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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
We'll get to cut down day.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Got some hot takes off a cutdown day in the
NFL coming up in a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But I gotta have some hot takes just to kind.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Of finish the conversation. But we had a few minutes ago.
Flick's documentary Sign Steeler debut today. Connor Stallion's University of
Michigan employee who was caught taking video of other teams signals,
and maybe all of a sudden, Michigan got good in
twenty twenty one because hey, they were getting everybody else's signals.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I don't know how much.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You mean, maybe maybe the Capitol am on there, maybe
the Hi Jason's extended family in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
They maybe they got better.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And it goes all the way back to twenty twenty one,
when Michigan went from being a team that, hey, we
lose four or five games a year, we can't beat anybody,
to hey, all of a sudden, Harball's eleven and one
and we're in the playoff.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Look I told you that this whole thing, this is
a scandal that nobody really cares about. And I don't
know if it's just a media thing or if it's
the thing that people who are at the top two
percent of sports, but it's just not. It just doesn't
have any staying power, just doesn't. No one's talking about this.
No one wanted to take the title away from Michigan
when it happened. We said a few minutes ago. College
(02:01):
football is shady in general. There's tons of under the
table stuff, and okay, this just kind of goes along
with it. It's different from the NFL. It's different major
League Baseball. When when this is professional and there's certain
ways that you are trying to find a way to
get around other teams that are all not doing those
things either, but no one else, nobody cares. No one's
(02:24):
putting buzzers on them. But if it's a curveball buzz.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Me, everybody just kind of shrugged at it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Look yeah, but look, the other teams aren't doing that.
But in college, everybody's trying. Everybody's trying to find their
way around it, and it's shady in general. That's why
no one cares about this. And I and to kind
of put it in perspective here, why this needs to
go away. And the NCA needs to just say, hey, okay, Michigan,
(02:53):
time serve whatever it is. We're gonna give you some
sort of uh probationary period, we'll take some scholarships away,
what whatever you want to do. Just come out fast
with this and just let it go, because look again,
no one cares. No one's screaming for anything to happen
to Michigan. I always go back to Bucky Brooks, right
who joined us on the show time of time NFL
scout played in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And and he you know, he's always a big fan
of saying.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Hey, when someone is unclaimed in the NFL or someone
gets drafted really low with something like that, he says,
the NFL is telling us what they think of that player.
Thirty two teams are telling us what they think of
this player. You may think, oh, I can't believe that
Kadarius Tony got waved, but if he gets unclaimed, it's
thirty two teams are telling you we are not interested.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The NFL is telling you this is what this player's
value is. Regardless of what you think on social media
or you think you should happen as a fan, this
is what the NF this. They're telling you, this is
what we think of him. And but this is a
case where everybody, media, fans, we're all telling college football
what we think about this. No one cares, No one cares.
(04:02):
We're done. We're done. Will it happened? It's over, Michigan won.
There was no Connor Stallions getting signed. Hey, Pennix is
gonna throw deep to adonesay on this one, that wasn't happening.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Everybody has moved past this.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I hate to say it, I don't think Netflix
is gonna do well with this because I don't think
it's that much of a hot button topic that's gonna
be Hey, oh, I gotta hear more about this. Hopefully
this is the official Oh we had a whole big
documentary on it, and oh man, Okay, I guess this
thing is over.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I did flashes for twenty four to forty eight hours
because we're between week zero and week one of your
college football season.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So a little bit of excitement because maybe there's people
looking to get some insight, maybe they actually care who
Connor Stallions is.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I don't like I think we knew everything we needed
to guy who had his manifesto, guy who went around
in games, and to try to deny any of it
is laughable.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right, But at.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
The end of it all, the Harbaugh served a bunch
of game suspension. He ain't coming back to college football.
Most of the kids are gone that were really the
best of that squad, and it's the old NCAA run
of this stuff. Other guys have transferred all of these things,
coaches changed out that it becomes a all right, who
(05:25):
ends up losing in the process a bunch of people
that weren't there years now they are. Yeah, you're gonna
change some some recruiting stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, that's fine. Guess what.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It's a transfer world anyway. So I don't get that guy,
I go get somebody else's that they recruited.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
How do I lose?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Right, let's say they're gonna suddenly change the penalties to where,
you know what, you have to sit out one of
the transfer portal periods.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, then that's a whole other ballgame. Wait when it
just comes.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Wait, I can't go get I can't just replace those
fifteen players that left with fifteen new guys. Oh all right,
all right, right, I'm straighten up and fly right right
if you tell me I've got to you change the
rules to where that's it, or all nil money is
suddenly frozen.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And all of that goes in.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Hey, hey dude, wait wait world, wait now wait wait now,
now we can go after this.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Dude, dude, Hang on, dude, dude, I gotta dude. You
want this, dude, dude, dude, dude, I hear you. No, dude, dude,
I hear you on.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
The I hear you on the transfer portal you can't.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You can't hide new players like Chad Powers that show
up on your team from somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
People are going to find that out.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But do you really think if ni L money gets frozen,
they're not going to find a way to get money
to the kids?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Hey, sorry, nothing we can do. Nil money is from.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We have to go back to the old days where
it's a garbage bag. Oh and that's your laundry.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Does that wait, does that mean that that you can't
get me up? No?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
No, No, What I'm saying is, Hey, there's a guy
on the corner who was selling refrigerators to all incoming freshmen.
It's forty dollars for refrigerator. You walk over and you
tell them who you are, and you say password is
and he gives you a refrigerator that's a little bit
(07:12):
heavier than the others. You take it back to your
dorm by yourself, open it up, and you'll see how
we get past.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The were you watching the Jungle Book earlier? And there's
something just trying to make something crazy, like.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Hey, you forgot your shoes at this guy's house, and
you're going to look at the left shoe and there's
a money order that just says cash and has a
giant dollar.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You go over and say oop, pop ork that means
I love you. That's stones.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You walk over a password is and you get a
very special refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That's all there.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And that guy over there and you call him Gazoo,
he's cut a big head.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We gave him a green hat.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's all I was thinking about, thinking if I did
pop or really people think I'm really all a live
remember that from the flint Stone.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, hey, you're watching it on you know what is
a boomerang or one of those, or maybe you've got
the DVD's.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't walk over and say I'm the danger, I'm
the danger, and you get a very special refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Is refrigerator going to work?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No, But with what's inside you can get whatever the
hell refrigerator you want to get.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Man Either, by the way, here's a list of cities.
Yelling I'm the Danger in on a street corner is
probably not gonna work out so well for you just
kind of throwing it out there.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You can get a Josh Rosen hot tub and put
it in your dorm room if you want.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
But with all of it, right, It's just comes back
to the same place of all right, what kind of
penalties do you have the ability to enforce at this point? Yeah,
and what really is is fair And I know that's
a dirty four letter word, literally it's but at this
point it's it's been adjudicated. Hardball's not coming back here.
(08:53):
You're the assistant. You should have known too. Okay, you're
at the tention.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You're the danger.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
So everybody moves on. The conferences have all realigned. Here's
more teams moved in, et cetera. You know, put a
giant banner up that says, hey, there might have been
some shenanigans. Let folks continue to debate it in sportstock
radio and television, but for the most part, it's one
giant shrug at this point, asked and answered, they won
(09:22):
the title.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Move on, hell.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I saw a big ad campaign today about Reggie Bush
putting his portrait back up in Heisman House.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Right, Look how long that took to get past that nonsense?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Well, hey, hey, Heisman, you can't just walk in the
Heisman House and say, hey, but here's my portrait going.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Back again, not that it was man again, not that
that wasn't you know, against the rules.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
At the time, you're gonna take down the Kramer portrait.
I'm putting the Riggie Bush one back. Actually, that's how
it's happening. The Jason Smith shod with Mike Carmon live
from the Tirack dot Com studios. Uh So again we'll
have more on this. What more college football coming up?
But again today big day NFL. Let's talk about two
quarterbacks for a second. One who's let go and one
who is staying. Bailey Zappy is let go by the Patriots,
(10:08):
and I understand this. The Patriots need to turn the page,
and I get it. In a perfect world, you'd want
to keep Bailey Zappy. But he is a link to
the past. He's a guy that's come off the bench
and made people forget mac Jones, or maybe he's played well.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
In Spurts that he's a reminder.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Of the team that was before this year, the team
that Belichick ran, the team that Belichick ran into the ground.
It's kind of hard to take a fan favorite from
a previous regime and leave him on the roster, especially
where he'd be in such a big position as a
backup quarterback to Drake may Right you've got to keep
them in a positive frame of mind. So I get
why the Patriots had to let him go, But flip side,
(10:46):
I go out and get him, and he's my backup quarterback.
I don't care what team in the league I am.
I told you about how Gardner Minshew is the perfect
backup quarterback, right. He's the guy that I would pay
a lot of money to because he's someone that can
come off the bench and energize the team. He's got
a great personality that people respond to. He is a
fan favorite, and in short spurts he can play well. Now,
(11:08):
is he gonna play great for a long period of time, No,
he's not. We've seen it, but short periods of time.
If Gardner Minshew's gotta come off relief in the game
or start a game, you're not walking in saying, hey,
we're gonna lose this game. We gotta just run the
ball fifty five times and hope to win with great defense. No,
Minshew can throw you to a win. He's the perfect
backup quarterback. Bailey Zappi is the new Minshew. He is
(11:29):
that guy. We have seen him be dynamic enough off
the bench for the Patriots. He is a fan favorite.
He would bring life to a team if the starting
quarterback goes out. If I don't care what team I
have in what my backup situation is, like, I go
out and get Bailey Zappy because I know now, I
go get him.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I get a guy that.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Can get thrust into a big role for a short
period of time and he can perform at a pretty
decent level. I don't know if you're gonna get better
than that. If I don't care. If I'm the Jets, Hey, okay,
I love Torod Taylor Boom, Hey, go get me Bailey's Appy.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Go get me that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Give me a guy that I know they can throw
the football, move the team up and down the field.
A fan favorite that's gonna energize the team. That's what
you want for a backup quarterback. That's it right there.
I go out and get him. I don't care who
you are, you need a backup quarterback. That's the guy
to go.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He's only a fan favorite because his name is Bailey Zappy.
That does helped up.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Doesn't know that helps was not a mystique. Because you
just around going zap zap Zach. You wouldn't guarant whether
he was complete in the pass in three yards or
throwing in completions ten years down.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
The zappy stuff is good too.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's Zappy hour. Oh come on, get zappy everybody like
r E M. Shiny zappy people scoring touchdowns for the
New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Really lucky you're not three feet from me today.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Zappi holidays everyone. The Patriots get a win thanks to
their backup. We talked about them last night. The nineties
one hit wonders the zappy Monday. What about you go get?
What about you go get? Sam Hartman? He got cut,
he's got good hair.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
He looks straight out of Central Casting. I've actually seen
Mailey Zappy make some plays.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Hey, hey, I don't I don't know apart but he
would look at I mean, that beard looks as tight
as anything Iberflus was rotten.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
That's a good beard. It's a good beard.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm telling you, it is a good Hey when eber
flu Is beard is the best part of Hard Knock,
you know you have a crappy Hard Knocks But we
know that already.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
No, no, no, I mean Dj Moore's kids were adorable. Daughter
is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No, that's great, that's awesome. Yes, that's that's what, because
that's what I tune in.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I tune into hard knocks so I can see, let
me see the adorable kids of theble let me see
and all.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Of the parents of the backup quarterbacks vying for a
roster spot.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I can find adorable kids on my news feed every
day on social media.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I could if I want that. I that's a double
chunk choco chip cookie. Yeah, that guy's everywhere. Now the
other one? You want to go digit?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I got no, no, no, we can't say riz. I
mean that you're you're you're too old to use the
word rizz. Kids start calling no, no, but the kids
use it that you got the riz, you got the charism,
you got the riz. You can't say that. You can't
hard to pull off. I'm kind of a it's hard
to say the rig. I may have some you can't
say it, though, but you can't say it like that.
You gotta say I have charisma. Oh, okay, kids say riz.
(14:17):
Kids have Sigma days and Alpha days.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, I know I get it. This certain things and attractive. Man.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I can say whatever the hell I want. You can
say that, can agree or disagree.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Okay, exactly and and harmon. I don't know. I think
you're more mid than your Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
All right, did I use the word I said you
can't use to describe you using the word that I
said you can't say, I said to this, you see, Ricky,
Bobby's gonna how about this hot take?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
The Giants decide to keep Tommy Cutlets. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I think they keep Tommy DeVito around. He is their
third string quarterback and back. For some reason, Drew luck
is ahead of him, which I don't understand. But okay,
maybe Drew Lock wont to bet. Maybe he had in
his contract. I'm the backup. Okay, you signed me. I'll
come here, but I'm the backup. I'll give you a
big bull prediction because this is how much I believe
(15:11):
in the Giants.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, but Drew Lock's another one of those guys that
everybody keeps thinking they're gonna be the one to fix him. Yeah,
just like Sam Darnold and all that was before him.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Drew Locke is thirty eight. Now he's not getting figured out.
I mean he's almost done. He's not that old.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He says he's older than Russell Wilson. I think if
you look at he's actually older than Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Uh, but I'll give you both By week ten. Tommy
DeVito is starting for the New York Giants. Sil Jones
is getting starting the Giants, and or he stinks because
that's the one. There's only one problem with the quarterbacks
the Giants have. There's no there's only one problem, and
if they could fix it, I'd believe in the Giants.
There's only one problem with their quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
The problem. What's that problem? They stink, That's the only problem.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
They stink too bad. They can't call the lost Baby
hotline against sakwad.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Bark lost Baby hotline. Please hold baby come back. We
know Daniel Jones's bad. We talked about the Giants. If
you didn't nobody, you'd think they were tanking this year.
They didn't go out to improve the team. Why because
they know if they're bad this year, it's gonna be
a new GM new head coach, new quarterback. Why are
we going to try to really improve ourselves in the
offseason where after this year we could be new everywhere.
(16:22):
We're not gonna go sign a bridge quarterback for a
couple of years because it could be a new head
coach or a new GM So they come in basically
with the same team they had.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Let's see if we make it work again. Yeah, so
the Giants are tanking.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Daniel Jones is terrible, right he is, and Drew Locke
is not a world beater by any means. Tommy DeVito,
there is something to be said as we talk about
backup quarterbacks who came in with a lot of energy,
not a ton of production, but he won a couple
of games. He was a cult hero and he had
the fan base excited. He had the team excited. Tommy
Cutlets was a fun.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Crewit over that pizza place or whatever the hell they Yeah, yeah,
eventually he's gonna have to art, and by I'm telling you,
by week ten he is starting for the Giants. I
gotta say, though, I really like the way you described it.
He brought a lot of energy. Maybe not a lot
of production, No, no, no, but it's production. He had a
couple of games where he was as a you know,
(17:15):
like you were just kind of giving me a throwaway.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
No, that's the heart of the matter. Yeah, a lot
of excitement.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It's like if someone if I walked into a restaurant
and someone said to you said, said to me, sir,
can I offer you a free and I went, yeah,
played it broccoli.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Uh, but does it have some cheese? I shouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
That, because I actually really like broccoli, especially cooked broccoli
on the grill. Oh my god, you said to me.
Uh oh, here a free cream spinach. Oh oh that's
the worst, man, Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You're the worst.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's just awful. No, that's awful, grow awful, that's awful.
We may as well serve me carrot cake and key
lime pie. What's wrong with those?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You like going after my entire palace?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Only Look, there's only one thing pie, if done right,
there's only.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
One thing wrong with carrot cake. It's only one thing
wrong with carrot cake. That's what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now, carrot cake with a big mac, okay, then I'll
have carrot cake. What I would do is say, hey,
I'm gonna take the big mac off the top of
this carrot cake and have the big macs okay, with
big mac sauce on the carrot cake. But there's only
one problem. Mary, You know what the problem with carrot
cake is.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You just have a terrible pa. No, no, no, no,
big problem problem. It stinks.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's the only problem. Carrot cake is terrible. Keeli pie
is terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's awful. It's just wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'm literally just wrong, and you're cutting out a large
part of our audience base.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I love you all.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I want to come visit you where those are the
you know, the dessert Syney if you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you love carrot cake, you must be stuck in
nineteen seventy four at your Aunt Ethel's house the night
of Christmas Day, when you were done at your house,
we say, hey, we got to go to Aunt Ethyl's
for dessert after here, and you just want to say,
only play with your presence, but no, no. You go
to Aunt Ethel's house and it smells like cats and
roses and you walk inside, Okay, what's for dessert? Once
(19:22):
she unveils a big ass carrot cake? And you're like,
when can I go home with the beautiful cream cheese.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go sit on Mary. I'm gonna
make one later in the in the week. Now, I'm
gonna go sit on the couch and I'm gonna Kay,
what do you consider what do you consider a top
here dessert?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Anything with chocolate and anything with I can't anything with chocolate.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, I want to know. I was going to defend Ca. No. No,
I can't between a chocolate cake and a carrot cake.
I choose a carrot cake.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
No, Well, that's why you're wrong. That's that same that's
why you know what? Going to your aunt Ethels Christmas?
Tell me how, tell me how that turns out? You're
gonna want We stayed at all the parents played cards
until late. We didn't get home till like eleven. I
couldn't play with my robot man. When I got home,
the batteries had already run out. And now Dad's gotta
go get him in the morning.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You no, that's that trust me? Cara keke no, no, no, no,
he is so wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Anyway, to get back to the point, Tommy Devino despite
the fact he's not that good, but he brings to excitement. Yeah,
he'll be starting for the Giants by week ten.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
There you go. There's your big bull prediction. And we
got into Kara Cake as well.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
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The Mets lead the Diamondbacks ate nothing in the top
of the sixth and that it's becoming a glorious Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well it's not that glorious because the Padres already won
the Braves already.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
One know what, yeah, yeah, Can I tell you what
I'd what I'd give I mean, I'd give up my
carrot cake look for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Or two to get a win once in a while.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Oh, it ain't to nothing, eh, you know, it's it's
a mediocre Tuesday. Like you joining us down the hotline
for all things Major League Baseball MLB Network insider extraordinaire
John Paul Morosi.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
See you on MLB Network, read him all the views,
John Paul, what's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (23:18):
I am doing great. I have arrived with very strong
takes this evening on dessert food.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Let's go, okay, very good?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Where do you stand on carrot cake?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Carrot cake is outstanding. I am a huge fan of
carrot cake. It is actually one of the more popular
cakes in our family for birthday. So we are do
we are definitely pro carrot cake in this family.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, let me tell you this. Let's for the rest
of the interview.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Now pretend that you're a Major League batter and I'm
Angel Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You're out, You're gone, gone from this show.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I'm sorry. I know I walked into that. I I
heard from just I caught a little glimpse of the
previous segment. I just wanted to share that I appreciate
your thoughts though.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I'm standing up for carrot cake. Hi, John Paul Morosi
for carrot cake.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You know what I love around the holidays around my house,
just you and the sweater and all your kids are playing.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Your wife is waving to the camera. I just love
gam here for carrot cake.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
That would be a great commercial, although it would it
would require my kids to be aware of TV. That is,
that is not necessarily what they're watching on a daily basis.
Those sports, those sorts of things are not really that'd
be probably a popular commercial for holiday. You know, football
games during the commercial breaks. We're not really a football
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watching family outside of when I am able to focus
on why the Lions will win a given game twenty
seven to fourteen.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
All right, well, great call back the last year.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let me ask you this, are your kids away of
the seasons that Otani and Aaron Judge are having?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Like?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Are they aware that in there whee allows and stuff
they ask you about?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Is it not like?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
What is it? Let's put it this way. It should
be because every sentient human in our country should be
tuned into this. It is it's remarkable what's happening here.
This season, thanks to the two of them, is already
one of the best we've ever seen in the history
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of the sport. And when you consider what Judge is doing,
we thought that sixty two once was going to be
almost impossible, and now he's on pace to do it
twice in a span of three years. And with Otani,
we're running out of words here. He's comfortably on taste
for forty five forty five, which we've never seen, and
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he's got a legitimate shot at fifty fifty, which we've
really never seen. So it is it's just remarkable. We are,
I think, blessed as baseball fans to be wid what
they're doing right now. And certainly the irony though, is
that in the American League. I certainly think that Judge
is a favorite for the for the MVP, but Bodywood
(26:12):
Junior's got a case too, and what he's been doing
for the Royals, So it's a It's a really interesting
time right now in the sport and I feel very
very grateful to watch it up close.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Fun series going on now, we've got the Orioles in
town to face, said Dodgers, and show hey Otani, Freddie
Freeman out with the finger injury. But is this potential
what we see towards the end of October here? JP,
Can the Orioles pitching survive and get through?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
I tell you what we have still, I'm operating in
this space right now where I have. I do not
recall a time where more of the best teams in
baseball seem to have significant flaws that put their entire
October journey into question. With the Dodgers, if you're going
to tell me that Yamamoto comes back healthy and that
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glass Now comes back healthy, then sure then I could
see the Dodgers playing in the last game of the
season if they do not. If the answer to both
those questions is no, with both glass Now and Yamamoto,
I'm not sure they'll make it out of the first round.
I mean it's that the gap between who they will
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be if those two injury questions are not answered in
the affirmative, and the gap between that low point and
who they could be on the high point is immense
for the Dodgers. And as you point out, there are
certainly still some lineup concerns or some lineup related injury
concerns too. So I think actually, despite the current form
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of both teams, I feel a little more sure of
who the Orioles are than who the Dodgers are, even
though obviously with the case the O's, they thought they
had made a nice upgrade at the trade deadline to
their rotation, and then of course they ended up having
to option them down to the minor league. So there's
I think there certainly are still some concerns there with
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Rogers just being sent out with a seven point one
one ERA, So you're right, there are some legitimate rotation
worries with Baltimore, But I tend to think that I
know a little bit more about who they are as
a team than I do about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
All right, now, let me ask you this on a
scale of one to ten. If one is it's not happening,
it's fodder, it's fun to talk about, and ten is,
oh no, this is absolutely happening. Sho Hao Tani the
first fifty to fifty player in the history of Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Where would you put it on that list?
Speaker 7 (28:43):
From one to ten, I think it's at a seven
right now?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
And the thing is what helps him is that he
probably will get pitched too and see more pitches to
hit than Judge will in his pursuit of history. That
is one significant difference. It's based on the lineup dynamics
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around the two players. And for Otani to be stealing
the number of bases that he is, you obviously have
to credit the baseball acumen of the guy's right after him,
because they're taking the right pitches, they're allowing him to
steal bases. Dave Roberts is keeping the green light on
when honestly, in a lot of ways, it'd be the
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easy decision to maybe pull back a little bit. This
is showing Otani. You've invested seven one hundred million dollars
in this player, Do you really want them tumbling in
the second base all these times on sole basis And
I give the Dodgers credit for letting him be himself.
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That to me is one of the more remarkable things
that we have seen to this point that he's able
to basically run free. So I'm I'm not going to
put any limitations on showy Otani. Everybody that thought he
might stop at five hundred million dollars, well we were
sadly mistaken. He overshot that two hundred million, so you
underestimate Showey at our own peril.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
To be fair, they're only paying him two million now,
so they can run him all over the place.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
That's right, of course.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yes, he's a parking right now, John Paul, come on,
man Seth like a rock party running around.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You're on a rookie deal and he's the biggest park
in all notes right now.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
The big money comes in around twenty sixty five something
like that, So I think we're we're okay.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All the fun that comes there, all right.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Houston Now eight games over five hundred, here they are
once again as we get into September. JP They've taken
the show's team, the Seattle Mariners, and kick them to
the side for the moment and great distance from everybody
else in the division.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
How dangerous are they?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Well, they are dangerous, But I tell you what, the
Mariners haven't gone away yet either. And I know the
Mariners in typical form for them. They're now locked in
a very low scoring game against the Rays, just trying
to get that offense going in Seattle for new manager
Dan Wilson. But I look at Houston and I look
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at their lineup. They signed Jason Hayward today for a reason,
which is they've got some offensive concerns. First base has
been a series of question marks ever since Arayhu struggled
so much and was released. They may actually have Bregman
playing a little bit of first base now because of
his elbow issue. So I think for a lot of
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different reasons right now, the Astros are not a perfect team.
They need to rest Altuve a bit more than they
ever had before. And the Mariners, partially because of the
new manager, partially because you just cannot hit that poorly
for that long, They're gonna bounce back offensively. So I'm
not ready to call that American League West race.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yet.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
There is still I think a lot of baseball we
played out there, and and yes I do acknowledge that
the Astros and they seem to have this muscle memory
when it comes to this time of year. But there's
still a lot of ball to be played and the
Mariners pitching remains elite.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You can find him on Twitter at John Morosi Carrot Cake.
That is at John Morosi carrot Cake, John Paul Morosi,
MLB Network Insider Extraordinaire. Check him out on Stearnsy and
the Pope, should be a very good show tomorrow, very
happy show. With the Mets up eight nothing against the Diamondbacks.
Starnsy should be in a good mood for you, Pope.
So I'll have a great show.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Tomorrow, he will be yes, And on Saturday evening in
ann Arbor, the University of Michigan will prevail forty nine
to ten over the Fresno State Bulldogs. I've got I've
got forty nine to ten.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Let's see.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I'm not even sure what the spread is, but that
was just what came to my mind. Right then. There
you go.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, I thought you were going to say Michigan wins
twenty seven to twenty four, twenty seven to third.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That would be pretty good, Mia, hell of a game.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Oh no, that would be an amazing showing by the
Fresido State Bulldogs. The Mountain West. I'm told the Mountain
West is up this year, so we'll see how they're looking.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Pope. Thanks a bunch, as always, buddy, we'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
I haven't read, we'll talk, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
He's hanging up the phone right now, going to his kids. Okay,
sit down, put your but I don't care what you're
learning in school. We're going to talk about the years
that Aaron Judge and show how otani you're having dad
your tarent cake sit down. Pay attention right now. Pay
attention to Brian Finley. He's got what's trending in the
wide world of sports.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
BF.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
And when I was paying attention to your guys' conversation
early on in the hour, I did not realize that
Jason actually ate vegetables.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I did not know that.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
I thought the only vegetable Jason that you would eat
would happen to be French fries. I did not know
broccoli was part of the conversation. So I just have
to say I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Hey, smart ass, I've had both broccoli and French fries today.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Okay, so stick it. You weren't, said you, liar? Yes,
no I did.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I'll got my wife up here in five minutes. Off,
I've had it, friend, broccoli at lunch and French fries
at dinner.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Oh, such a complete, complete meal of two two to
three meals there.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I had broccoli on my beizza.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Well, there's no line.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
There is no lie in saying that the Mets are
up eight to nothing against the Diamondbacks there in the
seventh inning right now, and this Mets team they need
as many wins as possible. They are three and a
half games out of that third and final wild card spot,
and after they lost a game ago. The Diamondbacks, by
the way that they're playing, they've won six in a row,
but things are not going their way here and this
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could be beneficial for the Mets. The Padres already won
and with that win they make it three in a row,
a seven to five win for the Pods as they
continue to make Jason Smith jealous. Seven to five again
over the Cardinals. There, Braves take it against the Twins
eight to six. That's in ten innings. Braves are that
third and final team in the NAL wildcard spot that't
(34:56):
have a birth at least if everything stopped today and
we were ready for the postseason White Sox Rangers game
that got suspended because of weather. So we are going
to be left with the misery of that one taking
place tomorrow at five ten e.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Their time is Mike's looking at over at me. They
don't it, so watch exactly, Jery. Yeah that is true. Hey, guys,
I leave you this with this really quickly because I
know we're up against it. According to ESPN, the Bills
signing quarterback Mike White. Of course, he did great things
with the Jets and Dolphins, and I say that in
(35:30):
air quotes, but he is off to the practice squad
for the Bills. Also, Bengals wide receivers to mar Chase, Yes,
he is going to play Week one, according to since
he head coach Zach Taylor. And lastly, guys Rams said,
coach Sean McVay is picking Kyrad Williams.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
To be the team's punt returner this year. I know
you all were talking about that at the last hour.
Humongous news here in the newsroom at Fox Sports Radio.
And with that, I send it back to you, guys,
Jason Smith and Mike Carmon.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon, live from the Tirac dot Com studios.
Coming up next, We're done talking about carrot cake. We're
absolutely done. But boy did we have a great take
from a very unlikely athletic source earlier today. We got
to get to that's coming up next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Oi Oi, Oi Oi.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
This is what Diamondbacks fans are saying when Jordan Montgomery
comes into.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
A game.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Jason Smith showing Mike Carmon live the tirect dot Com studio.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
It's also what he said to Scott morris Man they
have a jerk the other.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
We'll have more on this story coming up in a
few minutes, but look, I gotta tell you, I enjoy
a good hot take when it comes from a non
traditional source. Let's just say, and we got a big
hot take from none other than Dwight Howard. Yes, that
Dwight Howard. Wait, wasn't there a whole big love.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
No, we got a great, big hot take from Dwight
Howard who went on social media and said, wow, could
Caitlin Clark be the first ever person to win Rookie.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Of the Year n WNBA MVP in the same year.
That's a good hot take.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Now he went on and got roasted, and especially since look,
Asia Wilson is having another phenomenal yea, she had forty
two points night though they lost.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I mean a bit of really big shocker.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I'm sure this cost a lot of people some dough
because boy, this result was unexpected.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
So what was the spread on that game?
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Man, I think that they were probably favorite. Dallas has
won what all five games this year? I mean they're
eight and twenty two. I think the spread and this
is probably about fifteen, Right, it's got to be something
like that.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Right, it was nine and a half. Oh, that's it,
nine and a half. Total was one eighty one and
a half. But Peces were minus five hundred on the money.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Oh wow, but forty two for Asia Wilson's side.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
She's having a phenomena year and she will be the
WNBA MVP against you won two years ago.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, twenty six, six and twelve a game.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
But boy, you know, and this is where I just like,
It's why I love talking about the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I love talking about Caitlin Clark because it just makes
so many.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
People Well, and I know you already subscribe to Angel
Reese's podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Yes exactly. I'm eating Reese's pieces all the time.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yes, yes, I'm watching Angel reshoot and make every shot. Okay,
one of those things I just said was a lie?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Wait, well we I think one of them was true,
you're actually eating Reese's pieces.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Uh, but I mean, just to think for a second,
could you imagine? Could you?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I mean, it's not happening because Asian Wilson's gonna be MP.
It's voted on by media members who cover the league,
So it's not like it's something way wait, who votes
for WNBA, Oh, it's all Kate percentage.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
They used to They used to.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I think about about fifteen years ago. They used to
have that, like the fans could vote for like twenty
five percent of the of the vote was from the fans.
Like it was crazy. They did it like that for
a little bit. But could you imagine the reaction if
Caitlyn Clark is voted MVP. Not that you shouldn't be
in the finalists, she should be one of the final
five for sure. This is the first time the fever
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sniffed the playoffs and what eight years? Look at look
at the years she's having. But I mean, we can't
get people to even say Caitlyn Clark's name following a
game because they're so jealous and her level of play.
In the fact, she's getting all the credit for every
good thing she's doing for the WNBA, for some reason
gets people unhappy. Can you imagine the backlash if she
gets voted MVP by me? But it's I mean, it's
(39:45):
never gonna happen. The rest of the WNBA would quit,
they would all quit, say we're all going another league,
We're not gonna play here, We're all going overseas. Players
are can't have Katelyn Clark winning MVP.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Can't do it, can't do it. I mean, it would
be unbelievable if it happened.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
But there's still so much anti Caitlin Clarkless out there
from people that you wouldn't think there would be out there.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I bet you there's media members that would never even vote,
not voting.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
For no, no, not voted because I kind of show
solidarity with all the coaches and the and the players
who think that they should be getting more credit on that.
I mean, there's still so much anti Caitlin Clarkless out there.
This would never happen.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Well, I mean, we always talk about needing a new
story in every other sport.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Why not start here? All right?
Speaker 4 (40:21):
We know about Caitlin Clark move on even though she
hasn't even completed season number one, and the turnover count
as much as we can do highlight videos of you know,
fumbled passes or whatever you want to do. You know,
they're still turnovers. They still count just the same. Once
they're in the books. They're in the books. We don't
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start to parse those back out. Just like the interceptions.
When you hate your quarterback for throwing three interceptions, did
you really not credit you know, take two of them
away because they were off the receiver's hands.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Oh, he secured it and it popped up. No, no,
you don't.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
You say he had three interceptions and he's a bum.
So it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
It flows the same way.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
But yes, absolutely, this would be the floating dumpster fire
with that Elmo in front of it gif. If somehow
she won MVPD, how great would that be?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
That would be? I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I would wish let's see Mets make the playoffs or
Kitlyn Clark when WNBA MVP. I might go for the
Kaitlyn Clark big stuff out of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
We'll get to cut down day.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Got some hot takes off a cutdown day in the
NFL coming up in a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But I gotta have some hot takes just to kind.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Of finish the conversation. But we had a few minutes ago.
Flick's documentary Sign Steeler debut today. Connor Stallion's University of
Michigan employee who was caught taking video of other teams signals,
and maybe all of a sudden, Michigan got good in
twenty twenty one because hey, they were getting everybody else's signals.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I don't know how much.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You mean, maybe maybe the Capitol am on there, maybe
the Hi Jason's extended family in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
They maybe they got better.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And it goes all the way back to twenty twenty one,
when Michigan went from being a team that, hey, we
lose four or five games a year, we can't beat anybody,
to hey, all of a sudden, Harball's eleven and one
and we're in the playoff.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Look I told you that this whole thing, this is
a scandal that nobody really cares about. And I don't
know if it's just a media thing or if it's
the thing that people who are at the top two
percent of sports, but it's just not. It just doesn't
have any staying power, just doesn't. No one's talking about this.
No one wanted to take the title away from Michigan
when it happened. We said a few minutes ago. College
(02:01):
football is shady in general. There's tons of under the
table stuff, and okay, this just kind of goes along
with it. It's different from the NFL. It's different major
League Baseball. When when this is professional and there's certain
ways that you are trying to find a way to
get around other teams that are all not doing those
things either, but no one else, nobody cares. No one's
(02:24):
putting buzzers on them. But if it's a curveball buzz.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Me, everybody just kind of shrugged at it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Look yeah, but look, the other teams aren't doing that.
But in college, everybody's trying. Everybody's trying to find their
way around it, and it's shady in general. That's why
no one cares about this. And I and to kind
of put it in perspective here, why this needs to
go away. And the NCA needs to just say, hey, okay, Michigan,
(02:53):
time serve whatever it is. We're gonna give you some
sort of uh probationary period, we'll take some scholarships away,
what whatever you want to do. Just come out fast
with this and just let it go, because look again,
no one cares. No one's screaming for anything to happen
to Michigan. I always go back to Bucky Brooks, right
who joined us on the show time of time NFL
scout played in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And and he you know, he's always a big fan
of saying.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Hey, when someone is unclaimed in the NFL or someone
gets drafted really low with something like that, he says,
the NFL is telling us what they think of that player.
Thirty two teams are telling us what they think of
this player. You may think, oh, I can't believe that
Kadarius Tony got waved, but if he gets unclaimed, it's
thirty two teams are telling you we are not interested.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The NFL is telling you this is what this player's
value is. Regardless of what you think on social media
or you think you should happen as a fan, this
is what the NF this. They're telling you, this is
what we think of him. And but this is a
case where everybody, media, fans, we're all telling college football
what we think about this. No one cares, No one cares.
(04:02):
We're done. We're done. Will it happened? It's over, Michigan won.
There was no Connor Stallions getting signed. Hey, Pennix is
gonna throw deep to adonesay on this one, that wasn't happening.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Everybody has moved past this.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I hate to say it, I don't think Netflix
is gonna do well with this because I don't think
it's that much of a hot button topic that's gonna
be Hey, oh, I gotta hear more about this. Hopefully
this is the official Oh we had a whole big
documentary on it, and oh man, Okay, I guess this
thing is over.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I did flashes for twenty four to forty eight hours
because we're between week zero and week one of your
college football season.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So a little bit of excitement because maybe there's people
looking to get some insight, maybe they actually care who
Connor Stallions is.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I don't like I think we knew everything we needed
to guy who had his manifesto, guy who went around
in games, and to try to deny any of it
is laughable.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right, But at.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
The end of it all, the Harbaugh served a bunch
of game suspension. He ain't coming back to college football.
Most of the kids are gone that were really the
best of that squad, and it's the old NCAA run
of this stuff. Other guys have transferred all of these things,
coaches changed out that it becomes a all right, who
(05:25):
ends up losing in the process a bunch of people
that weren't there years now they are. Yeah, you're gonna
change some some recruiting stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, that's fine. Guess what.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It's a transfer world anyway. So I don't get that guy,
I go get somebody else's that they recruited.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
How do I lose?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Right, let's say they're gonna suddenly change the penalties to where,
you know what, you have to sit out one of
the transfer portal periods.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, then that's a whole other ballgame. Wait when it
just comes.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Wait, I can't go get I can't just replace those
fifteen players that left with fifteen new guys. Oh all right,
all right, right, I'm straighten up and fly right right
if you tell me I've got to you change the
rules to where that's it, or all nil money is
suddenly frozen.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And all of that goes in.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Hey, hey dude, wait wait world, wait now wait wait now,
now we can go after this.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Dude, dude, Hang on, dude, dude, I gotta dude. You
want this, dude, dude, dude, dude, I hear you. No, dude, dude,
I hear you on.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
The I hear you on the transfer portal you can't.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You can't hide new players like Chad Powers that show
up on your team from somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
People are going to find that out.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But do you really think if ni L money gets frozen,
they're not going to find a way to get money
to the kids?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Hey, sorry, nothing we can do. Nil money is from.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We have to go back to the old days where
it's a garbage bag. Oh and that's your laundry.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Does that wait, does that mean that that you can't
get me up? No?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
No, No, What I'm saying is, Hey, there's a guy
on the corner who was selling refrigerators to all incoming freshmen.
It's forty dollars for refrigerator. You walk over and you
tell them who you are, and you say password is
and he gives you a refrigerator that's a little bit
(07:12):
heavier than the others. You take it back to your
dorm by yourself, open it up, and you'll see how
we get past.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The were you watching the Jungle Book earlier? And there's
something just trying to make something crazy, like.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Hey, you forgot your shoes at this guy's house, and
you're going to look at the left shoe and there's
a money order that just says cash and has a
giant dollar.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You go over and say oop, pop ork that means
I love you. That's stones.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You walk over a password is and you get a
very special refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That's all there.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And that guy over there and you call him Gazoo,
he's cut a big head.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We gave him a green hat.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's all I was thinking about, thinking if I did
pop or really people think I'm really all a live
remember that from the flint Stone.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, hey, you're watching it on you know what is
a boomerang or one of those, or maybe you've got
the DVD's.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't walk over and say I'm the danger, I'm
the danger, and you get a very special refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Is refrigerator going to work?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No, But with what's inside you can get whatever the
hell refrigerator you want to get.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Man Either, by the way, here's a list of cities.
Yelling I'm the Danger in on a street corner is
probably not gonna work out so well for you just
kind of throwing it out there.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You can get a Josh Rosen hot tub and put
it in your dorm room if you want.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
But with all of it, right, It's just comes back
to the same place of all right, what kind of
penalties do you have the ability to enforce at this point? Yeah,
and what really is is fair And I know that's
a dirty four letter word, literally it's but at this
point it's it's been adjudicated. Hardball's not coming back here.
(08:53):
You're the assistant. You should have known too. Okay, you're
at the tention.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You're the danger.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
So everybody moves on. The conferences have all realigned. Here's
more teams moved in, et cetera. You know, put a
giant banner up that says, hey, there might have been
some shenanigans. Let folks continue to debate it in sportstock
radio and television, but for the most part, it's one
giant shrug at this point, asked and answered, they won
(09:22):
the title.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Move on, hell.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I saw a big ad campaign today about Reggie Bush
putting his portrait back up in Heisman House.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Right, Look how long that took to get past that nonsense?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Well, hey, hey, Heisman, you can't just walk in the
Heisman House and say, hey, but here's my portrait going.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Back again, not that it was man again, not that
that wasn't you know, against the rules.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
At the time, you're gonna take down the Kramer portrait.
I'm putting the Riggie Bush one back. Actually, that's how
it's happening. The Jason Smith shod with Mike Carmon live
from the Tirack dot Com studios. Uh So again we'll
have more on this. What more college football coming up?
But again today big day NFL. Let's talk about two
quarterbacks for a second. One who's let go and one
who is staying. Bailey Zappy is let go by the Patriots,
(10:08):
and I understand this. The Patriots need to turn the page,
and I get it. In a perfect world, you'd want
to keep Bailey Zappy. But he is a link to
the past. He's a guy that's come off the bench
and made people forget mac Jones, or maybe he's played well.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
In Spurts that he's a reminder.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Of the team that was before this year, the team
that Belichick ran, the team that Belichick ran into the ground.
It's kind of hard to take a fan favorite from
a previous regime and leave him on the roster, especially
where he'd be in such a big position as a
backup quarterback to Drake may Right you've got to keep
them in a positive frame of mind. So I get
why the Patriots had to let him go, But flip side,
(10:46):
I go out and get him, and he's my backup quarterback.
I don't care what team in the league I am.
I told you about how Gardner Minshew is the perfect
backup quarterback, right. He's the guy that I would pay
a lot of money to because he's someone that can
come off the bench and energize the team. He's got
a great personality that people respond to. He is a
fan favorite, and in short spurts he can play well. Now,
(11:08):
is he gonna play great for a long period of time, No,
he's not. We've seen it, but short periods of time.
If Gardner Minshew's gotta come off relief in the game
or start a game, you're not walking in saying, hey,
we're gonna lose this game. We gotta just run the
ball fifty five times and hope to win with great defense. No,
Minshew can throw you to a win. He's the perfect
backup quarterback. Bailey Zappi is the new Minshew. He is
(11:29):
that guy. We have seen him be dynamic enough off
the bench for the Patriots. He is a fan favorite.
He would bring life to a team if the starting
quarterback goes out. If I don't care what team I
have in what my backup situation is, like, I go
out and get Bailey Zappy because I know now, I
go get him.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I get a guy that.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Can get thrust into a big role for a short
period of time and he can perform at a pretty
decent level. I don't know if you're gonna get better
than that. If I don't care. If I'm the Jets, Hey, okay,
I love Torod Taylor Boom, Hey, go get me Bailey's Appy.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Go get me that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Give me a guy that I know they can throw
the football, move the team up and down the field.
A fan favorite that's gonna energize the team. That's what
you want for a backup quarterback. That's it right there.
I go out and get him. I don't care who
you are, you need a backup quarterback. That's the guy
to go.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He's only a fan favorite because his name is Bailey Zappy.
That does helped up.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Doesn't know that helps was not a mystique. Because you
just around going zap zap Zach. You wouldn't guarant whether
he was complete in the pass in three yards or
throwing in completions ten years down.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
The zappy stuff is good too.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's Zappy hour. Oh come on, get zappy everybody like
r E M. Shiny zappy people scoring touchdowns for the
New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Really lucky you're not three feet from me today.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Zappi holidays everyone. The Patriots get a win thanks to
their backup. We talked about them last night. The nineties
one hit wonders the zappy Monday. What about you go get?
What about you go get? Sam Hartman? He got cut,
he's got good hair.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
He looks straight out of Central Casting. I've actually seen
Mailey Zappy make some plays.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Hey, hey, I don't I don't know apart but he
would look at I mean, that beard looks as tight
as anything Iberflus was rotten.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
That's a good beard. It's a good beard.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm telling you, it is a good Hey when eber
flu Is beard is the best part of Hard Knock,
you know you have a crappy Hard Knocks But we
know that already.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
No, no, no, I mean Dj Moore's kids were adorable. Daughter
is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No, that's great, that's awesome. Yes, that's that's what, because
that's what I tune in.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I tune into hard knocks so I can see, let
me see the adorable kids of theble let me see
and all.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Of the parents of the backup quarterbacks vying for a
roster spot.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I can find adorable kids on my news feed every
day on social media.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I could if I want that. I that's a double
chunk choco chip cookie. Yeah, that guy's everywhere. Now the
other one? You want to go digit?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I got no, no, no, we can't say riz. I
mean that you're you're you're too old to use the
word rizz. Kids start calling no, no, but the kids
use it that you got the riz, you got the charism,
you got the riz. You can't say that. You can't
hard to pull off. I'm kind of a it's hard
to say the rig. I may have some you can't
say it, though, but you can't say it like that.
You gotta say I have charisma. Oh, okay, kids say riz.
(14:17):
Kids have Sigma days and Alpha days.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, I know I get it. This certain things and attractive. Man.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I can say whatever the hell I want. You can
say that, can agree or disagree.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Okay, exactly and and harmon. I don't know. I think
you're more mid than your Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
All right, did I use the word I said you
can't use to describe you using the word that I
said you can't say, I said to this, you see, Ricky,
Bobby's gonna how about this hot take?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
The Giants decide to keep Tommy Cutlets. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I think they keep Tommy DeVito around. He is their
third string quarterback and back. For some reason, Drew luck
is ahead of him, which I don't understand. But okay,
maybe Drew Lock wont to bet. Maybe he had in
his contract. I'm the backup. Okay, you signed me. I'll
come here, but I'm the backup. I'll give you a
big bull prediction because this is how much I believe
(15:11):
in the Giants.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, but Drew Lock's another one of those guys that
everybody keeps thinking they're gonna be the one to fix him. Yeah,
just like Sam Darnold and all that was before him.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Drew Locke is thirty eight. Now he's not getting figured out.
I mean he's almost done. He's not that old.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He says he's older than Russell Wilson. I think if
you look at he's actually older than Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Uh, but I'll give you both By week ten. Tommy
DeVito is starting for the New York Giants. Sil Jones
is getting starting the Giants, and or he stinks because
that's the one. There's only one problem with the quarterbacks
the Giants have. There's no there's only one problem, and
if they could fix it, I'd believe in the Giants.
There's only one problem with their quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
The problem. What's that problem? They stink, That's the only problem.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
They stink too bad. They can't call the lost Baby
hotline against sakwad.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Bark lost Baby hotline. Please hold baby come back. We
know Daniel Jones's bad. We talked about the Giants. If
you didn't nobody, you'd think they were tanking this year.
They didn't go out to improve the team. Why because
they know if they're bad this year, it's gonna be
a new GM new head coach, new quarterback. Why are
we going to try to really improve ourselves in the
offseason where after this year we could be new everywhere.
(16:22):
We're not gonna go sign a bridge quarterback for a
couple of years because it could be a new head
coach or a new GM So they come in basically
with the same team they had.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Let's see if we make it work again. Yeah, so
the Giants are tanking.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Daniel Jones is terrible, right he is, and Drew Locke
is not a world beater by any means. Tommy DeVito,
there is something to be said as we talk about
backup quarterbacks who came in with a lot of energy,
not a ton of production, but he won a couple
of games. He was a cult hero and he had
the fan base excited. He had the team excited. Tommy
Cutlets was a fun.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Crewit over that pizza place or whatever the hell they Yeah, yeah,
eventually he's gonna have to art, and by I'm telling you,
by week ten he is starting for the Giants. I
gotta say, though, I really like the way you described it.
He brought a lot of energy. Maybe not a lot
of production, No, no, no, but it's production. He had a
couple of games where he was as a you know,
(17:15):
like you were just kind of giving me a throwaway.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
No, that's the heart of the matter. Yeah, a lot
of excitement.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It's like if someone if I walked into a restaurant
and someone said to you said, said to me, sir,
can I offer you a free and I went, yeah,
played it broccoli.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Uh, but does it have some cheese? I shouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
That, because I actually really like broccoli, especially cooked broccoli
on the grill. Oh my god, you said to me.
Uh oh, here a free cream spinach. Oh oh that's
the worst, man, Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You're the worst.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's just awful. No, that's awful, grow awful, that's awful.
We may as well serve me carrot cake and key
lime pie. What's wrong with those?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You like going after my entire palace?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Only Look, there's only one thing pie, if done right,
there's only.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
One thing wrong with carrot cake. It's only one thing
wrong with carrot cake. That's what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now, carrot cake with a big mac, okay, then I'll
have carrot cake. What I would do is say, hey,
I'm gonna take the big mac off the top of
this carrot cake and have the big macs okay, with
big mac sauce on the carrot cake. But there's only
one problem. Mary, You know what the problem with carrot
cake is.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You just have a terrible pa. No, no, no, no,
big problem problem. It stinks.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's the only problem. Carrot cake is terrible. Keeli pie
is terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's awful. It's just wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'm literally just wrong, and you're cutting out a large
part of our audience base.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I love you all.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I want to come visit you where those are the
you know, the dessert Syney if you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you love carrot cake, you must be stuck in
nineteen seventy four at your Aunt Ethel's house the night
of Christmas Day, when you were done at your house,
we say, hey, we got to go to Aunt Ethyl's
for dessert after here, and you just want to say,
only play with your presence, but no, no. You go
to Aunt Ethel's house and it smells like cats and
roses and you walk inside, Okay, what's for dessert? Once
(19:22):
she unveils a big ass carrot cake? And you're like,
when can I go home with the beautiful cream cheese.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go sit on Mary. I'm gonna
make one later in the in the week. Now, I'm
gonna go sit on the couch and I'm gonna Kay,
what do you consider what do you consider a top
here dessert?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Anything with chocolate and anything with I can't anything with chocolate.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, I want to know. I was going to defend Ca. No. No,
I can't between a chocolate cake and a carrot cake.
I choose a carrot cake.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
No, Well, that's why you're wrong. That's that same that's
why you know what? Going to your aunt Ethels Christmas?
Tell me how, tell me how that turns out? You're
gonna want We stayed at all the parents played cards
until late. We didn't get home till like eleven. I
couldn't play with my robot man. When I got home,
the batteries had already run out. And now Dad's gotta
go get him in the morning.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You no, that's that trust me? Cara keke no, no, no, no,
he is so wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Anyway, to get back to the point, Tommy Devino despite
the fact he's not that good, but he brings to excitement. Yeah,
he'll be starting for the Giants by week ten.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
There you go. There's your big bull prediction. And we
got into Kara Cake as well.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
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Speaker 3 (22:34):
The Mets lead the Diamondbacks ate nothing in the top
of the sixth and that it's becoming a glorious Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well it's not that glorious because the Padres already won
the Braves already.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
One know what, yeah, yeah, Can I tell you what
I'd what I'd give I mean, I'd give up my
carrot cake look for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Or two to get a win once in a while.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Oh, it ain't to nothing, eh, you know, it's it's
a mediocre Tuesday. Like you joining us down the hotline
for all things Major League Baseball MLB Network insider extraordinaire
John Paul Morosi.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
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John Paul, what's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (23:18):
I am doing great. I have arrived with very strong
takes this evening on dessert food.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Let's go, okay, very good?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Where do you stand on carrot cake?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Carrot cake is outstanding. I am a huge fan of
carrot cake. It is actually one of the more popular
cakes in our family for birthday. So we are do
we are definitely pro carrot cake in this family.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, let me tell you this. Let's for the rest
of the interview.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Now pretend that you're a Major League batter and I'm
Angel Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You're out, You're gone, gone from this show.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I'm sorry. I know I walked into that. I I
heard from just I caught a little glimpse of the
previous segment. I just wanted to share that I appreciate
your thoughts though.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I'm standing up for carrot cake. Hi, John Paul Morosi
for carrot cake.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You know what I love around the holidays around my house,
just you and the sweater and all your kids are playing.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Your wife is waving to the camera. I just love
gam here for carrot cake.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
That would be a great commercial, although it would it
would require my kids to be aware of TV. That is,
that is not necessarily what they're watching on a daily basis.
Those sports, those sorts of things are not really that'd
be probably a popular commercial for holiday. You know, football
games during the commercial breaks. We're not really a football
(24:46):
watching family outside of when I am able to focus
on why the Lions will win a given game twenty
seven to fourteen.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
All right, well, great call back the last year.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let me ask you this, are your kids away of
the seasons that Otani and Aaron Judge are having?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Like?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Are they aware that in there whee allows and stuff
they ask you about?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Is it not like?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
What is it? Let's put it this way. It should
be because every sentient human in our country should be
tuned into this. It is it's remarkable what's happening here.
This season, thanks to the two of them, is already
one of the best we've ever seen in the history
(25:28):
of the sport. And when you consider what Judge is doing,
we thought that sixty two once was going to be
almost impossible, and now he's on pace to do it
twice in a span of three years. And with Otani,
we're running out of words here. He's comfortably on taste
for forty five forty five, which we've never seen, and
(25:50):
he's got a legitimate shot at fifty fifty, which we've
really never seen. So it is it's just remarkable. We are,
I think, blessed as baseball fans to be wid what
they're doing right now. And certainly the irony though, is
that in the American League. I certainly think that Judge
is a favorite for the for the MVP, but Bodywood
(26:12):
Junior's got a case too, and what he's been doing
for the Royals, So it's a It's a really interesting
time right now in the sport and I feel very
very grateful to watch it up close.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Fun series going on now, we've got the Orioles in
town to face, said Dodgers, and show hey Otani, Freddie
Freeman out with the finger injury. But is this potential
what we see towards the end of October here? JP,
Can the Orioles pitching survive and get through?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
I tell you what we have still, I'm operating in
this space right now where I have. I do not
recall a time where more of the best teams in
baseball seem to have significant flaws that put their entire
October journey into question. With the Dodgers, if you're going
to tell me that Yamamoto comes back healthy and that
(27:03):
glass Now comes back healthy, then sure then I could
see the Dodgers playing in the last game of the
season if they do not. If the answer to both
those questions is no, with both glass Now and Yamamoto,
I'm not sure they'll make it out of the first round.
I mean it's that the gap between who they will
(27:25):
be if those two injury questions are not answered in
the affirmative, and the gap between that low point and
who they could be on the high point is immense
for the Dodgers. And as you point out, there are
certainly still some lineup concerns or some lineup related injury
concerns too. So I think actually, despite the current form
(27:48):
of both teams, I feel a little more sure of
who the Orioles are than who the Dodgers are, even
though obviously with the case the O's, they thought they
had made a nice upgrade at the trade deadline to
their rotation, and then of course they ended up having
to option them down to the minor league. So there's
I think there certainly are still some concerns there with
(28:10):
Rogers just being sent out with a seven point one
one ERA, So you're right, there are some legitimate rotation
worries with Baltimore, But I tend to think that I
know a little bit more about who they are as
a team than I do about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
All right, now, let me ask you this on a
scale of one to ten. If one is it's not happening,
it's fodder, it's fun to talk about, and ten is,
oh no, this is absolutely happening. Sho Hao Tani the
first fifty to fifty player in the history of Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Where would you put it on that list?
Speaker 7 (28:43):
From one to ten, I think it's at a seven
right now?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
And the thing is what helps him is that he
probably will get pitched too and see more pitches to
hit than Judge will in his pursuit of history. That
is one significant difference. It's based on the lineup dynamics
(29:10):
around the two players. And for Otani to be stealing
the number of bases that he is, you obviously have
to credit the baseball acumen of the guy's right after him,
because they're taking the right pitches, they're allowing him to
steal bases. Dave Roberts is keeping the green light on
when honestly, in a lot of ways, it'd be the
(29:32):
easy decision to maybe pull back a little bit. This
is showing Otani. You've invested seven one hundred million dollars
in this player, Do you really want them tumbling in
the second base all these times on sole basis And
I give the Dodgers credit for letting him be himself.
(29:52):
That to me is one of the more remarkable things
that we have seen to this point that he's able
to basically run free. So I'm I'm not going to
put any limitations on showy Otani. Everybody that thought he
might stop at five hundred million dollars, well we were
sadly mistaken. He overshot that two hundred million, so you
underestimate Showey at our own peril.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
To be fair, they're only paying him two million now,
so they can run him all over the place.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
That's right, of course.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yes, he's a parking right now, John Paul, come on,
man Seth like a rock party running around.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You're on a rookie deal and he's the biggest park
in all notes right now.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
The big money comes in around twenty sixty five something
like that, So I think we're we're okay.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All the fun that comes there, all right.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Houston Now eight games over five hundred, here they are
once again as we get into September. JP They've taken
the show's team, the Seattle Mariners, and kick them to
the side for the moment and great distance from everybody
else in the division.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
How dangerous are they?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Well, they are dangerous, But I tell you what, the
Mariners haven't gone away yet either. And I know the
Mariners in typical form for them. They're now locked in
a very low scoring game against the Rays, just trying
to get that offense going in Seattle for new manager
Dan Wilson. But I look at Houston and I look
(31:14):
at their lineup. They signed Jason Hayward today for a reason,
which is they've got some offensive concerns. First base has
been a series of question marks ever since Arayhu struggled
so much and was released. They may actually have Bregman
playing a little bit of first base now because of
his elbow issue. So I think for a lot of
(31:34):
different reasons right now, the Astros are not a perfect team.
They need to rest Altuve a bit more than they
ever had before. And the Mariners, partially because of the
new manager, partially because you just cannot hit that poorly
for that long, They're gonna bounce back offensively. So I'm
not ready to call that American League West race.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yet.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
There is still I think a lot of baseball we
played out there, and and yes I do acknowledge that
the Astros and they seem to have this muscle memory
when it comes to this time of year. But there's
still a lot of ball to be played and the
Mariners pitching remains elite.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You can find him on Twitter at John Morosi Carrot Cake.
That is at John Morosi carrot Cake, John Paul Morosi,
MLB Network Insider Extraordinaire. Check him out on Stearnsy and
the Pope, should be a very good show tomorrow, very
happy show. With the Mets up eight nothing against the Diamondbacks.
Starnsy should be in a good mood for you, Pope.
So I'll have a great show.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Tomorrow, he will be yes, And on Saturday evening in
ann Arbor, the University of Michigan will prevail forty nine
to ten over the Fresno State Bulldogs. I've got I've
got forty nine to ten.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Let's see.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I'm not even sure what the spread is, but that
was just what came to my mind. Right then. There
you go.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, I thought you were going to say Michigan wins
twenty seven to twenty four, twenty seven to third.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That would be pretty good, Mia, hell of a game.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Oh no, that would be an amazing showing by the
Fresido State Bulldogs. The Mountain West. I'm told the Mountain
West is up this year, so we'll see how they're looking.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Pope. Thanks a bunch, as always, buddy, we'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
I haven't read, we'll talk, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
He's hanging up the phone right now, going to his kids. Okay,
sit down, put your but I don't care what you're
learning in school. We're going to talk about the years
that Aaron Judge and show how otani you're having dad
your tarent cake sit down. Pay attention right now. Pay
attention to Brian Finley. He's got what's trending in the
wide world of sports.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
BF.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
And when I was paying attention to your guys' conversation
early on in the hour, I did not realize that
Jason actually ate vegetables.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I did not know that.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
I thought the only vegetable Jason that you would eat
would happen to be French fries. I did not know
broccoli was part of the conversation. So I just have
to say I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Hey, smart ass, I've had both broccoli and French fries today.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Okay, so stick it. You weren't, said you, liar? Yes,
no I did.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I'll got my wife up here in five minutes. Off,
I've had it, friend, broccoli at lunch and French fries
at dinner.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Oh, such a complete, complete meal of two two to
three meals there.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I had broccoli on my beizza.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Well, there's no line.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
There is no lie in saying that the Mets are
up eight to nothing against the Diamondbacks there in the
seventh inning right now, and this Mets team they need
as many wins as possible. They are three and a
half games out of that third and final wild card spot,
and after they lost a game ago. The Diamondbacks, by
the way that they're playing, they've won six in a row,
but things are not going their way here and this
(34:34):
could be beneficial for the Mets. The Padres already won
and with that win they make it three in a row,
a seven to five win for the Pods as they
continue to make Jason Smith jealous. Seven to five again
over the Cardinals. There, Braves take it against the Twins
eight to six. That's in ten innings. Braves are that
third and final team in the NAL wildcard spot that't
(34:56):
have a birth at least if everything stopped today and
we were ready for the postseason White Sox Rangers game
that got suspended because of weather. So we are going
to be left with the misery of that one taking
place tomorrow at five ten e.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Their time is Mike's looking at over at me. They
don't it, so watch exactly, Jery. Yeah that is true. Hey, guys,
I leave you this with this really quickly because I
know we're up against it. According to ESPN, the Bills
signing quarterback Mike White. Of course, he did great things
with the Jets and Dolphins, and I say that in
(35:30):
air quotes, but he is off to the practice squad
for the Bills. Also, Bengals wide receivers to mar Chase, Yes,
he is going to play Week one, according to since
he head coach Zach Taylor. And lastly, guys Rams said,
coach Sean McVay is picking Kyrad Williams.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
To be the team's punt returner this year. I know
you all were talking about that at the last hour.
Humongous news here in the newsroom at Fox Sports Radio.
And with that, I send it back to you, guys,
Jason Smith and Mike Carmon.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon, live from the Tirac dot Com studios.
Coming up next, We're done talking about carrot cake. We're
absolutely done. But boy did we have a great take
from a very unlikely athletic source earlier today. We got
to get to that's coming up next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Oi Oi, Oi Oi.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
This is what Diamondbacks fans are saying when Jordan Montgomery
comes into.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
A game.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Jason Smith showing Mike Carmon live the tirect dot Com studio.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
It's also what he said to Scott morris Man they
have a jerk the other.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
We'll have more on this story coming up in a
few minutes, but look, I gotta tell you, I enjoy
a good hot take when it comes from a non
traditional source. Let's just say, and we got a big
hot take from none other than Dwight Howard. Yes, that
Dwight Howard. Wait, wasn't there a whole big love.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
No, we got a great, big hot take from Dwight
Howard who went on social media and said, wow, could
Caitlin Clark be the first ever person to win Rookie.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Of the Year n WNBA MVP in the same year.
That's a good hot take.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Now he went on and got roasted, and especially since look,
Asia Wilson is having another phenomenal yea, she had forty
two points night though they lost.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I mean a bit of really big shocker.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I'm sure this cost a lot of people some dough
because boy, this result was unexpected.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
So what was the spread on that game?
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Man, I think that they were probably favorite. Dallas has
won what all five games this year? I mean they're
eight and twenty two. I think the spread and this
is probably about fifteen, Right, it's got to be something
like that.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Right, it was nine and a half. Oh, that's it,
nine and a half. Total was one eighty one and
a half. But Peces were minus five hundred on the money.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Oh wow, but forty two for Asia Wilson's side.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
She's having a phenomena year and she will be the
WNBA MVP against you won two years ago.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, twenty six, six and twelve a game.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
But boy, you know, and this is where I just like,
It's why I love talking about the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I love talking about Caitlin Clark because it just makes
so many.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
People Well, and I know you already subscribe to Angel
Reese's podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Yes exactly. I'm eating Reese's pieces all the time.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yes, yes, I'm watching Angel reshoot and make every shot. Okay,
one of those things I just said was a lie?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Wait, well we I think one of them was true,
you're actually eating Reese's pieces.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Uh, but I mean, just to think for a second,
could you imagine? Could you?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I mean, it's not happening because Asian Wilson's gonna be MP.
It's voted on by media members who cover the league,
So it's not like it's something way wait, who votes
for WNBA, Oh, it's all Kate percentage.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
They used to They used to.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I think about about fifteen years ago. They used to
have that, like the fans could vote for like twenty
five percent of the of the vote was from the fans.
Like it was crazy. They did it like that for
a little bit. But could you imagine the reaction if
Caitlyn Clark is voted MVP. Not that you shouldn't be
in the finalists, she should be one of the final
five for sure. This is the first time the fever
(39:23):
sniffed the playoffs and what eight years? Look at look
at the years she's having. But I mean, we can't
get people to even say Caitlyn Clark's name following a
game because they're so jealous and her level of play.
In the fact, she's getting all the credit for every
good thing she's doing for the WNBA, for some reason
gets people unhappy. Can you imagine the backlash if she
gets voted MVP by me? But it's I mean, it's
(39:45):
never gonna happen. The rest of the WNBA would quit,
they would all quit, say we're all going another league,
We're not gonna play here, We're all going overseas. Players
are can't have Katelyn Clark winning MVP.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Can't do it, can't do it. I mean, it would
be unbelievable if it happened.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
But there's still so much anti Caitlin Clarkless out there
from people that you wouldn't think there would be out there.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I bet you there's media members that would never even vote,
not voting.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
For no, no, not voted because I kind of show
solidarity with all the coaches and the and the players
who think that they should be getting more credit on that.
I mean, there's still so much anti Caitlin Clarkless out there.
This would never happen.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Well, I mean, we always talk about needing a new
story in every other sport.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Why not start here? All right?
Speaker 4 (40:21):
We know about Caitlin Clark move on even though she
hasn't even completed season number one, and the turnover count
as much as we can do highlight videos of you know,
fumbled passes or whatever you want to do. You know,
they're still turnovers. They still count just the same. Once
they're in the books. They're in the books. We don't
(40:42):
start to parse those back out. Just like the interceptions.
When you hate your quarterback for throwing three interceptions, did
you really not credit you know, take two of them
away because they were off the receiver's hands.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Oh, he secured it and it popped up. No, no,
you don't.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
You say he had three interceptions and he's a bum.
So it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
It flows the same way.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
But yes, absolutely, this would be the floating dumpster fire
with that Elmo in front of it gif. If somehow
she won MVPD, how great would that be?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
That would be? I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I would wish let's see Mets make the playoffs or
Kitlyn Clark when WNBA MVP. I might go for the
Kaitlyn Clark big stuff out of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
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