September 24, 2025 • 41 mins
🎙️ Hour 2 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
Jason and Mike open the show by examining the Browns' quarterback situation, with Jason offering a solution involving Colts QB Anthony Richardson and Saints QB Spencer Rattler. Then, the guys shift to the Cowboys, reacting to owner Jerry Jones’ comments about Packers linebacker Micah Parsons. Next, FOX Sports Radio MLB analyst Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to talk all major headlines coming out of the MLB heading into the postseason. All that and more in Hour 2 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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Cowboys coming up in a second, His boy, the war
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of words already going on between the Cowboys and Packers
ahead of Micah Parsons Bowl on Sunday. But we know
we had the conversation a couple minutes ago about how, look,
the one team that should go after a quarterback are
the Browns. Forget about this Sanders and Gabriel and all
this crap happening right now. They're great, lights out defense.
If they had any production whatsoever at quarterback, they would
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be two and one. And it's a watered down It's
a bad afc North right. The Ravens defense is terrible.
The Bengals have no Joe Burrow for for most of
the rest of the season, and Pittsburgh is just kind
of okay, right, be bold, go get a quarterback now.
You threw out there Russell Wilson a few minutes ago,
and I said, no, they need to go get a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, just understand I need to get a.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Something there because look, and now the battle for Ohio
also extends to we need a new quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now, the two guys that I'll give you two names
that they can now, there's no there's no sure fire
answer out there. There's and and teams aren't just gonna
trade backup quarterback just because right, like the Rams aren't
gonna trade Jimmy Garoppolo because he's not.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Starting, right, the red.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hey, no, we have hopes and dreams, and if something
happens to Stafford, we feel pretty good with Jimmy Garoppolo
coming in, right, So it's got to be the right
kind of situation where the team can part with a
quarterback that has some talent.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Right now, you're taking a bit of a risk, but
this is a risk just for this year.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You can start over again after this year if you
don't like it. The two quarterbacks you can go after
right that, I know we'll get that are gonna be
available that you can get a lot for the first
ones in the AFC, And it's Anthony Richardson, because you
know with Daniel Jones's start, they're ready to hand that.
You have it now, Daniel, you're the Sam Darnold of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We love you, and the further we could get removed
from Anthony Richardson, the better we are.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes, you worry about Daniel Jones getting hurt and Richardson
coming in, but you know Richardson's a sunk cost at
this point, right, I mean, you know you're not going
forward with him. He's not going to suddenly win the
job next year. You see how well, Joe just playing
his first three games, but Richardson has flashed before. If
he can stay healthy and a change of scenery with
a really good offensive coach and Kevin Stefanski. Yeah, Anthony
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Richardson's a guy that isla, Hey bring him in and
see you could say that, well, it's a rit, Yeah,
but I know it's a risk. It as upside because
I've seen him have games where boy, for three quarters
Anthony Richard's been terrible and then in a seven minute
spans it's two touchdowns in a field goal and all
of a sudden, it's seventeen seventeen. Like that's a risk
that you could take, and the Colts, I'm sure will
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want to move on and say, okay, we're in on
Daniel Jones, that the Anthony Richard era is over and
we're going forward.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm sure he would be available.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, I mean, what's the risk. I mean, it ain't
gonna cost you much to bring him in, all right?
For the Colts, when as soon as they paid Daniel
Jones the money they did to bring him in, you
knew it was a done deal. And now you're at
a point where he's easier break glass in case of emergency.
You didn't want him, all right, That's why you went
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into the market, is to bring in another distressed property
that you saw could be a positive in your offense
in Daniel Jones. So yeah, you you shuffle him off,
But I don't think the asking price is gonna be
too high. How many other quarterbacks are really out there
that are viable started? I mean, I don't know that
I necessarily want him to bring him in? Is he
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better than what I'm putting out there? Is he gonna
be better than Joe Flacco? I mean, I guess he
could make a play or two with his legs, but
then he's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Then he's gonna go off the field.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, but there also he also is a guy that
needs a change of scenery. No, he's to be able
to get someplace else. And if you're going, you know
that that's a guy who is eminently available, because you know,
the Colts have have itchy, itchy fingers to say, hey,
we want to make a move. I really don't want
this to sit here anymore. And Richardson has flashed. I've
seen him do it, and again maybe he's learned a lot,
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like look, this whole summer. The competition was really close,
no matter who I I I read about or talked to. Hey, no,
this is a close competition. Richardson has look good. They
just feel better with Daniel Jones because of the way
the offense is.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But but beat writers would have come out and said, hey,
Richardson looks terrible. Richardson, don't listen to that. Like all
the Beat writers, the guy's covering practices. Also, this is
a really close competition, And you could say it was
kind of rigged as a competition because clearly, yeah, unless
Richardson is terrific, we're gonna give the job to Jones
because we've seen him succeed in this kind of offense before,
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so let's do it. But like now, it's the point, Okay,
as talented as Richardson is, yeah, it's just not working here.
And he's got no future in Indianapolis. He may have
one in Cleveland. And I mean, look, it may not work,
but I know it's better than what they got. Would
Flacco out there right now, and like I said, at
least the very least, he'll make plays with his legs
and he'll be a little bit more dynamic than Flaka was.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
At this point, maybe he gives you.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
A little opportunity to uncork some stuff downfield. When you
look at Tilm and you look at Jerry Judy and
some of the wide receivers you've got, you got a
couple of pretty good tight ends there to utilize as well.
So clearly you've got a lot of problems. You're offensively,
how should we be kind deficient at this point? And
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now you've got Judkins gave you a little bit of
juice in the backfield. We'll see what he can do
going forward. But yeah, trying to goose this in the trademark.
And I'm curious who else? Who else are you on
earthing from a roster.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The other guy i'm telling you here is Caleb, But no,
the other guy i'm telling you here available that has
flashed a little bit, is a little dynamic, makes plays
with his legs. And you know they want to move
on to the guy they drafted this year. Go get
Spencer Rattler from the Saints. Right, at some point they
got to play Tyler Schuck, right, they have to. He
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came in, he played a little bit this past week.
Rattler has done enough, He's moved the team enough he
has shown that hey he's not completely overwhelmed, and yes,
he can make plays with his legs. He's had a
couple of big games.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Is he great?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
No, But I know he can give you that little
bit of juice and be again that I keep saying dynamic,
because that's what the Browns offense needs. He's someone that's
available simply because you know after this year, the Saints
are going to go after another quarterback. They're in a
stuck place right now with Derek Carr's contract and what
they want to wind up doing. And you know at
some point, well, we drafted Tyler Shuck in the second round.
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He's got to get a chance. It's we're zero to three.
That's coming sooner rather than later. So yeah, if we
started Tyler Schuck, we're gonna go back to Spencer Rally. No,
we can get something for Spencer Ratler. So okay, we
go and worse comes to worst, we tank and we're
drafting arch Manning at the end of this year and.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Lets the Jets get them first, right, So stay and
beat the Giants first, since that was the game everybody
had circled.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
The whole time, going, we're gonna beat that ass when well,
we played that game.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
They've been mocking us and everybody's been pointing to that game.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
For two months.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So yeah, you look at you look at those two
guys that are young, that have talent that again can
get outside the pocket. They're two players that yeah, those
are you, and it's it's not gonna be very expensive
to go get them each team. Would you almost be
doing them a favor doing this because you know they're
gonna make the move anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Go make it now, Go make it down in two weeks, you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Got Rattler Richardson's starting for you and suddenly, hey, and
if they don't work out, okay, then you can go
to Dylan Gabriel. Then you can go to Shador Sanders.
Like these are guys that have done it on the
field in the NFL at a young age. Go do
something that helps your team out right now, you give them,
give them a little bit of hey, we got your
back here. We're not just gonna let you defense. We're
not gonna let you just go out there every week
and give up fourteen points and we lose fourteen thirteen.
(08:28):
We're not gonna do that to you. Like, really, you
can contend this year because the AFC North is bad.
I mean, really, have you've shown enough in the first
few weeks how good this defense is. Keep it going, man,
people do something, Do something, Help help out, help out
a fan base that's been starved for all sorts of
good news for the past well, I don't know, twenty
five years.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Go help out that fan base.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
What just so they have a new story on the
back of the fish wrap. I don't know. I don't know.
They're a little bit of help.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I don't know that. Richard, Hey, let's have a rally
in the town square over their arrival.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's different. It's different, and I know if I.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Hear something, even if it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
If I know, okay, if I know what I have
in my right hand isn't working right. If I have
a video game control in my right hand that I
know is broken, it's broken, I can't use it. What
about the video game control on your left hand? I
have no idea. I have no idea. Someone just put
it in my hand. It could be broken. It could
be broken worse than this one, but it could be
working great.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But I know the one in my right hand is broken,
So why wouldn't I try to use the one in
the left hand.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I give you, I give you credit. You could have
just said I can have this or what's in the box.
So you got a little more creative with the video game.
I noticed that you didn't go to the high price
end where it might be a lot more complicated to
make something happen. But a guy whose team suddenly needs him,
and that's old captain Kirk.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know, if I didn't hear all those stories the
last few days about how dude, we think Kirk Cousins
is done, and really the league is telling you they
think he has done because there's no talk. There's not
been one team that has called. Because normally by now
we would get that, Hey, sources Vikings called for Kirk
Cousins in the preseason or Raiders call about Kirk Cousins
(10:10):
in the offseason. There's been no teams. There's been no
uh talk at all. No, Hey, we're gonna want to
look into this. What can we do money wise? Would
you eat money for Kirk Cousins? And clearly the Falcons
would do it, right, Hey, we decided to go on
all in on Michael Pennix. So the fact that we
haven't I haven't heard anything from any team at any
point in the last I don't know, six months on
(10:31):
Kirk Cousins tells me the entire league thinks he's done.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I think some of it was you needed proof of
concept of where he was physically in the process. But
it's also the curiosity of where they're at. Given the
first couple of games we've watched from Michael Pennix junior.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Oh yeah, he uh, he's not he's not uh, he's not.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh, he's not good, right, especially the expectations of this squad, Yeah,
not good.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Right, that it was gonna they were gonna go and
they were gonna.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Win the South running away and I said, I said,
not so fast, thinking that you still got to run
through the through the Buccaneers. But here you have it
that Pennix had one solid game and then it's been
a bit ugly.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
And when you get shut out, what do we get
less than ten of those a year anymore?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Right, you get shut out by the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It's pretty pretty bad indictment of where your squad is
right now, just despite all the headliners on the marquee.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I mean, so these are two guys you can go
get I like it, I mean be but you know
help right, like go to and you don't put anything
at risk. That's the best part is that. What about
get oh Man? Yeah, well you might have to wait
another couple of weeks. If the if the Dolphins lose
to the Jets on Monday Night, I know, we decided
we're not gonna mention that game because we want people
(11:47):
to watch Monday night football. Yeah, there's two games, two
games on Monday off day for Major League Baseball. Yeah,
we'll just make stuff play. Yeah, we'll make stuff up.
I will make it up. But if they lose to
the Jets, I wonder how available I got. But then
you're worried about getting into the money for TUA. It
needs to be something where the Browns can say our
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long term plans, meaning after this year, are unaffected, but
we can still kind of go for it this year
because maybe arch Manning isn't great, right we've seen it.
Maybe he's not the guy we should thank for. Maybe
Lenora Sellers is really good, maybe he's not. Maybe Garrett
nus Meyer's great, maybe he's not. But it doesn't matter.
We can try to go for it this year and
if it doesn't work, Okay, it's good. We're still starting
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over next year where a new quarterback something else. If
it does work, great, we may have our quarterback. We
may Spencer Rattler Anthony may wind up being quarterbacks here.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You never a time they were they were both the
flavor of the day, right, Yeah, Anthony Richardson had that month. Yeah,
you actually had a little sculpture of a statue for him.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Boy, I should have really traded him in Dynasty right
after that one.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
That Spencer, that Spencer Rattler was kind of a big
deal once a lot of time and in the collegiate game.
So I'm in and he's looked all right, I mean
through three weeks, yeah, you know, with somebody outside the division.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So we'll see what has and.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Really quick because because I remember this and I have
to sometimes sit back and go, don't agonize too much
over over fantasy, but I vividly remember because I had
the second pick of the draft in fantasy and I
knew I's whatever. I knew somebody was gonna pick number one.
I'm going, oh, man, do I take Bryce Young or
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Anthony Richardson? Like what do I do? Like what do
I do at number two?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Do I take Bryce Young or Anthony Richardson?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Wow?
Speaker 8 (13:38):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I And I agonized over it for like a week
once I knew that the guy picking first wasn't gonna
pick either of those quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And I remember going, like my whole week was like
what do I do? Who do I take? Who do
I take? And now it's like it doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter because they both stink.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So it makes no difference how that worked out, isn't it?
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (13:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But what can you do?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
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Speaker 3 (14:04):
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It'll be awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We got the Cowboys story coming up later on this
hour because Jerry Jones already is talking about how excited
he is that Micah Parsons and the Packers are on
the schedule this week for the Dallas Cowboys. But coming
up next, John Paul Morosi stops by, we have had
an incredible night in Major League Baseball? Have the Guardians
made a deal with the Devil? Will the Tigers ever win? Again,
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who's getting that final wildcard in the National League? And
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who once trailed this division by fifteen and a half games,
now lead the Ale Central over the TI. It will
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(17:14):
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Speaker 7 (17:18):
They they only watched this week the Lions on Monday Night.
I'm gonna turn off the TV for a few days.
Doad Lions win Primetime football, Talk of the Nation. Exciting
times there for coach Dan Campbell healthy. Aiden Hutchinson did
(17:39):
a great job on Lamar Jackson Monday night. That's the
only game my dad's watched this week. I no, no
baseball watched by him. No, it's uh, this is as
as I had. As I was typing out that that post,
I said, my goodness, this, uh, this sounds pretty real
for my for my home state, and it is listen,
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everything about this game, that the bizarre sixth inning, the
bun that went awry, and then obviously the concern over
David Fry's health, and that that's play in that situation,
the balk. It just it was a surreal series of events,
and now the Tigers can no longer casually explain away
(18:26):
what's happening. This is a this is a collapse of
biblical proportions that is now unfolding. And if they can't
right the ship here quickly, I mean, one of the
big concerns now for Detroit is, of course they lose
the tiebreaker to the Guardians. So it's not only that
they need to keep even with the Guardians, they have
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to actually go past them again, and it's just not
easy to do that. The Guardians are hot, playing well,
and then when the Tigers are done playing Cleveland, they
got to go to Fenday. And then the Red Sox
just won a game tonight against a really tough team
in Toronto. And oh, by the way, tomorrow night the
Red Sox have Garrett Crochan the mound against the Blue Jays.
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So you start looking around and asking yourself, where are
the wins going to come from? Where are they going
to get some wins? And they may just have to
hope that the Astros stumble down the stretch. Obviously, the
lost three games playing against the Aids tonight now, but
the mathematics no longer favored the Tigers. They are in
(19:31):
a world of hurt and oh, by the way, their
starter on Thursday, his name is td D TVD is
who they've got starting Thursday's game with everything on the line.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
JPA was interesting you use the term of biblical proportions
because we're wondering if there are any Billy Go Texas
trips to the crossroads that have helped to spur this on.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Well, I'll tell you what we as michigan Ers, may
need to learn and see exactly what has transpired if
they there is another curse here in our state. We've
got the curse of Bobby Lane. The Red Wings, of course,
ended their long drought back in nineteen ninety seven, but
you do start to wonder back in six there was
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the bizarre pitchers having a hard time throwing the bases,
a few different things going on in that era. They
missed the playoffs, the big collapse in two thousand and nine.
But I have not seen anything quite like this. I
guess I'll say this, it's the curse of not re
signing Justin Verlander. He was available last winter. He's gone
on to have a very solid season with the Giants. Instead,
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the Tigers, for the same amount of money, signed a
pitcher and Alice Cobb, who did not throw a single
pitch for them this season. Zero did not throw a pitch.
One year contract for more than ten million dollars and
didn't pitch, And they could have signed Verlander for the
same amount of money. For some reason, they didn't, And
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now they are sadly for the Tigers dealing with those consequences.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
See, I think it's a little bit. It's just to
widen the net here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
John Paul is that I think this is what's going on,
And I think you're at the crux of it. Because
every year you picked the Mariners to win the division.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's right, you picked that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
This has been what eight years in a row you
have picked the Seattle Mariners to win the Al West.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Now it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So the baseball God is saying, I'm sorry, there's got
to be agin and yang here, So I'm giving you
the Tigers absolute epic collapse. I'll give you the Mariners,
who are going to win that division finally, but you
have to take the Tigers epic collapse.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Right and again. The Mariners get a chance to try
to complete this by by defeating the Karalado Rockies this week,
which I like their chances to win this series they're
playing right now. But you're right, after all these years
of now picking the Mariners. And let's make this point too.
You look at the American Leaguees and guess what team
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is now just one game back of the division lead,
the New York Yankees. And there were there were certain
teams that we thought if you looked back two weeks ago,
or even a couple a few days ago, you said, well,
the two buys in the American League could very easily
belong to the Tigers and the Blue Jays. Well, the
Jays are now in the fight for their lives to
(22:12):
try to stay in the top spot of the American
League East with only a one game lead now, the
Tigers are barely even in the playoff picture right now.
If the Astros win tonight, the Tigers are officially out
of a spot, at least for the time being. So
a lot of things at play and all the things
that you thought were going to happen, like the Tigers
(22:34):
having the best record in the American League, they may
not even make the playoffs. And now the Seattle Mariners, who,
by the way, and I'll make this distinction, the Tigers
had a very passive, underwhelming deadline. The Mariners were very aggressive,
and I think sometimes when you are aggressive, it sends
the right message to your clubhouse. The Tigers, they didn't,
(22:56):
and I think that as a result, the Times have
lacked a little swagger here lately. Whereas you look at
the Mariners and then people like you Hanio Suadez and
Josh Taylor who came over at the deadline, I think
those those two players have helped drive a culture that
might finally prove me right and win the American League.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
West JP, and my friend Jason Smith over here has
had a nice roller coaster season with his beloved New
York Mets.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
They get it's not been nice.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It's not been nice. Don't tell me it's been a
nice seat. It's not been nice.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's not nice to use it a very.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Positive sounding word, even although we know better. Incredibly, can
anybody that's watched this, but but you've dived off of
their wagon repeatedly. Uh is he going to get to
the finish line with this squad or are they going
to be left on the outside looking into where he's
eating hoggin dass and crying.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
They're in. They're going to be in a big comeback
win tonight at Wrigley and Jason again, they tend to
play well during the weeks in which I'm going to
see them, and I will be there at Wrigley on
so I will be there. It's our final MLB Network
Showcase game of the week. I get to stay here
in the Midwest. I'm going to go to Chicago and
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I'm looking at this team thinking that comeback they had
tonight says a lot about their their intestinal fortitude, if
you will. And the other piece of the puzzle that
I think is so fascinating is that Juan Soto has
had one of his best seasons of his entire career
this season and it's not getting nearly the national love
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that that season deserves. He has been outstanding, especially lately,
and so I'm bullish on the Mets and I get
to see Brandon sproad pitch in person, with the first
time on Thursday. It's it's all falling into place. And
and Jason, I think that my father, the people in
my great home state, they're just hoping to borrow some
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of Jason Smith's optimism. They just that they want to, uh,
they want to borrow your your perpetual look at the
sunny side of life. And I think that if you
can share some of that that zen like status, so
we would greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Good, good, go much guys. I'm gonna give you something
very calm.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Hey, have you see Sternsy David Stearns who runs the Mets,
your your former college roommate.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Just you pass this along. I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
No more petersoner Maniah the rest of this year. No
no more. I don't want to see them on the
mound again ever the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So you can bring him that message that nice.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
I will be happy to commit that to him.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
He's been wearing that sandwhich was born around town. JP.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Here's my question for you, my esteemed friend and radio host.
I'm going to now turn the question back to you.
Sure bring three game series wild Card series for the Mets.
Who are your three starting pitchers?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
McLain, McClain, rain delay, snow delay, mcclan mclaan, no, McLain
sprote and Tong. You're going mc yes, I'm going all
the kids and if you need to piggyback, because I
think piggyback. You know, it's funny we talked with this
last week. You know, the bullpen games have been really
in vogue the last you know, five to seven years
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in playoffs major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I think piggybacking is going to be the.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
New bullpen games, where teams, oh, we can do this
with our starting pitchers. The Mets started to do it
a little bit ago with some of their with a
couple of their guys, and it worked a little bit.
So I can see a situation where hey, I can
see a piggybacking of say Tong and Clay Holmes, and
that's how they're going to do it. And I think
more teams are going to go, oh, we don't kill
our bullpen. We can you know, we use two starting pitch,
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which we can do. Hey, why not do that? And
that might work out better for us. I think the
I think the what teams like the Mets are doing
this is the beginning of a new trend in baseball.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I love it, and I am sure let let the
Baseball Record reflect you heard it here first on the
Jason Smith Show, that this is the new paradigm of
pitching in Major League Baseball in the postseason is the
piggyback of the bullpen game. I love the idea, and
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let me tell you why I love the idea the
way that you're describing it. If you are putting a
young pitcher into a postseason cauldron, as the Toronto Blue
Jays may also do with Trey Savage, you might as
well have the young man keep the role that he's
had for his entire career. They're all starting pitchers. It's
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asking a lot of Jonah Thong to come into a
seventh inning, men on base, complete chaos, you're on the road,
the crowd's going berserk. Why do that? Let him start?
He's been a starter, that's what he's comfortable doing. And
then have someone like Clay Holmes, who has relieved for
most of his major league career, have play.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Do that.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I think that you are now an adjunct professor on
the School of Baseball at City Field, and I shall
convey when I see my good friends, Carlos Mendoza, bench
coach John Gibbon. I'll convey your your plan and I
think that it. I suspect they will look favorably upon it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You get one of those adjunct professorships, go in there
and speak wisdom.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Adjunct Jason Smith. Let's get so, Mike, here's the thing.
Maybe for for Christmas, for him the holidays, you know,
get him a gift that is Jason Smith, Adjunct Professor
the School of.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I think we should start the guard well probably, I
mean people would want a degree in that.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I mean they can print one from home. It'll work.
Let me ask you one one thing before we let
you go.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
JP plenty of time to chew this over the off season,
but on Tuesday, the Competition Committee voted to bring in
the robot umps. A lot to be sorted out and
details that we'll deal with over time here, But what's
your immediate reaction to it.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I think that it's good. It was inevitable that it
was going to happen, just based on the data that
had been coming in. The Commissioner talked about this at
length in recent months. Years. MLB has put a ton
of research and thought into the rule changes. And I
do think this will change the way that we watch
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the game in a more profound way than the pitch timer.
The pitch timer, To be honest, guys, I barely even
think about it anymore. I know that it's there, I
know the game is moving faster, but I often don't
think about it. I do think about the number of engagements.
I think about the bigger basis and how many stolen
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bases we see now. That stuff I think about, But
the timer I don't. I think this is going to
be a little bit distinctive in that, by definition, multiple
times per game we're going to be reminded of the
existence of this technology. And I think the most fascinating
thing Mike will be internal and how teams say which
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players can challenge, how those players feel about it, how
you feel if you get a chance to challenge, or
if a teammate gets a privileged to challenge at any
time and you don't. It's like having a sibling who
has a different curfew than you do. And it's that
is a very complicated feeling that I think will internally
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unfold in fascinating ways that have far reaching implications. So
this is objectively one of the biggest changes we have seen.
Of all the changes that have occurred under Rob Manford,
I think this is one of the most important and
most most transformative, honestly for the game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
All right, Lastly, John Paul, your moonlighting job as NFL
Detroit Lions prognosticator. They are favored by eight and a
half points at home this week against the Browns.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
What's the final score?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Detroit twenty eight, Cleveland seventeen seventeen?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
You think twenty eight points?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
In fairness? I was close on the margin of victory
for the Lions over the Ravens. I didn't have the
total points correct, but I was darn close on the
on the margin, So I might be honest with this year.
I got the guys, if the Mariners are going to
win the division, this is the year of the MOROSSI, Ah.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Yeah, but that means you might get cocky. JP. You
got to make sure you check yourself.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
That's how people get trouble within yourself in yourself.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
See John Paul Morosse, the MLB Network, Mets and the Cubs,
plenty of offense coming up the rest of this week,
and Wrigley with the wind blowing out. John Paul is
always buddy, appreciated, enjoying the games. We'll talk to you next.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Week, looking forward to my friends. Thank you so much,
See you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Right there goes John Paul Morosi. Great stuff from him
as always. He must really think the Lions are gonna
score a lot of points, because normally he says twenty four,
but twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Now for the whoa, that's a big offensive thing.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Well, I mean, look, it's he's banking on Joe Flacco
to give up seven. Maybe short fields, I don't know.
We'll see eight Aiden Hutchinson, maybe with a little punch
out and stripsack kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
I don't know, We'll.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
See Tom how to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. So someone who's been called the
Joe Flacco of Fox Sports Radio, he's Elite's had some
kind of career and he is elite.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
It is deep to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I think let's get to the baseball scoreboard. Is the
Dodgers show?
Speaker 10 (32:27):
Hey, Otani has pitched six innings tonight, for the first
time in two years his era this season two point
eight seven. The Dodgers were up for to nothing at
Arizona in the seventh. By the way, Otani's career ERA
is under three now. Of course, as soon as Otani
comes out, the bullpen gives up a run. So it's
four to one at Arizona at the bottom of the
seventh inning.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You know you can help me out here, Steve. I
hold on to this lead. You know, I'm just saying
you could.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
It's right.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
We'll get to Arizona and for San Francisco and Saint
Louis in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
But the Dodger I don't worry about that one.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
At Arizona bottom of the seventh Oughtani had eight strike
outs no walks in his six scoreless innings. The Padres
hit two early homers, including a grand slam. There's still
up six to nothing on Milwaukee in the bottom of
the eighth, the Dodgers trying to hold on to the
two and a half game lead over San Diego and
the NL West. The Padres did at least clinch a
playoff berth last night. As for the Saint Louis at
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San Francisco game, the Giants had come back for a
seven to three lead over the Cardinals. Bottom of the six.
Giants have lost eight of ten The regular season ends
this Sunday. San Francisco and Saint Louis were three and
a half games out of the final NL wildcard going
into today. The Reds were the holders of that spot.
They had won five in a row, but Cincinnati lost
at home tonight four two to Pittsburgh, and then the
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Mets hit a two run homer top of the eighths
to win nine to seven at the Cubs. Cubs have
lost five in a row. The saved Edwin Diaz in
New York two perfect innings, five strikeouts. The Mets lead
the Reds by one game for the final NL wildcard spot,
and my goodness, Cleveland is tied with the Tigers for
first place in the Al Central. Cleveland down by twelve
(34:00):
and a half games in the standings less than a
month ago. This is the worst collapse since they've had
divisions in Major League Baseball, and that goes back to
the nineteen sixties. Cleveland beat the slumping Detroit team five
to two tonight. Detroit has dropped ten of its last eleven,
seven in a row, and now the Cleveland Guardians had
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the tiebreaker over Detroit. Boston won four to one at
first place Toronto in the AL East, the Blue Jays
lead is down to one game over the Yankees. Yanks
got two runs in the bottom of the ninth edge
the White Sox three to two, and the Yankees clinch
a playoff berth Atlanta won its tenth game in a row.
Texas lost its eighth straight. Miami won its seventh in
(34:41):
a row. Baltimore shut out Tampa Bay. Right now in
the ALS, the Mariners are losing and Houston is losing
at Seattle. Mariners down three to one to the Rockies
in the top of the eighth. In Northern California, it's
now the A's four to one over Houston. In the
bottom of the fifth. WNBA semifinal games over for the nine.
Las Vegas at home blew out Indiana ninety to sixty eight.
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That best of five tied at a game apiece. Phoenix
came back for an overtime win at Minnesota. Phoenix was
down twenty mid third quarter. Game threes will be on
Friday night. The New York Liberty fired coach Sandy Brondello,
who won the championship a year ago. They just lost
in the first round as the five seed, and at
the postgame press conference, superstar Breanna Stewart was asked about
her coach maybe not coming back. She couldn't believe the
(35:26):
question was even asked, well, guess what her coach isn't
coming back? Technically, the Liberty declined to pick up her
contract option. Oklahoma State fired and paid off coach Mike Gundy.
He was in his twenty first year there. He has
now owed fifteen million dollars. New York Giants rookie quarterback
Jackson Dart will start this week. Tampa Bay wide receiver
Mike Evans will reportedly miss three to four weeks with
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a strain, hamstering back to you.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
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Speaker 1 (36:54):
Only at Tuesday, but it is time to look ahead
to the game of the week in the NFL, and really,
what's you win? It's gonna wind up being the game
of the year up until this point, or the game
of the first month, because Sunday we get the long
awaited return of Micah Parsons to Dallas Sunday Night Football
(37:15):
Packers and the Cowboys. Already, the war of words has
been thrown around Parson says, Hey, sacking Dak Prescott because
you know he plans on sacking Dak Prescott. Uh, sacking
Dak Prescott is gonna be painful. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones, it.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Was like a threat. I think he has to be suspended.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
It's getting It's gonna be painful. Like wow, Uh, that's
my guy. He was always a good mentor for me.
But you know how it is. This is what he's talling.
He's not saying, hey, I'm gonna break his leg. He
said he went full club or laying Yeah, he went,
you know, prediction for the fight. This is like yeah, yeah,
of course it's gonna be pay It's gonna be tough.
But he went on to say really glowing things about
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Dak Prescott. For a teammate, but also juiced up for
this game is Jerry Jones. Because here's Jerry Jones from
his weekly appearance on one O four to three The Fan,
in which he said that, yeah, he's kind of happy
at the extra bit of juice that Michah Parson's coming
back to Dallas.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Is going to bring this game.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
I've said this time and time again, and I think
the world of Micah as an individual and of course,
knowing well. But and then mind say I wish him well,
except it's obvious I don't this weekend in terms of
winning the ball game.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yeah, don't you know.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
But while I'm talking to you on the radio, got
my middle finger up because I really don't feel that.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Uh, here's the thing, right, and this is what we
have told you about Jerry Jones. And I actually saw
this on ESPN today, So congratulations for a take that
we gave you like months ago. How about that look?
Of course Jerry Jones excited? Right, of course he's excited
because it's all here. Dallas has They're going to have
a miserable season. Their defense is abysmal, right, And we
(38:57):
told you that. For Jerry Jones, winning is a blurred
line where he can win on the field or off
the field, and it's all the same to him. If
the Cowboys are great on the field, awesome, right, that's great.
But if the Cowboys are great off the field via
relevancy attention, this is what he craves. He knows that, Hey,
(39:17):
winning the Super Bowl every year is hard to do,
and we can't do it now thirty years I've been
able to do it despite the fact, they're America's team.
But if he wins off the field with attention and
relevancy and the value of the franchise and the Cowboys
still being the pre eminent franchise and all of the NFL,
which is the biggest sport in the country, he wins.
(39:38):
That's how Jerry Jones measures winning. It's why Dallas has
been They've been able to be mediocre on the field
for the last thirty years because they've been great in business. Now,
the team could probably sell the team for fifteen billion dollars. Right,
If you're buying the Cowboys, it would be at least
fifteen billion dollars, right, It's the same to him. This
is why Jerry Jones can be excited even though, hey,
(39:59):
we got to get a win, X, Y, and Z
is because this is a big game and the trade
of Micah Parsons has made the Dallas Cowboys once again
front and center stage. We're talking about this game that's
coming up in five days on Tuesday. This is winning
for Jerry Jones. It's why the Cowboys don't win on
the field, because, hey, most owners want to win. Hey,
we want to want to win. But Jerry Jones likes
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to win this way as well. In some ways, it's
better for him to win off the field because it's
about him. It's not about the Cowboys winning. It's about
Jerry Jones. This is nothing that's different. But congratulations to
people who figure out right now.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, look to be clear, as I've said the I
understand we're counting Super bowls. They got five double digit
win seasons in the last nine years. Damn it, I
got that in my lifetime. They're crying out loud, Okay,
so we need to calm down there. What I want
to see, though, is Lafleur get really creative, because that
secondary stinks. I want to see him run Micah Parsons
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out and just let him run a fly route.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I wish they have a thing where you could call
plays like that. That would be awesome.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Just let them go out and try try one deep ball.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Look, I umiliated you because I scored a sixty eight
yard touchdown and I sacked your quarterback twice.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Take that exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen Dobe,
Jason Smith, Mike Harbon.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Remember this is how Jerry Jones wins. It's the only way.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Coming up next, a big game from this Sunday where
I feel better about the team that lost than the
team that won.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
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Cowboys coming up in a second, His boy, the war
(00:59):
of words already going on between the Cowboys and Packers
ahead of Micah Parsons Bowl on Sunday. But we know
we had the conversation a couple minutes ago about how, look,
the one team that should go after a quarterback are
the Browns. Forget about this Sanders and Gabriel and all
this crap happening right now. They're great, lights out defense.
If they had any production whatsoever at quarterback, they would
(01:22):
be two and one. And it's a watered down It's
a bad afc North right. The Ravens defense is terrible.
The Bengals have no Joe Burrow for for most of
the rest of the season, and Pittsburgh is just kind
of okay, right, be bold, go get a quarterback now.
You threw out there Russell Wilson a few minutes ago,
and I said, no, they need to go get a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, just understand I need to get a.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Something there because look, and now the battle for Ohio
also extends to we need a new quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now, the two guys that I'll give you two names
that they can now, there's no there's no sure fire
answer out there. There's and and teams aren't just gonna
trade backup quarterback just because right, like the Rams aren't
gonna trade Jimmy Garoppolo because he's not.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Starting, right, the red.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hey, no, we have hopes and dreams, and if something
happens to Stafford, we feel pretty good with Jimmy Garoppolo
coming in, right, So it's got to be the right
kind of situation where the team can part with a
quarterback that has some talent.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Right now, you're taking a bit of a risk, but
this is a risk just for this year.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You can start over again after this year if you
don't like it. The two quarterbacks you can go after
right that, I know we'll get that are gonna be
available that you can get a lot for the first
ones in the AFC, And it's Anthony Richardson, because you
know with Daniel Jones's start, they're ready to hand that.
You have it now, Daniel, you're the Sam Darnold of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We love you, and the further we could get removed
from Anthony Richardson, the better we are.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes, you worry about Daniel Jones getting hurt and Richardson
coming in, but you know Richardson's a sunk cost at
this point, right, I mean, you know you're not going
forward with him. He's not going to suddenly win the
job next year. You see how well, Joe just playing
his first three games, but Richardson has flashed before. If
he can stay healthy and a change of scenery with
a really good offensive coach and Kevin Stefanski. Yeah, Anthony
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Richardson's a guy that isla, Hey bring him in and
see you could say that, well, it's a rit, Yeah,
but I know it's a risk. It as upside because
I've seen him have games where boy, for three quarters
Anthony Richard's been terrible and then in a seven minute
spans it's two touchdowns in a field goal and all
of a sudden, it's seventeen seventeen. Like that's a risk
that you could take, and the Colts, I'm sure will
(03:31):
want to move on and say, okay, we're in on
Daniel Jones, that the Anthony Richard era is over and
we're going forward.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm sure he would be available.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, I mean, what's the risk. I mean, it ain't
gonna cost you much to bring him in, all right?
For the Colts, when as soon as they paid Daniel
Jones the money they did to bring him in, you
knew it was a done deal. And now you're at
a point where he's easier break glass in case of emergency.
You didn't want him, all right, That's why you went
(03:59):
into the market, is to bring in another distressed property
that you saw could be a positive in your offense
in Daniel Jones. So yeah, you you shuffle him off,
But I don't think the asking price is gonna be
too high. How many other quarterbacks are really out there
that are viable started? I mean, I don't know that
I necessarily want him to bring him in? Is he
(04:19):
better than what I'm putting out there? Is he gonna
be better than Joe Flacco? I mean, I guess he
could make a play or two with his legs, but
then he's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Then he's gonna go off the field.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, but there also he also is a guy that
needs a change of scenery. No, he's to be able
to get someplace else. And if you're going, you know
that that's a guy who is eminently available, because you know,
the Colts have have itchy, itchy fingers to say, hey,
we want to make a move. I really don't want
this to sit here anymore. And Richardson has flashed. I've
seen him do it, and again maybe he's learned a lot,
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like look, this whole summer. The competition was really close,
no matter who I I I read about or talked to. Hey, no,
this is a close competition. Richardson has look good. They
just feel better with Daniel Jones because of the way
the offense is.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But but beat writers would have come out and said, hey,
Richardson looks terrible. Richardson, don't listen to that. Like all
the Beat writers, the guy's covering practices. Also, this is
a really close competition, And you could say it was
kind of rigged as a competition because clearly, yeah, unless
Richardson is terrific, we're gonna give the job to Jones
because we've seen him succeed in this kind of offense before,
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so let's do it. But like now, it's the point, Okay,
as talented as Richardson is, yeah, it's just not working here.
And he's got no future in Indianapolis. He may have
one in Cleveland. And I mean, look, it may not work,
but I know it's better than what they got. Would
Flacco out there right now, and like I said, at
least the very least, he'll make plays with his legs
and he'll be a little bit more dynamic than Flaka was.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
At this point, maybe he gives you.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
A little opportunity to uncork some stuff downfield. When you
look at Tilm and you look at Jerry Judy and
some of the wide receivers you've got, you got a
couple of pretty good tight ends there to utilize as well.
So clearly you've got a lot of problems. You're offensively,
how should we be kind deficient at this point? And
(06:09):
now you've got Judkins gave you a little bit of
juice in the backfield. We'll see what he can do
going forward. But yeah, trying to goose this in the trademark.
And I'm curious who else? Who else are you on
earthing from a roster.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The other guy i'm telling you here is Caleb, But no,
the other guy i'm telling you here available that has
flashed a little bit, is a little dynamic, makes plays
with his legs. And you know they want to move
on to the guy they drafted this year. Go get
Spencer Rattler from the Saints. Right, at some point they
got to play Tyler Schuck, right, they have to. He
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came in, he played a little bit this past week.
Rattler has done enough, He's moved the team enough he
has shown that hey he's not completely overwhelmed, and yes,
he can make plays with his legs. He's had a
couple of big games.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Is he great?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
No, But I know he can give you that little
bit of juice and be again that I keep saying dynamic,
because that's what the Browns offense needs. He's someone that's
available simply because you know after this year, the Saints
are going to go after another quarterback. They're in a
stuck place right now with Derek Carr's contract and what
they want to wind up doing. And you know at
some point, well, we drafted Tyler Shuck in the second round.
(07:14):
He's got to get a chance. It's we're zero to three.
That's coming sooner rather than later. So yeah, if we
started Tyler Schuck, we're gonna go back to Spencer Rally. No,
we can get something for Spencer Ratler. So okay, we
go and worse comes to worst, we tank and we're
drafting arch Manning at the end of this year and.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Lets the Jets get them first, right, So stay and
beat the Giants first, since that was the game everybody
had circled.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
The whole time, going, we're gonna beat that ass when well,
we played that game.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
They've been mocking us and everybody's been pointing to that game.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
For two months.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So yeah, you look at you look at those two
guys that are young, that have talent that again can
get outside the pocket. They're two players that yeah, those
are you, and it's it's not gonna be very expensive
to go get them each team. Would you almost be
doing them a favor doing this because you know they're
gonna make the move anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Go make it now, Go make it down in two weeks, you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Got Rattler Richardson's starting for you and suddenly, hey, and
if they don't work out, okay, then you can go
to Dylan Gabriel. Then you can go to Shador Sanders.
Like these are guys that have done it on the
field in the NFL at a young age. Go do
something that helps your team out right now, you give them,
give them a little bit of hey, we got your
back here. We're not just gonna let you defense. We're
not gonna let you just go out there every week
and give up fourteen points and we lose fourteen thirteen.
(08:28):
We're not gonna do that to you. Like, really, you
can contend this year because the AFC North is bad.
I mean, really, have you've shown enough in the first
few weeks how good this defense is. Keep it going, man,
people do something, Do something, Help help out, help out
a fan base that's been starved for all sorts of
good news for the past well, I don't know, twenty
five years.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Go help out that fan base.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
What just so they have a new story on the
back of the fish wrap. I don't know. I don't know.
They're a little bit of help.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I don't know that. Richard, Hey, let's have a rally
in the town square over their arrival.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's different. It's different, and I know if I.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Hear something, even if it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
If I know, okay, if I know what I have
in my right hand isn't working right. If I have
a video game control in my right hand that I
know is broken, it's broken, I can't use it. What
about the video game control on your left hand? I
have no idea. I have no idea. Someone just put
it in my hand. It could be broken. It could
be broken worse than this one, but it could be
working great.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But I know the one in my right hand is broken,
So why wouldn't I try to use the one in
the left hand.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I give you, I give you credit. You could have
just said I can have this or what's in the box.
So you got a little more creative with the video game.
I noticed that you didn't go to the high price
end where it might be a lot more complicated to
make something happen. But a guy whose team suddenly needs him,
and that's old captain Kirk.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know, if I didn't hear all those stories the
last few days about how dude, we think Kirk Cousins
is done, and really the league is telling you they
think he has done because there's no talk. There's not
been one team that has called. Because normally by now
we would get that, Hey, sources Vikings called for Kirk
Cousins in the preseason or Raiders call about Kirk Cousins
(10:10):
in the offseason. There's been no teams. There's been no
uh talk at all. No, Hey, we're gonna want to
look into this. What can we do money wise? Would
you eat money for Kirk Cousins? And clearly the Falcons
would do it, right, Hey, we decided to go on
all in on Michael Pennix. So the fact that we
haven't I haven't heard anything from any team at any
point in the last I don't know, six months on
(10:31):
Kirk Cousins tells me the entire league thinks he's done.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I think some of it was you needed proof of
concept of where he was physically in the process. But
it's also the curiosity of where they're at. Given the
first couple of games we've watched from Michael Pennix junior.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Oh yeah, he uh, he's not he's not uh, he's not.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh, he's not good, right, especially the expectations of this squad, Yeah,
not good.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Right, that it was gonna they were gonna go and
they were gonna.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Win the South running away and I said, I said,
not so fast, thinking that you still got to run
through the through the Buccaneers. But here you have it
that Pennix had one solid game and then it's been
a bit ugly.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
And when you get shut out, what do we get
less than ten of those a year anymore?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Right, you get shut out by the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It's pretty pretty bad indictment of where your squad is
right now, just despite all the headliners on the marquee.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I mean, so these are two guys you can go
get I like it, I mean be but you know
help right, like go to and you don't put anything
at risk. That's the best part is that. What about
get oh Man? Yeah, well you might have to wait
another couple of weeks. If the if the Dolphins lose
to the Jets on Monday Night, I know, we decided
we're not gonna mention that game because we want people
(11:47):
to watch Monday night football. Yeah, there's two games, two
games on Monday off day for Major League Baseball. Yeah,
we'll just make stuff play. Yeah, we'll make stuff up.
I will make it up. But if they lose to
the Jets, I wonder how available I got. But then
you're worried about getting into the money for TUA. It
needs to be something where the Browns can say our
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long term plans, meaning after this year, are unaffected, but
we can still kind of go for it this year
because maybe arch Manning isn't great, right we've seen it.
Maybe he's not the guy we should thank for. Maybe
Lenora Sellers is really good, maybe he's not. Maybe Garrett
nus Meyer's great, maybe he's not. But it doesn't matter.
We can try to go for it this year and
if it doesn't work, Okay, it's good. We're still starting
(12:30):
over next year where a new quarterback something else. If
it does work, great, we may have our quarterback. We
may Spencer Rattler Anthony may wind up being quarterbacks here.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You never a time they were they were both the
flavor of the day, right, Yeah, Anthony Richardson had that month. Yeah,
you actually had a little sculpture of a statue for him.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Boy, I should have really traded him in Dynasty right
after that one.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
That Spencer, that Spencer Rattler was kind of a big
deal once a lot of time and in the collegiate game.
So I'm in and he's looked all right, I mean
through three weeks, yeah, you know, with somebody outside the division.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So we'll see what has and.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Really quick because because I remember this and I have
to sometimes sit back and go, don't agonize too much
over over fantasy, but I vividly remember because I had
the second pick of the draft in fantasy and I
knew I's whatever. I knew somebody was gonna pick number one.
I'm going, oh, man, do I take Bryce Young or
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Anthony Richardson? Like what do I do? Like what do
I do at number two?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Do I take Bryce Young or Anthony Richardson?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Wow?
Speaker 8 (13:38):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I And I agonized over it for like a week
once I knew that the guy picking first wasn't gonna
pick either of those quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And I remember going, like my whole week was like
what do I do? Who do I take? Who do
I take? And now it's like it doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter because they both stink.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So it makes no difference how that worked out, isn't it?
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (13:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But what can you do?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
With my best friend Mike Harmon. So yeah, go out,
be bold, go get it, go do it, go do it.
It'll be awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We got the Cowboys story coming up later on this
hour because Jerry Jones already is talking about how excited
he is that Micah Parsons and the Packers are on
the schedule this week for the Dallas Cowboys. But coming
up next, John Paul Morosi stops by, we have had
an incredible night in Major League Baseball? Have the Guardians
made a deal with the Devil? Will the Tigers ever win? Again,
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who's getting that final wildcard in the National League? And
robot umps are here. It's official, It's coming next season.
All that more coming up next Jason and Mike keep
it right here at this is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Look, I'm going to do things my way, and my
way is terrible. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten
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Speaker 8 (15:00):
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Speaker 8 (15:06):
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because this guy is over promising things we never have
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Speaker 3 (15:23):
Well, you know what it's called over promise.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
You should be good at it because you've been over
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Speaker 9 (15:27):
Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show, and we
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Speaker 1 (16:03):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
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Speaker 6 (16:09):
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(16:31):
I need to perform a wellness check right now on
both he and his family. He is proud Michigander MLB
Network insider Extraordinary John Paul Morosi is on Twitter at
John Morosi. I understand the legacy and how the Detroit
Tigers are woven into his family history. The Cleveland Guardians,
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who once trailed this division by fifteen and a half games,
now lead the Ale Central over the TI. It will
be the largest deficit overcome to win a division in
the history of baseball. This has been tweeted out by
John Paul Morosi, so it's only fair, John Paul, I
welcome you in and ask how is your family doing? Specifically,
(17:14):
how is your dad doing. I can't believe he's doing
well right now.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
They they only watched this week the Lions on Monday Night.
I'm gonna turn off the TV for a few days.
Doad Lions win Primetime football, Talk of the Nation. Exciting
times there for coach Dan Campbell healthy. Aiden Hutchinson did
(17:39):
a great job on Lamar Jackson Monday night. That's the
only game my dad's watched this week. I no, no
baseball watched by him. No, it's uh, this is as
as I had. As I was typing out that that post,
I said, my goodness, this, uh, this sounds pretty real
for my for my home state, and it is listen,
(18:02):
everything about this game, that the bizarre sixth inning, the
bun that went awry, and then obviously the concern over
David Fry's health, and that that's play in that situation,
the balk. It just it was a surreal series of events,
and now the Tigers can no longer casually explain away
(18:26):
what's happening. This is a this is a collapse of
biblical proportions that is now unfolding. And if they can't
right the ship here quickly, I mean, one of the
big concerns now for Detroit is, of course they lose
the tiebreaker to the Guardians. So it's not only that
they need to keep even with the Guardians, they have
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to actually go past them again, and it's just not
easy to do that. The Guardians are hot, playing well,
and then when the Tigers are done playing Cleveland, they
got to go to Fenday. And then the Red Sox
just won a game tonight against a really tough team
in Toronto. And oh, by the way, tomorrow night the
Red Sox have Garrett Crochan the mound against the Blue Jays.
(19:10):
So you start looking around and asking yourself, where are
the wins going to come from? Where are they going
to get some wins? And they may just have to
hope that the Astros stumble down the stretch. Obviously, the
lost three games playing against the Aids tonight now, but
the mathematics no longer favored the Tigers. They are in
(19:31):
a world of hurt and oh, by the way, their
starter on Thursday, his name is td D TVD is
who they've got starting Thursday's game with everything on the line.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
JPA was interesting you use the term of biblical proportions
because we're wondering if there are any Billy Go Texas
trips to the crossroads that have helped to spur this on.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Well, I'll tell you what we as michigan Ers, may
need to learn and see exactly what has transpired if
they there is another curse here in our state. We've
got the curse of Bobby Lane. The Red Wings, of course,
ended their long drought back in nineteen ninety seven, but
you do start to wonder back in six there was
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the bizarre pitchers having a hard time throwing the bases,
a few different things going on in that era. They
missed the playoffs, the big collapse in two thousand and nine.
But I have not seen anything quite like this. I
guess I'll say this, it's the curse of not re
signing Justin Verlander. He was available last winter. He's gone
on to have a very solid season with the Giants. Instead,
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the Tigers, for the same amount of money, signed a
pitcher and Alice Cobb, who did not throw a single
pitch for them this season. Zero did not throw a pitch.
One year contract for more than ten million dollars and
didn't pitch, And they could have signed Verlander for the
same amount of money. For some reason, they didn't, And
(20:56):
now they are sadly for the Tigers dealing with those consequences.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
See, I think it's a little bit. It's just to
widen the net here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
John Paul is that I think this is what's going on,
And I think you're at the crux of it. Because
every year you picked the Mariners to win the division.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's right, you picked that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
This has been what eight years in a row you
have picked the Seattle Mariners to win the Al West.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Now it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So the baseball God is saying, I'm sorry, there's got
to be agin and yang here, So I'm giving you
the Tigers absolute epic collapse. I'll give you the Mariners,
who are going to win that division finally, but you
have to take the Tigers epic collapse.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Right and again. The Mariners get a chance to try
to complete this by by defeating the Karalado Rockies this week,
which I like their chances to win this series they're
playing right now. But you're right, after all these years
of now picking the Mariners. And let's make this point too.
You look at the American Leaguees and guess what team
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is now just one game back of the division lead,
the New York Yankees. And there were there were certain
teams that we thought if you looked back two weeks ago,
or even a couple a few days ago, you said, well,
the two buys in the American League could very easily
belong to the Tigers and the Blue Jays. Well, the
Jays are now in the fight for their lives to
(22:12):
try to stay in the top spot of the American
League East with only a one game lead now, the
Tigers are barely even in the playoff picture right now.
If the Astros win tonight, the Tigers are officially out
of a spot, at least for the time being. So
a lot of things at play and all the things
that you thought were going to happen, like the Tigers
(22:34):
having the best record in the American League, they may
not even make the playoffs. And now the Seattle Mariners, who,
by the way, and I'll make this distinction, the Tigers
had a very passive, underwhelming deadline. The Mariners were very aggressive,
and I think sometimes when you are aggressive, it sends
the right message to your clubhouse. The Tigers, they didn't,
(22:56):
and I think that as a result, the Times have
lacked a little swagger here lately. Whereas you look at
the Mariners and then people like you Hanio Suadez and
Josh Taylor who came over at the deadline, I think
those those two players have helped drive a culture that
might finally prove me right and win the American League.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
West JP, and my friend Jason Smith over here has
had a nice roller coaster season with his beloved New
York Mets.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
They get it's not been nice.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It's not been nice. Don't tell me it's been a
nice seat. It's not been nice.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's not nice to use it a very.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Positive sounding word, even although we know better. Incredibly, can
anybody that's watched this, but but you've dived off of
their wagon repeatedly. Uh is he going to get to
the finish line with this squad or are they going
to be left on the outside looking into where he's
eating hoggin dass and crying.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
They're in. They're going to be in a big comeback
win tonight at Wrigley and Jason again, they tend to
play well during the weeks in which I'm going to
see them, and I will be there at Wrigley on
so I will be there. It's our final MLB Network
Showcase game of the week. I get to stay here
in the Midwest. I'm going to go to Chicago and
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I'm looking at this team thinking that comeback they had
tonight says a lot about their their intestinal fortitude, if
you will. And the other piece of the puzzle that
I think is so fascinating is that Juan Soto has
had one of his best seasons of his entire career
this season and it's not getting nearly the national love
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that that season deserves. He has been outstanding, especially lately,
and so I'm bullish on the Mets and I get
to see Brandon sproad pitch in person, with the first
time on Thursday. It's it's all falling into place. And
and Jason, I think that my father, the people in
my great home state, they're just hoping to borrow some
(24:54):
of Jason Smith's optimism. They just that they want to, uh,
they want to borrow your your perpetual look at the
sunny side of life. And I think that if you
can share some of that that zen like status, so
we would greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Good, good, go much guys. I'm gonna give you something
very calm.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Hey, have you see Sternsy David Stearns who runs the Mets,
your your former college roommate.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Just you pass this along. I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
No more petersoner Maniah the rest of this year. No
no more. I don't want to see them on the
mound again ever the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So you can bring him that message that nice.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
I will be happy to commit that to him.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
He's been wearing that sandwhich was born around town. JP.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Here's my question for you, my esteemed friend and radio host.
I'm going to now turn the question back to you.
Sure bring three game series wild Card series for the Mets.
Who are your three starting pitchers?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
McLain, McClain, rain delay, snow delay, mcclan mclaan, no, McLain
sprote and Tong. You're going mc yes, I'm going all
the kids and if you need to piggyback, because I
think piggyback. You know, it's funny we talked with this
last week. You know, the bullpen games have been really
in vogue the last you know, five to seven years
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in playoffs major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I think piggybacking is going to be the.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
New bullpen games, where teams, oh, we can do this
with our starting pitchers. The Mets started to do it
a little bit ago with some of their with a
couple of their guys, and it worked a little bit.
So I can see a situation where hey, I can
see a piggybacking of say Tong and Clay Holmes, and
that's how they're going to do it. And I think
more teams are going to go, oh, we don't kill
our bullpen. We can you know, we use two starting pitch,
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which we can do. Hey, why not do that? And
that might work out better for us. I think the
I think the what teams like the Mets are doing
this is the beginning of a new trend in baseball.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I love it, and I am sure let let the
Baseball Record reflect you heard it here first on the
Jason Smith Show, that this is the new paradigm of
pitching in Major League Baseball in the postseason is the
piggyback of the bullpen game. I love the idea, and
(27:03):
let me tell you why I love the idea the
way that you're describing it. If you are putting a
young pitcher into a postseason cauldron, as the Toronto Blue
Jays may also do with Trey Savage, you might as
well have the young man keep the role that he's
had for his entire career. They're all starting pitchers. It's
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asking a lot of Jonah Thong to come into a
seventh inning, men on base, complete chaos, you're on the road,
the crowd's going berserk. Why do that? Let him start?
He's been a starter, that's what he's comfortable doing. And
then have someone like Clay Holmes, who has relieved for
most of his major league career, have play.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Do that.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I think that you are now an adjunct professor on
the School of Baseball at City Field, and I shall
convey when I see my good friends, Carlos Mendoza, bench
coach John Gibbon. I'll convey your your plan and I
think that it. I suspect they will look favorably upon it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You get one of those adjunct professorships, go in there
and speak wisdom.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Adjunct Jason Smith. Let's get so, Mike, here's the thing.
Maybe for for Christmas, for him the holidays, you know,
get him a gift that is Jason Smith, Adjunct Professor
the School of.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I think we should start the guard well probably, I
mean people would want a degree in that.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I mean they can print one from home. It'll work.
Let me ask you one one thing before we let
you go.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
JP plenty of time to chew this over the off season,
but on Tuesday, the Competition Committee voted to bring in
the robot umps. A lot to be sorted out and
details that we'll deal with over time here, But what's
your immediate reaction to it.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I think that it's good. It was inevitable that it
was going to happen, just based on the data that
had been coming in. The Commissioner talked about this at
length in recent months. Years. MLB has put a ton
of research and thought into the rule changes. And I
do think this will change the way that we watch
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the game in a more profound way than the pitch timer.
The pitch timer, To be honest, guys, I barely even
think about it anymore. I know that it's there, I
know the game is moving faster, but I often don't
think about it. I do think about the number of engagements.
I think about the bigger basis and how many stolen
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bases we see now. That stuff I think about, But
the timer I don't. I think this is going to
be a little bit distinctive in that, by definition, multiple
times per game we're going to be reminded of the
existence of this technology. And I think the most fascinating
thing Mike will be internal and how teams say which
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players can challenge, how those players feel about it, how
you feel if you get a chance to challenge, or
if a teammate gets a privileged to challenge at any
time and you don't. It's like having a sibling who
has a different curfew than you do. And it's that
is a very complicated feeling that I think will internally
(30:27):
unfold in fascinating ways that have far reaching implications. So
this is objectively one of the biggest changes we have seen.
Of all the changes that have occurred under Rob Manford,
I think this is one of the most important and
most most transformative, honestly for the game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
All right, Lastly, John Paul, your moonlighting job as NFL
Detroit Lions prognosticator. They are favored by eight and a
half points at home this week against the Browns.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
What's the final score?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Detroit twenty eight, Cleveland seventeen seventeen?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
You think twenty eight points?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
In fairness? I was close on the margin of victory
for the Lions over the Ravens. I didn't have the
total points correct, but I was darn close on the
on the margin, So I might be honest with this year.
I got the guys, if the Mariners are going to
win the division, this is the year of the MOROSSI, Ah.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Yeah, but that means you might get cocky. JP. You
got to make sure you check yourself.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
That's how people get trouble within yourself in yourself.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
See John Paul Morosse, the MLB Network, Mets and the Cubs,
plenty of offense coming up the rest of this week,
and Wrigley with the wind blowing out. John Paul is
always buddy, appreciated, enjoying the games. We'll talk to you next.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Week, looking forward to my friends. Thank you so much,
See you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Right there goes John Paul Morosi. Great stuff from him
as always. He must really think the Lions are gonna
score a lot of points, because normally he says twenty four,
but twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Now for the whoa, that's a big offensive thing.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Well, I mean, look, it's he's banking on Joe Flacco
to give up seven. Maybe short fields, I don't know.
We'll see eight Aiden Hutchinson, maybe with a little punch
out and stripsack kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
I don't know, We'll.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
See Tom how to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. So someone who's been called the
Joe Flacco of Fox Sports Radio, he's Elite's had some
kind of career and he is elite.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
It is deep to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I think let's get to the baseball scoreboard. Is the
Dodgers show?
Speaker 10 (32:27):
Hey, Otani has pitched six innings tonight, for the first
time in two years his era this season two point
eight seven. The Dodgers were up for to nothing at
Arizona in the seventh. By the way, Otani's career ERA
is under three now. Of course, as soon as Otani
comes out, the bullpen gives up a run. So it's
four to one at Arizona at the bottom of the
seventh inning.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You know you can help me out here, Steve. I
hold on to this lead. You know, I'm just saying
you could.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
It's right.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
We'll get to Arizona and for San Francisco and Saint
Louis in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
But the Dodger I don't worry about that one.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
At Arizona bottom of the seventh Oughtani had eight strike
outs no walks in his six scoreless innings. The Padres
hit two early homers, including a grand slam. There's still
up six to nothing on Milwaukee in the bottom of
the eighth, the Dodgers trying to hold on to the
two and a half game lead over San Diego and
the NL West. The Padres did at least clinch a
playoff berth last night. As for the Saint Louis at
(33:18):
San Francisco game, the Giants had come back for a
seven to three lead over the Cardinals. Bottom of the six.
Giants have lost eight of ten The regular season ends
this Sunday. San Francisco and Saint Louis were three and
a half games out of the final NL wildcard going
into today. The Reds were the holders of that spot.
They had won five in a row, but Cincinnati lost
at home tonight four two to Pittsburgh, and then the
(33:40):
Mets hit a two run homer top of the eighths
to win nine to seven at the Cubs. Cubs have
lost five in a row. The saved Edwin Diaz in
New York two perfect innings, five strikeouts. The Mets lead
the Reds by one game for the final NL wildcard spot,
and my goodness, Cleveland is tied with the Tigers for
first place in the Al Central. Cleveland down by twelve
(34:00):
and a half games in the standings less than a
month ago. This is the worst collapse since they've had
divisions in Major League Baseball, and that goes back to
the nineteen sixties. Cleveland beat the slumping Detroit team five
to two tonight. Detroit has dropped ten of its last eleven,
seven in a row, and now the Cleveland Guardians had
(34:21):
the tiebreaker over Detroit. Boston won four to one at
first place Toronto in the AL East, the Blue Jays
lead is down to one game over the Yankees. Yanks
got two runs in the bottom of the ninth edge
the White Sox three to two, and the Yankees clinch
a playoff berth Atlanta won its tenth game in a row.
Texas lost its eighth straight. Miami won its seventh in
(34:41):
a row. Baltimore shut out Tampa Bay. Right now in
the ALS, the Mariners are losing and Houston is losing
at Seattle. Mariners down three to one to the Rockies
in the top of the eighth. In Northern California, it's
now the A's four to one over Houston. In the
bottom of the fifth. WNBA semifinal games over for the nine.
Las Vegas at home blew out Indiana ninety to sixty eight.
(35:03):
That best of five tied at a game apiece. Phoenix
came back for an overtime win at Minnesota. Phoenix was
down twenty mid third quarter. Game threes will be on
Friday night. The New York Liberty fired coach Sandy Brondello,
who won the championship a year ago. They just lost
in the first round as the five seed, and at
the postgame press conference, superstar Breanna Stewart was asked about
her coach maybe not coming back. She couldn't believe the
(35:26):
question was even asked, well, guess what her coach isn't
coming back? Technically, the Liberty declined to pick up her
contract option. Oklahoma State fired and paid off coach Mike Gundy.
He was in his twenty first year there. He has
now owed fifteen million dollars. New York Giants rookie quarterback
Jackson Dart will start this week. Tampa Bay wide receiver
Mike Evans will reportedly miss three to four weeks with
(35:48):
a strain, hamstering back to you.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Thank you, Steve.
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Speaker 3 (36:15):
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Speaker 2 (36:54):
Now we are.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Only at Tuesday, but it is time to look ahead
to the game of the week in the NFL, and really,
what's you win? It's gonna wind up being the game
of the year up until this point, or the game
of the first month, because Sunday we get the long
awaited return of Micah Parsons to Dallas Sunday Night Football
(37:15):
Packers and the Cowboys. Already, the war of words has
been thrown around Parson says, Hey, sacking Dak Prescott because
you know he plans on sacking Dak Prescott. Uh, sacking
Dak Prescott is gonna be painful. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones, it.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Was like a threat. I think he has to be suspended.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
It's getting It's gonna be painful. Like wow, Uh, that's
my guy. He was always a good mentor for me.
But you know how it is. This is what he's talling.
He's not saying, hey, I'm gonna break his leg. He
said he went full club or laying Yeah, he went,
you know, prediction for the fight. This is like yeah, yeah,
of course it's gonna be pay It's gonna be tough.
But he went on to say really glowing things about
(37:54):
Dak Prescott. For a teammate, but also juiced up for
this game is Jerry Jones. Because here's Jerry Jones from
his weekly appearance on one O four to three The Fan,
in which he said that, yeah, he's kind of happy
at the extra bit of juice that Michah Parson's coming
back to Dallas.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Is going to bring this game.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
I've said this time and time again, and I think
the world of Micah as an individual and of course,
knowing well. But and then mind say I wish him well,
except it's obvious I don't this weekend in terms of
winning the ball game.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yeah, don't you know.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
But while I'm talking to you on the radio, got
my middle finger up because I really don't feel that.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Uh, here's the thing, right, and this is what we
have told you about Jerry Jones. And I actually saw
this on ESPN today, So congratulations for a take that
we gave you like months ago. How about that look?
Of course Jerry Jones excited? Right, of course he's excited
because it's all here. Dallas has They're going to have
a miserable season. Their defense is abysmal, right, And we
(38:57):
told you that. For Jerry Jones, winning is a blurred
line where he can win on the field or off
the field, and it's all the same to him. If
the Cowboys are great on the field, awesome, right, that's great.
But if the Cowboys are great off the field via
relevancy attention, this is what he craves. He knows that, Hey,
(39:17):
winning the Super Bowl every year is hard to do,
and we can't do it now thirty years I've been
able to do it despite the fact, they're America's team.
But if he wins off the field with attention and
relevancy and the value of the franchise and the Cowboys
still being the pre eminent franchise and all of the NFL,
which is the biggest sport in the country, he wins.
(39:38):
That's how Jerry Jones measures winning. It's why Dallas has
been They've been able to be mediocre on the field
for the last thirty years because they've been great in business. Now,
the team could probably sell the team for fifteen billion dollars. Right,
If you're buying the Cowboys, it would be at least
fifteen billion dollars, right, It's the same to him. This
is why Jerry Jones can be excited even though, hey,
(39:59):
we got to get a win, X, Y, and Z
is because this is a big game and the trade
of Micah Parsons has made the Dallas Cowboys once again
front and center stage. We're talking about this game that's
coming up in five days on Tuesday. This is winning
for Jerry Jones. It's why the Cowboys don't win on
the field, because, hey, most owners want to win. Hey,
we want to want to win. But Jerry Jones likes
(40:20):
to win this way as well. In some ways, it's
better for him to win off the field because it's
about him. It's not about the Cowboys winning. It's about
Jerry Jones. This is nothing that's different. But congratulations to
people who figure out right now.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, look to be clear, as I've said the I
understand we're counting Super bowls. They got five double digit
win seasons in the last nine years. Damn it, I
got that in my lifetime. They're crying out loud, Okay,
so we need to calm down there. What I want
to see, though, is Lafleur get really creative, because that
secondary stinks. I want to see him run Micah Parsons
(40:53):
out and just let him run a fly route.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I wish they have a thing where you could call
plays like that. That would be awesome.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Just let them go out and try try one deep ball.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Look, I umiliated you because I scored a sixty eight
yard touchdown and I sacked your quarterback twice.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Take that exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen Dobe,
Jason Smith, Mike Harbon.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Remember this is how Jerry Jones wins. It's the only way.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Coming up next, a big game from this Sunday where
I feel better about the team that lost than the
team that won.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio,
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