the edge he plays with. Nobody likes playing
against him. Look, it's my favorite Max Crosby story of
all Tart the last all the things he has done.
My favorite Max Crosby story is from not this preseason,
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but last preseason when the Raiders had a joint practice
with the Rams. And you know, joint practice, you don't
hit the quarterback. You let him go, and if it
looks like the play is getting close, you know, they
blow the whistle so the quarterback doesn't get hurt. Right,
this is how you do it. And Matthew Stafford telling
the story after their joint practice, how mad he got
because Max Crosby kept getting in the backfield and yelling
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sack sack sack, like you gotta blow the blade dead
because I want to sack Matthew Stafford and he goes,
we can't even run place. He's this lunatics running around
in the back of sack sack sack like. That's my
favorite Max Crosby. He a lunatic in the best way.
He can wreck a game all by himself. There's not enough.
I mean, I don't know, three first round pick. Sure
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I would have because I'm saying, how many years am
I gonna get out of him? That are gonna be great?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You don't know what could happen, obviously, but in theory,
he's twenty eight, I'm gonna get three four great years
out of him. He is that big of a talent,
you know. To go back to less Need, who said
the other day when the Rams made that big trade
for McDuffie, was the first thing we do is look
and say, are there any all pros we can get?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And that's a great way to look at it. Because
free agency this year especially, you look at the people
out there.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Not a great year.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Man, people are gonna overpay for some duds in free agency. Man,
I'm telling you, but who.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Do you look?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Okay? What all pros are there out there to go get?
This is the guy to go get. I can't believe
it did. It took this long, and I can't believe
Tom Brady couldn't get more from Max Crosby than this.
I really am stunned, because you're right, the Jets did
get more for Sauce Gardener. We had two first round
picks and and ad Ni Mitchell. Right, they almost it's
almost very similar to what other defensive players without Max
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Crosby's pedigree have gone for in a trade the last
couple of years. And I really I don't get I
get that Max Crosby wanted out. I get that the Raiders,
you know, had to move on from him. I completely understand.
I'm not saying the Raiders should have kept him because
it went past the point of no return with his
injury at the end of the year last year, and
he was upset when the Raiders sent him home. He
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didn't want to go home. He wanted to play. I mean,
you could have easily blamed it on Pete Carroll and
said he's not our coach anymore. But I mean that
was a big thing, and that was really the beginning
of the end for Max Crosby. But you could have
held on this. This is a plug and play guy, man.
I mean you could have. You could held on to him,
and you could have gone closer to the draft than
you could have got more because this is the guy
that you go out and pay that for, right, This
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is this is what you go out guys like Max
Crosby and Micah Parsons, this is what you go out
and trade for him. I mean, I can't. I mean,
you're right, Frostburg, the Raven's still gonna find a way
to blow it in the playoffs. But I can't say
enough about how big a move this is right now.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, I think as you look at it for the
Ravens you're in that you gotta win now, Right, Lamar
Jackson is now going towards the back end of that
first decade in the league, and we have no guarantees
it's going to age well. Right, you see the mobility
starts to come down, the injuries start to mount, all
of those things that add up to an issue. Now
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they still have to go find some receivers for Jackson
to throw to. But you solve one of the biggest
problems you had last year. You had no pass rush whatsoever.
Every week I would do my spot in Baltimore and
we'd be talking about that deficiency. And one of them,
and I already mentioned his name once, was Oway, who
had been there and hadn't been able to do much
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of anything as a pass rusher. And he showed up
in Los Angeles and all of a sudden, he's he's
going He's a holy terror against opposing quarterbacks on occasion.
So you're looking at trying to maximize what's left of
Lamar Jackson's window, which means you push all in to
the less need comment, Yeah, you go get the player.
Someone else wants to try to go one hundred percent
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on those picks. Have at it, Ravens. This is as
low as they've picked. What was it twenty twenty two
when they picked Kyle Hamilton and Linderbaum. Well, Linderbom's gonna
end up somewhere, maybe actually in Nevada as their new center,
but otherwise they were picking in the twenties and low
twenties for years. So you go and push that away. Okay, go,
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if you think you can strike gold, go mining. Have
at it. We'll take the player. And for the Ravens,
you know, we talk about the changing of the head coach.
We talk about these near misses, and there have been
near misses, but guess what, they all count the same.
A loss is a loss. You tell me about a
bad punt return, you tell me about a drop pass
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or a field goal miss, whatever, they all count the same.
It's it's an l and you all went home, which means,
don't leave it to the margins and go find an
impact playmaker. And as we've chronicled, Extend and sib Leland
will continue to do so as the new year league
year starts. Man, how many free agents do you look
at and go, yep, that's the guy. Linder Balm's the
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only guy that you've been able to say that. Everybody
else is all right, system fit. What's the ceiling? So
go get Max Crosby. Whether he's he'll be really happy
to go to Baltimore. I mean, you talk about winning
culture and getting away from l after l as much
as he was wanting to be a Raider for life.
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He'll have to get that tattoo changed, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But oh, that's easy. I think that I think that's
part of the deal. And you're gonna pay to change
my tattoo. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, we got the best
guy at Baltimore. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We can make lind up.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
We can make that shield into a crab easy.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We'll pick you up at the airport. Make sure that happens.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I mean, look, you look at last year. You remember
the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Last year they were really kind of you want to say,
done in by the first half of the season when
their defense was absolutely abysmal. Right, it was like, how
is the defense this bad? How are they giving up
forty points to Buffalo, and then you know, thirty eight
points to Detroit thirty seven of Kansas City forty forty
Houston thirty six is awful in a row like this
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is awful. But that's the start that what killed their
season because then after the bye week they fixed it.
They had won five in a row. They come down
to the final week of the season for the AFC
North with Pittsburgh. Their defense plays a little bit better. Overall,
they played better. They fixed a lot of that bye week.
I don't know that there was a team that had
a better bye week adjustment last year than the Ravens did.
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But now you're hitting the ground running, new start, new things,
new energy, and now you have probably you're talking about
the second most talented person that the Ravens have had
in the Lamar Jackson era on this team, Max Crosby. Look,
Derek Henry's terrific, right, I love Derek Henry. Max Crosby
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is the second most talented player that they have had
Lamar Jackson run. And that's a huge deal when you
have guys on either side of the ball like this.
Now I can't get over there, and this is a
division that is there for the taking because Cincinnati. You
know what kind of problems they have. The Browns always
have problems, right, Pittsburgh didn't even know who their quarterback's
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gonna be because Aaron Rodgers is sitting out again waiting
like this was the Ravens taking a big move and saying, hey,
we're gonna grab hold of the AFC North right now.
And again, I don't know what the rest of the
offseason is gonna hold. I don't know who's gonna be
able to take somebody somewhere else where. Everybody's going free agency,
but free agency ain't that great. And I can't believe
a team's gonna ace the draft more. But I'll tell
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you they should win the division. They should be a
big playoff threat. It's not gonna get any better than
the Ravens getting Max Crossby.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, we'll get deeper into the Raiders side of things,
because well, now you got a couple more bites at
the proverbial apple that you have to get right in
this whole reset. But yeah, for the Ravens, it's everything.
And I'm only half kidding about our guy Joe, because
he's got to be looking around. What did I do
to deserve you?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, well, that's all right. Joe's got some time to
get out. It's okay, Cincinnati, they drafted me, He's got
some time.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Wait a minute, this wasn't my choice.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
This is like every other week. I have to be
staring over my left shoulder, looking at the looking at
my blind side like every.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Single in his offensive reality stunk every year too. So yeah,
here's another two weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Good luck, Joe Burrow, good luck.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
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Speaker 1 (13:38):
On hand taking in the big fifteen to five win
MLB Network insider Extraordinary John Paul Morosi, who is going
to actually produce a documentary detailing all of the walks
that Team USA had tonight, John Paul, good luck.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
There were a lot of walks, There's no question about it.
And sometimes you get those moments in a World Baseball
Classic where a team with perhaps a little less pitching
depth than what the Americans have end up having to
go to some relievers that can't locate the baseball. And
yet in the same night you also get Aaron Judge
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homering in his very first World World Baseball Classic. At bat,
you get Lucas Ramirez, son of Manny Ramirez, homering twice.
You get young Joseph Contreras getting Bobby Witt Junior, or
rather getting judged to ground into a double play. You
get Thomas Lopez from Columbia University striking out Bobby Witt Junior.
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So you just have all these amazing moments within the
larger continuum, and at the end of the day, of course,
a team USA with a rather emphatic victory on the
final score line, even though there were some nervy moments
in the middle. So the US wins, Mexico wins, and
all things remain pointing to a pretty big showdown in
this tournament between the US and Mexico on Monday night
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here in Houston.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You know, that's what I like about the World Baseball Classic,
John Paul, because watching the announcers say things like and
here is Joseph Contrera, seventeen year old out of high school.
He's missing ap English, a big test this week to
be here. He's got the big Spring Bakeoff fundraiser coming up. Boy,
what a great time for him. His team is going
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to be in the district playoffs when he gets back
to high school. Here he is against Aaron Judge with
the bases loaded like it's just insane when you hear that,
noting things like that, I love.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
It and I love it. And again, there's plenty of time.
There's plenty of time for conversations about games during the season,
when they call somebody up from Triple A or they
call somebody up from Double A.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
We're calling up.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Guys from high school in this tournament. And again, by
the time you get to the end, and it's maybe
the US and the Dominicans or the US and Japan,
these are matchups that we're familiar with and and that
won't be as much of a surprise. But until that happens,
you have to sort of accept that there will be
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the equivalent of the number one seed against the number
sixteen seed in the in the NCAA tournament. And again
you get you get your one shining moment at the end.
To borrow the basketball March Madness theme, and you get
the same thing here. So this is this was the
one versus the sixteen today and and yet there were
some moments that Brazil could feel very proud of and
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and hopefully helps them grow the game a bit in
their country because they get a chance to play em
USA on this stage for the first time. Of course,
the last time they played in the Classic they were
over in Japan, so it's it's a different story for
them and and winning for them even when you lose
on the scoreboard. Winning looks like the moments that we
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saw tonight.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Obviously, I'm concerned with the lack of operational efficiency even
though they covered the nine and a half run differential here. Yeah,
turn more of these into runs here JP. But in
all seriousness, all the legacy players Ramirez, Bishett Junior, Contreras,
all of this stuff like, that's the other part of
it one. It reminds me I'm old. But talking about
the next generation coming up and being put on the
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big display as well. One of the other great subplots
to this tourney.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yes, and Bobby wod Junior, by the way, on the
American side, we were actually talking about that on our
World Feed broadcast and how the rosters were all coming
together in the familiar names. Actually, tonight I got a
chance to speak to Manny Ramirez. I went up to
the crowd and talk to Manny. He actually told me
that it was his dream as a kid to be
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a left handed hitter. Of course he was, and he
batted right hand and one of the best right handed
swings ever. And so he deliberately taught his son to
bat left handed because he wanted to do it and
didn't have a chance to. And he actually told he
told me, he said, I had my son watch a
lot of video of David Ortiz, not his own video,
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but Big five.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
And then when I talked to Jose, I said, hey,
what were you thinking when your son was facing Aaron
Judge And he says to me in Spanish, he said,
my heart was racing and I was praying. Those are
the two things. He said. My heart was racing and
I was praying. And obviously it all worked out. He
got the double play ball, and he said, certainly, yeah,
you know, he would have liked to have seen maybe
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a couple of different pitches located. But my goodness, Jose
was so proud of his son. He sounded like both
a pitching coach and a dad in that moment. Was
just really really thrilled to be able to congratulate Jose
in person. Of course, they were like sitting one section apart,
like Manny was sitting here and then contre was sitting there.
Of course, on opposite sides of the Yankee Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Rivalry at one point in time.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Just a really special, special day all the way around.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Now, John Paul am I okay, because because neither Justin
nor Mike liked that, I'm going to say this, but
my dad is the biggest Yankee fan in the world.
Me being the Mets fan, I always want to take
a chance to tweak him. I think I'm completely within
my rights to say to him, Dad, your era judge
can't even hit high school pitching. And I'm telling the truth.
I'm not I'm not trying. I'm telling the truth when
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I say something, Well.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Hey, listen, it's a it's a round bat and a
round ball, and you never know where it's going to
go from here to there. He did at a home
run that just land into my hotel room in the
first sitting, So that was pretty good. I thought in
the nearly homer to center field as well. So I
thought judges that baths overall were really good. Again, like,
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what's the probably talking about that double play for a while,
it'll it'll be something that people mentioned, but in general,
I thought Aaron had excellent at bats And again, he's
the captain of this team. He's he's the one that
Mark the Ross is looking to to set the tone,
and I think he's done a great job of that
so far. You can really tell how much the players
are enjoying being his teammate, and that includes Harper, that
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includes Schooble. These guys all love being together and I
do think that they've become a true team in a
very short amount of time and that bond certainly, it
gets stronger when you win, and that to me is
the is the next big question. What can they finish
this off? Can they win one more game than they
did last time around? And I think that will be
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the true test of the success of this team USA.
At the twenty twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Classes pull back, obviously, the greatness and excitement of the
each nation, the crowd as they're walking in and you're
experiencing the folks they're in Houston. What's the general atmosphere there?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Jp out Benning, I thought that and honestly, the first
crowd for the Mexico Great Britain game was fantastic, certainly
very very pro Mexico, which will be the case, I'm
sure when Mexico plays the US. I think that's going
to be probably a fifty five forty five matchup, maybe
sixty forty in favorite of Mexico. But I thought both
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crowds were excellent. I think that the crowd was up
in the upper midter upper thirties for the US game.
Not quite a sellout, but loud, really engaged. Houston's a
great place to play this and I've been in Houston
a lot over my life. The people here are amazing
and they do a very good job of hosting big events,
Final Four, Super Bowl, obviously a lot of World Series.
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It's almost surprising it's taken this long for a World
Baseball Classes to come here is of course it's the
sixth edition, but I think that Miami is a phenomenal
place to host it. The ballpark here in Houston is
I think it's. The amenities for the fans really good.
I think it's a great place to watch a game,
really great atmosphere. So there are a lot of wonder
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the ballparks that you could host this event at. Certainly
seen it in California, before San Francisco, La San Diego,
ben in Arizona. I just think this is one of
the better atmospheres to play it in. And I'm really
glad Houston's got its opportunity and it's going to have
that great blend. And when you get Mexico in the
US at Saint Pool, you're going to really draw well
for both teams. And I think those games, especially when
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Mexico plays at night on Sunday against Brazil, when they
play against the US, when they play against Italy and
which should be a really important game, I think we'll
get three great crowds out of those Mexico games that
are all happening in the evening.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
John Paul Morose, the MLB Network insider from Houston, as
he took in the United States, is fifteen to five
win over Brazil. Now looking at the one game I
would obviously have the one game to look at tonight.
The lineup looks incredible. The lineup looks locked in. They
didn't chase bad pitches. They took what was there for them.
If I said to you, hey, your biggest concern for
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the United States, is it the bullpen? Is it the
lack of depth starting pitching wise, especially, School is gonna
play one game and out, Like, what would you say
would be the biggest uh, the biggest thing for the
United States going forward.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
It's a great question. And I'll say this, there is
nothing roster related that worries me. I really, I don't.
I don't have a worry if if if there's any
if they don't win, it's not it will not be
because of there's that there's a flaw on this roster.
The roster is about as well constructed as you could
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possibly imagine. I like, there's some youth there. Terrang is
a little younger, Anthony is a little younger, and then
the rest the rest of the group. There's just there's
no way that anyone could argue with really any of
the selections in my opinions, and even pitching wise, it's
interesting the you know walk up pitch so well, uh
Web I thought was really good. Of course he gave
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up the early homer, but that was it, uh Like,
no hits after that. So I think in general, you know,
maybe they're still a way for School to stay around
for one more start. I'd love to see it. I
know a lot of people were on the game. Would
love to see it. Certainly he has started. He's starting
early enough to be able to come back, So I'm
not gonna say starting pitching is a concern because I
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thought Web was really good. They've got really good piggyback situations.
Now I like what I'm seeing, and so I really
I have no concerns, just outside of the randomness of
baseball and how the best team doesn't always win. There's
nothing to really be worried about with this team. And
I thought Miller tonight maybe wasn't the most efficient inning
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to start, but he's able to rescue it. So I
think tm USA chucked a lot of boxes. It was
a really successful first night for them.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I used to watch Chinese type Ai dominate the Little
League World Series on ABC's Wide World of Sports as
a kid. They got drubed thirteen nothing show Hayo Todi
with the Grand Slam. Are we going for the crash
course eventually to meet up with Japan in the final?
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Not necessarily, because I think that the Azuela's got a
really good team. The Dominicans have a really good team.
Mexico is a scary team I think for a lot
of people, So I actually I do agree with the
premise that the US probably has the best roster in
this tournament, the second best. I think. Again, Japan plays
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in this tournament so well, They've got the best player
in the planet. Maybe not quite as dominant as starting
staff as they had last time.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
But it's still really good.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
But I put the Dominicans right in the same class,
and I thought Venezuela had a really, really impressive first
first game as well, So for me, I don't look
at it as inevitable at all. I think it's important
to point out that we've had five classics in the past,
and US versus Japan has been the final game exactly
once and that was last time. So I don't see
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it as being inevitable. I think it's possible, maybe even likely,
but not inevitable because of the quality of the Dominicans,
the Venezuelans, the Mexicans, a lot of teams that I
think we have not even heard the best from yet
that could potentially be spoiler. And you mentioned the struggles
of the Taiwanese team against Japan. I think the one
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team minute that could emerge from that pool. It's going
to be a great matchup between Korea and Australia more
than likely that will decide the second bid out of
the Tokyo Pool. And I think those are two really
good teams that are that are I think that have
taken big steps since the last Classic.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi from the World Baseball Classic in Houston. John Paul
enjoyed the weekend. We'll talk to you next week where
maybe the United States will be facing a fourteen or
fifteen year old pitcher at some point.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I think it's this mark my words, my friends, this
will be the easiest game the Americans play all tournament.
It will only get harder from here.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Take it easy, buddy, enjoy the way. We'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Good guys, all the best.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Things you jp.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
If you swallow the ending, it works all right.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, you can make any almost work with the proper
beat that kind of comes over that second syllable.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You can. You can make that happen.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, but we are and I keep my fingers scrawled,
you know. I always like to say I say this
out loud and we make it happen. You know, the
last couple of nights you said, hey, look, you know
it's a it's a good night in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
When there's ten games.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
If we get one of them, that's close, right, because
this is the air of the NBA we're in right now, right,
we don't get close games now and this doesn't happen. Hey,
we got some close games about that. Yeah, Hey, we
got the Warriors and the Rockets at one on one
a piece with one tenth of a second left in
the fourth quarter, Piston Spurs, third quarter, eight point game,
still a good game. So okay, we're all right with
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that magic beat the Mavericks one fifteen, one fourteen, or.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
We got some close guys. I say it.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I'm can make it happen, Mike car and make it
put it out there in the universe. This is why
when Frostburg says stuff like good at jitsu, getting Derek Carr.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Like, I'm worried that's actually going to tell me they aren't.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That's we're getting get into. We're getting to a end,
Derek Carr Hackenberg. But that's the problem. The level of
success means that some of the inane things that we
shout out just to get under your skin or you
guys do to get under mind, some of those are
gonna come true. Just the track record has just been
so good. Now, there was a foul call that was
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being reviewed in the final seconds of that Rockets Warriors
game where Kevin Durant challenged and got ball, but as
he did the follow through, you got some some contact
and instead, well, now we get our end game where
we've got point three left and an inbounds play to
to try to win it.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
But yeah, chaos, we got close games.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Man.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The over under we we hope for in a full
slate is one and a half.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Audam, the dude, you go right to the betting so fast.
I know something is up with you. That's the bed
that you're gambling on it.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I know you're gambling.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know you're like an out of control gambling now
you must be because you go it's no longer like, hey,
you know, I want to be up on this because
gambling is a bigger deal now, and we talked about
you go straight to it, man, like it's your first thing.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
It's like me.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It used to wake up in the morning, going, what
do I want something chocolate? It's eight thirty. Yeah, yeah,
I gotta have something chocolate right now.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I gotta wake up. That hasn't changed. You go, you
go right, you go right to the gambling.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Now chocolate is going away. It's not even closing. No,
And I wait, I wait till chocolate l.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, you did usually the right side of ten, you know, yeah, right,
sou because you're normally not getting up till about ten,
so I mean straight out of bed.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
But let's not let let's not conflate this. And you go.
You go right to the gambling so fast.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Now it's almost like I feel like any conversation that
you might have off the air goes right to gambling.
How you doing tonight? I well, you know, you know,
it was it was, it was, you know, it was.
It was eight to one. The sun was going to
be out by ten o'clock to morning, and now you
know we had it. We had the sun at seven thirty.
So I'm feeling pretty happy. You know, tomorrow next couple
of days is going to be kind of a gloomy day,
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so I wouldn't go sun tomorrow. But you know, Son,
today was a right call. Do you have the odds
on Jason leaving us for Wendy's in the next week.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh, that's that's even money right now. Okay, Wendy's might
actually be be a slight favorite. You know, let's talk
about this for a second. Okay, before we get.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
This's got a big deal.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
This is the big story developing after a week of chaos.
I in the fast casual kind of dining experience. I
always say, there's very little jobs that would be open
to me that I would leave doing this for right,
very little. Like if you said to me, you could
be the play by play voice of the match. You
have to travel to the pesky away games. Okay, I
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do all the home games. Yeah, I would do it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If I could just make me my you know, my
big what I do every off season where I invite
NFL coaches and we go over time management two minutes
of games coaches that need that. And make a lot
of money at that. But it's kind of a side hustle.
But if I could turn into a full time gig,
absolutely hundred percent certain gigs and now I found one
that maybe now here. This is the best part is
I could still do this because it's an at home thing,
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and I already put out on social media for it.
I'm just waiting for the paperwork. Wendy's is looking for someone.
They want to pay one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
A year or two. Yeah, one one hundred grand.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, yes, they want someone to become their chief tasting officer. Okay,
they're offering one hundred grand, and is a way to
apply and everything else. It's a remote position. Don't have
to move, just have to wherever you are. Just let
them know where you live. We'll miss you, Jase, and you.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Will be well. I can still do it. I can
still both get Oh yeah, yea yea yah yeah yeah.
They would love it.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
You kidding because I would say I talk about it
on the air full time. Oh can I do that?
I don't know if I can.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
But for one hundred grand, you will get a contract
with Wendy's and you will be hired to create promotional
content for Wendy's, such as taste testing videos. So basically,
they're gonna pay you to taste test food and talk
about it.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I don't pay for it. I might have to fight
you for this job.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Come on, man, because I get to promote the frost
you'd have to promote the frost You remember that you
hate it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I could say you.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Hate up and say, hey, you know what, No frosty,
here's my thing. No frostys are terrible.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Big component of the Wendy's menu. Dude, you want it
is perhaps as iconic as anything like God. Not iconic
except for Dave Thomas himself. It's frozen.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It's frozen ice cream that they put in a cup
that's impossible to eat. You have to get a drink
in addition to getting a frost that's it. It's a
it's a dessert treat. It is not a misake.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I'd say you want to pass McDonald's, get rid of
the frosty. Give me something that's.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Torpedoed your applicational radio. They're looking the iHeartRadio ad. They
want something you heard the phrase telling truth to power.
They want someone that's going to tell them that. Say listen,
whatever Thomas person is here in this room, get rid
of the frosty. But I'm gonna tell you you're nuts.
One hundred grand a year to be a taste tester
for Wendy's. I don't even go to Wendy's.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
That much.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I would do if you have to taste test frosties,
Oh I can still do it.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
No, I just just marriage there.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
My honest opinion, I would say, yeah, not a fan,
but you want me to taste, I taste it. They're
not gonna want everybody to tell me what they don't
want toybody to just tell them, Hey, your food is great.
Obviously you're looking for something outside the box. I'll tell
you the truth about your food.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Man. Again, I'm not gonna steer you wrong. But they've
just had a giant promotion about their new Fusion Frosty.
It's a fusion menu, yeah, really a fusion focus. Well,
I mean basically it's taking uh it's some version of
a blizzard or whatever else you insert whatever fast food chain,
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fast casual that you have, and you know, say with
Girl Scout cookies are part of what they do. Remember
when I brought those in that for the taste testing
that night, and the interiety have brownie chunks.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Fusion chief tasting officer, like I would want to wear
like some kind of cool jacket, like I'm actually in
some sort of captain's jacket or smoking jack with bars
on it and stuff like I look like, well, this
guy looks legit something something Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd
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be something that. Yeah, this is miss Hassle's coming off
the shoulders or something.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Yeah. I mean this this has made for me.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I mean this is I mean, I don't even need
accept you hate there they want you to put doesn't matter.
I'll make you do something better. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Look, Wendy's this is like an NFL team saying we
just want a head coach or a GM to come
in and do exactly what we're doing because we think
we're doing it right. That's not how you do it.
You want somebody to come in telling you. I'll tell
you what you do right. I'll tell you what you
do wrong, right or wrong. I will always tell you
the truth. The truth is always the best thing. No
matter what you say in life, the truth is always
the best thing. You always know where you stand, you
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always know what people think about you, You always know
what you think about them. The truth is always the best.
I will tell you what I like, I will tell
you what I don't like. And the first thing I
will tell you is get rid of the frosty and
improve the fries. And I love the square burgers are good.
Improve the fries. You got Improve the fries. Fries are
such a huge deal and they're not that great. Improve
the fries. There he has your two first things.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I will tell you right this Q two of twenty
twenty five, Frosty sales rose by thirty percent year over year.
They sell over three hundred million Frosty dessert treats every year.
You know why because because the the that's one of
human No, because the coffee machine is never working at McDonald's.
That's the only reason. Why can I get a moke up?
Machine's not working right now? I just wanted to.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Okay, never mind just big macmeal, diet coke, al right
that anything else?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
You'd be using the app today? No, No, I'm not
using the app. Okay, just pull around in front. Okay.
That's the only reason why people buy Frosty's. It is
because the.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
McDonald's shake machine, and the and the and the and
the frappuccino machine is never working, the only reason.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So why don't you go work for them and get
and fix those issues because they don't have a job opening, Well,
why don't you go and try to create it job?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Why are you trying to get rid of me. I'm
telling you why I want this job. You can go
work for MacDonald now all of a sudden, you want
McDonald were for McDowell's. Hey, the Golden Arcs was a
great idea, man, And putting the toppies on the toppings
on the bottom, that was genius mine.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'm gonna side with Jason here, which I never do
because if there's anybody that can do this job of
bad food tast taste testing, it's it's the King right there, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Dude, I mean, come on, man, this is like now
he's walking around with the crowd. That's the other place
that hasn't been mentioned.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
They're gonna make one just for him.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I do the lebron like I put my hands yeah
King every time they would clap when I'm walking in
out Yeah yeah, King, King right here, King right here,
Yeah Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
This is the greatest mashup. That's me, that's me, fast
food place. This is past casual dining experiences in the
history of man. I want you want to get an
animal fry in while.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
So there's never been in the history of qualification, nobody's
ever been more qualified for this job.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I would I would be the Sean McVay of food
tasting officers, where I would walk in and all of
a sudden, whoa. We didn't realize how bad it was
under Jeff Fisher. Look at us now we've won a
super Bowl where a yearly threat, I would be the
Sean McVay of this job. By the way, RAM still
always a ring that still needs to happen. Here's your applications,
Just a picture of you with two thumbs pointing at yourself.
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What has two thumbs are gonna increase your sales as
long as you feed them? This guy right here.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I mean some people have a calling to be a doctor. No,
this is your calling. You've got a lifetime of education
in this department.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I wouldn't want to be a doctor simply because I
wouldn't have to worry about fighting through all the red
tape to get paid, all the different all the different
different companies, and all of that known Oh this, no,
oh my god, No, I mean being a doctor, pay
then like I want that? No, No, I couldn't do that.
Now they're already said they're paying me. I don't have
to put that out there. Pay me one hundred grand?
Now would I say Hey, if you choose me and
you want to pay me, say seventy five grand, I'd
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be okay with that. But if they said yes, I
would realize, Wow, Wendy's needs to save twenty five grand.
Wendy's I need the four hundred grand because I need
to uh to do a little sublet opportunity, because I'm
gonna need someone to help me make some kick ass videos. Yeah,
this is I's got a couple of guys that I
know that can help me out in that regard. Now,
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I think they can them off a couple of them.
I think they just want them to create a second job. No,
I don't think they need like the big bells and
whistles like it's all you need.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I've seen these videos this week.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
All you need is a CEO of the company looking
like he's taking a really big bite out of something
and not just a tiny ass nibble. Oh so good, dude,
Come on, man, take a bite now. Now we have
an undisputed winner. And it's not because of what he ate.
It's how he described the product that was the Taco
Bell guy.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
When he talked about the meat gun and the price point,
the meat that went into the taco at the price.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I like how he said, now it is a meat gun,
but it's high quality out of it for the price
point the price point, Like, we have really high quality
meat gun meat Like that's that's like me saying, hey,
the meat out of that uh a vending machine is
really good. It's fred you want, you want to have
that meat out of the vendor. But the meat gun
a meat gun, meat gune me just sake me gun.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
How has no band done a song called meat gun?
I don't know. I mean, how was a heavy metal
band not done a song back Sabbath? Do one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Meet gone one of those guys terrified looking dudes with
the uh Ronald McDonald on lead voke? I mean, meat
gun is like made for a song, right, That's like
made for a song that, like the Kiss not licensed.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well they well, they had love Gun, and they'd probably
should have come back to meat gun, you know, years later.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
It would have been seems like they would have. I
mean they licensed everything else for a while. You can
get the casket, I.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Mean almost probably got one meat gun.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
All right, Yeah, I'm now writing this song. Hey, yeah,
I write that song for you.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Write me a song called meat Gun Yeah, meats and roses.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
She's got it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
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Speaker 1 (40:07):
Two first round picks Head to the Raiders, Max Crosby
to the Ravens. What's to make of this? Joining us now?
The hotline? Nobody better than longtime NFL insider thirty third
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Jason Cole sixty two. It is Jason Cole Jay call
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what's happening?
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Man?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Love is beautiful? Said, I just know that the biggest
news is not Max Crosby, but it's the chance that
the New York Jets could bring back Gino Smith.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Okay, for first of all, First of all, let me
just say this. Gino Smith is going to be cut
by the Raid. Of course, every quarterback is on the
Jets list, but I had to see the day Frank
Reich say, you know, she reports that, you know Frank Wright,
new Jets offensive Cordy, who of course was out of
football last year, say.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
That me, he was not out of football last year.
He was not. He was the coach of the Stanford Cardinal.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
He was out of the NFL. Sorry, he was out
of the last year out of the NFL. I was
I was gonna say something funny. Of course he's out
of football, he's the coach of Stanford. But I want
to be nice to.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
You want, but you you missed the opportunity. He should
have gone for the juggler, because I did with Gino
Smith that you're going to be buying another Geno Smith
Jersey year. No, because I Saturday there we go. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
First of all, we're getting First of all, we're getting
Derek Carr. And if we're not getting Derek Carr, we're
getting Tua. And if we're not getting Tua, hey, guess what.
According to reports today, Frank Wright might want Carson Wentz
to run his system because he knows it so well,
which means we're fully tanking in twenty twenty seven. So
I'm actually okay with that. But I could have to
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watch Carson Wentz play quarterback to the.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Last year. Yeah, and how many how many straight years
do you have? Like this is the whole point of
why you don't trade your good players, which is now
we get to the Max Crosby part of this, Like,
you can rebuild the team fairly quickly in the NFL.
You don't have to suck every year. Wasn't here the
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Jets and you're run by Woody Johnson?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah? Gee, there's no lives there, you know.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Gina, Gino, Gene, can.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
You imagine when we have a three way quarterback competition
next year between Wentz and Gino and Tua? How great
is that going to be?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Let's talk about Max Crosby. No, the first time I've
ever wanted to talking about something serious.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I can't. I can't. I can't talk about I can't
talk about the Jets in that quarterback situation. It's too vulgar.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
So okay, Jacole, am I the only one you know
we're talking about this. I would have given up more
for Max Crosby than two first round picks like this.
Guy is the the ultimate plug and play. You got
him for three or four more great years like this.
He's an absolute terror and a lunatic in the best
way possible.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah, I'm surprised the prices, it is cheap. I really
am ill the pick for some for this year. I
always thought you could have gotten to you could have
gotten one more thing out of that of like a
third round pick or a second round pick. You could
have waited it out a little bit longer. I don't
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know what the rush is for the for the Raiders
and the other side is. And I said this, you know,
in response to the story that Mike Silver wrote this
week about Alex Guero and sort of the lack of
leadership within the Raiders' organization and what's going on. I
think something needs to have a heard tart talk with
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Tom Brady and say, look, if you really want to
turn this organization around him, run and run it. You
have to be there. Well. I like Tom a lot,
and you know, obviously a great football mind and all
these other things. But either you're the owner or you're not.
(44:40):
Either you're involved in changing this or you're not. Because
the one thing that is important about ownership is that
you're there in the building on a regular basis and
that people understand that this is important to you and
that you're forcing them to, you know, to be at
the top of their game all the time when they're working.
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And what's happened is, you know, Mark Davis is you know,
I mean, look, Mark Davis is a clown and you
know cares more about the Aces at this point because
they don't embarrass him on a regular basis like the
Raiders do. But you know, Mark Davis doesn't know what
he's doing. He doesn't know how to hold people accountable.
(45:22):
He just screams at the coach all the time because
he thinks that that's the way the best way to
do business. He doesn't understand what it takes to actually
be good in football. So like you guys start all
over from the top to try and fix this thing.
And that's what Tom presumably wanted to do when he
got involved in this. But he's off doing all these
(45:43):
other things, like you know, this game that was supposed
to be in Saudi Arabia that I was actually getting
moved in, the whole TV career, and all the other
things that Tom is doing. You know, he's on social
media more than more than ever. So like go up
and run team.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
On the other side, we get the the ravens Lamar
Jackson in that next phase of his career. Still need
some offensive help, don't need to replace the center, but
defensively that was the big missing component all season long.
I mean, where do you put him in the pantheon
of the a FC now? And is Joe Burrow looking
for greener pastures to get out of the AFC North.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
It's just a matter of time before Joe Burrow realized
he's Oh, yeah, I'm in Cincinnati. Oh yeah, this is bad. Yeah,
this is good. I want to win. Like maybe I
could go to the Jets. That might actually be better.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
I don't know, best joke I've ever told. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I don't know, as I wasn't really being serious in
case you didn't realize that, but I am serious about
Joe Burrow realizing Yeah, Mike Brown, yeah that's not going
to work. I'll say, yeah, Look, I think Max Trosby
(47:09):
is a really great first step and obviously improves their
pass rush significantly. And they and they got over this
idea that you can, oh, we're just going to have
like five really good pass rushers and then looks a
lot and use you know, Kyle Hamilton a lot and
(47:29):
all these other things to fake it so that we
don't have to have a guy who's tours to drink. No,
you generally have to have a guy who stirs to drink.
You can't have a guy who's really great at it,
and you're really better off if you have two of them.
And I don't think that the Ravens yet have the
other guy that they got to get. Crosby's a great
first move. Give them a lot credit for that. I
think they need to get another guy, either into your
(47:50):
guy or guy on the other side who can be
a complimentary piece. He doesn't have to be a guy
who gets fifteen sacks this season, but the guy gets
some These guys opportunities for other people probably get somewhere
in the area of, you know, eight, nine, ten. So
I don't think that they're quite done with what they're
trying to do, but at least they broke out of
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that idea of trying to fake it until you make it, yeah,
by getting Crosby. So that's our first really good moves
to lamar Man like he just wasn't right after September,
and like we all know that the wheels eventually come
(48:33):
off when you're running quarterback. I want to see him
healthy again. I want to see him he's got to
be able to run to set up all the other
things that he wants to do now. He doesn't have
to be a guy who runs twelve times a game,
but he has to be when he takes his spots
to run, he has to be really affected because the
defense has to account for it so that you can
(48:53):
open up some other chances. I mean, I give Lamar
Jackson an incredible amount of credit for what he than
in his career to make himself a much better passer
than I ever thought he was going to become. You know,
he really really worked hard at his craft. But still
there is a fundamental part of his game that is
dependent upon his legs setting up his ability to throw.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
You weren't kidding sudden, You're like I wanted, just but serious.
You've ever been with us now when we're not, okay,
most serious? You weren't even this series we talked about
not voting for Belichick for the Hall of Fame. You
still had more time.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I did vote Belichick. Don't do that to me. I
voted for Belichick.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
I mean, I mean the colloquial you. I mean you
Hall of Fame not didn't vote for.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Belichilla jack Other people didn't vote.
Speaker 4 (49:51):
He can't speak for Tony Dungee lead him alone.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
For him, I voted for him, and I voted for
his girlfriend to make the Hall of Fame too, Yes,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
I had all kinds of Belichicks and Hudson's all down
my lady.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Yeah Belichick his daughter who's a lacrosse coach, She's in
the Hall of Fame too. I voted for every Belichick
he could possibly find. His x Y, Debbie. I don't
even think she called himself Belichick anymore. She goes in
all of them.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
But still, despite your efforts, you couldn't get Bill Belichick
into the Hall of Fame. Other players with lesser careers
you put in right away. Hey, let's let's back it
up to let other guys in. Sure, let's let Terrell
Davis and the guy at two and a half great seasons,
let's put him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
That's fine, thanks, thanks. Tarrell Davis does not have two
and a half great seasons. He had four. He had
three great seasons and one very good season. And and
look at the look at the postseason. The man had
twelve hundred and fifty yards in eight postseason games. So
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let's not go there with Drell Davis. The man was
on pace for to set an NFL rushing record in
the in playoff game situation.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
But I can't. But I can't put it. My pamp
put a guy in for stuff he didn't do, or
if he was on he was on pace to do well.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
The things that he just did, the twelve hundred and
fifty yards and however many touchdowns in eight playoff games
and the seven and one record, I can put him
in with that. Okay, thank you, mister. I want to
find a way to snipe at me a little bit
more and blame me for Belichick. I'm not the reason
Belichick didn't get in. Don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
See, I think you didn't vote for him, but you
switched your ballot with Tony Dungeye, and he's getting all
this flack right now. I think that's what happened. You
didn't vote, You crossed off his name and wrote in
your name.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
Oh yeah, that's that's that's one of the most believable
arguments you've ever made.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
I don't know you guys didn't put Belichick in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
I don't know the guy who maybe is a little
suspicious that the Chetah cheated a little bit during his game.
Maybe that guy didn't vote for him. I don't know
that for a fact. Tony has not said what he
did or didn't do. But it's much more likely in
this discussion that I'm the one telling the truths here.
Let's just say that and not you with your you know,
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Fox Space reporting.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Right now, Tony Dungee's listening to the show going Now,
I know why Cole said, hey, Tony, give me your ballot.
I'll just I'll walk up there and turn it in
for you. Now why he did that? Okay, all right, Yeah,
that's what I did. That's why, and why did he
ask me for? Why did he ask me for an eraser? Now?
Speaker 3 (52:47):
I know?
Speaker 1 (52:47):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (52:49):
With me out came out.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
And they would look at it and it would like
be like an arrested development. They would see why why
has Tony Tony spelled t O N I okay, I
guess so, alright.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Yeah, to the famous singing group whatever with loke, there
we go TJ.
Speaker 7 (53:15):
Clearly Tony Tony Tony has done it again, not putting
Belichick in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (53:21):
Maybe Tony Morrison didn't do anything either, either, So with
Tony for Tony Tony, let's forge Tony Jabel, check out
any other.
Speaker 7 (53:32):
Tonys Tony Danza, Shany Orlando, Tony.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (53:38):
TJ clearly knock three times on the ceiling if you
want to vote for him for the.
Speaker 4 (53:43):
Hall of Fame. Hey, Toma Hopkins had a good run
after that.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
He's at Jason Cole sixty two. That is, at Jason
Cole sixty two. Check them out on thirty thirteen and
whatever other famous.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Tonys you want to hit about the ribbon.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
Uh tell you an easy, buddy
Speaker 4 (54:14):
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really seen a bunch of trades. But I don't know
that anybody can win the off season more than the
Ravens have big, big NFL news. Just a few moments ago,
you had to We'll get to Aaron Judge grinding into
a double play against the high school pitcher. We'll get
to Jason Tatum and his pesky return.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
What about error?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What that didn't happen is not on TV? There's there's
no error. No, that's AI. It's all AI. That didn't
actually happen. Uh, the you should be happy, Frostburg, you
got rid of, You got the greatest pass rushers in
the last decade. Is out of your division?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Has Joe Burrow asked for a trade yet?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Joe Burrow? Yeah, Joe Burrow is uh like, why is
Joe Burrow trending on?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, because he's got to face a bunch of dudes
now twice a year.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Six games out of your season.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is just a few moments old, maybe a little
bit less than a half hour. The first big domino
of the offseason has fallen, and again the Ravens have
already won. In the offseason. The Raiders are trading Max
Crosby to the Ravens in exchange for two first round
picks twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. So now
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they're gonna pick first and fourteenth. They got a first
round pick next year, the Ravens, beating out the offer
of the Dallas Cowboys, who are willing to offer a
first and a second round pick to the Raiders for Crosby,
who when Zed goes to the Ravens, he's a big
toy for Jesse Minter. And I'll be honest, Mike Carmon,
I'm coming into tonight and I'm going I can't believe
(02:30):
no one's made this trade for Max Crosby. How is
Max Crosby still a Raider? How is Max Robiz the Raider?
I would have given up more for Max Crosby. You
are not gonna get a guy this good, still with
at least three, maybe four peak years left to wreck
havoc like he has for the past six or seven.
This is a two time All Pro and a five
(02:52):
time Pro bowler. He averages ten sacks a year. You're
not gonna get better this.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Hell yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Trade at least two first round picks to get Max Kraws.
This is it. He is the definition of a plug
and play guy. He doesn't need to be coach. He
doesn't do anything. His motor, his attitude just show up there.
It is Max, Go get the quarterback, Go do your
thing like he is. You can just pick him up,
bring him over, PLoP him down, and he is fantastic.
He wanted out of Vegas. Vegas had to make a deal.
(03:19):
I'd give him up more for him. This is a
tremendous move for the Ravens. Yes, first two first round picks.
I get it. But you're getting one of the top
edge rushers in the game the past decade, that's still
twenty eight years old. Yes, you go get Max Crossby.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, we were talking about it a little bit as
getting ready to come into the studio. It's like, you know,
I and Roddy are producer on the iWatch of Flex
and part of our team. Here he goes. The Jets
got more first Sauce Gardner like, yeah, that is that
is true because you got Adi Mitchell. He got a
couple of first round picks. Now, some of this becomes
(03:52):
the question of you know, where you're trying to do
Crosby a solid not sending him to Football Siberia if
the offers were the same. But it seems like an
opportunity to truly maximize things. And you know, conflicting reports
of how much he wanted in or out. Yes, he
was upset at the last regime for Operation Shutdown, But
could that have been remedied all of this stuff with
(04:14):
Guerrero and everything going on, and whether you got moles
and guys that are trying to exert some clout where
they had should have none and unrest there. But to
get this type of player for two draft picks. I
got like four texts from all my guys in Baltimore.
I can't read any of them because they're all so
expletive laden about picks. And I mean it takes everything
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that the rams have said, and you know they added
all the extra extra language to adjacent I mean, it's
like they'll still lay an egg in the playoffs was there,
but you've now pushed all in. You needed a pass rush.
I would have thought you would have just signed O
ways since we saw mintor unlock him here in Los Angeles.
But it doesn't preclude that move, dud. But you make
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the big push here and you go get the guy.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
He's a terror. Max Crosby is an absolute terror. He
is a lunatic in the best way possible, right like
his attitude, the edge he plays with. Nobody likes playing
against him. Look, it's my favorite Max Crosby story of
all Tart the last all the things he has done.
My favorite Max Crosby story is from not this preseason,
(05:24):
but last preseason when the Raiders had a joint practice
with the Rams. And you know, joint practice, you don't
hit the quarterback. You let him go, and if it
looks like the play is getting close, you know, they
blow the whistle so the quarterback doesn't get hurt. Right,
this is how you do it. And Matthew Stafford telling
the story after their joint practice, how mad he got
because Max Crosby kept getting in the backfield and yelling
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sack sack sack, like you gotta blow the blade dead
because I want to sack Matthew Stafford and he goes,
we can't even run place. He's this lunatics running around
in the back of sack sack sack like. That's my
favorite Max Crosby. He a lunatic in the best way.
He can wreck a game all by himself. There's not enough.
I mean, I don't know, three first round pick. Sure
(06:08):
I would have because I'm saying, how many years am
I gonna get out of him? That are gonna be great?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You don't know what could happen, obviously, but in theory,
he's twenty eight, I'm gonna get three four great years
out of him. He is that big of a talent,
you know. To go back to less Need, who said
the other day when the Rams made that big trade
for McDuffie, was the first thing we do is look
and say, are there any all pros we can get?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And that's a great way to look at it. Because
free agency this year especially, you look at the people
out there.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Not a great year.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Man, people are gonna overpay for some duds in free agency. Man,
I'm telling you, but who.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Do you look?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Okay? What all pros are there out there to go get?
This is the guy to go get. I can't believe
it did. It took this long, and I can't believe
Tom Brady couldn't get more from Max Crosby than this.
I really am stunned, because you're right, the Jets did
get more for Sauce Gardener. We had two first round
picks and and ad Ni Mitchell. Right, they almost it's
almost very similar to what other defensive players without Max
(07:02):
Crosby's pedigree have gone for in a trade the last
couple of years. And I really I don't get I
get that Max Crosby wanted out. I get that the Raiders,
you know, had to move on from him. I completely understand.
I'm not saying the Raiders should have kept him because
it went past the point of no return with his
injury at the end of the year last year, and
he was upset when the Raiders sent him home. He
(07:24):
didn't want to go home. He wanted to play. I mean,
you could have easily blamed it on Pete Carroll and
said he's not our coach anymore. But I mean that
was a big thing, and that was really the beginning
of the end for Max Crosby. But you could have
held on this. This is a plug and play guy, man.
I mean you could have. You could held on to him,
and you could have gone closer to the draft than
you could have got more because this is the guy
that you go out and pay that for, right, This
(07:45):
is this is what you go out guys like Max
Crosby and Micah Parsons, this is what you go out
and trade for him. I mean, I can't. I mean,
you're right, Frostburg, the Raven's still gonna find a way
to blow it in the playoffs. But I can't say
enough about how big a move this is right now.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, I think as you look at it for the
Ravens you're in that you gotta win now, Right, Lamar
Jackson is now going towards the back end of that
first decade in the league, and we have no guarantees
it's going to age well. Right, you see the mobility
starts to come down, the injuries start to mount, all
of those things that add up to an issue. Now
(08:22):
they still have to go find some receivers for Jackson
to throw to. But you solve one of the biggest
problems you had last year. You had no pass rush whatsoever.
Every week I would do my spot in Baltimore and
we'd be talking about that deficiency. And one of them,
and I already mentioned his name once, was Oway, who
had been there and hadn't been able to do much
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of anything as a pass rusher. And he showed up
in Los Angeles and all of a sudden, he's he's
going He's a holy terror against opposing quarterbacks on occasion.
So you're looking at trying to maximize what's left of
Lamar Jackson's window, which means you push all in to
the less need comment, Yeah, you go get the player.
Someone else wants to try to go one hundred percent
(09:04):
on those picks. Have at it, Ravens. This is as
low as they've picked. What was it twenty twenty two
when they picked Kyle Hamilton and Linderbaum. Well, Linderbom's gonna
end up somewhere, maybe actually in Nevada as their new center,
but otherwise they were picking in the twenties and low
twenties for years. So you go and push that away. Okay, go,
(09:25):
if you think you can strike gold, go mining. Have
at it. We'll take the player. And for the Ravens,
you know, we talk about the changing of the head coach.
We talk about these near misses, and there have been
near misses, but guess what, they all count the same.
A loss is a loss. You tell me about a
bad punt return, you tell me about a drop pass
(09:48):
or a field goal miss, whatever, they all count the same.
It's it's an l and you all went home, which means,
don't leave it to the margins and go find an
impact playmaker. And as we've chronicled, Extend and sib Leland
will continue to do so as the new year league
year starts. Man, how many free agents do you look
at and go, yep, that's the guy. Linder Balm's the
(10:08):
only guy that you've been able to say that. Everybody
else is all right, system fit. What's the ceiling? So
go get Max Crosby. Whether he's he'll be really happy
to go to Baltimore. I mean, you talk about winning
culture and getting away from l after l as much
as he was wanting to be a Raider for life.
(10:29):
He'll have to get that tattoo changed, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But oh, that's easy. I think that I think that's
part of the deal. And you're gonna pay to change
my tattoo. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, we got the best
guy at Baltimore. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We can make lind up.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
We can make that shield into a crab easy.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We'll pick you up at the airport. Make sure that happens.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I mean, look, you look at last year. You remember
the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Last year they were really kind of you want to say,
done in by the first half of the season when
their defense was absolutely abysmal. Right, it was like, how
is the defense this bad? How are they giving up
forty points to Buffalo, and then you know, thirty eight
points to Detroit thirty seven of Kansas City forty forty
Houston thirty six is awful in a row like this
(11:12):
is awful. But that's the start that what killed their
season because then after the bye week they fixed it.
They had won five in a row. They come down
to the final week of the season for the AFC
North with Pittsburgh. Their defense plays a little bit better. Overall,
they played better. They fixed a lot of that bye week.
I don't know that there was a team that had
a better bye week adjustment last year than the Ravens did.
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But now you're hitting the ground running, new start, new things,
new energy, and now you have probably you're talking about
the second most talented person that the Ravens have had
in the Lamar Jackson era on this team, Max Crosby. Look,
Derek Henry's terrific, right, I love Derek Henry. Max Crosby
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is the second most talented player that they have had
Lamar Jackson run. And that's a huge deal when you
have guys on either side of the ball like this.
Now I can't get over there, and this is a
division that is there for the taking because Cincinnati. You
know what kind of problems they have. The Browns always
have problems, right, Pittsburgh didn't even know who their quarterback's
(12:17):
gonna be because Aaron Rodgers is sitting out again waiting
like this was the Ravens taking a big move and saying, hey,
we're gonna grab hold of the AFC North right now.
And again, I don't know what the rest of the
offseason is gonna hold. I don't know who's gonna be
able to take somebody somewhere else where. Everybody's going free agency,
but free agency ain't that great. And I can't believe
a team's gonna ace the draft more. But I'll tell
(12:38):
you they should win the division. They should be a
big playoff threat. It's not gonna get any better than
the Ravens getting Max Crossby.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, we'll get deeper into the Raiders side of things,
because well, now you got a couple more bites at
the proverbial apple that you have to get right in
this whole reset. But yeah, for the Ravens, it's everything.
And I'm only half kidding about our guy Joe, because
he's got to be looking around. What did I do
to deserve you?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, well, that's all right. Joe's got some time to
get out. It's okay, Cincinnati, they drafted me, He's got
some time.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Wait a minute, this wasn't my choice.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
This is like every other week. I have to be
staring over my left shoulder, looking at the looking at
my blind side like every.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Single in his offensive reality stunk every year too. So yeah,
here's another two weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Good luck, Joe Burrow, good luck.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
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Speaker 1 (13:38):
On hand taking in the big fifteen to five win
MLB Network insider Extraordinary John Paul Morosi, who is going
to actually produce a documentary detailing all of the walks
that Team USA had tonight, John Paul, good luck.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
There were a lot of walks, There's no question about it.
And sometimes you get those moments in a World Baseball
Classic where a team with perhaps a little less pitching
depth than what the Americans have end up having to
go to some relievers that can't locate the baseball. And
yet in the same night you also get Aaron Judge
(14:21):
homering in his very first World World Baseball Classic. At bat,
you get Lucas Ramirez, son of Manny Ramirez, homering twice.
You get young Joseph Contreras getting Bobby Witt Junior, or
rather getting judged to ground into a double play. You
get Thomas Lopez from Columbia University striking out Bobby Witt Junior.
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So you just have all these amazing moments within the
larger continuum, and at the end of the day, of course,
a team USA with a rather emphatic victory on the
final score line, even though there were some nervy moments
in the middle. So the US wins, Mexico wins, and
all things remain pointing to a pretty big showdown in
this tournament between the US and Mexico on Monday night
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here in Houston.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You know, that's what I like about the World Baseball Classic,
John Paul, because watching the announcers say things like and
here is Joseph Contrera, seventeen year old out of high school.
He's missing ap English, a big test this week to
be here. He's got the big Spring Bakeoff fundraiser coming up. Boy,
what a great time for him. His team is going
(15:30):
to be in the district playoffs when he gets back
to high school. Here he is against Aaron Judge with
the bases loaded like it's just insane when you hear that,
noting things like that, I love.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
It and I love it. And again, there's plenty of time.
There's plenty of time for conversations about games during the season,
when they call somebody up from Triple A or they
call somebody up from Double A.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
We're calling up.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Guys from high school in this tournament. And again, by
the time you get to the end, and it's maybe
the US and the Dominicans or the US and Japan,
these are matchups that we're familiar with and and that
won't be as much of a surprise. But until that happens,
you have to sort of accept that there will be
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the equivalent of the number one seed against the number
sixteen seed in the in the NCAA tournament. And again
you get you get your one shining moment at the end.
To borrow the basketball March Madness theme, and you get
the same thing here. So this is this was the
one versus the sixteen today and and yet there were
some moments that Brazil could feel very proud of and
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and hopefully helps them grow the game a bit in
their country because they get a chance to play em
USA on this stage for the first time. Of course,
the last time they played in the Classic they were
over in Japan, so it's it's a different story for
them and and winning for them even when you lose
on the scoreboard. Winning looks like the moments that we
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saw tonight.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Obviously, I'm concerned with the lack of operational efficiency even
though they covered the nine and a half run differential here. Yeah,
turn more of these into runs here JP. But in
all seriousness, all the legacy players Ramirez, Bishett Junior, Contreras,
all of this stuff like, that's the other part of
it one. It reminds me I'm old. But talking about
the next generation coming up and being put on the
(17:22):
big display as well. One of the other great subplots
to this tourney.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yes, and Bobby wod Junior, by the way, on the
American side, we were actually talking about that on our
World Feed broadcast and how the rosters were all coming
together in the familiar names. Actually, tonight I got a
chance to speak to Manny Ramirez. I went up to
the crowd and talk to Manny. He actually told me
that it was his dream as a kid to be
(17:46):
a left handed hitter. Of course he was, and he
batted right hand and one of the best right handed
swings ever. And so he deliberately taught his son to
bat left handed because he wanted to do it and
didn't have a chance to. And he actually told he
told me, he said, I had my son watch a
lot of video of David Ortiz, not his own video,
(18:10):
but Big five.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
And then when I talked to Jose, I said, hey,
what were you thinking when your son was facing Aaron
Judge And he says to me in Spanish, he said,
my heart was racing and I was praying. Those are
the two things. He said. My heart was racing and
I was praying. And obviously it all worked out. He
got the double play ball, and he said, certainly, yeah,
you know, he would have liked to have seen maybe
(18:33):
a couple of different pitches located. But my goodness, Jose
was so proud of his son. He sounded like both
a pitching coach and a dad in that moment. Was
just really really thrilled to be able to congratulate Jose
in person. Of course, they were like sitting one section apart,
like Manny was sitting here and then contre was sitting there.
Of course, on opposite sides of the Yankee Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Rivalry at one point in time.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Just a really special, special day all the way around.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Now, John Paul am I okay, because because neither Justin
nor Mike liked that, I'm going to say this, but
my dad is the biggest Yankee fan in the world.
Me being the Mets fan, I always want to take
a chance to tweak him. I think I'm completely within
my rights to say to him, Dad, your era judge
can't even hit high school pitching. And I'm telling the truth.
I'm not I'm not trying. I'm telling the truth when
(19:22):
I say something, Well.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Hey, listen, it's a it's a round bat and a
round ball, and you never know where it's going to
go from here to there. He did at a home
run that just land into my hotel room in the
first sitting, So that was pretty good. I thought in
the nearly homer to center field as well. So I
thought judges that baths overall were really good. Again, like,
(19:45):
what's the probably talking about that double play for a while,
it'll it'll be something that people mentioned, but in general,
I thought Aaron had excellent at bats And again, he's
the captain of this team. He's he's the one that
Mark the Ross is looking to to set the tone,
and I think he's done a great job of that
so far. You can really tell how much the players
are enjoying being his teammate, and that includes Harper, that
(20:09):
includes Schooble. These guys all love being together and I
do think that they've become a true team in a
very short amount of time and that bond certainly, it
gets stronger when you win, and that to me is
the is the next big question. What can they finish
this off? Can they win one more game than they
did last time around? And I think that will be
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the true test of the success of this team USA.
At the twenty twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Classes pull back, obviously, the greatness and excitement of the
each nation, the crowd as they're walking in and you're
experiencing the folks they're in Houston. What's the general atmosphere there?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Jp out Benning, I thought that and honestly, the first
crowd for the Mexico Great Britain game was fantastic, certainly
very very pro Mexico, which will be the case, I'm
sure when Mexico plays the US. I think that's going
to be probably a fifty five forty five matchup, maybe
sixty forty in favorite of Mexico. But I thought both
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crowds were excellent. I think that the crowd was up
in the upper midter upper thirties for the US game.
Not quite a sellout, but loud, really engaged. Houston's a
great place to play this and I've been in Houston
a lot over my life. The people here are amazing
and they do a very good job of hosting big events,
Final Four, Super Bowl, obviously a lot of World Series.
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It's almost surprising it's taken this long for a World
Baseball Classes to come here is of course it's the
sixth edition, but I think that Miami is a phenomenal
place to host it. The ballpark here in Houston is
I think it's. The amenities for the fans really good.
I think it's a great place to watch a game,
really great atmosphere. So there are a lot of wonder
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the ballparks that you could host this event at. Certainly
seen it in California, before San Francisco, La San Diego,
ben in Arizona. I just think this is one of
the better atmospheres to play it in. And I'm really
glad Houston's got its opportunity and it's going to have
that great blend. And when you get Mexico in the
US at Saint Pool, you're going to really draw well
for both teams. And I think those games, especially when
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Mexico plays at night on Sunday against Brazil, when they
play against the US, when they play against Italy and
which should be a really important game, I think we'll
get three great crowds out of those Mexico games that
are all happening in the evening.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
John Paul Morose, the MLB Network insider from Houston, as
he took in the United States, is fifteen to five
win over Brazil. Now looking at the one game I
would obviously have the one game to look at tonight.
The lineup looks incredible. The lineup looks locked in. They
didn't chase bad pitches. They took what was there for them.
If I said to you, hey, your biggest concern for
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the United States, is it the bullpen? Is it the
lack of depth starting pitching wise, especially, School is gonna
play one game and out, Like, what would you say
would be the biggest uh, the biggest thing for the
United States going forward.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
It's a great question. And I'll say this, there is
nothing roster related that worries me. I really, I don't.
I don't have a worry if if if there's any
if they don't win, it's not it will not be
because of there's that there's a flaw on this roster.
The roster is about as well constructed as you could
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possibly imagine. I like, there's some youth there. Terrang is
a little younger, Anthony is a little younger, and then
the rest the rest of the group. There's just there's
no way that anyone could argue with really any of
the selections in my opinions, and even pitching wise, it's
interesting the you know walk up pitch so well, uh
Web I thought was really good. Of course he gave
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up the early homer, but that was it, uh Like,
no hits after that. So I think in general, you know,
maybe they're still a way for School to stay around
for one more start. I'd love to see it. I
know a lot of people were on the game. Would
love to see it. Certainly he has started. He's starting
early enough to be able to come back, So I'm
not gonna say starting pitching is a concern because I
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thought Web was really good. They've got really good piggyback situations.
Now I like what I'm seeing, and so I really
I have no concerns, just outside of the randomness of
baseball and how the best team doesn't always win. There's
nothing to really be worried about with this team. And
I thought Miller tonight maybe wasn't the most efficient inning
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to start, but he's able to rescue it. So I
think tm USA chucked a lot of boxes. It was
a really successful first night for them.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I used to watch Chinese type Ai dominate the Little
League World Series on ABC's Wide World of Sports as
a kid. They got drubed thirteen nothing show Hayo Todi
with the Grand Slam. Are we going for the crash
course eventually to meet up with Japan in the final?
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Not necessarily, because I think that the Azuela's got a
really good team. The Dominicans have a really good team.
Mexico is a scary team I think for a lot
of people, So I actually I do agree with the
premise that the US probably has the best roster in
this tournament, the second best. I think. Again, Japan plays
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in this tournament so well, They've got the best player
in the planet. Maybe not quite as dominant as starting
staff as they had last time.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
But it's still really good.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
But I put the Dominicans right in the same class,
and I thought Venezuela had a really, really impressive first
first game as well, So for me, I don't look
at it as inevitable at all. I think it's important
to point out that we've had five classics in the past,
and US versus Japan has been the final game exactly
once and that was last time. So I don't see
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it as being inevitable. I think it's possible, maybe even likely,
but not inevitable because of the quality of the Dominicans,
the Venezuelans, the Mexicans, a lot of teams that I
think we have not even heard the best from yet
that could potentially be spoiler. And you mentioned the struggles
of the Taiwanese team against Japan. I think the one
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team minute that could emerge from that pool. It's going
to be a great matchup between Korea and Australia more
than likely that will decide the second bid out of
the Tokyo Pool. And I think those are two really
good teams that are that are I think that have
taken big steps since the last Classic.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi from the World Baseball Classic in Houston. John Paul
enjoyed the weekend. We'll talk to you next week where
maybe the United States will be facing a fourteen or
fifteen year old pitcher at some point.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I think it's this mark my words, my friends, this
will be the easiest game the Americans play all tournament.
It will only get harder from here.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Take it easy, buddy, enjoy the way. We'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Good guys, all the best.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Things you jp.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
If you swallow the ending, it works all right.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, you can make any almost work with the proper
beat that kind of comes over that second syllable.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You can. You can make that happen.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, but we are and I keep my fingers scrawled,
you know. I always like to say I say this
out loud and we make it happen. You know, the
last couple of nights you said, hey, look, you know
it's a it's a good night in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
When there's ten games.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
If we get one of them, that's close, right, because
this is the air of the NBA we're in right now, right,
we don't get close games now and this doesn't happen. Hey,
we got some close games about that. Yeah, Hey, we
got the Warriors and the Rockets at one on one
a piece with one tenth of a second left in
the fourth quarter, Piston Spurs, third quarter, eight point game,
still a good game. So okay, we're all right with
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that magic beat the Mavericks one fifteen, one fourteen, or.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
We got some close guys. I say it.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I'm can make it happen, Mike car and make it
put it out there in the universe. This is why
when Frostburg says stuff like good at jitsu, getting Derek Carr.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Like, I'm worried that's actually going to tell me they aren't.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That's we're getting get into. We're getting to a end,
Derek Carr Hackenberg. But that's the problem. The level of
success means that some of the inane things that we
shout out just to get under your skin or you
guys do to get under mind, some of those are
gonna come true. Just the track record has just been
so good. Now, there was a foul call that was
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being reviewed in the final seconds of that Rockets Warriors
game where Kevin Durant challenged and got ball, but as
he did the follow through, you got some some contact
and instead, well, now we get our end game where
we've got point three left and an inbounds play to
to try to win it.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
But yeah, chaos, we got close games.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Man.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The over under we we hope for in a full
slate is one and a half.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Audam, the dude, you go right to the betting so fast.
I know something is up with you. That's the bed
that you're gambling on it.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I know you're gambling.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know you're like an out of control gambling now
you must be because you go it's no longer like, hey,
you know, I want to be up on this because
gambling is a bigger deal now, and we talked about
you go straight to it, man, like it's your first thing.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
It's like me.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It used to wake up in the morning, going, what
do I want something chocolate? It's eight thirty. Yeah, yeah,
I gotta have something chocolate right now.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I gotta wake up. That hasn't changed. You go, you
go right, you go right to the gambling.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Now chocolate is going away. It's not even closing. No,
And I wait, I wait till chocolate l.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, you did usually the right side of ten, you know, yeah, right,
sou because you're normally not getting up till about ten,
so I mean straight out of bed.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
But let's not let let's not conflate this. And you go.
You go right to the gambling so fast.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Now it's almost like I feel like any conversation that
you might have off the air goes right to gambling.
How you doing tonight? I well, you know, you know,
it was it was, it was, you know, it was.
It was eight to one. The sun was going to
be out by ten o'clock to morning, and now you
know we had it. We had the sun at seven thirty.
So I'm feeling pretty happy. You know, tomorrow next couple
of days is going to be kind of a gloomy day,
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so I wouldn't go sun tomorrow. But you know, Son,
today was a right call. Do you have the odds
on Jason leaving us for Wendy's in the next week.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh, that's that's even money right now. Okay, Wendy's might
actually be be a slight favorite. You know, let's talk
about this for a second. Okay, before we get.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
This's got a big deal.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
This is the big story developing after a week of chaos.
I in the fast casual kind of dining experience. I
always say, there's very little jobs that would be open
to me that I would leave doing this for right,
very little. Like if you said to me, you could
be the play by play voice of the match. You
have to travel to the pesky away games. Okay, I
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do all the home games. Yeah, I would do it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If I could just make me my you know, my
big what I do every off season where I invite
NFL coaches and we go over time management two minutes
of games coaches that need that. And make a lot
of money at that. But it's kind of a side hustle.
But if I could turn into a full time gig,
absolutely hundred percent certain gigs and now I found one
that maybe now here. This is the best part is
I could still do this because it's an at home thing,
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and I already put out on social media for it.
I'm just waiting for the paperwork. Wendy's is looking for someone.
They want to pay one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
A year or two. Yeah, one one hundred grand.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, yes, they want someone to become their chief tasting officer. Okay,
they're offering one hundred grand, and is a way to
apply and everything else. It's a remote position. Don't have
to move, just have to wherever you are. Just let
them know where you live. We'll miss you, Jase, and you.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Will be well. I can still do it. I can
still both get Oh yeah, yea yea yah yeah yeah.
They would love it.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
You kidding because I would say I talk about it
on the air full time. Oh can I do that?
I don't know if I can.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
But for one hundred grand, you will get a contract
with Wendy's and you will be hired to create promotional
content for Wendy's, such as taste testing videos. So basically,
they're gonna pay you to taste test food and talk
about it.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I don't pay for it. I might have to fight
you for this job.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Come on, man, because I get to promote the frost
you'd have to promote the frost You remember that you
hate it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I could say you.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Hate up and say, hey, you know what, No frosty,
here's my thing. No frostys are terrible.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Big component of the Wendy's menu. Dude, you want it
is perhaps as iconic as anything like God. Not iconic
except for Dave Thomas himself. It's frozen.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It's frozen ice cream that they put in a cup
that's impossible to eat. You have to get a drink
in addition to getting a frost that's it. It's a
it's a dessert treat. It is not a misake.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I'd say you want to pass McDonald's, get rid of
the frosty. Give me something that's.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Torpedoed your applicational radio. They're looking the iHeartRadio ad. They
want something you heard the phrase telling truth to power.
They want someone that's going to tell them that. Say listen,
whatever Thomas person is here in this room, get rid
of the frosty. But I'm gonna tell you you're nuts.
One hundred grand a year to be a taste tester
for Wendy's. I don't even go to Wendy's.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
That much.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I would do if you have to taste test frosties,
Oh I can still do it.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
No, I just just marriage there.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
My honest opinion, I would say, yeah, not a fan,
but you want me to taste, I taste it. They're
not gonna want everybody to tell me what they don't
want toybody to just tell them, Hey, your food is great.
Obviously you're looking for something outside the box. I'll tell
you the truth about your food.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Man. Again, I'm not gonna steer you wrong. But they've
just had a giant promotion about their new Fusion Frosty.
It's a fusion menu, yeah, really a fusion focus. Well,
I mean basically it's taking uh it's some version of
a blizzard or whatever else you insert whatever fast food chain,
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fast casual that you have, and you know, say with
Girl Scout cookies are part of what they do. Remember
when I brought those in that for the taste testing
that night, and the interiety have brownie chunks.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Fusion chief tasting officer, like I would want to wear
like some kind of cool jacket, like I'm actually in
some sort of captain's jacket or smoking jack with bars
on it and stuff like I look like, well, this
guy looks legit something something Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd
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be something that. Yeah, this is miss Hassle's coming off
the shoulders or something.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Yeah. I mean this this has made for me.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I mean this is I mean, I don't even need
accept you hate there they want you to put doesn't matter.
I'll make you do something better. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Look, Wendy's this is like an NFL team saying we
just want a head coach or a GM to come
in and do exactly what we're doing because we think
we're doing it right. That's not how you do it.
You want somebody to come in telling you. I'll tell
you what you do right. I'll tell you what you
do wrong, right or wrong. I will always tell you
the truth. The truth is always the best thing. No
matter what you say in life, the truth is always
the best thing. You always know where you stand, you
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always know what people think about you, You always know
what you think about them. The truth is always the best.
I will tell you what I like, I will tell
you what I don't like. And the first thing I
will tell you is get rid of the frosty and
improve the fries. And I love the square burgers are good.
Improve the fries. You got Improve the fries. Fries are
such a huge deal and they're not that great. Improve
the fries. There he has your two first things.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I will tell you right this Q two of twenty
twenty five, Frosty sales rose by thirty percent year over year.
They sell over three hundred million Frosty dessert treats every year.
You know why because because the the that's one of
human No, because the coffee machine is never working at McDonald's.
That's the only reason. Why can I get a moke up?
Machine's not working right now? I just wanted to.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Okay, never mind just big macmeal, diet coke, al right
that anything else?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
You'd be using the app today? No, No, I'm not
using the app. Okay, just pull around in front. Okay.
That's the only reason why people buy Frosty's. It is
because the.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
McDonald's shake machine, and the and the and the and
the frappuccino machine is never working, the only reason.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So why don't you go work for them and get
and fix those issues because they don't have a job opening, Well,
why don't you go and try to create it job?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Why are you trying to get rid of me. I'm
telling you why I want this job. You can go
work for MacDonald now all of a sudden, you want
McDonald were for McDowell's. Hey, the Golden Arcs was a
great idea, man, And putting the toppies on the toppings
on the bottom, that was genius mine.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'm gonna side with Jason here, which I never do
because if there's anybody that can do this job of
bad food tast taste testing, it's it's the King right there, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Dude, I mean, come on, man, this is like now
he's walking around with the crowd. That's the other place
that hasn't been mentioned.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
They're gonna make one just for him.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I do the lebron like I put my hands yeah
King every time they would clap when I'm walking in
out Yeah yeah, King, King right here, King right here,
Yeah Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
This is the greatest mashup. That's me, that's me, fast
food place. This is past casual dining experiences in the
history of man. I want you want to get an
animal fry in while.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
So there's never been in the history of qualification, nobody's
ever been more qualified for this job.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I would I would be the Sean McVay of food
tasting officers, where I would walk in and all of
a sudden, whoa. We didn't realize how bad it was
under Jeff Fisher. Look at us now we've won a
super Bowl where a yearly threat, I would be the
Sean McVay of this job. By the way, RAM still
always a ring that still needs to happen. Here's your applications,
Just a picture of you with two thumbs pointing at yourself.
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What has two thumbs are gonna increase your sales as
long as you feed them? This guy right here.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I mean some people have a calling to be a doctor. No,
this is your calling. You've got a lifetime of education
in this department.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I wouldn't want to be a doctor simply because I
wouldn't have to worry about fighting through all the red
tape to get paid, all the different all the different
different companies, and all of that known Oh this, no,
oh my god, No, I mean being a doctor, pay
then like I want that? No, No, I couldn't do that.
Now they're already said they're paying me. I don't have
to put that out there. Pay me one hundred grand?
Now would I say Hey, if you choose me and
you want to pay me, say seventy five grand, I'd
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be okay with that. But if they said yes, I
would realize, Wow, Wendy's needs to save twenty five grand.
Wendy's I need the four hundred grand because I need
to uh to do a little sublet opportunity, because I'm
gonna need someone to help me make some kick ass videos. Yeah,
this is I's got a couple of guys that I
know that can help me out in that regard. Now,
(38:05):
I think they can them off a couple of them.
I think they just want them to create a second job. No,
I don't think they need like the big bells and
whistles like it's all you need.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I've seen these videos this week.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
All you need is a CEO of the company looking
like he's taking a really big bite out of something
and not just a tiny ass nibble. Oh so good, dude,
Come on, man, take a bite now. Now we have
an undisputed winner. And it's not because of what he ate.
It's how he described the product that was the Taco
Bell guy.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
When he talked about the meat gun and the price point,
the meat that went into the taco at the price.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I like how he said, now it is a meat gun,
but it's high quality out of it for the price
point the price point, Like, we have really high quality
meat gun meat Like that's that's like me saying, hey,
the meat out of that uh a vending machine is
really good. It's fred you want, you want to have
that meat out of the vendor. But the meat gun
a meat gun, meat gune me just sake me gun.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
How has no band done a song called meat gun?
I don't know. I mean, how was a heavy metal
band not done a song back Sabbath? Do one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Meet gone one of those guys terrified looking dudes with
the uh Ronald McDonald on lead voke? I mean, meat
gun is like made for a song, right, That's like
made for a song that, like the Kiss not licensed.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well they well, they had love Gun, and they'd probably
should have come back to meat gun, you know, years later.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
It would have been seems like they would have. I
mean they licensed everything else for a while. You can
get the casket, I.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Mean almost probably got one meat gun.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
All right, Yeah, I'm now writing this song. Hey, yeah,
I write that song for you.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Write me a song called meat Gun Yeah, meats and roses.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
She's got it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
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Speaker 1 (40:07):
Two first round picks Head to the Raiders, Max Crosby
to the Ravens. What's to make of this? Joining us now?
The hotline? Nobody better than longtime NFL insider thirty third
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Jason Cole sixty two. It is Jason Cole Jay call
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what's happening?
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Man?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Love is beautiful? Said, I just know that the biggest
news is not Max Crosby, but it's the chance that
the New York Jets could bring back Gino Smith.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Okay, for first of all, First of all, let me
just say this. Gino Smith is going to be cut
by the Raid. Of course, every quarterback is on the
Jets list, but I had to see the day Frank
Reich say, you know, she reports that, you know Frank Wright,
new Jets offensive Cordy, who of course was out of
football last year, say.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
That me, he was not out of football last year.
He was not. He was the coach of the Stanford Cardinal.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
He was out of the NFL. Sorry, he was out
of the last year out of the NFL. I was
I was gonna say something funny. Of course he's out
of football, he's the coach of Stanford. But I want
to be nice to.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
You want, but you you missed the opportunity. He should
have gone for the juggler, because I did with Gino
Smith that you're going to be buying another Geno Smith
Jersey year. No, because I Saturday there we go. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
First of all, we're getting First of all, we're getting
Derek Carr. And if we're not getting Derek Carr, we're
getting Tua. And if we're not getting Tua, hey, guess what.
According to reports today, Frank Wright might want Carson Wentz
to run his system because he knows it so well,
which means we're fully tanking in twenty twenty seven. So
I'm actually okay with that. But I could have to
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watch Carson Wentz play quarterback to the.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Last year. Yeah, and how many how many straight years
do you have? Like this is the whole point of
why you don't trade your good players, which is now
we get to the Max Crosby part of this, Like,
you can rebuild the team fairly quickly in the NFL.
You don't have to suck every year. Wasn't here the
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Jets and you're run by Woody Johnson?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah? Gee, there's no lives there, you know.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Gina, Gino, Gene, can.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
You imagine when we have a three way quarterback competition
next year between Wentz and Gino and Tua? How great
is that going to be?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Let's talk about Max Crosby. No, the first time I've
ever wanted to talking about something serious.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I can't. I can't. I can't talk about I can't
talk about the Jets in that quarterback situation. It's too vulgar.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
So okay, Jacole, am I the only one you know
we're talking about this. I would have given up more
for Max Crosby than two first round picks like this.
Guy is the the ultimate plug and play. You got
him for three or four more great years like this.
He's an absolute terror and a lunatic in the best
way possible.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah, I'm surprised the prices, it is cheap. I really
am ill the pick for some for this year. I
always thought you could have gotten to you could have
gotten one more thing out of that of like a
third round pick or a second round pick. You could
have waited it out a little bit longer. I don't
(43:58):
know what the rush is for the for the Raiders
and the other side is. And I said this, you know,
in response to the story that Mike Silver wrote this
week about Alex Guero and sort of the lack of
leadership within the Raiders' organization and what's going on. I
think something needs to have a heard tart talk with
(44:20):
Tom Brady and say, look, if you really want to
turn this organization around him, run and run it. You
have to be there. Well. I like Tom a lot,
and you know, obviously a great football mind and all
these other things. But either you're the owner or you're not.
(44:40):
Either you're involved in changing this or you're not. Because
the one thing that is important about ownership is that
you're there in the building on a regular basis and
that people understand that this is important to you and
that you're forcing them to, you know, to be at
the top of their game all the time when they're working.
(45:01):
And what's happened is, you know, Mark Davis is you know,
I mean, look, Mark Davis is a clown and you
know cares more about the Aces at this point because
they don't embarrass him on a regular basis like the
Raiders do. But you know, Mark Davis doesn't know what
he's doing. He doesn't know how to hold people accountable.
(45:22):
He just screams at the coach all the time because
he thinks that that's the way the best way to
do business. He doesn't understand what it takes to actually
be good in football. So like you guys start all
over from the top to try and fix this thing.
And that's what Tom presumably wanted to do when he
got involved in this. But he's off doing all these
(45:43):
other things, like you know, this game that was supposed
to be in Saudi Arabia that I was actually getting
moved in, the whole TV career, and all the other
things that Tom is doing. You know, he's on social
media more than more than ever. So like go up
and run team.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
On the other side, we get the the ravens Lamar
Jackson in that next phase of his career. Still need
some offensive help, don't need to replace the center, but
defensively that was the big missing component all season long.
I mean, where do you put him in the pantheon
of the a FC now? And is Joe Burrow looking
for greener pastures to get out of the AFC North.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
It's just a matter of time before Joe Burrow realized
he's Oh, yeah, I'm in Cincinnati. Oh yeah, this is bad. Yeah,
this is good. I want to win. Like maybe I
could go to the Jets. That might actually be better.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
I don't know, best joke I've ever told. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I don't know, as I wasn't really being serious in
case you didn't realize that, but I am serious about
Joe Burrow realizing Yeah, Mike Brown, yeah that's not going
to work. I'll say, yeah, Look, I think Max Trosby
(47:09):
is a really great first step and obviously improves their
pass rush significantly. And they and they got over this
idea that you can, oh, we're just going to have
like five really good pass rushers and then looks a
lot and use you know, Kyle Hamilton a lot and
(47:29):
all these other things to fake it so that we
don't have to have a guy who's tours to drink. No,
you generally have to have a guy who stirs to drink.
You can't have a guy who's really great at it,
and you're really better off if you have two of them.
And I don't think that the Ravens yet have the
other guy that they got to get. Crosby's a great
first move. Give them a lot credit for that. I
think they need to get another guy, either into your
(47:50):
guy or guy on the other side who can be
a complimentary piece. He doesn't have to be a guy
who gets fifteen sacks this season, but the guy gets
some These guys opportunities for other people probably get somewhere
in the area of, you know, eight, nine, ten. So
I don't think that they're quite done with what they're
trying to do, but at least they broke out of
(48:11):
that idea of trying to fake it until you make it, yeah,
by getting Crosby. So that's our first really good moves
to lamar Man like he just wasn't right after September,
and like we all know that the wheels eventually come
(48:33):
off when you're running quarterback. I want to see him
healthy again. I want to see him he's got to
be able to run to set up all the other
things that he wants to do now. He doesn't have
to be a guy who runs twelve times a game,
but he has to be when he takes his spots
to run, he has to be really affected because the
defense has to account for it so that you can
(48:53):
open up some other chances. I mean, I give Lamar
Jackson an incredible amount of credit for what he than
in his career to make himself a much better passer
than I ever thought he was going to become. You know,
he really really worked hard at his craft. But still
there is a fundamental part of his game that is
dependent upon his legs setting up his ability to throw.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
You weren't kidding sudden, You're like I wanted, just but serious.
You've ever been with us now when we're not, okay,
most serious? You weren't even this series we talked about
not voting for Belichick for the Hall of Fame. You
still had more time.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I did vote Belichick. Don't do that to me. I
voted for Belichick.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
I mean, I mean the colloquial you. I mean you
Hall of Fame not didn't vote for.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Belichilla jack Other people didn't vote.
Speaker 4 (49:51):
He can't speak for Tony Dungee lead him alone.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
For him, I voted for him, and I voted for
his girlfriend to make the Hall of Fame too, Yes,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
I had all kinds of Belichicks and Hudson's all down
my lady.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Yeah Belichick his daughter who's a lacrosse coach, She's in
the Hall of Fame too. I voted for every Belichick
he could possibly find. His x Y, Debbie. I don't
even think she called himself Belichick anymore. She goes in
all of them.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
But still, despite your efforts, you couldn't get Bill Belichick
into the Hall of Fame. Other players with lesser careers
you put in right away. Hey, let's let's back it
up to let other guys in. Sure, let's let Terrell
Davis and the guy at two and a half great seasons,
let's put him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
That's fine, thanks, thanks. Tarrell Davis does not have two
and a half great seasons. He had four. He had
three great seasons and one very good season. And and
look at the look at the postseason. The man had
twelve hundred and fifty yards in eight postseason games. So
(51:06):
let's not go there with Drell Davis. The man was
on pace for to set an NFL rushing record in
the in playoff game situation.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
But I can't. But I can't put it. My pamp
put a guy in for stuff he didn't do, or
if he was on he was on pace to do well.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
The things that he just did, the twelve hundred and
fifty yards and however many touchdowns in eight playoff games
and the seven and one record, I can put him
in with that. Okay, thank you, mister. I want to
find a way to snipe at me a little bit
more and blame me for Belichick. I'm not the reason
Belichick didn't get in. Don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
See, I think you didn't vote for him, but you
switched your ballot with Tony Dungeye, and he's getting all
this flack right now. I think that's what happened. You
didn't vote, You crossed off his name and wrote in
your name.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
Oh yeah, that's that's that's one of the most believable
arguments you've ever made.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
I don't know you guys didn't put Belichick in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
I don't know the guy who maybe is a little
suspicious that the Chetah cheated a little bit during his game.
Maybe that guy didn't vote for him. I don't know
that for a fact. Tony has not said what he
did or didn't do. But it's much more likely in
this discussion that I'm the one telling the truths here.
Let's just say that and not you with your you know,
(52:30):
Fox Space reporting.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Right now, Tony Dungee's listening to the show going Now,
I know why Cole said, hey, Tony, give me your ballot.
I'll just I'll walk up there and turn it in
for you. Now why he did that? Okay, all right, Yeah,
that's what I did. That's why, and why did he
ask me for? Why did he ask me for an eraser? Now?
Speaker 3 (52:47):
I know?
Speaker 1 (52:47):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (52:49):
With me out came out.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
And they would look at it and it would like
be like an arrested development. They would see why why
has Tony Tony spelled t O N I okay, I
guess so, alright.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Yeah, to the famous singing group whatever with loke, there
we go TJ.
Speaker 7 (53:15):
Clearly Tony Tony Tony has done it again, not putting
Belichick in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (53:21):
Maybe Tony Morrison didn't do anything either, either, So with
Tony for Tony Tony, let's forge Tony Jabel, check out
any other.
Speaker 7 (53:32):
Tonys Tony Danza, Shany Orlando, Tony.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (53:38):
TJ clearly knock three times on the ceiling if you
want to vote for him for the.
Speaker 4 (53:43):
Hall of Fame. Hey, Toma Hopkins had a good run
after that.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
He's at Jason Cole sixty two. That is, at Jason
Cole sixty two. Check them out on thirty thirteen and
whatever other famous.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Tonys you want to hit about the ribbon.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
Uh tell you an easy, buddy
Speaker 4 (54:14):
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