January 16, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Miike Harmon react to the massive breaking news out of Major League Baseball. Jason cries about his Mets not getting Kyle Tucker. And book it now, the Golden State Warriors will become title contenders again.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside. Happy Thursday, probably the happiest for Kyle Tucker,
The Jason Smith Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, where big news
coming in just moments ago. And look, and I don't
like to sit here and tell you, you know, I
(00:51):
I was ahead of the curve and told you about this.
Except I told you about this and tweeted about this
last night.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Last night, yes night. You know I'm still square.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
On the uh the website and domain. I hate to say,
I told your show dot com this would be at
the top. I think we might ask again Elijah to
clip this off so we can make that the first post.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
What did I tell you a day ago?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
He was going to the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Kyle Tucker, who is what number one, number one free
agent in Major League Baseball. Kyle Tucker had a short term,
big money contract from the Mets on the table four
years and two hundred million dollars, which that extra year, right,
it was three years, they wanted four, they went four. Awesome, Right,
that's what he's got. So four years, five four years,
two hundred million, fifty million dollars a year, second highest
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paid player in baseball. He also had a long term
offer from the Blue Jays on the table for potentially
ten years, three hundred and fifty ish million dollars. So
it's it's more security.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's more money, but it's less money per year. Yeah,
three hundred and thirty Canadian.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So everybody's saying, oh, he's going to be choosing the
Mets and the Blue Jes And what did I say
last night and what did I tweet out? He's got
both offers that he wants. If he wanted those teams,
he would have picked those teams. He was gonna Kirk
Cousins his way to get to where he wanted to.
He got the offers that he wanted, both short and
long term, from the Mets and the Blue Jays because
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he really wanted to go someplace else. He wanted to
go to the Dodgers. So I'm waiting for this to
so wait. I said, the Mets aren't going to get him.
I don't know what everybody's going crazy about. He's gonna
go to the Dodgers. And honestly, Kyle Tucker, I would
it would be great if they got him. But it's
not something where, oh my goodness, we failed completely. Right,
I'm okay with not paying Kyle Tucker fifty nine dollars
a year.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No, I was.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
There's lots of guys out there. There's lots of things
to do. Kyle Tucker's a terrific player, right, but he's
not perfect, and you overpay to get him to get
him early. Okay, I get that, but I'm not nearly
as upset as I was, Like, boy, if we lost
out on somebody that was so so huge, Like, Kyle
Tucker's a good player. Is he great?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Is he worth fifty million dollars a year?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But he's a good left fielder. He's got a pretty
good war when he's healthy. Did have a horrible back
half of the second half last year, But now you
put him in that Dodger lineup and suddenly, you know what,
Watch watch the watch the balls fly out of Chavez ravine.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But but that's I said. When this is going on,
this is leverage because he has he has the offers
that he wants, the short term, the long term. Okay, now, Dodgers,
can you get close?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
We don't know what the official terms are, but it
is a short term ish deal to go to the Dodgers.
I assume it's something along the lines of four years
and two hundred million dollars, maybe a little bit less,
maybe a little bit more, whatever it's gonna be. But
I knew if he wanted that deal, he would take it.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You don't, you don't.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You don't say no to when you have the two
trades you want out there, the two off you want
out there, and you don't take it. Okay, this is now,
can you get close? Okay, Dodgers. This is where I
really wanted to go. And the Mets and the Blue
Jays got used his leverage and I knew it. I
can forget Jeff Passing and Ken Rosenthal and all those guys.
Come on, man, I told you last night he's going
to the Dodgers. Because that's where if there's three teams
in it, and the two teams if give him contract
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offers that he would take short and long term, and
he hasn't taken one from those two teams? What's left
Dodgers everybody? Baseball insider Jason Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, actually done.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Look, all of it comes down to how much can
you play the waiting game? Because everything gets stopped up
behind him right until this domino falls, the rest of
it waits, and so you're waiting to see, all right,
how much more? Will the Mets give him another year?
Will the Blue Jays account for the fact that his
money's worth less in Canada?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I mean all of these things. Will there be the
old mystery team that comes on board? And really, what
it says to me, and this is where you just
have to wear it, is that nobody wants Steve Cohen's money.
I don't know that he keeps coming back to Hey,
he was supposed to ruin baseball with all of his
big contract. He's gonna throw money around and then nobody
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wants to show up and play in New York? Are
they afraid of the Pizza Reds?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We just get well, I would be afraid the rats
are getting bigger in New York. If you know that
they're getting you I've seen that, Yeah, they're getting bigger. Geometrically,
we might.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Have to look at the rat rankings from a whole
different level.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, I mean, remember it was just it was just
this time a year ago where you know, a certain
someone got seven hundred and sixty five million dollars who
took Steve Cohen's money. So I'm not worried so much
about that. I get wanting to go to the Dodgers.
I understand if he if he turned down the Mets
to go to the Rays or the Reds, and I'd
be like, oh man, that sucks. But I get going
to the Dodgers, right. But you bring up Steve Cohen,
and this is what this is one thing where I
(05:27):
feel vindicated for Baseball's as so many people in baseball,
we're worried Steve Cohen's gonna gonna outspend everybody. So let's
put in the Steve Cohen tax to make sure that
that people don't. You know that he can't do that.
He can't just spend all kinds of money, because hey,
it's not fair to be able to do something like
that it's not fair. Let's put that in place to
stop Steve Cohen. Yeah, you're worried about the Mets, right,
under stay worried about the Mets. Meanwhile, the Dodgers sat
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there and said, okay, so this luxury tax was put
in here. Let's go okay, Liza will do to get
around that? All right, show, Hey is gonna defer money.
We're gonna sign here and do the Yeah. So now
the Dodgers are building and have been building a super
team year after year after you were worried so much
about Steve Cohen, Right, I mean this, Think about this.
How stupid is everybody? How stupid are all the other
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owners because all the underwas are gonna be mad about
this that here's the Dodgers who go get Kyle Tucker,
the number one free agent out there. How do they
do this? No, no, no, it's your fault because you
thought Steve Cohen was the guy. You thought Steve Cohen
was the guy you had to worry about. Turns out
you didn't have to worry about Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen's go, yeah,
I get my guys, I give my guys money. Everything
is fine. We're paying we're we're bringing people in. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The Dodgers now every single year they just continue to reload.
They need something, they go get it. They have money.
Eventually they're gonna have to spend money that they don't have,
and that's when they'll sell the team. Right when they
start having to pay Otani thirty eight million dollars a
year of forty eight million dollars a year in eight years,
that's when they'll sell the team. But I mean, this
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is where we're at right now. They're worried so much
about the Mets, and the Dodgers have come in and said, yeah,
what the Yankees did in the eighties and nineties, that
looks like a kid giving out candy compared to what
the Dodgers I've invested.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Well, I would estimate that the money for Otani's contract
has already been earned based on all of the contracts
and the globalization of what the Dodgers have been able
to do.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
My guess is that's nice escro account just to say,
you really think it's just sitting there in an account.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They're not using it. It's not you no, But.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
It's making more money, is the point, right, It's reinvested
and making more money, Like they're not suddenly going to
be broke when they need to pay out these deals.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I mean, you kick it down the road. What do
you do?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You work with other people's money. And if the rules
of baseball allow you to do this, then if it's
a problem for the other twenty nine ownership groups, then
they're a bunch of dopes, right, and you're playing in
the wrong game. It's not a toy anymore. It's a
multi billion dollar organization. The Dodgers before Tucker, according to
you know some of the reports, what is it, three
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hundred and seventy four million on their payroll, the Mets
at three oh one, the Blue Jays just shy of
three hundred, Phillies just shy a three hundred, and keep
going on down to where you find the Whites at
eighty seven million and the Marlins at seventy two. All
of that to say, you know, they made made these
rules and if you can find the loophole, right, It's
(08:11):
what people are getting ready to do, is they start
getting all their information together on taxes. Yeah, you know,
writing off meals and ever had there were eight people
at that meal?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, you just ate at the trough. But yeah, divide
it out by eight. We gotta pay Kyle Tucker. How
much was that meal?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
All that meal was twenty five million dollars the caviar
and champagne that we had.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Okay, twenty five million our right.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
There, But the point being right, if you can move
that money around, it's creative accounting. And in this case,
if you can defer it and you haven't put in
rules to defer it, and they can wave at you
and smile while they assemble the The Avengers Part two,
Part three, beyond Thunderbolts, that's what we're looking at here.
Then then too bad you all you all got got
got Well, now what's going to happen now? And I
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who knew Kyle Tucker was going to be the guy? Right,
But here's Rob Manford again, who was so much in sense.
So let's put the Steve Cohen Tack said, yes, let's
stop it while the Dodgers have run rampaging, And then
we're rampaging over major League Baseball the last four years,
continuing to sign players, continue deferring money for showy Otani.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Look, Dodgers not doing anything outside the rules. As you said,
I would want my team to act this right, because
you can do it. However, Kyle Tucker, this is gonna
be the moment. This is gonna be the moment where
major League Baseball says, okay, because you get so.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Much pity time, No, no, no, Tucker.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But it's gonna be because he's the number one free
agent this year and how do the Dodgers get him
with all the money they spent on guys and how
do they keep they're putting the super team together back
to back World series. This is gonna be And I
didn't think it'd be Kyle Tucker, but it's gonna wind
up being I thought it would be Otanian deferring the money.
That this was gonna be where there were teams would say, okay,
you have to stop this now, right, But now there's
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gonna be so much momentum from the other twenty nine
team to say, all right, this really doesn't help any
of us. And it's you know, while it may be
great for baseball because it's the Dodgers of the new
evil Empire, right they think they've gone to that now
and that's great, but it's not great for us business wise,
and the owners are gonna be pissed, and they're gonna say,
now we need rules in place to stop this from happening,
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to stop the Dodgers from every year being able to
go out and get the number one free agent, get
whoever they want to because they can defer money, work
around whatever it is baseball. This is gonna be the
moment where Rob Manford calls the Dodgers very teary eyed
because you know he doesn't want to do you want
to issue Dodgers is gonna say sorry, I have to
do something because everybody else is outside my office like
it's Frankenstein and they're all banging on my door with
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torches saying you gotta do this. So this is gonna
be the store. And it's weird because Kyle Tucker again
is a nice player. He's a good player. Is he
absolutely great?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Does he have faults. Yeah, you've heard about his work ethic.
You've heard about the fact that hey playing in under
a big microscope might not be for him where maybe
Hey fitting into that big star studded Dodgers team is
where he's more comfortable. So it's weird that Kyle Tucker
is gonna be the case. But there's no doubt that
very soon there will be things voted into place to
stop this rappening, to stop the Dodgers from being able
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to do this, because this is this is not putting
confidence in Major League Baseball's not putting confidence in a
lot of fan bases. And mainly the owners are going
to be pissed. We want to be able to get
a fair shake at these guys, and you don't, and
you don't do it, and we don't get a chance,
and when when they're allowed to continue to spend and
then there's no emergency break force. This is bad for
all of our businesses. So they're all going to be mad.
(11:27):
This is gonna be the moment that and I don't
know what it's gonna wind up being, but it will
be a certain, it will be a certain it will
be this will be where all the stops are put
in place so the Dodgers won't be able to do this.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah, I'll be curious to see how many of them
rally rally around, right, because now we get into the
fuzzy math and the accounting of it all. Are they
making more money year over year? If they are, then
they'll try to protest, but it'll be hollow.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
We look at Kyle Tucker second half of the season,
as with many of the Cubs players, five home runs,
seventeen RBI two thirty one, and he's your sought after guy.
He's only twenty eight, still some good years ahead of him.
But in the end, the Dodgers can only have how
many guys what mid twenties, right, that's it, and a
couple of guys that are just hanging out off injury
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contracts and whatever else and waiting to be activated. I
think the bigger issue for the Dodgers was the fact
that they were able to have all their pitchers just
hang out until July until hey, you ready to throw now, Yeah,
let's get after it. That's the bigger It didn't matter
of being able to sign players because there's only so
many guys you can have on a roster, But for
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the economics of the game, that's really what rules it all.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We talk about competitive balance, Well, that's always been a
bit of a hazy space, because if the Dodgers had
lost either of these last two years, does that change anything?
Are we still crying no? But because they I'm saying
they almost got beat in each of these two runs
to the World Series. Right, if they lose either one
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of those. I know that's in ifs and ans and
butts and whatever. But if they lose one of those,
does everybody just be quiet saying hah ha ha, look
at all the bad money they spent. Instead, it's oh man,
we don't even have a chance.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But look, right or wrong, that's going to happen, right,
and if you can whatever you can do to make
your team better, great. Look I'm not gonna complain because
I wanted that's exactly what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
To know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I wanted Steve coming to outspend everybody. I want him
to use. This is what you have that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You why you bring in a multi guy with the
kind of money.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm simply telling you this is how the other twenty
nine owners are going to Now you are trying to
sound the alarm that's never gonna go on, don't. I
don't think that the alarm, Trust me the alarm. There's
a Kyle Tucker there. There's a big text chain going
on right now between twenty nine or right maybe like
all right, I was gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Say no, I read read off to what the White
Sox spend.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Maybe twenty teams that are gonna say, hey, we have
to we have to stop this from happening. I'm telling
you this is again, Kyle. You would think Otani would
have been that with oh, wait, you're deferring and now
you're low wait no, no, no, no no. But that's
still well.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But the other thing is, I mean, in this particular case,
and with some of these others, there's twenty five teams
that know they have no chance in hell, so they're
not mad about it. Like Kyle Tucker, for most of
these teams, it doesn't matter, like he had already narrowed
it down to event what a handful of teams, right,
we'll put up the King Kong Bundi five count. So
the other twenty five did they give a damn No.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No, I'd be like if they weren't. And the thing is,
if they weren't.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Before the Dodgers are now officially the new evil Empire,
they were still a team that people rooted for across
the country.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Wasn't the Yankee?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Look, we hated the Yankees for so long and everything
they did and all the money they spent and how
and angst and Hank and house Stein Brenner and George
Steinbrenner and oh yes, easy. I hate the Yankees, I
hate the evil Empire. I hate they win. I hate
all of this. The Dodgers knew evil empire. I mean
that now they've gone from all look how fun they
are to root for, and they got Otani and all fun.
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Now they're just gonna be hate. The every fan base
across Major League Baseball is just gonna absolutely hate them.
And now they're gonna be the hunted and the hated.
And then we gotta come up with a.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Better word than evil empire. But that's exactly what the Dogs.
We'll figure out a new alliteration for.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
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Speaker 1 (16:57):
With the Kyle Tucker contract with the Dodgers, and hold
on to your hats, Juan Soto, you had a great
run as the highest paid player in Major League Baseball.
It's great. You had a great run.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It was a year long.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You had a great run the Kyle Tucker contract. Remember
the Mets had offered him a four year deal worth
two hundred million dollars. So fifty million dollars a year. Right,
we've said a few minutes ago, I told you last night.
If you didn't take the Mets offer, didn't take the
Blue Jays offer, he wants another offer. Forget Jeff Passon,
I'm your baseball insider. He wants to go to the Dodgers. Well,
he goes to the Dodgers. Okay, So if you really
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want that, I was thinking, okay, we're gonna get the terms.
It's going to be somewhere close to fifty million a year.
Maybe it's forty seven, forty should be right at fifty
could be the same thing. Hey, the Mets are giving
me this? What are you giving me this? The Dodgers
are paying Kyle Tucker four years and two hundred and
forty million dollars. Kyle Tucker is getting paid sixty million
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dollars a year by the for the next four years.
For some ridiculous reason, there's an opt out after the
second year, like, ok cause we can't I could make
seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well, no, I mean on both sides.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Right, For the Dodgers, it's the all right, if you're
the guy that you were in the second half, well
then then we've got some some data and we probably
don't love you. As for Kyle Tucker, if he comes
in and does what they expect him to do with
that kind of money, he says, well, what's the market
in two years?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Why not I get seventy five million a year?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Why if I'm and if I suck, I'm still gonna
get the other one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know where's the loss not opting out after this?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I really I am more than okay not paying Kyle
Tucker sixty million dollars a year, right, I mean, look,
and I'm being honest with you if I would be pissed,
if I look, I wear my heart on my sleeve,
I'll tell you how I feel all the time about stuff. Right,
If I really was pissed about the Mets losing out
on Kyle Tucker for this, I will tell you no,
I'm not really, because we'll get somebody. We'll just go
give Cody Bellinger five years and six hundred million dollars. Now,
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there's other guys out there. Those guys get out there
and trade them. That's having the number one farm system
in baseball. I'm not worried. Getting Kyle Tucker would have
been great. Not getting agampt. The show goes on. This
is not this is not this is not a thing.
I am more than okay, not paying him sixty million
dollars a year, Okay, I really am KYD. You're talking
about the wrong guy setting the mark for most money
(19:22):
in baseball. Remember how now the Bryce Harper thirty million
dollars year contract sounds quaint. That was just like four
years ago. But that's that's great.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
It's where the calculus has changed at all of this.
And when we go down to these top teams, and
again it's only those top five to seven teams that
are even looking at the top free agents and even
trying to get a bit in, and depending on their agent,
they may not even bother Scott Boris may not pick
up right for a lot of these teams along the way.
(19:55):
But it just is the what the market will bear
at a different time. And for guys like Cohen, for
organizations like the Dodgers, it's funny money, right. It's not
precluding you from going back into the marketplaces don't as
long as you're willing to pay what the luxury taxes are.
And maybe that's where one of the big changes happens. Right,
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to preclude squads from loading up is all right, we're
really gonna make those even more substance penalties. And they're
gonna laugh, and they're gonna say, Okay, keep going, right,
because I'm still making that much more money and I'm
still playing meaningful baseball in September and October, So you're
not gonna stop that train. But for Kyle Tucker at
this number, in the end, it is a huge deal,
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and it's eye popping because Kyle Tucker's not a guy
that it screams that it should be this. But we
do this every year, we're talking a lot about the
NFL draft. There's guys that go in the top five quarterbacks.
Why because he's so thirsty at the position, Like, I
don't think that's gonna work. I mean, you're a Jets fan.
How many touchs? Did you draft a guy and go? Yeah, Well,
(21:03):
I mean, look, we're drafting there.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
We need a quarterback. It's a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
It's the same thing here in a year where there's
not a bunch of monster free agents, guess what, somebody's
gonna get paid and exorbitant amount tuna.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
There he is.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
He's a twenty five and ninety guy. He's a twenty five,
ninety two seventy hitter. That's a nice player. You know,
many guys are twenty five and ninety major League Baseball, there's.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Like thirty of them. Really, there's like thirty of them.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And good for Kyle Tucker getting this money, because hey,
he took advantage of you know, some years, a player
like Kyle tucker's your number one guy in frame. She
sometimes a guy like one, So no, that's it is
your guy, right. But I mean, really, I am not
unhappy that we did. We didn't pay a twenty five
ninety two to seventy guy sixty million dollars a year.
I'm really okay with that, honestly, I'm okay with it.
(21:53):
I'm okay, no, But.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's only an issue if it's going to preclude you
from making other moves. And that's the larger point, right
for Cohen, that would then okay, cool, we got him now,
moving on now it could if he struggles, then it
becomes the all right, it's the back page of the
fish wrap of we paid this guy how much? And
that's just fans getting and bloviators getting all in in
a what because it doesn't matter, right, it's what once
(22:17):
the guy's check Star Clay, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
It's like is he hitting or is he not? He's
either good or he's not.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'm not looking at each hit of You know that
base hits worth four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's a four hundred thousand dollars, right, I don't give
a damn.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Does he perform in the clutch or does he not?
I'm not I'm not parsing guy. Just like you know
that walk was worth one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
That's that plate. It's a two.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hundred grand, oh and two count you better come back
on this year.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And that's like I'm not sitting there doing that. Is
that how we're gonna watch baseball this year? You and
I we're gonna have little toggles? Hey, you know this,
this at bat, this plant appearance right here with running
runners on, based on my calculus, is worth this?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
No, what's it's spent? It spent?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
But look this is why, and said a few minutes
ago in Frostburg. You know when he brought up I said, Hey,
all the owners are gonna be pissed, and this is
gonna foster a big change now because they're gonna be mad.
The Dodgers are allowed to do this year after year.
That's gonna be it. But you didn't need anymore. But
I'll give you something else because the fact that Kyle
Tucker is the guy to now said. Agents are happy now,
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players are happy now because Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker is
the highest played player in baseball when it comes to
average salary at sixty million dollars a year. This is
the same thing as when the Browns decided we'll guarantee
to all two hundred thirty million dollars to Sean Watson's contract.
Thirty one other teams in the NFL are saying, are
you kidding me? What are you doing? What are you
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doing to the business model? Why you make you know
what you've just done to all of us because you're
so desperate for a quarterback and and and you want
a guy that's got all kinds of problems.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well, by the way, it's gonna be a bad headlined
for you.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And the karma has come back to really ruin the
Browns after that, Like you saw what that was like
and what that did to quarterbacks. Teams are now pissed,
right the Jaguars going, yeah, we love Trevor Lawrence. We
don't have to pay him fifty five million dollars a year,
but yet we are because we have to.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
But they did.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So this is that That's another reason why you're gonna
see change, because it's gonna be Hey, if another Jan
Soto was out there, another Shoeo Tani was out there
and they gave him sixty million dollars a year, well, okay,
but now Kyle Tucker has set the mark for highest
paid player in baseball, and all that's gonna do is
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piss off all the other owners because they're like, now,
every free agent we want to sign is way more money.
Every single They just put the value of every single
free agent through the roof because of Kyle Tucker. Right,
I understand. So you put those two things together, and
that's why the Tucker that's gonna be Kyle Tucker's legacy.
Kyle Tucker, who signed a contract with the Dodgers, became
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the reason for the new change in Major League Baseball
where no one can spend any money. We're calling it,
they call it the Tucker rule.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Right, you're ready? Because I love fun with numbers. Were
throw going out? Like what his basic average? I was,
all right, twenty twenty five, ninety whatever. Based on his
numbers from last year Fun with Numbers, he was tied
for sixty fifth in Major League Baseball in twenty two
home runs. He was tied for seventy seven with his
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seventy three army Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, that's Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Sixty million a year, that's Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I mean, I wish I could hit a base He's
he's in trouble with the curve.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Like I said, he's a good player, but I am
more than okay with not paying him sixty million. Now
for the Dodgers part of it, Now, do you get
to the Dodgers' part? I mean, what else do you need? Man?
Whatever they need, we're gonna go get. We're gonna find
a way. Where are the pie The Dodgers didn't even
need Kyle Tucker and they wound up getting called Oh
they went oceans eleven.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Didn't you think we need one more?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Didn't it?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And this is where they were saying no Brett Brett
Pitt with his head down to drink. No, we're gonna
be I'll get one more anyway. I'll just get one
more anyhow. That's fine, that's fine. We'll continue to do this.
We'll continue to ruin baseball.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
There it is Roberts has he tweeted about ruining baseball?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Baseball? How are they that's ruining baseball by being in it?
Is that what you're gonna say? Well?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, okay, I mean sometimes he's the line from A
to B.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I mean they take the simplest path.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I mean, how do you feel about them tanking? Yeah?
Or we're not gonna sign anybody where? Yeah? I mean, look,
well we'll wind up selling one Soto off, like just
parts of them, you know, to make to make the
most money out. Here's his arm, here's his here's his arm.
You know, here's his knee, here's his two feet. We're
gonna stop in parts. We're gonna make more money at
the endport we'll sell you know.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
They sell W W E figures like that where you
have to buy five different figures to put together the manager.
So maybe you did that with one, so okay, so
like in one package you'll have the guy's head. Yeah,
and just go on down the lines, like how many
of these do I need to buy?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I don't want that guy? Does it come with a megaphone?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Some of them do. But yeah, Jimmy hard is out there.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You think of the Dodgers being able to do this,
and it's really it makes it makes all the other
spending you have ever in baseball look look like nothing,
look like downsizing, right like, because you go back and say, okay,
the Yankees in the eighties, nineties and two thousands, when
George Steinbrenner would go out very famously and trade for
a guy at the deadline, high priced guy because he
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didn't want another team to get him, right like you
did that. He went out and traded for Jose Canseco
because he didn't want the Red Sox to get him,
and he heard, okay, well trade him, not play him,
and everything else like and this is where, wow, look
at what the Yankees are doing. Look at what they're
doing and all that. This because of the sheer tonnage
of the money and the sheer number of all stars.
I mean, this makes everything else we've seen before it's
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minor league. I mean this is last year when it
was they went out and got three closers, We're going
to get three closers because we can, and then.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
They didn't use any of them because they all start.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're gonna go out and we're gonna have we're gonna
have six starting pitchers in with contracts in the hundreds
of millions of Dodgers. And it still wasn't enough because
I still got hurt, but point out of the bullpen
to win games.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
But that's the point is you can spend a lot
of and people get mad about it and guys get hurt.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, what does it allow you to do? Well, that's too.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Bad, right, You signed a couple of closers at high
prices and then they stunk, so you moved on, Like
you say, you go to Yamamoto. Hey, Sosaki, you got
an inning, and you let's go. You still have to
be inventive, still have demand, and still have to play
out a full hundred and sixty two plus.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
This is absolutely stunning. It is absolutely But.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's like off the space. Fix the glitch. I mean
you don't like it.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Fix the glitch. Go take away the deferred monies and
all those things and change those rules.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You thought you thought that was big money. Ah yeah, okay,
just wait, that's nice, that's cute, that's quaint. That's nice
that we'll show you what's.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
What would be even better, though, is if Kyle Tucker
doesn't have to play it on July first, Like all
those pictures.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Hey, hey you ready, Hey, come on, Frostberg, you got
the inside info one what painting the Dodgers are gonna
sell to pay for Kyle Tucker? The Steve Cohen painting?
The Steve co Okay, very good. They're just not worth much,
but okay, but the brushstrokes are really really great.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
It makes it look real right. Yeah no, that's like
a mirror.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah. Uh, time out to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports with someone who about forty
minutes ago, I walked in and said, hey, congratulations, blank face,
you got Kyle Tucker. It's Steve de Seger.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That was quite harsh, by the way. I don't think
Steve was ready quite like. What did I do?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Exactly still remains the question. But again, I made you happy.
I made you happy.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
No, no, I don't have a front office chop on
the side here. I'm just here at the news desk
for credit louds. Kyle Tucker is a Los Angeles Dodgers.
They're signing the right fielder reportedly to a four year deal,
with an opt out after year two and an opt
out after year three. He did play through a couple
of injuries last year, and maybe that explains the two
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thirty one batting average in the second half of the season.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
One of those a hairline fracture in the hand. But
he was a top five overall selection out of high
school in Tampa a decade ago, a lot of years
with Houston, including a world title All Star the last
four years. He's a career two to seventy three hitter,
had five hundred at bats even with the Cubs last
year twenty two homers, twenty five steals over ninety runs scored.
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Kyle Tucker, a Dodger. Newly retired pitcher Clayton kershaw X
of LA will be on Team USA in March for
the World Baseball Classic. The Reds traded Gavin Lux to
Tampa Bay at a three way deal. The Angels got
outfielder Josh Lowe. The Rocky signed infielder Willie Castro. In
college hoops, We've Got Gonzaga rang ninth in the country
(30:31):
at Washington State and trailing the Cougars twenty two to
twenty one in the first half. In women's hoops, Number
two South Carolina picked up a home victory against number
four Texas sixty eight sixty five, Number one Yukon ninety
nine fifty over Villanova. NHL Buffalo beat Montreal five to three.
Ten NHL games tonight, including now final at Boston, Bruins
(30:54):
four to two over Seattle, and the Winnipeg Jets won six'
to two At. Minnesota THE nba four and a half
minutes left big lead For dallas Over houston one thirty
four to one oh. Nine even Though cooper flag is
out with a sprained. Ankle Jalen brunson of The knicks
out tonight with a sprained. Ankle New york leads At
Golden state late first quarter thirty three twenty, eight the
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late game about to start In La lakers Hosting. Charlotte
wins For boston And San. Antonio Oklahoma city won its
fifth straight game one eleven ninety one At. Houston wins
For detroit and For, orlando which played In berlin, today
Beating memphis in a comeback one, eighteen one. Eleven Jaron
jackson thirty points in. Defeat John morant did not play
(31:36):
due to a bruce. Calf they'll play each other again
On sunday In. London seahawks Quarterback Sam darnold says he'll
Play saturday night despite an oblique. Injury he had to
leave practice early, today returning from. Injury this week For,
seattle or Tackled Charles cross and Safety Kobe. Bryant forty
Nine ers Linebacker Fred warner is still out this weekend
after a broken and dislocated ankle In, october but he
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could play in AN nfc title game If San francisco.
Advances niners wide Receiver Ricky pierso questionable for this week
with the knee and ankle, injuries he said he will.
Play and one note on THE. Nba in THE okc win,
tonight exactly twenty points For Shay Gilgess. Alexander he's now
the first player Since George gervin to score at least
twenty in forty plus straight games to start a. Season
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gervin did it in the first forty five games of
the year nineteen eighty one eighty. Two back to, You.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Thank, You steve.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
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because of course The. Dodgers but coming up, next we
got the play of the day and WHAT nba team
is on the cusp of making a big trade that's
getting them.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Back to The superstar super team level they were at
a couple of years. Ago pretty sure that's gonna happen.
Soon that's, next right, Here.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
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move for a return to? Glory, okay that's an, okay
guess it's not but that's an, okay, guest return to glory? Change? Maybe?
Okay tyshit not? Bad how do you not?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Bad?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, yeah you have been pushing that whole lebron thing
for a long, time, RIGHT i, mean but It'skin but
it's Not.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Cleveland it's gonna happen it's Not. Cleveland, well, NO i
know BECAUSE i know What i'm going to talk. About oh,
yeah it's can be. Cleaned how do you know? That
you know you're going to talk about it Because i'm
from the future And i've seen, this AND i come
back and, know, okay this will be. Talking welcome to the,
future where the present is The, Listen i'm the one
who traveled back from the future and took care of
all those pesky murder hornets that were supposed to come
(34:15):
into The west coast and put a you, know run
rough shot over the.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Country, gosh you took out all the bees with.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Him wait a, minute not, well, listen, hey collateral damage
it you, know it's greater. GOOD i got to get
rid of the murder, hornets, RIGHT i had to get
rid of. Them. Yeah how come you use the almanac
and bet all Those mets? Losses what you THINK i
didn't because you be very. Rich do you really need
an almanac to Bet mets.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Losses he's a much better actor than.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
YOU i think you can Bet mets losses without having
any knowledge of the. Future how about the big one
they took. Tonight it is a big L we'll have
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Speaker 3 (35:17):
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Speaker 1 (35:18):
Well a guy who's become a pretty much a staple
for The play of the, day and deservedly.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
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stay with a tunnel hand of. Rejection castle does it
right back to? Him victor.
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SPURS tv on the.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
Call, okay is it what's more Powerful wemby when we
thought he was only seven four Or wemby with the bald?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Head which one is more?
Speaker 9 (35:47):
Passed wemby with the bald head one Nineteen wemby when
we only thought he was seven four one oh.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
One he may be channeling some mysticism with his new
height and advance. Skills WHAT i want to know is
what was he talking To giannis about after this game?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Ended that that was IF.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
I could get the parabolic microphone and point it in
any general direction from any of these games or anything
going around in the sporting.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Universe that's WHAT i.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Want Because giannis kept doing that cupping over his mouth
thing so nobody could read his. Lips, hey you, know
not Like Jackson dard a couple of weeks. Ago you
think we can coexist play. Together you want to come?
HERE i MEAN i can't come there Because i'm on Bur,
rookie deal with. That you want to come, Here you
want to come. Here we got a super team. Hunch
you come here and. Play, yeah come here and. PLAY i,
KNOW i, know just the. Thing don't boo the. Fans,
okay just can't do. That all, right, great, thanks we'll. See,
(36:35):
Well i'll let you bang the drum, before you, know
after each win or whatever. Else but he is channeling
a little of that cane and kung fu kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Look Uh, so while we're on THE nba, topic it
take you. Back you remember it was about this time last,
year maybe maybe maybe about eleven and a half months,
ago right after the trade, deadline when The warriors traded
For Jimmy. Butler, right what DID i say at the,
TIME i, said this is part of what's going to
be a two Part warriors plan to get back to
(37:02):
being AN nba title contender and not waste the last
few years Of Steph curry's. Prime they need another move,
though because, Look draymond is too old to be that guy.
Anymore Klay thompson's. Gone they need another, star, Right they've
been someone that when they had three stars they worked
out really. Well right when it Was steph and it
Was draymond And clay are that it Was steph and
(37:23):
it WAS kd and. Class so but is this offense
and this team has worked when they've had three. Superstars they, Said,
Now Jimmy butler is a great first, one but they
need that. Second they need that third. Guy it's a
two part, plan AND i don't know if he's. Available
during the, summer we talked about it potentially being a
guy Like Joel.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Embiid who. Knows but now today they are loading up
for that.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Move. Right we saw the story earlier today That jonathan
kaminga of The, warriors has demanded a. Trade right reports
that his relationship With steve kerr is now not even tenable.
Anymore STEVE kerrz talked about how upset he was and
how disappointed he was that things haven't gone. Well kaminga
is twenty three years. Old feels like he's been in
the year for. Leak he's a long time, yeah, yeah
and he was going to be generation next for The. Warriors,
(38:05):
hey as they rebuild their, dynasty you bring in the young,
players and now he's going to be someone where the
end Of Steph curry we get in The Jonathan kaminga.
Era now he has shown in the past that he
is a pretty good, player, Right he's had a couple
of really big, years but now the last year and
a half In Golden state not been, great not in the,
rotation took you, know too injured to, play and now
Will warriors have to move. On he is a young
(38:28):
player with a lot of. Upside that is a change of. Scenery. Guy,
again you have seen. It and he is only twenty,
threes not thirty. Three he's twenty. Three this is where
The warriors are now going to throw Out Jonathan kaminga
and some of those big picks they, have those first
round picks they, have and this is where they go
get their third superstar player to pair alongside With steph
(38:51):
And Jimmy, butler and this is where they make their.
Run they started this season as well as you. Can,
Right steph was. Hurt you're not as, great but you're
a couple of games over five. Hundred, right it's not
awful sitting around on the plane. Situation but this is
where they, go and this is where The warriors make
that big trade for another. Team maybe It's, giannis maybe
it's somebody. Else maybe It's Karl Anthony. TOWNS i don't,
(39:11):
know but it's somebody out there that's gonna be their third,
superstar and it's gonna Be kminga and draft, picks it's
gonna get.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Him, YEAH i don't know how much value THOUGH i
get he's only twenty. Three they've had need for him
to be a bigger piece of this puzzle and he
hasn't been able to do. It and falling out of
favor With Steve kerr and how much that may have
tanked what you're gonna get back in.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Return but.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
You've Got Jimmy butler going to the podium and saying
we're mediocre at. Best we're in the worst place of THE,
nba not good and not just absolutely, terrible to where
you can see hope in the. Horizons so For, kaminga
it's just been an interesting what is this your fib
or any, right that's the scary. Thing he's been on
the radar of that long and trying to, see you,
(39:57):
know when he's gonna have that. Breakthrough and maybe he's
one of those guys that just needs to go to
a bad team and be that guy that is just
a stat filler somewhere. Else but certainly falling out of
favor With Steve. Kurry he's not one to mince words
when it comes down to what your value is or
isn't to his.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
OPERATION i, mean just trust. Me The warriors are not
gonna try to waste. It they understood that last year
we did the best we. Could now, look home court
advantage doesn't, matter but they're gonna make that. Move teams
are gonna want to get out from under some, salary
and that third star is coming To Golden state by the.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Deadline just watch.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Well you might end up In sacramento as the rumor
you know that team that beat your ass coming up.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Next Jalen brunson didn't even play. WELL i did big
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside. Happy Thursday, probably the happiest for Kyle Tucker,
The Jason Smith Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, where big news
coming in just moments ago. And look, and I don't
like to sit here and tell you, you know, I
(00:51):
I was ahead of the curve and told you about this.
Except I told you about this and tweeted about this
last night.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Last night, yes night. You know I'm still square.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
On the uh the website and domain. I hate to say,
I told your show dot com this would be at
the top. I think we might ask again Elijah to
clip this off so we can make that the first post.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
What did I tell you a day ago?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
He was going to the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Kyle Tucker, who is what number one, number one free
agent in Major League Baseball. Kyle Tucker had a short term,
big money contract from the Mets on the table four
years and two hundred million dollars, which that extra year, right,
it was three years, they wanted four, they went four. Awesome, Right,
that's what he's got. So four years, five four years,
two hundred million, fifty million dollars a year, second highest
(01:38):
paid player in baseball. He also had a long term
offer from the Blue Jays on the table for potentially
ten years, three hundred and fifty ish million dollars. So
it's it's more security.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's more money, but it's less money per year. Yeah,
three hundred and thirty Canadian.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So everybody's saying, oh, he's going to be choosing the
Mets and the Blue Jes And what did I say
last night and what did I tweet out? He's got
both offers that he wants. If he wanted those teams,
he would have picked those teams. He was gonna Kirk
Cousins his way to get to where he wanted to.
He got the offers that he wanted, both short and
long term, from the Mets and the Blue Jays because
(02:15):
he really wanted to go someplace else. He wanted to
go to the Dodgers. So I'm waiting for this to
so wait. I said, the Mets aren't going to get him.
I don't know what everybody's going crazy about. He's gonna
go to the Dodgers. And honestly, Kyle Tucker, I would
it would be great if they got him. But it's
not something where, oh my goodness, we failed completely. Right,
I'm okay with not paying Kyle Tucker fifty nine dollars
a year.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No, I was.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
There's lots of guys out there. There's lots of things
to do. Kyle Tucker's a terrific player, right, but he's
not perfect, and you overpay to get him to get
him early. Okay, I get that, but I'm not nearly
as upset as I was, Like, boy, if we lost
out on somebody that was so so huge, Like, Kyle
Tucker's a good player. Is he great?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Is he worth fifty million dollars a year?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But he's a good left fielder. He's got a pretty
good war when he's healthy. Did have a horrible back
half of the second half last year, But now you
put him in that Dodger lineup and suddenly, you know what,
Watch watch the watch the balls fly out of Chavez ravine.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But but that's I said. When this is going on,
this is leverage because he has he has the offers
that he wants, the short term, the long term. Okay, now, Dodgers,
can you get close?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
We don't know what the official terms are, but it
is a short term ish deal to go to the Dodgers.
I assume it's something along the lines of four years
and two hundred million dollars, maybe a little bit less,
maybe a little bit more, whatever it's gonna be. But
I knew if he wanted that deal, he would take it.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You don't, you don't.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You don't say no to when you have the two
trades you want out there, the two off you want
out there, and you don't take it. Okay, this is now,
can you get close? Okay, Dodgers. This is where I
really wanted to go. And the Mets and the Blue
Jays got used his leverage and I knew it. I
can forget Jeff Passing and Ken Rosenthal and all those guys.
Come on, man, I told you last night he's going
to the Dodgers. Because that's where if there's three teams
in it, and the two teams if give him contract
(04:00):
offers that he would take short and long term, and
he hasn't taken one from those two teams? What's left
Dodgers everybody? Baseball insider Jason Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, actually done.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Look, all of it comes down to how much can
you play the waiting game? Because everything gets stopped up
behind him right until this domino falls, the rest of
it waits, and so you're waiting to see, all right,
how much more? Will the Mets give him another year?
Will the Blue Jays account for the fact that his
money's worth less in Canada?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I mean all of these things. Will there be the
old mystery team that comes on board? And really, what
it says to me, and this is where you just
have to wear it, is that nobody wants Steve Cohen's money.
I don't know that he keeps coming back to Hey,
he was supposed to ruin baseball with all of his
big contract. He's gonna throw money around and then nobody
(04:50):
wants to show up and play in New York? Are
they afraid of the Pizza Reds?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We just get well, I would be afraid the rats
are getting bigger in New York. If you know that
they're getting you I've seen that, Yeah, they're getting bigger. Geometrically,
we might.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Have to look at the rat rankings from a whole
different level.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, I mean, remember it was just it was just
this time a year ago where you know, a certain
someone got seven hundred and sixty five million dollars who
took Steve Cohen's money. So I'm not worried so much
about that. I get wanting to go to the Dodgers.
I understand if he if he turned down the Mets
to go to the Rays or the Reds, and I'd
be like, oh man, that sucks. But I get going
to the Dodgers, right. But you bring up Steve Cohen,
and this is what this is one thing where I
(05:27):
feel vindicated for Baseball's as so many people in baseball,
we're worried Steve Cohen's gonna gonna outspend everybody. So let's
put in the Steve Cohen tax to make sure that
that people don't. You know that he can't do that.
He can't just spend all kinds of money, because hey,
it's not fair to be able to do something like
that it's not fair. Let's put that in place to
stop Steve Cohen. Yeah, you're worried about the Mets, right,
under stay worried about the Mets. Meanwhile, the Dodgers sat
(05:48):
there and said, okay, so this luxury tax was put
in here. Let's go okay, Liza will do to get
around that? All right, show, Hey is gonna defer money.
We're gonna sign here and do the Yeah. So now
the Dodgers are building and have been building a super
team year after year after you were worried so much
about Steve Cohen, Right, I mean this, Think about this.
How stupid is everybody? How stupid are all the other
(06:09):
owners because all the underwas are gonna be mad about
this that here's the Dodgers who go get Kyle Tucker,
the number one free agent out there. How do they
do this? No, no, no, it's your fault because you
thought Steve Cohen was the guy. You thought Steve Cohen
was the guy you had to worry about. Turns out
you didn't have to worry about Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen's go, yeah,
I get my guys, I give my guys money. Everything
is fine. We're paying we're we're bringing people in. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The Dodgers now every single year they just continue to reload.
They need something, they go get it. They have money.
Eventually they're gonna have to spend money that they don't have,
and that's when they'll sell the team. Right when they
start having to pay Otani thirty eight million dollars a
year of forty eight million dollars a year in eight years,
that's when they'll sell the team. But I mean, this
(06:49):
is where we're at right now. They're worried so much
about the Mets, and the Dodgers have come in and said, yeah,
what the Yankees did in the eighties and nineties, that
looks like a kid giving out candy compared to what
the Dodgers I've invested.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Well, I would estimate that the money for Otani's contract
has already been earned based on all of the contracts
and the globalization of what the Dodgers have been able
to do.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
My guess is that's nice escro account just to say,
you really think it's just sitting there in an account.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They're not using it. It's not you no, But.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
It's making more money, is the point, right, It's reinvested
and making more money, Like they're not suddenly going to
be broke when they need to pay out these deals.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I mean, you kick it down the road. What do
you do?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You work with other people's money. And if the rules
of baseball allow you to do this, then if it's
a problem for the other twenty nine ownership groups, then
they're a bunch of dopes, right, and you're playing in
the wrong game. It's not a toy anymore. It's a
multi billion dollar organization. The Dodgers before Tucker, according to
you know some of the reports, what is it, three
(07:50):
hundred and seventy four million on their payroll, the Mets
at three oh one, the Blue Jays just shy of
three hundred, Phillies just shy a three hundred, and keep
going on down to where you find the Whites at
eighty seven million and the Marlins at seventy two. All
of that to say, you know, they made made these
rules and if you can find the loophole, right, It's
(08:11):
what people are getting ready to do, is they start
getting all their information together on taxes. Yeah, you know,
writing off meals and ever had there were eight people
at that meal?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, you just ate at the trough. But yeah, divide
it out by eight. We gotta pay Kyle Tucker. How
much was that meal?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
All that meal was twenty five million dollars the caviar
and champagne that we had.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Okay, twenty five million our right.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
There, But the point being right, if you can move
that money around, it's creative accounting. And in this case,
if you can defer it and you haven't put in
rules to defer it, and they can wave at you
and smile while they assemble the The Avengers Part two,
Part three, beyond Thunderbolts, that's what we're looking at here.
Then then too bad you all you all got got
got Well, now what's going to happen now? And I
(08:52):
who knew Kyle Tucker was going to be the guy? Right,
But here's Rob Manford again, who was so much in sense.
So let's put the Steve Cohen Tack said, yes, let's
stop it while the Dodgers have run rampaging, And then
we're rampaging over major League Baseball the last four years,
continuing to sign players, continue deferring money for showy Otani.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Look, Dodgers not doing anything outside the rules. As you said,
I would want my team to act this right, because
you can do it. However, Kyle Tucker, this is gonna
be the moment. This is gonna be the moment where
major League Baseball says, okay, because you get so.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Much pity time, No, no, no, Tucker.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But it's gonna be because he's the number one free
agent this year and how do the Dodgers get him
with all the money they spent on guys and how
do they keep they're putting the super team together back
to back World series. This is gonna be And I
didn't think it'd be Kyle Tucker, but it's gonna wind
up being I thought it would be Otanian deferring the money.
That this was gonna be where there were teams would say, okay,
you have to stop this now, right, But now there's
(09:48):
gonna be so much momentum from the other twenty nine
team to say, all right, this really doesn't help any
of us. And it's you know, while it may be
great for baseball because it's the Dodgers of the new
evil Empire, right they think they've gone to that now
and that's great, but it's not great for us business wise,
and the owners are gonna be pissed, and they're gonna say,
now we need rules in place to stop this from happening,
(10:10):
to stop the Dodgers from every year being able to
go out and get the number one free agent, get
whoever they want to because they can defer money, work
around whatever it is baseball. This is gonna be the
moment where Rob Manford calls the Dodgers very teary eyed
because you know he doesn't want to do you want
to issue Dodgers is gonna say sorry, I have to
do something because everybody else is outside my office like
it's Frankenstein and they're all banging on my door with
(10:32):
torches saying you gotta do this. So this is gonna
be the store. And it's weird because Kyle Tucker again
is a nice player. He's a good player. Is he
absolutely great?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Does he have faults. Yeah, you've heard about his work ethic.
You've heard about the fact that hey playing in under
a big microscope might not be for him where maybe
Hey fitting into that big star studded Dodgers team is
where he's more comfortable. So it's weird that Kyle Tucker
is gonna be the case. But there's no doubt that
very soon there will be things voted into place to
stop this rappening, to stop the Dodgers from being able
(11:04):
to do this, because this is this is not putting
confidence in Major League Baseball's not putting confidence in a
lot of fan bases. And mainly the owners are going
to be pissed. We want to be able to get
a fair shake at these guys, and you don't, and
you don't do it, and we don't get a chance,
and when when they're allowed to continue to spend and
then there's no emergency break force. This is bad for
all of our businesses. So they're all going to be mad.
(11:27):
This is gonna be the moment that and I don't
know what it's gonna wind up being, but it will
be a certain, it will be a certain it will
be this will be where all the stops are put
in place so the Dodgers won't be able to do this.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah, I'll be curious to see how many of them
rally rally around, right, because now we get into the
fuzzy math and the accounting of it all. Are they
making more money year over year? If they are, then
they'll try to protest, but it'll be hollow.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
We look at Kyle Tucker second half of the season,
as with many of the Cubs players, five home runs,
seventeen RBI two thirty one, and he's your sought after guy.
He's only twenty eight, still some good years ahead of him.
But in the end, the Dodgers can only have how
many guys what mid twenties, right, that's it, and a
couple of guys that are just hanging out off injury
(12:16):
contracts and whatever else and waiting to be activated. I
think the bigger issue for the Dodgers was the fact
that they were able to have all their pitchers just
hang out until July until hey, you ready to throw now, Yeah,
let's get after it. That's the bigger It didn't matter
of being able to sign players because there's only so
many guys you can have on a roster, But for
(12:38):
the economics of the game, that's really what rules it all.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We talk about competitive balance, Well, that's always been a
bit of a hazy space, because if the Dodgers had
lost either of these last two years, does that change anything?
Are we still crying no? But because they I'm saying
they almost got beat in each of these two runs
to the World Series. Right, if they lose either one
(13:03):
of those. I know that's in ifs and ans and
butts and whatever. But if they lose one of those,
does everybody just be quiet saying hah ha ha, look
at all the bad money they spent. Instead, it's oh man,
we don't even have a chance.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But look, right or wrong, that's going to happen, right,
and if you can whatever you can do to make
your team better, great. Look I'm not gonna complain because
I wanted that's exactly what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
To know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I wanted Steve coming to outspend everybody. I want him
to use. This is what you have that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You why you bring in a multi guy with the
kind of money.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm simply telling you this is how the other twenty
nine owners are going to Now you are trying to
sound the alarm that's never gonna go on, don't. I
don't think that the alarm, Trust me the alarm. There's
a Kyle Tucker there. There's a big text chain going
on right now between twenty nine or right maybe like
all right, I was gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Say no, I read read off to what the White
Sox spend.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Maybe twenty teams that are gonna say, hey, we have
to we have to stop this from happening. I'm telling
you this is again, Kyle. You would think Otani would
have been that with oh, wait, you're deferring and now
you're low wait no, no, no, no no. But that's
still well.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But the other thing is, I mean, in this particular case,
and with some of these others, there's twenty five teams
that know they have no chance in hell, so they're
not mad about it. Like Kyle Tucker, for most of
these teams, it doesn't matter, like he had already narrowed
it down to event what a handful of teams, right,
we'll put up the King Kong Bundi five count. So
the other twenty five did they give a damn No.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No, I'd be like if they weren't. And the thing is,
if they weren't.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Before the Dodgers are now officially the new evil Empire,
they were still a team that people rooted for across
the country.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Wasn't the Yankee?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Look, we hated the Yankees for so long and everything
they did and all the money they spent and how
and angst and Hank and house Stein Brenner and George
Steinbrenner and oh yes, easy. I hate the Yankees, I
hate the evil Empire. I hate they win. I hate
all of this. The Dodgers knew evil empire. I mean
that now they've gone from all look how fun they
are to root for, and they got Otani and all fun.
(14:54):
Now they're just gonna be hate. The every fan base
across Major League Baseball is just gonna absolutely hate them.
And now they're gonna be the hunted and the hated.
And then we gotta come up with a.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Better word than evil empire. But that's exactly what the Dogs.
We'll figure out a new alliteration for.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And all, yeah, let's go exit out about a Fresco
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Speaker 1 (16:57):
With the Kyle Tucker contract with the Dodgers, and hold
on to your hats, Juan Soto, you had a great
run as the highest paid player in Major League Baseball.
It's great. You had a great run.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It was a year long.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You had a great run the Kyle Tucker contract. Remember
the Mets had offered him a four year deal worth
two hundred million dollars. So fifty million dollars a year. Right,
we've said a few minutes ago, I told you last night.
If you didn't take the Mets offer, didn't take the
Blue Jays offer, he wants another offer. Forget Jeff Passon,
I'm your baseball insider. He wants to go to the Dodgers. Well,
he goes to the Dodgers. Okay, So if you really
(17:32):
want that, I was thinking, okay, we're gonna get the terms.
It's going to be somewhere close to fifty million a year.
Maybe it's forty seven, forty should be right at fifty
could be the same thing. Hey, the Mets are giving
me this? What are you giving me this? The Dodgers
are paying Kyle Tucker four years and two hundred and
forty million dollars. Kyle Tucker is getting paid sixty million
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dollars a year by the for the next four years.
For some ridiculous reason, there's an opt out after the
second year, like, ok cause we can't I could make
seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well, no, I mean on both sides.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Right, For the Dodgers, it's the all right, if you're
the guy that you were in the second half, well
then then we've got some some data and we probably
don't love you. As for Kyle Tucker, if he comes
in and does what they expect him to do with
that kind of money, he says, well, what's the market
in two years?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Why not I get seventy five million a year?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Why if I'm and if I suck, I'm still gonna
get the other one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know where's the loss not opting out after this?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I really I am more than okay not paying Kyle
Tucker sixty million dollars a year, right, I mean, look,
and I'm being honest with you if I would be pissed,
if I look, I wear my heart on my sleeve,
I'll tell you how I feel all the time about stuff. Right,
If I really was pissed about the Mets losing out
on Kyle Tucker for this, I will tell you no,
I'm not really, because we'll get somebody. We'll just go
give Cody Bellinger five years and six hundred million dollars. Now,
(19:00):
there's other guys out there. Those guys get out there
and trade them. That's having the number one farm system
in baseball. I'm not worried. Getting Kyle Tucker would have
been great. Not getting agampt. The show goes on. This
is not this is not this is not a thing.
I am more than okay, not paying him sixty million
dollars a year, Okay, I really am KYD. You're talking
about the wrong guy setting the mark for most money
(19:22):
in baseball. Remember how now the Bryce Harper thirty million
dollars year contract sounds quaint. That was just like four
years ago. But that's that's great.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
It's where the calculus has changed at all of this.
And when we go down to these top teams, and
again it's only those top five to seven teams that
are even looking at the top free agents and even
trying to get a bit in, and depending on their agent,
they may not even bother Scott Boris may not pick
up right for a lot of these teams along the way.
(19:55):
But it just is the what the market will bear
at a different time. And for guys like Cohen, for
organizations like the Dodgers, it's funny money, right. It's not
precluding you from going back into the marketplaces don't as
long as you're willing to pay what the luxury taxes are.
And maybe that's where one of the big changes happens. Right,
(20:17):
to preclude squads from loading up is all right, we're
really gonna make those even more substance penalties. And they're
gonna laugh, and they're gonna say, Okay, keep going, right,
because I'm still making that much more money and I'm
still playing meaningful baseball in September and October, So you're
not gonna stop that train. But for Kyle Tucker at
this number, in the end, it is a huge deal,
(20:42):
and it's eye popping because Kyle Tucker's not a guy
that it screams that it should be this. But we
do this every year, we're talking a lot about the
NFL draft. There's guys that go in the top five quarterbacks.
Why because he's so thirsty at the position, Like, I
don't think that's gonna work. I mean, you're a Jets fan.
How many touchs? Did you draft a guy and go? Yeah, Well,
(21:03):
I mean, look, we're drafting there.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
We need a quarterback. It's a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
It's the same thing here in a year where there's
not a bunch of monster free agents, guess what, somebody's
gonna get paid and exorbitant amount tuna.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
There he is.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
He's a twenty five and ninety guy. He's a twenty five,
ninety two seventy hitter. That's a nice player. You know,
many guys are twenty five and ninety major League Baseball, there's.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Like thirty of them. Really, there's like thirty of them.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And good for Kyle Tucker getting this money, because hey,
he took advantage of you know, some years, a player
like Kyle tucker's your number one guy in frame. She
sometimes a guy like one, So no, that's it is
your guy, right. But I mean, really, I am not
unhappy that we did. We didn't pay a twenty five
ninety two to seventy guy sixty million dollars a year.
I'm really okay with that, honestly, I'm okay with it.
(21:53):
I'm okay, no, But.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's only an issue if it's going to preclude you
from making other moves. And that's the larger point, right
for Cohen, that would then okay, cool, we got him now,
moving on now it could if he struggles, then it
becomes the all right, it's the back page of the
fish wrap of we paid this guy how much? And
that's just fans getting and bloviators getting all in in
a what because it doesn't matter, right, it's what once
(22:17):
the guy's check Star Clay, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
It's like is he hitting or is he not? He's
either good or he's not.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'm not looking at each hit of You know that
base hits worth four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's a four hundred thousand dollars, right, I don't give
a damn.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Does he perform in the clutch or does he not?
I'm not I'm not parsing guy. Just like you know
that walk was worth one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
That's that plate. It's a two.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hundred grand, oh and two count you better come back
on this year.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And that's like I'm not sitting there doing that. Is
that how we're gonna watch baseball this year? You and
I we're gonna have little toggles? Hey, you know this,
this at bat, this plant appearance right here with running
runners on, based on my calculus, is worth this?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
No, what's it's spent? It spent?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
But look this is why, and said a few minutes
ago in Frostburg. You know when he brought up I said, Hey,
all the owners are gonna be pissed, and this is
gonna foster a big change now because they're gonna be mad.
The Dodgers are allowed to do this year after year.
That's gonna be it. But you didn't need anymore. But
I'll give you something else because the fact that Kyle
Tucker is the guy to now said. Agents are happy now,
(23:20):
players are happy now because Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker is
the highest played player in baseball when it comes to
average salary at sixty million dollars a year. This is
the same thing as when the Browns decided we'll guarantee
to all two hundred thirty million dollars to Sean Watson's contract.
Thirty one other teams in the NFL are saying, are
you kidding me? What are you doing? What are you
(23:42):
doing to the business model? Why you make you know
what you've just done to all of us because you're
so desperate for a quarterback and and and you want
a guy that's got all kinds of problems.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well, by the way, it's gonna be a bad headlined
for you.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And the karma has come back to really ruin the
Browns after that, Like you saw what that was like
and what that did to quarterbacks. Teams are now pissed,
right the Jaguars going, yeah, we love Trevor Lawrence. We
don't have to pay him fifty five million dollars a year,
but yet we are because we have to.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
But they did.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So this is that That's another reason why you're gonna
see change, because it's gonna be Hey, if another Jan
Soto was out there, another Shoeo Tani was out there
and they gave him sixty million dollars a year, well, okay,
but now Kyle Tucker has set the mark for highest
paid player in baseball, and all that's gonna do is
(24:27):
piss off all the other owners because they're like, now,
every free agent we want to sign is way more money.
Every single They just put the value of every single
free agent through the roof because of Kyle Tucker. Right,
I understand. So you put those two things together, and
that's why the Tucker that's gonna be Kyle Tucker's legacy.
Kyle Tucker, who signed a contract with the Dodgers, became
(24:49):
the reason for the new change in Major League Baseball
where no one can spend any money. We're calling it,
they call it the Tucker rule.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Right, you're ready? Because I love fun with numbers. Were
throw going out? Like what his basic average? I was,
all right, twenty twenty five, ninety whatever. Based on his
numbers from last year Fun with Numbers, he was tied
for sixty fifth in Major League Baseball in twenty two
home runs. He was tied for seventy seven with his
(25:17):
seventy three army Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, that's Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Sixty million a year, that's Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I mean, I wish I could hit a base He's
he's in trouble with the curve.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Like I said, he's a good player, but I am
more than okay with not paying him sixty million. Now
for the Dodgers part of it, Now, do you get
to the Dodgers' part? I mean, what else do you need? Man?
Whatever they need, we're gonna go get. We're gonna find
a way. Where are the pie The Dodgers didn't even
need Kyle Tucker and they wound up getting called Oh
they went oceans eleven.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Didn't you think we need one more?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Didn't it?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And this is where they were saying no Brett Brett
Pitt with his head down to drink. No, we're gonna
be I'll get one more anyway. I'll just get one
more anyhow. That's fine, that's fine. We'll continue to do this.
We'll continue to ruin baseball.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
There it is Roberts has he tweeted about ruining baseball?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Baseball? How are they that's ruining baseball by being in it?
Is that what you're gonna say? Well?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, okay, I mean sometimes he's the line from A
to B.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I mean they take the simplest path.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I mean, how do you feel about them tanking? Yeah?
Or we're not gonna sign anybody where? Yeah? I mean, look,
well we'll wind up selling one Soto off, like just
parts of them, you know, to make to make the
most money out. Here's his arm, here's his here's his arm.
You know, here's his knee, here's his two feet. We're
gonna stop in parts. We're gonna make more money at
the endport we'll sell you know.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
They sell W W E figures like that where you
have to buy five different figures to put together the manager.
So maybe you did that with one, so okay, so
like in one package you'll have the guy's head. Yeah,
and just go on down the lines, like how many
of these do I need to buy?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I don't want that guy? Does it come with a megaphone?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Some of them do. But yeah, Jimmy hard is out there.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You think of the Dodgers being able to do this,
and it's really it makes it makes all the other
spending you have ever in baseball look look like nothing,
look like downsizing, right like, because you go back and say, okay,
the Yankees in the eighties, nineties and two thousands, when
George Steinbrenner would go out very famously and trade for
a guy at the deadline, high priced guy because he
(27:14):
didn't want another team to get him, right like you
did that. He went out and traded for Jose Canseco
because he didn't want the Red Sox to get him,
and he heard, okay, well trade him, not play him,
and everything else like and this is where, wow, look
at what the Yankees are doing. Look at what they're
doing and all that. This because of the sheer tonnage
of the money and the sheer number of all stars.
I mean, this makes everything else we've seen before it's
(27:36):
minor league. I mean this is last year when it
was they went out and got three closers, We're going
to get three closers because we can, and then.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
They didn't use any of them because they all start.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're gonna go out and we're gonna have we're gonna
have six starting pitchers in with contracts in the hundreds
of millions of Dodgers. And it still wasn't enough because
I still got hurt, but point out of the bullpen
to win games.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
But that's the point is you can spend a lot
of and people get mad about it and guys get hurt.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, what does it allow you to do? Well, that's too.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Bad, right, You signed a couple of closers at high
prices and then they stunk, so you moved on, Like
you say, you go to Yamamoto. Hey, Sosaki, you got
an inning, and you let's go. You still have to
be inventive, still have demand, and still have to play
out a full hundred and sixty two plus.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
This is absolutely stunning. It is absolutely But.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's like off the space. Fix the glitch. I mean
you don't like it.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Fix the glitch. Go take away the deferred monies and
all those things and change those rules.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You thought you thought that was big money. Ah yeah, okay,
just wait, that's nice, that's cute, that's quaint. That's nice
that we'll show you what's.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
What would be even better, though, is if Kyle Tucker
doesn't have to play it on July first, Like all
those pictures.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Hey, hey you ready, Hey, come on, Frostberg, you got
the inside info one what painting the Dodgers are gonna
sell to pay for Kyle Tucker? The Steve Cohen painting?
The Steve co Okay, very good. They're just not worth much,
but okay, but the brushstrokes are really really great.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
It makes it look real right. Yeah no, that's like
a mirror.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah. Uh, time out to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports with someone who about forty
minutes ago, I walked in and said, hey, congratulations, blank face,
you got Kyle Tucker. It's Steve de Seger.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That was quite harsh, by the way. I don't think
Steve was ready quite like. What did I do?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Exactly still remains the question. But again, I made you happy.
I made you happy.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
No, no, I don't have a front office chop on
the side here. I'm just here at the news desk
for credit louds. Kyle Tucker is a Los Angeles Dodgers.
They're signing the right fielder reportedly to a four year deal,
with an opt out after year two and an opt
out after year three. He did play through a couple
of injuries last year, and maybe that explains the two
(29:46):
thirty one batting average in the second half of the season.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
One of those a hairline fracture in the hand. But
he was a top five overall selection out of high
school in Tampa a decade ago, a lot of years
with Houston, including a world title All Star the last
four years. He's a career two to seventy three hitter,
had five hundred at bats even with the Cubs last
year twenty two homers, twenty five steals over ninety runs scored.
(30:10):
Kyle Tucker, a Dodger. Newly retired pitcher Clayton kershaw X
of LA will be on Team USA in March for
the World Baseball Classic. The Reds traded Gavin Lux to
Tampa Bay at a three way deal. The Angels got
outfielder Josh Lowe. The Rocky signed infielder Willie Castro. In
college hoops, We've Got Gonzaga rang ninth in the country
(30:31):
at Washington State and trailing the Cougars twenty two to
twenty one in the first half. In women's hoops, Number
two South Carolina picked up a home victory against number
four Texas sixty eight sixty five, Number one Yukon ninety
nine fifty over Villanova. NHL Buffalo beat Montreal five to three.
Ten NHL games tonight, including now final at Boston, Bruins
(30:54):
four to two over Seattle, and the Winnipeg Jets won six'
to two At. Minnesota THE nba four and a half
minutes left big lead For dallas Over houston one thirty
four to one oh. Nine even Though cooper flag is
out with a sprained. Ankle Jalen brunson of The knicks
out tonight with a sprained. Ankle New york leads At
Golden state late first quarter thirty three twenty, eight the
(31:15):
late game about to start In La lakers Hosting. Charlotte
wins For boston And San. Antonio Oklahoma city won its
fifth straight game one eleven ninety one At. Houston wins
For detroit and For, orlando which played In berlin, today
Beating memphis in a comeback one, eighteen one. Eleven Jaron
jackson thirty points in. Defeat John morant did not play
(31:36):
due to a bruce. Calf they'll play each other again
On sunday In. London seahawks Quarterback Sam darnold says he'll
Play saturday night despite an oblique. Injury he had to
leave practice early, today returning from. Injury this week For,
seattle or Tackled Charles cross and Safety Kobe. Bryant forty
Nine ers Linebacker Fred warner is still out this weekend
after a broken and dislocated ankle In, october but he
(31:58):
could play in AN nfc title game If San francisco.
Advances niners wide Receiver Ricky pierso questionable for this week
with the knee and ankle, injuries he said he will.
Play and one note on THE. Nba in THE okc win,
tonight exactly twenty points For Shay Gilgess. Alexander he's now
the first player Since George gervin to score at least
twenty in forty plus straight games to start a. Season
(32:21):
gervin did it in the first forty five games of
the year nineteen eighty one eighty. Two back to, You.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Thank, You steve.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
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years two hundred and forty million dollars to The, dodgers
(32:50):
because of course The. Dodgers but coming up, next we
got the play of the day and WHAT nba team
is on the cusp of making a big trade that's
getting them.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Back to The superstar super team level they were at
a couple of years. Ago pretty sure that's gonna happen.
Soon that's, next right, Here.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
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Speaker 1 (33:13):
Pacific have you ever wiped with a piece of dry
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well WHAT nba team is set to make a big
(33:35):
move for a return to? Glory, okay that's an, okay
guess it's not but that's an, okay, guest return to glory? Change? Maybe?
Okay tyshit not? Bad how do you not?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Bad?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, yeah you have been pushing that whole lebron thing
for a long, time, RIGHT i, mean but It'skin but
it's Not.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Cleveland it's gonna happen it's Not. Cleveland, well, NO i
know BECAUSE i know What i'm going to talk. About oh,
yeah it's can be. Cleaned how do you know? That
you know you're going to talk about it Because i'm
from the future And i've seen, this AND i come
back and, know, okay this will be. Talking welcome to the,
future where the present is The, Listen i'm the one
who traveled back from the future and took care of
all those pesky murder hornets that were supposed to come
(34:15):
into The west coast and put a you, know run
rough shot over the.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Country, gosh you took out all the bees with.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Him wait a, minute not, well, listen, hey collateral damage
it you, know it's greater. GOOD i got to get
rid of the murder, hornets, RIGHT i had to get
rid of. Them. Yeah how come you use the almanac
and bet all Those mets? Losses what you THINK i
didn't because you be very. Rich do you really need
an almanac to Bet mets.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Losses he's a much better actor than.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
YOU i think you can Bet mets losses without having
any knowledge of the. Future how about the big one
they took. Tonight it is a big L we'll have
more on The Kyle tucker situation coming up in a.
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Speaker 3 (35:17):
Be.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Well a guy who's become a pretty much a staple
for The play of the, day and deservedly.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
So it Is Wemby Chase FRISCO nascar. Ship he started
stay with a tunnel hand of. Rejection castle does it
right back to? Him victor.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
SPURS tv on the.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
Call, okay is it what's more Powerful wemby when we
thought he was only seven four Or wemby with the bald?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Head which one is more?
Speaker 9 (35:47):
Passed wemby with the bald head one Nineteen wemby when
we only thought he was seven four one oh.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
One he may be channeling some mysticism with his new
height and advance. Skills WHAT i want to know is
what was he talking To giannis about after this game?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Ended that that was IF.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
I could get the parabolic microphone and point it in
any general direction from any of these games or anything
going around in the sporting.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Universe that's WHAT i.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Want Because giannis kept doing that cupping over his mouth
thing so nobody could read his. Lips, hey you, know
not Like Jackson dard a couple of weeks. Ago you
think we can coexist play. Together you want to come?
HERE i MEAN i can't come there Because i'm on Bur,
rookie deal with. That you want to come, Here you
want to come. Here we got a super team. Hunch
you come here and. Play, yeah come here and. PLAY i,
KNOW i, know just the. Thing don't boo the. Fans,
okay just can't do. That all, right, great, thanks we'll. See,
(36:35):
Well i'll let you bang the drum, before you, know
after each win or whatever. Else but he is channeling
a little of that cane and kung fu kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Look Uh, so while we're on THE nba, topic it
take you. Back you remember it was about this time last,
year maybe maybe maybe about eleven and a half months,
ago right after the trade, deadline when The warriors traded
For Jimmy. Butler, right what DID i say at the,
TIME i, said this is part of what's going to
be a two Part warriors plan to get back to
(37:02):
being AN nba title contender and not waste the last
few years Of Steph curry's. Prime they need another move,
though because, Look draymond is too old to be that guy.
Anymore Klay thompson's. Gone they need another, star, Right they've
been someone that when they had three stars they worked
out really. Well right when it Was steph and it
Was draymond And clay are that it Was steph and
(37:23):
it WAS kd and. Class so but is this offense
and this team has worked when they've had three. Superstars they, Said,
Now Jimmy butler is a great first, one but they
need that. Second they need that third. Guy it's a
two part, plan AND i don't know if he's. Available
during the, summer we talked about it potentially being a
guy Like Joel.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Embiid who. Knows but now today they are loading up
for that.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Move. Right we saw the story earlier today That jonathan
kaminga of The, warriors has demanded a. Trade right reports
that his relationship With steve kerr is now not even tenable.
Anymore STEVE kerrz talked about how upset he was and
how disappointed he was that things haven't gone. Well kaminga
is twenty three years. Old feels like he's been in
the year for. Leak he's a long time, yeah, yeah
and he was going to be generation next for The. Warriors,
(38:05):
hey as they rebuild their, dynasty you bring in the young,
players and now he's going to be someone where the
end Of Steph curry we get in The Jonathan kaminga.
Era now he has shown in the past that he
is a pretty good, player, Right he's had a couple
of really big, years but now the last year and
a half In Golden state not been, great not in the,
rotation took you, know too injured to, play and now
Will warriors have to move. On he is a young
(38:28):
player with a lot of. Upside that is a change of. Scenery. Guy,
again you have seen. It and he is only twenty,
threes not thirty. Three he's twenty. Three this is where
The warriors are now going to throw Out Jonathan kaminga
and some of those big picks they, have those first
round picks they, have and this is where they go
get their third superstar player to pair alongside With steph
(38:51):
And Jimmy, butler and this is where they make their.
Run they started this season as well as you. Can,
Right steph was. Hurt you're not as, great but you're
a couple of games over five. Hundred, right it's not
awful sitting around on the plane. Situation but this is
where they, go and this is where The warriors make
that big trade for another. Team maybe It's, giannis maybe
it's somebody. Else maybe It's Karl Anthony. TOWNS i don't,
(39:11):
know but it's somebody out there that's gonna be their third,
superstar and it's gonna Be kminga and draft, picks it's
gonna get.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Him, YEAH i don't know how much value THOUGH i
get he's only twenty. Three they've had need for him
to be a bigger piece of this puzzle and he
hasn't been able to do. It and falling out of
favor With Steve kerr and how much that may have
tanked what you're gonna get back in.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Return but.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
You've Got Jimmy butler going to the podium and saying
we're mediocre at. Best we're in the worst place of THE,
nba not good and not just absolutely, terrible to where
you can see hope in the. Horizons so For, kaminga
it's just been an interesting what is this your fib
or any, right that's the scary. Thing he's been on
the radar of that long and trying to, see you,
(39:57):
know when he's gonna have that. Breakthrough and maybe he's
one of those guys that just needs to go to
a bad team and be that guy that is just
a stat filler somewhere. Else but certainly falling out of
favor With Steve. Kurry he's not one to mince words
when it comes down to what your value is or
isn't to his.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
OPERATION i, mean just trust. Me The warriors are not
gonna try to waste. It they understood that last year
we did the best we. Could now, look home court
advantage doesn't, matter but they're gonna make that. Move teams
are gonna want to get out from under some, salary
and that third star is coming To Golden state by the.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Deadline just watch.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Well you might end up In sacramento as the rumor
you know that team that beat your ass coming up.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Next Jalen brunson didn't even play. WELL i did big
story out of THE. Nfl, next this Is fox
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