All Episodes

May 30, 2024 38 mins

Welcome to the Mets Roast! The Mets DFA Jorge Lopez after he got ejected, threw his glove in the stands, and said he was on “the worst BLEEPIN team in the MLB” And as expected; Bronny James will keep his name in the NBA Draft!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio
dot com, or stream us live every night on the
iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Please give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh boy, buckle up, Welcome inside the Jason Smith Show
with my bes Friendmike Harmon.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Buy from the Tiraq dot com studios tirec dot com.
I'll help you get there an unmatched selection, fast, free shipping,
free road hazard protection at over ten thousand recommended installerstirack
dot com. The way tire buying should be. Well, luckily
we don't have any NBA tonight. And I realize the

(00:58):
spotlight is so huge on us now because hey, whatever,
whatever the most embarrassing story and the sport happens, and
it has to be with one of Jason's teams.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I really got to hear what that's all about.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Luckily there's no NBA because hey, we're
gonna get to laugh at the Mets for the next
few minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Uh, but.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
We couldn't just get I said, a few minutes, I said,
a few minutes, next.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Couple of hours.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
You can't just get swept four hours.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
We can't just get swept like every other team that
gets swept and that no no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Can't do it. Can't do it. Oh boy.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh well, you know, I was trying to explain the
show conceptually to some people as I was walking the dog.
Somehow I seem like I'm friendly, even though I have giant,
oversized headphones on and I'm really trying to just be
left alone so I can walk my circuit either way.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
So someone told me here in radio. I was like, yeah,
so what do you do.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
It's like, well, we kind of laugh at ourselves and
our own our home home teams so that the rest
of the world feels a little bit better and they
forget about the outside world.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
So they oh, yeah, pile on us.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
You'll forget about every network, and I go, well, our teams.
He's a New Yorker and I'm from Chicago. Teams aren't
very good. So yeah, it's it's a lot of just
pile on us.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
So it's good.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, a few years ago, we had the show
So Totally Mets that we you know what, right, it was.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Part of our twenty four hour network. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Sure, Like, hey, you know, thirty minutes of embarrassing Mets
stories a night would be a great show, right, we'd
call the show So Totally Mets. We had the theme
from Ren and Stimpy.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
It was great.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Eh, it's been a while, but no, no, no, now,
I mean there's embarrassing stories for an organization. And there's
what happened just a little bit ago after the Mets
got swept by the Dodgers. Okay, hey, if you have
a if you're having a rough day, if you had
a bad day at work, if you found out your
significant other left with the mailman and you don't even
get mail, something like that happened. If you're stuck in

(02:55):
gridlock somewhere. If you bought shorts in their three sizes
too small, but you still wear him into work, like
Harmon does listen, we have as well as Hemmy. I'm
just saying, I mean, if you know, you realize you
show off the goods short or too small, I'm still
gonna you want to look like Dave Bautista and glass Onion. Sure,
go ahead, but uh, this is what happened. This just

(03:19):
a little bit ago with the Mets. Okay, So the
Mets get swept by the Dodgers. They lose today and
embarrassing fashion, they lose ten three and we're never gonna
win again. They're, for the people in the back, never
gonna win again. So they lose ten three. But part
of the drama was in the eighth inning when the

(03:39):
Dodgers put six runs across Jorge Lopez, who is now
an ex Mets pitcher. He was pitching for the met
not sent down, No, he has been dfaight. After this,
he gives up a big he gives up a few
big hits. Right, he does not have a big game pitching.
He's very upset the big six run eighth inning for
the Dodgers, and he gets really upset after giving up

(04:01):
a home run to show Heyo Tani right makes the
game eight to three. In the game is basically over
because the Dodge batting in the eighth inning, well, Freddie
free Freddie Freeman comes up next and the first pitch
to Freddie Freeman is a check swing, and Lopez, of
course wants to see, Hey, maybe I get a call
here on a cold strike, because you know, I've just
been getting drilled up and down, giving up six runs

(04:23):
in the inning.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
And here is what happened with a Will Smith home
run capped by a show Heyo Tani home run.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
So Otani's first home run here at Citi Field.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
He did homer here with the Angels hust been.

Speaker 7 (04:38):
Someone just got tossed by Ramon de Jesus.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Who was it?

Speaker 7 (04:44):
Who knows?

Speaker 6 (04:47):
I think it was the third base offer, Yeah, it
was Dejesuss has got a short fuse and.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
He threw Lopez out of the game.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's that old bit.

Speaker 7 (04:56):
I don't know. It's saved him.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And that's adding insult to injury because.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
Now the Mets have to bring in a cold reliever, right, you.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
Bring a position player in now?

Speaker 7 (05:12):
Wait, that's frustration by Lopez.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
I don't know how Lopez and Ramonte Jesus would have
anything to say to each other.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just hang on, let's get get some
most there.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Hang on.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Well, what has been a bad day all the way
around has just gotten worse. WHOA and Lopez responds by
tossing his glove up over the netting and into the crowd.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
And that's where the Mets are at right now.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Ron Dorwy summing up the twenty twenty four New York
Mets in one sentence.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
So it was borderline cadence of Marv Almert. That is
where the Mets are.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Not exactly Lopez had in mind.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Uh So, he's upset that he doesn't get the check
swing strike call from the third base umpire, and he
starts barking at him, and Hayeshus throws him out of
the game right away. And you know, he untugs his
his his jersey, and so he walks off and he
takes his glove and he throws it into the stands. Okay,
normally that would be enough to be really embarrassing because

(06:23):
you don't see the player throw his glove into the
stands off oftentimes doesn't that happen.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
But I mean it's it's the baseball bat to the
water cooler kind.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Of thing with that point.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
But remember remember Mets, So I mean anything is possible,
right it is Mets. Sure, Mets, so anything is possible.
Throws his glove into the stands. Well, all right, then
things are really difficult and there's some stuff going on.
It's just another bad day and a bad Mets season
where they're one of the worst teams in baseball, and
it's just embarrassing as hell, right, Okay, that should be enough. No, no,

(06:52):
no no. Following the game, Lopez at his locker and again,
I say, for the last time as a met, was
asked if he had any regrets, because look, throwing your
glove into the stands, it is a little childlike, it's
a little embarrassing. Do you regret throwing your glove into
the stands? And? Oh boy, listen to what Orge Lopez

(07:14):
has to say.

Speaker 8 (07:14):
Colas Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
is unacceptable looking back on it. Do you regret doing that?

Speaker 9 (07:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
I don't regret it.

Speaker 9 (07:28):
I think I've been looking the worst deam in probably
in the whole MLB. So, you know, whatever happened happened.
So whatever they want to do it, I'll be tomorrow
here if they want me, you know, whatever they want
to do, So I'm gonna keep doing this thing, you know,
so I'm healthy on whatever, you know, whatever to do

(07:51):
you know. I'm I'm ready to come back tomorrow day.
Want me be here, so I'll be.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Here, yepening.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
No, when you call the team you play on the
worst team in the whole blanking MLB, we'll hear it
again in a second.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Is uh, it's not the baddest cat town. I mean,
this is just a negative. We would sweep the White Sox.
Come on, man, let's not be to be silly here.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Uh he called his team the worst team in the
whole blanking league. I mean, and uh, you know when
this story comes up and I see him trend and
I go, why the hell is he trending?

Speaker 9 (08:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh boy, oh boy?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
He called his team the worst team in Major's back?
You know what I feel like sometimes when I see
stories like this, like when when Homer had the time?
When when uh uh remember remember this episode where Bart
was like leading the kid revolt and it was on
the news and we're here with the young lad who
is spearheading this revolt, and and Obert goes, don't be
the boy, don't be the boy, don't be the boy,

(08:48):
and it's him Like I see a story like this
and I go, don't be the Mets don't be the Mets.
Don't be Nope, it's the Mets.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
And and he.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Low Bezt calls the Mets the worst blanking I don't
regret throwing my glove in the stands because it's the
worst blanking team in all of baseball. Listen to it
again and you'll hear it. Go ahead, let's hear it
from the beginning one more time.

Speaker 8 (09:05):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
was unacceptable looking back on it, do you regret doing that?

Speaker 4 (09:17):
I don't know you even hesitate.

Speaker 9 (09:19):
I think I've been looking the worst steam in the
whole MLB.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
So now he said it the whole he said, I'll
tell you it's whole. Plates is he is?

Speaker 8 (09:34):
He?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Is he wrong with how bad the Mets have been?

Speaker 8 (09:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Do you say that about your team?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
What the hell is wrong with you? Man?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Ready for Francisco boy a second? So Steve Gelbs, who
is the.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Mets sideline reporter, reporter in game reporter, went on and
asked Lopez again, Hey, you know, he gave him a
chance to clarify, like, maybe you got you got loose
little bit of your little upset, he said on his
on his tweet about a a little while ago, about
a half hour ago. I gave Lopez a chance to clarify,
and he confirmed that's what he meant. So you sure

(10:07):
you mean the Mets the worst, the worst team in
all of baseball? I am confirming it. Oh my goodness,
come on, man, this is what a what I mean
every time I say to myself, Hey, we have a
great owner, We're gonna make money. In the last ten years,
been of the Playoffs three times, the World Series once.
This is a bad year. We got a great guy
running the team and David Stars. Oh my god, no,

(10:29):
we gotta be an absolute tire fire man. There is none.
The Mets just can't be a professional franchise for more
than five bleep in minutes before something like this happens.
And this guy, he's in the locker room and he
knows him No, I'm in the worst blanket team and
made I can't believe. You know, hopefully nobody heard this,
because I can't believe nobody walked over and just said,
what the blank is? What?

Speaker 3 (10:48):
What the hell did you just say?

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Man? What the hell did you just say, get the
hell out of this clubhouse. Get the hell. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Did that umpire give up six runs? Did
he give up the home run to show hey TONI
I'm sorry that happened. Who give up all these runs?
Whose fault is it? You're giving up runs when you're pitching?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'm sorry? Who is that?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Who is it? Somebody else? I mean, I know the
Mets defense isn't great, but it's not like a little
league team where ground balls the second basement go through
people's legs. I mean, I know it is the Mets,
but I'm pretty sure it's you giving up all these runs.
Pretty sure it's you getting tattooed all over the yard?

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Pretty sure?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Was you giving up an opposite field home run to
show Aotani and then being upset that you didn't get
a check swing call?

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Come on, man, be a bleeping professional. But nope, it's
gotta be my team. It's got to be the Mets.
So here the smile that's on everybody's faces right now,
in Mike Carmen, it is worth it for me. It's
worth all the cards. I'm gonna get all the thank yous.
I'm gonna get It's worth it for me because I
can bring this kind of attention to all of the
all of our audience. And it has nothing to do

(11:45):
with any of their teams. And it's my team which
just can't get out of their own way.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
No, and it's been just one thing after the next, right,
some ineffectiveness.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Now injury.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
Your guy Diaz goes to the IL after all of
his struggles in the close role. We we talked about
Batty yesterday and that that play and whether he needs
to go back to the minor leagues or if you
just have to accept the fact that he's a d
h that you have to play in the field. Right,
and even then, is he really that Uh? I'll give

(12:17):
you one one thing that will make you feel a
little bit better. The White Sox right now are are
looking to have their first homestand of seven or games,
seven games or more where they go winless in team history.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, but you know what, that's the thing. You're doing
it anonymously, like you're doing it. Hey, we're gonna lose,
but we're not.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
We're gonna well, you know, the.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
White Sox, the White Sux. You're like mister Cell of Fame, Hey.
At the end of his song, John c Riley says,
I hope I didn't take up too much of your time.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, I identify with that guy. That's the problem, right,
John c Riley is me.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
The White Sox are like, hey, you know what we're
doing our updates tonight. Whether it Steve de Seg or
Kevin Wyatt or Nick Cope, whoever it is, it's it's uh, hey,
I'm sorry I had to give the White Sox score.
Didn't that much of your time? Let's go laugh at
the Mets. Look at the Mets. We make these mistakes big,
bold and out loud and all kinds of crazy colors.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
You can't miss it because this is the Mets.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
Mike, I got one up.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
All this boy, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
We haven't even hit it yet.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Uh No, I think we've hit the best part.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
We heard this go ahead.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
That was after a twenty minute closed door meeting, right.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Closed door meeting with that Lindor had called after it. Yeah,
so after that's done, and then they got to talk
to Ottavino and Lindor and the Lindor is the best quote.
If our manager says it's unacceptable, it's unacceptable. With that
being said, I hope tomorrow he feels completely different. He's
still in the heat of the moment and he carries
things a little longer than the other players. So hopefully

(13:48):
tomorrow he feels different. If he doesn't, at the end
of the day, he's our teammate and we have to
compete day in and day out, and I'll back him up.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Jason knows how this, Mike, Yeah, he's part of the team. Yeah,
and figure it out.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah. Well yeah, well he has been. He has since
been DFA by the Mets. So his career is a Metazoa.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Pick him up and he'll win twenty games.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
No see. But but here's here's the issue now, and
here's a bigger issue.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Cat. We'll talk about this for like four hours because
it's the Mets.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Is that you have a situation where you had a
you had a teammate call your team the worst team
in all of baseball, and you had the first two
guys come out and make excuses for him and say, yeah,
he's our team and his dude, he said you were
the worst. Who's who's got a spine on this team?
If I am David Stearns, I am trading everybody tonight
I'm saying, you know what, call I'm like the irate

(14:43):
fantasy owner who wants to leave a league because I can't.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Stand the commissioner.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
And I'm like, you know what, call me whatever all
for you give me, I'll give you my guys. I'll
give my guys at a really discount rate because I
don't care because I can't stand the owner.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
They should trade everybody after tonight.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Really, I get I go through this mode like three
or four times ye when they trade everybody. But I mean,
this is one of those Hey man, this is I mean,
what the hell, man, I mean, have some pride, Have
some pride?

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Man, Oh, this is just okay, yep. Well we'll have
a teammate. We've gotten back.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
I know, I know, I know. It can't without being
an absolute tire fire. This is the Mets. Oh boy, Okay,
So we have more on this big breaking story coming up,
and we'll laugh at the Mets throughout the night on
the show. Again, I assume you are feeling a whole
hell of a lot better than you were ten minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Boy, I don't have Jason Smith sports life.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
This is fantastic. So we'll have more on this and
coming up next, we have some big NBA Draft news.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike. You are listening
to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Two NBA Insiders podcasting twice a week to plug you
right into the NBA Great.

Speaker 10 (16:00):
Fight, all happening in only one place. This League Uncut,
the new NBA podcast with Me Chris.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Haynes and me Mark Stein join.

Speaker 10 (16:10):
Us as we team up to expound on everything we're covering.
Hearing and Chason.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Listen to This League Uncut with Chris Haynes and Mark Stein.

Speaker 10 (16:18):
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get
your podcasts.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is my best friend.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Mike Harmon.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Ready for a new job like Jorge Lopez, Hey, let
Express Employment Professionals out. Express is hiring for jobs in
a variety of industries and job seekers never pay a
fee at Express. Check out expresspros dot com to find
your location. That's expresspros dot com. So yeah, congratulations about
how bad things are for your team. I see your

(16:49):
team and I raise you the New York Mets.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
I don't know if my team's bad enough that they
had the manager two days in a row said our
guys are lazy, shift list.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
It sucks and look and they haven't even fired the guys.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Stop nobody, you're not fire a manager anonymously.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Noboddy, you're losing anonymously?

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Did you're doing it the way it should be done it? Well?

Speaker 5 (17:12):
I need to shout more? Do I need to shout
more and take over for you? New York clown? You
cannot outclown the New York Mets. Come on, man, what
the hell is wrong with you? You've been doing the show
for more than five minutes.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
You're not a rookie. You think you can outclown the Mets.
Come on, beres no, no, no, I need you to
say I apologize for the most ridiculous thing I've said
in ten years. I could outclown the Mets, cause you
know you can't. You know there's no way, not even
the Jets can outclown the Mets. And that's close, man,
that's really close.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's like, well, you know what, man, we'll find out
in about two and a half months about that one.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, I mean the White Sox are I mean, nobody cares.
Come on, there's like five of us.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Can't outclown them and whoever they could jole into throwing
out the first pitch, cream a duel, jabbar a couple
of days ago and whatever.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
So here we go again, in case you m has
sit the sound bite. That's gold.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
That's gonna be everywhere for the next twenty four hours.
Mets lose to the Dodgers. That gets swept again, and
the Mets lose an embarrassing fashion and now former reliever
Orge Lopez victim gave up six runs in the eighth inning.
So upset after a Otani home run, he got tossed
by the third base umpire arguing a ball strike. On

(18:27):
the next batter, Freddie Freeman. Lopez gets so mad he
walks off the field. He throws his glove into the stands. Okay,
you don't see that every day. But again Mets. After
the game was over and after a twenty minute meeting
that Francisco Lindor called, which, hey, let's talk about this now.
Oh great, let's have a closed door meeting. Now the
season's bleeping over, the season's like okay, we'll get to

(18:50):
that part of it. But how about a closed door
meeting when when you are like five hundred, or how
about let's have a closed door meeting now and.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
You're ten games under five runner, No, this is when
you happen to have it because you played different musical
acts every day? This right?

Speaker 3 (19:04):
How many? How many bands did you lose? For forever?

Speaker 1 (19:07):
The season's over, We're gonna play Fleetwood Mac.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
It's going to change the feel in the locker room.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
How great is my bet looking, Jason?

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Listen, listen more wins.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
You might be right man, and the Mets be right.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
I uh look, I uh. It might be my fault
because why the Mets were twelve and eight. They were
a season I four games over five hundred. Then I
went to my first game live this season. Since then,
the Mets are now ten and twenty five. Yeah, so
since I went to a game, they are ten and
twenty five. Apparently it's my fault. But this is not
my fault. So here's Lopez. He throws his love into
the stands. The Mets have a meeting after. Okay, that's great,

(19:45):
And here's Lopez being asked about his actions if he
regrets them, and then he gives you the statement that
is just going to completely take over every new cycle
in the country.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
Colas Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action have thrown your glove into the stands
was unacceptable looking back on it, do you regret doing that?

Speaker 9 (20:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (20:07):
I don't regret it. I think I've been looking the
worst team in pro in the whole MLB.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
So yeah, nerds, I've been playing on the worst blanking
team in mlb'.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
This is what he says about his team.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
The Mets have designated him for assignment and will be
official tomorrow. I'm sure he'll go something like, yes, the
Braves will sign him, the Phillies will sign him. He'll
be a great, lights out middle reliever in the pen,
and it'll be the eighth inning of the NLCS.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's gonna go. Boy.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
You know, what a what a journey for Jorge Lopez.
You know, you had that horrible misfortune with the Mets
and being on the Mets, and then he gets his
way out of New York by being a baby, and
look where he is now, A sparkling era of one
point seventy nine as he's been the best setup man
in all of baseball since the beginning of June.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
I could just see it. I see it.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
No, No, The first line of that is the fiery
reliever found his space once he was extricated from the
New York Met's locker room. So in you know, since
you said, what ten and twenty five, since you saw
that game, Yeah, it's my keep in line with the
mister cell of fane comments, let's grab it dowt their musical.
Uh it was your fault straight out of into the woods.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Come on, yeah, no, it's mind you Yeah, no, no, no,
it's uh it really it could be my fault.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
It could be my fault.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Now, and here's where I am right now, here's to
tell you the depths of where I am, of the
embarrassment of this story where now you know it's it's
it's when a guy on your team says we're the
I've been on the worst blanket team in all of baseball,
like this is, you know on eBay today, I was
really excited because I found you know, did no no, no, no, no, no, yeah,

(21:42):
I know, like, well, all Mets gears should be free.
Now forget about fifty percent off. I told you last night,
all Mets gears should be fifty percent off wherever you
buy a eBay, Craigslist, MLB fan shop, you know, at
see whatever it is, METSA No, now, it should.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Be all free.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
So I was really bry this guy for a buck, though,
just to wear it back into the studio to taunt you.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
If you give me a dollar, I'll wear it.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
And so I found the City Connect hat, which is
pretty sweet, right, the gray hat with the Queensboro Bridge
and the purple button on the top of the bill.
And they had it in the new ninety stretch snap
that I told is my new figuite hat to I'm like,
oh my god, I'm gonna get And they had one
on Eba. I'm like, I'm gonna buy it. And I
was so excited to get even with the Mets loss,
I didn't care. Now this, I'm like, can I return it?

(22:26):
Can I cancel it?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Really?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I want to cancel the transaction, Like can I how
can I wear any Mets? How can I wear any
Mets gear? How can you do it?

Speaker 5 (22:33):
I I'll get you one of these. I've got one
for some of my my Goren hats.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Right.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
So it's it's a plastic, plastic shelving system, and it's
got a nice drawer that you can pull out and
then you can go in and select the one you want.
So what you can do right now is retire all
the Mets hats, get all the Jets ones back in
circulation and Syracuse ones, and then eventually the Mets will
have a stretch where you start to believe like a
dope again, and then you can pull those back out

(22:59):
and they'll be dust free. Don't be ready to go
and ready to put right back on your head? How
about that? How about I pull that off for you
to save you from yourself. I mean, dude, it's it's hard, man,
it's hard.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
I mean I could say I'll feel better tomorrow, but no,
Now I'm gonna deal with the after effect of this. Ah,
I played for the worst blanket team in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
The after effect is where does he sign to come
back to screw you?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
That's really all.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
That's really the end game because the rest of the
team is still gonna suck.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's not like, hey, that guy said we sucked, Now
let's go. We're ready to go.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
The Brave look the Braves look the Braves do this
just to troll the Mets. Oh you don't think Travis
Darnaut can catch away. We'll have Travis Darno and the
guy turns into now a guy that that stays healthy
and produces. Hey, we traded away Jared Kalnick, but we
traded unto the American League.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Was a really bad trade.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh hey, now we'll get him as the Braves and
we'll left Jared kelvinicks. You can see that.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
I'm sure the Braves have sent some kind of private
jet to pick up Lopez from wherever he's staying in Queen's.
That's gonna bring him down to Atlanta for the next
I'm sure that's what's happening. Well, that'd be pretty cool.
The Quinnjet shows up. Yeah, yeah, the Avenger's Quinnjet is there. Hey,
it's being piloted by Iron Man. It's so embarrassing. I

(24:13):
really want to try to return this. I'm like, really,
I I I have to be able to write. I mean,
it's only been there. I can dude. The hat is
pretty sweet, but I can't even get excited about it.
I can't even get excited about it. You will know
that I wanted you will know.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
When it shows up, you're gonna talk about it and
you're gonna bring it in. You're gonna be so proud,
and then Ben's gonna come in as we finished this show.
It's like, that's a good looking new hat, buddy, and
then you're gonna talk about how you got it.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Look it's the.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Flex fit, and you're gonna do a whole sales job
like you're you're shilling for the company that makes said.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
And then he's gonna get like he's a girl at
the bar.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
You do know, though, this isn't gonna stop you.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
This is just awful.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
We've been doing this cycle with you for a decade.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
This is this one might be a little bit more embarrassing,
but in the end, it's it's all just losing and sucking.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
With the exception of that World Series.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Run, Jason, you don't know how to not come back
for more.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
It's it's hard, man, You're a gloss of punishment. It's
it's really hard, man, it really is. I mean I
just add like I said, I needed the next you know,
I always say I need my teams to get me
to the next team, right, get me to the next team,
and get me the next team to get the next team.
I need the Knicks to get me to the Mets,
to get me to the Jets, right, And that's how
it goes. But what did I say during the playoff
during the NBA player, I needed the Knicks to fly

(25:35):
me over the Mets, Fly me over the Mets and
get me to the Jets. Because the Mets are doing anything,
I gotta fly me over it. And then come all
the way down. You got a minor league team you
can attach yourself to.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Over it and all the way down.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
I mean, I mean, you want you want to become
a trash Pandace fan or something.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Dude, get one of those.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
Sweet Star Wars jerseys they had and start rocking that roundtown.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
But I mean, but just but just think about that.
I mean, just you know, this is how bad this
season is. And the Mets wait until now. Now, we're
gonna have a closed door meeting right now. We're gonna
have now when we've gone ten and twenty five, okay,
ten and twenty five over the last month and a half.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Now is hey, we have to have a meet, we
got we got to talk things out here.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Well, maybe I believe Steve Cohen when he kept saying,
everything's all right, we'll still figure it out.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Maybe they believed what he.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Was saying because behind the scenes he was given them
the same.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Stupid message that he wants to the rest of us.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
I mean, I don't know what to say, man, I
really I don't know what to say.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Just say you're gonna come back for more tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
I can't. I can't.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
You will though, I can't.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Dude, It's awful.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I mean now, I mean, this is and this is
what always upsets me so much about seasons. Whenever coaches
or a team when they struggle out of the gate
and he says, don't worry, it's early. There's so much
ball to play. We go through these ups and down.
It's no all these games count, man, And every time
the Mets would lose a series or something, it would
be I hear Carlos Mendoza saying, hey, it's early. We

(27:00):
know we have to start picking it up. We know
we have to start playing better. You have the fourth
worst record in all of baseball. You've been terrible for
a month and a half. Again, worst record in all
of baseball the last month and a half. That's how
bad it's been. But no, no, everything is early, and
we don't want to panic. And David Stearns yesterday saying, hey,
I don't know what kind of team we are and
we have to wait and play Alima, have you not

(27:20):
been watching the last month? And I mean I've been watching.
I know how bad this team is. I know they
can't get any hits, runners in scoring position, and they
just have overloaded a tax bullpen and the starters which
were pitching okay at the beginning of the season now
are back to regress to the mean.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
I mean, what's everybody else watching? Oh it's early, it's early.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
The season is over. It's over for them before we
even hit June first. And they're still saying as recently
as yesterday, hey, we don't we don't know. Uh, we
don't know what what's going on. We've got to wait
and see what kind of team. We're not sure what
kind of team?

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Right?

Speaker 1 (27:51):
No, I know what kind of team. I know exactly. Okay,
how do you not know what kind of team we are?
I don't draw a paycheck from them, I don't get paid.
I know what kind of team we are? How do
you not know? Oh now, let's have a meeting now,
it's oh that's great. Thanks appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
As we talked about yesterday, some of that is you've
got to play it, play it out because the teams
that will be buyers don't necessarily know their buyers and
all of that psychology that you're playing as a general
manager as well as you know, just not going in
front on anybody, throwing things into the crowd and saying.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
We stick like your players did.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
But I'll put it in the language that you understand,
and that the parlance that we've used for a decade
together here for our global audience. Remember that episode when
Aunt Gladys dies on The Simpsons and Homer gets that
giant sandwich. Homer, have you been eating that sandwich again?
That's you and the Mets. I could never stay mad

(28:45):
at you. And he's hugging the sandwich. That's you and
the Mets, buddy, right, it's like deteriorating. Yeah, it's gray
and discolored.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
The Mets are eating sofa sandwich right now.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
This is this is so embarrassing. The Jason Smith Show
is my best friend Mike Carmen Law from the Tirec
dot com studios Ready for a new job. Let Express
Employment Professionals help expresses hiring for jobs in a variety
of industries and job seekers never pay a fee at Express.
Check out expresspros dot com to find your location.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
That's expresspros dot com.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
So now I am thinking, I really am it really
is the sam I really do think the Homer Simpson.
I've been thinking about your analogy, and now I give
you credit because you made the worst one a few
minutes ago, when you thought you could outclown the Mets.
Can't do that.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
But I think, yeah, I internalized it from my own clowndom.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
I think Homer in the sand I think that's kind
of me in the it's Homer in the sandwich.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
I think it is. I think I think you're right
about it. I want a sandwich, which, well you don't
want that sandwich because it's bad, you know.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
But I think I'm trying to lose a little bit
of weight. I go clean in the gills and it's
not going to be digestible.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Now that's a dumpster sandwich.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Do you lose your weight?

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
I had stomach virus for a couple of days. Man,
it was great. I love I lost eleven pounds. I
feel fantastic. Right, I'm going to buy new jeans. This
is fan Jason.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
You know what's in a dumpster sandwich?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Uh? What frostburg?

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Mister Metts.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh wow, you know, mister Mett doesn't need to catch
any strays on this story.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Okay, missus Mett's gonna leave him after that.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
No, come on, missus Mets in it for life, man,
there's no after this. No, no, no, missus mister Mets
in all the little Mets are in all the med
The Mets are all in right, the Mets are There's
only room for one clown franchise, and it's my team.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Okay, just so you know.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
Yeah, in the spring training though, suddenly miss missus Met
looks a lot different. Missus missus Met is wearing an
Otani jert and then well it becomes a giant story.
It's like she was blind, Like did she just dye
her hairs? Wait, that's a different missus Met.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
No.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
You see, he couldn't take it anymore.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
You see a pictures like, oh, hey, you know, I
know Otani just got married, but here he is with
a mysterious woman at dinner and you just see like
one of those zip Bruder films, and it's Otani and
this huge head with a medsan sitting across from dude.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Missus Mett's gonna start showing up the games with a
veil on.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh, she just showed up to games with a bag
over it, with the big head and the biggest bag
you can get over her head. That's oh, man, I'll
tell you this is this is this Mets?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
What man something?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Carmon
Live from the Tiraq dot Com Studios.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Oh, trust me, we'll.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Have more on that's because this story actually has another
new wrinkle just in the last couple of minutes. But
straight ahead, you want the best news for the NBA
Draft coming up? Oh, we got it for you. That's
next right here, Jason and Mike.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Believe it or not, there's a new wrinkle coming up
with this Mets story. Oh boy, you know it just
giving you know it's Yeah, I mean, just when you think, okay,
the night is gonna end at some point for the Mets,

(32:04):
no no, no, no, no, no no. Now there's controversy
and it just gets reinforced.

Speaker 8 (32:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
But again, we'll have that coming up in about ten minutes.
We need to break from the Mets. I need a
break from the Mets for ten Can you give me
a break for ten minutes from the Mets. I need
a ten minute break from the Mets. Ten minute break,
ten minute.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Break, gets a timeout on the court.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
I prom Jason Smith is sick and tired of talking
about the Mets. He needs to talk it over with
Mike Furtello. So we got great news in the NBA today.
Bronnie James is staying in the draft. Yeah wait, what
what do you mean?

Speaker 5 (32:39):
What?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Chase, wait a bit, you've been tripling down on what
you think is gonna happen. He's not gonna get drafted.
The Lakers are gonna sign him at the end. He's
gonna wind up being there. That we've seen Rich Paul
and Clutch Sports say hey, we're only gonna work out
for a couple of teams, and we're not gonna do
a two way contract. He's scaring everybody off to get
Brian in the Lakers. Yes, but here's where I zig
when you think I'm gonna zag. This is an NBA

(33:03):
draft that, let's face it, does this have any buzz?
Do you have any real desire to watch the NBA draft.
There's no Wemby, There's no players that at the top
of the draft that people even know a lot about
who they are. Look, I told you the guy I
take this to Fon Castle. He's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
That's a guy.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Take number one. I don't care about anybody else. I
know the kind of player he's gonna project to be
in the NBA. That's the guy I take. He's a goya.
Take number one overall. But it's not exciting. It's not
an exciting draft. There's a lot of players that people
don't know about. The big players in college aren't players
that are gonna really translate into the next level. They
need this. The NBA draft needs Bronni James in because

(33:41):
this is the This is the best thing for the
NBA draft. Bronnie James is not scheduled to be taken
until sometime in the second round if he is drafted
right now. Normally what happens the NBA draft begins. You
watch the first few picks, and then you get to
a point where, okay, I'm kind of checking in right, Well,
saw the for the people I all know about all
been drafted. Now here's a bunch of European big men

(34:02):
or guys I don't know about. I didn't see this
guy play. I didn't see it, and you're done. Now.
As the draft goes on, it just gets more interesting.
Is somebody really gonna draft Bronnie James? Are the Lakers
really gonna draft Bronnie James in the second round? Are
they gonna somehow get an extra second round pick so
they can take Bronnie James? Doesn't so it doesn't look like, oh,

(34:23):
we're just cow telling to lebron and using a second
round pick on it. And then you go all the
way to the end. It's like watching the finale of
a TV show. You gotta watch it gets closer to
the end because that's where all the big drama is. Like,
all the big drama for the NBA Draft is gonna
be as it gets on, it gets closer to the end,
and when it ends, if he's not drafted, then it's
gonna be where's he gonna go, because you know he's

(34:45):
gonna sign someplace right after the draft is over. It's
what happens, right Where is he going? What like Bronnie
James is the draft and even and even the fact
that we might not hear his name called it all
and if we do, we're gonna hear it very late.
This is the best thing because you're gonna watch the
whole draft, pay attention to it.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I'm hearing rumors, what's going on.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
What's Adrian wol Jerowski saying, Hey, here's somebody's interested in
Bronnie James. If he's there at twenty one, if he's
there or at thirty one or forty five or whatever
it is, you are gonna watch this entire thing. The
NBA draft needs Bronnie Jay, whether you like him as
the player or not, when you think he's good or not,
how much he needs before he really gets into the
NBA or not, The NBA draft needs him and they
need him so much. And that's why this was such

(35:24):
great news today that he's staying in the draft.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Well, that's the thing that's just so chaotic about it, right,
is that you've got some of these guys you mentioned Castle,
and we'll see where Ed and these other guys get picked,
and you know they're projected second round. A lot of
these guys are second round the names that you actually
know the problem with college basketball at this point is
those guys that hang around where they became household names like, oh,

(35:48):
there's gotta be something wrong with him, or this doesn't
translate or whatever the case may be. But for Bronnie James, yeah,
every pick in between, who's that guy from Yeah, he's
from Serbia. We got any footage. No, let's talk about
Bronnie James and what Rich Paul wants to do and
how they're gonna control free agency and everything else, right,
because you're going straight into the opt out season and

(36:09):
all of that fun stuff where we've heard all the
rumors and conjectures you mentioned, Hey, Bronnie's only gonna work
out for the Lakers and for the Suns and Budenholzer
and these ten teams have been told to pound sand
and on and on and on. We got we got
a month of that now with him staying in a
bunch of other players went back to school, Go get

(36:30):
your nil, go get better, more seasoning, whatever. Bronnie James,
while he may benefit from much the same, the machine
needs to be fed. And Rich Paul and Lebron James. Look,
if you've got leverage and you can push buttons and
make it all about you, damn it isn't that what
everybody wants? Someone to give a care about you for

(36:50):
two minutes and Bronnie James is gonna have a whole
month of it.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Oh yeah, look look just think about the time leading
up where hey, so and so wanted him to work
out and they said no, Oh, now is Rich Paul
pulling strang like it's it's the drama that we normally
get with Lebron, except now we're getting it with Bronnie. Hey,
he's working out for the Lakers, He's working out for
the Suns. What's another team he's gonna work out for.
Here's a list of teams Bronnie James is gonna work
out for. And of course, while all this is going on,

(37:16):
Lebron is going to do nothing to make anybody think, hey,
I'm coming back to the Lakers. He's gonna want Bronni
to have his entire moment because it's all about him,
So you're gonna get nothing.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's gonna be all kinds of rumors.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
And as you like to say, rumor, conjecture, speculation, it's
where's Lebron gonna go? Even though he's staying with the Lakers, Like,
where's he gonna go? Could he really leave to go
somewhere with Bronnie? Oh, look, the Mavericks are working out Bronnie.
Could Lebron go there and be another guy there? And
Lebron plays with Kyrie here and Bronni's there too, Like
it is. It is a it is a lead up
to the draft about Bronnie James. It's a night about

(37:50):
Bronnie James. It's the majority of the broadcasts of the
draft about Bronnie James. And after the broadcast is about
Bronnie James. I mean, it's gonna when you wrap it up,
the first line and every update is going to be blank.
And Blank was taken first overall in the NBA draft,
and Bronnie James is with Blank after getting drafted in
the second round or signing as an undrafted free agent.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
That's how good, that's how big a deal. This is
for the NBA.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
They got to run with it, right and sell it. However,
you can all sorts of anonymous quotes about his aptitudes
and every oh, yeah, this is great this.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Eventually they'll have a coach. Yeah eventually, but that's a ya. Hey,
you gotta let Bronnie have the have the spotlight for
a while. Man, All in good time, All in good time.
Just wait, I think Doc's still getting paid by the Bucks,
so I think we're okay, exit out about it, Fransca exit,
swollen down.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
I mean a huge gift to the NBA.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Congratulations up next, Yeah, and even newer wrinkle in this
crazy ass met story.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Fox
Advertise With Us

Hosts And Creators

Jason Smith

Jason Smith

Mike Harmon

Mike Harmon

Popular Podcasts

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.

24/7 News: The Latest

24/7 News: The Latest

The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.