June 14, 2023 • 30 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update you on the subway series between the Yankees and Mets. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops in for all the BUG headlines from around the league and defiant Oakland Athletics fans pack the Coliseum with a ‘Reverse Boycott' tonight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Last night, Mike Carmon, we crowned a champion as the
Nuggets won the NBA title. It looks like we're about
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forty minutes away from the other as going to the
third period, the Vegas Golden Knights lead the Florida Panthers
six to one after a four goal second period. The
Vegas Golden Knights are going to be your Stanley Cup champions.
And whether you are a hockey fan or not, this
why right, whether you knew was happening or not, right
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doesn't writ whether you knew that the Stanley Cup final
was going on or not.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So like knowing how Jokic plays, I mean your business, yay,
you know certain.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Things people know and they talk about it for a
living and sometimes you got to know a little bit more.
But this is the thing, and this is where you
feel really incredibly happy, but you also feel unbelievably sad
and pissed off at the same time because five years ago,
five years ago, the Golden Knights had zero players. They
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had no players, they had no team, they had no
minor league, they had no structure, they had nothing to
have office, they had nothing, they had absolutely nothing starting
from scratch. And five years later, they have two division
titles and are gonna have a Stanley Cup. And I
just sit here and go, what the blank have the
Mets and the Jets been doing? And I'm not alone
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And I'm not alone though I'm not alone. There's a
lot of teams going what the hell have my team's
been doing? While the Golden Knights, who didn't exist five
years ago didn't exist, are gonna win a championship and
all those long suffering Golden Knights fans the last five years,
some who went to high school and are just getting
into college as a Golden Knights fan, they're gonna know
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that sweet, sweet taste of victory. What the hell have
my team's been doing? Sucking? Well, your teams have been
sucking to Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Okay, I mean Martinez scoring that goal did not sit well.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Alick, alick, but that doesn't. But but you know what
I mean, Yes, okay, but the Lakers did win the Dodgers.
You know what the Chargers haven't? Well, what are the
charge has been doing? Okay, But it goes back.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
To I think a lot of folks would love you
to dial back how expansion teams get fed in terms
of unrestricted players and unprotected players and everything like that.
I was having this conversation over the weekend's like, well,
how they get good so fast? Like, well, one you
get someone who says it, gets bright eyed and says.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Hey, I want to build a squad.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You get an owner who's kind of excitable and says, hey,
go do what you're gonna do. And you have some
rules that allow you to pluck probably better players, then
you might be able to otherwise based on cap restrictions,
expiring contracts, guys seemingly aging out, and then you got to.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Make your decisions.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And sometimes that creates a very rich stew where you
can go and perform really quick.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right, it happened in the NFL. Rich Stu. Okay, go ahead,
got it?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You can't say rich Stu and not expect me to
do that. Come on, No, got to that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, I just watched that episode in between all the
goal barrages of Homer basically doing the forest Gump while
hanging out in New Orleans, of all the different things
he could eat that would.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Satisfy his life, which is great.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Uh. So I was waiting for you to continue along
that road, but it does make for you know, the
interesting conversation. So I mean, right now, you could just say, hey,
you know what we'd like to start over, shuffle it off,
charge us some percentage of what the cap space is
that we lose as a penalty, uh, and we'll we'll
do an entire reselection process.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Reselection process. See you make it sound great, and you
make it sound awesome like you, we could just hit
the reset button. And can do it. But my teams
have been trying this my car, but we've been trying
hitting every single button, whether it's reset or something else.
It's hitting all these buttons and none of the buttons work.
But we'll get flurry here. Hey, they don't want him anymore.
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Here we are Stanley comes up, Stanley Cup Final. Oh hey,
we're gonna win. Ye, I'd be d Come on, man, really, look,
I'm happy for the Golden Knights. But at the same time,
the overwhelming emotion is, what the hell, man, how do
you start from zero and win? And other teams that
have been established with players in the pipeline, that have
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had first round picks for years and year years.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You've got no bad institutional knowledge to screw you. Right
with the Jets, you've got fifty years of misery and
you're never able to do a complete hard reboot to
where you kill off any germs of the past. I
mean nothing that you're doing with Kyrie Irving in the
sage brush. That's only getting some of the surface level stuff.
I mean, the rest of it is organizational institutional No
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matter how many times you change out your GMS and
your football personnel, guys in some cases your training staff.
We've talked about Jerry Jones and dell Us. They had
their wins, they had their excitement. Now you've got a.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Bad owner problem.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So some of those things you can't excise quite so easily.
So for the Vegus Golden Knights, I think for all
of us, it's one of those we pause as sports
fans and if you're not and someone's forced you to
listen to us, HI, welcome in tune it in the
iHeartRadio app, wherever you go. You'll love us forever and ever.
There's no question about it. But in each of our lives,
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isn't there something you wish you could do? A hard reboot.
This is what they were able to do many things.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
When when when nine years ago, nine years ago, go
back and go, hey, how do you think you and
Mike Harmon would do together? I would redo that in
a second. No, I'm just kidding, buddy, I wouldn't do that. Well,
it was really kind.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I mean I mean possibly, No, there's Lotsbiano in here
or one of your other jackass buddies.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I know to be it would have been. It would
have been me and Buck Showalter, and that would have
been the show.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, I mean it would have saved you from what
you're currently experiencing. Although he didn't scout the players and
them to hundreds of millions of dollars guaranteed money, that's
not his fault.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Can't blame him. Hard reboot, Hard reboot, Buddy hard reboot, the.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Jason reboot probably won't even help you though, right, uh
oh no, probably not screw up a reboot on sight.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now we're fine. Now we have Aaron Rodgers, we're fine.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Out you already lost it. Chuck Clark, the guy was
a damn iron man. It's the for his NFL career
and boom, now he becomes a Jet.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's gonna happen. That's how cool.
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really it is just what, like, what the hell of
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I would say sports misery, but that's okay, because.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, but it's a victory. I mean, we get to
crown another champion. My apologies to Alec Martinez. I used
to see him at the daycare centers in the South Bay,
so I apologize.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
When he was a kid there when he was picking
up his kid. Oh okay, I though you saw him
there last like when he was like he was a kid.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Three time Cup winner again and Jonathan Quick that's right, sure, champion.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We have that. And now we also have, as you mentioned,
the marquee MLB series of this next couple of days,
got the subway series Mets and Yankees. Now we are
going to have the reverse boycott. Details on that coming
up in a few minutes because that's just so unbelievably awesome.
But Mets and the Yankees going at it right now.
Yankees lead the Mets seven to six. Mets have the
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bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the
eighth inning, and there is a pitching change coming up,
but yet another start where Max Schurzer just gets tattooed.
And what did I tell you? You know, this is
the thing I said, Hey, I love the matter, I
love Verlander, I love Shuzer, But what did I say
the beginning of the year. When you get old, you
get old overnight. It's not a slow process. It's not hey,
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we're going gentle into that good night. But I will
still gonna have some big nights that know. When you
get old, you get old right away. And Max Schurzer
has gotten stomped and Verlander has gotten stomped, and I'm
sitting here tonight going we can't even trade these guys
of the deadline because they're owed too much money, and
Ny can't get anybody out, and so now it seems
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like it's ten years until the end of their contracts,
which are really the end of next year. But I'm like,
oh my goodness, that's seventy five million dollars going to
guys that can't get anybody out because they got old overnight.
It's my one. It was the one, fear boy. When
you get old, you're relying a lot of guys at
are thirty nine, forty years old to thirty five years old,
Marte and Cannon, all these guys, but the pitchers, especially
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the top two guys, and you expect these two to
be the difference in your team, and they can't get
anybody out, and they can't even pitch remotely like they
used to. I'm not saying Justin Verlander has to be
another cy Young Award winner, but he's got to have
something close to it. And I'm not saying Max Schurz
has got to be the guy he was five years ago,
but he's gotta be something close to what he was
last year. And he just isn't. And and whether it's
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it's in his head or it's happened since he got
caught with the rosen bag and it happened to another
Mets pitcher tonight, Drew Smith got thrown out of the
game because his hand was too sticky. So apparently this
is the thing. Now did not get to wash it
five times like others? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Look, we can equate this to so many other things
in our society. I'll tell where you're like, did he
not get equal treatment? Why are we not going after
the other picture the same way they did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Hey, he got caught, you get old, You get old overnight.
And that's what's happened. And that's why I look at
this going this is gonna be one of those Mets
heres where everybody they're gonna have embarrassed. It like three,
at least three or four really big embarrassing headlines between
now and the middle of August when NFL teams start
coming back and we start talking about them. I mean,
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I've got three or four really embarrassing headlines. We're going again.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeahs as it stands, I mean, batting two forty as
a team ain't helping you. No, No, middle of the
pack run scored doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Ain't gonna help you. Nothing helps nothing, you know. I'm
just trying.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I don't want to put it all on the pictures
because like we're looking at the y.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, but dude, come on, when you're getting paid thirty
five million dollars a year, it's got to be better
than this, right. I mean, you're the ones carry.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Your body well, at some point your body starts to
break down. It's not their fault. It's like everybody the
greatest busts of all time. It's not his fault. He
was drafted number one.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You were still Hey, I'm not saying it's one person's fault.
There are many people that he made this happen, that
were responsible for this.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I just mean they said, do you want a lot
of money he's he held his hand to keep it
from shaking too much, so the signature was legible, and
he signed it and he got his money.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There were many many people that have made this possible.
Owner's a dummy, No, listen. That's the one part is
that he'll just keep spending more money next year. But
it's like, all right, but but we gave These guys
are supposed to be great. These guys are supposed to
be head some what good said their entire careers up
until we got them.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Harman, and I told you months ago that they're washed up,
that they were using You did not see.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We were saying that on a Hey, we were looking
out for you. You say that about everybody. You said
that about Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Come on, man, and I'd be selling that on the internet.
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Stanley Cup. And I told just Darlie Marte was gonna
wave at a breaking pitch outside the Drike zone and
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end the inning for the Mets. And that's exactly what's happened.
The Yankees lead by a run, the Mets coming to
bat now in the bottom of the ninth. But's that
not quite a full on?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I hate to say I told you so, because you'd
just be staring in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
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Speaker 2 (13:27):
Jay, what's happening, Bud, what's going on gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Any buddy? I have you know here whenever something bad
happens for my baseball team, and just remember well we
have Aaron Rodgers and that's what's important. So I'm feeling
good about that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, that'll be a three week ride.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, well, you know, maybe now the Bills aren't gonna
have Stefon Diggs after all the drama that he was at.
He was at Mini camp, but he wasn't at Minnie camp,
and Sean McDermott is very concerned that he wasn't on
the field today. This is a big headline today. What's
going on here?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, I think it's a headline because to shoot thirteenth
and it's one thing when you can get fined, you
know whatever, forty fifty thousand dollars. It's another thing when
you start losing game checks and defaulting on contracts and
missing games and stuff like that. If Stefan Diggs is
setting the message, and look, do I think he's going
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to get a massive new payday. I don't. The Bills
and their GM Brandon Bean are making it pretty clear that,
like you know, we've spent a lot of money we've
run up a big credit card bill and we don't
have as much cash and cap flexibility as we had
in the past. Certainly Stefon Diggs and that extension he
signed after that trade, it looks team friendly at this
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point in time, But that's what happens when you play
a few years and do an extension and you play
through your guarantees and your upfront money. Look, I still
think there's a way they can massage this. They can
incentivize it, they can sweeten the pot a little bit
with unattainable incentives. You know, we had the whole Austin
Echward situation. And while you can't compare a top flight
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running back to the top flight wide receiver just because
supplying demand is different at the positions, Like I have
a hard time thinking that Stefon Diggs isn't there in
training camp. Is he going to be the happiest guy
in the world. Maybe not. Again, I don't think he's
going to get everything he wants financially here. But I
also with the way the CBA is constructed, players really
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have such little leverage, and this is a team that
can do some things. I know some are down on them,
and people seem to want to cast them aside as
last year at this time and you know, they were
everybody's Super Bowl favorite. Now people are telling me they're
not going to win the division. I'll believe that when
I see it. But yeah, and a little bit of
turmoil there. And look, there are some additions they wish
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they that they might have been able to make this
off season that they haven't been able to do. But
who knows. I'm still not totally convinced that Dalvin Cook
doesn't end there because I just don't know that Dalvin
Cook's going to be a guy who catches in the
way he thinks he might.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, I was gonna say that the running back position
if Stefan Diggs is mad, just we got a whole
Hornet's nest a running backs that are salty about their
deals and not exactly finding that pot of gold.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
No, it's not there. It's not there for sa Kwon Barkley,
it wasn't there for Austin Eckler. It's not going to
be there for Dalvin Cook. It's going to have to
ultimately be about finding that mix of Okay, it's not
great money, it's not what I thought it was going
to be, but it's still good money. You try to
get some individual and team incentives, right, because you're going
to want to approve a year to go somewhere where
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you're going to be playing high profile games. You're going
to have a good supporting cast around you. You want
to have all those things in place to help you
maybe reset things to a certain degree. And yeah, I
mean the winning part makes it a whole lot more fun. Right.
If you're not making what you thought you're going to make,
at least go there and do it somewhere where you're
winning football games. You've a chance to get playoff checks
and playoff and sentence, you know, versus being whatever almost
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six win team.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where do you think Dalvin Cook ends up?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I mean, I don't rule out Buffalo, and I get
it they're trying to manage their fan bases expectations and
that's smart. But I mean I look around and I
don't you know who's a running back away. I mean,
some people would say Miami, and that would make sense
and he would fit their scheme. But to me, part
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of the whole reason why you bring in that coach
is because he comes from a run scheme where you
know what I mean you could go from I mean,
what was the run of the Denver Broncos running backs
back in the day, right Mike Anderson to Orlando's Gary
to Clinton Ports to whoever else and it's still pop
knots production. I mean, right he moster when he's healthy,
is are super effective back in that system, And even
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last year they turned through a bunch of them, you know,
and maybe it wasn't ideal, but I think you should
talking about where can they exercise value. You should be
able to extract value from your scheme in the run game.
Where they need to save their pennies for, I think
is to boost that defense if it's still looking a
little short between now and the trade deadline. You know,
I don't know that they want to go and blow
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whatever it is, three million, four million whatever on a
running back right now when that's you know, probably not
their biggest need. So I don't see there being obviously
a super robust market for him, and he should be
in no rush right now because we're in the absolute
lung time of the season. But I think when he
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will get around to late July, I'm not sure that
it's going to be markedly different.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
How about DeAndre Hopkins, he's on the tour ca Fest appearance. Hey,
he's just he's barnstorming you.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You heard how great Jason locking for it feels about
DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I don't know, he could be the Knights guy to
show up in Baltimore, Dacostia.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
How do you like? You like him?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Deal?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Do you like them all?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I think that would that that might be, you know,
a little bit of overkill. And and again softer man,
he thought, when you have to repeatedly flirt with Tennessee
who aren't even like they're not like they're basically going
to punt them this season. I mean they traded Derek Hentry,
they eat anything for him. I still think that if
the right offer emerges, a team gets in, a contending
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team loses a quarterback, I still think Tannehill's there for
the taking. I mean, it would just be a really
odd thing like AJ Brown in his prime or DeAndre
Hopkins now just gruntled again, you know, with the ped
suspension in his back pocket, Like what is he going
to turn them from a four and a half win
team to a five win team? Like I don't get it,
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and I'm not convinced that Tennessee really wants to spend money.
Now if he again, if he's got nothing out there,
so be it. But then why would you go there?
I'm told, why would you? Why would you go there?
You know? And I don't know. I mean, it's not
going to be what he thought. And you go back
to the trade scenarios and whyatt never materialized. It never
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materialize in large part because Okay, he's gonna play out
his contract. That's one thing. If he wants to get paid,
then I'm not giving you anything for him to inherit,
you know, and take on this problem that we don't
know that we're gonna be able to solve because there's
some mitigating circumstances like a suspension history, like a guy
hasn't played a ton of football, like a guy who's
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getting up there a little bit. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
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All right, so we all saw the video this weekend
of Tom Brady on a yacht knocking a drone down
with one throw, hitting a guy fifty yards away in
a jet ski with another throw, and he says, ah,
if I do this, I should maybe I should keep
playing now ha ha. That's kind of funny. But I
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take away from this Jay that looks like a guy
that's still throwing the football, that's still working out, still
throwing a football, the fact that he can still do
that when supposedly I'm retired on dnahah. Yeah, I don't
know that he's not still throwing the football. And thinking
maybe if Miami all, maybe if San Francisco gets in
this a little bit of a situation, maybe well.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think this whole ownership thing with the Raiders would
have to be you know, if that materializes any time
sooner in season, and that's going to certainly complicate things.
If that's something that doesn't get improved till next May's
owner meetings or whatever or something like that, then obviously
that gives him plenty of runway to play for whomever
he would want this year. I just think the San
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Francisco thing has always made sense to me. It continues
to make sense. That team is good enough that it's
not like he'd have to be there day one. But
if it's the middle of the season and they're still
winning that division just because it's not great, but the
offense isn't what they want it to be, and they're
waffling and oscillating from one quarterback to the other, from
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series to series or quarter to quarter, game to game.
Then I know how Kyle Shanahan thinks. And maybe Tom
Brady is covertly working out, you know, Like, I don't
think it's going to be like, you know, the old,
good old days where he'd be out at USC or whatever,
you know, with Guerrero and Tom House and the whole
kitting caboodle out there working with all these guys. Like
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I would think he'd have to keep it a little
more under wraps because if you do that, then obviously,
you know, it's like it's auction time, game on. You
know where's he going to end up. But I'm not, like,
I am not thoroughly convinced that he'll never throw an
NFL pass at this point. I'm just not.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Never say never again. We'd be remassed if we didn't
have a moment. Since you are out there in the
Baltimore area and looking at those young o's now crushing
it with another win over the Blue Jays tonight, is
the town catching fire with that?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh? Absolutely. Yeah. I mean I think people now believe
and the expectations have been ratcheted up. This team has
played at you know, basically one hundred win pace now
since Adley Rutchman was recalled last May. They need to
get active at the trade deadline. They need to add
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a starting pitcher, maybe a bat as well. I think
they might have to get creative about the ways they
do that because there don't seem to be a whole
lot of obvious sellers right now. This could be a
market where a team like the Guardians who have more
pitching than they need but not enough hitting. You know,
it could be major league for major league trades at
the deadline among you know, teams that are both technically buying.
So they've done a tremendous job overhaul on this thing.
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I love what Michael Lias has done. And yeah, people
are super fired up Gunnor Henderson and the Grand Slam tonight.
This this is legit.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
People more fired up about the Orioles or more fighted
up about Odell Beckham in his first practice.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I think right now, more excited about the Orioles. I mean,
Odell himself today was like, look, I'm not doing a
whole hell of a lot out there. You know, I
showed up. I've been through the wars. I've only played
twenty games the last three years. I'm not worried about
showing out, you know, for the first day of mini
camp in June. But yes, there is an overall excitement
about out the potential for this passing attack in a
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way that I can't recall in a long, long time.
If ever, you can fall.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
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as well. Jay is always buddy. Appreciate it. Man, gentlemen,
we'll talk to you, We see you about it.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Orioles, yoe hey telling you Johnny Young guys on that squad.
But you got a guy named Gunner Henderson right off
to jump.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And I'll tell you what you know. You just just
to think about this for a second. The story of
the entire first couple of months of the baseball season
was the Tampa Bay Rays never losing. What kind of
record are they havet I mean, they're playing seven hundred
ball right there, and the Orioles are right on their tail.
They are three games out of first place, and the
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Rays of played as well as you'd expect anybody to
play up until now to start a season, right, forty
eight and twenty one run differential of one hundred and
thirty nine. Everything they want. They've been great, and the
Orioles are right. How many home runs as Brady Anderson have?
He's got thirty right now. Okay, so he's on pace
for fifty, yes, thirty seven. Shut up. Be sure to
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Mike Harmon. The Golden Knights three and a half minutes
away from the Stanley Cup. They lead Florida eight to three.
We'll have more in that coming up in a few minutes,
but right now, what's going on in Oakland is admirable.
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It's noble. It will have zero effect, but it is awesome.
A's fans who have not come to games for a
long time now because they want owner John Fisher to
sell the team to somebody else who will keep the
team in Oakland. The team has been long rumored to
move to Vegas, and there had been a couple of
stops and starts, but it looked like it was all
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systems going Vegas for a few weeks. Hey, we agreed
to this. To this, we agreed to this, but Vegas
hasn't approved a ballpark. Well, today Nevada passed a three
hundred and eighty million dollar bill to fund a new
stadium for the A's. What if A's fans decided to do?
They decided tonight to have a reverse boycott for tonight's
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game against the Tampa Bay Rays, which is everybody coming
to the game. They're all wearing green T shirts that
just say sell on them. That's like every other fan
is wearing one of these T shirts that just says sell.
So it's what they're calling a reverse boycott, which is
also known as attending games. So, I mean, I have
a reverse. It's a nice name, a reverse. We're not
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not going to a game, We're gonna attend a game.
So that's really what what's the reverse boycott? We're going
to a game. Okay, got it, That's what the A's
are doing.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
The A's response to this tonight quote, We are proud
to donate all ticket revenue from tonight's game to the
Alameda County Community Food Bank and the Oakland Public Education.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We don't need your money. You don't need just sticking money.
We're going to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Well, but the whole thing was, well, they're not putting
any money in the community, you're gonna leave whatever. So
they said, aha, we see you reverse boycott. And here's
eight hundred eleven thousand, one hundred and seven dollars into
the community. Now the fact that it's that's the total
for all ticket revenue, yeah, problematic in no.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
But let's focus on the pose. Because let's go to
the pose. This is a fun thing and it's a
great thing for A's fans to do. Like I said,
it's very noble. It's very much a nineteen nineties way
of trying to solve a problem like this. But it's
not gonna have any impact. I mean, it's gone the A's,
The A's are leaving.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, one's gonna buy the team to keep it in Oakland.
Not when you you don't see it, Not when fans
stop going to the games. Oh I'm gonna buy this
team and fans are gonna suddenly start coming. No, you're
gonna make money when when someone with deep pockets out
of market in a bigger market, is gonna give you
cash for the team. That's where you're gonna move. No
one's gonna buy the team to keep it in Oakland.
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No one's gonna do it. It's noble, it's fun. I'm
glad the fans are doing it. But it's over Oakland.
Oakland is The A's have already decided we're gonna move,
all right, They've already talked to Vegas. Vegas has funded
the stadium. It's happening, like I mean, it's great. They're
doing this and it's really fun, and I feel awful
for fans who aren't gonna get to go to games.
Like I had one of my teams ripped for me
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when the Whalers moved, and that sucked because I hated that,
but it looked it happened. I realized, no matter what
it was gonna happen, no matter what this is going
to happen. This is fun. It's a death cry. It's
a great thing. It's a great time to sit back
and remember the big history of the Oakland A's, from
the three World Series titles in a row to Moneyball.
But this is one of those things where it's a
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great night and it's great to see it. But in
the end, they're gonna be in there. They're gonna be
in Las Vegas in a year.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Hopefully they throw themselves an even bigger party with the
money general from the sale of the sell shirts.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Or put it back into the community. I mean, I
would like one of those sell shirts. That's a pretty
cool shirt. I would wear that. I would wear that
just like generally in public, just a green shirt that
just says sell on it. Yeah, I would wear that.
There's a lot of teams.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You can probably go back in their history and find
fans that have done similar. I know, we just talked
to Jason Locking for a plenty of groups have gone
and tried to get Angelos to sell the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, you know what I could do is, since it's
a green shirt with a white lettering on it, if
things go really craptastic for the Jets and Aaron Rodgers stinks,
I could just get mad at Woody Johnson and wear
it and now it's my Jets sell the team shirt.
I solved it. It could be my a sell the
team shirt and it's my Jets sell the team shirt.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
And even if it doesn't happen this year, just wait,
just wait, you'll need it eventually.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're gonna watch that cell. Where is that shirt? Did
I put that shirt away? Where is that?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
What pile?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
It was that in the Where's that shirt? I needed that?
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forty minutes away from the other as going to the
third period, the Vegas Golden Knights lead the Florida Panthers
six to one after a four goal second period. The
Vegas Golden Knights are going to be your Stanley Cup champions.
And whether you are a hockey fan or not, this
why right, whether you knew was happening or not, right
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doesn't writ whether you knew that the Stanley Cup final
was going on or not.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So like knowing how Jokic plays, I mean your business, yay,
you know certain.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Things people know and they talk about it for a
living and sometimes you got to know a little bit more.
But this is the thing, and this is where you
feel really incredibly happy, but you also feel unbelievably sad
and pissed off at the same time because five years ago,
five years ago, the Golden Knights had zero players. They
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had no players, they had no team, they had no
minor league, they had no structure, they had nothing to
have office, they had nothing, they had absolutely nothing starting
from scratch. And five years later, they have two division
titles and are gonna have a Stanley Cup. And I
just sit here and go, what the blank have the
Mets and the Jets been doing? And I'm not alone
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And I'm not alone though I'm not alone. There's a
lot of teams going what the hell have my team's
been doing? While the Golden Knights, who didn't exist five
years ago didn't exist, are gonna win a championship and
all those long suffering Golden Knights fans the last five years,
some who went to high school and are just getting
into college as a Golden Knights fan, they're gonna know
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that sweet, sweet taste of victory. What the hell have
my team's been doing? Sucking? Well, your teams have been
sucking to Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Okay, I mean Martinez scoring that goal did not sit well.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Alick, alick, but that doesn't. But but you know what
I mean, Yes, okay, but the Lakers did win the Dodgers.
You know what the Chargers haven't? Well, what are the
charge has been doing? Okay, But it goes back.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
To I think a lot of folks would love you
to dial back how expansion teams get fed in terms
of unrestricted players and unprotected players and everything like that.
I was having this conversation over the weekend's like, well,
how they get good so fast? Like, well, one you
get someone who says it, gets bright eyed and says.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Hey, I want to build a squad.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You get an owner who's kind of excitable and says, hey,
go do what you're gonna do. And you have some
rules that allow you to pluck probably better players, then
you might be able to otherwise based on cap restrictions,
expiring contracts, guys seemingly aging out, and then you got to.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Make your decisions.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And sometimes that creates a very rich stew where you
can go and perform really quick.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right, it happened in the NFL. Rich Stu. Okay, go ahead,
got it?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You can't say rich Stu and not expect me to
do that. Come on, No, got to that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, I just watched that episode in between all the
goal barrages of Homer basically doing the forest Gump while
hanging out in New Orleans, of all the different things
he could eat that would.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Satisfy his life, which is great.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Uh. So I was waiting for you to continue along
that road, but it does make for you know, the
interesting conversation. So I mean, right now, you could just say, hey,
you know what we'd like to start over, shuffle it off,
charge us some percentage of what the cap space is
that we lose as a penalty, uh, and we'll we'll
do an entire reselection process.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Reselection process. See you make it sound great, and you
make it sound awesome like you, we could just hit
the reset button. And can do it. But my teams
have been trying this my car, but we've been trying
hitting every single button, whether it's reset or something else.
It's hitting all these buttons and none of the buttons work.
But we'll get flurry here. Hey, they don't want him anymore.
(04:58):
Here we are Stanley comes up, Stanley Cup Final. Oh hey,
we're gonna win. Ye, I'd be d Come on, man, really, look,
I'm happy for the Golden Knights. But at the same time,
the overwhelming emotion is, what the hell, man, how do
you start from zero and win? And other teams that
have been established with players in the pipeline, that have
(05:20):
had first round picks for years and year years.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You've got no bad institutional knowledge to screw you. Right
with the Jets, you've got fifty years of misery and
you're never able to do a complete hard reboot to
where you kill off any germs of the past. I
mean nothing that you're doing with Kyrie Irving in the
sage brush. That's only getting some of the surface level stuff.
I mean, the rest of it is organizational institutional No
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matter how many times you change out your GMS and
your football personnel, guys in some cases your training staff.
We've talked about Jerry Jones and dell Us. They had
their wins, they had their excitement. Now you've got a.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Bad owner problem.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So some of those things you can't excise quite so easily.
So for the Vegus Golden Knights, I think for all
of us, it's one of those we pause as sports
fans and if you're not and someone's forced you to
listen to us, HI, welcome in tune it in the
iHeartRadio app, wherever you go. You'll love us forever and ever.
There's no question about it. But in each of our lives,
(06:26):
isn't there something you wish you could do? A hard reboot.
This is what they were able to do many things.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
When when when nine years ago, nine years ago, go
back and go, hey, how do you think you and
Mike Harmon would do together? I would redo that in
a second. No, I'm just kidding, buddy, I wouldn't do that. Well,
it was really kind.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I mean I mean possibly, No, there's Lotsbiano in here
or one of your other jackass buddies.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I know to be it would have been. It would
have been me and Buck Showalter, and that would have
been the show.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, I mean it would have saved you from what
you're currently experiencing. Although he didn't scout the players and
them to hundreds of millions of dollars guaranteed money, that's
not his fault.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Can't blame him. Hard reboot, Hard reboot, Buddy hard reboot, the.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Jason reboot probably won't even help you though, right, uh
oh no, probably not screw up a reboot on sight.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now we're fine. Now we have Aaron Rodgers, we're fine.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Out you already lost it. Chuck Clark, the guy was
a damn iron man. It's the for his NFL career
and boom, now he becomes a Jet.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's gonna happen. That's how cool.
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(07:46):
I would say sports misery, but that's okay, because.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, but it's a victory. I mean, we get to
crown another champion. My apologies to Alec Martinez. I used
to see him at the daycare centers in the South Bay,
so I apologize.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
When he was a kid there when he was picking
up his kid. Oh okay, I though you saw him
there last like when he was like he was a kid.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Three time Cup winner again and Jonathan Quick that's right, sure, champion.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We have that. And now we also have, as you mentioned,
the marquee MLB series of this next couple of days,
got the subway series Mets and Yankees. Now we are
going to have the reverse boycott. Details on that coming
up in a few minutes because that's just so unbelievably awesome.
But Mets and the Yankees going at it right now.
Yankees lead the Mets seven to six. Mets have the
(08:34):
bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the
eighth inning, and there is a pitching change coming up,
but yet another start where Max Schurzer just gets tattooed.
And what did I tell you? You know, this is
the thing I said, Hey, I love the matter, I
love Verlander, I love Shuzer, But what did I say
the beginning of the year. When you get old, you
get old overnight. It's not a slow process. It's not hey,
(08:57):
we're going gentle into that good night. But I will
still gonna have some big nights that know. When you
get old, you get old right away. And Max Schurzer
has gotten stomped and Verlander has gotten stomped, and I'm
sitting here tonight going we can't even trade these guys
of the deadline because they're owed too much money, and
Ny can't get anybody out, and so now it seems
(09:17):
like it's ten years until the end of their contracts,
which are really the end of next year. But I'm like,
oh my goodness, that's seventy five million dollars going to
guys that can't get anybody out because they got old overnight.
It's my one. It was the one, fear boy. When
you get old, you're relying a lot of guys at
are thirty nine, forty years old to thirty five years old,
Marte and Cannon, all these guys, but the pitchers, especially
(09:38):
the top two guys, and you expect these two to
be the difference in your team, and they can't get
anybody out, and they can't even pitch remotely like they
used to. I'm not saying Justin Verlander has to be
another cy Young Award winner, but he's got to have
something close to it. And I'm not saying Max Schurz
has got to be the guy he was five years ago,
but he's gotta be something close to what he was
last year. And he just isn't. And and whether it's
(10:01):
it's in his head or it's happened since he got
caught with the rosen bag and it happened to another
Mets pitcher tonight, Drew Smith got thrown out of the
game because his hand was too sticky. So apparently this
is the thing. Now did not get to wash it
five times like others? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Look, we can equate this to so many other things
in our society. I'll tell where you're like, did he
not get equal treatment? Why are we not going after
the other picture the same way they did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Hey, he got caught, you get old, You get old overnight.
And that's what's happened. And that's why I look at
this going this is gonna be one of those Mets
heres where everybody they're gonna have embarrassed. It like three,
at least three or four really big embarrassing headlines between
now and the middle of August when NFL teams start
coming back and we start talking about them. I mean,
(10:45):
I've got three or four really embarrassing headlines. We're going again.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeahs as it stands, I mean, batting two forty as
a team ain't helping you. No, No, middle of the
pack run scored doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Ain't gonna help you. Nothing helps nothing, you know. I'm
just trying.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I don't want to put it all on the pictures
because like we're looking at the y.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, but dude, come on, when you're getting paid thirty
five million dollars a year, it's got to be better
than this, right. I mean, you're the ones carry.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Your body well, at some point your body starts to
break down. It's not their fault. It's like everybody the
greatest busts of all time. It's not his fault. He
was drafted number one.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You were still Hey, I'm not saying it's one person's fault.
There are many people that he made this happen, that
were responsible for this.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I just mean they said, do you want a lot
of money he's he held his hand to keep it
from shaking too much, so the signature was legible, and
he signed it and he got his money.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There were many many people that have made this possible.
Owner's a dummy, No, listen. That's the one part is
that he'll just keep spending more money next year. But
it's like, all right, but but we gave These guys
are supposed to be great. These guys are supposed to
be head some what good said their entire careers up
until we got them.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Harman, and I told you months ago that they're washed up,
that they were using You did not see.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We were saying that on a Hey, we were looking
out for you. You say that about everybody. You said
that about Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Come on, man, and I'd be selling that on the internet.
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Stanley Cup. And I told just Darlie Marte was gonna
wave at a breaking pitch outside the Drike zone and
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end the inning for the Mets. And that's exactly what's happened.
The Yankees lead by a run, the Mets coming to
bat now in the bottom of the ninth. But's that
not quite a full on?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I hate to say I told you so, because you'd
just be staring in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I told you mocking yourself. I knew how it was
gonna happen. I knew it. But you want to talk
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Speaker 2 (13:27):
Jay, what's happening, Bud, what's going on gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Any buddy? I have you know here whenever something bad
happens for my baseball team, and just remember well we
have Aaron Rodgers and that's what's important. So I'm feeling
good about that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, that'll be a three week ride.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, well, you know, maybe now the Bills aren't gonna
have Stefon Diggs after all the drama that he was at.
He was at Mini camp, but he wasn't at Minnie camp,
and Sean McDermott is very concerned that he wasn't on
the field today. This is a big headline today. What's
going on here?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, I think it's a headline because to shoot thirteenth
and it's one thing when you can get fined, you
know whatever, forty fifty thousand dollars. It's another thing when
you start losing game checks and defaulting on contracts and
missing games and stuff like that. If Stefan Diggs is
setting the message, and look, do I think he's going
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to get a massive new payday. I don't. The Bills
and their GM Brandon Bean are making it pretty clear that,
like you know, we've spent a lot of money we've
run up a big credit card bill and we don't
have as much cash and cap flexibility as we had
in the past. Certainly Stefon Diggs and that extension he
signed after that trade, it looks team friendly at this
(14:44):
point in time, But that's what happens when you play
a few years and do an extension and you play
through your guarantees and your upfront money. Look, I still
think there's a way they can massage this. They can
incentivize it, they can sweeten the pot a little bit
with unattainable incentives. You know, we had the whole Austin
Echward situation. And while you can't compare a top flight
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running back to the top flight wide receiver just because
supplying demand is different at the positions, Like I have
a hard time thinking that Stefon Diggs isn't there in
training camp. Is he going to be the happiest guy
in the world. Maybe not. Again, I don't think he's
going to get everything he wants financially here. But I
also with the way the CBA is constructed, players really
(15:26):
have such little leverage, and this is a team that
can do some things. I know some are down on them,
and people seem to want to cast them aside as
last year at this time and you know, they were
everybody's Super Bowl favorite. Now people are telling me they're
not going to win the division. I'll believe that when
I see it. But yeah, and a little bit of
turmoil there. And look, there are some additions they wish
(15:47):
they that they might have been able to make this
off season that they haven't been able to do. But
who knows. I'm still not totally convinced that Dalvin Cook
doesn't end there because I just don't know that Dalvin
Cook's going to be a guy who catches in the
way he thinks he might.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, I was gonna say that the running back position
if Stefan Diggs is mad, just we got a whole
Hornet's nest a running backs that are salty about their
deals and not exactly finding that pot of gold.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
No, it's not there. It's not there for sa Kwon Barkley,
it wasn't there for Austin Eckler. It's not going to
be there for Dalvin Cook. It's going to have to
ultimately be about finding that mix of Okay, it's not
great money, it's not what I thought it was going
to be, but it's still good money. You try to
get some individual and team incentives, right, because you're going
to want to approve a year to go somewhere where
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you're going to be playing high profile games. You're going
to have a good supporting cast around you. You want
to have all those things in place to help you
maybe reset things to a certain degree. And yeah, I
mean the winning part makes it a whole lot more fun. Right.
If you're not making what you thought you're going to make,
at least go there and do it somewhere where you're
winning football games. You've a chance to get playoff checks
and playoff and sentence, you know, versus being whatever almost
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six win team.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where do you think Dalvin Cook ends up?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I mean, I don't rule out Buffalo, and I get
it they're trying to manage their fan bases expectations and
that's smart. But I mean I look around and I
don't you know who's a running back away. I mean,
some people would say Miami, and that would make sense
and he would fit their scheme. But to me, part
(17:24):
of the whole reason why you bring in that coach
is because he comes from a run scheme where you
know what I mean you could go from I mean,
what was the run of the Denver Broncos running backs
back in the day, right Mike Anderson to Orlando's Gary
to Clinton Ports to whoever else and it's still pop
knots production. I mean, right he moster when he's healthy,
is are super effective back in that system, And even
(17:47):
last year they turned through a bunch of them, you know,
and maybe it wasn't ideal, but I think you should
talking about where can they exercise value. You should be
able to extract value from your scheme in the run game.
Where they need to save their pennies for, I think
is to boost that defense if it's still looking a
little short between now and the trade deadline. You know,
I don't know that they want to go and blow
(18:08):
whatever it is, three million, four million whatever on a
running back right now when that's you know, probably not
their biggest need. So I don't see there being obviously
a super robust market for him, and he should be
in no rush right now because we're in the absolute
lung time of the season. But I think when he
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will get around to late July, I'm not sure that
it's going to be markedly different.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
How about DeAndre Hopkins, he's on the tour ca Fest appearance. Hey,
he's just he's barnstorming you.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You heard how great Jason locking for it feels about
DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I don't know, he could be the Knights guy to
show up in Baltimore, Dacostia.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
How do you like? You like him?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Deal?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Do you like them all?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I think that would that that might be, you know,
a little bit of overkill. And and again softer man,
he thought, when you have to repeatedly flirt with Tennessee
who aren't even like they're not like they're basically going
to punt them this season. I mean they traded Derek Hentry,
they eat anything for him. I still think that if
the right offer emerges, a team gets in, a contending
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team loses a quarterback, I still think Tannehill's there for
the taking. I mean, it would just be a really
odd thing like AJ Brown in his prime or DeAndre
Hopkins now just gruntled again, you know, with the ped
suspension in his back pocket, Like what is he going
to turn them from a four and a half win
team to a five win team? Like I don't get it,
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and I'm not convinced that Tennessee really wants to spend money.
Now if he again, if he's got nothing out there,
so be it. But then why would you go there?
I'm told, why would you? Why would you go there?
You know? And I don't know. I mean, it's not
going to be what he thought. And you go back
to the trade scenarios and whyatt never materialized. It never
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materialize in large part because Okay, he's gonna play out
his contract. That's one thing. If he wants to get paid,
then I'm not giving you anything for him to inherit,
you know, and take on this problem that we don't
know that we're gonna be able to solve because there's
some mitigating circumstances like a suspension history, like a guy
hasn't played a ton of football, like a guy who's
(20:19):
getting up there a little bit. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Jason locking for NFL inside our guest, The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon, live from the tirec dot Com Studios.
All right, so we all saw the video this weekend
of Tom Brady on a yacht knocking a drone down
with one throw, hitting a guy fifty yards away in
a jet ski with another throw, and he says, ah,
if I do this, I should maybe I should keep
playing now ha ha. That's kind of funny. But I
(20:44):
take away from this Jay that looks like a guy
that's still throwing the football, that's still working out, still
throwing a football, the fact that he can still do
that when supposedly I'm retired on dnahah. Yeah, I don't
know that he's not still throwing the football. And thinking
maybe if Miami all, maybe if San Francisco gets in
this a little bit of a situation, maybe well.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think this whole ownership thing with the Raiders would
have to be you know, if that materializes any time
sooner in season, and that's going to certainly complicate things.
If that's something that doesn't get improved till next May's
owner meetings or whatever or something like that, then obviously
that gives him plenty of runway to play for whomever
he would want this year. I just think the San
(21:28):
Francisco thing has always made sense to me. It continues
to make sense. That team is good enough that it's
not like he'd have to be there day one. But
if it's the middle of the season and they're still
winning that division just because it's not great, but the
offense isn't what they want it to be, and they're
waffling and oscillating from one quarterback to the other, from
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series to series or quarter to quarter, game to game.
Then I know how Kyle Shanahan thinks. And maybe Tom
Brady is covertly working out, you know, Like, I don't
think it's going to be like, you know, the old,
good old days where he'd be out at USC or whatever,
you know, with Guerrero and Tom House and the whole
kitting caboodle out there working with all these guys. Like
(22:09):
I would think he'd have to keep it a little
more under wraps because if you do that, then obviously,
you know, it's like it's auction time, game on. You
know where's he going to end up. But I'm not, like,
I am not thoroughly convinced that he'll never throw an
NFL pass at this point. I'm just not.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Never say never again. We'd be remassed if we didn't
have a moment. Since you are out there in the
Baltimore area and looking at those young o's now crushing
it with another win over the Blue Jays tonight, is
the town catching fire with that?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh? Absolutely. Yeah. I mean I think people now believe
and the expectations have been ratcheted up. This team has
played at you know, basically one hundred win pace now
since Adley Rutchman was recalled last May. They need to
get active at the trade deadline. They need to add
(23:02):
a starting pitcher, maybe a bat as well. I think
they might have to get creative about the ways they
do that because there don't seem to be a whole
lot of obvious sellers right now. This could be a
market where a team like the Guardians who have more
pitching than they need but not enough hitting. You know,
it could be major league for major league trades at
the deadline among you know, teams that are both technically buying.
So they've done a tremendous job overhaul on this thing.
(23:25):
I love what Michael Lias has done. And yeah, people
are super fired up Gunnor Henderson and the Grand Slam tonight.
This this is legit.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
People more fired up about the Orioles or more fighted
up about Odell Beckham in his first practice.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I think right now, more excited about the Orioles. I mean,
Odell himself today was like, look, I'm not doing a
whole hell of a lot out there. You know, I
showed up. I've been through the wars. I've only played
twenty games the last three years. I'm not worried about
showing out, you know, for the first day of mini
camp in June. But yes, there is an overall excitement
about out the potential for this passing attack in a
(24:04):
way that I can't recall in a long, long time.
If ever, you can fall.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Him on Twitter at Jason locking For. That is at
Jason locking For. Check them out on Odyssey Washington Post
as well. Jay is always buddy. Appreciate it. Man, gentlemen,
we'll talk to you, We see you about it.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Orioles, yoe hey telling you Johnny Young guys on that squad.
But you got a guy named Gunner Henderson right off
to jump.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And I'll tell you what you know. You just just
to think about this for a second. The story of
the entire first couple of months of the baseball season
was the Tampa Bay Rays never losing. What kind of
record are they havet I mean, they're playing seven hundred
ball right there, and the Orioles are right on their tail.
They are three games out of first place, and the
(24:52):
Rays of played as well as you'd expect anybody to
play up until now to start a season, right, forty
eight and twenty one run differential of one hundred and
thirty nine. Everything they want. They've been great, and the
Orioles are right. How many home runs as Brady Anderson have?
He's got thirty right now. Okay, so he's on pace
for fifty, yes, thirty seven. Shut up. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
(25:15):
Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Fox
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. The Golden Knights three and a half minutes
away from the Stanley Cup. They lead Florida eight to three.
We'll have more in that coming up in a few minutes,
but right now, what's going on in Oakland is admirable.
(25:35):
It's noble. It will have zero effect, but it is awesome.
A's fans who have not come to games for a
long time now because they want owner John Fisher to
sell the team to somebody else who will keep the
team in Oakland. The team has been long rumored to
move to Vegas, and there had been a couple of
stops and starts, but it looked like it was all
(25:56):
systems going Vegas for a few weeks. Hey, we agreed
to this. To this, we agreed to this, but Vegas
hasn't approved a ballpark. Well, today Nevada passed a three
hundred and eighty million dollar bill to fund a new
stadium for the A's. What if A's fans decided to do?
They decided tonight to have a reverse boycott for tonight's
(26:17):
game against the Tampa Bay Rays, which is everybody coming
to the game. They're all wearing green T shirts that
just say sell on them. That's like every other fan
is wearing one of these T shirts that just says sell.
So it's what they're calling a reverse boycott, which is
also known as attending games. So, I mean, I have
a reverse. It's a nice name, a reverse. We're not
(26:40):
not going to a game, We're gonna attend a game.
So that's really what what's the reverse boycott? We're going
to a game. Okay, got it, That's what the A's
are doing.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
The A's response to this tonight quote, We are proud
to donate all ticket revenue from tonight's game to the
Alameda County Community Food Bank and the Oakland Public Education.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We don't need your money. You don't need just sticking money.
We're going to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Well, but the whole thing was, well, they're not putting
any money in the community, you're gonna leave whatever. So
they said, aha, we see you reverse boycott. And here's
eight hundred eleven thousand, one hundred and seven dollars into
the community. Now the fact that it's that's the total
for all ticket revenue, yeah, problematic in no.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
But let's focus on the pose. Because let's go to
the pose. This is a fun thing and it's a
great thing for A's fans to do. Like I said,
it's very noble. It's very much a nineteen nineties way
of trying to solve a problem like this. But it's
not gonna have any impact. I mean, it's gone the A's,
The A's are leaving.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, one's gonna buy the team to keep it in Oakland.
Not when you you don't see it, Not when fans
stop going to the games. Oh I'm gonna buy this
team and fans are gonna suddenly start coming. No, you're
gonna make money when when someone with deep pockets out
of market in a bigger market, is gonna give you
cash for the team. That's where you're gonna move. No
one's gonna buy the team to keep it in Oakland.
(28:06):
No one's gonna do it. It's noble, it's fun. I'm
glad the fans are doing it. But it's over Oakland.
Oakland is The A's have already decided we're gonna move,
all right, They've already talked to Vegas. Vegas has funded
the stadium. It's happening, like I mean, it's great. They're
doing this and it's really fun, and I feel awful
for fans who aren't gonna get to go to games.
Like I had one of my teams ripped for me
(28:28):
when the Whalers moved, and that sucked because I hated that,
but it looked it happened. I realized, no matter what
it was gonna happen, no matter what this is going
to happen. This is fun. It's a death cry. It's
a great thing. It's a great time to sit back
and remember the big history of the Oakland A's, from
the three World Series titles in a row to Moneyball.
But this is one of those things where it's a
(28:50):
great night and it's great to see it. But in
the end, they're gonna be in there. They're gonna be
in Las Vegas in a year.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Hopefully they throw themselves an even bigger party with the
money general from the sale of the sell shirts.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Or put it back into the community. I mean, I
would like one of those sell shirts. That's a pretty
cool shirt. I would wear that. I would wear that
just like generally in public, just a green shirt that
just says sell on it. Yeah, I would wear that.
There's a lot of teams.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You can probably go back in their history and find
fans that have done similar. I know, we just talked
to Jason Locking for a plenty of groups have gone
and tried to get Angelos to sell the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, you know what I could do is, since it's
a green shirt with a white lettering on it, if
things go really craptastic for the Jets and Aaron Rodgers stinks,
I could just get mad at Woody Johnson and wear
it and now it's my Jets sell the team shirt.
I solved it. It could be my a sell the
team shirt and it's my Jets sell the team shirt.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
And even if it doesn't happen this year, just wait,
just wait, you'll need it eventually.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're gonna watch that cell. Where is that shirt? Did
I put that shirt away? Where is that?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
What pile?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
It was that in the Where's that shirt? I needed that?
Where is it? It's fleeting? Twitter it out about a fresca.
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