July 31, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon open the show looking ahead to the MLB trade deadline... What should the Dodgers do about their bullpen? Is there any team flailing worse than the Yankees right now? Plus, reacting to Gilbert Arenas being arrested.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show with
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I'll come back from vacation where the Mets start trading
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to fortify that candy ass bullpen, And they did today. So,
Mike Harmon, I had to come back to work tonight
because the Mets made a couple of big trains. I'm
a man of my word.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, I figured if the winning streak that was rolling
along that we just kind of let Jess state in
the background of things while you were gone. If that
had continued, we were starting to build Mike Harmon's show
opens figuring you were never coming back. The oh yeah
no notion that you are yeah no, he'd be camped
outside of that Michigan White Castle forever and then we'd never.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
See you again.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Occasionally you'd pop on because you wanted to scream about something,
but that you'd be taking a long term medical leave.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Or however you would term it.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
But here you are back and ready to go, and yeah,
you fortifying the bullpen. And I gotta give your guys,
Sternsy some credit. You know how I feel about prospects.
I don't care if he's right first, twelfth, fifteenth, take
them all, ship them all, bring me a guy that
can close out games.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, here's what I don't care. I'm just glad. It's
different names from the guys I've been watching blow things
well in the past few months. It could be anybody,
but it's a different name, and I'm okay with it.
Is it is it Bras a ban again? No, we
send him down, Okay, like every day it was literally
the Mets we're sending down these three guys. Brig, we're
deafaying these three bringing up these three. I okay, what
do I always say? Hey, I would trade my bullpen
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sight unseen for the team's bullpen. Why because at least
if they suck, it's just different guys, and I could
just take a look. Okay, these guys all the man there.
They've been terrible, but at least they are different guys that
I've been watching for the past four months, just give
away leads and watching it happen unfolding on vacation. Okay,
mark Viento's Grand Slam five to one. We're winning this
game eight in a row. No, no, no, we're giving
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this game back up swept by the Padres. Okay, great, great.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No, to be fair, I mean that that is good
because you get to hit the reset button. Yeah, because
now they're guys you have to familiarize yourself with. You
could read, you know, box scores and read the trade
notes and say, okay, fine, this is what we're getting.
But until you actually watch them in your uniform uniform
and grow to hate them, they get a little bit
of a pass, right. I mean, it's like you know
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new players that you get if you're coaching, you know,
your son or daughter's team, or helping out in a
classroom and trying to figure out who the class jackass
is because it's gonna change perhaps every year, depending on.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
How your school works. That.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, you've got to ferret that out and it gets
a reset. But new relationships, right, new bad habits that
you have to witness because you know you got tired
of the old, whatever the case may be. Now you
have a completely shuffled up bullpen bully for you.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, shuffle up and deal, that's what it is. Shut
those big card tournaments. Shuffle up and deal. Just shuffle up. Deal.
But yes, we are here less than a day away
now from the MLB trade deadline, which is a really
big deal. H We're starting to see some trades. Mate.
The Mets get two relievers, the Phillies get a closer.
The Yankees made a trade today with Aaron Judge out,
(03:56):
they get Austin Slater from your Chicago White Sox. And
here they are right now trying to hold on in
the game. They were leading in the ninth inning, but no,
Devin Williams gives up the lead and they're tied to
the tenth. I gotta tell you watching this the last
few days where they bring in like Ahmed Rosario, there
is no team that is flailing this season. And I
(04:16):
mean contending teams. I mean I'm not sure that teams
are just failing because they stink and they're terrible. Iraqi's
looking for that eightieth loss today.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No, They've just been flailing from the since the beginning.
This has been like, hey, we have no hope here.
Dante Baschet is not walking through that door. There is
no team that is flailing more than the Yankees because
they have just they've watched their six game lead in
the AL East turn into a five game deficit with
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the Red Sox right on their heels. They're a half
game back. Tampa Bay is basically four games back of
them right now, and they are just absolutely flailing. Now,
we'll go out and get Ahmed Rosario. We'll go get
Austin Slater, Aaron Judges hurt. Other teams are nervous, and
it's and it's and it's about making the right move. Hey,
you know, we give up prospects, were getting the right pitch.
(05:06):
We do, we know what we need to do. The Yankees,
they are just absolutely flat. They're in such a panic
mode more than any other team. And look, yes, have
they had injuries. Sure, can you really tell that they're
missing Garrett Cole every fifth day? One hundred percent? I
mean absolutely, But watching them this is I don't feel
like there's a plan. I don't feel like there is
anything going on other than how do we magically close
(05:27):
our eyes and and stop this panic? Right? It's like
when I go to bed with a headache and I go,
I don't care. I just want to magically fall asleep
and wake up and the headache is gone. Like I
think that's the Yankee Yankees and the Yankee fans are
hoping right now. I'm just gonna go to bed, wake up,
and this headache is gonna be gone, and we're gonna
be back in first place, and we're gonna be debating
whether or not we bring back Aaron Boon again. But
they are just absolutely flailing. They They have lost over
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ten games from their standing in the Al East over
the last five weeks, and there is no sign that
that is stopping that. Look trouble tonight, Look a game
you think is gonna be in our w column. Devin
Williams hasn't worked out. His e ra is over five.
You need to go make moves like that. And these
other teams they have problems there, but the Yankees just
we have no idea. We're just hoping to close our
(06:12):
eyes and sing a song and make it better.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well, and that's the thing, right, is that now you're
you're looking at the rest of that division, Baltimore playing
better baseball of late. I'm still having the nightmare scenario.
And I spoke it it spoke about it a little
bit yesterday of the idea that we're gonna have Carlos
Rodon and Garrett Crochet pitching in the final games of
the regular season to decide who wins that division. Hey,
(06:37):
ex White Sox guys, Yeah, let's let's have them.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
And then maybe Slater now comes up and he hits
the designing home run, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean, just chaos ensuing.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
But but for the Yankees, yeah, I mean the number
of injuries, Uh, especially when we're talking about the high
priced guys. Stanton has not been I mean he is
he is what he is at this point in his career, right,
what he gives you, having played in just thirty games
to date and the judge injury. It sounds like they
(07:08):
averted what might have been a major issue. I remember
when that alert hit my inbox. I just started shaking
my head, going, Wow, we're just not having nice things
across Major League Baseball this year. Right now, we have
the Ronald Lacunya junior. We've seen such heroics, right that
three hundred and ten yard, three hundred and ten foot dart.
That three hundred ten yards. Now he's thrown a football
(07:31):
over a mountain, but you know the base running and
the heroics. Four hundred sixty eight foot home run the
other day. Now he's back on the shelf and almost
in tears as he talks about it. But for the Yankees,
after what was a big run and we're talking, hey,
is Aaron Judge gonna win a triple crown? Now it's
how quickly can we get him back on the field?
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Can he still play the outfield? Do we now have
ninety hs on the.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Roster a lot? How does this all work? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It is an absolute mess. And and for Aaron Boone,
does he get I guess he gets that, stay right
like because now you have all the excuses built in,
because you could.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Say Look, we were expected to be battling in this division.
Just because we got out to a good.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Start and watched it frit or away, does it mean
we didn't we didn't do our best. But yeah, it's
it's gonna be a fun run in that division, no question.
All five teams could be a pain in the ass
before it's over.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And then if you okay, the Yankees have absolutely full
flailing panic mode. And then there's the problems that the
Dodgers have. Okay, this is this is just okay, I
gotta tell the truth. I got I gotta tell the
truth because for so long it's always been Hey, the
Dodgers always make the right moves, they make the right decisions.
They're a model organization. Look at what they were able
(08:49):
to do. And for the most part, I agree, we
sells the big butt coming, which tells you now I disagree.
But look, they're able to get show hey Otani and
get him to defer his money, which saves them, which
gives them cash to go out and at other players, right,
the teams that play, teams that want to come, and
players who want to come play for the Dodgers, and
being able to turn over rookies every couple of years
to turn into all stars, whether it's Will Smith or
(09:10):
or finding a guy and Tommy Edmund whatever, the Dodgers
have done it. But this whole Dodgers do the great no,
because boy, they have not been smart. Okay, they have
not been smart in what they've been doing spending wise.
It's almost like they got the fever when Otani decided, Hey,
I'm gonna take all my money deferred in ten years.
(09:33):
Because what the Dodgers have done is they've spent what
is it, four hundred million dollars on salary and they
have so many needs at the trade deadline? Right, how
does the how do the Dodgers have so many needs?
But they do? Now this is the Yankees are in
a battle just to even make the postseason, and guys
jobs are at stake. The Dodgers. This is about, Hey,
when you spend four hundred million dollars, you're supposed to
(09:54):
win the World Series and instead you're just one of
a lot of other good teams. Why because the Dodgers
has so many injuries and why this is why they
haven't been smart. I'm sorry, but you're not smart. You
can't spend five hundred million dollars on pitchers and expect
it to come through. Right. You saw it tonight show
hee Otani left the game in the fourth inning with
a cramp. Now you're hoping that that's what it is
(10:15):
with Otani, that it's a cramp. But he has shown
that he's not gonna be someone you can build the
rotation around. He said two UCL surgeries already. It's why
he keep saying, make them a closer, man, make them
a closer. You spend three hundred million on Yamamoto, who's
having a good year, right, but he was hurt last year.
Doesn't matter. You won last year. But he's having a
good year. Okay, great, But now you throw in glass
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now that you spent thirty five million dollars a year
on and the guy has had problems staying healthy and
you don't know what he's going to be able to
do to try to to try to get you over
the hump. Same thing with Blake Snell. You overspent on
Blake Snell. You gave him thirty five million dollars a year,
you know, and got Tanner Scott. Okay, that's great, he was,
but you're paying a relief pitcher that kind of money
and he's been injured. You you've spent so much money
(10:59):
on starting. You can have one guy that you're spending
a lot of money on, right, you can have the
one stopper you decide, Hey, he's gonna be our guy.
We're gonna spend a lot of money. But you have
four or five guys you are paying all kinds of
money to, and guess what. The long term investment in
pitching is not good. This is why most teams are
going through a philosophy and strategy of hey, we want
(11:19):
to get a guy for a couple of years and
if they if they're ineffective, we can move on from them.
The Dodgers decided we're going all in just because we
have the money to spend and just be And I
get it. It's like when my dad walks around when
he's got twenty dollars in his pockets burning a hole.
I gotta spend it, something like my dad can't have
any money, I gotta spend it. Like the Dodgers got
this money, they decided, Okay, now we can go out
(11:40):
and spend money on Tyler Glass. Now really was that
the right investment at that point? Right, Let's spend this
money on Blake Snell, who's had really just a couple
of elite years. Oh, by the way, hey, elite years
when his contract is coming up, right, you're spending a
lot of money on guys. And Yamamoto, you still don't
know what he's gonna do long term for you. Is
he gonna be a great pit You want to think
he is, right, and he's having a good year this year,
but still, and Scott to the way, how volatile relievers
(12:04):
are when you want to get in and out from contracts,
Like the Dodgers have spent five hundred million dollars on
pitching when pitching is not a good investment. So no,
if you're investing in everyday players and you're making moves
to fortify the every day lineup, hey man, good luck
trying to beat a team that does that. But the
Dodgers decided, Hey, we struggle with pitching every year. Guys
get hurt. Let's go make us bulletproof for pitching. Guess
(12:26):
what you can't you can't do. You would think the
Dodge had like nine starting pitchers coming in at where
are they? How are they gonna possibly get a Is
Kershaw even gonna be able to pitch. Is he gonna
crack this rotation? I look at where the Dodgers are now.
They've made so many mistakes because they went all in
on starting pitching and and big money on relief pitching,
and that's not a great investment, especially guys that have
(12:47):
shown their injury proof, their ineffective. They rolled the dice.
These were not moves that were hey, these were solid,
over the top. This was if everything works, Boy, what
a great team this is gonna be. But now you
are seeing the disaster scenai, which is all these pitchers
that are hurt and ineffective, and now suddenly the Dodgers
are mortal. No one's afraid of them in the play,
(13:07):
No one's afraid enough. You have to play them.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We still have two more months to go. Dodgers got
to make some moves at some point. But right now,
no one's afraid of the Dodgers. No one's afraid to
go into series again. What pitch you're gonna throw at me?
Who are gonna throw at me? You're gonna make Cofax
and Drysdale. If that happens, boy, then I'm I'm really
nervous at that point. But really, the Dodgers. They have
not spent that money that show hal Tani gifted them
smart enough, because starting pitching is a bad investment.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Well, I think a lot of it though, Jason and
in like the beauty of it is, we joke about it.
You can always go sell another painting and go back
into the marketplace. But and where they're at right now,
I think there we within two games of what their
record was a year ago. So it probably doom and
gloom and everything else, like, eh, they're right out pace
(13:51):
just because we had him as an over under. I
think it was what one oh four and a half
or one oh five and a half or whatever it
was that we talk about coming into the year, the
expectations of greatness. You highlighted the Blake Snell thing. It's
like when Rendon signed his thing contract with the Angels.
I don't think that we've ever been more right about
anything on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Two of those things.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And if Blake Stell comes back and pitches like a
house of fire in the playoffs and whatever, that's great.
But at this point I'm taking a victory lap in
this moment, waiting for him to find his way back,
and by all reports, that's gonna happen soon enough.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But it goes also to tie into.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
The larger issue for all of the analytics and everything
you buy, how about you buy something that fixes the
training room that these guys it isn't a revolving door.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Okay, that guy's out.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Like I watched, I'm catching up on the season of
the Pit I finished it today spoiler alert. There's a
lot of chaos, but all of it comes down to
you do the best you can with it. But you
know you're just trying to shuttle people from one stop
to the next. That feels like what the Dodgers are doing.
We are talk about in the NFL for years, going
(15:02):
back with the Chargers and the Ravens. Right, how do
we get the big Kyrie Irving sage brush? Can you
build one big enough to clean out the demons in
your training groom?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The Dodgers, it feels like every year we're having that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Same questions, like, hey, they spent a lot of money,
all right, when's that guy going to the IL can't
call it the DL anymore? And yes, Clayton Kershaw will
by default have to pitch very meaningful innings at the
end of September. That's just where we are in this process, Jason.
So it is absolute chaos. Yet would anybody be surprised
if at the end of it all the honk of
(15:35):
metal is residing in LA at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No, they wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
But to your point, yeah, it's just a NonStop congo
line of injuries and ineffectiveness. Look at the two pitchers
they brought in to bolster the back end. Not to
mention that all of these guys are what sixty appearances
as we get ready for August or high fifties for
all these relievers day really churning and burning, just like
(16:02):
you did in the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh good luck. I tell you it's just not smart.
I mean, it's great that you pay. We went out
and did it well, you got but you gotta spend
your money smartly and say, Okay, maybe maybe you want
to fortify those everyday guys. Maybe that's what we want
to go do, or go over spend a little bit
on some bullpen guys, because eventually we're gonna get to
the bullpen. Let's find we can get by with some
start No, no, no, We're gonna go give all kinds
(16:25):
of money to players that we have no idea if
we can count on them, if they're gonna be ineffective,
if they're gonna be healthy, like say Dodge's always now
they showed you, they show you right now. They should
not be fallible. Right now they are fallible. They should
be infallible. Let you know what they should be.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Just to tie it tie it up, though, I mean,
there are a couple of guys over in that lineup
that are making I almost said a term that can't
be FCC compliant, or maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
We could test it, but it's the idea that Mookie
Bets and fred Freddie Freeman at home run today. It
was this first and a month and Mookie Bets had
always been dealing with some family stuff. But go back
to when he got sick before the trip to Japan.
That guy's not been right all season long. Trying to
move him to the to the leadoff spot. Maybe you're
seeing a little bit more out of him going forward,
(17:12):
But those are two guys that are high priced that
you were banking on to have, maybe not repeats of
a year ago, but to keep things moving. Hell, the
best hitter in the National League has been Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Is the only guy heading over three hundred. That's what.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
There's only one guy d over, one guy, one guy.
And then Shoe a Otani. I mean we talked about
him leaving the mound earlier. Suddenly he's swinging at everything
like he's in the home run derby and they gave
him a pitch limit exit.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
How about a Fresca exit? Swollen down. The band is
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That the day of the man's funeral, well, now that's
some thing. I've been on vacation right for the last week,
and and Ozzy passing away and it's it was such
(20:13):
a such a shock, obviously coming so soon after his
last show, which was been the concert event of the
past decade. And I'll tell you what's been amazing, right
is doing so much driving, being out and especially being
in Detroit, where I'll tell you this, there are no
better rock stations in my entire life than in Detroit,
whether it's Riff or wheels, like all the new bands
(20:36):
that I wind up getting into that have gotten into
the last like fifteen years. Like I've heard them all
on Riff right, like that's the first place I've heard them.
But like even even then, like being back on vacation
there and obviously, yes, you know his funeral today and
there was you saw the video of Sharon and the
and the kids and there wa, people are going, wait,
there's another Osbourne kid. She was never on any of
the shows you knows, as Ozzie's funeral was was earlier
(20:57):
today in Birmingham. What I can can't get over. And
it's been like it's been entire week plus of just
no matter what the format stations have, they're playing Ozzy
and sometimes they're playing two Azzi songs an hour just
because the classic rock stations, I'll play Crazy Trains to
the start of the hour. Okay, that's great, and then hey,
(21:18):
gonna give you a two fur but it's Thursday. Yeah
we're gonna go uh Crazy training to I don't know,
and then forty five minutes later you're gonna get you know,
Snowblind from Black Sabbath or something else. Just like formats
have been out the window and it's like we're still
mourning and and and going through this period with Ozzy
Osbourne dying, which is just it it it just it
(21:39):
blows me away that, hey, you know, look every day,
you know, look, this is how life is. You get
when you get older and you get towards the end,
and legends die and and we reflect on it and
we go on with our lives, and that's kind of
how it goes. And once in a while you get
that rare time where when we lose a legend and
it's not just here's a day or two, you know,
we talk about them and everybody gets back to their lives,
(22:01):
because that's what it is, right, you got to keep living.
But just the week or so that we've had of
the of mourning, of losing Ozzie and and hearing people
just devote entire shows on rock radio to people that
knew and that I'm gonna play my favorite Ozzie songs tonight,
and it's been throwing the format out the window, Like
I I didn't go more than twenty minutes in the
(22:24):
car in the last week from hearing an Ozzie or
a Black Sabbath song. And it's still going like it
shows no sign of it and we're still gonna get
this best of Assie. This shows you the type of
impact that he had, not just on on jen xers
who grew up like you and I did on Ozzie,
not just the millennials that saw him from the from
on the Osbourne the people that discovered him later on
in life, all his commercials that he would have on,
(22:46):
but just overall, just so many people from so many
different walks of life and the impact that Ozzy Osbourne
had on them. I mean, here we are a week
later and it's still Ozzie tributes and everything with Ozzie,
and I'm just blown away by it that it's it's
a full week and this is this is really just
an incredible thing. And I'm enjoying talking about Ozzy with
all my friends and with my daughter, and I'm sure
(23:08):
you are with your kids too, and just different conversations
about in the people that don't know anything going tell
me about Ozzy and his career. So I'll sit down
and have a glass lemonade with your fifty year old
uncle Jason, and I'll tell you exactly where I was
the first time I heard Bark at the Moon. I
really I'm very rarely do we get something like this,
and it's been it's been a full week plus of
(23:30):
mourning and remembering Ozzy Osbourne, and again I'm blown away
by that.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Well you talk about, you know, going to Detroit and
obviously have got the Detroit Rock City song. But but
everything that expawned out of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, right,
so in over the course of his life. I don't
know how deep you go into the reservoir, but certainly
for me, I mean, there's plenty of covers and let's
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call it, once upon a time there were a lot
of little streaming services whereby you'd have a bunch of
boot legs and random recordings and things of that nature.
Like all of those started to resurface once again. I
went and ferreted out a couple of discs that had,
you know, some rare live tracks and whatever else, you know.
Explaining it talk to some friends, you mentioned the reality show.
(24:17):
I mean that was the link, both for Ozzy Osbourne
and hul Cogan of there's a whole separate segment of
folks that only knew him as dads on these reality
shows and being weird there.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right, So all of that, you know, kind of comes
to a hill. You're you're gone.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
And yesterday I'm blubbering like an idiot because we find
out Ryan Sandberg died right before the show started. And
not as much as I hated the Cubs, he was
Chicago Baseball in my youth. So like just convergence of events.
But with Ozzy Osbourne, I mean you're talking about a global,
global icon that begat Like it's like reading the early
(24:52):
parts of a Bible, and this guy begat, that guy begat,
that guy begat, that guy that bass player left and
went and worked over there. So you got the Ozzie
family tree coming together. You saw part of it during
the what ten and a half hours of that concert
a few weeks back. You know what was interesting is
Ozzie died the same number of days after his last
(25:14):
show as Lemmy Killmeister did a Motorhead. Kind of an odd,
odd little convergence there of two rock legends. But all
of that, to say, right, it just keeps spinning off
and you're hearing all these tales of what a joke,
story was, what a pain in the ass, and people
have their opinions of Sharon Osbourne, man you watched her
(25:34):
today and your heart broke for because you know she's
been through hell and back, probably caused some hell and
back for other people along the way, but you know,
you see how broken the family was, and people of
Birmingham turned out, and all across the world, I mean
people streamed five minutes, ten minutes an hour of that procession,
including that band playing Paranoid I mean, and iron Man
(25:58):
and everything. Come on, How great was that?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I really? I you know, seeing today in the funeral
and just getting a car turning on that again, you're
not gonna go more than ten minutes, yea without here
in a black Sabbath or a OZ like there are
pop stations, No, that's Crazy Train, Like okay this, there's
remixes that hit the charge right that they can go
delve into Close my Eyes forever. You can go put
that on the country station, like there's lots you can do.
(26:24):
We're giving away Katie Perry tickets coming up next hour.
But hey right here, hey Ozzy Osbourne, Crazy Train back
in nineteen, It's like, what the hell is happening? I mean,
it's so awesome that they're celebrating his life, like I
mean it you think about impact people have. I don't.
I mean, I'm trying to remember the last time somebody
had this kind of impact musically on I mean, and
there's people. Look, we lose important people all the time.
(26:46):
But just seeing this, this outpouring of love and remembrance
for the last ten days, now, this is this is
so special.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Man's amazing stuff. I'm hopeful to get ten minutes from
one or two people that that's that's where I'm at
in my existence. I'm not getting the global send off,
but damn it, the one or two people will be
affected that I can't hope.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Hey, I knew by Carmen. Eh, he's an okay guy.
He got purple shorts all the time, and uh, he
really knew how to make a pork shoulder. Anybody else
want to talk? I'm kind of done. I mean, he
did that and he made beyond that. He was fairly
useless to me, anybody anybody else, I don't know. Oh. Oh,
by the way, he has two tickets. I have two
(27:28):
tickets if anybody wants them to this weekend show. Hang On,
hang on a second, it's a hang On. It's a
Afghan Wigs cover band, followed by Okay it's anybody, just
you know, just see me after. If you'll just give
him to you, I'll just give him here. Well played,
Well played, my friend. From one amazing story to another
coming up in ninety seconds. But first, Martin Wis has
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what's trending in the wide world of sports, including the
New York Mets getting the two greatest relievers in baseball history.
They've got to help fortify their team as we get
towards the trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, pun intended. It's an arms race in the NL East.
I'll beat here all night, the Mets. I'll start with
them trading for the Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley and right
in the pitcher Tyler Rogers from the Giants. The Phillies
though then finalized the deal to bring you on around
from the Twins and two top prospects. Speaking of trades
as a whole bunch, we'll get to in just a minute.
(28:19):
But the Yankees just walked off the Rays five to
four after Ryan McMahon, new Yankee third baseman formerly of
the Colorado Rockies. You know what that's new for him winning,
you know, seeing as he was a Rocky. They woke
off the race in five to four. And eleven.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I don't know what do we do after a win.
I don't know. I don't know what is there anything
different we do because I don't know anything about that exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's all news. The Marlins beat the Cardinals two to nothing.
The Reds beat the Dodgers five to two. Shell hail
Tani had through six straight balls in the fourth inning,
two of them wild pitches, none of them were particularly
close to the plate. He then left his pitching start.
After that, Dave Roberts and the trainer came out to
talk when we stayed in the game. As the DHS
reports after the game state he suffered from cramps. So
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speaking of those trades, the Angels acquired veteran relievers Luis
Garcia and Andrew Chafin from the Nationals, the Reds acquiring
gold glove third basement of Brian Hayes from the Pirates.
Yankees traded for White Sox outfitd Austin Slater, and the
Mariners traded for a left handed reliever, Caleb Ferguson w
NBA News, the Fever beat the Mercury one oh seven
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to one oh one. Alissa Thomas with thirty two points
to fifteen rebounds. Aray McDonald led Indiana in scoring with
twenty seven. The Dream beat the Wings eighty eight to
eighty five, and I was him with twenty one off
the bench, and Paige Beckers had twenty one seven assists
in the loss. The Links beat the Liberty won one
hundred to ninety three, and a pieces of Collier with
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thirty and nine. Springin su let all scores with thirty
one in the loss. Ravens tight end. Isaiah likely will
likely well will definitely undergo surgery to repair a broken
bone in his foot. He suffered that broken bone on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You were going to say, he's likely going to undergo surgery,
aren't you. You're gonna say that, You're gonna say, but
it was.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It was definitely saying. I feel I feel confident they're
gonna get surgery to fix that broken foot. I also
feel just as confident. His last name is Likely, so
all right, now that we got it all squared away,
he's expected. But I don't feel confident about this though.
Broken foot. We're in like week one of training camp
that says six weeks ready for week one. I'm not
(30:30):
a doctor, nor did I stayed at Hollywood Express last
Hollywood Holly. You know what, I can't even get it.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Holiday in the Hollywood Hollywood. I stayed at a Hollywood Express.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Last place. I'm all over the place.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's a holiday in Express. I stayed in the Hollywood Express. Like, yeah,
tell me what that's like. Man, that sounds great.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Listen. I used to live a block away from Hollywood Boulevard.
I saw all the Express going up and down Hollywood.
You know what, Let's get back to the business. The
Seahawks signed m John Snyder to a four year contract extension.
Xavier Worthy, chiefs wide receiver, is in the concussion protocol,
and Zach Moss looking for a job after the Bengals
released a veteran running back after one season with the team.
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The Rangers need Angels won to nothing in the A's
lead the Mariners two to nothing, both of those early
in the game.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch run up. Appreciate it.
My friend Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios, got the play the day coming your
way in a few minutes. But just you talk about
amazing stories, and I see this and I go back
to thinking, what this guy's career could have been right.
Gilbert Arenas was arrested today on charges of having illegal
(31:39):
poker games at his mansion in Encino, you know, just
a few miles from here, outside of Los Angeles. This
according to release from the United States Attorney's Office of
Central California. Agent Zer, who's starting the league for a
long time, remember and kind of found his way out
of favor after the gun incident with Javaris Crittenden. That'll
do it just derailed his career. He is trying. I mean,
(32:01):
these are serious charges. Why wait, the guy at a
high stakes poker game at his house, Well, yeah, he
rented out his house for these big poker games. And
also they say that the group hired chefs, valets, armed
security guards to staff the games. They had young women
serve drinks, provided massages, offered companionship to the poker players
(32:26):
in exchange for tips. Apparently, one suspected high level member
of an Israeli organized crime group was heavily involved in this.
The co conspirators who put this on took a cut
of the servers tips from the games. Like this is
a sid Like this guy tried this, I'm gonna turn
like a real crazy below boards Rounders casino. I'm turning
(32:47):
my mansion into a casino. So this is some serious stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
He's facing up to five years in federal prison for this,
and his trial begins in about a month and a half.
This happened a couple of years ago, in twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, and I look at Gilbert arenas Mike
and I just always think the same thing when he
was before the gun incident, if he had been able
(33:13):
to not be his own worst enemy. Right, the gun
incident really put a torpedo on his career, and now
this year he can't just when he was getting more
popular again with his podcast like Agent zero, he was entertaining,
he was fun. He would have been he could have
been Charles Barklay now when it comes to what we
think and people we respect talking about the NBA, because
(33:36):
he was one of the first guys to become a
big social media internet superstar in the early two thousands, right,
this is when he started his website in agentzero dot com.
He started doing all these interviews, and this is back when, Hey,
if you said stuff that was a little outlandish, but
you had some cachet behind it, you really stood out,
like Gilbert Arenas was a guy that people were paying
(33:58):
attention to. Do we talk him so much on the
radio in the mid Oh, hey, Gilbert Arena said this.
Gilbert Rena said this. He was on his way after
his playing days were over. He would have been like
Charles Barker, he would have been Kenny Smith. He would
have been on inside the NBA. He would have been
this huge basketball voice. And then he had the gun
incident that really derailed all of that. Now he's since
(34:19):
been trying to make a comeback with his podcast. Okay, great,
And now here's a gambling thing. And oh, by the way,
he just clowned on Malik Beasley for getting caught gambling
about a month and a half ago. Now here he is, Yeah,
because I'm running this whole high stakes poker that nobody
found out about three years ago. Oh wait, you found
out about that? Like he wasn't ask it.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
And easily got his revenge. And he's a source. Okay,
I'll tell you something about that. You oh you, oh,
screw me?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
No, no, I heard. But I mean, if if he
could have just avoided this knuckleheaded stuff, that's the kind
of basketball voice, that's the kind of career that he
would have now and have been enjoying for the better
part of the last decade plus. But he just couldn't
do it. And these two things that have just completely
(35:05):
derailed his entire career. Well, and it would have he
would have been on a whole other level.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Remember when all that went down, as a guy that
was coming off years that he averaged twenty five, twenty nine,
and twenty eight points per game, so he was filling
it up. You know, you go back to his college
days at Arizona. I remember him when he was signing
with a g and a giant zero in college back in.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
The day is autograph.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
So I all of that to say, yeah, I mean,
he would have had more pelts on the wall and
longer run as a superstar, which begets more opportunity to
be that kind of level of guy. And clearly he
was in the I don't care phase of things when
he was doing appearances and having his say around the league,
(35:47):
which which gave him a big audience and a giant
platform to work from. I still have a million questions
with this right because there's a lot of other charges
that are being thrown by the co conspirators in this
in terms of immigration fraud, marriage falsehoods, in terms of
are they legally married? Are they not? What else is
(36:08):
going on? So it's not just a poker game. This
could actually become like some giant mini series for HBO
Max or something before this is done with all the
subplots that are starting to develop with some of this
cast of characters. But for him, yeah, I mean he
had all of it, and in this day and age
where more and more podcasts and partnerships and everything else
(36:29):
found his voice, right, you're able to put those kind
of things because I mean that incident happened all the
way back in two thousand and nine. That's long in
the rear view mirror. We've had a million other stories
that have come up since. But yeah, this one as
you just shook your head right, because I mean, you
had the Class A and whatever's going on with the Guardians.
We've had all sorts of little gaming. Now you've gotten this,
(36:50):
and again it's legal if you don't take a raak.
But I want to know what else is going on
ex I mean, just he's.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Been his own worst enemy from I mean, to think
of what he'd be doing now, he'd be that first
guy to break through that next generation of analyst, and
again he did it all to himself. That's what I
think about when I think about agents here, That's what
he could be doing instead. It's it's these high stakes
poker games in Encina.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I want to know having a food they were serving
is a top shelf booze, I mean where they watering
it down?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Is that the next charge that's coming out of this
and a cod exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Have a very big play of the day coming up
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breaking a two to two tie with the dodge in
the bottom of the eighth inning, Steers triple brings in two.
They go on to win it five to two. This game, though,
known more for what happened with Shoheo Tani, who left
the game in the fourth inning after throwing six consecutive balls. Now,
(38:59):
what we've heard right away and coming out of this
is that it was a cramp for Otani and that's
why I had to come out of the game. And okay,
that's fine, but let me just again, I feel like
I want to just say this because it's it's you're
just everybody's just tempting fate. Otani is never gonna be
a starting pitcher that you can depend on, right He's
(39:19):
not at this point. He's been missed the last year
and a half. He's had two major elbow surgeries. Like
I say all the time, make them a closer, make
them a closer, make them a closer. At least then
you're gonna get some sort of investment out of him.
Don't have to worry about the position because he can
DH all the way through. Then, okay, you want him tournament,
but you're closing the game, which you don't think you're
(39:40):
gonna have a bottom of the top of the bottom
of the ninth inning because you're gonna you're gonna close
things out now. But he's never gonna be able to
pitch to a point where you can say he's gonna
give you one hundred and twenty even one hundred and
twenty five innings a year, right. I mean, Otani is
over thirty years old with two bad elbow injuries. I
don't know why the Dodgers are still bent on making
him a starter. Yes, it's a bit of an adjustment
(40:01):
and it would be a different mindset, but I'm pretty
sure Shoeo Tani could handle that, but I feel like
if they keep running him out there as a starting pitcher,
eventually it's just gonna be an injury, and then it
could wind up being an injury that stops him from
being able to play right, which is what you really
wanted to do. So every time I said, yes, okay,
it's a cramp for Shoeo Tani, but he has shown
you that his health wise, now in his thirties pitching,
(40:23):
it may not be there, and you want to protect
and keep him on the field as much as possible.
So I think it's kind of time to think of
something different for Otani now that he's thirty one, going
to be thirty two years old.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Now, in this particular case, we avoid the major injury,
and certainly concerning six straight balls, a couple of whild pitches,
and nowhere near the zone fifty one pitches today, thirty
two strikes three innings and gets chased the five hits
that he allowed to still had four strikeouts. They'll keep
(40:58):
flirting with disaster because.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
It's not an arm injury, it's a tweak.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
So you push and and try to find your way,
I think, until you get your full rotation back, though, Jason,
We're gonna keep seeing him trot it out, even just
for three innings at a time.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Man, I'm telling you like it's like the Dodgers, just
tempting fate every time. We're gonna link them out and
do this telling you a closing, it's the way to go.
We got a big story from the NFL coming up
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I'll come back from vacation where the Mets start trading
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to fortify that candy ass bullpen, And they did today. So,
Mike Harmon, I had to come back to work tonight
because the Mets made a couple of big trains. I'm
a man of my word.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, I figured if the winning streak that was rolling
along that we just kind of let Jess state in
the background of things while you were gone. If that
had continued, we were starting to build Mike Harmon's show
opens figuring you were never coming back. The oh yeah
no notion that you are yeah no, he'd be camped
outside of that Michigan White Castle forever and then we'd never.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
See you again.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Occasionally you'd pop on because you wanted to scream about something,
but that you'd be taking a long term medical leave.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Or however you would term it.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
But here you are back and ready to go, and yeah,
you fortifying the bullpen. And I gotta give your guys,
Sternsy some credit. You know how I feel about prospects.
I don't care if he's right first, twelfth, fifteenth, take
them all, ship them all, bring me a guy that
can close out games.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, here's what I don't care. I'm just glad. It's
different names from the guys I've been watching blow things
well in the past few months. It could be anybody,
but it's a different name, and I'm okay with it.
Is it is it Bras a ban again? No, we
send him down, Okay, like every day it was literally
the Mets we're sending down these three guys. Brig, we're
deafaying these three bringing up these three. I okay, what
do I always say? Hey, I would trade my bullpen
(02:18):
sight unseen for the team's bullpen. Why because at least
if they suck, it's just different guys, and I could
just take a look. Okay, these guys all the man there.
They've been terrible, but at least they are different guys that
I've been watching for the past four months, just give
away leads and watching it happen unfolding on vacation. Okay,
mark Viento's Grand Slam five to one. We're winning this
game eight in a row. No, no, no, we're giving
(02:40):
this game back up swept by the Padres. Okay, great, great.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No, to be fair, I mean that that is good
because you get to hit the reset button. Yeah, because
now they're guys you have to familiarize yourself with. You
could read, you know, box scores and read the trade
notes and say, okay, fine, this is what we're getting.
But until you actually watch them in your uniform uniform
and grow to hate them, they get a little bit
of a pass, right. I mean, it's like you know
(03:04):
new players that you get if you're coaching, you know,
your son or daughter's team, or helping out in a
classroom and trying to figure out who the class jackass
is because it's gonna change perhaps every year, depending on.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
How your school works. That.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, you've got to ferret that out and it gets
a reset. But new relationships, right, new bad habits that
you have to witness because you know you got tired
of the old, whatever the case may be. Now you
have a completely shuffled up bullpen bully for you.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, shuffle up and deal, that's what it is. Shut
those big card tournaments. Shuffle up and deal. Just shuffle up. Deal.
But yes, we are here less than a day away
now from the MLB trade deadline, which is a really
big deal. H We're starting to see some trades. Mate.
The Mets get two relievers, the Phillies get a closer.
The Yankees made a trade today with Aaron Judge out,
(03:56):
they get Austin Slater from your Chicago White Sox. And
here they are right now trying to hold on in
the game. They were leading in the ninth inning, but no,
Devin Williams gives up the lead and they're tied to
the tenth. I gotta tell you watching this the last
few days where they bring in like Ahmed Rosario, there
is no team that is flailing this season. And I
(04:16):
mean contending teams. I mean I'm not sure that teams
are just failing because they stink and they're terrible. Iraqi's
looking for that eightieth loss today.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No, They've just been flailing from the since the beginning.
This has been like, hey, we have no hope here.
Dante Baschet is not walking through that door. There is
no team that is flailing more than the Yankees because
they have just they've watched their six game lead in
the AL East turn into a five game deficit with
(04:44):
the Red Sox right on their heels. They're a half
game back. Tampa Bay is basically four games back of
them right now, and they are just absolutely flailing. Now,
we'll go out and get Ahmed Rosario. We'll go get
Austin Slater, Aaron Judges hurt. Other teams are nervous, and
it's and it's and it's about making the right move. Hey,
you know, we give up prospects, were getting the right pitch.
(05:06):
We do, we know what we need to do. The Yankees,
they are just absolutely flat. They're in such a panic
mode more than any other team. And look, yes, have
they had injuries. Sure, can you really tell that they're
missing Garrett Cole every fifth day? One hundred percent? I
mean absolutely, But watching them this is I don't feel
like there's a plan. I don't feel like there is
anything going on other than how do we magically close
(05:27):
our eyes and and stop this panic? Right? It's like
when I go to bed with a headache and I go,
I don't care. I just want to magically fall asleep
and wake up and the headache is gone. Like I
think that's the Yankee Yankees and the Yankee fans are
hoping right now. I'm just gonna go to bed, wake up,
and this headache is gonna be gone, and we're gonna
be back in first place, and we're gonna be debating
whether or not we bring back Aaron Boon again. But
they are just absolutely flailing. They They have lost over
(05:51):
ten games from their standing in the Al East over
the last five weeks, and there is no sign that
that is stopping that. Look trouble tonight, Look a game
you think is gonna be in our w column. Devin
Williams hasn't worked out. His e ra is over five.
You need to go make moves like that. And these
other teams they have problems there, but the Yankees just
we have no idea. We're just hoping to close our
(06:12):
eyes and sing a song and make it better.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well, and that's the thing, right, is that now you're
you're looking at the rest of that division, Baltimore playing
better baseball of late. I'm still having the nightmare scenario.
And I spoke it it spoke about it a little
bit yesterday of the idea that we're gonna have Carlos
Rodon and Garrett Crochet pitching in the final games of
the regular season to decide who wins that division. Hey,
(06:37):
ex White Sox guys, Yeah, let's let's have them.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
And then maybe Slater now comes up and he hits
the designing home run, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean, just chaos ensuing.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
But but for the Yankees, yeah, I mean the number
of injuries, Uh, especially when we're talking about the high
priced guys. Stanton has not been I mean he is
he is what he is at this point in his career, right,
what he gives you, having played in just thirty games
to date and the judge injury. It sounds like they
(07:08):
averted what might have been a major issue. I remember
when that alert hit my inbox. I just started shaking
my head, going, Wow, we're just not having nice things
across Major League Baseball this year. Right now, we have
the Ronald Lacunya junior. We've seen such heroics, right that
three hundred and ten yard, three hundred and ten foot dart.
That three hundred ten yards. Now he's thrown a football
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over a mountain, but you know the base running and
the heroics. Four hundred sixty eight foot home run the
other day. Now he's back on the shelf and almost
in tears as he talks about it. But for the Yankees,
after what was a big run and we're talking, hey,
is Aaron Judge gonna win a triple crown? Now it's
how quickly can we get him back on the field?
(07:51):
Can he still play the outfield? Do we now have
ninety hs on the.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Roster a lot? How does this all work? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It is an absolute mess. And and for Aaron Boone,
does he get I guess he gets that, stay right
like because now you have all the excuses built in,
because you could.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Say Look, we were expected to be battling in this division.
Just because we got out to a good.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Start and watched it frit or away, does it mean
we didn't we didn't do our best. But yeah, it's
it's gonna be a fun run in that division, no question.
All five teams could be a pain in the ass
before it's over.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And then if you okay, the Yankees have absolutely full
flailing panic mode. And then there's the problems that the
Dodgers have. Okay, this is this is just okay, I
gotta tell the truth. I got I gotta tell the
truth because for so long it's always been Hey, the
Dodgers always make the right moves, they make the right decisions.
They're a model organization. Look at what they were able
(08:49):
to do. And for the most part, I agree, we
sells the big butt coming, which tells you now I disagree.
But look, they're able to get show hey Otani and
get him to defer his money, which saves them, which
gives them cash to go out and at other players, right,
the teams that play, teams that want to come, and
players who want to come play for the Dodgers, and
being able to turn over rookies every couple of years
to turn into all stars, whether it's Will Smith or
(09:10):
or finding a guy and Tommy Edmund whatever, the Dodgers
have done it. But this whole Dodgers do the great no,
because boy, they have not been smart. Okay, they have
not been smart in what they've been doing spending wise.
It's almost like they got the fever when Otani decided, Hey,
I'm gonna take all my money deferred in ten years.
(09:33):
Because what the Dodgers have done is they've spent what
is it, four hundred million dollars on salary and they
have so many needs at the trade deadline? Right, how
does the how do the Dodgers have so many needs?
But they do? Now this is the Yankees are in
a battle just to even make the postseason, and guys
jobs are at stake. The Dodgers. This is about, Hey,
when you spend four hundred million dollars, you're supposed to
(09:54):
win the World Series and instead you're just one of
a lot of other good teams. Why because the Dodgers
has so many injuries and why this is why they
haven't been smart. I'm sorry, but you're not smart. You
can't spend five hundred million dollars on pitchers and expect
it to come through. Right. You saw it tonight show
hee Otani left the game in the fourth inning with
a cramp. Now you're hoping that that's what it is
(10:15):
with Otani, that it's a cramp. But he has shown
that he's not gonna be someone you can build the
rotation around. He said two UCL surgeries already. It's why
he keep saying, make them a closer, man, make them
a closer. You spend three hundred million on Yamamoto, who's
having a good year, right, but he was hurt last year.
Doesn't matter. You won last year. But he's having a
good year. Okay, great, But now you throw in glass
(10:35):
now that you spent thirty five million dollars a year
on and the guy has had problems staying healthy and
you don't know what he's going to be able to
do to try to to try to get you over
the hump. Same thing with Blake Snell. You overspent on
Blake Snell. You gave him thirty five million dollars a year,
you know, and got Tanner Scott. Okay, that's great, he was,
but you're paying a relief pitcher that kind of money
and he's been injured. You you've spent so much money
(10:59):
on starting. You can have one guy that you're spending
a lot of money on, right, you can have the
one stopper you decide, Hey, he's gonna be our guy.
We're gonna spend a lot of money. But you have
four or five guys you are paying all kinds of
money to, and guess what. The long term investment in
pitching is not good. This is why most teams are
going through a philosophy and strategy of hey, we want
(11:19):
to get a guy for a couple of years and
if they if they're ineffective, we can move on from them.
The Dodgers decided we're going all in just because we
have the money to spend and just be And I
get it. It's like when my dad walks around when
he's got twenty dollars in his pockets burning a hole.
I gotta spend it, something like my dad can't have
any money, I gotta spend it. Like the Dodgers got
this money, they decided, Okay, now we can go out
(11:40):
and spend money on Tyler Glass. Now really was that
the right investment at that point? Right, Let's spend this
money on Blake Snell, who's had really just a couple
of elite years. Oh, by the way, hey, elite years
when his contract is coming up, right, you're spending a
lot of money on guys. And Yamamoto, you still don't
know what he's gonna do long term for you. Is
he gonna be a great pit You want to think
he is, right, and he's having a good year this year,
but still, and Scott to the way, how volatile relievers
(12:04):
are when you want to get in and out from contracts,
Like the Dodgers have spent five hundred million dollars on
pitching when pitching is not a good investment. So no,
if you're investing in everyday players and you're making moves
to fortify the every day lineup, hey man, good luck
trying to beat a team that does that. But the
Dodgers decided, Hey, we struggle with pitching every year. Guys
get hurt. Let's go make us bulletproof for pitching. Guess
(12:26):
what you can't you can't do. You would think the
Dodge had like nine starting pitchers coming in at where
are they? How are they gonna possibly get a Is
Kershaw even gonna be able to pitch. Is he gonna
crack this rotation? I look at where the Dodgers are now.
They've made so many mistakes because they went all in
on starting pitching and and big money on relief pitching,
and that's not a great investment, especially guys that have
(12:47):
shown their injury proof, their ineffective. They rolled the dice.
These were not moves that were hey, these were solid,
over the top. This was if everything works, Boy, what
a great team this is gonna be. But now you
are seeing the disaster scenai, which is all these pitchers
that are hurt and ineffective, and now suddenly the Dodgers
are mortal. No one's afraid of them in the play,
(13:07):
No one's afraid enough. You have to play them.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We still have two more months to go. Dodgers got
to make some moves at some point. But right now,
no one's afraid of the Dodgers. No one's afraid to
go into series again. What pitch you're gonna throw at me?
Who are gonna throw at me? You're gonna make Cofax
and Drysdale. If that happens, boy, then I'm I'm really
nervous at that point. But really, the Dodgers. They have
not spent that money that show hal Tani gifted them
smart enough, because starting pitching is a bad investment.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Well, I think a lot of it though, Jason and
in like the beauty of it is, we joke about it.
You can always go sell another painting and go back
into the marketplace. But and where they're at right now,
I think there we within two games of what their
record was a year ago. So it probably doom and
gloom and everything else, like, eh, they're right out pace
(13:51):
just because we had him as an over under. I
think it was what one oh four and a half
or one oh five and a half or whatever it
was that we talk about coming into the year, the
expectations of greatness. You highlighted the Blake Snell thing. It's
like when Rendon signed his thing contract with the Angels.
I don't think that we've ever been more right about
anything on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Two of those things.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And if Blake Stell comes back and pitches like a
house of fire in the playoffs and whatever, that's great.
But at this point I'm taking a victory lap in
this moment, waiting for him to find his way back,
and by all reports, that's gonna happen soon enough.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But it goes also to tie into.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
The larger issue for all of the analytics and everything
you buy, how about you buy something that fixes the
training room that these guys it isn't a revolving door.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Okay, that guy's out.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Like I watched, I'm catching up on the season of
the Pit I finished it today spoiler alert. There's a
lot of chaos, but all of it comes down to
you do the best you can with it. But you
know you're just trying to shuttle people from one stop
to the next. That feels like what the Dodgers are doing.
We are talk about in the NFL for years, going
(15:02):
back with the Chargers and the Ravens. Right, how do
we get the big Kyrie Irving sage brush? Can you
build one big enough to clean out the demons in
your training groom?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The Dodgers, it feels like every year we're having that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Same questions, like, hey, they spent a lot of money,
all right, when's that guy going to the IL can't
call it the DL anymore? And yes, Clayton Kershaw will
by default have to pitch very meaningful innings at the
end of September. That's just where we are in this process, Jason.
So it is absolute chaos. Yet would anybody be surprised
if at the end of it all the honk of
(15:35):
metal is residing in LA at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No, they wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
But to your point, yeah, it's just a NonStop congo
line of injuries and ineffectiveness. Look at the two pitchers
they brought in to bolster the back end. Not to
mention that all of these guys are what sixty appearances
as we get ready for August or high fifties for
all these relievers day really churning and burning, just like
(16:02):
you did in the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh good luck. I tell you it's just not smart.
I mean, it's great that you pay. We went out
and did it well, you got but you gotta spend
your money smartly and say, Okay, maybe maybe you want
to fortify those everyday guys. Maybe that's what we want
to go do, or go over spend a little bit
on some bullpen guys, because eventually we're gonna get to
the bullpen. Let's find we can get by with some
start No, no, no, We're gonna go give all kinds
(16:25):
of money to players that we have no idea if
we can count on them, if they're gonna be ineffective,
if they're gonna be healthy, like say Dodge's always now
they showed you, they show you right now. They should
not be fallible. Right now they are fallible. They should
be infallible. Let you know what they should be.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Just to tie it tie it up, though, I mean,
there are a couple of guys over in that lineup
that are making I almost said a term that can't
be FCC compliant, or maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
We could test it, but it's the idea that Mookie
Bets and fred Freddie Freeman at home run today. It
was this first and a month and Mookie Bets had
always been dealing with some family stuff. But go back
to when he got sick before the trip to Japan.
That guy's not been right all season long. Trying to
move him to the to the leadoff spot. Maybe you're
seeing a little bit more out of him going forward,
(17:12):
But those are two guys that are high priced that
you were banking on to have, maybe not repeats of
a year ago, but to keep things moving. Hell, the
best hitter in the National League has been Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Is the only guy heading over three hundred. That's what.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
There's only one guy d over, one guy, one guy.
And then Shoe a Otani. I mean we talked about
him leaving the mound earlier. Suddenly he's swinging at everything
like he's in the home run derby and they gave
him a pitch limit exit.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
How about a Fresca exit? Swollen down. The band is
back together, Jason Smith Mike Carmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. I we'll have more MLB trade deadline
stories cup. As we said, trades are starting to happen
now as we get towards the deadline tomorrow. But coming
up next, two big stories from today, one more amazing
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Just like the Mets going after relief pictures Fox Sports Radio.
That the day of the man's funeral, well, now that's
some thing. I've been on vacation right for the last week,
and and Ozzy passing away and it's it was such
(20:13):
a such a shock, obviously coming so soon after his
last show, which was been the concert event of the
past decade. And I'll tell you what's been amazing, right
is doing so much driving, being out and especially being
in Detroit, where I'll tell you this, there are no
better rock stations in my entire life than in Detroit,
whether it's Riff or wheels, like all the new bands
(20:36):
that I wind up getting into that have gotten into
the last like fifteen years. Like I've heard them all
on Riff right, like that's the first place I've heard them.
But like even even then, like being back on vacation
there and obviously, yes, you know his funeral today and
there was you saw the video of Sharon and the
and the kids and there wa, people are going, wait,
there's another Osbourne kid. She was never on any of
the shows you knows, as Ozzie's funeral was was earlier
(20:57):
today in Birmingham. What I can can't get over. And
it's been like it's been entire week plus of just
no matter what the format stations have, they're playing Ozzy
and sometimes they're playing two Azzi songs an hour just
because the classic rock stations, I'll play Crazy Trains to
the start of the hour. Okay, that's great, and then hey,
(21:18):
gonna give you a two fur but it's Thursday. Yeah
we're gonna go uh Crazy training to I don't know,
and then forty five minutes later you're gonna get you know,
Snowblind from Black Sabbath or something else. Just like formats
have been out the window and it's like we're still
mourning and and and going through this period with Ozzy
Osbourne dying, which is just it it it just it
(21:39):
blows me away that, hey, you know, look every day,
you know, look, this is how life is. You get
when you get older and you get towards the end,
and legends die and and we reflect on it and
we go on with our lives, and that's kind of
how it goes. And once in a while you get
that rare time where when we lose a legend and
it's not just here's a day or two, you know,
we talk about them and everybody gets back to their lives,
(22:01):
because that's what it is, right, you got to keep living.
But just the week or so that we've had of
the of mourning, of losing Ozzie and and hearing people
just devote entire shows on rock radio to people that
knew and that I'm gonna play my favorite Ozzie songs tonight,
and it's been throwing the format out the window, Like
I I didn't go more than twenty minutes in the
(22:24):
car in the last week from hearing an Ozzie or
a Black Sabbath song. And it's still going like it
shows no sign of it and we're still gonna get
this best of Assie. This shows you the type of
impact that he had, not just on on jen xers
who grew up like you and I did on Ozzie,
not just the millennials that saw him from the from
on the Osbourne the people that discovered him later on
in life, all his commercials that he would have on,
(22:46):
but just overall, just so many people from so many
different walks of life and the impact that Ozzy Osbourne
had on them. I mean, here we are a week
later and it's still Ozzie tributes and everything with Ozzie,
and I'm just blown away by it that it's it's
a full week and this is this is really just
an incredible thing. And I'm enjoying talking about Ozzy with
all my friends and with my daughter, and I'm sure
(23:08):
you are with your kids too, and just different conversations
about in the people that don't know anything going tell
me about Ozzy and his career. So I'll sit down
and have a glass lemonade with your fifty year old
uncle Jason, and I'll tell you exactly where I was
the first time I heard Bark at the Moon. I
really I'm very rarely do we get something like this,
and it's been it's been a full week plus of
(23:30):
mourning and remembering Ozzy Osbourne, and again I'm blown away
by that.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Well you talk about, you know, going to Detroit and
obviously have got the Detroit Rock City song. But but
everything that expawned out of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, right,
so in over the course of his life. I don't
know how deep you go into the reservoir, but certainly
for me, I mean, there's plenty of covers and let's
(23:55):
call it, once upon a time there were a lot
of little streaming services whereby you'd have a bunch of
boot legs and random recordings and things of that nature.
Like all of those started to resurface once again. I
went and ferreted out a couple of discs that had,
you know, some rare live tracks and whatever else, you know.
Explaining it talk to some friends, you mentioned the reality show.
(24:17):
I mean that was the link, both for Ozzy Osbourne
and hul Cogan of there's a whole separate segment of
folks that only knew him as dads on these reality
shows and being weird there.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right, So all of that, you know, kind of comes
to a hill. You're you're gone.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
And yesterday I'm blubbering like an idiot because we find
out Ryan Sandberg died right before the show started. And
not as much as I hated the Cubs, he was
Chicago Baseball in my youth. So like just convergence of events.
But with Ozzy Osbourne, I mean you're talking about a global,
global icon that begat Like it's like reading the early
(24:52):
parts of a Bible, and this guy begat, that guy begat,
that guy begat, that guy that bass player left and
went and worked over there. So you got the Ozzie
family tree coming together. You saw part of it during
the what ten and a half hours of that concert
a few weeks back. You know what was interesting is
Ozzie died the same number of days after his last
(25:14):
show as Lemmy Killmeister did a Motorhead. Kind of an odd,
odd little convergence there of two rock legends. But all
of that, to say, right, it just keeps spinning off
and you're hearing all these tales of what a joke,
story was, what a pain in the ass, and people
have their opinions of Sharon Osbourne, man you watched her
(25:34):
today and your heart broke for because you know she's
been through hell and back, probably caused some hell and
back for other people along the way, but you know,
you see how broken the family was, and people of
Birmingham turned out, and all across the world, I mean
people streamed five minutes, ten minutes an hour of that procession,
including that band playing Paranoid I mean, and iron Man
(25:58):
and everything. Come on, How great was that?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I really? I you know, seeing today in the funeral
and just getting a car turning on that again, you're
not gonna go more than ten minutes, yea without here
in a black Sabbath or a OZ like there are
pop stations, No, that's Crazy Train, Like okay this, there's
remixes that hit the charge right that they can go
delve into Close my Eyes forever. You can go put
that on the country station, like there's lots you can do.
(26:24):
We're giving away Katie Perry tickets coming up next hour.
But hey right here, hey Ozzy Osbourne, Crazy Train back
in nineteen, It's like, what the hell is happening? I mean,
it's so awesome that they're celebrating his life, like I
mean it you think about impact people have. I don't.
I mean, I'm trying to remember the last time somebody
had this kind of impact musically on I mean, and
there's people. Look, we lose important people all the time.
(26:46):
But just seeing this, this outpouring of love and remembrance
for the last ten days, now, this is this is
so special.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Man's amazing stuff. I'm hopeful to get ten minutes from
one or two people that that's that's where I'm at
in my existence. I'm not getting the global send off,
but damn it, the one or two people will be
affected that I can't hope.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Hey, I knew by Carmen. Eh, he's an okay guy.
He got purple shorts all the time, and uh, he
really knew how to make a pork shoulder. Anybody else
want to talk? I'm kind of done. I mean, he
did that and he made beyond that. He was fairly
useless to me, anybody anybody else, I don't know. Oh. Oh,
by the way, he has two tickets. I have two
(27:28):
tickets if anybody wants them to this weekend show. Hang On,
hang on a second, it's a hang On. It's a
Afghan Wigs cover band, followed by Okay it's anybody, just
you know, just see me after. If you'll just give
him to you, I'll just give him here. Well played,
Well played, my friend. From one amazing story to another
coming up in ninety seconds. But first, Martin Wis has
(27:49):
what's trending in the wide world of sports, including the
New York Mets getting the two greatest relievers in baseball history.
They've got to help fortify their team as we get
towards the trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, pun intended. It's an arms race in the NL East.
I'll beat here all night, the Mets. I'll start with
them trading for the Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley and right
in the pitcher Tyler Rogers from the Giants. The Phillies
though then finalized the deal to bring you on around
from the Twins and two top prospects. Speaking of trades
as a whole bunch, we'll get to in just a minute.
(28:19):
But the Yankees just walked off the Rays five to
four after Ryan McMahon, new Yankee third baseman formerly of
the Colorado Rockies. You know what that's new for him winning,
you know, seeing as he was a Rocky. They woke
off the race in five to four. And eleven.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I don't know what do we do after a win.
I don't know. I don't know what is there anything
different we do because I don't know anything about that exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's all news. The Marlins beat the Cardinals two to nothing.
The Reds beat the Dodgers five to two. Shell hail
Tani had through six straight balls in the fourth inning,
two of them wild pitches, none of them were particularly
close to the plate. He then left his pitching start.
After that, Dave Roberts and the trainer came out to
talk when we stayed in the game. As the DHS
reports after the game state he suffered from cramps. So
(29:05):
speaking of those trades, the Angels acquired veteran relievers Luis
Garcia and Andrew Chafin from the Nationals, the Reds acquiring
gold glove third basement of Brian Hayes from the Pirates.
Yankees traded for White Sox outfitd Austin Slater, and the
Mariners traded for a left handed reliever, Caleb Ferguson w
NBA News, the Fever beat the Mercury one oh seven
(29:27):
to one oh one. Alissa Thomas with thirty two points
to fifteen rebounds. Aray McDonald led Indiana in scoring with
twenty seven. The Dream beat the Wings eighty eight to
eighty five, and I was him with twenty one off
the bench, and Paige Beckers had twenty one seven assists
in the loss. The Links beat the Liberty won one
hundred to ninety three, and a pieces of Collier with
(29:48):
thirty and nine. Springin su let all scores with thirty
one in the loss. Ravens tight end. Isaiah likely will
likely well will definitely undergo surgery to repair a broken
bone in his foot. He suffered that broken bone on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You were going to say, he's likely going to undergo surgery,
aren't you. You're gonna say that, You're gonna say, but
it was.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It was definitely saying. I feel I feel confident they're
gonna get surgery to fix that broken foot. I also
feel just as confident. His last name is Likely, so
all right, now that we got it all squared away,
he's expected. But I don't feel confident about this though.
Broken foot. We're in like week one of training camp
that says six weeks ready for week one. I'm not
(30:30):
a doctor, nor did I stayed at Hollywood Express last
Hollywood Holly. You know what, I can't even get it.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Holiday in the Hollywood Hollywood. I stayed at a Hollywood Express.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Last place. I'm all over the place.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's a holiday in Express. I stayed in the Hollywood Express. Like, yeah,
tell me what that's like. Man, that sounds great.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Listen. I used to live a block away from Hollywood Boulevard.
I saw all the Express going up and down Hollywood.
You know what, Let's get back to the business. The
Seahawks signed m John Snyder to a four year contract extension.
Xavier Worthy, chiefs wide receiver, is in the concussion protocol,
and Zach Moss looking for a job after the Bengals
released a veteran running back after one season with the team.
(31:09):
The Rangers need Angels won to nothing in the A's
lead the Mariners two to nothing, both of those early
in the game.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch run up. Appreciate it.
My friend Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios, got the play the day coming your
way in a few minutes. But just you talk about
amazing stories, and I see this and I go back
to thinking, what this guy's career could have been right.
Gilbert Arenas was arrested today on charges of having illegal
(31:39):
poker games at his mansion in Encino, you know, just
a few miles from here, outside of Los Angeles. This
according to release from the United States Attorney's Office of
Central California. Agent Zer, who's starting the league for a
long time, remember and kind of found his way out
of favor after the gun incident with Javaris Crittenden. That'll
do it just derailed his career. He is trying. I mean,
(32:01):
these are serious charges. Why wait, the guy at a
high stakes poker game at his house, Well, yeah, he
rented out his house for these big poker games. And
also they say that the group hired chefs, valets, armed
security guards to staff the games. They had young women
serve drinks, provided massages, offered companionship to the poker players
(32:26):
in exchange for tips. Apparently, one suspected high level member
of an Israeli organized crime group was heavily involved in this.
The co conspirators who put this on took a cut
of the servers tips from the games. Like this is
a sid Like this guy tried this, I'm gonna turn
like a real crazy below boards Rounders casino. I'm turning
(32:47):
my mansion into a casino. So this is some serious stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
He's facing up to five years in federal prison for this,
and his trial begins in about a month and a half.
This happened a couple of years ago, in twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, and I look at Gilbert arenas Mike
and I just always think the same thing when he
was before the gun incident, if he had been able
(33:13):
to not be his own worst enemy. Right, the gun
incident really put a torpedo on his career, and now
this year he can't just when he was getting more
popular again with his podcast like Agent zero, he was entertaining,
he was fun. He would have been he could have
been Charles Barklay now when it comes to what we
think and people we respect talking about the NBA, because
(33:36):
he was one of the first guys to become a
big social media internet superstar in the early two thousands, right,
this is when he started his website in agentzero dot com.
He started doing all these interviews, and this is back when, Hey,
if you said stuff that was a little outlandish, but
you had some cachet behind it, you really stood out,
like Gilbert Arenas was a guy that people were paying
(33:58):
attention to. Do we talk him so much on the
radio in the mid Oh, hey, Gilbert Arena said this.
Gilbert Rena said this. He was on his way after
his playing days were over. He would have been like
Charles Barker, he would have been Kenny Smith. He would
have been on inside the NBA. He would have been
this huge basketball voice. And then he had the gun
incident that really derailed all of that. Now he's since
(34:19):
been trying to make a comeback with his podcast. Okay, great,
And now here's a gambling thing. And oh, by the way,
he just clowned on Malik Beasley for getting caught gambling
about a month and a half ago. Now here he is, Yeah,
because I'm running this whole high stakes poker that nobody
found out about three years ago. Oh wait, you found
out about that? Like he wasn't ask it.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
And easily got his revenge. And he's a source. Okay,
I'll tell you something about that. You oh you, oh,
screw me?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
No, no, I heard. But I mean, if if he
could have just avoided this knuckleheaded stuff, that's the kind
of basketball voice, that's the kind of career that he
would have now and have been enjoying for the better
part of the last decade plus. But he just couldn't
do it. And these two things that have just completely
(35:05):
derailed his entire career. Well, and it would have he
would have been on a whole other level.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Remember when all that went down, as a guy that
was coming off years that he averaged twenty five, twenty nine,
and twenty eight points per game, so he was filling
it up. You know, you go back to his college
days at Arizona. I remember him when he was signing
with a g and a giant zero in college back in.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
The day is autograph.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
So I all of that to say, yeah, I mean,
he would have had more pelts on the wall and
longer run as a superstar, which begets more opportunity to
be that kind of level of guy. And clearly he
was in the I don't care phase of things when
he was doing appearances and having his say around the league,
(35:47):
which which gave him a big audience and a giant
platform to work from. I still have a million questions
with this right because there's a lot of other charges
that are being thrown by the co conspirators in this
in terms of immigration fraud, marriage falsehoods, in terms of
are they legally married? Are they not? What else is
(36:08):
going on? So it's not just a poker game. This
could actually become like some giant mini series for HBO
Max or something before this is done with all the
subplots that are starting to develop with some of this
cast of characters. But for him, yeah, I mean he
had all of it, and in this day and age
where more and more podcasts and partnerships and everything else
(36:29):
found his voice, right, you're able to put those kind
of things because I mean that incident happened all the
way back in two thousand and nine. That's long in
the rear view mirror. We've had a million other stories
that have come up since. But yeah, this one as
you just shook your head right, because I mean, you
had the Class A and whatever's going on with the Guardians.
We've had all sorts of little gaming. Now you've gotten this,
(36:50):
and again it's legal if you don't take a raak.
But I want to know what else is going on
ex I mean, just he's.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Been his own worst enemy from I mean, to think
of what he'd be doing now, he'd be that first
guy to break through that next generation of analyst, and
again he did it all to himself. That's what I
think about when I think about agents here, That's what
he could be doing instead. It's it's these high stakes
poker games in Encina.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I want to know having a food they were serving
is a top shelf booze, I mean where they watering
it down?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Is that the next charge that's coming out of this
and a cod exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Have a very big play of the day coming up
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Speaker 2 (37:39):
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Swung on fly ball, well hit deep center field outman.
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Going back at the lowly leagues, hof this glove. It
stays in play. Two runs are gonna score. Steer on
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So you like that Steer on his horse. You like
that Steer. That's pretty good? Yeah, I am. The Reds
breaking a two to two tie with the dodge in
the bottom of the eighth inning, Steers triple brings in two.
They go on to win it five to two. This game, though,
known more for what happened with Shoheo Tani, who left
the game in the fourth inning after throwing six consecutive balls. Now,
(38:59):
what we've heard right away and coming out of this
is that it was a cramp for Otani and that's
why I had to come out of the game. And okay,
that's fine, but let me just again, I feel like
I want to just say this because it's it's you're
just everybody's just tempting fate. Otani is never gonna be
a starting pitcher that you can depend on, right He's
(39:19):
not at this point. He's been missed the last year
and a half. He's had two major elbow surgeries. Like
I say all the time, make them a closer, make
them a closer, make them a closer. At least then
you're gonna get some sort of investment out of him.
Don't have to worry about the position because he can
DH all the way through. Then, okay, you want him tournament,
but you're closing the game, which you don't think you're
(39:40):
gonna have a bottom of the top of the bottom
of the ninth inning because you're gonna you're gonna close
things out now. But he's never gonna be able to
pitch to a point where you can say he's gonna
give you one hundred and twenty even one hundred and
twenty five innings a year, right. I mean, Otani is
over thirty years old with two bad elbow injuries. I
don't know why the Dodgers are still bent on making
him a starter. Yes, it's a bit of an adjustment
(40:01):
and it would be a different mindset, but I'm pretty
sure Shoeo Tani could handle that, but I feel like
if they keep running him out there as a starting pitcher,
eventually it's just gonna be an injury, and then it
could wind up being an injury that stops him from
being able to play right, which is what you really
wanted to do. So every time I said, yes, okay,
it's a cramp for Shoeo Tani, but he has shown
you that his health wise, now in his thirties pitching,
(40:23):
it may not be there, and you want to protect
and keep him on the field as much as possible.
So I think it's kind of time to think of
something different for Otani now that he's thirty one, going
to be thirty two years old.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Now, in this particular case, we avoid the major injury,
and certainly concerning six straight balls, a couple of whild pitches,
and nowhere near the zone fifty one pitches today, thirty
two strikes three innings and gets chased the five hits
that he allowed to still had four strikeouts. They'll keep
(40:58):
flirting with disaster because.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
It's not an arm injury, it's a tweak.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
So you push and and try to find your way,
I think, until you get your full rotation back, though, Jason,
We're gonna keep seeing him trot it out, even just
for three innings at a time.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Man, I'm telling you like it's like the Dodgers, just
tempting fate every time. We're gonna link them out and
do this telling you a closing, it's the way to go.
We got a big story from the NFL coming up
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