December 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith thinks his Mets were right to move on from Pete Alonso. The guy’s weigh-in on the Sherrone Moore/Michigan allegations. And why the College Football Playoff Committee will magically agree to a 16-team playoff for next season!
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DS yesterday and Pete Alonzo today. Who will get traded
tomorrow somewhere else or sign as a free agent with
then the baseball team?
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L e O n assist dot com. Well yeah, yesterday
Edwin Diaz. Today Pete Alonzo now finalizing a five year,
one hundred and fifty five million dollar contract with the
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Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well Way, Jason, the Mets made an offer, right.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The Mets offer was, hey, we'll help you pack. That
was the offer of the Mets made. The Mets did
not make an offer to Pete Alonzo right now. Let
me just say, let me let me do head in
heart first, okay with this right here, because obviously it's
it's been it's been a last coup. Look, today was
a rough day in my household. Man, Pete Alonzo gone.
Sharon Moore fired with cous Michigan. Me and my wife
are going, Hey, who's got it worse than us? Nobody?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Your kids just kind of skate around. She was like,
I'm not coming home today. I'm staying somelf in school.
I had a nice balanced lunch, I did pretty well
on a quiz and we we played some games in
the last No, I ain't coming home.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Don't put that evil on me. Ricky, Bobby, I will
see you when the dust clears. This is a bad man. Hopefully,
hopefully Benny you know, stepped in upon or yeah, yeah,
maybe Benny. Yeah, maybe Benny went to the bathrooms a
supposed to. That'll be how it goes through. Uh, but
let me just say this, right, all of all of today,
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Pete Alonzo leaves the day after and let me let
me do the head things first, right. Oh no, you look, Okay,
the Mets don't play tomorrow, so they don't have to
worry about putting a team out there tomorrow. So you
sound like Coe. That's exactly what we started trying to
sit again because I said it last night. What did
I say last night?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do we have to go to our bullpen tomorrow and
and figure out? No, we're not playing a game tomorrow.
If in the middle of February we don't have Kyle
Tucker or Cody Bellinger or Suarez, or if we don't
have any of those guys, I'll say, Okay, I'm a
little concerned, but uh, it's clear the Mets have a plan,
and I give him a lot of guts for sticking
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to it. Because David Stern's nose, he's the most unpopular
GM in the game of baseball. He has put a
bulls eye on him. But this is but this is
him saying, I know what we need. Last year was
a real disaster, and I get it because they've gone
as far as they can with this core. Do you
really think just trotting out the same guys again next year?
And Diaz and Nimo and and and Alonso, who these
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guys whose contracts are coming up, do you think if
we trotted them out there the results gonna be different.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
We'll just spend more money.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
We'll spend another two hundred million dollars on a combination
of Alonzo and DS two hundred and fifty million. I'm
just bringing the two of them back for a team
that Oh, by the way, I don't think I missed
any any banner hangings. I don't think I missed any
parades in the World Series of the last year is
with these guys.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
They're good players. Pete A. Lonzo is a good player.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
He can't field at all, right, he's got real difficulty
in the field. Doesn't matter because hey, he's he hits,
he hits terrific. But he's thirty. He's over thirty. He's
got a five year deal. It's way too much money
for a guy that only can do one thing, and
if you want him to DH, you want other guys
to DH. I get not going in. And the Mets
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plan clearly was, Hey, Pete's gonna be too much for us.
Why they didn't make him an offer, Right, That's why
I didn't make him offer. They knew that someone's gonna
give him more money this time around because he's coming
off a bigger year. So we're just gonna say goodbye.
And they said goodbye. If Alonzo would have said, hey,
two three years and maybe you know, you know, ninety
million or something like that, the Mets might have said, oh, okay,
maybe that's that. But you got to get five years,
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one hundred and fifty five million dollars when you can. Right,
that's the biggest contract we've seen in a little while.
And Alonzo gets it. I get it because, like Jim
Beheim used to say, I just want to win. I
give a I could give a blank who plays, right,
I don't care who plays. I want to win. So
it's the beginning, the beginning of the art. There's lots
of guys out there. Again, if they don't get any
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of those players over the next month or two.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I'll like that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I'll say, Okay, now we really have a conversation. But
I feel like there's a plan in place, and Alonzo
and Diaz. Maybe DZ fit a little bit, but Alonzo
clearly didn't fit. You've seen his best. I don't think
anybody was jumping up and down for the Cardinals the
year after they got rid of Albert Pools to the Angels,
they wanted ten more years of that contract? Or are
they happy to dump them off, because yeah, we saw
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his best. We got as far as we could with him.
Now it's just gonna be diminishing returns the rest of
his career. That's kind of what it's gonna be for Alonzo.
So yeah, it sucks because the emotion part of it is, Mike, Yeah,
today was tough, Man, Today was tough. I almost cried
a couple of times because seeing the home run, listening
to the home run against the Brewers, and this is
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what's typical Mets. The big home run off Devin Williams
two years ago to win that game and put him
into the nl DS against the Phillies, my biggest home
run the Mets have ever had. It's typical Mets that
we have the guy that gave up the home run,
and we don't have the guy that hit the home run. Right,
that's Mets. But like it was emotional, so it doesn't
mean today wasn't necessary, but it also sucked. Both things
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could be true because I wanted Alonzo to stay, want
to retire, and met the guys hold the all time
record for home runs, like the guy guy's a great player,
home run I want that, but I want to win,
and I saw what happened last year wasn't good enough,
so it's time to make changes and bringing other players.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
And I like that they have a vision and I
like their sticking to it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But yeah, today still kind of sucked because I love
Alonzo Man.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Just thinking about that home run again and.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Watching it over and over and over again over Devin Williams,
it was awesome and it made me sad, But after
a couple minutes, I wasn't sad anymore because I get that, Okay,
I want to win.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Always go back to that, Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Harmon, always look to that.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Now he is only thirty one years old, so it's
not like this is guy that's in his mid thirties
and you're looking at those last four or five years.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's not a ten year deal.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's in line with what Schwarber got obviously hit from
the other side of the plate, all that institutional love
and fandom and all that stuff. Just as you gave
me a little bit of your best Steve Cohen impression
of Hey, we don't have to play today, there's a
lot of time before game one. I remind you of
the great Dave wanstat ahead of the nineteen ninety six
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Chicago Bears season. All the pieces are in place. They
we go on to finish seven and nine that year
and in the end, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Three years. I get it, you know you it's not
a normal three years.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's not quite dog years, but not the same aging
process as you know a normal man or woman in
their professional lives. But you know what, would I rather
spend one hundred and fifty million on Pete Alonso or
four hundred million or three fifty on Kyle Tucker? I
think I'll take what I know, I think I'll take.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I know, I get it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But the but yeah, but the thing is, remember now
and this is what what what? So many you know
fans forget Oh, we have no plan. No, no, we
have a plan and Pete Alonso is a limited guy.
He do one thing right and he hits and that's awesome, right,
But if you can pay one hundred and fifty five
million dollars for a guy like Bellinger or Kyle Tucker
that can play a couple of different positions, can you
give you some good stuff in the field. A least
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a little bit better stuff in the field they're gonna
get from Alonzo, especially a guy like Bellinger that can
play first base, all the outfield positions.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I understand saying that's a guy we feel a little
bit more comfortable giving that kind of money to. I
completely understand that. And and you know, I love what
Alonso did. Well, we saw his best and we got
to the NLCS two years ago and that's where we got.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
The Mets didn't didn't hang any banners over the last.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Although I mean they probably should hang on for the NLCS,
but like they went as far as they could with
this corps and they had to make change. You can't
just run it back after you collapse out of the
playoffs like they did last year. That's not a run
it back situation.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I mean, Jevin Williams, I mean, he's clearly shown the
acumen and versatility and resolve to show up in big
Oh unless no, I understand this had to be a
difficult day, no question about it, because as I said,
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as we started things, you know, when you talk about
a changing of identity of an organization, it is difficult.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
And Peter A.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Lonzo is that guy. Today was a release of a
Big Tops baseball product. Uh And one of the big
Chase inserts is alter egos in like an anime kind
of format.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And there's a.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Really great polar Bear card that no longer has that
meaning because it's not the same thing, especially for who today?
Who Was it difficult for us struggling?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I mean it might have difficult for me.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Well you you kind of chuckled about it because.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You think everybody did well.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I think Mets fans are a bit salty. I mean
behind door number two is Tucker Bellinger mans.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Frostbring.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh you're kidding, man, You would love to have my owner.
Just worry about the Spurs night, worry?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
How about angry message did you send to Sterns today?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Worry about joining the Knicks in the in the E
Cup semi final four? Okay, just worry, worry about beating
this person night right, That's all I wanted playing the Cup.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Worry worry about that guy. Look.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh, by the way, I love the fact that Lakers said,
blank you, we're not going to put our E Cup
floor out there.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
It's ridiculous. We're going with our normal floor.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To floor was unsafe. They decided it wasn't potentially a problem.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Was it really unsafe or was it? Man, I can't
look at that floor again. Yeah, we'll just say it's unsafe.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I mean, I don't know. I'm just saying I look
at that, see something.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Look at that conspiracy theories over something such great. There's
such greatness as the Emeralds Cup. By the way, that
early game, well, I want to waste the time that was.
I'm glad I to invest a lot in watching the
backups of the Oklahoma City Thunder, although their second squad
might run through a bunch of the NBA teams right now.
But back to the desk at hand.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It won that game by fifty over over Phoenix, Phoenix
by fifty to night that in an E Cup game.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Man, they were hanging out his third deck passing out peanuts.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And Phoenix is having an okay season, way better anybody
thought they were going to have it.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Feit man, this thing was, This thing was over quick.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Shows you how much it means to the Thunder for
the extra five hundred grandy Again, I keep waiting for
Myra and Steve to roll out a giant chest in Vegas.
But yeah, for your mets, I'm curious to see what
the plan is. To your point, that's fifty million dollars.
It's of salary.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Shed the furthest you guys are ever gonna go.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
The rest of their history is the nl Whatever it
was against the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
That was the NLCS that thanks for Thanks you for
whatever that was, Thanks whatever it be.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Five Oh, by the way, pretty sure last year we
went out and signed the guy who's our identity for
the next ten to twelve years and one.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
So just remember, just remember God finish that contract.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Did just to finish Alonzo. Because of that contract and
everybody else, he got his casino.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
We have good, We have all kinds of money. Everything
is fine again.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
How is everything fine?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Because it's the beginning of the off season where everything
hut everything Everything is fine again. If we had to
play tomorrow I'd be a little concerned. I'd be a
little worried there, but we don't. We don't have to
play until the beginning of it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
We have to play again. It's it's everything is okay.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Look, it's it was Azation folds the way we're not.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We're not playing anymore. We're just done. We can't do
this anymore. We just can't do it.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I mean, look for for Alonso and look the Orioles.
Get a guy who's gonna come in and his I'm
not gonna I don't think it's going to age poorly,
but the Alonso contract is going to age kind of
like Kyle Schwarber's will, right, because we've got Kyle Schwarber
the net. You like, you don't got the five year
deal thirty two years old, only dhing. Okay, maybe the
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last year and a half of that deal is gonna
be rough, right, because he's he's not gonna age.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Really really well.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So, but the first three years is fine, and the
next and the last year and a half, okay, you'll
you'll be palatable whatever that is. It's gonna be the
same thing for Alonzo, right. The next two to three
years might be okay, now you're changing teams, changing changing leagues,
a lot a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
But the next couple of years are gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
But i'll tell you what it might be the middle
and next season when they say, hey, Pete, we want
you to be the full time DH, because he outside
of picking balls at first base, he is brutal in
the field, and and they're gonna say, Pete, you wanted DH,
and he really didn't want to do it. He would
rather stay and play first base. I understand guys that
want to do that. But that's gonna be the conversation
in a little well, probably midway point in next season. Hey,
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really quietly, Pete, A Lonzo will move to designated hitter.
But that's how the contract's gonna age. It'll age like
like Schwarberz. The next two three years, I'm sure it'll
be okay. The last couple of years, year and a half,
it's gonna be rough because he's never been to guy
that's kept himself in great shape and pulled a bear
for a long time. And as he gets to thirty
four thirty five, that's what's gonna happen the next three years.
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I mean, look, hey, great for the Orioles. Their lineup
is fantastic. You're dropping them right in amongst a bunch
of guys that can really hit. I'm excited. Look, Alonzo's
a good dude, and I loved everything he did for
the Mets. I love staying and still being excited about
being a member of the Mets last year, even though
he wanted a big deal and the Mets didn't give
it to him. And he's only back there because he
couldn't get a bigger deal in free agency. And he
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was a big pro like I get, and I wish
him all the best.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
In the world. Man, He's an.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Awesome, awesome dude, and that's how it's gonna go, and
things will probably be fine. And he's a big get
for the Orioles to PLoP him right there in the
middle of the lineup. But yeah, but that's how it's
gonna be. And the Mets need a little bit more
in you know, with their team than just, Hey, we're
giving a lot of money to a guy who in
a you know and a half year, he's going to
DH for us, and then we got to go out
and get another first basement, right, So I mean, that's
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what it's necessary. Everything Mets did today I was fine with.
I said goodbye to Pete Long so when he hired
Scott Boris as his age, I knew two years ago
he's gone. He hired Scott Boris because he was upset
at his first push it free agency. He hired Scott Boris.
Now that said that he's gone. There's no way he's staying.
He is absolutely leaving. So I said by goodbye him.
A couple years ago. He stayed in an extra couple
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of years. That's awesome. And today he left. And while
it was somewhat it was emotional at times, it wasn't
other times.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I get what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's I'm telling you, like I said with Diz yesterday,
it's fine.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
The Orioles in theory get their veteran leader with all
those young guys, and I already have people in writing
me notes. This will end up better than Chris Davis, right, right.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh man, Chris David. I think they're still paying Chris Davis.
I think he's still getting money from it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
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Coming up next, the other half of what was an emotional,
really difficult day in the Smith household. As Michigan is
now looking for a new football coach and the Sharon
Moore story just gets crazier with every passing hour, we
break it down next right here, Jason to Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
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The Jason Smith show with my bas friend Mike Harmon
brow NBA Cup Action underway. We are one game away
from figuring out the final four of the E Cup.
Who will join the Knicks and the Magic and the
Thunder in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
For the e Cup Final Four. Lakers lead the Spurs
right now eighteen to twelve.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
No wenby for San Antonio, and the Lakers are playing
on their normal floor, so understand, even though that's the case,
we are still playing an E Cup game. Don't want
anybody know it's not happening. It is still an E
Cup game.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Feels like you need to superimpose a bunch of extra
graphics on the court, like floating logos for the television
audience so they know this time it counts.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Why do we not just go to different jerseys, like
you know, teams are like hey, especially if they're like
cool like color rush jerseys or something the or they
go to throw back jerseys or some kind of why
not do something like that and you can sell more
merch rather than say, hey, we're gonna make the floor
look different. Why not have NBA E Cup specific jerseys
like I just go wild with it so you know
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right away when you turn on the TV. Oh it's
an E Cup game. Look at what the hell the
Spurs are wearing?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Look like the bumble bees for the Steelers or in
uniforms that the Bears wear, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Where they look like guards.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, some kind of some kind of like city connect
you know, like they could have like the River Walk
or the Alamo or whatever it is. You know, LA's
got the Hollywood side just says the Hollywood Sign logo
across the front instead of Lakers like something like that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Why not there's a picture of the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Why don't you make it a moving digital billboard on
their jerseys and every time they're on screen you have
no idea what's going to be on there?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, like Harry Potter. Yeah see, we're close to that
happening more next.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Level where you could do the thing like when you
had the pandemic and you could get the cardboard cut
out of yourself. Oh yes, you can appear on Luca
Doncon's chest for three seconds of a game.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I mean, come on, isn't isn't this better than just hey,
we're gonna make the floor different, Like come.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
On, ah, but come on, those courts make me know
that my eyesight stile is functional because it offends.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, but when you look at it, I can't look
at that. I can't look at the game for more
than three seconds at a time. I start to go blind.
It feels like I look up, but I'm looking away.
Look up, but look away.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So we'll have more on this game tonight again. Lakerspurs
three point game early on here for that, Uh yeah,
part of the rough day in the smith household. Today,
Pete Alonzo goes to the Orioles and the University of
Michigan is now looking for a new head coach after
firing head coach. You're on Moore earlier today. Uh, it
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was a bombshell. No one thought this was coming. And
when this story first broke and I saw the banner,
I said to myself, oh my, what the the hell
happen here?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
And I'm thinking to myself.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Wow are they I don't even hear anything from anybody,
you know, you know pants fits on that they you know,
everybody lives and breeds Michigan football in Michigan, like no
one's ever said anything like, hey, there's a lot of
whispers about stuff.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
There's this going on, there's this going on, and all
of a.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Sudden, he's fired, And I'm thinking, what is Lane Kiffin
showing up like as all of a suddenlane kiffn did
he did he pray?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Did he pray that?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Did he pray that Sharon Moore would get fired? And
he would not say, Hey, I gotta go take this job. Everybody,
I know I'm at LSU, but hey, I'm here. I'm
getting off the plane. I'm flying to Ann Armor. It's
the job I really want. And then we get the
details that are just getting more and more crazy as
time goes on. It was just moments after this story
was announced that Brett McMurphy, longtime college football insider, said
(20:49):
that Moore was fired following an investigation into Moore's conduct
with a staff member. Quote, Sharon Moore was terminated with cause,
effective immediately, school saying in a statement following a university investigation,
credible evidence was found the coach more engage in an
inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Now there's lots of
(21:12):
rumors out there on social media about what it was.
And Sean Moore is married, he does have kids, and
you know there's look you could get. You can get
the sordid story out there that nothing's been proven yet,
And I've seen a couple of people linked to this
story like, Okay, that's not the person they were talking
about before. That's so it's an inappropriate relationship he had
with a university staff member. Compounding that is that shortly
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after he was detained by police and sale Michigan and
was later turned over to a second area police department
for investigation into potential charges. Now, again, these have not
been let known. Even TMZ won't spend when TMZ's not
gonna speculate, you know, Hey, wait a minute, this is
we don't know yet. Again, lots of crazy rumors going
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out online what it is and and what happened that
he winds up being detained by police. So these are
the last couple of shoes we're waiting to drop here,
like what happened with this story. I assume in the
next twenty four hours we will know a lot more
to this. But these are the concrete facts that we know.
He was fired by Michigan for cause it means they're
not going to pay in the rest of his twelve
(22:19):
million dollar salary, in appropriate relationship with a staff member,
and now turned over after being detained by a police
department for investigation into potential charges. Now what these charges are,
we don't know. But this is the story for Sharon
Moore as it sits right now. And the first thing
when I saw this was I sat back and I said,
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on the list of great jobs in college football, Michigan
has been on that short of short list for the
last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They won the national championship two years ago. All of
a sudden, it's a new era in Michigan. Jim Harbaugh's
leaving Michigan was beating Ohio State. Look, Michigan's long been
royalty in college football. They just haven't won enough. Now
they're winning, and they're beating Ohio State. Like you look
at any metric of the best jobs in college football,
in Michigan and Ohio State were at the top, right there,
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at the top of the top five or seven jobs
everywhere in college football, they're right there, right, Alabama is
at the top of that list. Right, these are teams
at all at the top, all the heritage teams, they're
at the top. Sharon Moore goes from the offensive coordinator
and he slides in when Jim Harbaugh jumps to the NFL,
and I really and I don't know if it's just
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because this is me and not that I feel like
I hold myself above anything, but I.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Just sit back and I go.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
This guy slides in to one of the greatest jobs
in college one of the top five jobs and all
of college football, and he blows it up for a
relationship with a step whatever happens, he blows it up
over relationship that that winds up getting him fired. He's
lost everything now, he's lost his career, he's lost money,
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maybe he's lost his family. Like he's lost at all
because I'm involved in a personal drama when my number
one goal is coaching Michigan and not realizing, Boy, do
I have a great gig right now? Do I have
a gig that ninety nine percent of other coaches would
leave their gigs for.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I have that gig.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
People spend their entire lives trying to work their way
up and win at smaller schools so they could maybe
get the head coaching job at Michigan or the head
coaching job at Ohio. Statement the head coach a job
at Alabama and Searan Moore comes in, Hey, I'm the
Ocenie win the national title. Guess what, hey, Jim Harbass suspended.
He blows up in front of me. I wind up
getting that opportunity and he winds up getting getting a
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job that you scratch it and go, wow, man, he's
in the right place at the right time, and he
was doing great. He beat Ohio State twice, won last year.
Everything was looking fine, and now you look at his
career and he gave it away, and I just can't.
It really is hard for me to understand how guys
that this kind of of opportunity and have this kind
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of professional life when they're in the top one tenth
of one percent of what they do and they wind
up blowing up and doing and doing themselves in I
still I can't get over that. That's that still happens
to so many people that can't figure things out and
can't handle success. Because all Searon Mooreris had has been success. Now,
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did he win this year?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Did he keep the team in contention all the way through?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Did he maybe have the right guy a quarterback? Yeah?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Underwood maybe not, maybe not the guy they thought he was.
But still Michigan won nine games, going to a big
Bowl game, that you know, the NFL talent is coming
back in flowing through. It's a great program again. And
now here it is and he's lost at all because
he couldn't handle success and the power that he wound
up getting went to his head and he wound up
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getting out of control. Now, maybe maybe I would wind
up falling victor to that power too, if all of
a sudden I'm put in position of Hey, You're the
head coach of the biggest uh one of the biggest
schools in the country, and all of a sudden people
are fawning all over you, and you have that sense
of power when you walk into a room. I'd like
to think I know how to handle it. Maybe I don't,
but wow, imagine the dig Oh man, hey you want
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to be yes, big Mac? Where where a big back?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
What room?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
What room do you need to go to for a big Mac? Yeah,
I'm there, I'm there, I'm there. I'd like to think
I'd be able to handle Maybe not, but you would.
And when when I see this, I go, how do you?
How do you give this away? I mean I couldn't.
I couldn't get away from that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Today, Mike rationality sometimes rolls out the door. I mean,
it's sometimes best expressed as we often look to uh.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Our muses and music.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I'll look to pop superstars and actress Selena Gomez. The
heart wants what it wants, uh uh uh uh uh.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So it's you have no idea and you know behind
the scenes, I don't pretend to know the man's relationships
or or those statuses.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Here.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
He's fired with cause, so you know what ever the
investigation has yielded, there's there's certainly a lot of details,
even this being detained by the police. Very sketch, you know,
We've got a very pencil sketch with it, with a
lot of blank space on the canvas right now. In
terms of where this story goes, you feel for the family,
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for those associated you know, and friends and colleagues. And
he's the guy that had to wear a bunch of
the suspension stuff during the time at Michigan. Doesn't mean
that you know off the Connor stallion stuff. It's always
the question of who knew what when, howeer and everything else.
But yeah, great power, great responsibility. Obviously the steward of
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a huge brand. The underwood side of thing is interesting
because immediately you start seeing all the missives from all
sorts of schools where you have gotten new coaches or
maybe a quarterback who's getting.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Ready to leave.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Hey, you should go get underwood now because it opens, right,
the portal opens because the coach. Not that it's ever
closed really, but you get that extra piece if a
coach gets fired or or leaves of their own accord.
So you have that swirling in the background. Nine and
three seasons still pretty strong. You know, you lost the
game that everybody points to, right, you'd won the last
(28:16):
couple against Ohio State, and then this year not so,
you know, timing is is curious how quickly this comes
to the bear right after a season. And at this
point it's a lot of speculation. But we see men
and women of great power and repute felled all across
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the business and sports landscape with some regularity.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It's the human condition, right, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
We you never know what's going on behind someone's closed
doors that lead to such things. And you know the
old he want you want to judge and throw stones,
you know, look inward, have a little bit of grace,
but for this one uncertainly will wait on more details, right,
it like it's just a lot of Wow, what happened
(29:07):
and how and what? Because you've got a lot of
pictures and a lot of theories of what, how, where,
and everything else going out there without a lot of
backing to it at this point.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You know, I always think about this.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's very rare that I remember certain advice I get
in life, in my career about certain things, because sometimes
people say stuff just to say stuff right, like, you know,
like oh you think this, Do you really think that?
Or did you read that somewhere like on a calendar.
But early on in my radio career, one host that
I used to talk to a lot said to me,
(29:42):
he said, you know, you will find in your career
you will get more opportunities because of people who blow
up in front of you than you will on your
own talent.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Just watch you watch how.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
People just can't handle the success that they have, and
you will get more opportunities because of that. And sure enough,
I've seen that so many times people that can't handle
success or or are only happy when they're miserable, and
they wind up finding their way out because they don't
know how to act. And there's chances that happen. Hey,
look and I'm getting an opportunity because of it?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
How did Sharon Moore get his chance because Jim Hart
bought Wait wait, we got a big sign stealing scandal
going on, He's got to run to the NFL. Right,
he wasn't gonna leave, But when he got in trouble
because of the sign stealing scandal, he ran to the NFL.
And now Sharon Moore got the chance of a lifetime.
Right he couldn't handle success. Now somebody else is getting
the chance of a lifetime when they hire whoever it's
gonna be, and said, I mean, I really, there is
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no more true advice that I've gotten professionally than hearing
that you'll get more opportunities because people in front of
you or that are ahead of you can't handle it
and blow up and torpedo their own careers than you
will because of your own talent. I've seen it so
many times and it was on display today.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, And I mean that could be in any capacity.
That could just be slap fighting verbally with a boss
that decides they don't like you, right a goo manage
up and down as it were. But like for this one,
we still have a lot of questions as to you know,
the police get involved the investigation into potential charges.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
What does that mean? What does that mean? I don't know?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swelling dome.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Jason Smith Mike Harman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from Martin, Wisse and dub What do
you got for us?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Uh, you guys just touched on most of it. Sharon
Moore busy today fired and he's now in custody and
county jail. He's in the Pittsfield Township jail, which means
something to me and Kelvin Washington and nobody else unless
you were living near Ann Arbor.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
But they're gonna say for a second, because Jason Martin
is sitting here in a Michigan sweatshirt trying to absorb
this and ool.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's a that's a tough wear today. Did you know
what you were wearing going out of the house or
did you wear in the car going? Oh man, this
was a bad choice.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
For the record, I definitely had grabbed this on woke
up from a nap, grab this, got in the car
and about twenty minutes later, but I still went there.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
That's not going away.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You paid with your blood, sweat and tears through the
Michigan exactly.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
And now, Charon Moore, you cried a year ago today
after beating Ohio State just about but now. The statement
released by the University of Michigan stated head football coach
Charon Moore terminated with cause, effective immediately. Following the university investigation,
Credible evidence was found that coach More engaged with an
(32:37):
inappropriate relationship with a staff member. This conduct can constitute
a clear violation university policy, and um maintains zero tolerance
for such behavior. Sharon Moore was coach of Michigan for
two years. He was assistant coach starting back in twenty eighteen.
It since seventeen and eight record. I'm a nineteen and
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eight record, one in one record against Ohio State. Philip
Rivers officially signed with the practice squad today, the forty
four year old quarterback coming out of retirement. Colts rookie
quarterback Brett Riley Leonard full participant in practice. Team activated
quarterback Brett Rippon from their practice squad. Jayde Daniels not
playing Week fifteen because reaggravated that elbow injury. The Commanders
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played the Giants. Gino Smith not likely to play against
the Eagles. Can He Piket in line to start against
his former team for the Raiders. Mike Evans activated from
IR expected to play on Thursday Night Football. Drake London
the opposite. He's ruled out for the Falcons. NFL solidified
week seventeen, announced that the Chargers Texans will play at
the Chargers and the Ravens play at the Packers on Saturday,
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December seventh, twenty seventh. And in news that's happy for
everybody who watches this TV show, the NFL notified teams
they are cutting the amount of times that teams have
to make a first round picking the NFL Draft from
eight minutes to ten minutes. Thank you for that. In
the NBA right now, end to the first quarter of
the Spurs no wemby, but they do have the first
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quarter lead in the Western Conference NBA Cup quarter Finals.
It's thirty nine to thirty Spurs being led in scoring
by Keldon Johnson with thirteen points to the Lakers. Luka
Doncis has eleven. Earlier tonight, we saw the Oklahoma City
put b to a to the Phoenix Suns one thirty
eight to eighty nine, Oklahoma City's twelve and zero at
(34:26):
home twenty four on one on the year, and Shay
Gillis Alexander had twenty eight points to twenty seven minutes
chat Holmgrid twenty four points to twenty five minutes. I
don't know, boys, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
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It's not just you're on more. Two huge stories out
of college football, all revolving around the playoff and the snubs.
It's coming up next. Right here are we on the
cusp of a big change.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
That's next Jason.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
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Speaker 1 (35:21):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
all right now, time out on the floor, and boy,
the Lakers need a time out. The San Antonio Spurs
thumping LA right now, forty seven to thirty. This is
without Wemby again. It has been a big night so far.
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Castle's got seven, Fox has eight, Johnson's got thirteen off.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
The stop, Keldon Johnson.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
They they got twenty seven points off the bench already.
Dylan Harper seven points in seven minutes then and Lucas
sitting down and like, hey, man, I can't do that
every night. Man, I can't score twenty points in the
first quarter all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Shape Pete seven.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
It is a forty seven thirty lead right now for
San Antonio, with a with a spot in the NBA
E Cup semi finals.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Awaiting the winner of this game.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Just a miserable start to the game for the Lakers.
Maybe it's the court, maybe maybe maybe they needed the
incentive to remind them that it is a cup event.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Well, there's a.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Timeout on the floor right now, so maybe when they
come back, you'll see the crew just, you know, frantically
try to put in little pieces of it to make
it look like an E Cup courte.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Because they put a banner up when they won it, right,
so you know, hey, someone needs to point and say, hey,
that's a lot of bonus money. Yeah, we got families
that need Christmas presents, a presence.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Whatever, let's go.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So we'll have more on the big Searon more controversy
story that's just taken over of the last couple hours
coming up in about ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
But uh, elsewhere in college football.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Maybe I'm the shadow commissioner of college football, maybe because
my idea is.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Always seem to work, right. What did we say on Monday?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
One of the big byproducts of Notre Dame getting left
out of the college football Playoff was that, trust me,
they couldn't come together this year. Somehow the different conferences
on a sixteen team playoff, even though you need a
sixteen team playoff to solve the issue of what do
you do with teams whose third losses in the conference
championship game? It needs to be more. You gotta get
(37:28):
to sixteen. That's gonna be a thing. With Notre Dame
getting left out, we are going to sixteen teams next year.
It is an absolute certainty. Watch how smooth it is.
It's not even gonna be a discussion it's gonna be
sixteen sixteen orangeip orange of orange at sixteen shoes. Still, okay, great,
we're going We're going to sixteen teams. It'll be that
(37:50):
after they couldn't do it this year for whatever stupid
reason they couldn't figure it out, it will magically happen
next year. That was on Monday. Now, what do we
know that's come up?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Your mark?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Big twelve commissioner says, yeah, sixteen team playoff. Okay, he
wants more teams in today. ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said, yeah,
we need a sixteen team playoff.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Quote. They're such hard ache. Get that cut line right now.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And what I would say is my barometer about what's
enough and what's not enough is if you're leaving teams
out of the playoff that could win a national championship,
then you don't have the right number. Again, We're going
to sixteen teams for next year. It's happening everybody because
again they're not doing this because oh you have this,
(38:35):
elect more teams from the ACC, and this elect more
teams of the Big twelve in the SEC and the
Big ten are gonna say yeah, he's gonna say, now,
we're gonna get six teams in each Yeah, we'll say yes,
because we're gonna, we're gonna, we know how to do this.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
We're gonna, we're gonna bully push through.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Six teams from each of our conferences and you're still
gonna be fighting for one or two spots. Yeah, we're
okay with sixteen teams, but we are gonna get sixteen
teams next year.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It is an absolute certainty.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
So when Phillips was talking, were we able to surmise
whether we were channeling the other guys and Samuel L.
Jackson what he says, take my hand dot dot dot
and work your mouth like a puppet, because I think
that's kind of where we're at in this, Like, Hey,
this is how I make Bovakua like me again. Getting
Tom Cruise to send him one of those cup coconut
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cakes isn't gonna be enough. We're gonna need a little
bit more. We're gonna need to smooth this over. So
he stops holding his breath. He's turning blue in the
corner at this point, crying about this circumstance. So, yeah,
you need to go and you become the mouthpiece. I mean,
it's it's as transparent as anything, right, as inevitable as
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the Fano snap that Phillips and anybody that has any
business ties to Notre Dame would suddenly be like, you know,
we really need to clean this up, we really need well.
I was surprised they didn't stand out in front of
the Bellaggio Fountain and say, you know, the betting gods
said they were one of the top six options.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
You want the money quote from Phillips. Now again, I
told you it was gonna happen. Here's the money quote
from Phillips. I'd prefer not to wait another year, but
I only speak for the acc again, hand mouth, puppy.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
It's happening.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
We're getting it, and still next year it's gonna be
Maybe you gotta go to twenty tea's we're still only
getting one team in and there's sixteen.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Hey, Jim, did you fix the timeebreaker?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Jim Maryland should not be getting in ahead of us.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Okay, Vanderbilt's not getting it ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Hey, Vanderbilt's cooking and they've got the conference lobbyists that
are in the room already.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
So told you was gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
It's that simple exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome.
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Edwin Diaz. Today Pete Alonzo now finalizing a five year,
one hundred and fifty five million dollar contract with the
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Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well Way, Jason, the Mets made an offer, right.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The Mets offer was, hey, we'll help you pack. That
was the offer of the Mets made. The Mets did
not make an offer to Pete Alonzo right now. Let
me just say, let me let me do head in
heart first, okay with this right here, because obviously it's
it's been it's been a last coup. Look, today was
a rough day in my household. Man, Pete Alonzo gone.
Sharon Moore fired with cous Michigan. Me and my wife
are going, Hey, who's got it worse than us? Nobody?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Your kids just kind of skate around. She was like,
I'm not coming home today. I'm staying somelf in school.
I had a nice balanced lunch, I did pretty well
on a quiz and we we played some games in
the last No, I ain't coming home.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Don't put that evil on me. Ricky, Bobby, I will
see you when the dust clears. This is a bad man. Hopefully,
hopefully Benny you know, stepped in upon or yeah, yeah,
maybe Benny. Yeah, maybe Benny went to the bathrooms a
supposed to. That'll be how it goes through. Uh, but
let me just say this, right, all of all of today,
(02:36):
Pete Alonzo leaves the day after and let me let
me do the head things first, right. Oh no, you look, Okay,
the Mets don't play tomorrow, so they don't have to
worry about putting a team out there tomorrow. So you
sound like Coe. That's exactly what we started trying to
sit again because I said it last night. What did
I say last night?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do we have to go to our bullpen tomorrow and
and figure out? No, we're not playing a game tomorrow.
If in the middle of February we don't have Kyle
Tucker or Cody Bellinger or Suarez, or if we don't
have any of those guys, I'll say, Okay, I'm a
little concerned, but uh, it's clear the Mets have a plan,
and I give him a lot of guts for sticking
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to it. Because David Stern's nose, he's the most unpopular
GM in the game of baseball. He has put a
bulls eye on him. But this is but this is
him saying, I know what we need. Last year was
a real disaster, and I get it because they've gone
as far as they can with this core. Do you
really think just trotting out the same guys again next year?
And Diaz and Nimo and and and Alonso, who these
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guys whose contracts are coming up, do you think if
we trotted them out there the results gonna be different.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
We'll just spend more money.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
We'll spend another two hundred million dollars on a combination
of Alonzo and DS two hundred and fifty million. I'm
just bringing the two of them back for a team
that Oh, by the way, I don't think I missed
any any banner hangings. I don't think I missed any
parades in the World Series of the last year is
with these guys.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
They're good players. Pete A. Lonzo is a good player.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
He can't field at all, right, he's got real difficulty
in the field. Doesn't matter because hey, he's he hits,
he hits terrific. But he's thirty. He's over thirty. He's
got a five year deal. It's way too much money
for a guy that only can do one thing, and
if you want him to DH, you want other guys
to DH. I get not going in. And the Mets
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plan clearly was, Hey, Pete's gonna be too much for us.
Why they didn't make him an offer, Right, That's why
I didn't make him offer. They knew that someone's gonna
give him more money this time around because he's coming
off a bigger year. So we're just gonna say goodbye.
And they said goodbye. If Alonzo would have said, hey,
two three years and maybe you know, you know, ninety
million or something like that, the Mets might have said, oh, okay,
maybe that's that. But you got to get five years,
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one hundred and fifty five million dollars when you can. Right,
that's the biggest contract we've seen in a little while.
And Alonzo gets it. I get it because, like Jim
Beheim used to say, I just want to win. I
give a I could give a blank who plays, right,
I don't care who plays. I want to win. So
it's the beginning, the beginning of the art. There's lots
of guys out there. Again, if they don't get any
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of those players over the next month or two.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I'll like that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I'll say, Okay, now we really have a conversation. But
I feel like there's a plan in place, and Alonzo
and Diaz. Maybe DZ fit a little bit, but Alonzo
clearly didn't fit. You've seen his best. I don't think
anybody was jumping up and down for the Cardinals the
year after they got rid of Albert Pools to the Angels,
they wanted ten more years of that contract? Or are
they happy to dump them off, because yeah, we saw
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his best. We got as far as we could with him.
Now it's just gonna be diminishing returns the rest of
his career. That's kind of what it's gonna be for Alonzo.
So yeah, it sucks because the emotion part of it is, Mike, Yeah,
today was tough, Man, Today was tough. I almost cried
a couple of times because seeing the home run, listening
to the home run against the Brewers, and this is
(05:47):
what's typical Mets. The big home run off Devin Williams
two years ago to win that game and put him
into the nl DS against the Phillies, my biggest home
run the Mets have ever had. It's typical Mets that
we have the guy that gave up the home run,
and we don't have the guy that hit the home run. Right,
that's Mets. But like it was emotional, so it doesn't
mean today wasn't necessary, but it also sucked. Both things
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could be true because I wanted Alonzo to stay, want
to retire, and met the guys hold the all time
record for home runs, like the guy guy's a great player,
home run I want that, but I want to win,
and I saw what happened last year wasn't good enough,
so it's time to make changes and bringing other players.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
And I like that they have a vision and I
like their sticking to it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But yeah, today still kind of sucked because I love
Alonzo Man.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Just thinking about that home run again and.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Watching it over and over and over again over Devin Williams,
it was awesome and it made me sad, But after
a couple minutes, I wasn't sad anymore because I get that, Okay,
I want to win.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Always go back to that, Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Harmon, always look to that.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Now he is only thirty one years old, so it's
not like this is guy that's in his mid thirties
and you're looking at those last four or five years.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's not a ten year deal.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's in line with what Schwarber got obviously hit from
the other side of the plate, all that institutional love
and fandom and all that stuff. Just as you gave
me a little bit of your best Steve Cohen impression
of Hey, we don't have to play today, there's a
lot of time before game one. I remind you of
the great Dave wanstat ahead of the nineteen ninety six
(07:18):
Chicago Bears season. All the pieces are in place. They
we go on to finish seven and nine that year
and in the end, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Three years. I get it, you know you it's not
a normal three years.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's not quite dog years, but not the same aging
process as you know a normal man or woman in
their professional lives. But you know what, would I rather
spend one hundred and fifty million on Pete Alonso or
four hundred million or three fifty on Kyle Tucker? I
think I'll take what I know, I think I'll take.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I know, I get it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But the but yeah, but the thing is, remember now
and this is what what what? So many you know
fans forget Oh, we have no plan. No, no, we
have a plan and Pete Alonso is a limited guy.
He do one thing right and he hits and that's awesome, right,
But if you can pay one hundred and fifty five
million dollars for a guy like Bellinger or Kyle Tucker
that can play a couple of different positions, can you
give you some good stuff in the field. A least
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a little bit better stuff in the field they're gonna
get from Alonzo, especially a guy like Bellinger that can
play first base, all the outfield positions.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I understand saying that's a guy we feel a little
bit more comfortable giving that kind of money to. I
completely understand that. And and you know, I love what
Alonso did. Well, we saw his best and we got
to the NLCS two years ago and that's where we got.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
The Mets didn't didn't hang any banners over the last.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Although I mean they probably should hang on for the NLCS,
but like they went as far as they could with
this corps and they had to make change. You can't
just run it back after you collapse out of the
playoffs like they did last year. That's not a run
it back situation.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I mean, Jevin Williams, I mean, he's clearly shown the
acumen and versatility and resolve to show up in big
Oh unless no, I understand this had to be a
difficult day, no question about it, because as I said,
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as we started things, you know, when you talk about
a changing of identity of an organization, it is difficult.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
And Peter A.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Lonzo is that guy. Today was a release of a
Big Tops baseball product. Uh And one of the big
Chase inserts is alter egos in like an anime kind
of format.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And there's a.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Really great polar Bear card that no longer has that
meaning because it's not the same thing, especially for who today?
Who Was it difficult for us struggling?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I mean it might have difficult for me.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Well you you kind of chuckled about it because.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You think everybody did well.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I think Mets fans are a bit salty. I mean
behind door number two is Tucker Bellinger mans.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Frostbring.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh you're kidding, man, You would love to have my owner.
Just worry about the Spurs night, worry?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
How about angry message did you send to Sterns today?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Worry about joining the Knicks in the in the E
Cup semi final four? Okay, just worry, worry about beating
this person night right, That's all I wanted playing the Cup.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Worry worry about that guy. Look.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh, by the way, I love the fact that Lakers said,
blank you, we're not going to put our E Cup
floor out there.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
It's ridiculous. We're going with our normal floor.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To floor was unsafe. They decided it wasn't potentially a problem.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Was it really unsafe or was it? Man, I can't
look at that floor again. Yeah, we'll just say it's unsafe.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I mean, I don't know. I'm just saying I look
at that, see something.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Look at that conspiracy theories over something such great. There's
such greatness as the Emeralds Cup. By the way, that
early game, well, I want to waste the time that was.
I'm glad I to invest a lot in watching the
backups of the Oklahoma City Thunder, although their second squad
might run through a bunch of the NBA teams right now.
But back to the desk at hand.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It won that game by fifty over over Phoenix, Phoenix
by fifty to night that in an E Cup game.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Man, they were hanging out his third deck passing out peanuts.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And Phoenix is having an okay season, way better anybody
thought they were going to have it.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Feit man, this thing was, This thing was over quick.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Shows you how much it means to the Thunder for
the extra five hundred grandy Again, I keep waiting for
Myra and Steve to roll out a giant chest in Vegas.
But yeah, for your mets, I'm curious to see what
the plan is. To your point, that's fifty million dollars.
It's of salary.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Shed the furthest you guys are ever gonna go.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
The rest of their history is the nl Whatever it
was against the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
That was the NLCS that thanks for Thanks you for
whatever that was, Thanks whatever it be.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Five Oh, by the way, pretty sure last year we
went out and signed the guy who's our identity for
the next ten to twelve years and one.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
So just remember, just remember God finish that contract.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Did just to finish Alonzo. Because of that contract and
everybody else, he got his casino.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
We have good, We have all kinds of money. Everything
is fine again.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
How is everything fine?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Because it's the beginning of the off season where everything
hut everything Everything is fine again. If we had to
play tomorrow I'd be a little concerned. I'd be a
little worried there, but we don't. We don't have to
play until the beginning of it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
We have to play again. It's it's everything is okay.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Look, it's it was Azation folds the way we're not.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We're not playing anymore. We're just done. We can't do
this anymore. We just can't do it.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I mean, look for for Alonso and look the Orioles.
Get a guy who's gonna come in and his I'm
not gonna I don't think it's going to age poorly,
but the Alonso contract is going to age kind of
like Kyle Schwarber's will, right, because we've got Kyle Schwarber
the net. You like, you don't got the five year
deal thirty two years old, only dhing. Okay, maybe the
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last year and a half of that deal is gonna
be rough, right, because he's he's not gonna age.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Really really well.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So, but the first three years is fine, and the
next and the last year and a half, okay, you'll
you'll be palatable whatever that is. It's gonna be the
same thing for Alonzo, right. The next two to three
years might be okay, now you're changing teams, changing changing leagues,
a lot a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
But the next couple of years are gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
But i'll tell you what it might be the middle
and next season when they say, hey, Pete, we want
you to be the full time DH, because he outside
of picking balls at first base, he is brutal in
the field, and and they're gonna say, Pete, you wanted DH,
and he really didn't want to do it. He would
rather stay and play first base. I understand guys that
want to do that. But that's gonna be the conversation
in a little well, probably midway point in next season. Hey,
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really quietly, Pete, A Lonzo will move to designated hitter.
But that's how the contract's gonna age. It'll age like
like Schwarberz. The next two three years, I'm sure it'll
be okay. The last couple of years, year and a half,
it's gonna be rough because he's never been to guy
that's kept himself in great shape and pulled a bear
for a long time. And as he gets to thirty
four thirty five, that's what's gonna happen the next three years.
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I mean, look, hey, great for the Orioles. Their lineup
is fantastic. You're dropping them right in amongst a bunch
of guys that can really hit. I'm excited. Look, Alonzo's
a good dude, and I loved everything he did for
the Mets. I love staying and still being excited about
being a member of the Mets last year, even though
he wanted a big deal and the Mets didn't give
it to him. And he's only back there because he
couldn't get a bigger deal in free agency. And he
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was a big pro like I get, and I wish
him all the best.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
In the world. Man, He's an.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Awesome, awesome dude, and that's how it's gonna go, and
things will probably be fine. And he's a big get
for the Orioles to PLoP him right there in the
middle of the lineup. But yeah, but that's how it's
gonna be. And the Mets need a little bit more
in you know, with their team than just, Hey, we're
giving a lot of money to a guy who in
a you know and a half year, he's going to
DH for us, and then we got to go out
and get another first basement, right, So I mean, that's
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what it's necessary. Everything Mets did today I was fine with.
I said goodbye to Pete Long so when he hired
Scott Boris as his age, I knew two years ago
he's gone. He hired Scott Boris because he was upset
at his first push it free agency. He hired Scott Boris.
Now that said that he's gone. There's no way he's staying.
He is absolutely leaving. So I said by goodbye him.
A couple years ago. He stayed in an extra couple
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of years. That's awesome. And today he left. And while
it was somewhat it was emotional at times, it wasn't
other times.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I get what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's I'm telling you, like I said with Diz yesterday,
it's fine.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
The Orioles in theory get their veteran leader with all
those young guys, and I already have people in writing
me notes. This will end up better than Chris Davis, right, right.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh man, Chris David. I think they're still paying Chris Davis.
I think he's still getting money from it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
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Coming up next, the other half of what was an emotional,
really difficult day in the Smith household. As Michigan is
now looking for a new football coach and the Sharon
Moore story just gets crazier with every passing hour, we
break it down next right here, Jason to Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
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Speaker 1 (17:02):
The Jason Smith show with my bas friend Mike Harmon
brow NBA Cup Action underway. We are one game away
from figuring out the final four of the E Cup.
Who will join the Knicks and the Magic and the
Thunder in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
For the e Cup Final Four. Lakers lead the Spurs
right now eighteen to twelve.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
No wenby for San Antonio, and the Lakers are playing
on their normal floor, so understand, even though that's the case,
we are still playing an E Cup game. Don't want
anybody know it's not happening. It is still an E
Cup game.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Feels like you need to superimpose a bunch of extra
graphics on the court, like floating logos for the television
audience so they know this time it counts.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Why do we not just go to different jerseys, like
you know, teams are like hey, especially if they're like
cool like color rush jerseys or something the or they
go to throw back jerseys or some kind of why
not do something like that and you can sell more
merch rather than say, hey, we're gonna make the floor
look different. Why not have NBA E Cup specific jerseys
like I just go wild with it so you know
(18:12):
right away when you turn on the TV. Oh it's
an E Cup game. Look at what the hell the
Spurs are wearing?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Look like the bumble bees for the Steelers or in
uniforms that the Bears wear, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Where they look like guards.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, some kind of some kind of like city connect
you know, like they could have like the River Walk
or the Alamo or whatever it is. You know, LA's
got the Hollywood side just says the Hollywood Sign logo
across the front instead of Lakers like something like that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Why not there's a picture of the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Why don't you make it a moving digital billboard on
their jerseys and every time they're on screen you have
no idea what's going to be on there?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, like Harry Potter. Yeah see, we're close to that
happening more next.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Level where you could do the thing like when you
had the pandemic and you could get the cardboard cut
out of yourself. Oh yes, you can appear on Luca
Doncon's chest for three seconds of a game.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I mean, come on, isn't isn't this better than just hey,
we're gonna make the floor different, Like come.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
On, ah, but come on, those courts make me know
that my eyesight stile is functional because it offends.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, but when you look at it, I can't look
at that. I can't look at the game for more
than three seconds at a time. I start to go blind.
It feels like I look up, but I'm looking away.
Look up, but look away.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So we'll have more on this game tonight again. Lakerspurs
three point game early on here for that, Uh yeah,
part of the rough day in the smith household. Today,
Pete Alonzo goes to the Orioles and the University of
Michigan is now looking for a new head coach after
firing head coach. You're on Moore earlier today. Uh, it
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was a bombshell. No one thought this was coming. And
when this story first broke and I saw the banner,
I said to myself, oh my, what the the hell
happen here?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
And I'm thinking to myself.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Wow are they I don't even hear anything from anybody,
you know, you know pants fits on that they you know,
everybody lives and breeds Michigan football in Michigan, like no
one's ever said anything like, hey, there's a lot of
whispers about stuff.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
There's this going on, there's this going on, and all
of a.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Sudden, he's fired, And I'm thinking, what is Lane Kiffin
showing up like as all of a suddenlane kiffn did
he did he pray?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Did he pray that?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Did he pray that Sharon Moore would get fired? And
he would not say, Hey, I gotta go take this job. Everybody,
I know I'm at LSU, but hey, I'm here. I'm
getting off the plane. I'm flying to Ann Armor. It's
the job I really want. And then we get the
details that are just getting more and more crazy as
time goes on. It was just moments after this story
was announced that Brett McMurphy, longtime college football insider, said
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that Moore was fired following an investigation into Moore's conduct
with a staff member. Quote, Sharon Moore was terminated with cause,
effective immediately, school saying in a statement following a university investigation,
credible evidence was found the coach more engage in an
inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Now there's lots of
(21:12):
rumors out there on social media about what it was.
And Sean Moore is married, he does have kids, and
you know there's look you could get. You can get
the sordid story out there that nothing's been proven yet,
And I've seen a couple of people linked to this
story like, Okay, that's not the person they were talking
about before. That's so it's an inappropriate relationship he had
with a university staff member. Compounding that is that shortly
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after he was detained by police and sale Michigan and
was later turned over to a second area police department
for investigation into potential charges. Now, again, these have not
been let known. Even TMZ won't spend when TMZ's not
gonna speculate, you know, Hey, wait a minute, this is
we don't know yet. Again, lots of crazy rumors going
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out online what it is and and what happened that
he winds up being detained by police. So these are
the last couple of shoes we're waiting to drop here,
like what happened with this story. I assume in the
next twenty four hours we will know a lot more
to this. But these are the concrete facts that we know.
He was fired by Michigan for cause it means they're
not going to pay in the rest of his twelve
(22:19):
million dollar salary, in appropriate relationship with a staff member,
and now turned over after being detained by a police
department for investigation into potential charges. Now what these charges are,
we don't know. But this is the story for Sharon
Moore as it sits right now. And the first thing
when I saw this was I sat back and I said,
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on the list of great jobs in college football, Michigan
has been on that short of short list for the
last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They won the national championship two years ago. All of
a sudden, it's a new era in Michigan. Jim Harbaugh's
leaving Michigan was beating Ohio State. Look, Michigan's long been
royalty in college football. They just haven't won enough. Now
they're winning, and they're beating Ohio State. Like you look
at any metric of the best jobs in college football,
in Michigan and Ohio State were at the top, right there,
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at the top of the top five or seven jobs
everywhere in college football, they're right there, right, Alabama is
at the top of that list. Right, these are teams
at all at the top, all the heritage teams, they're
at the top. Sharon Moore goes from the offensive coordinator
and he slides in when Jim Harbaugh jumps to the NFL,
and I really and I don't know if it's just
(23:33):
because this is me and not that I feel like
I hold myself above anything, but I.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Just sit back and I go.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
This guy slides in to one of the greatest jobs
in college one of the top five jobs and all
of college football, and he blows it up for a
relationship with a step whatever happens, he blows it up
over relationship that that winds up getting him fired. He's
lost everything now, he's lost his career, he's lost money,
(24:02):
maybe he's lost his family. Like he's lost at all
because I'm involved in a personal drama when my number
one goal is coaching Michigan and not realizing, Boy, do
I have a great gig right now? Do I have
a gig that ninety nine percent of other coaches would
leave their gigs for.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I have that gig.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
People spend their entire lives trying to work their way
up and win at smaller schools so they could maybe
get the head coaching job at Michigan or the head
coaching job at Ohio. Statement the head coach a job
at Alabama and Searan Moore comes in, Hey, I'm the
Ocenie win the national title. Guess what, hey, Jim Harbass suspended.
He blows up in front of me. I wind up
getting that opportunity and he winds up getting getting a
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job that you scratch it and go, wow, man, he's
in the right place at the right time, and he
was doing great. He beat Ohio State twice, won last year.
Everything was looking fine, and now you look at his
career and he gave it away, and I just can't.
It really is hard for me to understand how guys
that this kind of of opportunity and have this kind
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of professional life when they're in the top one tenth
of one percent of what they do and they wind
up blowing up and doing and doing themselves in I
still I can't get over that. That's that still happens
to so many people that can't figure things out and
can't handle success. Because all Searon Mooreris had has been success. Now,
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did he win this year?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Did he keep the team in contention all the way through?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Did he maybe have the right guy a quarterback? Yeah?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Underwood maybe not, maybe not the guy they thought he was.
But still Michigan won nine games, going to a big
Bowl game, that you know, the NFL talent is coming
back in flowing through. It's a great program again. And
now here it is and he's lost at all because
he couldn't handle success and the power that he wound
up getting went to his head and he wound up
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getting out of control. Now, maybe maybe I would wind
up falling victor to that power too, if all of
a sudden I'm put in position of Hey, You're the
head coach of the biggest uh one of the biggest
schools in the country, and all of a sudden people
are fawning all over you, and you have that sense
of power when you walk into a room. I'd like
to think I know how to handle it. Maybe I don't,
but wow, imagine the dig Oh man, hey you want
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to be yes, big Mac? Where where a big back?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
What room?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
What room do you need to go to for a big Mac? Yeah,
I'm there, I'm there, I'm there. I'd like to think
I'd be able to handle Maybe not, but you would.
And when when I see this, I go, how do you?
How do you give this away? I mean I couldn't.
I couldn't get away from that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Today, Mike rationality sometimes rolls out the door. I mean,
it's sometimes best expressed as we often look to uh.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Our muses and music.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I'll look to pop superstars and actress Selena Gomez. The
heart wants what it wants, uh uh uh uh uh.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So it's you have no idea and you know behind
the scenes, I don't pretend to know the man's relationships
or or those statuses.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Here.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
He's fired with cause, so you know what ever the
investigation has yielded, there's there's certainly a lot of details,
even this being detained by the police. Very sketch, you know,
We've got a very pencil sketch with it, with a
lot of blank space on the canvas right now. In
terms of where this story goes, you feel for the family,
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for those associated you know, and friends and colleagues. And
he's the guy that had to wear a bunch of
the suspension stuff during the time at Michigan. Doesn't mean
that you know off the Connor stallion stuff. It's always
the question of who knew what when, howeer and everything else.
But yeah, great power, great responsibility. Obviously the steward of
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a huge brand. The underwood side of thing is interesting
because immediately you start seeing all the missives from all
sorts of schools where you have gotten new coaches or
maybe a quarterback who's getting.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Ready to leave.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Hey, you should go get underwood now because it opens, right,
the portal opens because the coach. Not that it's ever
closed really, but you get that extra piece if a
coach gets fired or or leaves of their own accord.
So you have that swirling in the background. Nine and
three seasons still pretty strong. You know, you lost the
game that everybody points to, right, you'd won the last
(28:16):
couple against Ohio State, and then this year not so,
you know, timing is is curious how quickly this comes
to the bear right after a season. And at this
point it's a lot of speculation. But we see men
and women of great power and repute felled all across
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the business and sports landscape with some regularity.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It's the human condition, right, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
We you never know what's going on behind someone's closed
doors that lead to such things. And you know the
old he want you want to judge and throw stones,
you know, look inward, have a little bit of grace,
but for this one uncertainly will wait on more details, right,
it like it's just a lot of Wow, what happened
(29:07):
and how and what? Because you've got a lot of
pictures and a lot of theories of what, how, where,
and everything else going out there without a lot of
backing to it at this point.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You know, I always think about this.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's very rare that I remember certain advice I get
in life, in my career about certain things, because sometimes
people say stuff just to say stuff right, like, you know,
like oh you think this, Do you really think that?
Or did you read that somewhere like on a calendar.
But early on in my radio career, one host that
I used to talk to a lot said to me,
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he said, you know, you will find in your career
you will get more opportunities because of people who blow
up in front of you than you will on your
own talent.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Just watch you watch how.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
People just can't handle the success that they have, and
you will get more opportunities because of that. And sure enough,
I've seen that so many times people that can't handle
success or or are only happy when they're miserable, and
they wind up finding their way out because they don't
know how to act. And there's chances that happen. Hey,
look and I'm getting an opportunity because of it?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
How did Sharon Moore get his chance because Jim Hart
bought Wait wait, we got a big sign stealing scandal
going on, He's got to run to the NFL. Right,
he wasn't gonna leave, But when he got in trouble
because of the sign stealing scandal, he ran to the NFL.
And now Sharon Moore got the chance of a lifetime.
Right he couldn't handle success. Now somebody else is getting
the chance of a lifetime when they hire whoever it's
gonna be, and said, I mean, I really, there is
(30:37):
no more true advice that I've gotten professionally than hearing
that you'll get more opportunities because people in front of
you or that are ahead of you can't handle it
and blow up and torpedo their own careers than you
will because of your own talent. I've seen it so
many times and it was on display today.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, And I mean that could be in any capacity.
That could just be slap fighting verbally with a boss
that decides they don't like you, right a goo manage
up and down as it were. But like for this one,
we still have a lot of questions as to you know,
the police get involved the investigation into potential charges.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
What does that mean? What does that mean? I don't know?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swelling dome.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Jason Smith Mike Harman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from Martin, Wisse and dub What do
you got for us?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Uh, you guys just touched on most of it. Sharon
Moore busy today fired and he's now in custody and
county jail. He's in the Pittsfield Township jail, which means
something to me and Kelvin Washington and nobody else unless
you were living near Ann Arbor.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
But they're gonna say for a second, because Jason Martin
is sitting here in a Michigan sweatshirt trying to absorb
this and ool.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's a that's a tough wear today. Did you know
what you were wearing going out of the house or
did you wear in the car going? Oh man, this
was a bad choice.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
For the record, I definitely had grabbed this on woke
up from a nap, grab this, got in the car
and about twenty minutes later, but I still went there.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
That's not going away.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You paid with your blood, sweat and tears through the
Michigan exactly.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
And now, Charon Moore, you cried a year ago today
after beating Ohio State just about but now. The statement
released by the University of Michigan stated head football coach
Charon Moore terminated with cause, effective immediately. Following the university investigation,
Credible evidence was found that coach More engaged with an
(32:37):
inappropriate relationship with a staff member. This conduct can constitute
a clear violation university policy, and um maintains zero tolerance
for such behavior. Sharon Moore was coach of Michigan for
two years. He was assistant coach starting back in twenty eighteen.
It since seventeen and eight record. I'm a nineteen and
(32:58):
eight record, one in one record against Ohio State. Philip
Rivers officially signed with the practice squad today, the forty
four year old quarterback coming out of retirement. Colts rookie
quarterback Brett Riley Leonard full participant in practice. Team activated
quarterback Brett Rippon from their practice squad. Jayde Daniels not
playing Week fifteen because reaggravated that elbow injury. The Commanders
(33:21):
played the Giants. Gino Smith not likely to play against
the Eagles. Can He Piket in line to start against
his former team for the Raiders. Mike Evans activated from
IR expected to play on Thursday Night Football. Drake London
the opposite. He's ruled out for the Falcons. NFL solidified
week seventeen, announced that the Chargers Texans will play at
the Chargers and the Ravens play at the Packers on Saturday,
(33:43):
December seventh, twenty seventh. And in news that's happy for
everybody who watches this TV show, the NFL notified teams
they are cutting the amount of times that teams have
to make a first round picking the NFL Draft from
eight minutes to ten minutes. Thank you for that. In
the NBA right now, end to the first quarter of
the Spurs no wemby, but they do have the first
(34:04):
quarter lead in the Western Conference NBA Cup quarter Finals.
It's thirty nine to thirty Spurs being led in scoring
by Keldon Johnson with thirteen points to the Lakers. Luka
Doncis has eleven. Earlier tonight, we saw the Oklahoma City
put b to a to the Phoenix Suns one thirty
eight to eighty nine, Oklahoma City's twelve and zero at
(34:26):
home twenty four on one on the year, and Shay
Gillis Alexander had twenty eight points to twenty seven minutes
chat Holmgrid twenty four points to twenty five minutes. I
don't know, boys, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Good night at the office?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
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(34:59):
It's not just you're on more. Two huge stories out
of college football, all revolving around the playoff and the snubs.
It's coming up next. Right here are we on the
cusp of a big change.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
That's next Jason.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
all right now, time out on the floor, and boy,
the Lakers need a time out. The San Antonio Spurs
thumping LA right now, forty seven to thirty. This is
without Wemby again. It has been a big night so far.
(35:44):
Castle's got seven, Fox has eight, Johnson's got thirteen off.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
The stop, Keldon Johnson.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
They they got twenty seven points off the bench already.
Dylan Harper seven points in seven minutes then and Lucas
sitting down and like, hey, man, I can't do that
every night. Man, I can't score twenty points in the
first quarter all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Shape Pete seven.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
It is a forty seven thirty lead right now for
San Antonio, with a with a spot in the NBA
E Cup semi finals.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Awaiting the winner of this game.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Just a miserable start to the game for the Lakers.
Maybe it's the court, maybe maybe maybe they needed the
incentive to remind them that it is a cup event.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Well, there's a.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Timeout on the floor right now, so maybe when they
come back, you'll see the crew just, you know, frantically
try to put in little pieces of it to make
it look like an E Cup courte.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Because they put a banner up when they won it, right,
so you know, hey, someone needs to point and say, hey,
that's a lot of bonus money. Yeah, we got families
that need Christmas presents, a presence.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Whatever, let's go.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So we'll have more on the big Searon more controversy
story that's just taken over of the last couple hours
coming up in about ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
But uh, elsewhere in college football.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Maybe I'm the shadow commissioner of college football, maybe because
my idea is.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Always seem to work, right. What did we say on Monday?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
One of the big byproducts of Notre Dame getting left
out of the college football Playoff was that, trust me,
they couldn't come together this year. Somehow the different conferences
on a sixteen team playoff, even though you need a
sixteen team playoff to solve the issue of what do
you do with teams whose third losses in the conference
championship game? It needs to be more. You gotta get
(37:28):
to sixteen. That's gonna be a thing. With Notre Dame
getting left out, we are going to sixteen teams next year.
It is an absolute certainty. Watch how smooth it is.
It's not even gonna be a discussion it's gonna be
sixteen sixteen orangeip orange of orange at sixteen shoes. Still, okay, great,
we're going We're going to sixteen teams. It'll be that
(37:50):
after they couldn't do it this year for whatever stupid
reason they couldn't figure it out, it will magically happen
next year. That was on Monday. Now, what do we
know that's come up?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Your mark?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Big twelve commissioner says, yeah, sixteen team playoff. Okay, he
wants more teams in today. ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said, yeah,
we need a sixteen team playoff.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Quote. They're such hard ache. Get that cut line right now.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And what I would say is my barometer about what's
enough and what's not enough is if you're leaving teams
out of the playoff that could win a national championship,
then you don't have the right number. Again, We're going
to sixteen teams for next year. It's happening everybody because
again they're not doing this because oh you have this,
(38:35):
elect more teams from the ACC, and this elect more
teams of the Big twelve in the SEC and the
Big ten are gonna say yeah, he's gonna say, now,
we're gonna get six teams in each Yeah, we'll say yes,
because we're gonna, we're gonna, we know how to do this.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
We're gonna, we're gonna bully push through.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Six teams from each of our conferences and you're still
gonna be fighting for one or two spots. Yeah, we're
okay with sixteen teams, but we are gonna get sixteen
teams next year.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It is an absolute certainty.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
So when Phillips was talking, were we able to surmise
whether we were channeling the other guys and Samuel L.
Jackson what he says, take my hand dot dot dot
and work your mouth like a puppet, because I think
that's kind of where we're at in this, Like, Hey,
this is how I make Bovakua like me again. Getting
Tom Cruise to send him one of those cup coconut
(39:20):
cakes isn't gonna be enough. We're gonna need a little
bit more. We're gonna need to smooth this over. So
he stops holding his breath. He's turning blue in the
corner at this point, crying about this circumstance. So, yeah,
you need to go and you become the mouthpiece. I mean,
it's it's as transparent as anything, right, as inevitable as
(39:40):
the Fano snap that Phillips and anybody that has any
business ties to Notre Dame would suddenly be like, you know,
we really need to clean this up, we really need well.
I was surprised they didn't stand out in front of
the Bellaggio Fountain and say, you know, the betting gods
said they were one of the top six options.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
You want the money quote from Phillips. Now again, I
told you it was gonna happen. Here's the money quote
from Phillips. I'd prefer not to wait another year, but
I only speak for the acc again, hand mouth, puppy.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
It's happening.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
We're getting it, and still next year it's gonna be
Maybe you gotta go to twenty tea's we're still only
getting one team in and there's sixteen.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Hey, Jim, did you fix the timeebreaker?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Jim Maryland should not be getting in ahead of us.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Okay, Vanderbilt's not getting it ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Hey, Vanderbilt's cooking and they've got the conference lobbyists that
are in the room already.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
So told you was gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
It's that simple exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Coming up next, we get back into the biggest story
of the day, Michigan looking for a new head coach.
I'm pretty sure I know who it's gonna be. It's
gonna upset somebody on the show.
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