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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Monday, the Jason Smith Show with
my base friend Mike Harmon, who is back after a
week vacation.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Just let you know what he did. He went out,
did I do?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He stole a lot of baseball cards from her shop,
sold them on eBay, tried to get out with the money, couldn't.
He is now a waiting prosecution, but the ankle braceley
as on will allow him to do the shows until
that all that day comes.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, it's kind of funny because there's been a
lot of that in the news, trading guard shows and
Pokemon being theftid ah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you're taking Pokemon cards now, I wouldn't know what
battle it was. Pikachu, Pikachu and mega charges. Yeah, Mega
charges are that's a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
The chars are always the big ones.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And now you got Gary Veees, got his whole line
of like crudely drawn animals that that he's got a
set and like it's crazy times. But yeah, I did
go to one card shop. I bought an Engelbert humperdink.
So take that?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Really there you go, Wow, you bought it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You went to a well okay, so wait, wait, wait
all the sports collecting cards and you bought Engelbert humper.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I bought a Rookie Shack card, a Dick Stockton autograph card,
a Jerry Glennville autograph card, and an Englbert humperdink.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That is the kind of vibes that I bring to
a card shop.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You want what for this guy that's only played eight
major league games? No, give me the angelberta tons of hits,
still going strong. No, but I mean fun trip to Virginia. Obviously,
I missed being with you all last week. We tried
to make some stuff work, and well we took some
time for soccer and movies. That's kind of what we did.
(02:09):
I signed up for a letterbox to count. I'm really excited.
I'm gonna start blitzing the hell out of that. Yeah, okay,
all right, well very very good.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Hey not nice little vacation in the middle of summer.
Are you're you're good? It worked?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I mean, other than those pesky thunderstorms and lightning strikes.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That's what you're gonna get. That's why you keep going
back to Virginia.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
And I shake my fist, going why am I spending
a lot of money to come to.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Virginia for a thing where you're gonna cancel half the
events just gotta avoid the lightning, Just to avoid the lightning.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I tried to ride the lighting Yeah, no, but driving
in the rain, you know, that was that was an
interesting experience.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Out much like we are seeing right now, try to
avoid the lightning. The home run derby happening right now.
All Star Week has begun and commenced in Major League Baseball.
We are nearing the finale, and I want to say this,
right as we you know, we take a look at
a lot of fun stuff was going on. Look on
(03:03):
Neil Cruz's home run, which was what eight thousand feet
earlier tonight, Poor cal Rawley, big dumper, did not I
was not able to.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
His dad hit him with a pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah I know, well, I think there's some issues that
maybe they have to work on. If your dad hits
you with a pitch, there's some issues you gotta work on.
Yeah you hit me, Yeah, Okay, we gotta we gotta
work on.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
You never went inside on Zoe when you were We
gotta work on this spot. You hit the you know,
throw it a little bit hard inside just to see, hey,
you know, get her.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Off the plate.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
But there Look, there's two things from the home run
derby right which we're seeing right now, the semifinal uh
Buckson and Junior Camonero cal Rally and O'Neil Cruz. The
first thing I want to say is this, It is
the one day a year, maybe more so than any other,
that I miss Chris Berman. Like you really can't have
Berman come out just to do that the guy built ESPN.
(03:56):
You can't have him come out and do his back
back back back for all five thousand home runs that
are hit. I mean, like my favorite was always watching
when you get into the third and fourth rounds of
Berman's voice has gone in its.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Back back back god back buck back buck back.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Back, like the number of backs he must have said,
Like I don't know what the most backs he has
ever said in one Home run Derby is but I
mean really like NFL Primetime with all the nicknames, right
and and and this and really the home run Derby
like this is where Berman should be a telling stories
about things.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And Frank Thomas back in nineteen ninety three with.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It Jim, and you don't give Tom Jackson with him
put tj now even though he doesn't know basis fine.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You know though, Really, I mean I say it every year, and.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I hope at some point like it, Okay, Burman's gonna
be said, Bourbon's just turned seventy. I'm like, okay, let
you know, let's let's get him out as I mean,
it's great to hear Carl Rabins go, oh my goodness, what
a drive?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh how long was that yet? But you know, I
really would like to hear once in all.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I mean, is it too much to ask for Hespana go, hey,
you know dust Off the guy that helped build the place,
and put him out there for like the big signature event.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You know he would love. So we can just go.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Back back back b back back, brack brack back back back,
go on back back back, go on back back.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
God, yeah, I'm not sure it was on the radio call,
but I heard a little of it as I was
driving in and they were guessing, So I have no
idea what their advantage point was, Like it's it man, Like, wait,
just watch you watch it on TV and do the call, okay,
and then we'll actually have some semblance of certainty.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Do it all. But to your point with Berman, is
it he still under contract with them? They still pay him?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Tops did a big set, right, they did a tribute
with a baseball set where they had a full nickname
insert set.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Bo did Lee Jackson.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And I think he's still doing the whatever the prime
time on ESPN Plus. It's like, I think he's still
doing those two things, right, you're still paying his ass.
I mean about let him do it, hey, Okay, let
him do it. I mean really, I mean just to
hear you, don't you have to send him that I
have him be in the studio, just.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Back back back back back back back back back.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Back back back back.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
God, even if you don't want to have them on
the main telecast, you got forty seven channels.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Give me that as an uption.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I in fact, you don't need to say anything else.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Just have them on, just saying back back back back
back back god.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And then if it's not when you just hear you
hear the crack of the bat and you don't hear anything,
you know, Okay, it's it's not a home run.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Popping on a string. Yeah, no, just just tell you
you pull the string. It doesn't yell there's a snake
in my boot. No, it just goes back. Save your voice,
save your voice. And just when it looks like a
home run.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Back back back back back back.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Back back god, line, drive down, yep, pop up, pop up,
swinging a miss taking pitch, well you bust out.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Back back back back back back back back back.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
God, But bust out the old replay machine. You only
need to have like ten things on there. Foul ball,
foul ball, just dressed it. Line, drive, pop up, oh,
pop up, pop up?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Back back back back back god, back back back back
back back back back back go on.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And that's say gone. So you know that that's a
home run because he goes back back, because sometimes back
back back back, and then the next pitch has already
come and that's back back back back back back back gone.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Because every once in a while you would have a
Harry Carey like in situation that would unfold r yeah,
back back back. It caught it at the edge of
the I field Grass Dunstan juts it back to the infield.
That's two way like the other other thing is now
is again We're in the middle of the the semi
final round. Junior Camanero hits eight home runs and twelve
(07:39):
swings with a minute left to make it to the final.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So now it's.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Gonna be between cal Rally and O'Neil Cruz to get
to the final.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Every everybody wants to fix the home run derban, like
as we just tried to fix.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It fixed with a whole other event.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Everybody, everybody wants to fix the home runner just like
they want to fix the NBA All Star Game. Every
let's fix that. Let's fix this, like, let's become the thing. Now,
how do we fix the home run derby? Okay, first
of all, understand that there's only so much you can do.
It's a guy throwing the ball and guys trying to
hit home runs, like that's what it is. There's nothing else.
It's it's a guy throwing pitches and guys trying to
(08:17):
hit home runs like That's what it is the only
thing I can say.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And I'm being realistic now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You're talking about Okay, I not to fix it, but
the event is a little long.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But I understand that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But the first few, the first round, the matchups are
just way too long. There's too many pitches, there's too
many swings, and then you have the extra pitches that
you earn, like there's just two, like like three minutes
to hit in the beginning too. It's just too long, right,
And to get through all the first round matchups, it
feels like it takes forever. You're like, okay, and the
(08:48):
next matchup coming up here, it's a you know, we
have only three more matchups in round one.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It's like, oh my, come on, man, you have more matchups.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
So they're a little too long because there's not a
lot going on other than these guys swinging, you know,
hitting dingers like if you wanted them.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It feels like you're making fun of Jazz Chisholm.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You just, hey, Jazz Chisholm is a volume swinger, all right.
He is a volumes not volume home run hitter, because
volume runner would be hey, he gets like one hundred
and fifty pitches to hit twenty five home runs. No,
he's a volume swinger because he was forty pitches for
four home runs. He is a volume swinger. Okay, that's
what That's what Jazz Chisholm is. But like, just to
(09:24):
make it move a little bit fast, that's all I
asked for it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's not anything. Oh look, what would you do? How
would you fix it? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The only thing is it is just a little slow
in this bit of front. Once you get into the
semi five of five. Okay, great, yeah, that's awesome. Okay,
that's fine. But the first round, because you're getting all
these stories and then here's who this kid is, and
then here's who this guy is in a story, and
it's just it's just too long. And again I'm talking
about something three minutes that's just too long. You know,
that's what she said. Three minutes is just too long.
(09:51):
I was watching the Office before I came in tonight,
and she's watching it. It's just okay, that's the only
thing I feel like. Okay, the first round kind of
drags a little bit, right, so you can find something
where hey, instead of instead of this, you're gonna get
ten swings or but you want to see a volume
home run, so I get, but just just juice it
a little bit so it's not quite as slow in
(10:12):
the first round.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, but it takes.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Guys a little bit of that time to warm up
and get into a groove and then and then it
starts to flow right, And obviously when we get to
the later rounds, you worry about fatigue and have you
swung yourself out like you're a prize fighter. So I
understand a little bit of that, but but all in
it's you know, you get get what you signed up for.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Everybody swinging for the downs.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Well, it's really an emblematic of the Major League Baseball
game that we have now right, three outcomes and occasionally
your dad hits you with a pitch, but it's the
just the idea of for the timing and moving it along,
Like if you're into it, you're you're in right. Like
to me, I'm only moderately intrigued when I don't have
(10:59):
the sound of a A Burman background, which I have
you sitting with me in studio.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Back back back back back, brack, so I.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Fill it in.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, But but in general, it's like it's an event
that was never you know, my my favorite. There were
a couple of years where you got interested, right, Josh
Hamilton's years, Sosa uh and those guys when they participated
kind of a big deal. And and I like that
Common Arrow and some of the young guys and cal
Rawley capitalizing on what is a massive year because even
(11:28):
when they went to give him a towel to wipe
his face during the time out, it had the big dumper.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, brand, Yeah, you want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You're trying to sell that man, of course, but that's
the thing, right, lean into it. Likewise, if that means
a couple extra minutes of screen time, have at it. Yeah,
I mean, look, it's it's it every everything else. You
can only ask all Star games events like this. You
can't ask it to be something it's not. But yet
we've we've fixated on these things like that has become
a default topic. Like every Okay, the home run derby
(11:59):
had Okay, yeah, it's okay, So it is the only
thing going on, you know, the only big I mean
summer league stuff going on, obviously, but the big events.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Okay, it's not a whole night of baseball, So I
get it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And there's a lot of scrutiny on it, but it's
really it's guys hitting.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I mean, sometimes I don't know what people want.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
The thing that we bring up all the time, Kevin
Durant don't like it. Don't watch right if it's a
little bit long, long winded. As long as the guy's
telling some stories, right, keep bringing guys, trotting them through
the former players that are hanging around luminaries and get
everybody to give you a nice spin, a nice yarn
while we're waiting for the thirty eighth pitch of jazz.
(12:38):
Chisholm's time just to run out thirty eight swings, guys,
three home runs, three home runs, volume all you swinger.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
But I'd also like to add another event. I mean,
I was watching video of the Korean bunt derby, okay,
right from the Korean League. So you got to get
it in zones and you hit the scores based on
how well you get a bunt down. Give me that
some skill involved, as opposed to I'm just swinging out
of my shoes.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
GJ.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
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Speaker 3 (13:12):
You like me being full?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
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Diet Doctor Pepper for the Pepper Championships. Also Pepper Martin
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Peppers DJ. As long as they don't you like to
be a Pepper two, be a Pepper drink Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
As long as whoever is pitching the ball isn't throwing
an underhand like the Doctor Pepper competition.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No chest passes, so cal Rawly is done.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Now Neil cruzes up to try to make it to
the finals. We'll have more on this, but coming up next,
Boy do we got some big NFL stories coming your way.
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overclaims that well, his team carried him to the super Bowl.
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Speaker 3 (15:43):
Jay, what's happening, man? How are you?
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I'm doing okay? How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I'm doing pretty good? Did you bet on the home
run derby tonight? I know you got that going on?
Did you do you have any any big picks for tonight?
Speaker 7 (15:54):
For this one? I was on James Wood. So that's
film first, not always most conducive to winning. So yeah,
I was on James Wood, and uh, I have to
take too much attention to now you only to look
at it is you kind of knew about halfway through
(16:15):
O'Neil Cruz that Yeah, I don't think here's what's gonna
have been.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Well, at least you didn't suffer through thirty eight swings
of Jazzism as a long shot.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yes, Volume Sis volume Swinger. All right, So this gives
us a chance to get to all the big NFL
stuff right Like last week everybody's on vacation and joined
the end of stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But now this week we got some stuff happening.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Uh, and clearly the best wide receiver in the history
of the NFL finally gets paid. Today Garrett Wilson signs
that four year, one hundred and thirty million dollar contract
extension with the Jets. Now I had to be serious, Jane,
He's like, this is a guy. Now I kind of
feel like, to be honest, he's like the the modern
day Tim Brown, a guy that somehow has put up
numbers that he has.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
The last year, no quarterback with.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Noball at all different quarterbacks, like six quarterbacks so far
as first three years. Like he's probably the most underrated
receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
I'm gonna have to think about it. But yeah, and look,
it's going to be probably a little bit of a
chore this year. And if you'd be doing a fair
amount of blocking this year, because you got a defensive
mind and head coaching there who I think will be
able to get the defense playing maybe a playoff caliber defense.
And so what's gonna want. He's gonna want ball control,
(17:29):
He's gonna want keep it simple, stupid. He's gonna want
justin fields, managing the game a certain way. That's not
to say that there won't be big play action shots
to take, et cetera. But I don't think it's going
to be a huge volume passing game for them. But yeah,
I kind of like the Jets more this year than
(17:49):
I have in a while. Like I've I've played some
bets in that division, like them finished in the second,
you know, like an exact order or you can get
some pretty good I mean, I want to say it.
I got it cost sixty eighty five Buffalo, the Jets,
the Patriots in Miami in that order, and even just
(18:12):
for one to two, you know, order finish Buffalo and
the Jets. It can get you a pretty good payoff.
Like I kind of think they're in a good spot
this year for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Look at that Quinella and the exactly is I mean,
I'll be on after I'm always at the point for
the Jets when there's expectations.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I'm nervous when there's no expectations. Great Jets have never
been able to handle success in the fifty years I've
been rooting for them, So that's kind of what it is.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
No, look, I think, I mean to how much talented
Pittsburgh had last year and they were four and two
with this kid as the quarterback, and I know people
want to slag him and write them off, But like
over five and a half rushing touchdowns, yeah I'm there,
Over five hundred and fifty rushing yards, yeah I'm there,
and again win totals like not everyone needs to be
(19:02):
evaluated the same way. This is an old school quarterback
in a lot of ways, right, I mean, it's it's
it's about canny limit turnovers. Can they win games? Can
he be an effective runner? Can he help them finish
drives with his legs? You know? Can they be smart
about what they asked him to do in the red zone?
And I felt like the red zone rushing attack in
Pittsburgh was really going to get stride right when they
(19:25):
decided to make the switch. So I think, like, I
think they're an interesting team. I think they're gonna you know, like,
did they go nine to eight? I don't know. I
don't think that's out of all possibility at all.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Look at that we're getting above five hundred ball from
the Jets to new era and Smith will start wearing
Jet stuff tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Since you said that, mister locking for right.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Anytime there's a headline to a story that says I
think that's blank, I'm going to click on it. Nick Sirianni,
responding to comments about Jalen Hurts kind of just being
dragged a long in the championship run lower completion, number
of completions.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, lower passing.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know, when you got a guy it runs for
two thousand yards, you kind of go to balance and definition.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Do you think Hurts gets dismissed.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Too much and too much credit given to everybody else
for his acumen on running the tush push and everything else.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yeah, I think he's a pretty damn good quarterback. They
look they've found a meeting of the mind there where
they've they've gone through a couple of different iterations of
sort of evolving or devolving as an offense or whatever
you want to call it, and they know what works
for them, and they know what fits and he fits,
and I think they probably throw the ball a little
(20:45):
bit more this year. You know, I don't think Say
Kwon is going to go off as quite like he
did last year, and they've got plenty of guys you
can catch them off.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I think catches more balls this year.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Ba's a really good football team, a really good offensive line,
and they can do certain things in this league that
are pretty much unstoppable. And as you want to quibble about,
you know, is it just braw on how much you
know Paul is involved in calling a touch, push this
or that. I don't see any other teams doing it
as effective as them. I mean, that's it's almost like
(21:18):
a one efficacy play. Those those don't exist in modern football,
and they've got one. They've got one to the point
where people were bitching and moaning and trying to take
it away. Dalen Hurts has been through quite a bit
in a short career, and he's only a couple of
plays away from having two rings to his credit already
(21:41):
in an era that I think we're going to look
back on it like we did the sort of Brady
Mahomes era and say, boy, there were only a few
other guys who got there bright at the Apple. You know.
Roethlisberger got a couple, Flaco got a couple. Rlsell Wilson
got one. Like we're back there again with this whole
sort of Mahomet And I mean for him to have
(22:03):
played that well in that Super Bowl as Mahomes floundered,
and I get it he had the better defense on
his side Hurts did, but I get where Sirianni's con.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Of them, jam, I look at that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Just look at the Super Bowl's one of the best
played Super Bowls a quarterback has ever had, got efficiency
in production, the game was over at halftime.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
He was phenomenal.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Yeah, I got the Kansas City defense that has been
pretty damn good and the strength of that football team
for a big part of the season as they tried
to reconfigure their offensive line and without their number one
wide receiver.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
And with Kelsey and a down year, the defense, you know,
and with their number one back hurt a lot of
the year and defense carried them. And he absolutely obliterated
that defense. You don't see people do that despag in
a money game like that. So yeah, look, there's some
narratives in this league that just aren't just about football,
and they seemingly will never die, and people will wanting
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to the little or break or say that certain stalling
solid quarterback is less than it's asinine. But it's it's
still here at least to some degree.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Now, it seemed like everything was getting moved out and
we were getting back to business in San Francisco, ust
Jack saying, hey, Christian McCaffrey's back. I know Juwan Jennings says,
I want more money, I want to rework or I
want to trade.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Boy. It was nice and quiet for a little while.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah, it's tough, man. You know that there's a window
closing there and they're just not They hadn't been too
nice to make it very realistic about it. And it's
got nothing to do with the quarterback. It's all these
other ancilet personnel decisions. I look, I've bet them to
miss the playoffs. I stated them heavy last year and
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it helped my bank account, and I'm kind of back
there with them again again this year. I think the
NFC as a whole will be better. I think that
the team that doesn't run roughs out over that division anymore.
Sanahan doesn't have this magic a lixer over Nick they anymore.
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And you know, Seattle won ten games last year with
a rookie coach and without touching the roster. It was
Pete Terrell's roster, right. They just took the year to
sort of evaluate and see what they had, and now
they've upgraded. So you know, I don't know about the
Sam Darneld thing, how that's going to work out, But
you know, the geno thing worked out a hole lot
there than anybody could have hoped for. So I don't
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know that they're not Champans, just for the third best
team in that division. I don't like the secondary, and
the pass rush has been very sort of dependent on
an individual or two. And you know, the younger Bosas
reaching about the stage of his career where a big
brother fell off a cliff and didn't really play football
that much anymore. I don't like the offensive line, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Like the last year.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
I'm old enough to remember that running back pretty much
his entire career prior to the last couple of years,
always missing it chunks of time. So no, I have
major reservations about them all the way around.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, sitting at ten and a half wins.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Jay with that, sitting at ten and a half wins.
I think it's bolstered by the fact that they play
the AFC South.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Yeah, mischeduled about to say the schedule. I know the
schedule on paper looks like it's in their favor scenario
where they're not in the postseason, and that they're going
to have to threat a real needle from the health
standpoint because it's it's a top laden roster, and it's
not not nearly as many of those guys are in
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their prime now as they were three four years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
All Right, So lastly, Jay, you take you out kind
of outside the NFL, but kind of coming back a bit.
We had a bit of a story today that potentially
Nick Saban could be looking to get back into football.
Greg mceilroy saying, hey, someoney trusts he talks to, Saban
could be trying to find his way back in. Is
there any way Saban? Hey, look, I'm done with the
college game. I just can't stand everything. With ANIL transfer
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and an NFL job pops open he could get.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
I mean, I I love the age thing could work
against him a little bit like he did with certainly
Belicheck there, but this guy's career speaks for itself. And
if he feels like the college game has become the program,
and if that is part of why he got out,
and yeah, I mean, can you turn an NFL team
around in three years? I mean, look at Pete Carroll
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right now. I mean how long is he going to
be in Vegas? And that's you know, starting from pretty
low and he got an opportunity. So I mean, you
have to be the right fit, the right owner of
the right scenario. But what six to eight of these
jobs open every year, and you're telling me that if
he wants to get back in in January, that there's
going to be six to eight guys more qualified than him. Yeah,
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I mean, I have no idea to the veracity of that.
I know Greg a little bit. I mean he's obviously
he knows that for a plug.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
In there and.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
If that's accurate, said he wants to listen. You know,
he wants to talk to NFL teams. I think there's
a week several owners who want to listen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Follow on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason lock and for Odyssey one oh five seven
the fan Washington Post. Jay has always by the appreciated man.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Have fun, have a great week, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Thank you everybody there, He goes Jason Locking for now.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Look the whole Garrett Wilson thing right, four years, one
hundred and thirty million. I mean, I look, it's not
just me being Jets fan. He's the most underrated wide
receiver in the game. He's kind of like a like
a like a combination of Keyshawn Johnson and Tim Brown.
Keyshawn in which he can do anything on the field.
He can he's a red zone threat, he goes over
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the middle, he can test balls, he's got great body control,
Like he's a receiver that can do it at any
part of the field. And from that's from Keyshawn. But
the Tim Brown thing, I mean, look the guys that
he's been catching passes from the last three years, Zach Wilson,
Mike White, Joe Flacco, Trevor Simmy, and Tim Boyle, Aaron Rodgers.
Like this is the gamut from Hey, guys who we
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thought were really really good and are still okay, to
guys that are absolutely terrible. And still this is a
guy that every year more receptions hundred reci and and
split the gig with DeVante Adams when he finally got
there last year because he was Aaron Rodgers guy still
get to one hundred catches. Like his three years in
the NFL with looking what he's been playing with has
been incredibly impressive, Like Tim Brown, all those quarterbacks he
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played with the Raiders, and now he's got his guy
from college that hey comfortable with. Justin fields, there's the
number two receiver on the Jets right now is probably
Josh Reynolds. So which tells you where all the balls
are going to be going this season?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Right? Everything isn't gonna be going to Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, he's the guy you give that money to, most
underrated receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Scheme it up.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I really hoped you weren't going to circle back and
mention Rodgers' name again, because the way you set it
up was beautiful guys that were pretty good, Guys that
you know are terrible, like Aaron Rodgers, but it's pretty good,
like Mike White and guys who were too right, Mike White,
who you wanted to deify and get a statue out
in front of.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
The stadium after three weeks.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, but you look at what he's been able to
do production wise, congratulations, but also do Zach Wilson.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You know on his nuptials, you know he got married.
Oh yeah, that's good, that's he's good.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But finally he finally he is able to acquire his
target and and yeah, now he's able to How about that.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You're gonna throw a Jay Cutler joke?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Come on, come on, dude, I don't want to get
that Stokes, we're doing that too, can But no, for
Garrett Wilson, you're you're going off the idea of all right,
we'll pay him top dollar that.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
He's going to be that guy moving forward.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
He's already got proof of concept with trash, as you
so eloquently laid out.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Now you do still need to go find a second receiver.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I like Josh Reynolds as a gadget third guy the
occasional run him out and look, Tyler Conklin is a
top ten fantasy tight end.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No, only if Jason Taylor's gonna wind up getting that job.
But I mean, like there's nobody else. The drop off
from number one to number two. I don't know that
it's greater on the Jets than any other team. But
you got two tight ends that can go play. Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah,
we're gonna run the football a lot. We don't have
three tight ends all freedom. We're gonna see the field
at once. Hey, Brace, how are you holding up? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
You and Brailer that one you're gonna work a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We're gonna put We're gonna put nine men in the
line of scrimmage and the quarterback in a running back
you can't do that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. You're gonna
put them all out.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
What page of that dog eared rule book you can
steal from Belichick's old playbook?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
There exit out bout a fresca exit swollen dome. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So someone who's been called the Garrett
Wilson of Fox Sports Radio. He didn't like the guy
who was working with last year. He likes us a
lot better. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I was paused.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
Way, guys, he's got ninety million guaranteed you coming to him.
Not so Home Run Derby is winding down in Atlanta
to they're in the final. Junior Cameronaro, aged twenty two.
He just turned twenty two this month for Tampa Bay.
He is in the final, about to start, but a
very impressive eighteen homers posted by Seattle's col Rawley just
now with his dad pitching to him and his fifteen
(31:14):
year old brother as his catcher.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
By the way, Dad too high, Dad, Dad too high?
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Come on like that hasn't been said before in their lives.
Raleigh won his semi final against O'Neil Cruz nineteen to thirteen.
Cruise of the Pirates did tie for the most home
runs in the first round with Kaminaro. Cruz hit one
estimated at five hundred thirteen feet. In the last decade
of the home run derby the four longest homers have
been ones when it was at cors Field four years ago.
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As for non Colorado, the non altitude homers, that's the
longest of the last decade, Cruise hitting one five thirteen.
By the way, Jazz Chisholm of the Yankees had a
robust three homers in the first Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
But he had, but he only had but he made
up for he only had forty five pitches.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
They had those three home runs on.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
That was, to say the least the lowest total of
the night, and I don't know, maybe the lowest total
of our lifetime, So I.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Would have to look at the record book.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
But Junior Camanaro about to get into the box in
the final as he's trailing Raleigh for the moment. Dhho
Heotani will lead off for the National League and Tuesday
Night's all Star Game on Fox TV. Atlanto's own Ronald
Acunya will bat second for the American League. Aaron Judge
will bat third, and then Cal Raleigh in the cleanup spot.
Raleigh of Seattle committed to play for Team USA and
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next year's World Baseball Classic. The team's captain is Aaron
Judge of the Yankees. Also playing for the US next
March will be pitcher Paul Skeins of the Pirates the
starting pitcher tomorrow night for the National League All Stars.
Detroit's Trek Scooble will be on the mound to start
for the al By the way, the Tampa Bay Rays
will be sold for one point seven billion dollars. According
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to The Athletic. The buyers are led by a Florida
based developer. The Jets gab wide receiver Garrett Wilson a
four year extent potentially worth one hundred and thirty million dollars.
Since he was drafted in the top ten and from
Ohio State, Wilson's had three straight thousand yard seasons and
he had one hundred and one receptions last year. Chargers
wide receiver Mike Williams will start training camp on the
(33:09):
pup list physically unable to perform. The preseason schedule starts
with the Chargers Lions game in the Hall of Fame
or July thirty first, so those two teams veterans report
to camp this coming week.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But he knows where the red line is on the field, right,
Mike Williams. He knows the red line. He knows the
running the red line. When he's back out on the field.
The red line, the red line, you.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Know, the red center of the ice.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You got to run the red line.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You gotta run the red line right center of the ice.
That's why why he's a Charger. Now he doesn't know
the red line.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
So you know, there are more red line comments that
I certainly will not make. Most names will have. Veterans
reports a training camp next week July the twenty second.
It's first center Victor weber Yama is cleared to return
after the blood cloud in his shoulder last season.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Lott from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Up next, we got the play
of the day, and I'm telling you every day we
keep getting closer to an incredibly large trade in the
NBA and more evidence that it's coming. After what's gone
on the last few hours. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:22):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah,
finals of the home run derby right now, Junior Camanero,
Cal Rowley.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
But it doesn't matter what happens here. I think we
already have the home run.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
We know that's going to be the home run that
everybody talks about.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
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Speaker 3 (35:06):
The day, the longest one of the night.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
He can't believe he hit it that far.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
He ESPN on the call. Now, would you want to
hear Berman going back back back. I can't even keep
saying it so far, back back back. I can't see
it back back way back, an absolute rocket?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Does he get credit for two on that one? I
would give him three?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
You some guy jump the bonus? Is this where we
started playing? Like it's just jump right to the moneyball
or rocking Jocke or that, Like.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, yeah, you put the you put the little moneyball
in there because if you get to uh, you know,
to the.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Corner at Yankee Stadium, I mean you can that's almost
two home runs.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Oh yeah, sure, yeah, oh they have this Yankee Stadium.
The numbers are be insane. That's two home runs. That's
two home runs. That's two home runs. So again, Kevin
Arra Cal Rowley will bring you updated finale after this
happens right now in the in the championship here to
see who walks away with the Golden Mustard belt. But
we talked about this last week a lot. Every day
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there's new evidence that tells you how bad the relationship
is between Lebron James and the Lakers right to go
over everything. Since the acquisition of Luka Doncic, Lebron has
been out of the mix. He's been in the outer circle.
He's not in the circle of trust. Greg, You are
outside of the circle of trust they're building around Luca
and Lebron James is someone who they are daring him
(36:39):
to ask for a trade. Everything they do, they are
daring him to ask for a trade. And now what
did we get this weekend?
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
More ratcheting this up to get to a point where
each side it's like they're the Old West and waiting
to draw on each other, like someone's gonna we're gonna draw,
We're gonna draw. Four teams apparently have called the Lakers
about or called sorry, sorry calla called Rich Paul about
getting Lebron James, which again, both sides are ratcheting things
(37:06):
up because Lebron doesn't want to ask for a trade.
The Lakers don't want to say we're going to trade you.
The Lakers want Lebron to ask for a trade, and
Lebron wants the Lakers to say, Okay, let's figure something
out where you can get you where you want to go,
which again, Cleveland, it's the only place. So four teams
apparently have called Rich Paul about about getting Lebron James
and when Lebron was at Vegue was in Vegas this
(37:28):
weekend taking in some of the summer league action. Dave McManamon,
long time basketball insider, asked to said he asked Lebron
for a couple of minutes, you want to talk about
your future with the franchise, and Lebron responded with I
ain't got nothing to talk about. Then Dave mcmadhamon had
this bit on ESPN over the weekend. So again, I
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want to say this for everybody who thinks Lebron's not
getting traded because it's too difficult. One, you can always
make the money work. It may take a bunch of teams,
that may take ten teams. You can make they work,
especially if the players are out there. But the bigger
thing is this, can Lebron really come back and play
for the Lakers after all that's going on. Lebron is
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an alpha male of the highest priority. He's not a
guy that well, I'm okay with coming back and I'll
figure things out. I'll play this year, roun I'll go.
He is the straw that stirs the drink. He has
been this way in the NBA for twenty years. Is
he really an alpha like Lebron gonna come back and
be an ancillary part or not so much that you're
not the focus, but we're gonna we're gonna beat you
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over the head with the fact that you are not
the focus of this team. Can he really come back
and play for the Lakers? After all this is going on?
This is why a trade can happen any day. I
can see a trade any day for Lebron James.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
I mean the Cleveland thing is curious because they are
in the second apron so that they can't aggregate salaries
to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I'll just add the fourth apron so he starts the
new rules make that difficult for them. The buyout process
would be great. Lakers say, uh, yeah, you're gonna take
We're not paying anything and get You can make the
money work. You can make the money work by by
adding other teams that you can make it work for Mobile,
you can make it work for Darius Garland. You can
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make but it's a decision of whether you want to
excize them from your squad after what you've built.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But to that point, you're in the second aproncy can't aggregate.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Uh so that makes the trade far part with the
the caval Cavaliers at least a little more difficult. Now
when when we look at the no comment, I just
took it as that I'm here, I don't I don't
really want to get into this, right.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
He could come out and say anything he wanted to.
Lebron doesn't want publicity come out, but he gets more
publicity by not He could have said anything. He could
have come out and said anything and said he said none,
I got, I got, I got nothing to talk about.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
That's not but that's the statement without making a statement deal.
That's mean.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
He could have just said I'm sorry, I don't really
want to do it tonight, okay, instead saying I got
nothing to talk about because he knows Dave mcmanhamon is
going to report it.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
That way and he's gonna get him out.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
But he's like, what does sound.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
But the that's exactly why he wants to get this
out there. And that whole four team thing with Rich
Paul wretching things. I want to see the league actually
do something for crying out loud Rich Paul a couple
of weeks ago with the draft, manipulated the draft, and
we had video and audio evidence, and now a damn
thing was said by the spineless commissioner, Adam silver High
(40:21):
Commission and now this at least four teams like, no,
they've got to contact the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Jmore.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Maybe out in lay Town riding on a jet ski,
but he still matters damn it.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
He'd be the guy that would make the trade too.
Oh hey, Geenie, by the way, I made a trade.
I traded Lebron. But wait, I trained Lebron.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
Time after time.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
They're still saying it's our rules when it's not telling
you any day a Lebron trade. You think it can't,
it can. Coming up next, we got a big story
out of the NFL surround
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Monday, the Jason Smith Show with
my base friend Mike Harmon, who is back after a
week vacation.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Just let you know what he did. He went out,
did I do?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He stole a lot of baseball cards from her shop,
sold them on eBay, tried to get out with the money, couldn't.
He is now a waiting prosecution, but the ankle braceley
as on will allow him to do the shows until
that all that day comes.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, it's kind of funny because there's been a
lot of that in the news, trading guard shows and
Pokemon being theftid ah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you're taking Pokemon cards now, I wouldn't know what
battle it was. Pikachu, Pikachu and mega charges. Yeah, Mega
charges are that's a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
The chars are always the big ones.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And now you got Gary Veees, got his whole line
of like crudely drawn animals that that he's got a
set and like it's crazy times. But yeah, I did
go to one card shop. I bought an Engelbert humperdink.
So take that?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Really there you go, Wow, you bought it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You went to a well okay, so wait, wait, wait
all the sports collecting cards and you bought Engelbert humper.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I bought a Rookie Shack card, a Dick Stockton autograph card,
a Jerry Glennville autograph card, and an Englbert humperdink.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That is the kind of vibes that I bring to
a card shop.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You want what for this guy that's only played eight
major league games? No, give me the angelberta tons of hits,
still going strong. No, but I mean fun trip to Virginia. Obviously,
I missed being with you all last week. We tried
to make some stuff work, and well we took some
time for soccer and movies. That's kind of what we did.
(02:09):
I signed up for a letterbox to count. I'm really excited.
I'm gonna start blitzing the hell out of that. Yeah, okay,
all right, well very very good.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Hey not nice little vacation in the middle of summer.
Are you're you're good? It worked?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I mean, other than those pesky thunderstorms and lightning strikes.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That's what you're gonna get. That's why you keep going
back to Virginia.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
And I shake my fist, going why am I spending
a lot of money to come to.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Virginia for a thing where you're gonna cancel half the
events just gotta avoid the lightning, Just to avoid the lightning.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I tried to ride the lighting Yeah, no, but driving
in the rain, you know, that was that was an
interesting experience.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Out much like we are seeing right now, try to
avoid the lightning. The home run derby happening right now.
All Star Week has begun and commenced in Major League Baseball.
We are nearing the finale, and I want to say this,
right as we you know, we take a look at
a lot of fun stuff was going on. Look on
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Neil Cruz's home run, which was what eight thousand feet
earlier tonight, Poor cal Rawley, big dumper, did not I
was not able to.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
His dad hit him with a pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah I know, well, I think there's some issues that
maybe they have to work on. If your dad hits
you with a pitch, there's some issues you gotta work on.
Yeah you hit me, Yeah, Okay, we gotta we gotta
work on.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
You never went inside on Zoe when you were We
gotta work on this spot. You hit the you know,
throw it a little bit hard inside just to see, hey,
you know, get her.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Off the plate.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
But there Look, there's two things from the home run
derby right which we're seeing right now, the semifinal uh
Buckson and Junior Camonero cal Rally and O'Neil Cruz. The
first thing I want to say is this, It is
the one day a year, maybe more so than any other,
that I miss Chris Berman. Like you really can't have
Berman come out just to do that the guy built ESPN.
(03:56):
You can't have him come out and do his back
back back back for all five thousand home runs that
are hit. I mean, like my favorite was always watching
when you get into the third and fourth rounds of
Berman's voice has gone in its.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Back back back god back buck back buck back.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Back, like the number of backs he must have said,
Like I don't know what the most backs he has
ever said in one Home run Derby is but I
mean really like NFL Primetime with all the nicknames, right
and and and this and really the home run Derby
like this is where Berman should be a telling stories
about things.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And Frank Thomas back in nineteen ninety three with.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It Jim, and you don't give Tom Jackson with him
put tj now even though he doesn't know basis fine.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You know though, Really, I mean I say it every year, and.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I hope at some point like it, Okay, Burman's gonna
be said, Bourbon's just turned seventy. I'm like, okay, let
you know, let's let's get him out as I mean,
it's great to hear Carl Rabins go, oh my goodness, what
a drive?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh how long was that yet? But you know, I
really would like to hear once in all.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I mean, is it too much to ask for Hespana go, hey,
you know dust Off the guy that helped build the place,
and put him out there for like the big signature event.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You know he would love. So we can just go.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Back back back b back back, brack brack back back back,
go on back back back, go on back back.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
God, yeah, I'm not sure it was on the radio call,
but I heard a little of it as I was
driving in and they were guessing, So I have no
idea what their advantage point was, Like it's it man, Like, wait,
just watch you watch it on TV and do the call, okay,
and then we'll actually have some semblance of certainty.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Do it all. But to your point with Berman, is
it he still under contract with them? They still pay him?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Tops did a big set, right, they did a tribute
with a baseball set where they had a full nickname
insert set.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Bo did Lee Jackson.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And I think he's still doing the whatever the prime
time on ESPN Plus. It's like, I think he's still
doing those two things, right, you're still paying his ass.
I mean about let him do it, hey, Okay, let
him do it. I mean really, I mean just to
hear you, don't you have to send him that I
have him be in the studio, just.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Back back back back back back back back back.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Back back back back.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
God, even if you don't want to have them on
the main telecast, you got forty seven channels.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Give me that as an uption.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I in fact, you don't need to say anything else.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Just have them on, just saying back back back back
back back god.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And then if it's not when you just hear you
hear the crack of the bat and you don't hear anything,
you know, Okay, it's it's not a home run.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Popping on a string. Yeah, no, just just tell you
you pull the string. It doesn't yell there's a snake
in my boot. No, it just goes back. Save your voice,
save your voice. And just when it looks like a
home run.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Back back back back back back.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Back back god, line, drive down, yep, pop up, pop up,
swinging a miss taking pitch, well you bust out.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Back back back back back back back back back.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
God, But bust out the old replay machine. You only
need to have like ten things on there. Foul ball,
foul ball, just dressed it. Line, drive, pop up, oh,
pop up, pop up?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Back back back back back god, back back back back
back back back back back go on.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And that's say gone. So you know that that's a
home run because he goes back back, because sometimes back
back back back, and then the next pitch has already
come and that's back back back back back back back gone.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Because every once in a while you would have a
Harry Carey like in situation that would unfold r yeah,
back back back. It caught it at the edge of
the I field Grass Dunstan juts it back to the infield.
That's two way like the other other thing is now
is again We're in the middle of the the semi
final round. Junior Camanero hits eight home runs and twelve
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swings with a minute left to make it to the final.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So now it's.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Gonna be between cal Rally and O'Neil Cruz to get
to the final.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Every everybody wants to fix the home run derban, like
as we just tried to fix.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It fixed with a whole other event.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Everybody, everybody wants to fix the home runner just like
they want to fix the NBA All Star Game. Every
let's fix that. Let's fix this, like, let's become the thing. Now,
how do we fix the home run derby? Okay, first
of all, understand that there's only so much you can do.
It's a guy throwing the ball and guys trying to
hit home runs, like that's what it is. There's nothing else.
It's it's a guy throwing pitches and guys trying to
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hit home runs like That's what it is the only
thing I can say.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And I'm being realistic now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You're talking about Okay, I not to fix it, but
the event is a little long.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But I understand that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But the first few, the first round, the matchups are
just way too long. There's too many pitches, there's too
many swings, and then you have the extra pitches that
you earn, like there's just two, like like three minutes
to hit in the beginning too. It's just too long, right,
And to get through all the first round matchups, it
feels like it takes forever. You're like, okay, and the
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next matchup coming up here, it's a you know, we
have only three more matchups in round one.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It's like, oh my, come on, man, you have more matchups.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
So they're a little too long because there's not a
lot going on other than these guys swinging, you know,
hitting dingers like if you wanted them.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It feels like you're making fun of Jazz Chisholm.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You just, hey, Jazz Chisholm is a volume swinger, all right.
He is a volumes not volume home run hitter, because
volume runner would be hey, he gets like one hundred
and fifty pitches to hit twenty five home runs. No,
he's a volume swinger because he was forty pitches for
four home runs. He is a volume swinger. Okay, that's
what That's what Jazz Chisholm is. But like, just to
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make it move a little bit fast, that's all I
asked for it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's not anything. Oh look, what would you do? How
would you fix it? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The only thing is it is just a little slow
in this bit of front. Once you get into the
semi five of five. Okay, great, yeah, that's awesome. Okay,
that's fine. But the first round, because you're getting all
these stories and then here's who this kid is, and
then here's who this guy is in a story, and
it's just it's just too long. And again I'm talking
about something three minutes that's just too long. You know,
that's what she said. Three minutes is just too long.
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I was watching the Office before I came in tonight,
and she's watching it. It's just okay, that's the only
thing I feel like. Okay, the first round kind of
drags a little bit, right, so you can find something
where hey, instead of instead of this, you're gonna get
ten swings or but you want to see a volume
home run, so I get, but just just juice it
a little bit so it's not quite as slow in
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the first round.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, but it takes.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Guys a little bit of that time to warm up
and get into a groove and then and then it
starts to flow right, And obviously when we get to
the later rounds, you worry about fatigue and have you
swung yourself out like you're a prize fighter. So I
understand a little bit of that, but but all in
it's you know, you get get what you signed up for.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Everybody swinging for the downs.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Well, it's really an emblematic of the Major League Baseball
game that we have now right, three outcomes and occasionally
your dad hits you with a pitch, but it's the
just the idea of for the timing and moving it along,
Like if you're into it, you're you're in right. Like
to me, I'm only moderately intrigued when I don't have
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the sound of a A Burman background, which I have
you sitting with me in studio.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Back back back back back, brack, so I.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Fill it in.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, But but in general, it's like it's an event
that was never you know, my my favorite. There were
a couple of years where you got interested, right, Josh
Hamilton's years, Sosa uh and those guys when they participated
kind of a big deal. And and I like that
Common Arrow and some of the young guys and cal
Rawley capitalizing on what is a massive year because even
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when they went to give him a towel to wipe
his face during the time out, it had the big dumper.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, brand, Yeah, you want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You're trying to sell that man, of course, but that's
the thing, right, lean into it. Likewise, if that means
a couple extra minutes of screen time, have at it. Yeah,
I mean, look, it's it's it every everything else. You
can only ask all Star games events like this. You
can't ask it to be something it's not. But yet
we've we've fixated on these things like that has become
a default topic. Like every Okay, the home run derby
(11:59):
had Okay, yeah, it's okay, So it is the only
thing going on, you know, the only big I mean
summer league stuff going on, obviously, but the big events.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Okay, it's not a whole night of baseball, So I
get it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And there's a lot of scrutiny on it, but it's
really it's guys hitting.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I mean, sometimes I don't know what people want.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
The thing that we bring up all the time, Kevin
Durant don't like it. Don't watch right if it's a
little bit long, long winded. As long as the guy's
telling some stories, right, keep bringing guys, trotting them through
the former players that are hanging around luminaries and get
everybody to give you a nice spin, a nice yarn
while we're waiting for the thirty eighth pitch of jazz.
(12:38):
Chisholm's time just to run out thirty eight swings, guys,
three home runs, three home runs, volume all you swinger.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
But I'd also like to add another event. I mean,
I was watching video of the Korean bunt derby, okay,
right from the Korean League. So you got to get
it in zones and you hit the scores based on
how well you get a bunt down. Give me that
some skill involved, as opposed to I'm just swinging out
of my shoes.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
GJ.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
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next to where the sign says no Pepper, we're having
the Pepper Championships.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
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Speaker 1 (13:13):
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Speaker 4 (13:36):
As long as whoever is pitching the ball isn't throwing
an underhand like the Doctor Pepper competition.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No chest passes, so cal Rawly is done.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Now Neil cruzes up to try to make it to
the finals. We'll have more on this, but coming up next,
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Speaker 3 (15:43):
Jay, what's happening, man? How are you?
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I'm doing okay? How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I'm doing pretty good? Did you bet on the home
run derby tonight? I know you got that going on?
Did you do you have any any big picks for tonight?
Speaker 7 (15:54):
For this one? I was on James Wood. So that's
film first, not always most conducive to winning. So yeah,
I was on James Wood, and uh, I have to
take too much attention to now you only to look
at it is you kind of knew about halfway through
(16:15):
O'Neil Cruz that Yeah, I don't think here's what's gonna
have been.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Well, at least you didn't suffer through thirty eight swings
of Jazzism as a long shot.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yes, Volume Sis volume Swinger. All right, So this gives
us a chance to get to all the big NFL
stuff right Like last week everybody's on vacation and joined
the end of stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But now this week we got some stuff happening.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Uh, and clearly the best wide receiver in the history
of the NFL finally gets paid. Today Garrett Wilson signs
that four year, one hundred and thirty million dollar contract
extension with the Jets. Now I had to be serious, Jane,
He's like, this is a guy. Now I kind of
feel like, to be honest, he's like the the modern
day Tim Brown, a guy that somehow has put up
numbers that he has.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
The last year, no quarterback with.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Noball at all different quarterbacks, like six quarterbacks so far
as first three years. Like he's probably the most underrated
receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
I'm gonna have to think about it. But yeah, and look,
it's going to be probably a little bit of a
chore this year. And if you'd be doing a fair
amount of blocking this year, because you got a defensive
mind and head coaching there who I think will be
able to get the defense playing maybe a playoff caliber defense.
And so what's gonna want. He's gonna want ball control,
(17:29):
He's gonna want keep it simple, stupid. He's gonna want
justin fields, managing the game a certain way. That's not
to say that there won't be big play action shots
to take, et cetera. But I don't think it's going
to be a huge volume passing game for them. But yeah,
I kind of like the Jets more this year than
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I have in a while. Like I've I've played some
bets in that division, like them finished in the second,
you know, like an exact order or you can get
some pretty good I mean, I want to say it.
I got it cost sixty eighty five Buffalo, the Jets,
the Patriots in Miami in that order, and even just
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for one to two, you know, order finish Buffalo and
the Jets. It can get you a pretty good payoff.
Like I kind of think they're in a good spot
this year for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Look at that Quinella and the exactly is I mean,
I'll be on after I'm always at the point for
the Jets when there's expectations.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I'm nervous when there's no expectations. Great Jets have never
been able to handle success in the fifty years I've
been rooting for them, So that's kind of what it is.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
No, look, I think, I mean to how much talented
Pittsburgh had last year and they were four and two
with this kid as the quarterback, and I know people
want to slag him and write them off, But like
over five and a half rushing touchdowns, yeah I'm there,
Over five hundred and fifty rushing yards, yeah I'm there,
and again win totals like not everyone needs to be
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evaluated the same way. This is an old school quarterback
in a lot of ways, right, I mean, it's it's
it's about canny limit turnovers. Can they win games? Can
he be an effective runner? Can he help them finish
drives with his legs? You know? Can they be smart
about what they asked him to do in the red zone?
And I felt like the red zone rushing attack in
Pittsburgh was really going to get stride right when they
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decided to make the switch. So I think, like, I
think they're an interesting team. I think they're gonna you know, like,
did they go nine to eight? I don't know. I
don't think that's out of all possibility at all.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Look at that we're getting above five hundred ball from
the Jets to new era and Smith will start wearing
Jet stuff tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Since you said that, mister locking for right.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Anytime there's a headline to a story that says I
think that's blank, I'm going to click on it. Nick Sirianni,
responding to comments about Jalen Hurts kind of just being
dragged a long in the championship run lower completion, number
of completions.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, lower passing.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know, when you got a guy it runs for
two thousand yards, you kind of go to balance and definition.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Do you think Hurts gets dismissed.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Too much and too much credit given to everybody else
for his acumen on running the tush push and everything else.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yeah, I think he's a pretty damn good quarterback. They
look they've found a meeting of the mind there where
they've they've gone through a couple of different iterations of
sort of evolving or devolving as an offense or whatever
you want to call it, and they know what works
for them, and they know what fits and he fits,
and I think they probably throw the ball a little
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bit more this year. You know, I don't think Say
Kwon is going to go off as quite like he
did last year, and they've got plenty of guys you
can catch them off.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I think catches more balls this year.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Ba's a really good football team, a really good offensive line,
and they can do certain things in this league that
are pretty much unstoppable. And as you want to quibble about,
you know, is it just braw on how much you
know Paul is involved in calling a touch, push this
or that. I don't see any other teams doing it
as effective as them. I mean, that's it's almost like
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a one efficacy play. Those those don't exist in modern football,
and they've got one. They've got one to the point
where people were bitching and moaning and trying to take
it away. Dalen Hurts has been through quite a bit
in a short career, and he's only a couple of
plays away from having two rings to his credit already
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in an era that I think we're going to look
back on it like we did the sort of Brady
Mahomes era and say, boy, there were only a few
other guys who got there bright at the Apple. You know.
Roethlisberger got a couple, Flaco got a couple. Rlsell Wilson
got one. Like we're back there again with this whole
sort of Mahomet And I mean for him to have
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played that well in that Super Bowl as Mahomes floundered,
and I get it he had the better defense on
his side Hurts did, but I get where Sirianni's con.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Of them, jam, I look at that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Just look at the Super Bowl's one of the best
played Super Bowls a quarterback has ever had, got efficiency
in production, the game was over at halftime.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
He was phenomenal.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Yeah, I got the Kansas City defense that has been
pretty damn good and the strength of that football team
for a big part of the season as they tried
to reconfigure their offensive line and without their number one
wide receiver.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
And with Kelsey and a down year, the defense, you know,
and with their number one back hurt a lot of
the year and defense carried them. And he absolutely obliterated
that defense. You don't see people do that despag in
a money game like that. So yeah, look, there's some
narratives in this league that just aren't just about football,
and they seemingly will never die, and people will wanting
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to the little or break or say that certain stalling
solid quarterback is less than it's asinine. But it's it's
still here at least to some degree.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Now, it seemed like everything was getting moved out and
we were getting back to business in San Francisco, ust
Jack saying, hey, Christian McCaffrey's back. I know Juwan Jennings says,
I want more money, I want to rework or I
want to trade.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Boy. It was nice and quiet for a little while.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah, it's tough, man. You know that there's a window
closing there and they're just not They hadn't been too
nice to make it very realistic about it. And it's
got nothing to do with the quarterback. It's all these
other ancilet personnel decisions. I look, I've bet them to
miss the playoffs. I stated them heavy last year and
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it helped my bank account, and I'm kind of back
there with them again again this year. I think the
NFC as a whole will be better. I think that
the team that doesn't run roughs out over that division anymore.
Sanahan doesn't have this magic a lixer over Nick they anymore.
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And you know, Seattle won ten games last year with
a rookie coach and without touching the roster. It was
Pete Terrell's roster, right. They just took the year to
sort of evaluate and see what they had, and now
they've upgraded. So you know, I don't know about the
Sam Darneld thing, how that's going to work out, But
you know, the geno thing worked out a hole lot
there than anybody could have hoped for. So I don't
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know that they're not Champans, just for the third best
team in that division. I don't like the secondary, and
the pass rush has been very sort of dependent on
an individual or two. And you know, the younger Bosas
reaching about the stage of his career where a big
brother fell off a cliff and didn't really play football
that much anymore. I don't like the offensive line, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Like the last year.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
I'm old enough to remember that running back pretty much
his entire career prior to the last couple of years,
always missing it chunks of time. So no, I have
major reservations about them all the way around.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, sitting at ten and a half wins.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Jay with that, sitting at ten and a half wins.
I think it's bolstered by the fact that they play
the AFC South.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Yeah, mischeduled about to say the schedule. I know the
schedule on paper looks like it's in their favor scenario
where they're not in the postseason, and that they're going
to have to threat a real needle from the health
standpoint because it's it's a top laden roster, and it's
not not nearly as many of those guys are in
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their prime now as they were three four years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
All Right, So lastly, Jay, you take you out kind
of outside the NFL, but kind of coming back a bit.
We had a bit of a story today that potentially
Nick Saban could be looking to get back into football.
Greg mceilroy saying, hey, someoney trusts he talks to, Saban
could be trying to find his way back in. Is
there any way Saban? Hey, look, I'm done with the
college game. I just can't stand everything. With ANIL transfer
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and an NFL job pops open he could get.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
I mean, I I love the age thing could work
against him a little bit like he did with certainly
Belicheck there, but this guy's career speaks for itself. And
if he feels like the college game has become the program,
and if that is part of why he got out,
and yeah, I mean, can you turn an NFL team
around in three years? I mean, look at Pete Carroll
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right now. I mean how long is he going to
be in Vegas? And that's you know, starting from pretty
low and he got an opportunity. So I mean, you
have to be the right fit, the right owner of
the right scenario. But what six to eight of these
jobs open every year, and you're telling me that if
he wants to get back in in January, that there's
going to be six to eight guys more qualified than him. Yeah,
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I mean, I have no idea to the veracity of that.
I know Greg a little bit. I mean he's obviously
he knows that for a plug.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
In there and.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
If that's accurate, said he wants to listen. You know,
he wants to talk to NFL teams. I think there's
a week several owners who want to listen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Follow on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason lock and for Odyssey one oh five seven
the fan Washington Post. Jay has always by the appreciated man.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Have fun, have a great week, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Thank you everybody there, He goes Jason Locking for now.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Look the whole Garrett Wilson thing right, four years, one
hundred and thirty million. I mean, I look, it's not
just me being Jets fan. He's the most underrated wide
receiver in the game. He's kind of like a like
a like a combination of Keyshawn Johnson and Tim Brown.
Keyshawn in which he can do anything on the field.
He can he's a red zone threat, he goes over
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the middle, he can test balls, he's got great body control,
Like he's a receiver that can do it at any
part of the field. And from that's from Keyshawn. But
the Tim Brown thing, I mean, look the guys that
he's been catching passes from the last three years, Zach Wilson,
Mike White, Joe Flacco, Trevor Simmy, and Tim Boyle, Aaron Rodgers.
Like this is the gamut from Hey, guys who we
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thought were really really good and are still okay, to
guys that are absolutely terrible. And still this is a
guy that every year more receptions hundred reci and and
split the gig with DeVante Adams when he finally got
there last year because he was Aaron Rodgers guy still
get to one hundred catches. Like his three years in
the NFL with looking what he's been playing with has
been incredibly impressive, Like Tim Brown, all those quarterbacks he
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played with the Raiders, and now he's got his guy
from college that hey comfortable with. Justin fields, there's the
number two receiver on the Jets right now is probably
Josh Reynolds. So which tells you where all the balls
are going to be going this season?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Right? Everything isn't gonna be going to Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, he's the guy you give that money to, most
underrated receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Scheme it up.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I really hoped you weren't going to circle back and
mention Rodgers' name again, because the way you set it
up was beautiful guys that were pretty good, Guys that
you know are terrible, like Aaron Rodgers, but it's pretty good,
like Mike White and guys who were too right, Mike White,
who you wanted to deify and get a statue out
in front of.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
The stadium after three weeks.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, but you look at what he's been able to
do production wise, congratulations, but also do Zach Wilson.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You know on his nuptials, you know he got married.
Oh yeah, that's good, that's he's good.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But finally he finally he is able to acquire his
target and and yeah, now he's able to How about that.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You're gonna throw a Jay Cutler joke?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Come on, come on, dude, I don't want to get
that Stokes, we're doing that too, can But no, for
Garrett Wilson, you're you're going off the idea of all right,
we'll pay him top dollar that.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
He's going to be that guy moving forward.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
He's already got proof of concept with trash, as you
so eloquently laid out.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Now you do still need to go find a second receiver.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I like Josh Reynolds as a gadget third guy the
occasional run him out and look, Tyler Conklin is a
top ten fantasy tight end.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No, only if Jason Taylor's gonna wind up getting that job.
But I mean, like there's nobody else. The drop off
from number one to number two. I don't know that
it's greater on the Jets than any other team. But
you got two tight ends that can go play. Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah,
we're gonna run the football a lot. We don't have
three tight ends all freedom. We're gonna see the field
at once. Hey, Brace, how are you holding up? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
You and Brailer that one you're gonna work a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We're gonna put We're gonna put nine men in the
line of scrimmage and the quarterback in a running back
you can't do that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. You're gonna
put them all out.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
What page of that dog eared rule book you can
steal from Belichick's old playbook?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
There exit out bout a fresca exit swollen dome. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So someone who's been called the Garrett
Wilson of Fox Sports Radio. He didn't like the guy
who was working with last year. He likes us a
lot better. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I was paused.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
Way, guys, he's got ninety million guaranteed you coming to him.
Not so Home Run Derby is winding down in Atlanta
to they're in the final. Junior Cameronaro, aged twenty two.
He just turned twenty two this month for Tampa Bay.
He is in the final, about to start, but a
very impressive eighteen homers posted by Seattle's col Rawley just
now with his dad pitching to him and his fifteen
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year old brother as his catcher.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
By the way, Dad too high, Dad, Dad too high?
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Come on like that hasn't been said before in their lives.
Raleigh won his semi final against O'Neil Cruz nineteen to thirteen.
Cruise of the Pirates did tie for the most home
runs in the first round with Kaminaro. Cruz hit one
estimated at five hundred thirteen feet. In the last decade
of the home run derby the four longest homers have
been ones when it was at cors Field four years ago.
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As for non Colorado, the non altitude homers, that's the
longest of the last decade, Cruise hitting one five thirteen.
By the way, Jazz Chisholm of the Yankees had a
robust three homers in the first Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
But he had, but he only had but he made
up for he only had forty five pitches.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
They had those three home runs on.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
That was, to say the least the lowest total of
the night, and I don't know, maybe the lowest total
of our lifetime, So I.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Would have to look at the record book.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
But Junior Camanaro about to get into the box in
the final as he's trailing Raleigh for the moment. Dhho
Heotani will lead off for the National League and Tuesday
Night's all Star Game on Fox TV. Atlanto's own Ronald
Acunya will bat second for the American League. Aaron Judge
will bat third, and then Cal Raleigh in the cleanup spot.
Raleigh of Seattle committed to play for Team USA and
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next year's World Baseball Classic. The team's captain is Aaron
Judge of the Yankees. Also playing for the US next
March will be pitcher Paul Skeins of the Pirates the
starting pitcher tomorrow night for the National League All Stars.
Detroit's Trek Scooble will be on the mound to start
for the al By the way, the Tampa Bay Rays
will be sold for one point seven billion dollars. According
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to The Athletic. The buyers are led by a Florida
based developer. The Jets gab wide receiver Garrett Wilson a
four year extent potentially worth one hundred and thirty million dollars.
Since he was drafted in the top ten and from
Ohio State, Wilson's had three straight thousand yard seasons and
he had one hundred and one receptions last year. Chargers
wide receiver Mike Williams will start training camp on the
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pup list physically unable to perform. The preseason schedule starts
with the Chargers Lions game in the Hall of Fame
or July thirty first, so those two teams veterans report
to camp this coming week.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But he knows where the red line is on the field, right,
Mike Williams. He knows the red line. He knows the
running the red line. When he's back out on the field.
The red line, the red line, you.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Know, the red center of the ice.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You got to run the red line.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You gotta run the red line right center of the ice.
That's why why he's a Charger. Now he doesn't know
the red line.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
So you know, there are more red line comments that
I certainly will not make. Most names will have. Veterans
reports a training camp next week July the twenty second.
It's first center Victor weber Yama is cleared to return
after the blood cloud in his shoulder last season.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Lott from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Up next, we got the play
of the day, and I'm telling you every day we
keep getting closer to an incredibly large trade in the
NBA and more evidence that it's coming. After what's gone
on the last few hours. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah,
finals of the home run derby right now, Junior Camanero,
Cal Rowley.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
But it doesn't matter what happens here. I think we
already have the home run.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
We know that's going to be the home run that
everybody talks about.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
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Speaker 3 (35:06):
The day, the longest one of the night.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
He can't believe he hit it that far.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
He ESPN on the call. Now, would you want to
hear Berman going back back back. I can't even keep
saying it so far, back back back. I can't see
it back back way back, an absolute rocket?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Does he get credit for two on that one? I
would give him three?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
You some guy jump the bonus? Is this where we
started playing? Like it's just jump right to the moneyball
or rocking Jocke or that, Like.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, yeah, you put the you put the little moneyball
in there because if you get to uh, you know,
to the.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Corner at Yankee Stadium, I mean you can that's almost
two home runs.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Oh yeah, sure, yeah, oh they have this Yankee Stadium.
The numbers are be insane. That's two home runs. That's
two home runs. That's two home runs. So again, Kevin
Arra Cal Rowley will bring you updated finale after this
happens right now in the in the championship here to
see who walks away with the Golden Mustard belt. But
we talked about this last week a lot. Every day
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there's new evidence that tells you how bad the relationship
is between Lebron James and the Lakers right to go
over everything. Since the acquisition of Luka Doncic, Lebron has
been out of the mix. He's been in the outer circle.
He's not in the circle of trust. Greg, You are
outside of the circle of trust they're building around Luca
and Lebron James is someone who they are daring him
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to ask for a trade. Everything they do, they are
daring him to ask for a trade. And now what
did we get this weekend?
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
More ratcheting this up to get to a point where
each side it's like they're the Old West and waiting
to draw on each other, like someone's gonna we're gonna draw,
We're gonna draw. Four teams apparently have called the Lakers
about or called sorry, sorry calla called Rich Paul about
getting Lebron James, which again, both sides are ratcheting things
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up because Lebron doesn't want to ask for a trade.
The Lakers don't want to say we're going to trade you.
The Lakers want Lebron to ask for a trade, and
Lebron wants the Lakers to say, Okay, let's figure something
out where you can get you where you want to go,
which again, Cleveland, it's the only place. So four teams
apparently have called Rich Paul about about getting Lebron James
and when Lebron was at Vegue was in Vegas this
(37:28):
weekend taking in some of the summer league action. Dave McManamon,
long time basketball insider, asked to said he asked Lebron
for a couple of minutes, you want to talk about
your future with the franchise, and Lebron responded with I
ain't got nothing to talk about. Then Dave mcmadhamon had
this bit on ESPN over the weekend. So again, I
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want to say this for everybody who thinks Lebron's not
getting traded because it's too difficult. One, you can always
make the money work. It may take a bunch of teams,
that may take ten teams. You can make they work,
especially if the players are out there. But the bigger
thing is this, can Lebron really come back and play
for the Lakers after all that's going on. Lebron is
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an alpha male of the highest priority. He's not a
guy that well, I'm okay with coming back and I'll
figure things out. I'll play this year, roun I'll go.
He is the straw that stirs the drink. He has
been this way in the NBA for twenty years. Is
he really an alpha like Lebron gonna come back and
be an ancillary part or not so much that you're
not the focus, but we're gonna we're gonna beat you
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over the head with the fact that you are not
the focus of this team. Can he really come back
and play for the Lakers? After all this is going on?
This is why a trade can happen any day. I
can see a trade any day for Lebron James.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
I mean the Cleveland thing is curious because they are
in the second apron so that they can't aggregate salaries
to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I'll just add the fourth apron so he starts the
new rules make that difficult for them. The buyout process
would be great. Lakers say, uh, yeah, you're gonna take
We're not paying anything and get You can make the
money work. You can make the money work by by
adding other teams that you can make it work for Mobile,
you can make it work for Darius Garland. You can
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make but it's a decision of whether you want to
excize them from your squad after what you've built.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But to that point, you're in the second aproncy can't aggregate.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Uh so that makes the trade far part with the
the caval Cavaliers at least a little more difficult. Now
when when we look at the no comment, I just
took it as that I'm here, I don't I don't
really want to get into this, right.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
He could come out and say anything he wanted to.
Lebron doesn't want publicity come out, but he gets more
publicity by not He could have said anything. He could
have come out and said anything and said he said none,
I got, I got, I got nothing to talk about.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
That's not but that's the statement without making a statement deal.
That's mean.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
He could have just said I'm sorry, I don't really
want to do it tonight, okay, instead saying I got
nothing to talk about because he knows Dave mcmanhamon is
going to report it.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
That way and he's gonna get him out.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
But he's like, what does sound.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
But the that's exactly why he wants to get this
out there. And that whole four team thing with Rich
Paul wretching things. I want to see the league actually
do something for crying out loud Rich Paul a couple
of weeks ago with the draft, manipulated the draft, and
we had video and audio evidence, and now a damn
thing was said by the spineless commissioner, Adam silver High
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Commission and now this at least four teams like, no,
they've got to contact the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Jmore.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Maybe out in lay Town riding on a jet ski,
but he still matters damn it.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
He'd be the guy that would make the trade too.
Oh hey, Geenie, by the way, I made a trade.
I traded Lebron. But wait, I trained Lebron.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
Time after time.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
They're still saying it's our rules when it's not telling
you any day a Lebron trade. You think it can't,
it can. Coming up next, we got a big story
out of the NFL surround
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