July 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Steve debate if Wemby will be the first $100M a year player in the NBA. AndMLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to talk Tigers, Dodgers and Yankees.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm Steve de Sager.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
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Morosi coming up in about fifteen minutes. Boy, a lot
of great baseball tonight. Yeah, Dodgers trouble, Yankees trouble. The
Tigers may be the best team in baseball history. We
have a lot of stuff to get to John Paul Morosa.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Philly's getting shut out so far halfway through.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Don't chink sit, don't chink sit.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Come on, Steve, don't you Met's with a big comeback win, okay,
the fans to tie the Phillies for the first in
the NL East.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Until you said that, just let really understand. The Giants
are winning one nothing, okay, Joe, until you said that.
Let's just see.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Judge with a home run tonight, Cal Rawley a home
run tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The Blue Jays may never lose again. Yeah, lots lots
of big stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, they're in a rain de lake. Can we just
call that already? You know, I know Mike Harmon, White
Sox fan is not here tonight. His White Sox are
down six to one. Tough just to put them out
of their misery. Yeah, I mean you could probably call
the rest of the week, quite honestly, but can we
just call this game?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh week? Yeah? I mean, look, listen the White Sox. Yeah,
I think I think you probably could do that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
They will be thirty and sixty two after tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And still with a nine game lead over the Rockies
for worst record in.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Baseball because Colora is twenty one and seventy one after
losing it Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, fifty games under five hundred fifty and we're not
even at the All Star break yet. That's really an
astoun under five hundred. They are on pace to not
just break the all time loss record which the White
Sox set last year, they're on pace to see it
and just wave at it as they go by. Hey
one twenty one, we're gonna see you, buddy, sucker, We're
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one twenty four, twenty five. There were on paced for
one hundred and twenty five losses right now.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I know, man, mathematically it's not the All Star break yet.
We are past the halfway point of the Major League season, mercifully.
But Mark Willards, for one on our Sunday night show,
does make the point that and I'll update it. If
you look at the MLB standings, if you're getting out
scored at the end of the first say, three four
months of the season by seventy eighty runs, you're probably
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not having a good season. In fact, it's except for
the A's in the American League, the most anyone's getting
outscored is the eighty eight run the White Sox are
getting outscored. Going into tonight, the Rockies have been outscored
by almost two hundred and fifty runs already this season
almost too fifty and we are not yet to the
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middle of July.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, it's it's it's not good. It's not good, not great, Bob.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
For those who have season tickets to Colorado Rockies Baseball,
you have seen, and we've played more than ten weeks here,
you've seen exactly ten victories, ten and thirty six at Corsfield.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, at least if you live in the greater Denver area, Colorado,
you can say, well, all right, the Rocky stink. But
at least I don't have to worry about Jo Kitchen
and the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, wait a.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Minute, wait a minute, that's in the news.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Oh wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Now, In fairness, the headline is, oh, he's not going
to discuss contract extension this summer with the Nugget. He's
still got years plural to go.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Frostburg has already sent me the uh the photoshop jiff
of Luca and Jokich both as Lakers, uh nikola joke,
which will delay extension talks with the Nuggets until next summer.
He's got three years left on his big five year,
two hundred and seventy six million dollar contract extension. They
were going to talk about an extension this summer, he says, no,
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I'll do it next year. Now, clearly there's big financial
reasons for this because if he waits another year, NBA rules, yeah,
he could sign and make even make I think eighty
million dollars more just by waiting a year. So okay,
So I completely understand that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's a little bit like what we talked about on
last night's show with Paula Bancaro getting that huge MAX
extension with the Orlando Magic. They couldn't even say how
much it was worth because it could go up the
way the CBA is in the in the NBA, if.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
He waits until next off season, he could add another
year to his contract, which would give him an additional
seventy seven million dollars. Okay, So seventy seven million dollars
for one year. My big bolt prediction that by twenty
thirty we're gonna have an NBA or an NFL player
making one hundred million dollars a year. It's happening, man,
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because we're gonna be in twenty twenty six and Jokic
shit seventy seven million dollars and we're all going.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
To half close to that with the Supermax extension that
SGA got after winning with Oklahoma City this summer. Because
let's say a guy plays, and this is very much
within the realm of reason, seventy regular season games, yeah,
and get seventy million dollars as a salary by twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That it's possible.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, a very realist.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
One hundred million dollars probably happened first in the NBA
then the NFL. But you saw two years ago when
Yo could sign his deal, it was sixty two million
in the last year of his contract. Now two years
later it's gonna go up another fifteen million. So okay,
So seventy seven million twenty twenty six, eighty sea goes
up another fifteen million. You're at eighty something a high
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eighties by twenty twenty eight. By twenty thirty, we're gonna
get to one hundred million dollar a year player in.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The NBA for an eighty two game schedule.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Way till Wemby signs that one hundred million dollar a
year contract and suddenly he's not going anywhere. Yeah, we
can't keep anybody else. See, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And before you I know, somebody is just screaming at
the radio at this point, how could they possibly Well,
this is different than other sports because I like baseball.
For example, in the NBA, the salary cap the amount
of money to spend per team. It doesn't mean you
have to give half of it to one guy, no,
but the amount of money to spend per team is
directly related to the income that the league has. Half
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of that gets divided to players. Therefore, next year, the
NBA starting new TV contracts plural absolutely is directly responsible
for some of the craziness in NBA salaries we're seeing.
So say what you want about the bad ratings of
the last NBA finals, and they had already signed in
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inc all of the new TV contracts, including with Amazon,
all of them. And I believe it's six to seven
billion dollars per year for the next eleven years is
going to be basketball related income for the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
By twenty three hundred million dollars a year, getting paid,
getting paid a million and a half dollars to play
one game. In the end, that's where it's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And we are in the NFL, think about it. We're
at and passed to the point where people are getting
two million dollars a game as a quarterback. I mean
it's you.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You don't put it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sometimes in soccer overseas they do put salaries that way,
but that is realism. If you have a seventeen game
schedule and your quarterback's making thirty four mili, he's making
that money not for the preseason and not for the postseason.
He's only getting paid checks those few months of the
regular season.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Now, while part of this and a lot of it, Hey,
it's financial for Nicole Yolkich, Right, Yo Kicch is a
bit of a different dude. Right, we have to feel
like we say that a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Clearly he's a.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Bit of a different dude. If the Nuggets stink next
year and they're not closer to a championship, I could
see NICOLEA. Yoki saying, Yeah, not gonna do it. I
gotta get some someplace else. We've topped out here. It's
not working because we built a championship team. Right, we
built a championship team, we won, and now what happened
the next year? We're not quite as good. We fired
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the coach because the coach lost, The locker room couldn't
get along. We have a new coach in we made
some moves. Now. They made some moves to make Yokic happy.
They made a couple of moves this offseason to help
make Yolkic happy and maybe help the Nuggets get back
to the top of the Western Conference. But if they
have another down year next year, this is gonna turn
into a Yannis Buck situation, and Jokicic will have no
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qualms about saying, yeah, this as far as I can get.
I gotta get someplace else. But what about the money
leaving on the table? Uh, I have a lot of money.
He's not Lebron where it's all I want to make
sure because that's gonna be part of my legacy to
the NBA. Was like, yes, I'm making this money, I'll
want to make more money. But if the Nuggets don't win,
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he's not gonna sit here and say, yeah, I'll re
up another three four years and you're gonna give me off.
I'll get a lot of money from somebody else where
I can go win, whether it's the Lakers, whether it's
the Knicks, whether it's someplace elf Hey, And maybe the
Lakers are gonna wintch. Maybe Deondreyton has a big year
this year, and all of a sudden, he's a big bargain,
and the Lakers say, hey, okay, hey, Nico Harrison just
started working for the Nuggets. Hey how about Ayton for
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straight up for yokicch Well, make the money work, let's
do it, and it happens.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, Aidan's a big bargain. As long as the other
team is paying this salary's sure this is true. Ahead, Well,
you reference the Lakers though, because Lebron kind of ruined
it in the Lakers fans mind that as they kind
of playing fantasy basketball, thought, okay, we've got Luca. If
we just had Lebron's money to play with this summer,
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what could we do? What kind of machinations could occur? Obviously,
anybody like Keiannis keeps getting brought up on the show,
or you bring up Yokich, Now, anybody but he down
the line that's going to command and deserve to command.
A massive salary like that could be put in that slot.
Salary lineups and NBA teams, they're all about slots. That's
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why people acquire expiring contracts. You know, he was overpaid
at five million. Why do I want him? Because his
contract that could expire you, and that creates a slot
for whoever we want next. This is another and I
know Lebron doesn't care. He's not the GM anymore with
the Lakers, but he kind of ruined this for the
Lakers in what they can do this offseason by opting in.
(10:34):
I see why he opted in, And if you and
I were in that spot, we probably would have done
the same thing. Yep, but that would have been a
great amount of cash.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
To work with. Now. The thing is right to think
because we mentioned DeAndre Ayton, who met the media today
for the first time as a Laker. Just I know
your stars in your eyes thinking about body. Is Wenby
going to be that guy making a Probably Wenby making
one hundred million a year and biting five years. But
Aton met the media today and he's been the big
improvement to the team in the off season. Right. He
drafted the same year as Luka Doncic, and clearly he
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has the talent bit of a knucklehead. But I gotta
say I liked everything he had to say today where
he said, listen, my time in Portland. It was challenging,
there were things that happened, but I'm so excited to
be here. I know the Lakers want to win a championship.
Now I understand if you don't win, people forget about you,
which is a really big lesson. It's really made my
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you know, I open my eyes when I heard him
say that, Hey, if you don't win in the NBA,
people forget about it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
People don't remember it and won't remember Tracy McGrady and
what great player he was, And I want people to
remember me.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
He talked about Luca looking ripped and shredded, losing weight
in the off season, like this is the honeymoon season
for eight and this is a I liked it a
week ago when the Lakers did this, I like it
even more now. No, granted it's words, it's not on
the court, but first year, new organization ate and understands, Hey,
if I want to get paid again, I really got
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to come up big because this two years, sixteen million
dollars ain't working for me twenty six. So if he
plays well, he'll in a year or two he'll get
a big contract somewhere. So you have the motivation and
some of the presence of the things he said today.
I feel really good about it, I said, Man, he
might show up and maybe things are gonna be a
little bit different than the Lakers with Luca this year
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because he's got that big threat that Ayton's going to be,
and he's back to being the guy he was earlier
in his career.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It's the type of player that the Lakers probably would
have wanted to have at the trade deadline a year ago,
except it wasn't possible for him specifically, because I need
to repeat, the Lakers are able to get this guy
right now because the old team is paying.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I mean, come on, he had a game. He said,
I can't get there because the roads are too icy.
I can't get out of my house. Really, you can't
walk somewhere. But he's not from here. We'll send some
we'll send a car for you. Just walk to the corner.
We'll send a car. No, sorry, I can't make it.
It's too icy.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Like wow, okay, a chance to pick up a seven
footer who had sixteen points a game in his career.
I mean it was drafted that highly with a reason.
This is a good pickup. I mean he doesn't even
have to play every game for.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It to be a good pickup. It's a risk, but
it's a good risk. It's a good gamble. And everything
I've seen the last week, I mean, I really like it. Right.
I know this is not because I want jj Reddick
to like me. He hates me. But like, but there's
certain Portland this was laid out for you. There's there's
certain gambles where I go, yeah, boy, that's really more
of a we're hoping rather than it's a gam But
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this is this is a hey, it's kind of free.
We're not going crazy for money. He's replaceable, his contract
is tradable, whatever it's going to be. But if we
wind up hitting it with him, it's gonna be a
really big deal and we have a potential all star
caliber type player if it works. And again it's a risk,
but there's good risks and bad risks. This is a
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great So this is a great risk. And again when
he said when he said today, if you lose, people
forget about you, Like that's not something you normally hear
from guys about hey, about wanting to win, Like, hey,
I understand I gotta win. And where I've been I
haven't had the intro, I haven't had the impetus I had.
It's been challenging because I'm a couple of places where
we haven't won. We're supposed to win in Phoenix, didn't happen.
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We didn't win in Portland. I don't want to disappear
off the map. And yeah, I want to get paid
in a year or so. So, I mean, have that
was a real that was a real deep thing to
say it at the press conference about you don't win.
They forget it bout She's like, oh, and he hasn't
been nothing either.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I mentioned the career numbers and he was also in
the NBA finals not that long ago. Out of the way.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I mean, he'll get a hundred million dollars a year
in twenty thirty. Yeah, it's probably gonna be Winny.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We didn't mention that there was another guy at that
press conference.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I don't know if he's going to be taking over
for the guy who left for the Rockets, but Jake
Lauravia is now from Sacramento, a member of the Lakers.
They have desperately needed two things, and they at least
attempt to address them with these two guys. Is they
needed a big and they needed it the last few
months of last year. And somebody tall who get cho
from outside or they just lost.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, so been both of them in a year for
jokichs your trade open your white why not good? Why
did you make it happen there? It is? Hey, when
you hear when you hear Josh Cranky say, hey, if
the things don't go, we have one bad injury. We're
talking about trading fifteen. Are you right? Really? One bad
injury and you're trading yo kitchen? Okay? One? Really, that's
how bad your team has built. One bad injury you're trading.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think you're right on the name. And you didn't
even realize it. He's gonna go from Josh Crockey to
Josh Cranky. So going at the at the Nuggets, by
the way. Two things to update in baseball before we
break is that the A's have homered again. That's five
homers in three innings at the Triple A Park there
sharing this year. A's ten to nothing over the Atlanta
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Braves as they start the fourth inning, and they have
called it the White Sox home game is dumb. They
called it. In the seventh inning, Toronto Blue Jays six
to one. The final. Toronto has won ten games in
a row. There's still three and a half up on
the Yanks in the AL East?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Coming up next? Have the Yankees just seen their chance
to win the Al East go away? Are the Dodgers
really in a lot of trouble? Are the Tiger's really
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Speaker 4 (17:39):
Jason and Steve? My friends? Good evening. I do come
to you from the great state of Michigan, which is
just among us friends, the single best place in the
world to spend the summer. Just don't tell you know
what we are lakes for all of a sudden, the
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So it's just among us, just among us friends. But
I will say this, the baseball team is pretty great too.
I was there with my family tonight watching the game,
so I got to be a spectator, which was a
lot of fun, and it was a bit of a
classic Tigers game from this season. They're down to nothing early,
they tie it, and then Zach mckinsrey's run around the
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bases like nobody else can, and all of a sudden,
Cole Keith comes up hit the two runover. Then the
bullpen shuts them down and the Tigers win. It's been
an amazing formula. This is not just a good start,
it's not just a charming story. This is a really
really good baseball team. Not maybe the brand name team
with the Dodgers, even the Mets, but they play really
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good baseball and it's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Are they really this good? JP are? Are they really
this good? Or they they're peaking now? They're a really
good team. Are they really the best team in baseball?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, so here's what I would say, they've they've played
the best to this point.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Now.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I really that the ALE Central is not the National
League West. I get that, but in terms of their
execution and the way they're playing the game, there's not
a better team in the sport right now. There really isn't,
and they're doing the little things very well. And also
look at it and realize that Kerry Carpenter is not
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right now on the active roster. They spend fifteen million
dollars on Alex Cobb and he's yet to throw a
pitch for them this season, and who knows if he
actually will. So not everything has gone right for them.
They've had some injuries too, but aj Hinch and Chris Feeder,
they're pitching coach really know how to get the most
out of this group. And what's happening with the Tigers
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now is players who have had mixed results elsewhere are
coming to Detroit and getting better. And guys like Flaherty,
who helped the Dodgers win a World Series last year,
decided to come back. It's a really good culture with
They've got I think a bone of f I'd star
in Riley Green. And do they need one more bat
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to win the World Series? Probably? There are some spots
you could argue, maybe one more outfitter, maybe one more infielder.
But the way in which this lineup is very well
balance left and right, switch hitter, there's just a nice
it's a nice team. So right now I'm going to
say it, they're the best team in baseball, and it's
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up to the rest of the group to prove me
wrong or prove the Tigers otherwise. At some point between
now and the end of October.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Tigers won tonight. If they win the next game, they'll
be sixty and thirty four this year. But I will
discuss what's going on in the Al East. Toronto with
a tenth straight win. Wow, you know the Yankees did
win at home and in fact Judge homerd and Stanton Homer,
so I can pass along the updated Sarah Langstead. They
are a Yankees record when those two sluggers Homer in
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the same game, it's only forty six and seven sen Kevinunreil.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's also every game that Stanton has played since he
signed with the Yankees, fifty three games. That's all he's played.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
A bit of our listeners, that's a joke, Jesus, and
we continue.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They are still three and a half back in the
red hot Toronto Blue Jays, who've not only had, to
say the least, a great month as we head into
the All Star break. They've got a couple of starting
pitchers and it seems like they've found a closer and
they have all stars in the lineup. I mean the
Toronto Blue Jays, not just for a couple of weeks,
are looking like a playoff team here.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think they are a playoff team. I would be
stunned if they missed the playoffs. At this point in time,
they are a playoff team. Vladim Mergero Junior. We still
haven't even seen the best of him yet. And look
at how well they're playing. The man that's gotten them going,
in my view is Boba Schett and the way that
boas played of late. He's the guy and you reference
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Sarah's statistic on stage and a judge when Bishett is going.
He is the catalyst for the Toronto Blue Jays. He
is the one that really gets this team going. And
remember we talked a second ago about the Tigers not
getting a lot out of Alex Cobb, or actually nothing
out of Alex Cobb. The Jays have had a minimal
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production from Anthony Santander, and look at how they're playing now.
In the case of the Jays, they've had a really
good season, an all Star season from Alejandro Kirk. They
have had a young player and Addison Barger look like
a budding star. And crucially they have gotten George Springer
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the amount of DH days that he needs to be productive,
and they're being rewarded now with his amazing bounce back season.
So for me in every way, this Jays team, maybe
they've been a bit of a revelation or a surprise
over the last month. But can I call them a
sustainable surprise because that's what I'm seeing from right now.
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They are a sustainable surprise with some veterans of the rotation.
Health with the pitching might be the one thing that
I'll be a little bit worried about, and maybe they
need to add to a rental starter, But guess what,
those types of guys are typically out there and available,
and I would trust the Jays and Pete Walker to
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get the best out of a move that they might
make here at some point in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
John Paul, can the Yankee still win the East or
is their best chance to do it coming gone?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I think it certainly still win the division. This thing
is not over yet by anything.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You've given up a lot a lot of real estate
over just the last three weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, they've given up a lot of real estate. They're
a team and I know that this will be said
by Yankee fans and I'm sure the media a lot
in New York, but this is a team that needs
to make a trade. They they put Jazz Chisholm back
to second base. There's a gap in this, I think
in the lineup and also in the rotation potentially for
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some impact. So we're about to find out how serious
the Yankees are about making a run at this, and
Brian Cashman's going to have to I think if he
really wants to put together a team that can get
back to the World Series, you got to realize it
and compare side by side last year's team, which wasn't
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good enough to win it, and this year's team and
last year's team, which wasn't good enough to win it.
It's a lot better than this year's team. Of course,
last year you had Soto. Last year you had a fuller,
healthier season of Stanton, last year you had Garret Cole.
There's last year you didn't necessarily have the up and
down bullpen that we've seen out of the Yankees at
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different times this season. So there's some worries there for
the Yankees, no doubt, But this is a team that
I believe has the capability to make a big time trade,
and now it's gonna require a little bit of I
don't know if ruthless is the right word, but they're
going to have to be quite unsympathetic the way that
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the teams have put together because there's a lot of
really popular players, some of them are homegrown, but it's
not been good enough. They still have the best player
in the world though, and Aaron Judge the best hitter
at least, and now they need to find a way,
I think, to make a couple more moves to accentuate
the group. I think Cash we'll do it, but there's
no doubt now the task lies ahead for him.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
About the San Diego Padres, amazingly, they're out of the
wild card picture at the moment. If the season ended tonight,
the Padres would not make the playoffs. It astounds me.
And they're scoreless, bottom of the seventh right now against Arizona.
It astounds me that they're not better because they're a
little top heavy in the lineup. If someone like Jake Cronenworth,
which just better with the bat, I think it would
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change the whole bottom of the lineup. Instead, they get
in these lulls and low scoring and really have to
rely on the pitching and the great bullpen they do
have with a couple of All stars at the back end,
they can get better, and don't they need to get
better trade deadline.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
This month, offense has to be the thing, and for them, Steve,
it was a very welcome return for you, Darvish to
come back, that was great. I agree with you. And
Corona Worth is someone who I still believe there's some
upside with him, but there just hasn't been enough production
consistently to return to that star all star level that
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we saw him have earlier on in his career. I agree.
I think he's probably the X factor for them going forward,
and they can't rely always on Tatis and Machado to
carry the way because there are other lineups in this
National League right now, the Dodgers, the Cubs come to mind,
the Mets, the Phillies, and even with all the Mets injuries,
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I still think they have a bit of a deeper
lineup right now than the Pots do, so I'm with you.
I think they have to make a potentially a very
difficult decision, which could be would you move a Dylan
cease for a bat So basically, would you give up Cease,
let's say, to the Chicago Cubs, and bring back either
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a young Owen Casey or one of their major league
outfielders to make it all work out. That's the kind
of a trade that I'm sure AJ Preller, who is
one of the more imaginative executives in the game, will
give a lot of thought to potentially executing here in
the next several weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
All Right, Lastly, John Paul, the Dodgers lose again. Clayton
Kershaw pitch as well. They follow the Brewers three to one.
This is five losses in a row. Is this one
of those? Hey, every team has one of these in
them over the course of the season. War, Is there
something the Dodgers need to worry about?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I would say this, they are a great but flawed team.
They we have to remember how last year's playoffs went.
They're one loss away from from getting bounced in the
first round, and who knows at that point what happens
to the roster, to the coaching staff if that had
been the result. So they are beatable. They have looked
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very beatable in recent days. I'm gonna say this, I
am still confident that they have the best chance of
anybody to win the National League. And part of the
reason is I think Mookie Bets is gonna have a
better second half. We've got to remember how his season started.
I feel like with the with the illness and just
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being behind, I think he needs the All Star break
in a in a very serious way, just from a
standpoint of his swing and getting everything locked back into place.
We're gonna see a better Mookie Bets in the second half.
And they also believe they're gonna get their their pitching
back healthier that they've got glass Now coming back tomorrow.
So I'm I am. I'm actually still pretty bullish on
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the Dodgers long term, but by that I mean being
able to make it to the World Series again this season.
But there are some questions that we have to see
answered by their guys who are coming back, and that
starts tomorrow night with Tyler Glassnow, who's honestly, guys going
to struggle to be as effective as Ryan Pepio has
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been for the race. Pepio started the game that I
was at tonight, he was outstanding, and I think it's
going to be a very challenging thing for glass Now
to be able to equal the production of the man
that was traded for Glassdow to become a Los Angeles Dodger.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John Morosi.
Next time you see him with his family at a
Tigers game, say hey, tell Stirnsy. I said, hi, Joy.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I know I know you from the Jesus Smith Show
featuring Steve the Sager. I know you. I've heard your voice.
And there may in fact be people driving over from
the ballpark and Detroit listening to this Converse station right now.
That is the beauty of radio.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And and uh, I wouldn't be doing my job if I did.
And tell you next time you talk to Sternsy that
Alonso contract, John Paul, it's just getting more and more
expensive every time.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
David it now take it.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Anybody that fun, We'll talk to you next week. There
goes John Paul Morosi. I'll tell you know, of all
the Dodgers players, right, obviously we talk about Otani the
most because it's show Heyo Tawny and Will Smith is
having a great So he's a third in the National
League and hitting or fourth ANAL.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Catcher hitting that well in betting average.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's like it's like seeing Johnny Bench again. Uh. Freddie
Freeman obviously the coming off.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Lugging largely for the last month and still has been
a three hundred hitter much of the year.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But Betts has been a guy where we've kind of
forgotten about him. The Dodger have asked him to do
everything play out field, play, second base, play, shortstop. He's
been struggling. He's a guy I tell you, John Paul
big Bowl prediction there, He's gonna have a huge second
half that would cover up a lot of ills. Because
when you're, you know, the all aroun player that Mooki
Betts is, I mean, you need him to come back
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and be Mooky Betts.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It's been six years now with this team since he
came over to the Dodgers, and it is so obvious
that when Mooki Betts is on, the whole lineup is different.
He really does mean something to the Dodgers order. And
it has not been good offensively for him, not just
not consistent, overall not good. And I said this at
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the beginning of the season. I'll say it again now.
I am not convinced that the Dodgers are a better
team by moving Mookie Betts too shortstop. Yes, it fills
a hole defensively, but he was a goal glove right
fielder I think five six times in his career. He's
not a goal glove shortstop. He's now a two fifty
hitter as a short step and they are really scrambling
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defensively to piece together the outfield guys in his absence.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Steve de Seger has more on the Dodgers than what
happened today, And speaking of Pede Alonzo, another home run
all that more with what's trending right now, and maybe
a home run.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
For the Phillies to discuss as well. By the way,
the Dodgers beat writer Bill Plunkett points out that for
the second year in a row, the Dodgers are staggering
into the break. Last year it was a one to
five road trip at Philly and Detroit. Right now, the
Dodgers have lost a fifth straight game, lost three to
one at Milwaukee. The winning pitcher, Jacob Missowski, great tall,
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young starter, gave up the leadoff homer to Otani shoe
heey Otani with thirty one homers this year leads the
National League, and then the kid struck out twelve in
six innings and got the win save number twenty one
for Trevor McGill. The Dodger offense went four for thirty
one with fifteen strikeouts tonight, the loss to Clayton Kershawe,
who had been four and oh he gave up two
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runs in six innings of work. What a comeback for
the Mets. At Baltimore about an hour rain delay. At
the start, the Mets were trailing and in the eighth
got four runs to tie it on two homers, and
Juan Soto in the tenth hits the go ahead single,
his third hit of the ninth. Mets win at Baltimore
seven to sixth.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Remember when he was miserable and wanted to be a Yankee?
And those are the days, weren't they?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
No, I don't, I don't remember that that was this year,
I thought. Meanwhile, the Phillies are trying to hold onto
their one game lead over the Mets in the NL East.
The Phillies were trailing at San Francisco one nothing going
to the sixth, tied it with a run in the sixth,
and Kyle Schwarber has hit a two run homer in
the seventh. It is three to one. Pills now bottom
of the seventh in the Bay Area. Schwarber, who's batting
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about two fifty by the way, hits his twenty eighth
home run of the season. The A's are winning ten
to one. At the end of five against the Atlanta Braves.
The A's have hit five home runs already, four of
them in the first couple innings. The bad news A's
all star shortstop Jacob Wilson left hit by a pitch
on the hand. It is a one nothing Padres lead.
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Now They have just scored bottom of the seventh to
get the advantage on the Arizona Diamondbacks, who have just
two hits. Tonight, Rangers lead in Anaheim eleven to one
over the Angels bottom of the seventh. Long rain delay
at the start at Saint Louis, so they're only in
the bottom of the sixth. Cardinals three to two over
the Nationals. Cleveland has won in ten innings on a
grand slam off closer Josh Hayter ten six at Houston.
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Kansas City with a run bottom of the ninth sent
Pittsburgh to a fifth straight loss four to three. Minnesota
beat the Cubs and showed to Emonaga eight to one.
Imonago only allowed two runs in six innings, then a
reliever gave up three homers. Toronto won it's tenth straight.
Yankees over Seattle, Judge and Stanton with homers. Cal Raley
of the Mariners hit his thirty six. Detroit won it's
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fifth in a row, Boston it's fifth straight win, and
Miami won twelve to two at Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve, O, Jason Smith, Steve
de Sager and from Mike Hartman. Coming up next an
All Star Draft from today that I wish I was
in charge of because boy, what I have made it
way more fun than it was and it actually was
pretty fun. That's next right here, Fox Sports Radio. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon. He said, ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific,
(35:03):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is Steve de
Sager and from Mike Harmon, And uh, you know, tonight's
Steve kind of a missed opportunity because you know, the
WNBA had their All Star Draft tonight.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
That's right, the team captains selecting players onto their own rosters.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Caitlin Clark and the FISA Collier were making the selections.
You know, we've seen this in the NBA. They've done it,
and I really wanted to see some a couple of
crazy things happen. But you know, just seeing the way
the draft, you know, shakes out, I want, Yeah, I
sit here and go, yeah, this kind of shakes out
along the lines of who's pro and who's pro Caitlin Clark,
(35:47):
and who's anti Caitlin Clark. And who's not on Caitlin
Clark's team, and who's on the other team and who's
not Caitlin Clark's coach. Yeah, the All Star game that
got switched. Because here's the thing. First of all, I
really wanted Kitlyn to draft Angel Rees number one, like
that would have been. That would have been awesome, just
for the record.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
When they came to the section where the reserves that
were named last weekend were selected, Caitlyn Clark went through
three selections, not taking Angel Rees, and then she was
taken by the other cat.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I mean, they could sit here and say we're cool
with each other. You know they're not. You know, they
absolutely can't stand each other. They want to beat each
other's brains in, but they both understand that if we
go over the top of our rivalry. It's not good
for either of us. Caitlyn Clark look is more popular.
Angel Reese is popular too. She's having a really good season, right,
She's her basketball's been doing the talking for the last
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few weeks. She's had a terrific season. But there's no
way these two really want to play in the same team,
especially after last year the big Djna Carrington foul and
the Kennedy Carter foul and Angel Rees hugging Kennedy Carter
after it was over. Like, Okay, I think that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I think that was it supporting a teammate for the
hard foul.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, I think that was it for the Caitlin Clark.
Can Angel Reese really get along? Right? I really wanted
her to do that, but clearly that was never gonna,
never gonna happen. The other thing is, okay, so she's
gonna play for Cheryl Reeve. Okay, shol Reeve Gray, Okay.
Olympic coach Cheryl Reeve is the one that didn't want
any part of Caitlyn Clark talk about Caitlin Clark last year,
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didn't want any part of conversations about her for the Olympics.
She was the Olympics coach. And I'm saying, huh, she's
gonna be playing for uh, for Show. That's gonna be
interesting because you know, Cheryl Reeve is she is the
coach that has been the most outspoken that I would
say is the most jealous and most uh anti Clark.
And what happened. Caitlyn Clark said, Hey, we're switching our coaches,
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so Nafisa Collier could play for Show Reeve, her coach
in Minnesota. So it seems like, hey, this is great
because look, Kitlyn Clark drafted all her teammates with the
fever right to play with her. And I get that.
I understand that, but hey, no, I don't want to
like how much of that is. Yeah, okay, you can
play for your coach, but I also don't want to
play for her because I know because and that is
(38:02):
not happening. So I have the team I want. I
got people that that that I respect, that that are okay.
The people that don't respect me that I don't like, Yeah,
you're on the other team. That's exactly how that changed
and the way this coach swap happened. They said in
advance of tonight's the captains selecting their rosters for this
month's w NBA All Star Game. Okay, as soon as
you make all your selections, then you can make trades.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
It has to be a one for one trade. It
has to be a bench player for bench player or
so forth. And it turns out that trade they make,
they swap the head coaches. So the New York head
coach and her staff will be leading Caitlyn Clark's team
in Indianapolis. Clark City worn be sorry, show.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Reef, you go back, you go back, you go, you
go back, you coach the other team. It's okay, I mean,
and I get why there were no trades because if
look in the NBA, if they you know, doing that,
it's one thing, But how much of this would be
Oh why did Caitlyn Clark trade this player? I think
there was never any any thought of trading players unless
it was I want to get my teammate, you picked somebody.
(39:06):
But clearly they had conversations about this before they knew
how it was going to go. There was no way
either player was going to make a trade because then
it becomes, oh, Caitlin Clark doesn't like this player, why
would she trade this? So that was never going to happen.
But the one trade though, Hey, I'll trade the coach
so I don't get to play for and we can
we can hide it under the guise of you get
to go play for your head coach.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yes, because it very much makes sense on paper that
the captain Minnesota player trades for her Minnesota coach to
coach her in the All Star Game this month, and
there's another Minnesota player on that same roster. So this
all works out swimmingly. And even if the Minnesota coach
is correct that I never had anything against Caitlyn Clark
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and anything, it's undeniable. The part that you said where
she didn't want really any of that conversation occurring last summer. Yeah,
I do think by the way, it was good for
Caitlin Clark just to take a summer off finally, the
way that you know, playing sp yet again for Iowa
and going straight into.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
You'd rather played in the Olympics, though, I kind of
think she wants to try to get five or six.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Back Bowl not too you know, ironically, she takes the
summer off and now she's missing five games with this injury.
In five games with that injury, she's due back tomorrow, Clark.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
This is like when you're picking teams in the school
yard to play a game, and you said, I'm just
gonna pick my friends. I'm just gonna but the other
players are good. Yeah, but I like that guy.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Clark's first pick was her Indiana teammate.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I'm picking my friends. You pick your friends, will go play.
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm Steve de Sager.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show
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(00:55):
Morosi coming up in about fifteen minutes. Boy, a lot
of great baseball tonight. Yeah, Dodgers trouble, Yankees trouble. The
Tigers may be the best team in baseball history. We
have a lot of stuff to get to John Paul Morosa.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Philly's getting shut out so far halfway through.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Don't chink sit, don't chink sit.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Come on, Steve, don't you Met's with a big comeback win, okay,
the fans to tie the Phillies for the first in
the NL East.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Until you said that, just let really understand. The Giants
are winning one nothing, okay, Joe, until you said that.
Let's just see.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Judge with a home run tonight, Cal Rawley a home
run tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The Blue Jays may never lose again. Yeah, lots lots
of big stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, they're in a rain de lake. Can we just
call that already? You know, I know Mike Harmon, White
Sox fan is not here tonight. His White Sox are
down six to one. Tough just to put them out
of their misery. Yeah, I mean you could probably call
the rest of the week, quite honestly, but can we
just call this game?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh week? Yeah? I mean, look, listen the White Sox. Yeah,
I think I think you probably could do that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
They will be thirty and sixty two after tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And still with a nine game lead over the Rockies
for worst record in.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Baseball because Colora is twenty one and seventy one after
losing it Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, fifty games under five hundred fifty and we're not
even at the All Star break yet. That's really an
astoun under five hundred. They are on pace to not
just break the all time loss record which the White
Sox set last year, they're on pace to see it
and just wave at it as they go by. Hey
one twenty one, we're gonna see you, buddy, sucker, We're
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one twenty four, twenty five. There were on paced for
one hundred and twenty five losses right now.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I know, man, mathematically it's not the All Star break yet.
We are past the halfway point of the Major League season, mercifully.
But Mark Willards, for one on our Sunday night show,
does make the point that and I'll update it. If
you look at the MLB standings, if you're getting out
scored at the end of the first say, three four
months of the season by seventy eighty runs, you're probably
(02:50):
not having a good season. In fact, it's except for
the A's in the American League, the most anyone's getting
outscored is the eighty eight run the White Sox are
getting outscored. Going into tonight, the Rockies have been outscored
by almost two hundred and fifty runs already this season
almost too fifty and we are not yet to the
(03:12):
middle of July.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, it's it's it's not good. It's not good, not great, Bob.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
For those who have season tickets to Colorado Rockies Baseball,
you have seen, and we've played more than ten weeks here,
you've seen exactly ten victories, ten and thirty six at Corsfield.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, at least if you live in the greater Denver area, Colorado,
you can say, well, all right, the Rocky stink. But
at least I don't have to worry about Jo Kitchen
and the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, wait a.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Minute, wait a minute, that's in the news.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Oh wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Now, In fairness, the headline is, oh, he's not going
to discuss contract extension this summer with the Nugget. He's
still got years plural to go.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Frostburg has already sent me the uh the photoshop jiff
of Luca and Jokich both as Lakers, uh nikola joke,
which will delay extension talks with the Nuggets until next summer.
He's got three years left on his big five year,
two hundred and seventy six million dollar contract extension. They
were going to talk about an extension this summer, he says, no,
(04:13):
I'll do it next year. Now, clearly there's big financial
reasons for this because if he waits another year, NBA rules, yeah,
he could sign and make even make I think eighty
million dollars more just by waiting a year. So okay,
So I completely understand that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's a little bit like what we talked about on
last night's show with Paula Bancaro getting that huge MAX
extension with the Orlando Magic. They couldn't even say how
much it was worth because it could go up the
way the CBA is in the in the NBA, if.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
He waits until next off season, he could add another
year to his contract, which would give him an additional
seventy seven million dollars. Okay, So seventy seven million dollars
for one year. My big bolt prediction that by twenty
thirty we're gonna have an NBA or an NFL player
making one hundred million dollars a year. It's happening, man,
(05:05):
because we're gonna be in twenty twenty six and Jokic
shit seventy seven million dollars and we're all going.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
To half close to that with the Supermax extension that
SGA got after winning with Oklahoma City this summer. Because
let's say a guy plays, and this is very much
within the realm of reason, seventy regular season games, yeah,
and get seventy million dollars as a salary by twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That it's possible.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, a very realist.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
One hundred million dollars probably happened first in the NBA
then the NFL. But you saw two years ago when
Yo could sign his deal, it was sixty two million
in the last year of his contract. Now two years
later it's gonna go up another fifteen million. So okay,
So seventy seven million twenty twenty six, eighty sea goes
up another fifteen million. You're at eighty something a high
(05:52):
eighties by twenty twenty eight. By twenty thirty, we're gonna
get to one hundred million dollar a year player in.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The NBA for an eighty two game schedule.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Way till Wemby signs that one hundred million dollar a
year contract and suddenly he's not going anywhere. Yeah, we
can't keep anybody else. See, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And before you I know, somebody is just screaming at
the radio at this point, how could they possibly Well,
this is different than other sports because I like baseball.
For example, in the NBA, the salary cap the amount
of money to spend per team. It doesn't mean you
have to give half of it to one guy, no,
but the amount of money to spend per team is
directly related to the income that the league has. Half
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of that gets divided to players. Therefore, next year, the
NBA starting new TV contracts plural absolutely is directly responsible
for some of the craziness in NBA salaries we're seeing.
So say what you want about the bad ratings of
the last NBA finals, and they had already signed in
(06:54):
inc all of the new TV contracts, including with Amazon,
all of them. And I believe it's six to seven
billion dollars per year for the next eleven years is
going to be basketball related income for the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
By twenty three hundred million dollars a year, getting paid,
getting paid a million and a half dollars to play
one game. In the end, that's where it's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And we are in the NFL, think about it. We're
at and passed to the point where people are getting
two million dollars a game as a quarterback. I mean
it's you.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You don't put it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sometimes in soccer overseas they do put salaries that way,
but that is realism. If you have a seventeen game
schedule and your quarterback's making thirty four mili, he's making
that money not for the preseason and not for the postseason.
He's only getting paid checks those few months of the
regular season.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Now, while part of this and a lot of it, Hey,
it's financial for Nicole Yolkich, Right, Yo Kicch is a
bit of a different dude. Right, we have to feel
like we say that a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Clearly he's a.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Bit of a different dude. If the Nuggets stink next
year and they're not closer to a championship, I could
see NICOLEA. Yoki saying, Yeah, not gonna do it. I
gotta get some someplace else. We've topped out here. It's
not working because we built a championship team. Right, we
built a championship team, we won, and now what happened
the next year? We're not quite as good. We fired
(08:21):
the coach because the coach lost, The locker room couldn't
get along. We have a new coach in we made
some moves. Now. They made some moves to make Yokic happy.
They made a couple of moves this offseason to help
make Yolkic happy and maybe help the Nuggets get back
to the top of the Western Conference. But if they
have another down year next year, this is gonna turn
into a Yannis Buck situation, and Jokicic will have no
(08:42):
qualms about saying, yeah, this as far as I can get.
I gotta get someplace else. But what about the money
leaving on the table? Uh, I have a lot of money.
He's not Lebron where it's all I want to make
sure because that's gonna be part of my legacy to
the NBA. Was like, yes, I'm making this money, I'll
want to make more money. But if the Nuggets don't win,
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he's not gonna sit here and say, yeah, I'll re
up another three four years and you're gonna give me off.
I'll get a lot of money from somebody else where
I can go win, whether it's the Lakers, whether it's
the Knicks, whether it's someplace elf Hey, And maybe the
Lakers are gonna wintch. Maybe Deondreyton has a big year
this year, and all of a sudden, he's a big bargain,
and the Lakers say, hey, okay, hey, Nico Harrison just
started working for the Nuggets. Hey how about Ayton for
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straight up for yokicch Well, make the money work, let's
do it, and it happens.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, Aidan's a big bargain. As long as the other
team is paying this salary's sure this is true. Ahead, Well,
you reference the Lakers though, because Lebron kind of ruined
it in the Lakers fans mind that as they kind
of playing fantasy basketball, thought, okay, we've got Luca. If
we just had Lebron's money to play with this summer,
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what could we do? What kind of machinations could occur? Obviously,
anybody like Keiannis keeps getting brought up on the show,
or you bring up Yokich, Now, anybody but he down
the line that's going to command and deserve to command.
A massive salary like that could be put in that slot.
Salary lineups and NBA teams, they're all about slots. That's
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why people acquire expiring contracts. You know, he was overpaid
at five million. Why do I want him? Because his
contract that could expire you, and that creates a slot
for whoever we want next. This is another and I
know Lebron doesn't care. He's not the GM anymore with
the Lakers, but he kind of ruined this for the
Lakers in what they can do this offseason by opting in.
(10:34):
I see why he opted in, And if you and
I were in that spot, we probably would have done
the same thing. Yep, but that would have been a
great amount of cash.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
To work with. Now. The thing is right to think
because we mentioned DeAndre Ayton, who met the media today
for the first time as a Laker. Just I know
your stars in your eyes thinking about body. Is Wenby
going to be that guy making a Probably Wenby making
one hundred million a year and biting five years. But
Aton met the media today and he's been the big
improvement to the team in the off season. Right. He
drafted the same year as Luka Doncic, and clearly he
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has the talent bit of a knucklehead. But I gotta
say I liked everything he had to say today where
he said, listen, my time in Portland. It was challenging,
there were things that happened, but I'm so excited to
be here. I know the Lakers want to win a championship.
Now I understand if you don't win, people forget about you,
which is a really big lesson. It's really made my
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you know, I open my eyes when I heard him
say that, Hey, if you don't win in the NBA,
people forget about it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
People don't remember it and won't remember Tracy McGrady and
what great player he was, And I want people to
remember me.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
He talked about Luca looking ripped and shredded, losing weight
in the off season, like this is the honeymoon season
for eight and this is a I liked it a
week ago when the Lakers did this, I like it
even more now. No, granted it's words, it's not on
the court, but first year, new organization ate and understands, Hey,
if I want to get paid again, I really got
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to come up big because this two years, sixteen million
dollars ain't working for me twenty six. So if he
plays well, he'll in a year or two he'll get
a big contract somewhere. So you have the motivation and
some of the presence of the things he said today.
I feel really good about it, I said, Man, he
might show up and maybe things are gonna be a
little bit different than the Lakers with Luca this year
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because he's got that big threat that Ayton's going to be,
and he's back to being the guy he was earlier
in his career.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It's the type of player that the Lakers probably would
have wanted to have at the trade deadline a year ago,
except it wasn't possible for him specifically, because I need
to repeat, the Lakers are able to get this guy
right now because the old team is paying.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I mean, come on, he had a game. He said,
I can't get there because the roads are too icy.
I can't get out of my house. Really, you can't
walk somewhere. But he's not from here. We'll send some
we'll send a car for you. Just walk to the corner.
We'll send a car. No, sorry, I can't make it.
It's too icy.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Like wow, okay, a chance to pick up a seven
footer who had sixteen points a game in his career.
I mean it was drafted that highly with a reason.
This is a good pickup. I mean he doesn't even
have to play every game for.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It to be a good pickup. It's a risk, but
it's a good risk. It's a good gamble. And everything
I've seen the last week, I mean, I really like it. Right.
I know this is not because I want jj Reddick
to like me. He hates me. But like, but there's
certain Portland this was laid out for you. There's there's
certain gambles where I go, yeah, boy, that's really more
of a we're hoping rather than it's a gam But
(13:25):
this is this is a hey, it's kind of free.
We're not going crazy for money. He's replaceable, his contract
is tradable, whatever it's going to be. But if we
wind up hitting it with him, it's gonna be a
really big deal and we have a potential all star
caliber type player if it works. And again it's a risk,
but there's good risks and bad risks. This is a
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great So this is a great risk. And again when
he said when he said today, if you lose, people
forget about you, Like that's not something you normally hear
from guys about hey, about wanting to win, Like, hey,
I understand I gotta win. And where I've been I
haven't had the intro, I haven't had the impetus I had.
It's been challenging because I'm a couple of places where
we haven't won. We're supposed to win in Phoenix, didn't happen.
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We didn't win in Portland. I don't want to disappear
off the map. And yeah, I want to get paid
in a year or so. So, I mean, have that
was a real that was a real deep thing to
say it at the press conference about you don't win.
They forget it bout She's like, oh, and he hasn't
been nothing either.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I mentioned the career numbers and he was also in
the NBA finals not that long ago. Out of the way.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I mean, he'll get a hundred million dollars a year
in twenty thirty. Yeah, it's probably gonna be Winny.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We didn't mention that there was another guy at that
press conference.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I don't know if he's going to be taking over
for the guy who left for the Rockets, but Jake
Lauravia is now from Sacramento, a member of the Lakers.
They have desperately needed two things, and they at least
attempt to address them with these two guys. Is they
needed a big and they needed it the last few
months of last year. And somebody tall who get cho
from outside or they just lost.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, so been both of them in a year for
jokichs your trade open your white why not good? Why
did you make it happen there? It is? Hey, when
you hear when you hear Josh Cranky say, hey, if
the things don't go, we have one bad injury. We're
talking about trading fifteen. Are you right? Really? One bad
injury and you're trading yo kitchen? Okay? One? Really, that's
how bad your team has built. One bad injury you're trading.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think you're right on the name. And you didn't
even realize it. He's gonna go from Josh Crockey to
Josh Cranky. So going at the at the Nuggets, by
the way. Two things to update in baseball before we
break is that the A's have homered again. That's five
homers in three innings at the Triple A Park there
sharing this year. A's ten to nothing over the Atlanta
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Braves as they start the fourth inning, and they have
called it the White Sox home game is dumb. They
called it. In the seventh inning, Toronto Blue Jays six
to one. The final. Toronto has won ten games in
a row. There's still three and a half up on
the Yanks in the AL East?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Coming up next? Have the Yankees just seen their chance
to win the Al East go away? Are the Dodgers
really in a lot of trouble? Are the Tiger's really
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pal Morosie. What's happening about? How are you?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Jason and Steve? My friends? Good evening. I do come
to you from the great state of Michigan, which is
just among us friends, the single best place in the
world to spend the summer. Just don't tell you know
what we are lakes for all of a sudden, the
overcrowded with people realizing the sheer beauty of our states.
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So it's just among us, just among us friends. But
I will say this, the baseball team is pretty great too.
I was there with my family tonight watching the game,
so I got to be a spectator, which was a
lot of fun, and it was a bit of a
classic Tigers game from this season. They're down to nothing early,
they tie it, and then Zach mckinsrey's run around the
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bases like nobody else can, and all of a sudden,
Cole Keith comes up hit the two runover. Then the
bullpen shuts them down and the Tigers win. It's been
an amazing formula. This is not just a good start,
it's not just a charming story. This is a really
really good baseball team. Not maybe the brand name team
with the Dodgers, even the Mets, but they play really
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good baseball and it's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Are they really this good? JP are? Are they really
this good? Or they they're peaking now? They're a really
good team. Are they really the best team in baseball?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, so here's what I would say, they've they've played
the best to this point.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Now.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I really that the ALE Central is not the National
League West. I get that, but in terms of their
execution and the way they're playing the game, there's not
a better team in the sport right now. There really isn't,
and they're doing the little things very well. And also
look at it and realize that Kerry Carpenter is not
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right now on the active roster. They spend fifteen million
dollars on Alex Cobb and he's yet to throw a
pitch for them this season, and who knows if he
actually will. So not everything has gone right for them.
They've had some injuries too, but aj Hinch and Chris Feeder,
they're pitching coach really know how to get the most
out of this group. And what's happening with the Tigers
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now is players who have had mixed results elsewhere are
coming to Detroit and getting better. And guys like Flaherty,
who helped the Dodgers win a World Series last year,
decided to come back. It's a really good culture with
They've got I think a bone of f I'd star
in Riley Green. And do they need one more bat
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to win the World Series? Probably? There are some spots
you could argue, maybe one more outfitter, maybe one more infielder.
But the way in which this lineup is very well
balance left and right, switch hitter, there's just a nice
it's a nice team. So right now I'm going to
say it, they're the best team in baseball, and it's
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up to the rest of the group to prove me
wrong or prove the Tigers otherwise. At some point between
now and the end of October.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Tigers won tonight. If they win the next game, they'll
be sixty and thirty four this year. But I will
discuss what's going on in the Al East. Toronto with
a tenth straight win. Wow, you know the Yankees did
win at home and in fact Judge homerd and Stanton Homer,
so I can pass along the updated Sarah Langstead. They
are a Yankees record when those two sluggers Homer in
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the same game, it's only forty six and seven sen Kevinunreil.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's also every game that Stanton has played since he
signed with the Yankees, fifty three games. That's all he's played.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
A bit of our listeners, that's a joke, Jesus, and
we continue.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They are still three and a half back in the
red hot Toronto Blue Jays, who've not only had, to
say the least, a great month as we head into
the All Star break. They've got a couple of starting
pitchers and it seems like they've found a closer and
they have all stars in the lineup. I mean the
Toronto Blue Jays, not just for a couple of weeks,
are looking like a playoff team here.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think they are a playoff team. I would be
stunned if they missed the playoffs. At this point in time,
they are a playoff team. Vladim Mergero Junior. We still
haven't even seen the best of him yet. And look
at how well they're playing. The man that's gotten them going,
in my view is Boba Schett and the way that
boas played of late. He's the guy and you reference
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Sarah's statistic on stage and a judge when Bishett is going.
He is the catalyst for the Toronto Blue Jays. He
is the one that really gets this team going. And
remember we talked a second ago about the Tigers not
getting a lot out of Alex Cobb, or actually nothing
out of Alex Cobb. The Jays have had a minimal
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production from Anthony Santander, and look at how they're playing now.
In the case of the Jays, they've had a really
good season, an all Star season from Alejandro Kirk. They
have had a young player and Addison Barger look like
a budding star. And crucially they have gotten George Springer
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the amount of DH days that he needs to be productive,
and they're being rewarded now with his amazing bounce back season.
So for me in every way, this Jays team, maybe
they've been a bit of a revelation or a surprise
over the last month. But can I call them a
sustainable surprise because that's what I'm seeing from right now.
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They are a sustainable surprise with some veterans of the rotation.
Health with the pitching might be the one thing that
I'll be a little bit worried about, and maybe they
need to add to a rental starter, But guess what,
those types of guys are typically out there and available,
and I would trust the Jays and Pete Walker to
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get the best out of a move that they might
make here at some point in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
John Paul, can the Yankee still win the East or
is their best chance to do it coming gone?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I think it certainly still win the division. This thing
is not over yet by anything.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You've given up a lot a lot of real estate
over just the last three weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, they've given up a lot of real estate. They're
a team and I know that this will be said
by Yankee fans and I'm sure the media a lot
in New York, but this is a team that needs
to make a trade. They they put Jazz Chisholm back
to second base. There's a gap in this, I think
in the lineup and also in the rotation potentially for
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some impact. So we're about to find out how serious
the Yankees are about making a run at this, and
Brian Cashman's going to have to I think if he
really wants to put together a team that can get
back to the World Series, you got to realize it
and compare side by side last year's team, which wasn't
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good enough to win it, and this year's team and
last year's team, which wasn't good enough to win it.
It's a lot better than this year's team. Of course,
last year you had Soto. Last year you had a fuller,
healthier season of Stanton, last year you had Garret Cole.
There's last year you didn't necessarily have the up and
down bullpen that we've seen out of the Yankees at
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different times this season. So there's some worries there for
the Yankees, no doubt, But this is a team that
I believe has the capability to make a big time trade,
and now it's gonna require a little bit of I
don't know if ruthless is the right word, but they're
going to have to be quite unsympathetic the way that
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the teams have put together because there's a lot of
really popular players, some of them are homegrown, but it's
not been good enough. They still have the best player
in the world though, and Aaron Judge the best hitter
at least, and now they need to find a way,
I think, to make a couple more moves to accentuate
the group. I think Cash we'll do it, but there's
no doubt now the task lies ahead for him.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
About the San Diego Padres, amazingly, they're out of the
wild card picture at the moment. If the season ended tonight,
the Padres would not make the playoffs. It astounds me.
And they're scoreless, bottom of the seventh right now against Arizona.
It astounds me that they're not better because they're a
little top heavy in the lineup. If someone like Jake Cronenworth,
which just better with the bat, I think it would
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change the whole bottom of the lineup. Instead, they get
in these lulls and low scoring and really have to
rely on the pitching and the great bullpen they do
have with a couple of All stars at the back end,
they can get better, and don't they need to get
better trade deadline.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
This month, offense has to be the thing, and for them, Steve,
it was a very welcome return for you, Darvish to
come back, that was great. I agree with you. And
Corona Worth is someone who I still believe there's some
upside with him, but there just hasn't been enough production
consistently to return to that star all star level that
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we saw him have earlier on in his career. I agree.
I think he's probably the X factor for them going forward,
and they can't rely always on Tatis and Machado to
carry the way because there are other lineups in this
National League right now, the Dodgers, the Cubs come to mind,
the Mets, the Phillies, and even with all the Mets injuries,
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I still think they have a bit of a deeper
lineup right now than the Pots do, so I'm with you.
I think they have to make a potentially a very
difficult decision, which could be would you move a Dylan
cease for a bat So basically, would you give up Cease,
let's say, to the Chicago Cubs, and bring back either
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a young Owen Casey or one of their major league
outfielders to make it all work out. That's the kind
of a trade that I'm sure AJ Preller, who is
one of the more imaginative executives in the game, will
give a lot of thought to potentially executing here in
the next several weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
All Right, Lastly, John Paul, the Dodgers lose again. Clayton
Kershaw pitch as well. They follow the Brewers three to one.
This is five losses in a row. Is this one
of those? Hey, every team has one of these in
them over the course of the season. War, Is there
something the Dodgers need to worry about?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I would say this, they are a great but flawed team.
They we have to remember how last year's playoffs went.
They're one loss away from from getting bounced in the
first round, and who knows at that point what happens
to the roster, to the coaching staff if that had
been the result. So they are beatable. They have looked
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very beatable in recent days. I'm gonna say this, I
am still confident that they have the best chance of
anybody to win the National League. And part of the
reason is I think Mookie Bets is gonna have a
better second half. We've got to remember how his season started.
I feel like with the with the illness and just
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being behind, I think he needs the All Star break
in a in a very serious way, just from a
standpoint of his swing and getting everything locked back into place.
We're gonna see a better Mookie Bets in the second half.
And they also believe they're gonna get their their pitching
back healthier that they've got glass Now coming back tomorrow.
So I'm I am. I'm actually still pretty bullish on
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the Dodgers long term, but by that I mean being
able to make it to the World Series again this season.
But there are some questions that we have to see
answered by their guys who are coming back, and that
starts tomorrow night with Tyler Glassnow, who's honestly, guys going
to struggle to be as effective as Ryan Pepio has
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been for the race. Pepio started the game that I
was at tonight, he was outstanding, and I think it's
going to be a very challenging thing for glass Now
to be able to equal the production of the man
that was traded for Glassdow to become a Los Angeles Dodger.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John Morosi.
Next time you see him with his family at a
Tigers game, say hey, tell Stirnsy. I said, hi, Joy.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I know I know you from the Jesus Smith Show
featuring Steve the Sager. I know you. I've heard your voice.
And there may in fact be people driving over from
the ballpark and Detroit listening to this Converse station right now.
That is the beauty of radio.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And and uh, I wouldn't be doing my job if I did.
And tell you next time you talk to Sternsy that
Alonso contract, John Paul, it's just getting more and more
expensive every time.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
David it now take it.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Anybody that fun, We'll talk to you next week. There
goes John Paul Morosi. I'll tell you know, of all
the Dodgers players, right, obviously we talk about Otani the
most because it's show Heyo Tawny and Will Smith is
having a great So he's a third in the National
League and hitting or fourth ANAL.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Catcher hitting that well in betting average.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's like it's like seeing Johnny Bench again. Uh. Freddie
Freeman obviously the coming off.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Lugging largely for the last month and still has been
a three hundred hitter much of the year.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But Betts has been a guy where we've kind of
forgotten about him. The Dodger have asked him to do
everything play out field, play, second base, play, shortstop. He's
been struggling. He's a guy I tell you, John Paul
big Bowl prediction there, He's gonna have a huge second
half that would cover up a lot of ills. Because
when you're, you know, the all aroun player that Mooki
Betts is, I mean, you need him to come back
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and be Mooky Betts.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It's been six years now with this team since he
came over to the Dodgers, and it is so obvious
that when Mooki Betts is on, the whole lineup is different.
He really does mean something to the Dodgers order. And
it has not been good offensively for him, not just
not consistent, overall not good. And I said this at
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the beginning of the season. I'll say it again now.
I am not convinced that the Dodgers are a better
team by moving Mookie Betts too shortstop. Yes, it fills
a hole defensively, but he was a goal glove right
fielder I think five six times in his career. He's
not a goal glove shortstop. He's now a two fifty
hitter as a short step and they are really scrambling
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defensively to piece together the outfield guys in his absence.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Steve de Seger has more on the Dodgers than what
happened today, And speaking of Pede Alonzo, another home run
all that more with what's trending right now, and maybe
a home run.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
For the Phillies to discuss as well. By the way,
the Dodgers beat writer Bill Plunkett points out that for
the second year in a row, the Dodgers are staggering
into the break. Last year it was a one to
five road trip at Philly and Detroit. Right now, the
Dodgers have lost a fifth straight game, lost three to
one at Milwaukee. The winning pitcher, Jacob Missowski, great tall,
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young starter, gave up the leadoff homer to Otani shoe
heey Otani with thirty one homers this year leads the
National League, and then the kid struck out twelve in
six innings and got the win save number twenty one
for Trevor McGill. The Dodger offense went four for thirty
one with fifteen strikeouts tonight, the loss to Clayton Kershawe,
who had been four and oh he gave up two
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runs in six innings of work. What a comeback for
the Mets. At Baltimore about an hour rain delay. At
the start, the Mets were trailing and in the eighth
got four runs to tie it on two homers, and
Juan Soto in the tenth hits the go ahead single,
his third hit of the ninth. Mets win at Baltimore
seven to sixth.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Remember when he was miserable and wanted to be a Yankee?
And those are the days, weren't they?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
No, I don't, I don't remember that that was this year,
I thought. Meanwhile, the Phillies are trying to hold onto
their one game lead over the Mets in the NL East.
The Phillies were trailing at San Francisco one nothing going
to the sixth, tied it with a run in the sixth,
and Kyle Schwarber has hit a two run homer in
the seventh. It is three to one. Pills now bottom
of the seventh in the Bay Area. Schwarber, who's batting
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about two fifty by the way, hits his twenty eighth
home run of the season. The A's are winning ten
to one. At the end of five against the Atlanta Braves.
The A's have hit five home runs already, four of
them in the first couple innings. The bad news A's
all star shortstop Jacob Wilson left hit by a pitch
on the hand. It is a one nothing Padres lead.
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Now They have just scored bottom of the seventh to
get the advantage on the Arizona Diamondbacks, who have just
two hits. Tonight, Rangers lead in Anaheim eleven to one
over the Angels bottom of the seventh. Long rain delay
at the start at Saint Louis, so they're only in
the bottom of the sixth. Cardinals three to two over
the Nationals. Cleveland has won in ten innings on a
grand slam off closer Josh Hayter ten six at Houston.
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Kansas City with a run bottom of the ninth sent
Pittsburgh to a fifth straight loss four to three. Minnesota
beat the Cubs and showed to Emonaga eight to one.
Imonago only allowed two runs in six innings, then a
reliever gave up three homers. Toronto won it's tenth straight.
Yankees over Seattle, Judge and Stanton with homers. Cal Raley
of the Mariners hit his thirty six. Detroit won it's
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fifth in a row, Boston it's fifth straight win, and
Miami won twelve to two at Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve, O, Jason Smith, Steve
de Sager and from Mike Hartman. Coming up next an
All Star Draft from today that I wish I was
in charge of because boy, what I have made it
way more fun than it was and it actually was
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(35:03):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is Steve de
Sager and from Mike Harmon, And uh, you know, tonight's
Steve kind of a missed opportunity because you know, the
WNBA had their All Star Draft tonight.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
That's right, the team captains selecting players onto their own rosters.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Caitlin Clark and the FISA Collier were making the selections.
You know, we've seen this in the NBA. They've done it,
and I really wanted to see some a couple of
crazy things happen. But you know, just seeing the way
the draft, you know, shakes out, I want, Yeah, I
sit here and go, yeah, this kind of shakes out
along the lines of who's pro and who's pro Caitlin Clark,
(35:47):
and who's anti Caitlin Clark. And who's not on Caitlin
Clark's team, and who's on the other team and who's
not Caitlin Clark's coach. Yeah, the All Star game that
got switched. Because here's the thing. First of all, I
really wanted Kitlyn to draft Angel Rees number one, like
that would have been. That would have been awesome, just
for the record.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
When they came to the section where the reserves that
were named last weekend were selected, Caitlyn Clark went through
three selections, not taking Angel Rees, and then she was
taken by the other cat.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I mean, they could sit here and say we're cool
with each other. You know they're not. You know, they
absolutely can't stand each other. They want to beat each
other's brains in, but they both understand that if we
go over the top of our rivalry. It's not good
for either of us. Caitlyn Clark look is more popular.
Angel Reese is popular too. She's having a really good season, right,
She's her basketball's been doing the talking for the last
(36:39):
few weeks. She's had a terrific season. But there's no
way these two really want to play in the same team,
especially after last year the big Djna Carrington foul and
the Kennedy Carter foul and Angel Rees hugging Kennedy Carter
after it was over. Like, Okay, I think that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I think that was it supporting a teammate for the
hard foul.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, I think that was it for the Caitlin Clark.
Can Angel Reese really get along? Right? I really wanted
her to do that, but clearly that was never gonna,
never gonna happen. The other thing is, okay, so she's
gonna play for Cheryl Reeve. Okay, shol Reeve Gray, Okay.
Olympic coach Cheryl Reeve is the one that didn't want
any part of Caitlyn Clark talk about Caitlin Clark last year,
(37:19):
didn't want any part of conversations about her for the Olympics.
She was the Olympics coach. And I'm saying, huh, she's
gonna be playing for uh, for Show. That's gonna be
interesting because you know, Cheryl Reeve is she is the
coach that has been the most outspoken that I would
say is the most jealous and most uh anti Clark.
And what happened. Caitlyn Clark said, Hey, we're switching our coaches,
(37:41):
so Nafisa Collier could play for Show Reeve, her coach
in Minnesota. So it seems like, hey, this is great
because look, Kitlyn Clark drafted all her teammates with the
fever right to play with her. And I get that.
I understand that, but hey, no, I don't want to
like how much of that is. Yeah, okay, you can
play for your coach, but I also don't want to
play for her because I know because and that is
(38:02):
not happening. So I have the team I want. I
got people that that that I respect, that that are okay.
The people that don't respect me that I don't like, Yeah,
you're on the other team. That's exactly how that changed
and the way this coach swap happened. They said in
advance of tonight's the captains selecting their rosters for this
month's w NBA All Star Game. Okay, as soon as
you make all your selections, then you can make trades.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
It has to be a one for one trade. It
has to be a bench player for bench player or
so forth. And it turns out that trade they make,
they swap the head coaches. So the New York head
coach and her staff will be leading Caitlyn Clark's team
in Indianapolis. Clark City worn be sorry, show.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Reef, you go back, you go back, you go, you
go back, you coach the other team. It's okay, I mean,
and I get why there were no trades because if
look in the NBA, if they you know, doing that,
it's one thing, But how much of this would be
Oh why did Caitlyn Clark trade this player? I think
there was never any any thought of trading players unless
it was I want to get my teammate, you picked somebody.
(39:06):
But clearly they had conversations about this before they knew
how it was going to go. There was no way
either player was going to make a trade because then
it becomes, oh, Caitlin Clark doesn't like this player, why
would she trade this? So that was never going to happen.
But the one trade though, Hey, I'll trade the coach
so I don't get to play for and we can
we can hide it under the guise of you get
to go play for your head coach.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yes, because it very much makes sense on paper that
the captain Minnesota player trades for her Minnesota coach to
coach her in the All Star Game this month, and
there's another Minnesota player on that same roster. So this
all works out swimmingly. And even if the Minnesota coach
is correct that I never had anything against Caitlyn Clark
(39:46):
and anything, it's undeniable. The part that you said where
she didn't want really any of that conversation occurring last summer. Yeah,
I do think by the way, it was good for
Caitlin Clark just to take a summer off finally, the
way that you know, playing sp yet again for Iowa
and going straight into.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
You'd rather played in the Olympics, though, I kind of
think she wants to try to get five or six.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Back Bowl not too you know, ironically, she takes the
summer off and now she's missing five games with this injury.
In five games with that injury, she's due back tomorrow, Clark.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
This is like when you're picking teams in the school
yard to play a game, and you said, I'm just
gonna pick my friends. I'm just gonna but the other
players are good. Yeah, but I like that guy.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Clark's first pick was her Indiana teammate.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I'm picking my friends. You pick your friends, will go play.
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