May 30, 2024 • 38 mins
Jason and Mike have clarification on Jorge López' postgame comments. Let it sink in…the Oakland Athletics have more wins than the New York Mets. And the guys share an appreciation moment for Tarik Cohen!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside hour two of So Totally Mets The
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the You know, if you said to me, Hey, what's
the phrase the gift that keeps on giving? I would
say it's the Mets, because you know, look, we spent
a lot of the first hour on the show talking
about the most embarrassing story in sports tonight, and thankfully
there's no NBA game to take us away from this topic.
And yes, this is why I exist because my teams
are an absolute laughing stock and it makes you feel
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better about your life. So maybe that's why I'm successful.
Maybe that's why the show does so well to do Knockwood,
because hey, I like to listen to that show. Why
because those guys, their teams suck. Man, it is awesome.
I always feel better when I listen to that show.
So the story of the night has been Mets reliever
Jorge Lopez, who is now going to be Mets former
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reliever Jorge Lopez. The Mets lose a doubleheader today to
the Dodgers. Okay, the Mets get swept by the Dodgers,
lose doubleheader yesterday, they lose today. It felt like they
lost two games. They lost ten to three, and in
the eighth inning, Lopez, who is having a bad outing,
the Dodgers put six runs across a two run homer
by show Heyo Tani is the Kappa on this gets
thrown out of the game the next batter because he
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starts arguing ball and strikes with the third base umpire
Otani homers and Lopez throws a pitch to Freddie Freeman,
who checks his swing. They appeal down to third base
and the umpire uh says no swing, and Lopez starts
barking at the yump who throws him out right away.
Lopez walking. You can't just get thrown out and walk
off the field. He walks off the field. He pulls
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his jersey out, you know, untucks the jersey because you know,
the pants are see through and stuff, so really that's
makes sense. And then he takes his glove and he
throws it over the netting and into the stands. Okay,
this is Mets baseball, or what we like to call Wednesday.
Oh by the way, this just on the heels of
Alonzo getting hit on the hand and having to leave
the game and Edwin Diaz on the on the the
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injured list with a shoulder injury. So you know, again,
this is Wednesday, esment, this is Wednesday for the Mets.
It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday for the Mets. All this stuff
has happened, Okay, big deal, Okay, pretty embarrassing. You don't
see a guy throw his glove into the stands, And
it'd be just kind of a fun thing for us
to bring up on the show tonight to laugh at
the Mets and it'll get some attention. No, no, no, no,
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Mets couldn't stop there. After the game was over, they
had a closed door meeting. Francisco Lindor decides, Hey, we
have to close door meeting. Hey, Francisco, dude, needed to
have this meeting way before. Now. Man, come on, you're
ten and twenty five in the last thirty. The season's over,
but now you have to have a meeting. I mean, now,
come on, the season's done, but they have a meeting.
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After the meeting is over, Orge Lopez comes out and
what is likely his last appearance with the media in
a Mets uniform. And you saw this tweeted out by
Steve gelbs SNY. A lot of different outposts had this
that here is Lopez, when he is asked about his actions,
calls the Mets the worst blanking team in Major League Baseball.
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Now you're gonna hear the SoundBite and then you're gonna
hear the controversy a different kind coming out of it.
But listen to what he has to say.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
First, Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but
that that particular have thrown your glove into the standards
unacceptable looking back on it, Do you regret doing that?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I don't regret it.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think I've been looking the worst team in probably
in the whole MLB. So you know, whatever happened happened.
So whatever they want to do this, I'll be tomorrow
here they want me, you know, whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So, so you hear him right there here tomorrow if
they want me. Yeah, I think, And it's sound, and
it's you know now, there's there's a you know this. Look. Look,
we talked about how embarrassing this is. I got to
gather myself because my brain is going in a thousand
different directions right now. It's been too much coffee. Uh,
there's a lot of emotions here. Obviously, his saying I've
been on the worst team in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
He's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You can hear him say the last month and a half,
the White Sox are still worse. Man, They're still worse.
There are three teams still worse than the Mets, Frostburg,
look it up.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
There's three teams still worse.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Drag me.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I didn't mean. I didn't mention the White Sox. You
want you want to mention the way. I didn't say I.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Did last hour, We're six minutes in. It's a high audience.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I didn't say who they were. I was trying to
help you out, buddy. I would because you made the
worst statement in the history of the show when you
said category I don't get to You said I can
out clown the Mets. And that is the most that
is the most untrue thing you have ever said. No
one can out no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I went to a specific incident from earlier in the
week where you had a manager who tried to Stanza
in it and drag whatever trophy he could find behind
the back of his car to get his ass fired,
and they said, nope, you're stuck here. He said, my
guys are lazy, they're not trying. There's no energy. When
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asked to clarify and if he wanted to back off
the next day, he said nope. I said what I said.
So in that particular instance, which was over two parts,
it was a two part show. Uh for Paedo Griffall
they still employ him. They said, now you're gonna take
the check like it and you're gonna be miserable all
the way through. So in that moment, and that is
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very Mets. No, that is very me. It is very Mets.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It is this guy topped it, and this guy topped
it again. Like I tell you can't out clown the Mets.
You think you get to one level clowning wise, and
then suddenly you get well, there's a whole other level.
But you know what, my my guy has a level
of authority. He's the manager. Use guys just a journeyman,
mixed believer. He's a nobody. You think the White Sox
are on the top floor of clowning, and meanwhile you think, Neil,
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you don't know there's a secret door. That's a Rapunzel.
We talk talking, it goes oh no, no, no, there
is a door the clip to the crust the top
of the tower where mother Goffl is saying, don't leave
the tower ever again and she's cutting her hair and
Flinn Ryder is showing up and they can't get his
nose right. You think you're on the top floor of clowning.
You can't even see the top floor of clowning.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Mike, don't forget.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Help me, don't play that.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
You know, if he was in the clubhouse and had
a bag and nickel with him. He could have taken
care of this problem.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Nichols.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now play, Well, that's what he would do.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
He would hit anyway like Boris soap in his sock.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Was that what it was?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, because then the powder k Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Now, let's you know, the Jeanette McCurdy character in I
Carly had the butter sock.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Now now listen, Now let's play this one again so
you can hear what he said, because there's a little
bit of controversy over what he and there's a there's
a lot of thought out here that well, maybe he
didn't say he played on the worst team in Major
League Baseball. So let's go back, Chris, let's go back
and play the first one again. Just we near it
one more time.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
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 5 (07:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I don't regret it.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I think I've been looking the worst team in probably
in the whole MLB.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Souh.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know, whatever happens, I'll stop right there. So it
sounds like he said when he says I've been looking
on the worst team in Major League Baseball. I've been
living on the worst team in Major League Baseball. And
there's a lot of people a big you know, a
blue check marks and everything on Twitter saying I look
sounds like he says he's been the worst teammate in
Major League Baseball. I'm like, Okay, I don't hear teammate
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at all, but you never know because there is could
be a bit of a language barrier and you don't
know what. Okay, maybe he meant to say something, and
let's give him a little bit of credit. But why
is the story now being thrown out by everybody as
I've been on the worst team and probably the whole
blanking MLB Because after he said this, SNY and Steve
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Gelbs and they did a great job. They wanted to
make sure, Okay, let's make sure this guy says what
he wanted to say. Let's make sure there wasn't any
language barrier. Let's make sure there wasn't any thing wrong
with what he said. He meant to say something else
and he said this instead. No, no, no, let's ask him
again to clarify a statement so we can understand that
he meant to say, you plan the worst team in
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Major League Baseball. So here's aten why and the question
lore Lopez. Just want to make sure, dude, we get
what you say, and we frame you and quote you
warmly and accurately.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Take a listen, just to clarify what what you said.
Justa I didn't fully understand you say I'm on the
worst team.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Is that? Is that what you had said? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Probably it looks like.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And that they were embarrassed by you.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Is that what you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I did, Yeah, yeah, you're only the worst team? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want to make sure it's what you just said. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Hey, we want guys to be honest and that we're
mad when they are.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah yeah, no, yeah I did say that. And now
now look there is I am sure, just knowing how
things go and knowing this business, right, I'm sure there's
going to be a bit of questions about, uh, you know,
fully understanding the question saying what he said. And I
get that, I understand that part of it. But you're
answering the questions in the clubhouse, and the guy even said, okay,
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just to understand you're saying what you're saying. You're saying
you play on the worst team in Major League Baseball. Again,
play one more time. We can hear him say it again.
Play the last one again.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He understands the emotion, but that that particular action of
throwing your glove into the stand.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
No, no, play play the one we just heard again, by
the one again, the one we.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Just to clarify what you said, just because I didn't
fully understand. Did you say I'm on the worst team?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Is that? Is that what you had said? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Probably, it looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, probably, look like yeah, probably the probably are Yeah,
I mean I want to clarify you're on the worst team.
Yeah probably, Yeah. Okay, Okay, this.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Guy's my new hero. He's the most honest man in sports.
Just think about it tomorrow when the mad Dog gets on.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You know it's it's I thought he retired. I thought
he retired after the Diamondbacks, I thought he retired. You
know this, this is this, this is where I know.
This is the worst part of it. Now is that Okay,
this came out and he caught This is like when
a team scores a touchdown against you that you know
is going to stand. But they go and look at it,
and potentially they could take it away, but you know
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they're going to give it to the team again, so
they're gonna get to celebrate twice. And you I just
have to watch a game winning touchdown scored against my
team two times. That's kind of what this is. You
had the first story where he said, Hey, I play
on the worst team in all of Major League Baseball. Okay,
well maybe not. Hey, wait a minute, let's look at
it again. Let's look at the replay up high. Maybe
he didn't say that. No, no, no, the replay confirms Nope,
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you said it. That's what That's what he meant to say.
I don't know what to say at this point.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I really gave him every out.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I couldn't. I couldn't just get the one embarrassing part. No, no,
we have to make sure no, no, hey, I want
to make sure you know that I said. We find
the word I'm on the worst human basement.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
The Mets organization probably hates this guy. Pr not protecting
him in the clubhouse and making him available to say
these things tells you everything you need to know.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yeah, probably done anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean, I mean, I mean, really, I mean no, no, no, no, no, Hey, hey,
maybe let me give you a little bit of hope.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Okay, Oh no, we're squatching that home. I We're gonna
give you an out. I'm gonna give you it out.
You really didn't mean to say that? D Yeah, no
I did.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You might want to walk that back right?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Do I want to get out of here? Man? Are
you kidding? Hey? Hey, you think Atlanta needs a reliever?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
What do they do with that extra rock? To spot
with a coon? You have they filled that spot yet?
Because you know I can. Hey, they might need a
middle reliever instead. They got enough inns down there. They'll
play kelvim it. He'll get to play now, watchould be
a great player. Oh that'll be so funny. He and
I will tell such great stories about New York. Oh,
it'll be great. This is it man.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
You know what the best part about all this is.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That the show is over in two and a half hours.
What what is it?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
What you're gonna come back from more tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
True, dude, it's gonna be impossible.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
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Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh, this is you know, this is one of those
days where after you know, like I say, three four
times a year, I need the Mets to a trade
everybody on the team b trade the entire bullpen for
somebody else's entire bullpen, right like sight unseen, I don't
care about at least it's just a different kind of suck.
We're gonna get right. And then there's times when I
(13:08):
just go, you know what, I just need a break
for a couple of days. I need a break from
the Mets. This is where I'm gonna be after the
show tonight. You know what, Mets, it's it's I want
to say, it's not it's it's it's not you, it's me,
But no, it's you. It's you. And I need a break, man.
I need a break for a couple of days before
I start coming back here. Man, I know this is
why baseball every day might not be a great idea.
You know, maybe you need some time away, play a
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few less games, and and this can you know not
something that's something that happened.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
What's gonna happen tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
He's gonna want to watch it, and I'm gonna instead
of talking about Game five of the Western Conference Finals,
he's gonna start screaming and cursing and saying, why do
I keep coming back? We're gonna have the same conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So Jason, listen, hang on, We'll get to the steakhouse
thing in the second. Hang on, hang on, hang on.
I'm gonna say we need a break. It's gonna be
I'm gonna need a break. It's gonna be. Okay, you
we have the game. Look, we have a game. We
have a big game tomorrow. Man. We got Luca and
the and the and the t Wolves and maybe the
t Wolves could be coming back here. Man, this is
what we should be focusing on, not some crazy ass
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bad team that's a fourth worst team in baseball. Yeah,
but this is yeah, but this is absolutely actually more fun.
So there is that. Yeah, now I understand, uh, exit
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Oh maybe he was misquoted. Oh no, no, yeah, playing
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the worst team. Yeah, probably, like I having a chance
to look at the standings, but we probably are the
worst team. Yeah, probably are probably probably yeah, sure we are.
We're probably someone hugged Smith today? Where Where's the Dog?
It's like, you know what need is that episode from
the Office where they Michael pretends he has Springsteen tickets
and he loses them. So Phyllis auctions off her hug
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and like the Bob Vance, they're all betting, like all
the money and Dwyke Kee's betting the same number and
one penny three hundred dollars in one. Like I need
that kind of hug. I need that kind of money
hug from Phyllis. That's what I need.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
There, you have it?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, and you know you want to we
we're gonna get to a little bit of positivity here.
So we've been laughing at the Mets for the last
hour and a half.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
But that positive does everybody frame of money?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Except that is.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
True really the last ten years.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Uh No, come on, we went to the World Series
in twenty.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Fifteen and we laughed when you got smoked.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Not nine. No, we didn't. We didn't. Okay, Okay, we went, Okay,
you know what I need? I need I need yoga,
I need meditation, I need to go.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
That's not gonna help go.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Uh this is you know, I am going to now
do something I don't think I've done since like the
last like since I was like, I don't know, ten,
ten years old. Like, you know what I need right now?
With all of all that, you know, there's no basketball tonight.
Most major League Baseball is over John Wick Marathon right
now on Paramount. I'm going to scream and yell for
him to kill as many people in this movie. You know,
I've seen it a hundred times. Kill that guy, Yeah,
(16:57):
kill that guy, kill that guy. Yeah. I mean, I
need something, man, I need something after this ridiculousness with
Jorge Lopez tonight calling the Mets the worst blanket team
in all the Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Again, the man was honest.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, no, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
He had the opportunity because as that question opened up,
I mean, you know, he had the opportunity to just
say yeah, you know, in the heat of the moment,
it's been a frustrating a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Nah, you just went full on m hm. So I
had a chance to back away from it, had a
chance to back away from Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
But now it's lends all sorts of questions of what
the hell kind of conversations have been going on behind
the scenes.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Look, dude, pop that one, buddy, dude right now, Tommy
fam is going I was right. I told you all
last year the Mets were a bed bunch of guys.
I told you, man, I told you, I told you.
Now are you coming around to me? Look to be
serious for a second, because I'm gonna wind up owing
Frostburger steak dinner. I never thought I'd have to pay
for Wow. Look this is where and I talked about
(17:57):
it last week, but now after tonight, like you not
look at this. You had a guy who was on
the team they're gonna dfa Jorge Lopez Mets reliever who
threw his glove into the stands today after getting kicked
out of the Mets loss to the Dodgers and afterwards
said I play on the worst blanket team in all
of MLB. He was asked to follow up, saying, hey, wait,
just want to clarify. Did you say you play the
worst team in Major League Baseball? He said, yeah, probably
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so yeah, you know, I mean, I don't know what
else to say about that. That's the Mets, But this
is where they need a complete and total overhaul. This
is where you need to clear the decks, and anybody
you can trade, you can trade. If you could trade Lindor,
trade Lindor, you'll trade Alonzo at the deadline, trade Nimo,
trade JD Martinez, trade Jeff McNeil. You've had this core,
(18:43):
these core guys for the last four or five years,
and it's done. You've seen their best baseball. They're all
thirty years old. Whatever you need to do to move
on from this, Spend money in the offseason to bring
in new players. You got a lot of young players
that are gonna come up next year. It is time
to clean house, and all of these guys should all
be out that. You should be taking phone calls on everyone. Alonso, Lindor, Nimom, anybody, anybody.
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There's nobody that's on outside of Christian Scott and Francisco Alvarez.
I mean, really, take phone calls on everybody else, everybody else.
You could take a phone call on Marte. Sorry, yes,
take a phone call everybody else, although not Harrison Bader.
He's our best player. Everybody else take a fall, but
he's only in a one year deal. Trade him too,
everybody else, everybody else you can trade. You can move
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on from everybody else's organization. Trade DS two if you
want to, if you can get anybody to take them.
After blowing all these games and now he's on the
injured list. This is where I'm serious. You need to
say it is time to start over, and you can
start over in one off season. You can sign a
couple of stars. You have a bunch of young players
coming up to need playing time. This is how it works,
and this is what the Mets need to do. It's time.
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It's time for everything new, because this is about as
embarrassing as it gets. The team is just getting worse
and worse. And you've seen the best baseball of all
of these guys. They're all thirty years old or older.
Now it's time to move on. If they started trading
guys tomorrow, Yes, that's what's gonna make me excited now.
Is like when I go to bed at night and
I sometimes to calm myself down, I start thinking about
(20:09):
different things, and I always go through stuff like, hey,
if the Mets did this, or if the Mets did this,
the Mets did this, like who the Mets could trade
so and so for, and who I hear about in
somebody else's organization it might be a big trade bait
for somebody else. Like, that's what calms me down a
little bit, and that's what I think about when I
go to bed. Let me try to do this, Like
if the Mets started doing that, they need to go ahead.
It is time to do it.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
The old joke was always think about baseball in other
situations of nocturnal activities. Sure, literally, you're thinking about baseball
to calm yourself down.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yes, you might be the.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
First person I've ever heard actually admit to this being
a strategy, because really, this should be exasperating you. Your
heart rates should be elevated thinking about, you know, the
the damn nation of the squad that you've acquired there,
the assets that are untradable, the owner sticking his head
(21:04):
in the sand.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Anybody you can, anybody you can, anybody, anybody you can go.
I tell you two guys. Two guys. Christian Scotts, he
looks like he's gonna be really good. He's a young pitcher,
he's a few And Francisco Alvarez. That's it. Those are
the only two. If you if you if you turn
the entire team over, I'd be fine with that. I'd
be absolutely fine with You'd.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Be fine if they got rid of those other two
guys too. You know, no one else's gonna suit too, Jason.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
If you want to calm down and relax, you can
just load on your walk. Man O Tawi's crack of
the bat on his home run, No.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's okay. That's that's the crack of the bat that
ended the Mets season and turned it into an embarrassment.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
That was the one that did it. Whatme on now, now,
who's saying foolish?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, no, that what happened after that? The next pitch
after that started this whole thing. He gave up the
home run to Otani, which is what pissed him off.
And then the first pitch to fro I'm sorry, Freddie Freeman,
check swing. No, it was a whole one to O Tawni.
There was an opposite field home run. It's nine to three.
Everybody's booing. The next pitch is a check swing by
Freddie Freeman, and that starts everything tossed out by the umpire.
(22:10):
Throw all my glove in the stands. I played for
the worst team in Major League Baseball. I don't know
what else to say. I don't know what else to say, No,
this is just the next man. I'll tell you it's
a long play. Man, this is Shakespeare and stuff going
down here.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You think this is bad, Jason, just wait for the Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh no, no, dude, that's all I have is the Jets.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Stop, you can't take that from me. I'm I'm I'm
at the point where I am now breaking down Aaron
Rodgers Ota passer rating from day to day. Hey, you
had a really good day, eleven out of thirteen, three touchdowns. Ah,
not as great today, he was. The Jets were zero
for four in the red zone. Lizard had a big drop,
because that's what that's what I do in the morning.
I'm following the Ota. Lizard had a drop. Not that great,
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but still Rogers was all right, now, this is what
I have, man, I have the Jets. I have till yeah. Well, yeah,
that's true. That's true.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Pod.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Now, speaking of the Jets, this is a positive and
it's not just about the Jets. It's about the player.
And this is a great story because this talks about
this is this is perseverance for a player who was
one of the most exciting young players in the game
and then couldn't stay healthy. After four years away and
three injuries that could have ended his career, the Jets
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signed former Bears running back to Riccohen. And this is, oh,
this is this is exactly a little bit.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Faster than you though he's a little bit fatter, just
a little bit even with the multiple surgeries, just a
little little bit faster. But look, but let's have an
appreciation moment for him just first of all, being and
he's a guy everybody knows because everybody plays fantasy knows
Tarricohen when he when he came on the scene.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
How many leagues are you in where people used all
their free agent money to get him, right, because what
his first game he had like a seventy three yard
touchdown or something like that. It was very first game.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
In the passing game. Oh, the guy that suddenly had
some great value.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
He was someone who was a great PPR running back
flex for like three years. Like he was a solid
ten part. He wasn't someone that you had that suddenly all, man,
he's my RB two or he could be in RB one. No,
but he was someone who he's in my flex position.
I could play him during bye weeks because he caught
a ton of passes out of the backfield. He was
an exciting player. He was gonna be one of the
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next great players for the Bears, and again, I know
the world is filled with a lot of those guys.
But then he just couldn't stay healthy. You know, three
different injuries. Tried to come back. After twenty twenty, he
couldn't try to come back. After twenty twenty one, he
couldn't try to come back. After twenty twenty two, he
got hurt again. I think that's when he tore his
achilles in a workout. And he finally made it back
to the NFL last year, but he never got on
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the field. He's never activated for a game, and now
here he is as a guy who could potentially contribute
for the Jets, because look, you're looking for a third
down running back. I mean, you drafted a thousand guys,
which I don't really get, but okay, you know, Breeze Hall,
someone that's gonna need to breathe. You want somebody who
can return. Now that things are a little bit different
with the kicking rules and now Turi Cohen may have
(25:05):
a little bit of value, but it's really fun to
root for him because again, four years go by if
you don't do something for four years, do you really
have that desire to really say I still can make
it happen. I mean, at some point you say I
did it. I went as far as I could, and
I went further and it's just not gonna happen. So
(25:25):
I gotta give up. I got to move on to
something else. And instead, here's Tarik Cohen now in his
late twenties, trying to get back on the field after
three bad injuries. And here he's with a chance to
make the Jets. Not only that, but have a pretty
decent roles a third down back, you know, sort of
a kick returner. I mean, this is this is a
phenomenal story for this kid.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Yeah, I think some of it comes down to it
and anything you're doing, you got that last ditch effort,
right all right, I'm gonna give it one more go.
And if you a football player, basketball player, I mean,
how many guys do you talk to that still get
a little bit of that thirst when training can comes around.
Now they realize physically that's long gone in the past
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and whatever, but there's still that camaraderie, the locker room,
all those things that players say. It's hard to leave
that life and right in transition to the next thing.
So if you're treat going and you see how much
the running back position gets cycled through guys that get shots,
guys that we have questions, why did they never right?
Why did this guy coming out of college get a
(26:26):
cup of coffee and never be seen again. It's a
position that if you can just find one staff, one
general manager, one scout that believes in you, you get
a puncher's chance to make your mark. And yeah, root
for them as we get into training camp and everything else,
And no guarantees in that business, no matter how good
(26:49):
you may be. Right, a lot of head scratching roster
decisions through the years, but you always want to see
a guy be able to at least go out quasi
on their own terms, you know what I mean, as
opposed to all right, injuries just failed him, like I physically,
he's just not there anymore. Then you'll find out pretty
quiet quick for your jets because you've got running backs
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on the roster, but an opportunity to potentially be a
part of a team that could be pretty good. And
I say could be because everybody else is anointing them
and you know. I don't want to build your hope
hope up, buddy, particularly because we've been talking about the
demise of your other team all all. I know, I know,
so I can't go on the other way and start
building you up for this one.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But look, but here's the thing is that this is
what it's going to be for the Jets this year. Right.
Last year, they were the talk of the offseason with
Aaron Rodgers, right, and the build up to the season
was immense. I mean, I thought the root that the
earth was gonna split in half. He's carrying the flag
out for the game against the Bills, and oh my god,
this is what we've been building for for the last
(27:52):
five or six months since Rogers got traded finally and
then it's over after four plays. Right, So it's going
to be a where there are more storylines than just
rot because Rogers overwhelmed everybody last year, right with with
it just what He's overwhelmed everybody the last three years
with all his h should I leave Green Bay? Do
I not?
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Do?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
What do I do? Do I stay? Do? I don't know?
And it overwhelmed everybody. But now you're gonna have other
big storylines that you follow. Yes, Rogers with the Jets
is going to be a big storyline, but all the
new quarterbacks and new places are gonna be big stories
because they're all gonna get a chance to start. Kirk
Cousins is gonna be a story. The Cowboys will always
be a story, right, Russell Wilson. There's gonna be so
(28:31):
much attention there. But when the season begins and Aaron
Rodgers is healthy, that will become the number one story
in the NFL. Again. It's like every we gotta hold
our breath a little bit and wait and say, okay,
let's let him get to the season. Let's let him
get through a game and see where we're at. But
once he's on the field and he's playing and he's
not injured, you know, knock Wood, then the Jets will
(28:54):
take over as the biggest story and all these other
stories out of bit. I'll still be big, but Jets
and Rogers will move past them. But until then, and
it's going to be part of the other stuff. Just
because we got burned on it last year. It was
so much looking forward to it, and then he was hurt.
So it's gonna be That's the way the summer is
going to go. But then in the fall he's healthy.
He's playing because whether if the Jets are great, it's
an unbelievable story. If the Jets stink, it's an unbelievable
(29:15):
story now, or if the Jets are if they're middle
of the road, it's an unbelievable story. Because this is
it for Aaron Rodgers. So you just got to wait.
As long as he is playing, they will ascend to
me that story.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I gotta say last year, the only person that really
looked forward to it was you exactly. We we were
both uh I'll speak for Frostburg here, we were. We
were kind of done before that first or fifth snap.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, you guys might have been, but but but you know,
remember we do the show for everybody else. We don't
do the show for you, guy, I don't show for you. Guys.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Well, they were kind of I think America was kind
of done with it too, But hey, I'm watching is
a real thing. So you know you got that.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
With the Russian flag this year, that.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Would be uh, the last heal turn he could make,
he Nikolai Volkoff's He grabs the microphone and starts singing
the Russian national.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
I am, but you know what I mean, But I
want to see it. But when he goes to sing
it in week two, does he use the same lyrics
or does he get creative like Volkoff Kid. Yeah, exit
out about Obresco, Exit swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike carbon Live from the
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like they threw stuff and nickl like, what's it? The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon Live
from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Uh again, now
it's okay, it's time. It's like every hour, like I
check my blood pressure. Need a break from the Mets.
I need a ten minute break from the Mets. Ten
minute break. Uh? Coming up next, a big story out
(30:41):
of Sports Today where I'm pretty sure Mike and I
could be district attorneys if we want to. Das are
the ones that they they're the ones that they're the
ones that that prosecute the cases. Right now, I'm Steven Hill, Baby,
let's go right. But there's defense attorney district attorneys process. Yeah,
we could be those guys, and we'll tell you why.
Coming up next, right, here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (31:08):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Yeah,
tonight's to night that so far has been owned by
a Mets middle reliever. But then again, this is what happens.
That's what happens, Larry, that's what happens.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Hell, you know, throw things, seeah, that goes.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
To your job. My goodness, my goodness, is this your homework?
Mets again? Ten minute break from the Mets before.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
We get back into them to see what happens Mets.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Ten minute break because of the most embarrassing story in
all of sports tonight. You know, I said earlier the
night only there's not a basketball game sight to take
away from this. No, and I wish there was. I
wish there was you could take away from that. We
would have to, but no, No, the Mets decide, Hey,
we're gonna make sure you can see us do the
most embarrassing things on the biggest stage possible. Congratulations proof
(31:58):
that Mike and I can be district attorney again, the
ones that prosecute the crimes and make big decisions. Charges
today were dropped against Scottie Scheffler following the incident, the
well publicized incident of a week ago. The Scheffler, who
have court looked one of the best golfers in the world,
was arrested as he was driving to the PGA Championship
(32:20):
earlier this month. The police officer kind of gets out
of his car and runs at him and puts himself
on the hood and leans in and is really going
at Scheffler. We said, couldn't drive past this area because
they were trying to figure out a scene with a
fatality on it. And while we said, look, Scheffler needs
to own that he didn't do the right thing. You
see the video that came out of this police officer
(32:42):
who had to be disciplined because Brian Gillis didn't turn
his body cam on to that records the interaction with Scheffler,
which is what started this whole thing, and the video
that sees him sort of out of control running after
Scheffler's car, you know, sticking his head in the window
and and treating him like he's someone who he just
(33:03):
caught committing a huge crime. As soon as this came out,
Mike and I said, well, the charge are gonna get
dropped at some point very soon. Like the optics are
just that bad, and and and not that they always
have to be what governs a decision when when it
comes to something legal or illegal, But when the optics
are that bad and you have an officer that that
(33:25):
can't that can't corroborate the conversation he had with Scotty
Schffler when he said, listen, don't go past here. We're
we're figuring out a scene where there was a fatality.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
And and and and and.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Scheffler takes off. He can't corroborate that because his camera
wasn't on and he looks like he's out of control.
You tell me how you're gonna go for with the
charges for Scotti Scheffler, Right, You tell not that you
always have to fight the battle of public relations. But
the optic was so bad Scheffler, all the reports he
was shaking, and and he didn't say any he didn't
know what was happening. And you had Jeff Darlington following
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the police with with cameras and then reports of al
Scheffler was treated after he was arrested, when they knew
who he was and they were bringing him breakfast, and
it was you could tell once this got out, and
once we saw the video and the lack of a
body cam, this was going to be just be a
matter of time until the charges were dropped. And I'm
sure that the police officers, you know, they waited as
(34:22):
long as they could, right they waited as long as
they could outside of Valhalla, they waited as long as
they could to say, Okay, we have to make a
decision on this, and enough time has gone by and
hopefully this is a minor story and we move on by.
And Scheffler had a lot of class saying, listen, I
hold no ill will towards everybody. They have a tough job.
I hold him in height regard. And that's a pretty
classy thing to say after what you went through. But yeah,
(34:45):
I mean you could tell right away no body cam.
This looks bad. This police officer chasing after Scheffer looks
like he's marking him. You knew the charges were going
to get droped at some point.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Yeah, I mean, Scheffler calling it a misunderstanding off to
jumping as we had the initial right up, I mean
we had a lot of funds fun with the funds
of the eighty dollars pants that were supposedly irreparably.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Harmed, and that should have been video of that.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Shouldn't there have been vide Well, but that's the thing,
right as we've now had what is it, almost three weeks,
and you don't have any more video that's come out
to support anything of the police side.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Right, question question, would the charges have been dropped if
there was video of him ruining eighty dollars pants?
Speaker 6 (35:28):
No, because then you would have had some active aggression
from Scheffler.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, okay then right.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
So like at that point and then he would have
been thrown or whatever you know you're claiming coming off
of the of the car and all. So this was dismissed,
judge and Della Hanty, we'll go with that. Dismiss the
matter with prejudice.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You say, Judge ed Delahanty. But got a former Phillies
player from the tur that's say no, and go back
and see if it's if there's a relation, it cannot
come again and come up again and quote it will
be ripe for expungement within sixty days, So again missing
miscommunication got a bit chaotic.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
There's a lot going on. There was a death on
the property that you know we shouldn't forget, you know
what caused the heightened awareness and and agitation there of
the police trying to make sure that they're taking care
of business. But you know, even in the initial phase,
what happens, you're citing law and order all crime dramas.
(36:30):
What do you do? You throw the most heavily, most
putative charges out there and then you walk them back. Right,
all right, we can support this, We can support that.
That's because, right, I mean, there were felonies included, so
I was like, sure, that'll go down to a misdemeanor
if it stays at all. And then once you have
video that kind of puts it into all right, what do.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
We really have here?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Did this guy get too aggressive with Scheffler as opposed
to the other way around, And you don't have any
to corroborate his side from any other officers or anybody
out there other than the Darlington And then the subruder
film that showed up a week later. That's it, right,
you got nothing else, So what do you do you
try to save face. He goes away into the good night,
(37:14):
and Scheffler gets back to dominating as well as taking
care of his young child.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, and I feel like now, like you and I
could actually do that, like all the stuff I've seen
on TV law and especially with movies and everything else,
Like like, I know a lot of tricks now, I
know a lot of facts. I know what to say
when I think a jury's gonna buy, what they won't buy,
what's gonna hold up in court, and what doesn't hold
up in court, and blinding people with paperwork. I feel
like I don't need to go to law school and
I could do pretty well.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Maybe we can get another show on the iHeartRadio network
where we take calls and give you our opinions based
on LA Law, Law and Order and all those franchises
I mean, not legally binding in any way, shape or form.
Much like people telling you how to bet when they
can't find a winner. You know, if they threw a
baseball against the side of a right you know, it's
(38:01):
like it's not there. Uh so, yeah, we could do
the same thing. Yeah, It's it's like Tracy Morgan's great
quote from thirty Rock. I don't know anything about this,
but I have strong opinions. That's right.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I feel like I feel like we could do that.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
I think I'm there with you.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
I guarantee you I could. I could go toe to
toe with a lawyer from what I shoot up, go
to school and spend all that money. Now, God, man,
just look a dazzer with words like look at what
that lawyer is wearing. I can't get over that. Like
Lebron too, we get back into the biggest story of
(38:36):
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the You know, if you said to me, Hey, what's
the phrase the gift that keeps on giving? I would
say it's the Mets, because you know, look, we spent
a lot of the first hour on the show talking
about the most embarrassing story in sports tonight, and thankfully
there's no NBA game to take us away from this topic.
And yes, this is why I exist because my teams
are an absolute laughing stock and it makes you feel
(01:14):
better about your life. So maybe that's why I'm successful.
Maybe that's why the show does so well to do Knockwood,
because hey, I like to listen to that show. Why
because those guys, their teams suck. Man, it is awesome.
I always feel better when I listen to that show.
So the story of the night has been Mets reliever
Jorge Lopez, who is now going to be Mets former
(01:35):
reliever Jorge Lopez. The Mets lose a doubleheader today to
the Dodgers. Okay, the Mets get swept by the Dodgers,
lose doubleheader yesterday, they lose today. It felt like they
lost two games. They lost ten to three, and in
the eighth inning, Lopez, who is having a bad outing,
the Dodgers put six runs across a two run homer
by show Heyo Tani is the Kappa on this gets
thrown out of the game the next batter because he
(01:58):
starts arguing ball and strikes with the third base umpire
Otani homers and Lopez throws a pitch to Freddie Freeman,
who checks his swing. They appeal down to third base
and the umpire uh says no swing, and Lopez starts
barking at the yump who throws him out right away.
Lopez walking. You can't just get thrown out and walk
off the field. He walks off the field. He pulls
(02:19):
his jersey out, you know, untucks the jersey because you know,
the pants are see through and stuff, so really that's
makes sense. And then he takes his glove and he
throws it over the netting and into the stands. Okay,
this is Mets baseball, or what we like to call Wednesday.
Oh by the way, this just on the heels of
Alonzo getting hit on the hand and having to leave
the game and Edwin Diaz on the on the the
(02:41):
injured list with a shoulder injury. So you know, again,
this is Wednesday, esment, this is Wednesday for the Mets.
It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday for the Mets. All this stuff
has happened, Okay, big deal, Okay, pretty embarrassing. You don't
see a guy throw his glove into the stands, And
it'd be just kind of a fun thing for us
to bring up on the show tonight to laugh at
the Mets and it'll get some attention. No, no, no, no,
(03:04):
Mets couldn't stop there. After the game was over, they
had a closed door meeting. Francisco Lindor decides, Hey, we
have to close door meeting. Hey, Francisco, dude, needed to
have this meeting way before. Now. Man, come on, you're
ten and twenty five in the last thirty. The season's over,
but now you have to have a meeting. I mean, now,
come on, the season's done, but they have a meeting.
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After the meeting is over, Orge Lopez comes out and
what is likely his last appearance with the media in
a Mets uniform. And you saw this tweeted out by
Steve gelbs SNY. A lot of different outposts had this
that here is Lopez, when he is asked about his actions,
calls the Mets the worst blanking team in Major League Baseball.
(03:48):
Now you're gonna hear the SoundBite and then you're gonna
hear the controversy a different kind coming out of it.
But listen to what he has to say.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
First, Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but
that that particular have thrown your glove into the standards
unacceptable looking back on it, Do you regret doing that?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I don't regret it.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think I've been looking the worst team in probably
in the whole MLB. So you know, whatever happened happened.
So whatever they want to do this, I'll be tomorrow
here they want me, you know, whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So, so you hear him right there here tomorrow if
they want me. Yeah, I think, And it's sound, and
it's you know now, there's there's a you know this. Look. Look,
we talked about how embarrassing this is. I got to
gather myself because my brain is going in a thousand
different directions right now. It's been too much coffee. Uh,
there's a lot of emotions here. Obviously, his saying I've
been on the worst team in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
He's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You can hear him say the last month and a half,
the White Sox are still worse. Man, They're still worse.
There are three teams still worse than the Mets, Frostburg,
look it up.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
There's three teams still worse.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Drag me.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I didn't mean. I didn't mention the White Sox. You
want you want to mention the way. I didn't say I.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Did last hour, We're six minutes in. It's a high audience.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I didn't say who they were. I was trying to
help you out, buddy. I would because you made the
worst statement in the history of the show when you
said category I don't get to You said I can
out clown the Mets. And that is the most that
is the most untrue thing you have ever said. No
one can out no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I went to a specific incident from earlier in the
week where you had a manager who tried to Stanza
in it and drag whatever trophy he could find behind
the back of his car to get his ass fired,
and they said, nope, you're stuck here. He said, my
guys are lazy, they're not trying. There's no energy. When
(05:44):
asked to clarify and if he wanted to back off
the next day, he said nope. I said what I said.
So in that particular instance, which was over two parts,
it was a two part show. Uh for Paedo Griffall
they still employ him. They said, now you're gonna take
the check like it and you're gonna be miserable all
the way through. So in that moment, and that is
(06:04):
very Mets. No, that is very me. It is very Mets.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It is this guy topped it, and this guy topped
it again. Like I tell you can't out clown the Mets.
You think you get to one level clowning wise, and
then suddenly you get well, there's a whole other level.
But you know what, my my guy has a level
of authority. He's the manager. Use guys just a journeyman,
mixed believer. He's a nobody. You think the White Sox
are on the top floor of clowning, and meanwhile you think, Neil,
(06:31):
you don't know there's a secret door. That's a Rapunzel.
We talk talking, it goes oh no, no, no, there
is a door the clip to the crust the top
of the tower where mother Goffl is saying, don't leave
the tower ever again and she's cutting her hair and
Flinn Ryder is showing up and they can't get his
nose right. You think you're on the top floor of clowning.
You can't even see the top floor of clowning.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Mike, don't forget.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Help me, don't play that.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
You know, if he was in the clubhouse and had
a bag and nickel with him. He could have taken
care of this problem.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Nichols.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now play, Well, that's what he would do.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
He would hit anyway like Boris soap in his sock.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Was that what it was?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, because then the powder k Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Now, let's you know, the Jeanette McCurdy character in I
Carly had the butter sock.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Now now listen, Now let's play this one again so
you can hear what he said, because there's a little
bit of controversy over what he and there's a there's
a lot of thought out here that well, maybe he
didn't say he played on the worst team in Major
League Baseball. So let's go back, Chris, let's go back
and play the first one again. Just we near it
one more time.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
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 5 (07:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I don't regret it.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I think I've been looking the worst team in probably
in the whole MLB.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Souh.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know, whatever happens, I'll stop right there. So it
sounds like he said when he says I've been looking
on the worst team in Major League Baseball. I've been
living on the worst team in Major League Baseball. And
there's a lot of people a big you know, a
blue check marks and everything on Twitter saying I look
sounds like he says he's been the worst teammate in
Major League Baseball. I'm like, Okay, I don't hear teammate
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at all, but you never know because there is could
be a bit of a language barrier and you don't
know what. Okay, maybe he meant to say something, and
let's give him a little bit of credit. But why
is the story now being thrown out by everybody as
I've been on the worst team and probably the whole
blanking MLB Because after he said this, SNY and Steve
(08:36):
Gelbs and they did a great job. They wanted to
make sure, Okay, let's make sure this guy says what
he wanted to say. Let's make sure there wasn't any
language barrier. Let's make sure there wasn't any thing wrong
with what he said. He meant to say something else
and he said this instead. No, no, no, let's ask him
again to clarify a statement so we can understand that
he meant to say, you plan the worst team in
(08:58):
Major League Baseball. So here's aten why and the question
lore Lopez. Just want to make sure, dude, we get
what you say, and we frame you and quote you
warmly and accurately.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Take a listen, just to clarify what what you said.
Justa I didn't fully understand you say I'm on the
worst team.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Is that? Is that what you had said? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Probably it looks like.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And that they were embarrassed by you.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Is that what you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I did, Yeah, yeah, you're only the worst team? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want to make sure it's what you just said. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Hey, we want guys to be honest and that we're
mad when they are.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah yeah, no, yeah I did say that. And now
now look there is I am sure, just knowing how
things go and knowing this business, right, I'm sure there's
going to be a bit of questions about, uh, you know,
fully understanding the question saying what he said. And I
get that, I understand that part of it. But you're
answering the questions in the clubhouse, and the guy even said, okay,
(09:53):
just to understand you're saying what you're saying. You're saying
you play on the worst team in Major League Baseball. Again,
play one more time. We can hear him say it again.
Play the last one again.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He understands the emotion, but that that particular action of
throwing your glove into the stand.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
No, no, play play the one we just heard again, by
the one again, the one we.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Just to clarify what you said, just because I didn't
fully understand. Did you say I'm on the worst team?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Is that? Is that what you had said? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Probably, it looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, probably, look like yeah, probably the probably are Yeah,
I mean I want to clarify you're on the worst team.
Yeah probably, Yeah. Okay, Okay, this.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Guy's my new hero. He's the most honest man in sports.
Just think about it tomorrow when the mad Dog gets on.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You know it's it's I thought he retired. I thought
he retired after the Diamondbacks, I thought he retired. You
know this, this is this, this is where I know.
This is the worst part of it. Now is that Okay,
this came out and he caught This is like when
a team scores a touchdown against you that you know
is going to stand. But they go and look at it,
and potentially they could take it away, but you know
(10:56):
they're going to give it to the team again, so
they're gonna get to celebrate twice. And you I just
have to watch a game winning touchdown scored against my
team two times. That's kind of what this is. You
had the first story where he said, Hey, I play
on the worst team in all of Major League Baseball. Okay,
well maybe not. Hey, wait a minute, let's look at
it again. Let's look at the replay up high. Maybe
he didn't say that. No, no, no, the replay confirms Nope,
(11:17):
you said it. That's what That's what he meant to say.
I don't know what to say at this point.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I really gave him every out.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I couldn't. I couldn't just get the one embarrassing part. No, no,
we have to make sure no, no, hey, I want
to make sure you know that I said. We find
the word I'm on the worst human basement.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
The Mets organization probably hates this guy. Pr not protecting
him in the clubhouse and making him available to say
these things tells you everything you need to know.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yeah, probably done anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean, I mean, I mean, really, I mean no, no, no, no, no, Hey, hey,
maybe let me give you a little bit of hope.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Okay, Oh no, we're squatching that home. I We're gonna
give you an out. I'm gonna give you it out.
You really didn't mean to say that? D Yeah, no
I did.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You might want to walk that back right?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Do I want to get out of here? Man? Are
you kidding? Hey? Hey, you think Atlanta needs a reliever?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
What do they do with that extra rock? To spot
with a coon? You have they filled that spot yet?
Because you know I can. Hey, they might need a
middle reliever instead. They got enough inns down there. They'll
play kelvim it. He'll get to play now, watchould be
a great player. Oh that'll be so funny. He and
I will tell such great stories about New York. Oh,
it'll be great. This is it man.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
You know what the best part about all this is.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That the show is over in two and a half hours.
What what is it?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
What you're gonna come back from more tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
True, dude, it's gonna be impossible.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
You're gonna wait with baited breath. Timeline is gonna be
replete with with mentions and our our great listener base
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Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh, this is you know, this is one of those
days where after you know, like I say, three four
times a year, I need the Mets to a trade
everybody on the team b trade the entire bullpen for
somebody else's entire bullpen, right like sight unseen, I don't
care about at least it's just a different kind of suck.
We're gonna get right. And then there's times when I
(13:08):
just go, you know what, I just need a break
for a couple of days. I need a break from
the Mets. This is where I'm gonna be after the
show tonight. You know what, Mets, it's it's I want
to say, it's not it's it's it's not you, it's me,
But no, it's you. It's you. And I need a break, man.
I need a break for a couple of days before
I start coming back here. Man, I know this is
why baseball every day might not be a great idea.
You know, maybe you need some time away, play a
(13:29):
few less games, and and this can you know not
something that's something that happened.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
What's gonna happen tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
He's gonna want to watch it, and I'm gonna instead
of talking about Game five of the Western Conference Finals,
he's gonna start screaming and cursing and saying, why do
I keep coming back? We're gonna have the same conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So Jason, listen, hang on, We'll get to the steakhouse
thing in the second. Hang on, hang on, hang on.
I'm gonna say we need a break. It's gonna be
I'm gonna need a break. It's gonna be. Okay, you
we have the game. Look, we have a game. We
have a big game tomorrow. Man. We got Luca and
the and the and the t Wolves and maybe the
t Wolves could be coming back here. Man, this is
what we should be focusing on, not some crazy ass
(14:11):
bad team that's a fourth worst team in baseball. Yeah,
but this is yeah, but this is absolutely actually more fun.
So there is that. Yeah, now I understand, uh, exit
ab out of Fresca, exit swollen down. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon Live the Direct
dot Com Studios, just give you a little bit hope.
Oh maybe he was misquoted. Oh no, no, yeah, playing
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the worst team. Yeah, probably, like I having a chance
to look at the standings, but we probably are the
worst team. Yeah, probably are probably probably yeah, sure we are.
We're probably someone hugged Smith today? Where Where's the Dog?
It's like, you know what need is that episode from
the Office where they Michael pretends he has Springsteen tickets
and he loses them. So Phyllis auctions off her hug
(14:53):
and like the Bob Vance, they're all betting, like all
the money and Dwyke Kee's betting the same number and
one penny three hundred dollars in one. Like I need
that kind of hug. I need that kind of money
hug from Phyllis. That's what I need.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
There, you have it?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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most embarrassing story than I could. You know, why not? Plus,
how about this we can have an appreciation moment for
a guy back in the NFL after four years away.
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, and you know you want to we
we're gonna get to a little bit of positivity here.
So we've been laughing at the Mets for the last
hour and a half.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
But that positive does everybody frame of money?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Except that is.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
True really the last ten years.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Uh No, come on, we went to the World Series
in twenty.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Fifteen and we laughed when you got smoked.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Not nine. No, we didn't. We didn't. Okay, Okay, we went, Okay,
you know what I need? I need I need yoga,
I need meditation, I need to go.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
That's not gonna help go.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Uh this is you know, I am going to now
do something I don't think I've done since like the
last like since I was like, I don't know, ten,
ten years old. Like, you know what I need right now?
With all of all that, you know, there's no basketball tonight.
Most major League Baseball is over John Wick Marathon right
now on Paramount. I'm going to scream and yell for
him to kill as many people in this movie. You know,
I've seen it a hundred times. Kill that guy, Yeah,
(16:57):
kill that guy, kill that guy. Yeah. I mean, I
need something, man, I need something after this ridiculousness with
Jorge Lopez tonight calling the Mets the worst blanket team
in all the Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Again, the man was honest.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, no, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
He had the opportunity because as that question opened up,
I mean, you know, he had the opportunity to just
say yeah, you know, in the heat of the moment,
it's been a frustrating a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Nah, you just went full on m hm. So I
had a chance to back away from it, had a
chance to back away from Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
But now it's lends all sorts of questions of what
the hell kind of conversations have been going on behind
the scenes.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Look, dude, pop that one, buddy, dude right now, Tommy
fam is going I was right. I told you all
last year the Mets were a bed bunch of guys.
I told you, man, I told you, I told you.
Now are you coming around to me? Look to be
serious for a second, because I'm gonna wind up owing
Frostburger steak dinner. I never thought I'd have to pay
for Wow. Look this is where and I talked about
(17:57):
it last week, but now after tonight, like you not
look at this. You had a guy who was on
the team they're gonna dfa Jorge Lopez Mets reliever who
threw his glove into the stands today after getting kicked
out of the Mets loss to the Dodgers and afterwards
said I play on the worst blanket team in all
of MLB. He was asked to follow up, saying, hey, wait,
just want to clarify. Did you say you play the
worst team in Major League Baseball? He said, yeah, probably
(18:20):
so yeah, you know, I mean, I don't know what
else to say about that. That's the Mets, But this
is where they need a complete and total overhaul. This
is where you need to clear the decks, and anybody
you can trade, you can trade. If you could trade Lindor,
trade Lindor, you'll trade Alonzo at the deadline, trade Nimo,
trade JD Martinez, trade Jeff McNeil. You've had this core,
(18:43):
these core guys for the last four or five years,
and it's done. You've seen their best baseball. They're all
thirty years old. Whatever you need to do to move
on from this, Spend money in the offseason to bring
in new players. You got a lot of young players
that are gonna come up next year. It is time
to clean house, and all of these guys should all
be out that. You should be taking phone calls on everyone. Alonso, Lindor, Nimom, anybody, anybody.
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There's nobody that's on outside of Christian Scott and Francisco Alvarez.
I mean, really, take phone calls on everybody else, everybody else.
You could take a phone call on Marte. Sorry, yes,
take a phone call everybody else, although not Harrison Bader.
He's our best player. Everybody else take a fall, but
he's only in a one year deal. Trade him too,
everybody else, everybody else you can trade. You can move
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on from everybody else's organization. Trade DS two if you
want to, if you can get anybody to take them.
After blowing all these games and now he's on the
injured list. This is where I'm serious. You need to
say it is time to start over, and you can
start over in one off season. You can sign a
couple of stars. You have a bunch of young players
coming up to need playing time. This is how it works,
and this is what the Mets need to do. It's time.
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It's time for everything new, because this is about as
embarrassing as it gets. The team is just getting worse
and worse. And you've seen the best baseball of all
of these guys. They're all thirty years old or older.
Now it's time to move on. If they started trading
guys tomorrow, Yes, that's what's gonna make me excited now.
Is like when I go to bed at night and
I sometimes to calm myself down, I start thinking about
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different things, and I always go through stuff like, hey,
if the Mets did this, or if the Mets did this,
the Mets did this, like who the Mets could trade
so and so for, and who I hear about in
somebody else's organization it might be a big trade bait
for somebody else. Like, that's what calms me down a
little bit, and that's what I think about when I
go to bed. Let me try to do this, Like
if the Mets started doing that, they need to go ahead.
It is time to do it.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
The old joke was always think about baseball in other
situations of nocturnal activities. Sure, literally, you're thinking about baseball
to calm yourself down.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yes, you might be the.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
First person I've ever heard actually admit to this being
a strategy, because really, this should be exasperating you. Your
heart rates should be elevated thinking about, you know, the
the damn nation of the squad that you've acquired there,
the assets that are untradable, the owner sticking his head
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in the sand.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Anybody you can, anybody you can, anybody, anybody you can go.
I tell you two guys. Two guys. Christian Scotts, he
looks like he's gonna be really good. He's a young pitcher,
he's a few And Francisco Alvarez. That's it. Those are
the only two. If you if you if you turn
the entire team over, I'd be fine with that. I'd
be absolutely fine with You'd.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Be fine if they got rid of those other two
guys too. You know, no one else's gonna suit too, Jason.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
If you want to calm down and relax, you can
just load on your walk. Man O Tawi's crack of
the bat on his home run, No.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's okay. That's that's the crack of the bat that
ended the Mets season and turned it into an embarrassment.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
That was the one that did it. Whatme on now, now,
who's saying foolish?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, no, that what happened after that? The next pitch
after that started this whole thing. He gave up the
home run to Otani, which is what pissed him off.
And then the first pitch to fro I'm sorry, Freddie Freeman,
check swing. No, it was a whole one to O Tawni.
There was an opposite field home run. It's nine to three.
Everybody's booing. The next pitch is a check swing by
Freddie Freeman, and that starts everything tossed out by the umpire.
(22:10):
Throw all my glove in the stands. I played for
the worst team in Major League Baseball. I don't know
what else to say. I don't know what else to say, No,
this is just the next man. I'll tell you it's
a long play. Man, this is Shakespeare and stuff going
down here.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You think this is bad, Jason, just wait for the Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh no, no, dude, that's all I have is the Jets.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Stop, you can't take that from me. I'm I'm I'm
at the point where I am now breaking down Aaron
Rodgers Ota passer rating from day to day. Hey, you
had a really good day, eleven out of thirteen, three touchdowns. Ah,
not as great today, he was. The Jets were zero
for four in the red zone. Lizard had a big drop,
because that's what that's what I do in the morning.
I'm following the Ota. Lizard had a drop. Not that great,
(22:50):
but still Rogers was all right, now, this is what
I have, man, I have the Jets. I have till yeah. Well, yeah,
that's true. That's true.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Pod.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Now, speaking of the Jets, this is a positive and
it's not just about the Jets. It's about the player.
And this is a great story because this talks about
this is this is perseverance for a player who was
one of the most exciting young players in the game
and then couldn't stay healthy. After four years away and
three injuries that could have ended his career, the Jets
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signed former Bears running back to Riccohen. And this is, oh,
this is this is exactly a little bit.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Faster than you though he's a little bit fatter, just
a little bit even with the multiple surgeries, just a
little little bit faster. But look, but let's have an
appreciation moment for him just first of all, being and
he's a guy everybody knows because everybody plays fantasy knows
Tarricohen when he when he came on the scene.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
How many leagues are you in where people used all
their free agent money to get him, right, because what
his first game he had like a seventy three yard
touchdown or something like that. It was very first game.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
In the passing game. Oh, the guy that suddenly had
some great value.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
He was someone who was a great PPR running back
flex for like three years. Like he was a solid
ten part. He wasn't someone that you had that suddenly all, man,
he's my RB two or he could be in RB one. No,
but he was someone who he's in my flex position.
I could play him during bye weeks because he caught
a ton of passes out of the backfield. He was
an exciting player. He was gonna be one of the
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next great players for the Bears, and again, I know
the world is filled with a lot of those guys.
But then he just couldn't stay healthy. You know, three
different injuries. Tried to come back. After twenty twenty, he
couldn't try to come back. After twenty twenty one, he
couldn't try to come back. After twenty twenty two, he
got hurt again. I think that's when he tore his
achilles in a workout. And he finally made it back
to the NFL last year, but he never got on
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the field. He's never activated for a game, and now
here he is as a guy who could potentially contribute
for the Jets, because look, you're looking for a third
down running back. I mean, you drafted a thousand guys,
which I don't really get, but okay, you know, Breeze Hall,
someone that's gonna need to breathe. You want somebody who
can return. Now that things are a little bit different
with the kicking rules and now Turi Cohen may have
(25:05):
a little bit of value, but it's really fun to
root for him because again, four years go by if
you don't do something for four years, do you really
have that desire to really say I still can make
it happen. I mean, at some point you say I
did it. I went as far as I could, and
I went further and it's just not gonna happen. So
(25:25):
I gotta give up. I got to move on to
something else. And instead, here's Tarik Cohen now in his
late twenties, trying to get back on the field after
three bad injuries. And here he's with a chance to
make the Jets. Not only that, but have a pretty
decent roles a third down back, you know, sort of
a kick returner. I mean, this is this is a
phenomenal story for this kid.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Yeah, I think some of it comes down to it
and anything you're doing, you got that last ditch effort,
right all right, I'm gonna give it one more go.
And if you a football player, basketball player, I mean,
how many guys do you talk to that still get
a little bit of that thirst when training can comes around.
Now they realize physically that's long gone in the past
(26:04):
and whatever, but there's still that camaraderie, the locker room,
all those things that players say. It's hard to leave
that life and right in transition to the next thing.
So if you're treat going and you see how much
the running back position gets cycled through guys that get shots,
guys that we have questions, why did they never right?
Why did this guy coming out of college get a
(26:26):
cup of coffee and never be seen again. It's a
position that if you can just find one staff, one
general manager, one scout that believes in you, you get
a puncher's chance to make your mark. And yeah, root
for them as we get into training camp and everything else,
And no guarantees in that business, no matter how good
(26:49):
you may be. Right, a lot of head scratching roster
decisions through the years, but you always want to see
a guy be able to at least go out quasi
on their own terms, you know what I mean, as
opposed to all right, injuries just failed him, like I physically,
he's just not there anymore. Then you'll find out pretty
quiet quick for your jets because you've got running backs
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on the roster, but an opportunity to potentially be a
part of a team that could be pretty good. And
I say could be because everybody else is anointing them
and you know. I don't want to build your hope
hope up, buddy, particularly because we've been talking about the
demise of your other team all all. I know, I know,
so I can't go on the other way and start
building you up for this one.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But look, but here's the thing is that this is
what it's going to be for the Jets this year. Right.
Last year, they were the talk of the offseason with
Aaron Rodgers, right, and the build up to the season
was immense. I mean, I thought the root that the
earth was gonna split in half. He's carrying the flag
out for the game against the Bills, and oh my god,
this is what we've been building for for the last
(27:52):
five or six months since Rogers got traded finally and
then it's over after four plays. Right, So it's going
to be a where there are more storylines than just
rot because Rogers overwhelmed everybody last year, right with with
it just what He's overwhelmed everybody the last three years
with all his h should I leave Green Bay? Do
I not?
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Do?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
What do I do? Do I stay? Do? I don't know?
And it overwhelmed everybody. But now you're gonna have other
big storylines that you follow. Yes, Rogers with the Jets
is going to be a big storyline, but all the
new quarterbacks and new places are gonna be big stories
because they're all gonna get a chance to start. Kirk
Cousins is gonna be a story. The Cowboys will always
be a story, right, Russell Wilson. There's gonna be so
(28:31):
much attention there. But when the season begins and Aaron
Rodgers is healthy, that will become the number one story
in the NFL. Again. It's like every we gotta hold
our breath a little bit and wait and say, okay,
let's let him get to the season. Let's let him
get through a game and see where we're at. But
once he's on the field and he's playing and he's
not injured, you know, knock Wood, then the Jets will
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take over as the biggest story and all these other
stories out of bit. I'll still be big, but Jets
and Rogers will move past them. But until then, and
it's going to be part of the other stuff. Just
because we got burned on it last year. It was
so much looking forward to it, and then he was hurt.
So it's gonna be That's the way the summer is
going to go. But then in the fall he's healthy.
He's playing because whether if the Jets are great, it's
an unbelievable story. If the Jets stink, it's an unbelievable
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story now, or if the Jets are if they're middle
of the road, it's an unbelievable story. Because this is
it for Aaron Rodgers. So you just got to wait.
As long as he is playing, they will ascend to
me that story.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I gotta say last year, the only person that really
looked forward to it was you exactly. We we were
both uh I'll speak for Frostburg here, we were. We
were kind of done before that first or fifth snap.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, you guys might have been, but but but you know,
remember we do the show for everybody else. We don't
do the show for you, guy, I don't show for you. Guys.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Well, they were kind of I think America was kind
of done with it too, But hey, I'm watching is
a real thing. So you know you got that.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
With the Russian flag this year, that.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Would be uh, the last heal turn he could make,
he Nikolai Volkoff's He grabs the microphone and starts singing
the Russian national.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
I am, but you know what I mean, But I
want to see it. But when he goes to sing
it in week two, does he use the same lyrics
or does he get creative like Volkoff Kid. Yeah, exit
out about Obresco, Exit swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
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it's okay, it's time. It's like every hour, like I
check my blood pressure. Need a break from the Mets.
I need a ten minute break from the Mets. Ten
minute break. Uh? Coming up next, a big story out
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of Sports Today where I'm pretty sure Mike and I
could be district attorneys if we want to. Das are
the ones that they they're the ones that they're the
ones that that prosecute the cases. Right now, I'm Steven Hill, Baby,
let's go right. But there's defense attorney district attorneys process. Yeah,
we could be those guys, and we'll tell you why.
Coming up next, right, here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (31:08):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Yeah,
tonight's to night that so far has been owned by
a Mets middle reliever. But then again, this is what happens.
That's what happens, Larry, that's what happens.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Hell, you know, throw things, seeah, that goes.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
To your job. My goodness, my goodness, is this your homework?
Mets again? Ten minute break from the Mets before.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
We get back into them to see what happens Mets.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Ten minute break because of the most embarrassing story in
all of sports tonight. You know, I said earlier the
night only there's not a basketball game sight to take
away from this. No, and I wish there was. I
wish there was you could take away from that. We
would have to, but no, No, the Mets decide, Hey,
we're gonna make sure you can see us do the
most embarrassing things on the biggest stage possible. Congratulations proof
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that Mike and I can be district attorney again, the
ones that prosecute the crimes and make big decisions. Charges
today were dropped against Scottie Scheffler following the incident, the
well publicized incident of a week ago. The Scheffler, who
have court looked one of the best golfers in the world,
was arrested as he was driving to the PGA Championship
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earlier this month. The police officer kind of gets out
of his car and runs at him and puts himself
on the hood and leans in and is really going
at Scheffler. We said, couldn't drive past this area because
they were trying to figure out a scene with a
fatality on it. And while we said, look, Scheffler needs
to own that he didn't do the right thing. You
see the video that came out of this police officer
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who had to be disciplined because Brian Gillis didn't turn
his body cam on to that records the interaction with Scheffler,
which is what started this whole thing, and the video
that sees him sort of out of control running after
Scheffler's car, you know, sticking his head in the window
and and treating him like he's someone who he just
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caught committing a huge crime. As soon as this came out,
Mike and I said, well, the charge are gonna get
dropped at some point very soon. Like the optics are
just that bad, and and and not that they always
have to be what governs a decision when when it
comes to something legal or illegal, But when the optics
are that bad and you have an officer that that
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can't that can't corroborate the conversation he had with Scotty
Schffler when he said, listen, don't go past here. We're
we're figuring out a scene where there was a fatality.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
And and and and and.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Scheffler takes off. He can't corroborate that because his camera
wasn't on and he looks like he's out of control.
You tell me how you're gonna go for with the
charges for Scotti Scheffler, Right, You tell not that you
always have to fight the battle of public relations. But
the optic was so bad Scheffler, all the reports he
was shaking, and and he didn't say any he didn't
know what was happening. And you had Jeff Darlington following
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the police with with cameras and then reports of al
Scheffler was treated after he was arrested, when they knew
who he was and they were bringing him breakfast, and
it was you could tell once this got out, and
once we saw the video and the lack of a
body cam, this was going to be just be a
matter of time until the charges were dropped. And I'm
sure that the police officers, you know, they waited as
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long as they could, right they waited as long as
they could outside of Valhalla, they waited as long as
they could to say, Okay, we have to make a
decision on this, and enough time has gone by and
hopefully this is a minor story and we move on by.
And Scheffler had a lot of class saying, listen, I
hold no ill will towards everybody. They have a tough job.
I hold him in height regard. And that's a pretty
classy thing to say after what you went through. But yeah,
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I mean you could tell right away no body cam.
This looks bad. This police officer chasing after Scheffer looks
like he's marking him. You knew the charges were going
to get droped at some point.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Yeah, I mean, Scheffler calling it a misunderstanding off to
jumping as we had the initial right up, I mean
we had a lot of funds fun with the funds
of the eighty dollars pants that were supposedly irreparably.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Harmed, and that should have been video of that.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Shouldn't there have been vide Well, but that's the thing,
right as we've now had what is it, almost three weeks,
and you don't have any more video that's come out
to support anything of the police side.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Right, question question, would the charges have been dropped if
there was video of him ruining eighty dollars pants?
Speaker 6 (35:28):
No, because then you would have had some active aggression
from Scheffler.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, okay then right.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
So like at that point and then he would have
been thrown or whatever you know you're claiming coming off
of the of the car and all. So this was dismissed,
judge and Della Hanty, we'll go with that. Dismiss the
matter with prejudice.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You say, Judge ed Delahanty. But got a former Phillies
player from the tur that's say no, and go back
and see if it's if there's a relation, it cannot
come again and come up again and quote it will
be ripe for expungement within sixty days, So again missing
miscommunication got a bit chaotic.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
There's a lot going on. There was a death on
the property that you know we shouldn't forget, you know
what caused the heightened awareness and and agitation there of
the police trying to make sure that they're taking care
of business. But you know, even in the initial phase,
what happens, you're citing law and order all crime dramas.
(36:30):
What do you do? You throw the most heavily, most
putative charges out there and then you walk them back. Right,
all right, we can support this, We can support that.
That's because, right, I mean, there were felonies included, so
I was like, sure, that'll go down to a misdemeanor
if it stays at all. And then once you have
video that kind of puts it into all right, what do.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
We really have here?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Did this guy get too aggressive with Scheffler as opposed
to the other way around, And you don't have any
to corroborate his side from any other officers or anybody
out there other than the Darlington And then the subruder
film that showed up a week later. That's it, right,
you got nothing else, So what do you do you
try to save face. He goes away into the good night,
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and Scheffler gets back to dominating as well as taking
care of his young child.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, and I feel like now, like you and I
could actually do that, like all the stuff I've seen
on TV law and especially with movies and everything else,
Like like, I know a lot of tricks now, I
know a lot of facts. I know what to say
when I think a jury's gonna buy, what they won't buy,
what's gonna hold up in court, and what doesn't hold
up in court, and blinding people with paperwork. I feel
like I don't need to go to law school and
I could do pretty well.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Maybe we can get another show on the iHeartRadio network
where we take calls and give you our opinions based
on LA Law, Law and Order and all those franchises
I mean, not legally binding in any way, shape or form.
Much like people telling you how to bet when they
can't find a winner. You know, if they threw a
baseball against the side of a right you know, it's
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like it's not there. Uh so, yeah, we could do
the same thing. Yeah, It's it's like Tracy Morgan's great
quote from thirty Rock. I don't know anything about this,
but I have strong opinions. That's right.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I feel like I feel like we could do that.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
I think I'm there with you.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
I guarantee you I could. I could go toe to
toe with a lawyer from what I shoot up, go
to school and spend all that money. Now, God, man,
just look a dazzer with words like look at what
that lawyer is wearing. I can't get over that. Like
Lebron too, we get back into the biggest story of
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