March 7, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon reacted and gave their thoughts on the Raiders trading SUPERSTAR Maxx Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens!
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buying should be. We still have not even hit free eight.
We still have not really seen a bunch of trades.
But I don't know that anybody can win the off
season more than the Ravens have big, big NFL news.
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Just a few moments ago you had Door. We'll get
to Aaron Judge grinding into a double play against the
high school pitcher. We'll get to Jason Tatum and his
pesky return. What that didn't happen is not on TV.
There's there's no error, No that you that's AI. It's
all AI. That didn't actually happen.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
The you should be happy, Frostburg, you got rid of
You got the greatest pass rushers in the last decade
is out of your division.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Has Joe Burrow asked for a trade yet?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Joe Burrow? Yeah, Joe Burrow is uh like, why is
Joe Burrow trending on?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, because he's got to face a bunch of dudes
now twice a year.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Six games out of your season.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is just a few moments old, maybe a little
bit less than a half hour. The first big domino
of the off season has fallen, and again the Ravens
already won the offseason. The Raiders are trading Max Crosby
to the Ravens in exchange for two first round picks
twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. So now they're
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gonna pick first and fourteenth. They got a first round
pick next year. The Ravens beating out the offer of
the Dallas Cowboys, who are willing to offer a first
and a second round pick to the Raiders for Crosby.
Who in Zeid goes to the Ravens. He's a big
toy for Jesse Minter. And I'll be honest, Mike Carmon,
I'm coming into tonight and I'm going I can't believe
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no one's made this trade for Max Crosby. How is
Max Crosby still a Raider? How is Max robs the Raider?
I would have given up more for Max Crosby. You
are not gonna get a guy this good, still with
at least three maybe four peak years left to wreck
havoc like he has for the past six or seven.
This is a two time All Pro and a five
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time pro bowler. He averages ten sacks a year. You're
not gonna get better this. Hell yeah, I trade at
least two first round picks to get Max Crosby. This
is it. He is the definition of a plug and
play guy. He doesn't need to be coached, He doesn't
do anything. His motor, his attitude just s you up there.
It is Max. Go get the quarterback, go do your
thing like he is. You can just pick him up,
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bring him over, PLoP him down and he is fantastic.
He wanted out of Vegas. Vegas had to make a deal.
I'd give him up more for him. This is a
tremendous move for the Ravens. Yes, first two first round picks.
I get it. But you're getting one of the top
edge rushers in the game the past decade that's still
twenty eight years old. Yes, you go get Max Crosby.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, we were talking about it a little then as
getting ready to come into the studio. It's like, you know,
I and Roddy are producer on the iWatch of Flex
and part of our team. Here he goes that the
Jets got more first Sauce Gardner like, yeah, that is
that is true because you got ad Mitchell. He got
a couple of first round picks. Now, some of this
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becomes the question of you know, where you're trying to
do Crosby a solid not sending him to Football Siberia
if the offers were the same. But it seems like
an opportunity to truly maximize things, and you know, conflicting
reports of how much he wanted in or out. Yes,
he was upset at the last regime for Operation Shutdown,
but could that have been remedied. All of this stuff
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with Guerrero and everything going on, and whether you got
moles and guys that are trying to exert some clout
where they had should have none and and unrest there.
But to get this type of player for two draft picks,
I got like four texts from all my guys in Baltimore.
I can't read any of them because they're all so
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expletive laden about picks. And I mean, it takes everything
that the rams have said, and you know they added
all the extra extra language to adjacent and they'll still
in the playoffs there. But you've now pushed all in.
You needed a pass rush. I would have thought you
would have just signed O ways since we saw mintor
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unlock him here in Los Angeles. But it doesn't preclude
that move, dude, But you make the big push here
and you go get the guy.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He's a terror. Max Crosby is an absolute terror. He
is a lunatic in the best way possible, right, like
his attitude, the edge he plays with. Nobody likes playing
against him. Look, it's my favorite Max Crosby story of
all times, all the things he has done, my favorite
Max Crosby story is from not this preseason, but last
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preseason when the Raiders had a joint practice with the Rams.
And you know, joint practice, you don't hit the quarterback.
You let him go, and if it looks like the
play is getting close, you know, they blow the whistle
so the quarterback doesn't get hurt. Right, this is how
you do it. And Matthew Stafford telling the story after
their joint practice, how mad he got because Max Crosby
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kept getting in the backfield and yelling sack sack, sack, like,
you gotta blow the play dead because I want to
sack Matthew Stafford and he goes, we can't even run place.
He's this lunatics running around in the backfield, sack sack,
sack like. That's my favorite Max. He is a lunatic
in the best way. He can wreck a game all
by himself. There's not enough. I mean, I don't know.
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Three first round pick, sure I would have, because I'm saying,
how many years am I gonna get out of him?
That are gonna be great? Right? You don't know what
could happen, obviously, but in theory he's twenty eight, I'm
gonna get three four great years out of him. He
is that big of a talent, you know. To go
back to less Need, who said the other day when
the Rams made that big trade for McDuffie, was the
first thing we do is look and say, are there
any all pros we can get? Right? And that's a
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great way to look at it, because free agency this
year especially, you look at the people out there. Not
a great year. Man. People are gonna overpay for some
duds in free agency. Man, I'm telling you, but who
do you look? Okay, what all pros are there out
there to go get? This is the guy to go get.
I can't believe it did. It took this long, and
I can't believe Tom Brady couldn't get more from Max
Crosby than this. I really am stunned, because you're right,
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the Jets did get more for Sauce Gardener. We had
two first round picks and and ad Ni Mitchell right,
they almost it's almost very similar to what other defensive
players without Max Crosby's pedigree have gone for in a
trade the last couple of years. And I really I
don't get I get that Max Crosby wanted out. I
get that the Raiders, you know, had to move on
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from him. I completely understand. I'm not saying the Raider
should have kept him because it went past the point
of no return with his injury at the end of
the year last year, and he was upset when the
Raiders sent him home. He didn't want to go home.
He wanted to play. I mean, you could have easily
blamed that on Pete Carroll and said he's not our
coach anymore. But I mean that was a big thing,
and that was really the beginning of the end for
Max Crosby. But you could have held on this. This
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is a plug and play guy, man. I mean you
could have You could held on to him, and you
could have gone closer to the draft that you could
have got more because this is the guy that you
go out and pay that for, right This is this
is what you go out guys like Max Crosby and
Micah Parsons, this is what you go out and trade
for him. I mean, I can't I mean, you're right, Frostburg,
the Raven's still gonna find a way to blow it
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in the playoffs. But I can't say enough about how
big a move right now.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
For well, I think as you look at it, for
the Ravens. You're in that you gotta win now, right,
Lamar Jackson is now going towards the back end of
that first decade in the league, and we have no
guarantees it's going to age well. Right, you see the
mobility starts to come down, the injuries start to mount,
all of those things that add up to an issue.
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Now they still have to go find some receivers for
Jackson to throw to. But you solve one of the
biggest problems you had last year. You had no pass
rush whatsoever. Every week I would do my spot in
Baltimore and we'd be talking about that deficiency. And one
of them, and I already mentioned his name once, was Oway,
who had been there and hadn't been able to do
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much of anything as a pass rusher. And he showed
up in Los Angeles and all of a sudden, he's
he's going He's a holy terror against opposing quarterbacks on occasion.
So you're looking at trying to maximize what's left of
Lamar Jackson's window, which means you push all in the
less need comment, Yeah, you go get the player. Someone
else wants to try to go one hundred percent on
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those picks. Have at it, Ravens. This is as low
as they've picked. What was it twenty twenty two when
they picked Kyle Hamilton and Linderbaum. Well, Linderbom's gonna end
up somewhere, maybe actually in Nevada as their new center,
but but otherwise they were picking in the twenties and
low twenties for years. So you go and push that away. Okay, go,
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if you think you can strike gold, go mining, have
at it. We'll take the player and for the for
the Ravens, we talk about the changing of the head coach.
We talk about these near misses, and there have been
near misses, but guess what, they don't count the same.
A loss is a loss. You tell me about a
bad punt return, You tell me about a drop pass
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or a field goal miss, whatever, they all count the same.
It's it's an l and y'all went home, which means,
don't leave it to the margins and go find an
impact playmaker. And as we've chronicled extensive, Leland will continue
to do so as the new year League year starts.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
How many free agents do you look at and go, yep,
that's the guy. Linder Bond's the only guy that you've
been able to say that everybody else is all right,
system fit. What's the ceiling? So go get Max Crosby.
Whether he's he'll be really happy to go to Baltimore.
I mean, you talk about winning culture and getting away
from L after l as much as he was wanting
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to be a Raider for life. He'll have to get
that tattoo changed, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But oh, that's easy. I think that I think that's
part of the deal. And you're gonna pay to change
my tattoo. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, we got the best
guy at Baltimore. Don't worry about it. Man. We can
make that lind up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
We can make that shield into a crab easy.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We'll pick you up at the airport. Make sure that happens.
I mean, look, you look at last year. You remember
the Ravens. Last year they were really kind of, you
want to say, done in by the first half of
the season when their defense was absolutely abysmal. Right, it
was like, how is the defense this bad? How are
they giving up forty points to Buffalo and then you
know thirty eight points to Detroit, thirty seven of Kansas
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City forty forty Houston thirty six is awful in a
row like this is awful. But that's the start that
what killed their season because then after the bye week
they fixed it. They had won five in a row.
They come down to the final week of the season
for the AFC North with Pittsburgh. Their defense plays a
little bit better. Overall, they played better. They fixed a
lot of that bye week. I don't know that there
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was a team that had a better bye week adjustment
last year than the Ravens did. But now you're hitting
the ground running, new start, new things, new energy, and
now you have probably you're talking about the second most
talented person that the Ravens have had in the Lamar
Jackson era on this team again, Max Crosby. Look, Derek
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Henry's terrific, right, I love Derek Henry. Max Crosby is
the second most talented player that they have had in
into Lamar Jackson run. And that's a huge deal when
you have guys on either side of the ball like this.
Now I can't get over there, and this is a
division that is there for the taking because Cincinnati, you
know what kind of problems they have. The Browns always
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have problems, right, Pittsburgh didn't even know who their quarterback's
gonna be, because Aaron Rodgers is sitting out again waiting
like this was the Ravens taking a big move and saying, hey,
we're gonna grab hold of the AFC North right now.
And again, I don't know what the rest of the
offseason is gonna hold. I don't know who's gonna be
able to take somebody somewhere else whereverybody's going free agency,
but the free agency ain't that great, and I can't
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believe a team's gonna ace the draft more. But I'll
tell you they should win the division. They should be
a big playoff threat. It's not gonna get any better
than the Ravens getting Max Crossby.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, we'll get deeper into the Raiders side of things,
because well now you got a couple more bites at
the proverbial apple that you have to get right in
this whole reset. But yeah, for the for the Ravens,
it's everything. And I'm only half kidding about our Joe
Burrow because he's got to be looking around.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What did I do to deserve you? Yeah? Yeah, well
that's all right. Joe's got some time to get out.
It's okay. They drafted me he's got some time. Wait
a minute, this wasn't my choice. This is like every
other week I have to be staring over my left shoulder,
looking at the looking at my blind side like every
single stunk every year too.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
So yeah, here's another two weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
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a raider. We have more on this coming up throughout
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stuff coming up next. Maybe the biggest most sports moment
of the weekend happened about an hour ago in the
World Baseball Classic. We got Jason Tatum's return. We got
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Speaker 1 (15:01):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Happy Friday, Max Crosby is a Raven.
Two first round picks headed to the Raiders. They should
have got more Raiders. Raiders. But before we get to
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what's going on in the World Baseball Classic, which is
gaining all the headlines right now, you know, not for nothing,
but you know, I like to talk about matchups in
the NBA playoffs and how really the matchups will always
dictate to you know, winners and loser, especially early rounds.
But this year more so than others, you can see
that Hey, if really good team A matches up against
really good team B, I think I know how this
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is gonna go. The Knicks lead the Nuggets right now
by thirteen at halftime in Denver, and Jalen Brunson has
two points. Two points for Jalen Brunson. I told you
the Nuggets by thirteen. Maybe he's not the MVP they
have to take. Maybe you have to take Jalen Brunson
off of my MVP ballot. Now I may have to
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do that, Mike, I really I may have to do
that like that. Yeah, don't like he.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Turned down in that fast because I thought you were
gonna tell me that. A. Uh, the Clippers are a
title contender now as they're up eleven on the Spurs
on the road.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You know this this Spur, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
but here's the thing, Like you know, when you win
ten eleven games in a row, you know, then you're
gonna lose one. Then you're gonna win ten more in
a row. Then you're gonna lose one. It's gonna happen,
but it's still it's still early. It's still early in
that game. This I mean, I mean, even if the
Nuggets win, the second half doesn't matter. Nicks clearly have
won the first half, you know, especially with Brunson only
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scoring two week he's one out of eight from the floor.
This is this is stunning that that the Knicks can
have an effort like this in the first half and
Brunson scoring two points on one of eight shooting. It's
absolutely stunning that the Knicks canna have a thirteen point Ly.
If I told you Nicks are playing and at halftime,
Jalen Brunson's got two points, He's one for eight, I
would say, what would Nuggetstack to be winning sixty to
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thirty five? What are they down by twenty? Knicks down
by twenty five? Maybe it could be down by thirty
with Jalen Prince at Nope, they're up by thirteen over Denver.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The battle of Robinson and Shaman as to who is
the most valuable sixth man of the Knicks, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
No, I think right now Robinson and Shammitt split the MVP.
I think I think they split.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You got twenty three points off the bench. From those two,
add another two from Alvarado. I mean that second unit
just getting some work done.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, go New york O News.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Well they had to because your would be MVP failed.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Jokic. Meanwhile, twenty one five and four so far for
the Nuggets. Again that game at halftime, but the Knicks
are the thirteen point lead, getting two.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Points, Jason, it doesn't count though it's not on TV.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, no, it's on MSG. It's on MSG. It's it's
there TV.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Though.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
What doesn't count is Juan Soto's error and left field
in the World Baseball Classic. There's no real no, no, no,
I don't think anybody saw.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
It counts a lot more than a player. You're gonna celebrate.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
What is happening right now in the World Baseball Classic
opening night for the United States. They are thumping Brazil
pretty good right now, seven to one. Honestly, it should
be twelve to one, thirteen to one. It's been a
big night up and down the lineup for the United States.
Aroon Judge has a big two run homer starting things
off in the first inning. You have seven different players
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scoring runs and Schwarber's got a couple of hits It's
been a pretty good up and down the lineup, even
though even Bryce Terran hitting ninth, has three RBIs to
night for the United States again bottom of the seventh,
up seven to one over Brazil. Brazil has two hits,
Ramirez with a leadoff home run off of Logan Web
and that's really been it for Brazil so far this game.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, but if miss Gaye or however I did not
hear the pronunciation of the man's name, mask guy, the
left fielder, if he knew how to play the left
field wall, it would have been an out instead of
three run scoring. So you know, defense does matter as
we go through. But yeah, the United States cruising along
as you expect, Like see a Clayton Kershaw appearance before long.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh yeah, well, I don't know. I don't know if
it's safe enough to bring in.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It's only a sillaving a human white Armstrong is out there.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, they got PCA in the outfield now, so uh
I yeah, I don't know. I don't think it's that.
I think you got to get to at least a
double digit lead it's safe enough to bring Kershaw in, Okay, yeah,
if it's if it gets to be eleven to one then,
but you still have to have somebody ready to come in, Like,
you can't just bring him in and say, Okay, we're
gonna close things out. No, no, he's got to come in,
but you gotta have a guy ready just in case.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
That's right, brazila has walked eleven batters eleven.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's a lot. Uh. But the big story from this game,
and this is why I love the World Baseball Classic
because we get stories like this. Okay, Joseph Contreras, Uh,
pitch tonight for Brazil when a little over an inning.
And if you're thinking, wait, is that Yes, that's Joseph
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ose Contreras's kid. It's an awesome thing. He's seventeen years
old pitching tonight for Brazil against the United States. He
is in high school. He is a seventeen year old
high school kid pitching. And this is why I love
the World Baseball Classic because you get the announcers saying
things like and here comes Joseph Contreras, high school senior.
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You know he's skipping school this week to pitch in
the World Baseball Classic. Actually had to get an extension
for his big ap American history project had a big
debate that was supposed to go on today, but that'll
go on next week. Also, he is in charge of
the bake sale to benefit both the sports programs and
the performing arts department, and the spring Fling will be
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going on in two weeks. He wants to go to that.
But first, here's Aaron Judge with the bases loaded, like
that's what we have deal gone?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Called for Aeron Judges home run?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Right, No, I didn't call for Aeron Judges home run.
I didn't try to call Freddie again the basis I didn't.
I didn't call Freddie yet. Where where said we're celebrating
that that here's that you know in the world baseball
classic kid high school kids canna come in and face
the greatest the world Right now, we're not. We'll get
to that a little bit. And headed to Vanderbilt. We'll
get to that a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Although I see Jake and Treres in the box score,
I think of his old man.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Here's Joseph Contreras and in the game. And he's got
his driver's test coming up next week. Pretty nervous. Uh
got his permit just a week ago. Now he's got
Bryce Harper stepping in one proposal, though, think about that
World Baseball Classic. All of a sudden he flips his
glove over and will you go to problem with me?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Come?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I mean, this is this is insane. Maybe he's not.
He's facing the best hitters in the world, right lands
I love the world because usually he gets like well,
and here pitching for Brazil. Maybe you remember this guy,
he's forty seven years old, never made it to the
major leagues, just had a handful of innings at the
Double A level back in twenty ten, just outside and
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here he is right now, Bobby wit Junior leading it
off in the inning form like I mean, this is
this is the World Baseball Classic. Like we think, oh,
it's the best players in the world now, and Japan
is really good, the United States all this, but really,
this is what it is. It's guys that never even
made it into the majors and all the guys that
are seventeen years older. They went from a seventeen year
old pitcher to a forty year old pitcher, you know,
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coming in for Brazil, and still he started what kept
walking here.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And a green haired Dante Bischett Junior. I mean, you
got everything in this game like.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is the this is this is the real world
Baseball Classic. However, this is why this was so good,
because he actually did get to face Aaron Judge with
the bases loaded in the second inning. Judge all ready
with a two run homer in the first inning, and
you think, okay, well, this is where the United States
breaks the game open. This is a guy who's gonna
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go down as one of the five greatest Yankees of
all time. And yes, Joseph Contreras throws a ninety seven
mile an hour fastball, but this is still again, he's
gonna go down as one of the five greatest Yankees
of all time. It's coming off of an MVP year.
And this is what Aaron Judge did. Bases loaded, one out,
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a chance to put the game away. In the second inning,
Treras broken bat.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Out.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
There the double play. How about that all of seventeen
high school senior the MVP's at the plate with the
bags juiced, and he gets out of it.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Jason hates his country.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
No no, no, no, no, no no no, it doesn't matter.
For winning this game. I can now say to my
dad Fox on the call. I got to say to
my dad dad. Judge can't even hit bleep in high
school pitching, and it would be right. You don't have
to win.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Must to say that to your dad, I wouldn't be
trolling already.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You can't Frostburg. As soon as that happened, I couldn't
text him fast enough. I was lightning McQueen on my phone.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Text soccer. You texted him instead of saying it to
his face.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, well, because he he doesn't really answer the phone
that much after after six o'clock at night. He's like
he's like the reverse vampire instead of being up all night,
Like yeah, yeah, I I gotta text him. But I mean,
I'm not trolling. I'm not trolling when I say that.
I say he can't even hit high school pitching, and
I'm right, I'm not trolling it. I'm not saying he
can't hit a high school He not. He ground into
a double playoff a high school pitcher Aaron Well, at
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least at least people will stop talking about the fly
ball he dropped in the world, so they will talk
about this game. Yeah, but high school thing, I mean
sat maybe it was a faulty bat. And if you're
the kid, you get him to sign every shard of
wood that splintered all over the place here and then
you sell, sell, sell, Hey, Aaron, will you sign this
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ball for me? This is a ball you hit into
a double player for me.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Guys are usually pretty good sports about that after they yeah,
you know, talk about their bank accounts, or.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Hey, Joseph, Joseph, what an Aaron? Right on your ball?
Here it is it says, go blank yourself, Aaron, judge,
that's good advice. Oh that's fantastic. Uh, they see now
and surprise. This is what has taken for me to
be excited about the World Baseball Classic. This just go
to you. I've hated the World Baseball Classic for years,
mainly because most of the time when Mets players play,
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I have to worry about them getting hurt. And I
still go back to Edwin Diaz a couple of years
ago where we missed him for the entire year because
he's just celebrating a win and I'm like, I can't
stand the world basement. Now I'm like, okay, this has
brought me into the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Now, look, man, he might have won a video game
at home, done that same little hop and busted it
up there. You never can tell he was trying to
do something great. Look, I'm all in, you know, pride
of country. We're coming out of the Olympics and the
celebration that we've got. I mean, look at all these
cool celebrations. We gotta gotta loota mask for the Mexican team,
we got the changing of the guard for the English team.
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There's all sorts of chaos going on here.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I love it. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's fun. It's
fine and again and I do have a big sigh
relief after every game is over, I go, okay, are
my guys okay? Is everybody all right? Okay? Great? You know,
like like like Twins fans had to watch you go,
oh when Bucks that got hit by a pitch, like,
oh we got hit in the hand, Oh my god,
Oh my god, am I got it? Like like that's
kind of where you go out for that handmaid. It's
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a doozy, right, Like that's where your mind goes for it.
It's okay, we got through. Everybody's fine. All right, let's
get to the next game. Get through. Everybody's fine. Get
to the next game.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
So you're the seventeenth not just there because you want
to go get drunk on Saint Patrick's Day. But because
the World Baseball Classic will be over and players will
disperse back to their respective MLB teams.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, I mean, I look that there is gonna be
I am gonna be excited when it's over, because then
I know, okay, every as long as everybody is okay
getting back to camp and nobody had to go too
hard too soon. But no, so far, I'm like, I
didn't know how I was gonna feel coming in, because
that's that's kind of my thing. Like, Okay, the World
Baseball Classic is great, but I care about my team
more than anything else. And I think that's the vast
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majority of baseball fans feel that way. And I don't
want anybody to get hurt. I don't want the you
know in this event, uh to get that way. But
this is what happens sometimes when you have to go
so fast and so hard early on in the season,
the soft tissue injuries, the hamstrings. You know, no, I
did never quite thought, you know, my ace reliever would
you know, rip up his achilles jumping up and down celebrating.
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But you know that's what happens. You know, you worry
about guys going too fast too soon, in the in
the World Baseball Classic, and they like to keep innings
down because of it. I get that.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
And what happens since Jason's been hating on Team America,
Brazil's now scored three straight runs.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's it to run home run. Not my fault, hey, listen, listen,
not my fa.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Not many people hate their country more than you right now,
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, stop now, now they can't bring it's not even
safe enough to bring kershaw and it's only a three
run lead now for the United States. Can't bring them
in now, Yeah, because you spoke that into existence. TJ.
Michael Waka Walkah Walka Walka his way to giving up
three runs here in the seventh for the United States,
and he is just he is just getting tattooed. He
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gets he gets one hundred mile an hour line out
the third base to end the inning. That will probably
end the night for Walka, who goes three innings. So
United States now more of a game against Brazil seven
to four going to the top of the eighth inning.
But no, but I I, like I said, I didn't
know how I would feel. I wanted to keep an
open mind to it. How'd field going in and this
these couple of things. Okay, right, you know you know
(28:36):
uh uh, Jose Contreras's kid pitching. It's kind of fun.
Judge hitting into a double playoff. IM, okay, that's a
ton of fun. Uh And okay, and we were and
we were cruising. Everybody is okay? Not thrilled about the
Juan Soto error in left field, because oh, he's gonna
be a great left fielder. No, first time he gets
touched the ball this season in a game that counts,
he makes an error. But that I'm okay. I am
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absolutely okay. As long as the ball didn't hit anywhere
on him that he had to come out of the game.
It was just an error, So I can live with that.
I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
He got the error out of the way and it
didn't count for you. Now, it does it sit in
the deep recesses of your mind that in a pivotal game,
say you're trying to go meet the Dodgers and the NLCS,
that Soda will have the ball hit to him and
it'll be like the little kid right field that you
remember as as a kid, going, don't hit it to him, please,
(29:25):
don't hit it to him. U. And then they do
and and you're waiting to see with baited breath, how
does it end.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Like when the fly ball is hit to timmy loopis
U in bad news? Exactly? Oh my god. The one
parent stands up. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
There's there's a great country song where the kid's talking.
You know, they're talking about the kid throwing the ball
up and he's uh, he's trying to hit the home
run to win the World Series. And then he swings
and misses three three times and it's a Kenny Rogers
song called the Greatest Uh. And after he swings and
misses the third time, he goes, well, I'm the greatest
picture of them all.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Look at him.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I took him out. Suddenly he's the other on the
other side of it. Same thing here for your guy,
Wan Soto. You're trying to find a positivity.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
But by that time, as the season gets on, he'll
be the designated hitter. It'll be fine in the big
September Games, designated hitter.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
And you know who you'll miss, Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, now, I'm gonna keep your car. After the show.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
When he's got fifty seven home runs for the Oriols,
are you gonna have Ralph uber you when he.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Goes, when he goes, when he hits twenty four home
runs and knocks in seventy two runs. This here for
the Orioles. Don't come crying to me and say, oh,
I can't believe that. Just wait, how about we go to.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
A man that loves his country unlike you.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Sure look, I love like I just hate when I
can't sugarcoat what happens when Aaron Judge hits into a
double playoff a high school kid. I mean, I can't
uh time now to find out what's trending from a
guy who's been called the Joseph Contreras of Fox Sports
Radio because he went to high school too. It's cheap
to say if that's pretty much the extent of it.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
US, somehow is only ahead seven to four against Brazil
in the top of the eighth of their World Baseball
Classic opener in Houston. It's on Fox TV right now.
The Americans have been walked eleven times, and yet they've
left ten men on base. Aaron Judge at bat right now.
The team captain did hit a two run homer in
the first, but grounded into a double play with bases
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loaded in the second. Bryce terrang a three run double
gifted one in the fifth inning as the left fielder
the Sky simply lost it. However, he has responded with
a home run for Brazil off Michael Walk at the
bottom of the seven. So what was seven to one
is now seven to four US in the league the
games in the top of the eighth for tonight only
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the US is the visiting team. The American second game
of the tournament Saturday night in Houston against Great Britain
on Fox. Mexico beat Great Britain today eight to two.
It was tied one to one in the eighth. Attendants
thirty thousand for that game, thirty one thousand apparently for
the US game tonight Japan early this morning our time,
when its opener in Tokyo, thirteen nothing over Chinese Taipei
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Shoheo Tani hit a grand slam. Venezuela won six to
two against the Netherlands Luis a Riaz with two RBIs
Cuba with three nothing lead in the third, one three
to one against Panama. Puerto Rico scored five in the
fifth to night won five nothing against Columbia. Edwen Diez
struck out three in the ninth. The Dominican Republic won
twelve three over Nicaragua. It was three to three in
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the sixth inning. Three RBIs apiece for Julio Rodriguez and
Vladimir Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
On to the NBA.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
There was a game in Boston with Jason Tatum on
the court tonight, returning after the torn achilles last May.
In the playoffs, he played twenty seven minutes and in
the win over Dallas won twenty to one hundred. Tatum
had fifteen points, twelve rebounds, seven assists. Miami ended Charlotte's
six game winning streak one twenty eight to one twenty
Tyler Hero thirty three points. Houston came back to be
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Portland one ozh six to ninety nine. Right now, it's
the Nicks ahl Id at Denver eighty to sixty six
in the third quarter, Clippers with a twenty point lead
at San Antonio at the half sixty six to forty six,
Brook Lopez with seventeen points, and the Lake games about
to start, the Lakers hosting Indiana. Cay Cunningham of the
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Pistons is questionable for Saturday with the Bruce squad. There's
men's college hoops on FS one twelve minutes to go.
Eighteenth ranked Saint John's Only leads forty six forty five
at Seaton Hall undefeated and nineteenth ranked Miami, Ohio leads
with twelve minutes to go seventy four to sixty seven
at Ohio University. Among the seven NHL games going to overtime,
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Colorado tied four to four at Dallas, Florida was a
three to one winner at Detroit. And yes, the Raiders
not only cutting quarterback Gino Smith, but tonight they're trading
at rusher Max Crosby to Baltimore for two first rounders.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next. We
got the play of the Day coming your way, and
we get into the big return for Jason Tatum and
the Celtics tonight. What to make of it? We'll tell
you next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
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Speaker 5 (34:27):
Oh Jason and Mike twenty eight years ago today.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
March sixth, nineteen ninety eight, a young Justin Frossberg decided,
you know what, I'm gonna go to the movies today.
I heard this Big Lebowski might be pretty funny. Happy
Birthday the dude in company this Day nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I'm the Jesus.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Happens Larry, this is what happens.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Yeah, yeah, I went to Ralph the next day after
singing that or seeing that in theaters and not not
your Ralph like the supermarket.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
In a bathrobe and jellies celebrate the hell out of it.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now,
if we didn't have this, if we didn't have this
play coming up, we could make Julianne Moore and her
entrance with the paint, you know, the play of the Yeah, no,
that'd be good. That's that's one of the more underrated
funny But let Jeff Bridges reaction, which he just comes
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Speaker 2 (36:41):
Now Here comes the green life head. Here comes another run.
Sodo bottled it in left, Sodo bobbled.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It in Zamora, Who's stopped?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And Gary Pettis.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Changed his mud are three? Two leads thunder Dusty Baker,
Oh boy? So yeah, okay? I I should have known
Juan Soto's error was going to be the the play
of the day. Okay, Now it didn't matter because he
went two for four Dominican Republic beating Nicaragua twelve to three.
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But yes, Wan Soto left field, first time he touches
the ball, I think it hits off his knee and
bounces away for a big error to give Nicaragua a run.
But there is your unfortunate play of the day. Fine Frostburg,
Fine you feel happy? Now you're happy. Look he got
it out of his system.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Now you know who's not going to get it out
of their system.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Get used to it again. He'll be the day if
it gets that bad, he'll be the designated hitter. It's
gonna be fine.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
My frame out photo shop him into a match uniform.
So we have that after ready for the rest of
the season, justin.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
We don't need that. It's fine, don't worry about it.
Everything is good, Everything is good. So yes, it's still
going on right now. United States puts another run on
the board right now. It is eight to four as
they bat in the top of the eighth inning. Pete
crow Armstrong is just grounded out to end the inning
though of the United States, and they go to the
bottom of the eighth with an eight four lead, opening
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game of the World Baseball Classic. We're gonna have John
Paul Morosi joining us after the game is over for
all the latest here. He's already got a bunch of
stuff on Joseph Contrera, so you know, it's always a
fun visit with him. But tonight, what I thought was
gonna be story number one then got pushed down a
story number two. And then after the Max Crosby Trade
got pushed the story number three, the return of Jason
(38:34):
Tatum to the Celtics lineup against the Mavericks, a game
that Mike Harmon wanted to paint app yesterday, saying it's
gonna be a tough game because Cooper Flag is coming
back Celtics.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Did I say such things? Yes, I made for TV
event with two stars.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
And I told you, but it doesn't matter you Like
I said, what's their record with Cooper Flagg? You said, oh,
I don't. I don't have that information here. I don't
have that. I just know they stink. You're like this.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Look they still covered the number. It was fifteen and
a half.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
You and the guy lay the wood. No, they lost
by twenty out of the That's what I made. They
covered the number. Yeah, Cooper Flag goes for sixteen. But
Jason Tatum, who started for the Celtics tonight, played twenty
seven minutes, didn't have quote a minute's restriction tonight, but
still didn't play more than a few minutes in a row.
(39:29):
Did look a little rusty, but still twelve seven assists
and or or fifteen points, twelve rebound, seven assists, a
pretty good night from Overall, the Celtics win pretty easy.
He was plus twenty for the night, and you should
And the one big takeaway from this is not well,
how good was Tatum looking when he comes back? He's
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gonna be fine. We told you last night. This is
incredible news for the Celtics. They become a team that
can win the NBA Championship. But just to see the
emotional lift that I was not expecting when he scored
his first couple of buckets, My goodness, did the crowd
just absolutely go crazy for Jason Tatum a couple of
big buckets like it was welcome back. I mean, look,
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it's it's awkward, it's not his team anymore. But this
emotional lift that he gave, I mean it was. It
was like Game seven of the NBA Finals, the way
the bench and the crowd was reacting to Jason Tatum's
return here to Boston. Like I said last night, I'll
double down now. This year is going to be great
for Boston. They're an NBA title threat.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Back to zero shirts were on the seats all across.
I'm sure you can find them on eBay. Well chronicle
the secondary market as the night continues. But happy return
Luca Garza and Pritchard off the bench with twenty eight combined. Yeah,
big night for the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
So he got more NBA on the way. But coming
up next we get back into the biggest breaking NFL
story of the night, A huge trade for you
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We still have not really seen a bunch of trades.
But I don't know that anybody can win the off
season more than the Ravens have big, big NFL news.
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Just a few moments ago you had Door. We'll get
to Aaron Judge grinding into a double play against the
high school pitcher. We'll get to Jason Tatum and his
pesky return. What that didn't happen is not on TV.
There's there's no error, No that you that's AI. It's
all AI. That didn't actually happen.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
The you should be happy, Frostburg, you got rid of
You got the greatest pass rushers in the last decade
is out of your division.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Has Joe Burrow asked for a trade yet?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Joe Burrow? Yeah, Joe Burrow is uh like, why is
Joe Burrow trending on?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, because he's got to face a bunch of dudes
now twice a year.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Six games out of your season.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is just a few moments old, maybe a little
bit less than a half hour. The first big domino
of the off season has fallen, and again the Ravens
already won the offseason. The Raiders are trading Max Crosby
to the Ravens in exchange for two first round picks
twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. So now they're
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gonna pick first and fourteenth. They got a first round
pick next year. The Ravens beating out the offer of
the Dallas Cowboys, who are willing to offer a first
and a second round pick to the Raiders for Crosby.
Who in Zeid goes to the Ravens. He's a big
toy for Jesse Minter. And I'll be honest, Mike Carmon,
I'm coming into tonight and I'm going I can't believe
(02:31):
no one's made this trade for Max Crosby. How is
Max Crosby still a Raider? How is Max robs the Raider?
I would have given up more for Max Crosby. You
are not gonna get a guy this good, still with
at least three maybe four peak years left to wreck
havoc like he has for the past six or seven.
This is a two time All Pro and a five
(02:52):
time pro bowler. He averages ten sacks a year. You're
not gonna get better this. Hell yeah, I trade at
least two first round picks to get Max Crosby. This
is it. He is the definition of a plug and
play guy. He doesn't need to be coached, He doesn't
do anything. His motor, his attitude just s you up there.
It is Max. Go get the quarterback, go do your
thing like he is. You can just pick him up,
(03:13):
bring him over, PLoP him down and he is fantastic.
He wanted out of Vegas. Vegas had to make a deal.
I'd give him up more for him. This is a
tremendous move for the Ravens. Yes, first two first round picks.
I get it. But you're getting one of the top
edge rushers in the game the past decade that's still
twenty eight years old. Yes, you go get Max Crosby.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, we were talking about it a little then as
getting ready to come into the studio. It's like, you know,
I and Roddy are producer on the iWatch of Flex
and part of our team. Here he goes that the
Jets got more first Sauce Gardner like, yeah, that is
that is true because you got ad Mitchell. He got
a couple of first round picks. Now, some of this
(03:52):
becomes the question of you know, where you're trying to
do Crosby a solid not sending him to Football Siberia
if the offers were the same. But it seems like
an opportunity to truly maximize things, and you know, conflicting
reports of how much he wanted in or out. Yes,
he was upset at the last regime for Operation Shutdown,
but could that have been remedied. All of this stuff
(04:14):
with Guerrero and everything going on, and whether you got
moles and guys that are trying to exert some clout
where they had should have none and and unrest there.
But to get this type of player for two draft picks,
I got like four texts from all my guys in Baltimore.
I can't read any of them because they're all so
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expletive laden about picks. And I mean, it takes everything
that the rams have said, and you know they added
all the extra extra language to adjacent and they'll still
in the playoffs there. But you've now pushed all in.
You needed a pass rush. I would have thought you
would have just signed O ways since we saw mintor
(04:56):
unlock him here in Los Angeles. But it doesn't preclude
that move, dude, But you make the big push here
and you go get the guy.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He's a terror. Max Crosby is an absolute terror. He
is a lunatic in the best way possible, right, like
his attitude, the edge he plays with. Nobody likes playing
against him. Look, it's my favorite Max Crosby story of
all times, all the things he has done, my favorite
Max Crosby story is from not this preseason, but last
(05:26):
preseason when the Raiders had a joint practice with the Rams.
And you know, joint practice, you don't hit the quarterback.
You let him go, and if it looks like the
play is getting close, you know, they blow the whistle
so the quarterback doesn't get hurt. Right, this is how
you do it. And Matthew Stafford telling the story after
their joint practice, how mad he got because Max Crosby
(05:46):
kept getting in the backfield and yelling sack sack, sack, like,
you gotta blow the play dead because I want to
sack Matthew Stafford and he goes, we can't even run place.
He's this lunatics running around in the backfield, sack sack,
sack like. That's my favorite Max. He is a lunatic
in the best way. He can wreck a game all
by himself. There's not enough. I mean, I don't know.
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Three first round pick, sure I would have, because I'm saying,
how many years am I gonna get out of him?
That are gonna be great? Right? You don't know what
could happen, obviously, but in theory he's twenty eight, I'm
gonna get three four great years out of him. He
is that big of a talent, you know. To go
back to less Need, who said the other day when
the Rams made that big trade for McDuffie, was the
first thing we do is look and say, are there
any all pros we can get? Right? And that's a
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great way to look at it, because free agency this
year especially, you look at the people out there. Not
a great year. Man. People are gonna overpay for some
duds in free agency. Man, I'm telling you, but who
do you look? Okay, what all pros are there out
there to go get? This is the guy to go get.
I can't believe it did. It took this long, and
I can't believe Tom Brady couldn't get more from Max
Crosby than this. I really am stunned, because you're right,
(06:52):
the Jets did get more for Sauce Gardener. We had
two first round picks and and ad Ni Mitchell right,
they almost it's almost very similar to what other defensive
players without Max Crosby's pedigree have gone for in a
trade the last couple of years. And I really I
don't get I get that Max Crosby wanted out. I
get that the Raiders, you know, had to move on
(07:14):
from him. I completely understand. I'm not saying the Raider
should have kept him because it went past the point
of no return with his injury at the end of
the year last year, and he was upset when the
Raiders sent him home. He didn't want to go home.
He wanted to play. I mean, you could have easily
blamed that on Pete Carroll and said he's not our
coach anymore. But I mean that was a big thing,
and that was really the beginning of the end for
Max Crosby. But you could have held on this. This
(07:35):
is a plug and play guy, man. I mean you
could have You could held on to him, and you
could have gone closer to the draft that you could
have got more because this is the guy that you
go out and pay that for, right This is this
is what you go out guys like Max Crosby and
Micah Parsons, this is what you go out and trade
for him. I mean, I can't I mean, you're right, Frostburg,
the Raven's still gonna find a way to blow it
(07:57):
in the playoffs. But I can't say enough about how
big a move right now.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
For well, I think as you look at it, for
the Ravens. You're in that you gotta win now, right,
Lamar Jackson is now going towards the back end of
that first decade in the league, and we have no
guarantees it's going to age well. Right, you see the
mobility starts to come down, the injuries start to mount,
all of those things that add up to an issue.
(08:22):
Now they still have to go find some receivers for
Jackson to throw to. But you solve one of the
biggest problems you had last year. You had no pass
rush whatsoever. Every week I would do my spot in
Baltimore and we'd be talking about that deficiency. And one
of them, and I already mentioned his name once, was Oway,
who had been there and hadn't been able to do
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much of anything as a pass rusher. And he showed
up in Los Angeles and all of a sudden, he's
he's going He's a holy terror against opposing quarterbacks on occasion.
So you're looking at trying to maximize what's left of
Lamar Jackson's window, which means you push all in the
less need comment, Yeah, you go get the player. Someone
else wants to try to go one hundred percent on
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those picks. Have at it, Ravens. This is as low
as they've picked. What was it twenty twenty two when
they picked Kyle Hamilton and Linderbaum. Well, Linderbom's gonna end
up somewhere, maybe actually in Nevada as their new center,
but but otherwise they were picking in the twenties and
low twenties for years. So you go and push that away. Okay, go,
(09:25):
if you think you can strike gold, go mining, have
at it. We'll take the player and for the for
the Ravens, we talk about the changing of the head coach.
We talk about these near misses, and there have been
near misses, but guess what, they don't count the same.
A loss is a loss. You tell me about a
bad punt return, You tell me about a drop pass
(09:48):
or a field goal miss, whatever, they all count the same.
It's it's an l and y'all went home, which means,
don't leave it to the margins and go find an
impact playmaker. And as we've chronicled extensive, Leland will continue
to do so as the new year League year starts.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
How many free agents do you look at and go, yep,
that's the guy. Linder Bond's the only guy that you've
been able to say that everybody else is all right,
system fit. What's the ceiling? So go get Max Crosby.
Whether he's he'll be really happy to go to Baltimore.
I mean, you talk about winning culture and getting away
from L after l as much as he was wanting
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to be a Raider for life. He'll have to get
that tattoo changed, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But oh, that's easy. I think that I think that's
part of the deal. And you're gonna pay to change
my tattoo. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, we got the best
guy at Baltimore. Don't worry about it. Man. We can
make that lind up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
We can make that shield into a crab easy.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We'll pick you up at the airport. Make sure that happens.
I mean, look, you look at last year. You remember
the Ravens. Last year they were really kind of, you
want to say, done in by the first half of
the season when their defense was absolutely abysmal. Right, it
was like, how is the defense this bad? How are
they giving up forty points to Buffalo and then you
know thirty eight points to Detroit, thirty seven of Kansas
(11:09):
City forty forty Houston thirty six is awful in a
row like this is awful. But that's the start that
what killed their season because then after the bye week
they fixed it. They had won five in a row.
They come down to the final week of the season
for the AFC North with Pittsburgh. Their defense plays a
little bit better. Overall, they played better. They fixed a
lot of that bye week. I don't know that there
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was a team that had a better bye week adjustment
last year than the Ravens did. But now you're hitting
the ground running, new start, new things, new energy, and
now you have probably you're talking about the second most
talented person that the Ravens have had in the Lamar
Jackson era on this team again, Max Crosby. Look, Derek
(11:53):
Henry's terrific, right, I love Derek Henry. Max Crosby is
the second most talented player that they have had in
into Lamar Jackson run. And that's a huge deal when
you have guys on either side of the ball like this.
Now I can't get over there, and this is a
division that is there for the taking because Cincinnati, you
know what kind of problems they have. The Browns always
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have problems, right, Pittsburgh didn't even know who their quarterback's
gonna be, because Aaron Rodgers is sitting out again waiting
like this was the Ravens taking a big move and saying, hey,
we're gonna grab hold of the AFC North right now.
And again, I don't know what the rest of the
offseason is gonna hold. I don't know who's gonna be
able to take somebody somewhere else whereverybody's going free agency,
but the free agency ain't that great, and I can't
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believe a team's gonna ace the draft more. But I'll
tell you they should win the division. They should be
a big playoff threat. It's not gonna get any better
than the Ravens getting Max Crossby.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, we'll get deeper into the Raiders side of things,
because well now you got a couple more bites at
the proverbial apple that you have to get right in
this whole reset. But yeah, for the for the Ravens,
it's everything. And I'm only half kidding about our Joe
Burrow because he's got to be looking around.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What did I do to deserve you? Yeah? Yeah, well
that's all right. Joe's got some time to get out.
It's okay. They drafted me he's got some time. Wait
a minute, this wasn't my choice. This is like every
other week I have to be staring over my left shoulder,
looking at the looking at my blind side like every
single stunk every year too.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
So yeah, here's another two weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Good luck Joe Burrow, good luck exit out about a
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of the weekend happened about an hour ago in the
World Baseball Classic. We got Jason Tatum's return. We got
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Speaker 1 (15:01):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Happy Friday, Max Crosby is a Raven.
Two first round picks headed to the Raiders. They should
have got more Raiders. Raiders. But before we get to
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what's going on in the World Baseball Classic, which is
gaining all the headlines right now, you know, not for nothing,
but you know, I like to talk about matchups in
the NBA playoffs and how really the matchups will always
dictate to you know, winners and loser, especially early rounds.
But this year more so than others, you can see
that Hey, if really good team A matches up against
really good team B, I think I know how this
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is gonna go. The Knicks lead the Nuggets right now
by thirteen at halftime in Denver, and Jalen Brunson has
two points. Two points for Jalen Brunson. I told you
the Nuggets by thirteen. Maybe he's not the MVP they
have to take. Maybe you have to take Jalen Brunson
off of my MVP ballot. Now I may have to
(16:08):
do that, Mike, I really I may have to do
that like that. Yeah, don't like he.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Turned down in that fast because I thought you were
gonna tell me that. A. Uh, the Clippers are a
title contender now as they're up eleven on the Spurs
on the road.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You know this this Spur, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
but here's the thing, Like you know, when you win
ten eleven games in a row, you know, then you're
gonna lose one. Then you're gonna win ten more in
a row. Then you're gonna lose one. It's gonna happen,
but it's still it's still early. It's still early in
that game. This I mean, I mean, even if the
Nuggets win, the second half doesn't matter. Nicks clearly have
won the first half, you know, especially with Brunson only
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scoring two week he's one out of eight from the floor.
This is this is stunning that that the Knicks can
have an effort like this in the first half and
Brunson scoring two points on one of eight shooting. It's
absolutely stunning that the Knicks canna have a thirteen point Ly.
If I told you Nicks are playing and at halftime,
Jalen Brunson's got two points, He's one for eight, I
would say, what would Nuggetstack to be winning sixty to
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thirty five? What are they down by twenty? Knicks down
by twenty five? Maybe it could be down by thirty
with Jalen Prince at Nope, they're up by thirteen over Denver.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The battle of Robinson and Shaman as to who is
the most valuable sixth man of the Knicks, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
No, I think right now Robinson and Shammitt split the MVP.
I think I think they split.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You got twenty three points off the bench. From those two,
add another two from Alvarado. I mean that second unit
just getting some work done.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, go New york O News.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Well they had to because your would be MVP failed.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Jokic. Meanwhile, twenty one five and four so far for
the Nuggets. Again that game at halftime, but the Knicks
are the thirteen point lead, getting two.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Points, Jason, it doesn't count though it's not on TV.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, no, it's on MSG. It's on MSG. It's it's
there TV.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Though.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
What doesn't count is Juan Soto's error and left field
in the World Baseball Classic. There's no real no, no, no,
I don't think anybody saw.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
It counts a lot more than a player. You're gonna celebrate.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
What is happening right now in the World Baseball Classic
opening night for the United States. They are thumping Brazil
pretty good right now, seven to one. Honestly, it should
be twelve to one, thirteen to one. It's been a
big night up and down the lineup for the United States.
Aroon Judge has a big two run homer starting things
off in the first inning. You have seven different players
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scoring runs and Schwarber's got a couple of hits It's
been a pretty good up and down the lineup, even
though even Bryce Terran hitting ninth, has three RBIs to
night for the United States again bottom of the seventh,
up seven to one over Brazil. Brazil has two hits,
Ramirez with a leadoff home run off of Logan Web
and that's really been it for Brazil so far this game.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, but if miss Gaye or however I did not
hear the pronunciation of the man's name, mask guy, the
left fielder, if he knew how to play the left
field wall, it would have been an out instead of
three run scoring. So you know, defense does matter as
we go through. But yeah, the United States cruising along
as you expect, Like see a Clayton Kershaw appearance before long.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh yeah, well, I don't know. I don't know if
it's safe enough to bring in.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It's only a sillaving a human white Armstrong is out there.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, they got PCA in the outfield now, so uh
I yeah, I don't know. I don't think it's that.
I think you got to get to at least a
double digit lead it's safe enough to bring Kershaw in, Okay, yeah,
if it's if it gets to be eleven to one then,
but you still have to have somebody ready to come in, Like,
you can't just bring him in and say, Okay, we're
gonna close things out. No, no, he's got to come in,
but you gotta have a guy ready just in case.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
That's right, brazila has walked eleven batters eleven.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's a lot. Uh. But the big story from this game,
and this is why I love the World Baseball Classic
because we get stories like this. Okay, Joseph Contreras, Uh,
pitch tonight for Brazil when a little over an inning.
And if you're thinking, wait, is that Yes, that's Joseph
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ose Contreras's kid. It's an awesome thing. He's seventeen years
old pitching tonight for Brazil against the United States. He
is in high school. He is a seventeen year old
high school kid pitching. And this is why I love
the World Baseball Classic because you get the announcers saying
things like and here comes Joseph Contreras, high school senior.
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You know he's skipping school this week to pitch in
the World Baseball Classic. Actually had to get an extension
for his big ap American history project had a big
debate that was supposed to go on today, but that'll
go on next week. Also, he is in charge of
the bake sale to benefit both the sports programs and
the performing arts department, and the spring Fling will be
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going on in two weeks. He wants to go to that.
But first, here's Aaron Judge with the bases loaded, like
that's what we have deal gone?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Called for Aeron Judges home run?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Right, No, I didn't call for Aeron Judges home run.
I didn't try to call Freddie again the basis I didn't.
I didn't call Freddie yet. Where where said we're celebrating
that that here's that you know in the world baseball
classic kid high school kids canna come in and face
the greatest the world Right now, we're not. We'll get
to that a little bit. And headed to Vanderbilt. We'll
get to that a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Although I see Jake and Treres in the box score,
I think of his old man.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Here's Joseph Contreras and in the game. And he's got
his driver's test coming up next week. Pretty nervous. Uh
got his permit just a week ago. Now he's got
Bryce Harper stepping in one proposal, though, think about that
World Baseball Classic. All of a sudden he flips his
glove over and will you go to problem with me?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Come?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I mean, this is this is insane. Maybe he's not.
He's facing the best hitters in the world, right lands
I love the world because usually he gets like well,
and here pitching for Brazil. Maybe you remember this guy,
he's forty seven years old, never made it to the
major leagues, just had a handful of innings at the
Double A level back in twenty ten, just outside and
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here he is right now, Bobby wit Junior leading it
off in the inning form like I mean, this is
this is the World Baseball Classic. Like we think, oh,
it's the best players in the world now, and Japan
is really good, the United States all this, but really,
this is what it is. It's guys that never even
made it into the majors and all the guys that
are seventeen years older. They went from a seventeen year
old pitcher to a forty year old pitcher, you know,
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coming in for Brazil, and still he started what kept
walking here.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And a green haired Dante Bischett Junior. I mean, you
got everything in this game like.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is the this is this is the real world
Baseball Classic. However, this is why this was so good,
because he actually did get to face Aaron Judge with
the bases loaded in the second inning. Judge all ready
with a two run homer in the first inning, and
you think, okay, well, this is where the United States
breaks the game open. This is a guy who's gonna
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go down as one of the five greatest Yankees of
all time. And yes, Joseph Contreras throws a ninety seven
mile an hour fastball, but this is still again, he's
gonna go down as one of the five greatest Yankees
of all time. It's coming off of an MVP year.
And this is what Aaron Judge did. Bases loaded, one out,
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a chance to put the game away. In the second inning,
Treras broken bat.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Out.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
There the double play. How about that all of seventeen
high school senior the MVP's at the plate with the
bags juiced, and he gets out of it.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Jason hates his country.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
No no, no, no, no, no no no, it doesn't matter.
For winning this game. I can now say to my
dad Fox on the call. I got to say to
my dad dad. Judge can't even hit bleep in high
school pitching, and it would be right. You don't have
to win.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Must to say that to your dad, I wouldn't be
trolling already.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You can't Frostburg. As soon as that happened, I couldn't
text him fast enough. I was lightning McQueen on my phone.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Text soccer. You texted him instead of saying it to
his face.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, well, because he he doesn't really answer the phone
that much after after six o'clock at night. He's like
he's like the reverse vampire instead of being up all night,
Like yeah, yeah, I I gotta text him. But I mean,
I'm not trolling. I'm not trolling when I say that.
I say he can't even hit high school pitching, and
I'm right, I'm not trolling it. I'm not saying he
can't hit a high school He not. He ground into
a double playoff a high school pitcher Aaron Well, at
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least at least people will stop talking about the fly
ball he dropped in the world, so they will talk
about this game. Yeah, but high school thing, I mean
sat maybe it was a faulty bat. And if you're
the kid, you get him to sign every shard of
wood that splintered all over the place here and then
you sell, sell, sell, Hey, Aaron, will you sign this
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ball for me? This is a ball you hit into
a double player for me.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Guys are usually pretty good sports about that after they yeah,
you know, talk about their bank accounts, or.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Hey, Joseph, Joseph, what an Aaron? Right on your ball?
Here it is it says, go blank yourself, Aaron, judge,
that's good advice. Oh that's fantastic. Uh, they see now
and surprise. This is what has taken for me to
be excited about the World Baseball Classic. This just go
to you. I've hated the World Baseball Classic for years,
mainly because most of the time when Mets players play,
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I have to worry about them getting hurt. And I
still go back to Edwin Diaz a couple of years
ago where we missed him for the entire year because
he's just celebrating a win and I'm like, I can't
stand the world basement. Now I'm like, okay, this has
brought me into the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Now, look, man, he might have won a video game
at home, done that same little hop and busted it
up there. You never can tell he was trying to
do something great. Look, I'm all in, you know, pride
of country. We're coming out of the Olympics and the
celebration that we've got. I mean, look at all these
cool celebrations. We gotta gotta loota mask for the Mexican team,
we got the changing of the guard for the English team.
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There's all sorts of chaos going on here.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I love it. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's fun. It's
fine and again and I do have a big sigh
relief after every game is over, I go, okay, are
my guys okay? Is everybody all right? Okay? Great? You know,
like like like Twins fans had to watch you go,
oh when Bucks that got hit by a pitch, like,
oh we got hit in the hand, Oh my god,
Oh my god, am I got it? Like like that's
kind of where you go out for that handmaid. It's
(26:22):
a doozy, right, Like that's where your mind goes for it.
It's okay, we got through. Everybody's fine. All right, let's
get to the next game. Get through. Everybody's fine. Get
to the next game.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
So you're the seventeenth not just there because you want
to go get drunk on Saint Patrick's Day. But because
the World Baseball Classic will be over and players will
disperse back to their respective MLB teams.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, I mean, I look that there is gonna be
I am gonna be excited when it's over, because then
I know, okay, every as long as everybody is okay
getting back to camp and nobody had to go too
hard too soon. But no, so far, I'm like, I
didn't know how I was gonna feel coming in, because
that's that's kind of my thing. Like, Okay, the World
Baseball Classic is great, but I care about my team
more than anything else. And I think that's the vast
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majority of baseball fans feel that way. And I don't
want anybody to get hurt. I don't want the you
know in this event, uh to get that way. But
this is what happens sometimes when you have to go
so fast and so hard early on in the season,
the soft tissue injuries, the hamstrings. You know, no, I
did never quite thought, you know, my ace reliever would
you know, rip up his achilles jumping up and down celebrating.
(27:28):
But you know that's what happens. You know, you worry
about guys going too fast too soon, in the in
the World Baseball Classic, and they like to keep innings
down because of it. I get that.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
And what happens since Jason's been hating on Team America,
Brazil's now scored three straight runs.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's it to run home run. Not my fault, hey, listen, listen,
not my fa.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Not many people hate their country more than you right now,
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, stop now, now they can't bring it's not even
safe enough to bring kershaw and it's only a three
run lead now for the United States. Can't bring them
in now, Yeah, because you spoke that into existence. TJ.
Michael Waka Walkah Walka Walka his way to giving up
three runs here in the seventh for the United States,
and he is just he is just getting tattooed. He
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gets he gets one hundred mile an hour line out
the third base to end the inning. That will probably
end the night for Walka, who goes three innings. So
United States now more of a game against Brazil seven
to four going to the top of the eighth inning.
But no, but I I, like I said, I didn't
know how I would feel. I wanted to keep an
open mind to it. How'd field going in and this
these couple of things. Okay, right, you know you know
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uh uh, Jose Contreras's kid pitching. It's kind of fun.
Judge hitting into a double playoff. IM, okay, that's a
ton of fun. Uh And okay, and we were and
we were cruising. Everybody is okay? Not thrilled about the
Juan Soto error in left field, because oh, he's gonna
be a great left fielder. No, first time he gets
touched the ball this season in a game that counts,
he makes an error. But that I'm okay. I am
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absolutely okay. As long as the ball didn't hit anywhere
on him that he had to come out of the game.
It was just an error, So I can live with that.
I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
He got the error out of the way and it
didn't count for you. Now, it does it sit in
the deep recesses of your mind that in a pivotal game,
say you're trying to go meet the Dodgers and the NLCS,
that Soda will have the ball hit to him and
it'll be like the little kid right field that you
remember as as a kid, going, don't hit it to him, please,
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don't hit it to him. U. And then they do
and and you're waiting to see with baited breath, how
does it end.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Like when the fly ball is hit to timmy loopis
U in bad news? Exactly? Oh my god. The one
parent stands up. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
There's there's a great country song where the kid's talking.
You know, they're talking about the kid throwing the ball
up and he's uh, he's trying to hit the home
run to win the World Series. And then he swings
and misses three three times and it's a Kenny Rogers
song called the Greatest Uh. And after he swings and
misses the third time, he goes, well, I'm the greatest
picture of them all.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Look at him.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I took him out. Suddenly he's the other on the
other side of it. Same thing here for your guy,
Wan Soto. You're trying to find a positivity.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
But by that time, as the season gets on, he'll
be the designated hitter. It'll be fine in the big
September Games, designated hitter.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
And you know who you'll miss, Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, now, I'm gonna keep your car. After the show.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
When he's got fifty seven home runs for the Oriols,
are you gonna have Ralph uber you when he.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Goes, when he goes, when he hits twenty four home
runs and knocks in seventy two runs. This here for
the Orioles. Don't come crying to me and say, oh,
I can't believe that. Just wait, how about we go to.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
A man that loves his country unlike you.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Sure look, I love like I just hate when I
can't sugarcoat what happens when Aaron Judge hits into a
double playoff a high school kid. I mean, I can't
uh time now to find out what's trending from a
guy who's been called the Joseph Contreras of Fox Sports
Radio because he went to high school too. It's cheap
to say if that's pretty much the extent of it.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
US, somehow is only ahead seven to four against Brazil
in the top of the eighth of their World Baseball
Classic opener in Houston. It's on Fox TV right now.
The Americans have been walked eleven times, and yet they've
left ten men on base. Aaron Judge at bat right now.
The team captain did hit a two run homer in
the first, but grounded into a double play with bases
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loaded in the second. Bryce terrang a three run double
gifted one in the fifth inning as the left fielder
the Sky simply lost it. However, he has responded with
a home run for Brazil off Michael Walk at the
bottom of the seven. So what was seven to one
is now seven to four US in the league the
games in the top of the eighth for tonight only
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the US is the visiting team. The American second game
of the tournament Saturday night in Houston against Great Britain
on Fox. Mexico beat Great Britain today eight to two.
It was tied one to one in the eighth. Attendants
thirty thousand for that game, thirty one thousand apparently for
the US game tonight Japan early this morning our time,
when its opener in Tokyo, thirteen nothing over Chinese Taipei
(32:03):
Shoheo Tani hit a grand slam. Venezuela won six to
two against the Netherlands Luis a Riaz with two RBIs
Cuba with three nothing lead in the third, one three
to one against Panama. Puerto Rico scored five in the
fifth to night won five nothing against Columbia. Edwen Diez
struck out three in the ninth. The Dominican Republic won
twelve three over Nicaragua. It was three to three in
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the sixth inning. Three RBIs apiece for Julio Rodriguez and
Vladimir Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
On to the NBA.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
There was a game in Boston with Jason Tatum on
the court tonight, returning after the torn achilles last May.
In the playoffs, he played twenty seven minutes and in
the win over Dallas won twenty to one hundred. Tatum
had fifteen points, twelve rebounds, seven assists. Miami ended Charlotte's
six game winning streak one twenty eight to one twenty
Tyler Hero thirty three points. Houston came back to be
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Portland one ozh six to ninety nine. Right now, it's
the Nicks ahl Id at Denver eighty to sixty six
in the third quarter, Clippers with a twenty point lead
at San Antonio at the half sixty six to forty six,
Brook Lopez with seventeen points, and the Lake games about
to start, the Lakers hosting Indiana. Cay Cunningham of the
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Pistons is questionable for Saturday with the Bruce squad. There's
men's college hoops on FS one twelve minutes to go.
Eighteenth ranked Saint John's Only leads forty six forty five
at Seaton Hall undefeated and nineteenth ranked Miami, Ohio leads
with twelve minutes to go seventy four to sixty seven
at Ohio University. Among the seven NHL games going to overtime,
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Colorado tied four to four at Dallas, Florida was a
three to one winner at Detroit. And yes, the Raiders
not only cutting quarterback Gino Smith, but tonight they're trading
at rusher Max Crosby to Baltimore for two first rounders.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next. We
got the play of the Day coming your way, and
we get into the big return for Jason Tatum and
the Celtics tonight. What to make of it? We'll tell
you next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Oh Jason and Mike twenty eight years ago today.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
March sixth, nineteen ninety eight, a young Justin Frossberg decided,
you know what, I'm gonna go to the movies today.
I heard this Big Lebowski might be pretty funny. Happy
Birthday the dude in company this Day nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I'm the Jesus.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Happens Larry, this is what happens.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Yeah, yeah, I went to Ralph the next day after
singing that or seeing that in theaters and not not
your Ralph like the supermarket.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
In a bathrobe and jellies celebrate the hell out of it.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now,
if we didn't have this, if we didn't have this
play coming up, we could make Julianne Moore and her
entrance with the paint, you know, the play of the Yeah, no,
that'd be good. That's that's one of the more underrated
funny But let Jeff Bridges reaction, which he just comes
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flying it over the top with the paint. But we
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Aaron Judge home run for the play of the day.
Go ahead, this city sack through the up side of base.
(36:38):
Here pullding a third although a bottle and up fit.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Now Here comes the green life head. Here comes another run.
Sodo bottled it in left, Sodo bobbled.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It in Zamora, Who's stopped?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And Gary Pettis.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Changed his mud are three? Two leads thunder Dusty Baker,
Oh boy? So yeah, okay? I I should have known
Juan Soto's error was going to be the the play
of the day. Okay, Now it didn't matter because he
went two for four Dominican Republic beating Nicaragua twelve to three.
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But yes, Wan Soto left field, first time he touches
the ball, I think it hits off his knee and
bounces away for a big error to give Nicaragua a run.
But there is your unfortunate play of the day. Fine Frostburg,
Fine you feel happy? Now you're happy. Look he got
it out of his system.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Now you know who's not going to get it out
of their system.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Get used to it again. He'll be the day if
it gets that bad, he'll be the designated hitter. It's
gonna be fine.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
My frame out photo shop him into a match uniform.
So we have that after ready for the rest of
the season, justin.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
We don't need that. It's fine, don't worry about it.
Everything is good, Everything is good. So yes, it's still
going on right now. United States puts another run on
the board right now. It is eight to four as
they bat in the top of the eighth inning. Pete
crow Armstrong is just grounded out to end the inning
though of the United States, and they go to the
bottom of the eighth with an eight four lead, opening
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game of the World Baseball Classic. We're gonna have John
Paul Morosi joining us after the game is over for
all the latest here. He's already got a bunch of
stuff on Joseph Contrera, so you know, it's always a
fun visit with him. But tonight, what I thought was
gonna be story number one then got pushed down a
story number two. And then after the Max Crosby Trade
got pushed the story number three, the return of Jason
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Tatum to the Celtics lineup against the Mavericks, a game
that Mike Harmon wanted to paint app yesterday, saying it's
gonna be a tough game because Cooper Flag is coming
back Celtics.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Did I say such things? Yes, I made for TV
event with two stars.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
And I told you, but it doesn't matter you Like
I said, what's their record with Cooper Flagg? You said, oh,
I don't. I don't have that information here. I don't
have that. I just know they stink. You're like this.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Look they still covered the number. It was fifteen and
a half.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
You and the guy lay the wood. No, they lost
by twenty out of the That's what I made. They
covered the number. Yeah, Cooper Flag goes for sixteen. But
Jason Tatum, who started for the Celtics tonight, played twenty
seven minutes, didn't have quote a minute's restriction tonight, but
still didn't play more than a few minutes in a row.
(39:29):
Did look a little rusty, but still twelve seven assists
and or or fifteen points, twelve rebound, seven assists, a
pretty good night from Overall, the Celtics win pretty easy.
He was plus twenty for the night, and you should
And the one big takeaway from this is not well,
how good was Tatum looking when he comes back? He's
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gonna be fine. We told you last night. This is
incredible news for the Celtics. They become a team that
can win the NBA Championship. But just to see the
emotional lift that I was not expecting when he scored
his first couple of buckets, My goodness, did the crowd
just absolutely go crazy for Jason Tatum a couple of
big buckets like it was welcome back. I mean, look,
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it's it's awkward, it's not his team anymore. But this
emotional lift that he gave, I mean it was. It
was like Game seven of the NBA Finals, the way
the bench and the crowd was reacting to Jason Tatum's
return here to Boston. Like I said last night, I'll
double down now. This year is going to be great
for Boston. They're an NBA title threat.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Back to zero shirts were on the seats all across.
I'm sure you can find them on eBay. Well chronicle
the secondary market as the night continues. But happy return
Luca Garza and Pritchard off the bench with twenty eight combined. Yeah,
big night for the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
So he got more NBA on the way. But coming
up next we get back into the biggest breaking NFL
story of the night, A huge trade for you
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