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July 31, 2024 37 mins

Jason and Mike hand out their winners and losers from the MLB Trade-Deadline. The guys react to an unbelievably fun day at the Olympics. And the Yankees backed out of a trade for Jack Flaherty due to medical concerns! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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(00:51):
should be. As I walked into the studio tonight playing
Narco on my phone because I knew you were just
inside the door, so I started playing it outside the
big heavy door. So you heard the boom bum bum
bum bum bum. No, it's good.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
It was like you were kind of hyped behind the
curtain in the in the position waiting for your your
theme as a professional wrest.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
So it's like my WWE entrance.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, and then you walked in and I was like,
you know, my right hand I broke a couple of
bones maybe about two years ago, Like can we test
to see if it's all the way back?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Or wanted to smash my I never came.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Closer to smashing somebody's personal piece of property than I
did in that moment. You're boom bump, bum bum, That's
what mean. Gene Oakland would go, oh my, what is this?
What is this? What is happening?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Now? You can hear the music McMahon, you know what
it is. You know who's coming in now, you know
who's coming to the ring because we get to use
Jesse the body again since he showed up at RAW yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
So it's all good. But yeah, you're very excited. Your
guy closes out of game once again. The White Sox
have a lead going into the eighth and they blew it.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
So here we are status quo. Tuesday, a happy trade
deadline day. Oh what a day it was. And here's
the thing, and I'm being completely honest with you, this
is a this is a really rare day because you
could say to me, did my team do well on
the trade deadline? And I'm gonna tell you sure. There
were a thousand trades, a lot of stuff, and nobody

(02:19):
gave up unbelievable prospects. Most teams decided, hey, we're gonna
get what we can. We'll get a mid level prospect
and see how it goes. Some trades, some teams give
a tiny bit more than others, but it wasn't where
whoa look who got fleeced. So everybody can be happy today, everybody.
There's no team I can say, oh wow, you got
even the Yankees, even though they need to do way more.

(02:41):
I still don't mind what they did go to the deadline.
Everybody can be happy.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Today's gonna hit two home runs every night. How would
John Sterling have called his home runs?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Like? That's the big mystery of twenty twenty four. Oh,
it's all that jazz, That's what it would be. Oh
the jazz man, the jazz man coming. I think he
would do all that, all that jazz, jazz, chisholm. That's good.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
A bunch of bunch of Broadway references, no question about it.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
We had that a little bit. People don't get all
that jazz. You think people don't get all that jazz.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Well, no, I'm just saying he can keep going down
the line with a bunch of random Broadway things and
this and it opportunity for advertising for those shows that
are about to open on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
And then he finishes by going whoa, whoa w the
dazzled suit.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
All of a sudden he has a quick change and
you do a shot of the booth and there he
is taking chisms round. That's great, like all of it.
To say, the big Fish, the big domino to fall
was the Fish did well. They traded everybody. The Dodgers

(03:58):
did the best well.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Padre.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Here's the team poster and it looks like something out
of a horror movie because they xed out all of
the guys that are no longer part of the Marlins,
kind of like the last Guy Standing from Hey they survived.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
For the sequel, you just put you just put the
you just you just uh black out their faces and
it's like, oh, you can't even see. It's just like
the out the silhouette.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
But I mean you get flaarty that comes to the
Dodgers and then they just jump right on the Padres
today say ah, you made some moves.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Everybody's loving you. Like you. Here's five runs in the first.
Everybody did good. Give me a team, Give me a team.
Any team sucks. They did well today. How they did
well because they're staying because they and they got prospects. Yes,
they did well, but they got no problem prospect You
trade a bunch of jets, trading for a guy with
a broken leg, and it's like getting an extra guy

(04:48):
and when the spring comes, you'll be fine. Give me
another team. Does he have the what is it Adam
or whatever? How long? How long does it take you
to regenerate? Yeah? I mean is he Wolverine? Oh no, no, no, no, no,
too soon? Too soon. Got to give people at least
to where it gets to a billion dollars. Nobody, if

(05:11):
you didn't see it, you don't know.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, you know exactly what I was going to generate.
All right, give me another team. How about? And there's
thirty teams.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Phillies. Phillies did great, They do great. I don't know,
they just everybody did great. That's what I mean. It
doesn't even matter if I don't know off the top
of my head how they did. It doesn't matter what
the Coups you did great. Comes did great. Comes did awesome.
Comes did fantastic. Give me another team, uh uh, Guardians
Guardians awesome? Oh so great. Give me to trade with
the Nationals they so we had a National Guardian trade awesome,

(05:44):
they did great. Give me David Harbor show up saying
American Rockies Rocky awesome. Rockies did great. Did they even
make a trade? Probably shouldn't have. It doesn't matter great.
Rockies did great. About the Pirates awesome? Oh my god,
that Iris did so well today. Pirates did so well.
Everybody just a flurry of activity.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm like I really was kept refreshing in between some
random Olympic highlights and that ninety four yard run in
the women's rugby game to cat things.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Off, which was spectacular. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Uh, don't reach for the ball, right, it's like watching
football and the defensive back make the tackle man' don't
go for the ball. Yeah, you know, tackle the person. Anyway,
all of those to say that, my phone was overheated
by the amount of activity they did. Every team did great.
I feel I could be a hype man for any
You did great. But what do we do now?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
The hype man's over Remember flavor flames over there. I
didn't hear anything about, oh my goodness, look at these
prospects we gave up. Look, because that's really well, well,
nobody gave anything big. That's what this deadline was. There
weren't any big stars available. Okay, when you're talking about
Crochet being the biggest guy available and he says, I
want more concessions if I'm going to pitch in the postseason,

(06:58):
you stay in Chicago for him, that's great, you stay
in Chicago. Congratulations, good luck getting to forty wins this year. Uh,
it wasn't that kind of deadline. It was. It was
one of those deadlines where each each team it's so regional.
Like they always say, you know, college football is too regional.
Everybody just worries about their team. There's no big national
teams and people worry about You have to find a
way to have college football really appeal to the entire country.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
We used to get mad about Thursday Night football. It
was the same argument, just extend and change the names
and logans. You can't have Jackson Titans every week. But
that's the whole big problem with college foot that's regionalized.
Oh now we figured out, but that was baseball today.
Everything was regionalized. It was bullpen help for you, or
here's an outfield, or here a starting pitcher.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
It was. That's why when I look at the moves
around today, when I saw them coming in and I'm like, okay,
well they didn't give up a big prospect. Okay, that's right.
There's nothing set, But that's good because teams are figuring out. Look.
Not to not to use the Mets as an example,
but I will, because the Mets got five players over
the course of the last few days, and the biggest
prospect they traded was the nineteenth rank prospect in the

(08:00):
in the in the system, which is good. But this
is the new wave of how to be successful at
the trade deadline. What teams are figuring out is that
gone are the days of, well, we have our eight
guys every day, what do we really we need to
go all in on this one starting pitcher because that
one guy. You know, what teams are realizing is that

(08:22):
over the course of one hundred and sixty two games
and an extra round of playoffs, if you don't have
length and depth, you're screwed because everybody needs it, even
even the Dodgers, who have been phenomenal, have problems with depth.
That's why they made the moves that they did in
the last couple of days. Right, everybody's got problems if
you don't lengthen yourself and have yourself if you're a

(08:44):
contender with all right, we have our five starting pitchers,
but we need two other guys or maybe three more
that can either start for us. We can link them
out of triple A come out of the bullpen. We're
gonna be screwed if we don't, if we don't continue
to remake the bullpen, if we don't have five outfielders,
because all five voutfielders are gonna play at least two
games a week between playing in the outfield and being
a designated hitter. Six infielders because they're gonna play at

(09:05):
least two games a week everybody between that. And if
you don't have length and depth, you're screwing yourself at
the end of the year, because how many teams are
there at the end of the season and you just
run out of gas. And look at the Rangers who
won the World Series last year. They had two fantastic
players and the rest were a bunch of jags. But
you know what. They were deep. They were deep starting pitching,
they were deep in the bullpen. This is the new

(09:26):
way to build teams. And that's the way every team
attacked the deadline. I mean, like again, not just to
use the Mets as example, but look at the Dodgers.
What were our weaknesses. They go out, we got an outfielder,
we got a reliever, we got a big starting pitcher.
They go out and get Jack Flaherty, who is the
big get today? They needed to we had a big
starting pitcher, and they did, but they lengthened themselves as well.
They have a lot of guys injured, who's coming back.

(09:47):
Let's make sure we have that length and depth though.
And that's what teams have done this deadline, which is
why I can say you did a great job. I
can congratulations, congratulate even if you didn't make a trade.
That means you didn't trade for the wrong Yeah, it
doesn't matter. But that's the way teams are building now,
and as you see the contenders, because if you don't
build that way, right, let's just say you don't you

(10:08):
still want to stick to the Hey we have our
five starters, we have this. Eventually you're gonna get to
either injuries or you're going to get to a lack
of performance and go one of the days where you
stick with a guy who's in one sixty A right,
at some point it's we got to cut the cord
and move on, and we have to have somebody else
ready to go. And if it's somebody off your bench
and hits one sixty, there's no other choice. But if

(10:29):
it's a guy who off your bench hits three twenty
against lefties, guess what he's gonna start against lefties and
instead and maybe hit a platoon situation. It's having that
length and depth to be able to overcome all the
adversity that you face, and the teams that build that way,
kind of like in the NBA a little bit, being
healthy and getting all the way through those are the
teams are gonna go furthest in the playoffs. It's not
just gonna be here's a team of the best lineup,

(10:51):
then the three best starting pitchers go, because by the
time we get to the beginning of October, well, two
of those starting pitchers are injured, or or one of
them's really out of gas, or or two of those
regular there's a hurt, and the people coming in for
him are not nearly the level of the player they replaced.
There's no Hey, a guy who came out has a
war of one point five, the guy replacing him his
war is one point two or whatever it's going to be.

(11:12):
You don't you have to be able to have that
kind of depth where it's more seamless, and those are
the teams that are gonna win.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Tell you, we got a lot of players hitting two
hundred and below in Manor League baseball these days. So
good luck with all of that. Yeah, but it's fine. Okay,
So we're doing it like fifty is the new thirty.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I got it. Dave Kingman now has hit four hundred
in retrospect in twelve consecutive seasons. Yes, Hall of Famer now, yeah,
Dave Kingman, will you send all the voters rats? Or
I don't know, let me talk about King's performance. You
gotta talk about Kingmore performance. I don't know why we
do that performance, just the idea.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
You're you're playing the chess game from multiple angles, right,
it's the short How do I just overtake you and
dominate you? Or is it the slow play where I'm
fifteen moves ahead. Uh, I'm playing for the postseason. I
think I'm comfortably in a spot where I'm making the
wild card. Yeah, adding some depth, dear is great. Adding

(12:08):
a starter to your rotation is all finny good. But
it's all about all right, I need that guy in October?
What's he look like in October? And we're trying to
do the advanced metrics. We're trying to go through and
play through all our different scenarios to make sure I'm
healthy down the stretch. It's exactly the NBA, given the
length of a Major League Baseball season. We're watching it already.

(12:30):
I mean that's how we've watched with the Dodgers. I mean,
you're pulling strings trying to keep this thing together with
the number of injuries that they've had to battle through
and the number of starters and call ups and everything else.
And every day at sea, I'd love to see what
they've burned out in ink trying to print through. All right,
here's the different scenarios against these starters based on who's available,

(12:53):
given the number of injuries. Right, you look at the
pitching staff, it's I mean, Glassnow's back just gave up
a home run, but up five to one Machado as
he rounds the basis, but it's you've got him back, Okay,
there's one. Are those other guys coming back in full effect?
And to give you five six innings starts, because that's
really what we're playing for in Major League baseball anymore.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
But you need as many as you can, and then
it becomes a choice of what do you got to
pick through and get yourself deep in October?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I guess November at this point. But for today, Yeah,
we didn't get any big splashy movies. Flarty in his
two nine to five ERA and seven and five record,
that was the big domino to fall. And you know what,
they're happy as hell in Los Angeles to have them.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
This is how you build a team. Now, you build length,
you build depth. Guess what you're in the playoffs? You're
going to the World Series. Congratulations. I could be your GM.
But it doesn't matter because you had a great day.
You had a great doesn't matter what you had a
great day today, your baseball team had a great day.
You just went Frank Langella, all a major League base
a great day every team had. Angels had a great day. No,
they did not Okay, they found out. Okay, Rendona is

(14:02):
back on the injured list and trout they shut down
his rehab. Okay, I was I was going to repute that,
but I went with the I played yes and with you.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Everybody's great, the angels. There is no way to spin
it today, so we had to have one outlier for
the rest.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
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Speaker 1 (16:43):
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And today was today. It was an unbelievably fun day
in the Olympics. Okay, well, it depends on what basketball
team you rooted for. Yeah, boy, not not a not
a great last couple of days for the japan basketball teams,

(17:04):
that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
But well, and then look, they had a shot if
they hadn't thrown, which was just nonsense, dude.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
That was like nineteen seventy two. United States rush a
level officiating.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
And it's not a technical follow it's other sportsman like play.
All I did was try you wrap up his arms
so he couldn't shoot an easy layup or dunk it,
and you get thrown out.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh man, Uh so we will have more on that.
Crazy shi basketball is great, it's been fun. The home
down officiating already on display. But the highest rated event
so far in the Olympics outside of a gold medal,
right outside of you know, the event that they show
every day, outside of a gold medal event where we

(17:50):
watch for either swimming, whatever you want. Tonight's'll be insane, yes, exactly, Yeah,
go ahead, frostburg it cardboard beds. It was. It was
because well that's the paper view you had. You had
athletes who wanted to prove the beds were not anti sex.
So that's gonna be on later on tonight. That's Olympics
after dark. That's no, that's that's Peacock after dark. Hey now, oh,

(18:12):
you know subscription required multiple feeds because you you had
Simone Biles and I'm sure the the Women's Olympics, uh
ratings today that'll be huge, way up because of the gymnastics,
and we're gonna see that again tonight. Simone Biles at
the end, coming up and winning the goal. Basically, all
she to do is not fall down. She stepped out

(18:32):
of bounds a couple of times, but still had a
great routine.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Did you see the video of Great Britain where they
thought they had it. They were dancing around like oh
sprinting up and cheering. It's like, wait, they still have
a score to come.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
The thing is they only get like like a great
score is fourteen and they only needed like eight. So
Simone Biles would have had to walk around flipping off
the judges to get under an eight. You know. So
even though she stepped out of bounds, cup I was like, oh,
that's bad. She's stilling with the what a thirteen to
nine or something. It's like, we won by six, what
are you so exciting? Why is she doing the Miles
Teller dance? That would have been the only way and uh,

(19:11):
And Simone Biles is flipping off the judges now in
the middle of her routine. That's gonna be an automatic
point deduction. Ooh, that's a double bird. That's gonna be
a double point. That's sportsman like not going well. She's
walking over now, she's asking the judges, Hey, what are
the Dodgers doing at the trade deadline. Interesting. Interesting. So

(19:32):
outside of gold medal matches, what we've seen for gold medals,
the highest rate Olympic event so far has been the
United States basketball team. You would say, oh, that's not surprising.
United States women basketball team in their opener a day
ago against Japan, higher than the men hire than anything else. Again,
certain gold medal Olympic events when you're when rewarding a

(19:54):
medal that did higher, but of the you know, here's
the events to get there. So far, this has been
the highest rated event on television.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Right, So twenty six point win? Do you think coach
Reive can be found on a hot microphone going.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
See we didn't need bleeping Clark. I see, I would
want to say it, go and go coach Reeve? Jason Smith,
Fox Sports Radio. Do you think that maybe three out
of every ten viewers are watching just to see you
lose without Caitlyn Do you think that was the case.
How many people you think hate watch just because they
wanted you to lose because you didn't take Caitlin Clark
on your team. How many? Three out of ten, four
out of ten, two out of ten, how many? What

(20:29):
do you think, is it like dentists four out of five?
What do you think, coach, What do you think, coach? Look,
so many people are gonna say, oh, we didn't need
Caitlyn Clark. Yeah, okay, sure, it's not like when Caitlin
Clark doesn't play, there's zero interest. There's a lot of
interest in women's basketball. They had half full arena though,
yeah for that match. Well there's well, look there's half
full arenas. When the United States women's soccer team plays,

(20:49):
there's half lol arenas. I mean for lots of events.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Now, It's okay, it's just they were the lowest attendant
of all the first women's Games. Yeah, but I mean, look,
you see so many events, Like right now, it's about
everybody wants to go to swimming.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Every events swim because now the early events are the
they want to see. Oh, I want to see a
gold medal, right, I would want to go see who
I want to go see, but most people go to
the Olympics. Okay, I want to see swimming. I want
to see the gold. I want to see gold medal here.
I want to see uh, because that's always first. I
want to see the gymnastics. I want to go see that.
So that's why you're saying as you get towards the end,

(21:23):
trust me, all those all those games are gonna be
filled for soccer, They're gonna be filled for basketball. That's
just how it goes.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Just talking about like the great moments from today right
watching the basketball games, watching the rugby finish, and then
trying to get into the head of the production truck
for the fifteen hundred with Ladecki. Can you zoom out
any further so we can actually see somebody else in
the pool with her?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Please? Please? But look it. You know this is this
is this is what's fun about the w NBA, right,
because I'm like, okay, how do we turn this Caitlin
Clark thing fun? Because you can tell that now they
are that that the Olympic team Cheryl, They're all dying
to put it out there and go see people want

(22:06):
to see us without Caitlin Clark, right, people want to
see people want to see us. And yeah, because this
is what's happened. It's not that women's basketball was just
invented this year. It's the Caitlin Clark are so incredibly
popular and she brought a new audience and it extends
into the Olympics, and yeah, probably two out of every
ten people watching want to see I want to see
him lose. They didn't pick Caitlin. I want them to lose.

(22:29):
I want the thing that's fun about the If I
was in the arena and I was rooting for another
for another country, I would completely troll that team by
just channing for the entire four quarters where is Caitlin?
Where is? Because you know it burns them when they

(22:49):
see where they said, you can't win without Caitlin, Like,
why are they worried about that sign about Caitlin Clark right,
Like you see stuff that hey, look, it says we
can't win with that Caitlyn. So you know, just the
fact they pointed it out to each other when their
signs all over the place and everything else, you know,
that's a that's a big slice of It's all in
their heads about Caitlyn, how they feel about her, how

(23:12):
they feel about her impact. And and while we talked yesterday,
would the team be better off with Caitlyn Clarke at
point guard? Yeah? Would be guard struggled yesterday to find
open space. They struggle with your pants pressure. And she
has been the best point guard in the WNBA. But
I think about Caitlyn Clark and I think about the Olympics,
and I just go, this seems like a group that
is so clicky that like would they even let people?

(23:34):
How would you let somebody in from outside the group?
Like they've all played together for a long time, they've
all played in the Olympic, they're all coming into the
at least two Olympics together. I just feel like it
would be we don't need Caitlin, we don't want her
on the team, and we're gonna go win the gold
which are gonna go win the gold medal because they're
better than everybody. But they just get that. You get
that seeing that, let's point out that Caitlyn sign. It's like, okay,

(23:55):
Caitlyn lives in their heads and they have some kind
of of opinion, whether it's pettiness or jealousy about you know,
it's there because you know they were all they were
all consulted about Caitlyn Clark. You know, the coach said, hey,
I have your back if you don't want her, because
she's been the most vocal in most anti Kitlyn Clark
Sharyl Reeve. So you know that's out there. So if
I was trolling, you know, I would just Oh, Caitlyn

(24:16):
would have made that. But every turnover by Tarassi or child,
Kayla would have made that pass. Cayla would have made
that past. Hey, Kayla would have found Angel for a
backdoor on that one. Ah, then what happened? You missed
that one? Although the bigs aren't missing anything, which is
why they missed a lot.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
They had fifty six rebounds, many of would have been
you know, as some have termed it the angel rees rebound.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
But that yes, yeah, yeah, but but that's exact because
you know that that and that motivates them and it
lives in their heads. They no one thinks we can
win without Caitlyn. See, we can do it without Caitlin.
It's like it's like it's a in the end, it's
kind of weird that I feel like Caitlyn Clark not
being there is the push that this Olympic team needs

(24:59):
with the chip on their shoulder, going oh, you think
we can't win with that? You think we need with that?
This is but you binds your motivation where you do
because I lost the games. It's nineteen ninety two, right,
you need something If that's that guy in there with
the sign and look, it's like any business. We talk
about this all the time.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
If you can work with people that you know, you trust,
you get along and that whatever outside isn't going to
make its way into the business. Like you know, always
gotta be careful in partnerships and whatever else when when
you're forming companies. But like it's you want to you
want to work with people you know, and for these guys,
it's established right for these women, they've all worked together.

(25:34):
Tarasi is still playing at a pretty high level now.
None of them closed out on three point shooters for
a good half which.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Again a lot of wide open shots there. Again, guards
had trouble. Guards that that was the bigger by twenty
five your guards that they didn't make any shots. They
turned the ball over, they made bad passes, they were unsure,
they picked up their run inside half court. They did
not play well. They needed Caitlin.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Video is up and we appreciate you taking a look
at it podcast from last night's show as well wherever
you download your audio. But it's very much like the
soccer squad. I mean, look at what you got. You
got a new coach and all of a sudden, healthy Swanson,
some attackers on the wings. When you've got Rodman and
Smith going, it's a much different United States women's team

(26:22):
than we looked at too. Right, new philosophy, new leadership,
new voices, all of that comes together for this iteration
of the women's basketball squad. It's one last run together
because those other women, when you're talking about Clark and
Reese and maybe Becker's maybe eventually Juju Watkins, they're coming

(26:43):
in short order. Doesn't mean you're totally doing a wholesale
hockey line change to it all, but I think they recognize, Hey,
we've earned the right to run it back one more time.
So if they could freeze out, anybody knew they did,
and so you the power that was available to you. Now,
is it a popular opinion? Are a popular thing to do? No,

(27:06):
but you were wholeheartedly endorsed by your coach, who's all
the way through been saying everything she could to just
diminish Caitlyn Clark's effect on what they're trying to do.
And then down Staley goes and does the worst thing
you could possibly do. Yeah, let's sit down and talk
about what you've seen. Hey, you got the selfie with

(27:27):
Barack Obama, you did this, that's great.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Hey, should you have taken Caitlyn Clark?

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Well, no, stick to the script.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I mean, we made a decision. We have to stand
by it. I mean, just think about it. It's weird
because they made the wrong decision. They know they made
the wrong decision. We know they made it because of
pettiness and jealousiness in the well and that she wasn't
gonna get enough minutes. And then going to the second game,
it would be hey, hey, get Kelsey Plump come here. Hey, Telsea, great,

(27:57):
if you don't pick it up a little bit, Caitlyn's
gonna take some minutes from you, right just so you know,
just so Caitlin's going to take some minutes here if
you don't pick it up.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
And she's sitting out the background like Dione Sanders going
I'm coming.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
But you have all of that, so you know, that's
why they didn't pick her. And in the end it
may wind up being the impetus that they need because
they still have the chip on their should I mean,
when I saw them, look at that sign that kid
was holding up that said you need Caitlyn Clark to
beat us, and the interest level but man, can you
believe you like just the fact they're looking and see
the sign about Caitlin Clark, you know how much that

(28:31):
is in their head.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
And the biggest thing that would have been great in
that moment was for some of them to just walk
over say give me a sharpie, let me sign that sign.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Let me sign that for you, Let me sign that
for you. Avoid the clap. Jimmy Dugan, Well, I didn't
think they were giving inscriptions. Let's good advice, exit out
about a fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmon. Maybe the cardboard beds
help with that. Uh, well, we'll have to we'll have

(29:04):
to wait till the end of the Olympics for all
find out the end of Olympics. Sex bed review. Well,
I think you have to count how many condoms they
actually gave out, how many were used, and then then
you'll know the ends. Okay, I mean, I don't know
how you figure out how many you are used. But well,
can't you put like a chip? Din'd you put like
a little chip in the condom you know when it's
used or not. Okay, it was opened or it wasn't.

(29:25):
I mean, I gotta be able.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
To do that.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Now do that? Hey hey, that was used that was
used one I got. I saw it right here. It
was just ripped open three twenty eight a. M all right,
I found it right there. You're supposed to be asleep.
You can put a chip in that. Then you put
one in, can't you? Tomorrow morning, He's gonna be a
spar performance weekend legs The Jason Smith Show with my

(29:50):
best friend Mike Carmen. Well, we're gonna have more Olympic
We do that big Olympic basketball story between France and
Japan for earlier today. Oh, we could do it next
how but however, however, no, well, let's do basketball. However,
we now have a little bit of controversy and craziness

(30:13):
surrounding the biggest trade of the MLB trade deadline. What
team backed out of trading for the biggest player due
to medical concerns? Not Cleveland and not the White Sox
who have just lost their seventeenth in a row. Twenty
eight Bloon saves for you guys this year, sixteen in

(30:35):
a row. Yeah, twenty eight blone saves. If your saves
get wins. Just think if you had a closer who
was good. Maybe you'd be in first place. Maybe that's
all you're missing, is a closer. You know, Kopek could
have been that guy. He was erratic.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
So who is only you know as good going in
when you know it's actually higher going out?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Who backed out of a trade for the best player
that got dealt? Today? That's next Radio Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (31:12):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from Thetireck dot Com Studios. Happy
Trade Deadline Day. The biggest trade of the day, The
Dodgers get starting pitcher Jack Flaherty from the Tigers. Big deal,
Dodgers absolutely needed it, but he could have been a Yankee.

(31:36):
According to Fox's Ken Rosenthal, the Yankees dropped out of
the bidding for Jack Flaherty due to medical concerns. Now
what are they? Flerty's had a couple of injections. It's
his lower back. He was injured, came off the injured list,
and he's been lights out since he's returned. And so

(31:58):
while in theory I understand and hey, oh this guy
and you conturt we to make this trading man trip.
This is so on brand for the Yankees, who are
scared of their own shadow. They are scared of almost
every potential big trade or transaction. Juan Soto got dumped
in their lap and it was easy. Ah, we got
one Soto, but everything else they the Yankees have driven

(32:21):
to the middle right. Like if the Yankees were either
the the the to make a political reference, if the
Yankees were what are you doing the far left or
the far right? Like you love the Yankees? You hated
the Yankees. They did everything bold if the Yankees now
the last five years, they're a politician that is right
down the middle and not saying anything about anything. I
can see both sides of this story. I can see

(32:42):
the people that are upset. I can see the people
that like this. Now. I'm right down now we need
some pragmatism in our world. But ye Yankees have decided
we don't want to do anything. It is not surprising
to me that they backed out of this trade. It's
one thing to back out. Hey here's this, there's bad medicals,
there's all of this you're giving up so much for
this guy. But you know, the Dodgers aren't giving up

(33:04):
you know, the top couple of prospects they had, and
he's come back in these pitch and he's been pretty healthy.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
You want to go back a couple of years ago
happ with the Mets with the Carlos Carea deal which
they said no to. Uh, but are the Dodgers really
trading for Flerty if he's injured, if he's got if
he got I mean I kind of trust the Dodgers doctors.
There are certain teams I don't trust, Like if the
Mets traded for him, I would go, oh boy, we're
in trouble. Man. We are in a lot of trouble.
But the Dodgers aren't trading for Flaherty if he's got

(33:29):
real injury concerns. And again, you don't have a lot
of off of this other than what you're here. You're
not seeing his medicals, you're getting you're getting whatever reports
that the team wants to give you. And it's not like, hey,
we got him in, we examined him, we did this.
Hey I'm telling you we can't make this deal. This
is not surprising that The Yankees backed away because they
back away from almost everything. Hey, we'd like to get him, sure,

(33:52):
but here's Brian Cashmer going, oh boy, if this doesn't
go well, they want my head and I feel like that.
But that's a big part of it all the time. Now,
if I remember when he said, Hey, if I make
a trade, I gotta walk around in this town. Sure
make telling you how worried he is about making a trade,
and you can't be that kind of GM. They made
a couple of really nice moves. Getting Jazz chishm was great, right,

(34:13):
Getting Mark Leeder, who's been really good out of the bullpen.
It's not but who they thought he was coming out
of college. But okay, he's still been pretty good. Yankees
made a couple of good moves. I think they need
a little bit more. But if Chism's gonna hit a
home run every game, I think they'll be okay.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Well, you're also banking, just like the Dodgers, that the
guy guys are gonna come back and healthy and suddenly
in the middle of your lineup is that much better.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's everything. But when it's time for the Yankees to
be bold, they back away like they're afraid and like
that's what. I don't know if it's just years and
years of doing this, but Brian Cashman, he's afraid to
make a big, bold move for anything because I don't
know is he is? He so battle weary from New
York going If this trade doesn't go right, the next
three weeks are gonna be awful. They're gonna talk, They're

(34:53):
gonna want their time without w F A N They're
gonna write about me in the New York Post, They're
gonna talk about me online. They're gonna want me out.
I'm gonna lose this job, not making a trade. Not
making a trade, like that's why I feel the Yankees right,
oh medicals Really he had a couple of injections, No,
don't make the trade. Don't make the trade. The Dodgers
are gonna get him, they're going forward. No, no, don't
make the trade. Don't make the Troe. We're not gonna
do it. Like it does not surprise because the Yankees
are afraid of everything. Well, we watched it for the

(35:15):
last couple of years. I mean even we were expecting.
I think most anybody that follows and covers baseball didn't
think Aaron Boone was coming back this year. Dah there
he is uh.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
And Cashman's a guy that has been seemingly on the
uh at least the warm seat and heating.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Up the last couple of years.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
But as we've seen with Son of Stein, they don't
they don't like a lot of moves, they don't shuffle
up a deal, and they have gone and spent big
in bat I'd be curious what the asking price was
for the Yankees in terms of where they're at, because
the Dodgers it's you had to give up your number eight,
number twenty two prospects.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, yeah, here, Okay, that's fine starter. That's low cost
young guy.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
And even if he doesn't work, like say the back
flares up, you're also thinking you've got all these other
guys coming back. So you made a bold move on
top of the expectation that your rotation is gonna round
itself back into form. He's a nice added chip, but
was he as much as we could say he's a need?

(36:20):
You still had numbers coming back into your rotation. So
he's a nice extra piece for the Yankees. Paralyzed by
some of the New York media and just at this point,
what do you have in terms of prospects.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
I know. And that's the thing is that an organization's
number one prospect, you think like, well, that's gonna be
some of the top two three, probably gonna come in
and be All stars. No, not really, some things they
come up in their serviceable major leaguers for a little while, right,
That's what you could be, is a number one prospect.
So it's also relatively speaking, your organization to give what

(36:59):
the Dodgers gave up. Yeah, you're not okay giving up
your number eight, eight and twenty two for Jackfight. Really
you're not. You're not. You're not okay with that your
eighth best prospect who may wind up being a guy
that's a middle reliever for a couple of years. Just
think about that for a second. Like that, that's how
fraid the.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Exactly if that was the asking price on the Yankee side,
they're so afraid. Well, look, the the division's caught up
to you. You got lucky that Toronto fell off a cliff,
but now you got Baltimore, I mean, Jackson, Holidays back
up and all of that going on. You've got the
Red Sox playing well better, except you know, the post
All Star mess that it's been because of you Yankees.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Just fine, it's my fum. I'm sorry, Boston. They just
find a way to be afraid. Look at that. Coming
up next, we will preview more in the MLB trade deadline. Forear,
we'll pive you the biggest sporting event tomorrow. Keep it
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