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your support. Mike and I love putting this car out
for you every single night. A quick note from Major
League Baseball another one. Maybe the Dodgers are gonna be
okay in the long run. Max Munsey has just hit
another two run homer for the Dodgers bott of the
third inning. Monsey now is two for two, two home
runs for RBI. He is on pace to hit I
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believe seven home runs tonight. All right, so two every
three innings. Oh, six home runs. He has unpaced six
home runs tonight for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well, they should have more hello kiddy giveaways. Yeah, and
Mookie Betts snapped the zero for twenty two slump that
Steve Dizeger gave.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That was Mookie Betts's first hit since April twenty third.
If you and I goes way back, Yeah, that's something
for me. That's fuzzy mass yeah something.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Now, seriously, there's lots of hero song. We'll get to
the big quarterback story a second, But shout out to
the Kraken mascot who in a viral video today that
is really shocking to see.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The Kraken ascot had a close call with a brown
bear during a promotional video shoot in Alaska. So some
Seattle crack and players are out doing this fly fishing
promotional shoot for the team and the yeah the one, yeah,
oh yeaho Tiascar Hernandez with a home run Tascar. Yeah,
it's home run night at Dodger Stadium. Uh so the
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Dodgers now leaded five to two.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
He needed that too. He'd been in a slump. So
it's starting to come out of it the last couple
of days.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So that all took Max Monsey back. And look what happened.
Max Munsey, he's the he's the real MVP. Max Munsey's
your MVP.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
About that Hello Kitty?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So the well that is true? This could be the yeah,
you know, you could the Hello Kitty could be your
grimaces in Frostburg. Well it's hello kitty, body bag night. Yeah, yeah,
that sounds really weird. Cross body like leg it's law
and order, unzipped the body. Yep, that's hello Kitty. Goodbye Kitty.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Taken away? That would be a great jerry or back
one line? Hell should I say goodbye kitty? All right,
there we go, and then he starts singing a song
from Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Cracking players including forward John Hayden who's in this video
and this video that went viral earlier today, and Bowie,
who is the crack and mascot, were fly fishing outing
in Katmine National Park. This is part of a big
trip promoting youth hockey. So basically what it is there's
a big promotional video being shot. They're fly fishing. The
mascot is there in the middle of a river when
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a big brown bear approaches, and you can see in
the video they're going, Okay, hey, guys, we gotta move.
We got a bear, gotta move, gotta move, and and
Hayden gives up the the Rodden reel and they all
start walking, not slowly, but not quickly across the river
because you know, the bear is here looking for salmon
or some kind of food. And I'm watching this and
the crack and mascot has the closest call because obviously
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the mascot is dressed like the kraken and trying to
walk through a river, and the bear starts moving towards it.
And there's at one point where the bear starts really
scampering towards the mascot, and I can't get over the
fact the mascot just continues to walk and doesn't panic
and run, because I know the whole thing. People say, hey,
if a bear approach, you don't run, walk, make yourself big,
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and luckily you're dresses a mascot, so the bear might think, oh, hey,
I can really, I could go fight this guy.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
This dude is really big.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But I but it really takes so much self control
at that moment when you can hear the bear splashing
run and you know you're the last one, like in
a zombie movie where hey, you know everybody else is
really fast, you're the one slow guy.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The zombies are gonna guy, I can hear the zombies
behind me. Man, they're gonna catch me.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He doesn't run, he continues to move it at a
steady pace. I would have at some point I would
have said, blank, you guys, man, I'm running.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I don't care. I don't have to be faster than
everybody faster.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Than I don't know that you're faster than an NHL player,
especially if you're dressing a mascot uniform. But if you're
the one that runs, hey, okay, Like I really I
can't get over the presence of mind that Bowie or
the guy playing Bowie had playing Roosevelt Bowie, the guy
playing Sam Bouie, the guy playing Bowie had there to
not get up and run, to not say because I
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know at some point I would have said, okay, I know,
you tell me I got, but no, I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
That really is something.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Here's the USA Today Sports Twitter account quote, charging bear
startled Seattle crack and mascot Booie And for John Hayden,
true to mascot code, Booie makes no sound while moving
quickly away from the he upheld the code of the mascots.
He is now exalted among them.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Here's the thing. Here's the thing, and this is what
makes it even scarier is the park that they were
in is home to the annual Fat Bear Week context
Oh Good, which celebrates the bears as they fatten up
for the winner. So basically, the bears are showing up
to eat and now mainly it's salmon, but hey, hey,
the bears are still showing up to eat.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Man. That makes it even scarier.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, but it's like here, the last couple of weeks
have been a lot of reports we're broadcasting the larger
Los Angeles area, a lot of reports of the juvenile
great white sharks in their migration right up and down
the coast. Well, guess what, every once in a while,
what do you spot a fifteen to eighteen footer? So
they had one up in Santa Monica, doesn't mean that
they're coming anywhere near you, but it means you're probably
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gonna be uncomfortable. Likewise, here, he's coming for salmon, but
I don't need to find out if he's got ill.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
In tench TJ.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Clearly showing up for salmon might leave with a kraken DJ.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
There was another story about a police officer and getting
cracked and whatever, which.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Was a who he didn't want to get cracking open
by a bear as he ran across the river TJ.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
So they now take this into a tie in for
what was it for the almonds or pistachios or whatever?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah cragging, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I get cracked with tough acting tonight. So again, wow,
all kinds of respect for who was in that mascot
not not running away and everybody gets away and the
bear kind of lost interest. I mean, that's that's really presidentive.
That's that's the person I want playing quarterback for the Jets,
not justin fields, who's scattershot, throwing the ball all over
the field. Eight for his last thirty six in camp
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eight for thirty six.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You know, I'm sure he didn't have an incompletion that
practiced before.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He's had an awful last three days at practice, and
the Jets big headline today they said, hey, patience with
Justin Fields, right, patience with Justin Field. It's early all right, Now,
this is what being a Jet fan is like, in
in in this moment right now with you. You want
to be patient, Okay, an organization. Now we haven't sniffed
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the playoffs. Longest drought in North American.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Sports in a minute. Yeah, my whole forties, no playoffs, right, mine,
tyge decade decade? Right? But patient o? Did it goes
slowly or quickly? Ohoa went fast and went slow and
all kinds of speeds. It's like being tortured by Jigsaw.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So I get that look, and I understand what makes
Justin Fields the quarterback he is you're not gonna see
in seven on seven is because running the football is
a big thing. He's gonna run for a thousand yards.
That's part of what you don't see that. Okay, So
I understand that, But I keep going back to this again.
What if I told you about Justin Fields every day
is this, Hey, here's Monday, And again you have to
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rely on what people see at practice because you know
you're not there seeing it. But you know the people
I followed and the people I talked to on social media. Hey,
Justin Fields, great day today, man seven out of eleven
and drills two touchdowns to Garrett Wilson through a nice
ball into the corner. Here Arion Smith is the big
breakout star camp and he's catching everything.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Next day, whoa Justin Fields two for ten, sailing the
ball over the heads of many wide receivers. Right, this
is this is what it is. One day, Hey, Justin
Fields looks pretty good. The next day he looks awful.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
And it's not.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And when they say be patient, he's grasping the offense. Yes,
it is his fifth offense in the last fo or
fourth offense in the last four years. And I understand that,
but this is not I don't know where to go
with the read. This is not all Hey, I see
this and I scamp. This is I'm sailing the ball
over somebody's head. And this is seven on seven. This
is when it's supposed to be a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I don't put so much stock for quarterbacks that you
look great in seven on sevens beginning of summer practice.
But I put a lot of stocket if you look terrible, right, Okay,
maybe like hey, JJ McCarthy's post, he has really good
in Minnesota red flag man. Dude, how do you not
look good in the seven on sevens. You've had a
year with the offense. Now, yes, you've been rehabbing, but
you've had some time, right. Sam Darnold came in right
away and just said, hey, Justin right here, catch it.
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So I look at Justin Fields. I know I have
no expectation for him anymore. I have no expectation is Shue.
I get it's the first it's the we're getting the
first game of the year in the preseason. But this
is kind of who Justin Fields is. This is who
he's been. He's been a scattershot passers and tie career.
But when he runs and runs well okay. But at
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the same time, I can convince myself into thinking, hey,
he's gonna be They're gonna be a run heavy team.
They have a great offensive line, the defense is gonna
be good. I like the culture. I like everything Aaron
Glenn is setting up with the Jets, and it may
be a year away from really seeing that the Jets
become a really good team, but so now I can
talk myself into Hey, even if Justin Field sucks, we
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could be nine to eight, stay in the playoff race
all the way through the season, and I'm buying back
in again when ninety seconds ago I told you how
bad Justin Fields was and I don't expect anything from
him this year.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
This is what being a Jet fan is like. Man, well,
you had to transfer.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Your energy somewhere because you've somehow come to resolution and
some level of equilibrium with the Mets as like, uh,
you know what, they're actually better than we expect. No, no,
they're a disaster. Lean into the hate, but no, what
are you doing. You're transferring it here and you're still
trying to sell hope.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I mean to you, what it is the fatal list Jets,
Mets Knicks guy.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Hey, Well, because it's still summer, so it's still there.
There's still possibilities. But here's the thing is I can
at the same time, I can go from I expect
nothing from him because passing that he's still you're in
the league. You're having a rookie type training camp. Yeah, okay,
for a guy's been in league four years, you're having
a rookie type training camp where one day you look good,
the next day the defense bears down and suddenly you
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look terrible. But I mean, I mean three practice of
row eight for thirty six throwing the fuck the defense,
Come on, man, But there's no you're not getting hit,
there's no pressure, you're not allowed to get hit.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
A lot of this is no pads like this is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Still you look this bad like this is how rookies practice.
In rookie quarterbacks. I get it from JJ McCarthy. I'm nervous,
but I get it for JJB. I get it for
Shador Sanders. I get it for all these rookies. You've
been in league four years. Man, when you're in shoulder
pads and helmets and and and a, you should be
looking better in seven on sevens. Man, you should be
looking bad. You shouldn't be two for ten, you should
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be two for anything.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh no, it's a disaster, there's no question about it.
Absolutely abject failure. But still this point, we're gonna run.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
If we have three running backs, you're gonna take football
back to the nineteen forties.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Eight thousand rushing attempts. We're gonna every game sixteen to ten.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, I've been working on some of the the iwuanch
reflex stuff. And I chuckle at the consensus rankings that
have Justin Fields as the number ten quarterback, but we'll
push that aside for another time. A couple of things
that to just kind of round this out, Yes, seven
on seven's early concerns culture and what he's building there.
From all the reports of the camp as a whole,
(12:36):
you have to get a little bit excited about one
thing we do know, at least at the present, he
doesn't have any top wide receiver that are gonna be
suspended like we found out for JJ McCarthy, who's losing
Addison for three games.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, no, so there's that. So there is that.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So you know, we look, I gotta go positivity. You
paid the guys that you think are really good. Yeah yeah,
and now you're moving forward. But you got a great
wide receiver, got a great tight end, and I think
you're okay. I think I think you're a little bit better.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Shame banged up though, I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I mean four years and he looks like a rookie man.
Four years, he looks like a rookie.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
This is like, come on, man, he's learning exit.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How about a Fresco exit strolling dome yet learning how
to throw in complete passes?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
That's working out great?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Coming up next?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
How close are the Yankees to making a big panic move?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And maybe moving.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
On from Aaron Boone all the big baseball news coming
up next? What does John Paul Morosi think of our
idea of it? Jeter should come in and manage the Yankees?
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So how close are the Yankees depressing the panic button?
Are the Red Sox really the best team in baseball?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Joining us now?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I'm hotline for all the big one week post trade
deadline stories. A man who well, I want to give
him the nod because after a very difficult last twenty
four hours, he's joining us tonight. Because on MLB Network
last night, they put a pole in the field about
who the best JP of the night was, and the
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choices were JP Sears, who has since been sent back
down to the minors after last night, Jake Peevey, who
was in studio last night broadcasting from WILB Network, and
John Paul Morosi. And I think John Paul, I think
they did you wrong. You were the only one not
on the air, and I saw you came in third,
even though I voted for you multiple times to be
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the JP of the night last night. So I a
tough last day for you. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I appreciate it. It is a blessing to have great
friends like you and like Mike, appreciate your support. As
they say, vote early and often, and so I appreciated that.
The genesis, I'm not sure if you had caught this
part of the segment as to why my colleague Greg
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ham Singer was having so much fun. He basically, and
I don't even know whose idea it was still as
we have this conversation right now, but the MLB network
feed was playing over the main scoreboard and sounds system
at Chase Field, and so of course it's it's gonna
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be on a bit of a delay, just because of
the way that television works, and it was on about
a thirty second delay, which any of us have ever
done broadcasting. When you hear yourself on a one or
two second delay over a loudspeaker, it's moderately it's moderately problematic,
but you can just kind of get through it. You
just keep going. But when it's like thirty seconds, you
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you lose the plot very quickly. And about the second
answer I gave Greg could tell I mean, it was
all just kind of a joke, but there was a
moment there where I just had no idea if I
was speaking English, Italian, Spanish. I mean that was everything.
All my wires are getting crossed, so that that was
how I even came to be nominated for that award,
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even though so uh, if you go back and queue
it up, you will see just how utterly clueless I
was about what I was even saying uh on the air,
which was which I would generally not recommend that you
try this at home. But it was it was fun TV.
As I said at the outset of my little intro
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to the segment, I said, this is either going to
be great TV or such awful TV that it becomes
great TV one of the other. It's gonna be one
of the other. And I think it was probably the latter.
That I was so bad it was good. Uh, that's
the least what I hope it was.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So who do we make for the third JB Well,
we got JPV, we got JPC herees John Paul Geedny, No,
come on, we gotta have John Paul Morosi.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Come on, James Firesen, right, j is I mean, if
you want to go into other realms the great JP perise.
Of course, following there are some great jps JP more.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Yeah, a lot of yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I mean you got up, you were, you were on
the metal stand. I mean again, I voted for you
a couple of times. I'm sorry, I come from Chicago
multiple times.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna say that whenever all votes. The next
time we do this, I'm gonna speak with Amsinger and
make sure that all votes coming from the Fox Sports
radio studios count one hundred times the actual value. And
as long as we can do that, I like my chance.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All right, so let me bring you in. We'll start
off with what we've talked about a few minutes ago here. Actually,
it's been a big topic the last couple of nights
on the show. The Yankees lose again, they get shut
out by the Rangers. Aaron Judge comes back, it doesn't matter.
The Yankees are now at the point where they've given
up twelve games in the standings over the course of
the past five or six weeks. And we talked about
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this last night. The Yankees aren't gonna go quietly. And
if they don't turn things around, and they sit here
in the next couple of weeks and they go two
three games out of the wild card they'll get rid
of Aaron Boone. They'll do something because you can't bring
any players in because only one deadline. And the funny
thing is, is that, okay, if you're moving on from
Aaron Boone, Derek Jeter's been okay being critical of the
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Yankees over the course of the past few weeks and
critical of Aaron Boone.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I called Derek Jeter.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And say, Cap, you want to come in here for
the last five weeks of the season and help us out.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
What do you think JP?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I would doubt it. I would doubt.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I voted for you twice. You just said that's the
best idea ever.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I appreciate it. I see that now comes the time
in this segment where I just give you my honest answer.
And do I think that there is a chance that
Derek Jeter is managing the Yankees by the end of
this season? I would say highly, highly, unlikely, remote in
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the most remote possible realm. Now the separate question is
is is Aaron Boone in trouble here? And I think
the answer to that is no, not certainly, not yet.
There's just this team is not playing good baseball. And
I realized, listen, there are any number of circumstances that
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go on in internally that lead to coaches or managers
being in jeopardy. The way I see it, guys, there
is such stress and such turmoil with this team right
now that to bring in anyone unfamiliar with the dynamics
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right now, I think would be doing a disservice to everybody.
You're just now getting Aaron judged back. You're trying to
figure out how you're going to be able to utilize Stanton.
What are you going to do with Devin Williams who
gave it up again tonight. You acquired a reliever last week,
and you've already sent them down to the minor leagues.
I mean, it is complete turmoil right now. And when
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that's the case, you need familiar and not and not
just pulling additional panic levers. It's I get it. It's
it's not a good situation. They are still ever so
barely clinging to a postseason spot. And and you prefaced
it by saying that by next week, if they're three
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or you know, two or three games out of the
playoff spot, what do they do? Then it might be
a separate conversation because then you're there on the outside
looking in, I think is and again it's it's amazing
that I'm saying these words, but they got to just
see how how things go with the next few days,
getting Judge back in there and seeing if they can
find a way to just get some coherent play going.
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Again that that that last weekend against the Marlins, I
think really really made them look vulnerable because they just
were not playing good baseball and this and by the way,
the lack of fundamental found this there's a lot of
discussion right now about how much is it the manager's purview,
and I guess you could bench guys here and there,
but it's a fundamentally flawed team and that they don't
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do fundamental things well and have not since last year.
This was part of the reason why they lost the
Dodgers of the World Series, and it wasn't fixed. And
if you're not gonna all of a sudden become the
eighty five Cardinals overnight or the early the early aughts
Minnesota Twins, uh with with great fundamental play, it's just
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they're not that kind of a team. And that is
not the fault of Aaron Boone. No matter how many
calls are from the bench you can bench Jazz Chisholm. Okay, well,
I suppose you could do that, but it seems to
me that the issues with this team go far beyond
Jazz getting picked off in first base a couple of
days ago.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, I mean this is where Jeter can really help.
You could play a little bit of short and maybe
ob obp is still pretty high relative yet not a
bad thought.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
But I just I again, we have we have had,
we have we have offered many an idea in our
many conversations over the years, and including including my belief
the Lions will win every game twenty seven to fourteen.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I just don't think that it's quite gonna happen in
this fashion for the Yankees and their kids.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, we just went to the break glass in case
of emergency in a scenario here. So continuing with that,
Smith's walking around the studio is all calm collected, going, well,
we shouldn't even be anywhere close anyway, because of all
these injuries or whatever. Can the Mets do anything with
the roster has currently constructed to try to claw back
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against the fight and fills.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, the Phillies to me, have had the momentum now
and certainly that they bring in Joan Duran and his
entrance and the way that he's pitched so far has
given the Phillies a real swagger that they have not
had in a long time, especially in the late innings.
That their bullpen was the reason why they did not
win the World Series or get there in twenty twenty three,
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and even in twenty twenty two against the Astros, that
you could argue that they were a reliever or too
short in that World Series as well. There's to me
the Mets, and again another low scoring loss tonight. They
tried and I think made some decent upgrades of the deadline,
but you're right that they just have not been a
very healthy team this year in terms of what they
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thought they were going to get from montas Manaia at
different times. They just have not been able to get
consistency there. So I would be surprised if the Mets
win this division. I know that that's not what Jason
wats their right now, but I just think the Phillies,
look at the way Brandon Marsh's play, I think another
big start tonight from Taiwan Walker, the Phillies to me,
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seem to have all the momentum, the Mets can still
certainly make it to the playoffs, and they can win
a round or two, but it just does not seem
to me that the Mets have the pitching depth, nor
the top to bottom lineup depth, just with the healthy
bodies right now for them to win the World Series
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this year. So it's the whole idea of signing Soda,
of course, is that it's going to give you a
chance to win every year, and they've had a chance
to win this year. It just doesn't seem to me
that they are the top of the league and even
the top of the division. The fascinating thing is that
out West, the Dodgers look as beatable as they have
in a while, and they're just i think five and
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five in the last ten games of the Padres. They
lost a very winnable game last night against Arizona. So
there are certainly I would say that the National League
is more wide open than a lot of the initial
prognostications would have you believe, and that might be the
one thing that eventually works in the mets favor.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Well maybe the Dodgers said. Needing Max Munsey to come
back two home runs tonight, they're beating the Cardinals.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Maybe Munsey was the missing ingredient.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
He may have been. And actually it was interesting I
was I was texting with a a Dodger official at
the deadline and I said, you know what else is coming?
Any other moves? What do we think? And the response
is we're getting monthsly back at the deadline. That's monthly
is our deadline acquisition. And of course Tommy edmund went
on the IL to clear the spot for Monthly. Edmunds
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just had one of those injury plague seasons again for him,
but monthly in my view, if he's able to hit
like this, and certainly he changed his eyewear earlier this year,
so he's got the eyes fixed. He's feeling feeling better
now health health wise with his body, so if he
keeps swinging it like this, he may be the guy
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they need, because as we know, they've tried different things
with Mookie. His steason just has never quite gotten off
the ground. So it's again, it's not the same club
they had a year ago, but if they have Monthly
re emerging, that will go a long way towards helping
them hold off the Padres there in the National.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
League West so funny.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Addition, through subtraction the Red Sox and finding their after
vanquishing devers from the squad, changing up their lineup. We
talked about the Yankees quite a bit there, JP, but
a couple of weeks ago, I mean, the Red Sox
would have been one of those teams we were looking
at as potential sellers. And now all of a sudden
we're talking about the al Pennant and with Crochet at
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the top, perhaps you know those ex White Sox guys.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Can lead very impressive. Grett crochet I shared a note
statistically earlier tonight on AX about a left hander and
again at Fenway, it's hard to be a left hander
because he got the wall right there. It's not traditionally
been a good park for left handed starters. Crochet right
now has one of the eight lowest ras ever for
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a left handed starter of the Boston Red Sox who
made at least twenty starts in that particular season. Actually
on that list of eight is Babe Ruth twice. By
the way, Chris tails on that list once. It's just
he And this is where it's interesting. The Red Sox
were criticized for not doing more at the deadline. Okay, well,
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they haven't lost since the deadline, and the big move
they made is the one you're describing, which was moving
on from Devors when they did, and they've had one
of the best records of baseball since then. The Blue
Jays now have to worry about the Red Sox, not
the Yankees catching them. It's the Red Sox with the momentum.
And while I would have loved to have seen the
Red Sox do a bit more at the deadline, my goodness,
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scare Crochet. Right now, there's a real discussion about who
the most overpowering left hander is in the American League
between Schooble and him. I still give the edge to Schooble,
but it's a fun thy Young Award conversation down the
stretch in the American League, and you got two first
class left handers that I would I'd like to see
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matchup in a playoff series at some point in time
here before the month of October is done.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
He is the real JP with us here at Fox
Sports Radio. He went every John Paul Rossi the Pope.
You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi. MLB
Network insider John Paul is always buddy appreciated man.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
And if I haven't talked to those people in.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
The MLB Network studios there in Seacaucus, I'm gonna get
back to them and now make sure that they know
that you're the best.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You're the real JP.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I appreciate that. Jason, thank you very much. And by
the way, full marks for your proper New Jersey pronunciation
of sea Caucus, which I wish I when I really
want to sound uh what, I really want to sound authentic,
when I'm getting my when I'm going to Deli's there
in New Jersey, when I'm in studio, I always call
it Seacaucus. And it gives me a lot of a
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lot of credit there in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And also I'd be remiss if I didn't give you credit.
I keep forgetting John Paul, that big rookie in Kansas
City that everybody likes to talk about. I keep, I
keep forgetting how to pronounce his name. Cali, you're the best,
taking to anybody. We'll talk to you, Pamrosi, Well, I
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didn't visit with him time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports, So someone has
been called the John Palmosi of.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Fox Sports Radio. Oh, not likely.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
He wanted to be a pope when he was younger.
It's Steve Disager, Well, I do see smoke.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
The Dodgers are leading five to two over the Cardinals
in the top of the sixth inning, while the Padres
are losing at Arizona. It's Diamondbacks three to two over
San Diego in the top of the sixth. The Dodgers
are the first place team in the NL West, three
games up on the Pods.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
That lead was nine games a month ago.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Max Munsey, just back in the lineup from injury this week,
hit a first inning homer and a third inning homer
at Dodgers Stadium this evening. As for the other games
in progress, Mariners eight to one over the White Sox
in the bottom of the seventh inning a Johennio Suarez
with his thirty seventh home run of the year.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
He's back in Seattle.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
The Rays led seven to nothing early, now seven to
three at the Angels in the bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Everything else is final.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
The Blue Jays are first place in the AL East,
still three games up on Boston. Toronto won ten to
four at Colorado. Boston won at seventh straight games, six
to two over Kansas City. The Yankees lost their fifth
in a row, got shut out two nothing at Texas
winning pitcher Nathan Evaldi ten and three by the way
Garrett Crochet, Boston's winning pitcher Tonight thirteen and four, Milwaukee's
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Freddy Peralta thirteen and five. After a win at Atlanta
seven to two, the Brewers have won five straight. Their
record the last sixty games is forty four and sixteen.
They've taken first place in the NL Central, now four
games up on the Cubs, who lost at home five
to one to Cincinnati. Despite a great start from show
to e Minaga, he went six and a third just
one run, allowed seven strikeouts, but four runs in the
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seventh and no decision for Emanaga. The Mets were beaten
at home three two by Cleveland's and the Mets are
now two and a half games back in the first
place Phillies in the NL East. The Phills were five
nothing winners over Baltimore. Mets have lost seven of eight.
The A's got three solo homers from Shey Langealiers and
won sixteen to seven at Washington. It was sixteen three
in the ninth the Nationals have lost six in a row.
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Road wins for Houston and San Francisco and from Minnesota,
which won at Detroit six to three. WNBA victories for
New York and Chicago, although New York star Breonna Stewart
is still out with injury and Chicago star Angel Reese
is still out with injury. Connecticut's record is five and
twenty two and they're trailing sixty four to forty eight
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at Phoenix early fourth quarter. The La Rams gave running
back Kyron Williams a three year extension. The Chargers signed
free agent wide receiver Keenan Allen to a one year deal.
Tampa Bay signed veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, although Kyle Trask
is still the backup there. Bucks starting quarterback Baker Mayfield
returned to practice today after a bruised hand. On Thursday,
they'll have a joint practice with the Titans. Vikings wide
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receiver Jordan Addison was suspended for the first three regular
season games. He was arrested for duy a year ago.
Eagles star wide receiver aj Brown did not practice again
due to his hamstring injury.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Jets rookie tight.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
End Mason Tate is out with a high ankle spray,
and quarterback to Rod Taylor has a knee injury. Steelers
tight end John who Smith left practice today with a
sort knee, and Pittsburgh rookie quarterback Will Howard will miss
at least three weeks with a broken hand.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming
up next. If you remember something very specific happened in
the WNBA about ten days ago, somebody got arrested for
same thing happened last Thursday. The same thing just happened
in a game a few minutes ago. Oh no, and
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we have it next for you, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
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Speaker 1 (34:49):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, late in the fourth quarter
in Los Angeles, the Sparks lead the Fever ninety to
sixty eight. It's a blowout win here for the La Sparks.
The Fever, of course, playing without Caitlin Clark again, who
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has missed the last now I think eight games with
an injury. It's been a big night so far for
every single starter for the Sparks. Kelsey Plumb has twenty
one points and eleven assists. But this game is gonna
come down to a highlight that's gonna be shown on
television that we've seen now three times in the last
ten days. First time someone throws a green sex toy
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onto the court, it's a big headline.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
WHOA someone did that?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
All right?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
A few days later, out of game, someone does it again.
Over the weekend, we find out that someone was arrested. Yeah,
I got arrested for the first time. The second time.
There was no police report for it. I think the
WNBA was hoping, Okay, well, this is gonna.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Know the perpetrators are at large.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, the one guy got arrested. Ah, I see what
you did, Frostburg. I see what you did there, And
you thought, okay, well maybe now it's not gonna happen
anymore since the first.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Guy got arrested. It's a sizable problem.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
But with UH. But with Kelsey Plum at the free
throw line and Sophie Cunningham on the court. Remember Sophie
Cunningham was the one UH. Caitlin Clark's team made Who's
got a lot of publicity over the last couple of months,
who said, hey, people should not throw these things on
the court. Someone's gonna get hit by it. Someone could
get hurt. Kelsey Plum hits a free throw and it's
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hard to see right now from the the replays, but
after she hits the free throw, the fever gonna inbound
the basketball. All of a sudden, Sophie Cunningham kind of
skips and another green Sex toy lands right in the
middle of the key. Now right away, Kelsey Plum comes
over and kicks it off that good blue by Kelsey Pump,
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good boot by Kelsey Plum, booting the green toy again,
A green toy get, a green Sex toy gets knocked off.
Sophie Cunningham walks off, kind of laughing with her friends,
and it's kind of it's kind of weird to see
this happen again. And what I think of now is
is when I see this, like, obviously there's you know,
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there's the part where you want to laugh about it,
the players want to laugh about it. But at the
same time, it's okay, here's this happening again, And I
where I am with this now is We talked about
it last week and I said, okay, well, there's going
to be a meeting, some kind of meeting with the WNB.
They're gonna say, Okay, if this happens again, don't show it,
don't make any sort of of allusion to it.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
And we have.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
But when you keep when you throw it on the
court and it lands in the middle of the key
after a free throw, people are gonna see it. What
I can't get past My initial response to this is
that the lack of respect that fans now sometimes that
that a lot of them have for the w NBA
because you have seen now this is now a thing.
This is not the first time a sex toways been
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thrown on the field of play, right, what happened to
the Bills games for a long time, but you now
saw it happened ten days ago, it happened again. Guy
got arrested for doing it. Guy was arrested, And you
would think, Okay, that's gonna be enough to get people
to stop, because whoa the first person that's gotta be
that's the that's the one thing we want to show.
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W Amis's listen. We want to go out here. We
want that that person gets arrested. That's gonna put a
tamp down on things. But now Sophie Cunningham, who has
been the was the one to say, hey, this shouldn't happen.
Someone could get hurt on it. She potentially gets this
thrown at her on the court. So here's somebody who decided,
I know the person got arrested, and here's a person
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who said they don't want to throw on the court,
and I'm still gonna throw on the court potentially at
her and it may have grazed her.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's it's hard to tell if she kind of skipped
because she got hit by it, she got skipped because
she got out of the way and she tried to.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Laugh it off.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
But the lack of respect that that I that I
see fans have for the w NBA, that's what I
hit me. That just surprised me because the fact that
now we've seen this now ten days row, it's become
a TikTok thing, right, It's like a TikTok thing. Oh
look at this, Look at this TikTok craze and then
it goes away. I was hoping it would go away
and you'd hope would go away after somebody got arrested
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for it, But no, no, no, it's gonna happen a
third time, and potentially the person that said, hey, stop
doing it gets it thrown out.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Well, I mean, you're still at a point in our
media world where I mean the league has for many
of our colleagues, it's still dismissed categorically as an ensity.
Well the fans like, we got plenty of jackasses run
onto fields and get arrested, right, getting trucked by security
trying to make the dare I can you know whatever
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the pot is to run across rybe you just drunk
off your ass and decide to make a break for it.
That hasn't curbed anything. We still see that with great regularity,
and they do everything they can to not publicize show
it as they do. But guess what, everybody's got a phone.
It's eventually going out. So in this case, I don't
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know what the answer is, right, Metal detectors aren't gonna
detect these things necessarily, right, So you go through and uh,
it's you try to get everybody on point, You do
your PSAs, you have your internal discussions. But I think
it's just it either continues as it as it is
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or you're you're just wishing for it to die out.
Like I don't know that there's really anything substantively that
you can do.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Look, like I said, it's like one of those TikTok challenges,
one of those fads that shows up for a couple
of weeks and then it goes away.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
And I know the WNBA is hoping this thing would
go away.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
But the fact that you had somebody get arrested and
the second maybe they backed off the second one. We
don't want to arrest everybody, but we put this out there.
The first person's arrest. That's gonna get people to stop
doing it. Not only someone say screw it. I don't care.
I may throw it at the person, the one person
who is the most vocal about hey, don't throw stuff
on the court.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Stop Frosberg.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Well, and that's where you really have to I mean,
in this case, right, verify that she actually got hit
by it, and then you prosecute the hell out of them,
right and take it to its extreme.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I mean, really, I I can't get over the lack
of respect that that fans have for the It's just
blows me away. I will have more in this story
and a big story out of football.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
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your support. Mike and I love putting this car out
for you every single night. A quick note from Major
League Baseball another one. Maybe the Dodgers are gonna be
okay in the long run. Max Munsey has just hit
another two run homer for the Dodgers bott of the
third inning. Monsey now is two for two, two home
runs for RBI. He is on pace to hit I
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believe seven home runs tonight. All right, so two every
three innings. Oh, six home runs. He has unpaced six
home runs tonight for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well, they should have more hello kiddy giveaways. Yeah, and
Mookie Betts snapped the zero for twenty two slump that
Steve Dizeger gave.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That was Mookie Betts's first hit since April twenty third.
If you and I goes way back, Yeah, that's something
for me. That's fuzzy mass yeah something.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Now, seriously, there's lots of hero song. We'll get to
the big quarterback story a second, But shout out to
the Kraken mascot who in a viral video today that
is really shocking to see.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The Kraken ascot had a close call with a brown
bear during a promotional video shoot in Alaska. So some
Seattle crack and players are out doing this fly fishing
promotional shoot for the team and the yeah the one, yeah,
oh yeaho Tiascar Hernandez with a home run Tascar. Yeah,
it's home run night at Dodger Stadium. Uh so the
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Dodgers now leaded five to two.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
He needed that too. He'd been in a slump. So
it's starting to come out of it the last couple
of days.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So that all took Max Monsey back. And look what happened.
Max Munsey, he's the he's the real MVP. Max Munsey's
your MVP.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
About that Hello Kitty?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So the well that is true? This could be the yeah,
you know, you could the Hello Kitty could be your
grimaces in Frostburg. Well it's hello kitty, body bag night. Yeah, yeah,
that sounds really weird. Cross body like leg it's law
and order, unzipped the body. Yep, that's hello Kitty. Goodbye Kitty.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Taken away? That would be a great jerry or back
one line? Hell should I say goodbye kitty? All right,
there we go, and then he starts singing a song
from Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Cracking players including forward John Hayden who's in this video
and this video that went viral earlier today, and Bowie,
who is the crack and mascot, were fly fishing outing
in Katmine National Park. This is part of a big
trip promoting youth hockey. So basically what it is there's
a big promotional video being shot. They're fly fishing. The
mascot is there in the middle of a river when
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a big brown bear approaches, and you can see in
the video they're going, Okay, hey, guys, we gotta move.
We got a bear, gotta move, gotta move, and and
Hayden gives up the the Rodden reel and they all
start walking, not slowly, but not quickly across the river
because you know, the bear is here looking for salmon
or some kind of food. And I'm watching this and
the crack and mascot has the closest call because obviously
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the mascot is dressed like the kraken and trying to
walk through a river, and the bear starts moving towards it.
And there's at one point where the bear starts really
scampering towards the mascot, and I can't get over the
fact the mascot just continues to walk and doesn't panic
and run, because I know the whole thing. People say, hey,
if a bear approach, you don't run, walk, make yourself big,
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and luckily you're dresses a mascot, so the bear might think, oh, hey,
I can really, I could go fight this guy.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
This dude is really big.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But I but it really takes so much self control
at that moment when you can hear the bear splashing
run and you know you're the last one, like in
a zombie movie where hey, you know everybody else is
really fast, you're the one slow guy.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The zombies are gonna guy, I can hear the zombies
behind me. Man, they're gonna catch me.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He doesn't run, he continues to move it at a
steady pace. I would have at some point I would
have said, blank, you guys, man, I'm running.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I don't care. I don't have to be faster than
everybody faster.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Than I don't know that you're faster than an NHL player,
especially if you're dressing a mascot uniform. But if you're
the one that runs, hey, okay, Like I really I
can't get over the presence of mind that Bowie or
the guy playing Bowie had playing Roosevelt Bowie, the guy
playing Sam Bouie, the guy playing Bowie had there to
not get up and run, to not say because I
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know at some point I would have said, okay, I know,
you tell me I got, but no, I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
That really is something.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Here's the USA Today Sports Twitter account quote, charging bear
startled Seattle crack and mascot Booie And for John Hayden,
true to mascot code, Booie makes no sound while moving
quickly away from the he upheld the code of the mascots.
He is now exalted among them.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Here's the thing. Here's the thing, and this is what
makes it even scarier is the park that they were
in is home to the annual Fat Bear Week context
Oh Good, which celebrates the bears as they fatten up
for the winner. So basically, the bears are showing up
to eat and now mainly it's salmon, but hey, hey,
the bears are still showing up to eat.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Man. That makes it even scarier.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, but it's like here, the last couple of weeks
have been a lot of reports we're broadcasting the larger
Los Angeles area, a lot of reports of the juvenile
great white sharks in their migration right up and down
the coast. Well, guess what, every once in a while,
what do you spot a fifteen to eighteen footer? So
they had one up in Santa Monica, doesn't mean that
they're coming anywhere near you, but it means you're probably
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gonna be uncomfortable. Likewise, here, he's coming for salmon, but
I don't need to find out if he's got ill.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
In tench TJ.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Clearly showing up for salmon might leave with a kraken DJ.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
There was another story about a police officer and getting
cracked and whatever, which.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Was a who he didn't want to get cracking open
by a bear as he ran across the river TJ.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
So they now take this into a tie in for
what was it for the almonds or pistachios or whatever?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah cragging, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I get cracked with tough acting tonight. So again, wow,
all kinds of respect for who was in that mascot
not not running away and everybody gets away and the
bear kind of lost interest. I mean, that's that's really presidentive.
That's that's the person I want playing quarterback for the Jets,
not justin fields, who's scattershot, throwing the ball all over
the field. Eight for his last thirty six in camp
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eight for thirty six.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You know, I'm sure he didn't have an incompletion that
practiced before.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He's had an awful last three days at practice, and
the Jets big headline today they said, hey, patience with
Justin Fields, right, patience with Justin Field. It's early all right, Now,
this is what being a Jet fan is like, in
in in this moment right now with you. You want
to be patient, Okay, an organization. Now we haven't sniffed
(07:50):
the playoffs. Longest drought in North American.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Sports in a minute. Yeah, my whole forties, no playoffs, right, mine,
tyge decade decade? Right? But patient o? Did it goes
slowly or quickly? Ohoa went fast and went slow and
all kinds of speeds. It's like being tortured by Jigsaw.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So I get that look, and I understand what makes
Justin Fields the quarterback he is you're not gonna see
in seven on seven is because running the football is
a big thing. He's gonna run for a thousand yards.
That's part of what you don't see that. Okay, So
I understand that, But I keep going back to this again.
What if I told you about Justin Fields every day
is this, Hey, here's Monday, And again you have to
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rely on what people see at practice because you know
you're not there seeing it. But you know the people
I followed and the people I talked to on social media. Hey,
Justin Fields, great day today, man seven out of eleven
and drills two touchdowns to Garrett Wilson through a nice
ball into the corner. Here Arion Smith is the big
breakout star camp and he's catching everything.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Next day, whoa Justin Fields two for ten, sailing the
ball over the heads of many wide receivers. Right, this
is this is what it is. One day, Hey, Justin
Fields looks pretty good. The next day he looks awful.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
And it's not.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And when they say be patient, he's grasping the offense. Yes,
it is his fifth offense in the last fo or
fourth offense in the last four years. And I understand that,
but this is not I don't know where to go
with the read. This is not all Hey, I see
this and I scamp. This is I'm sailing the ball
over somebody's head. And this is seven on seven. This
is when it's supposed to be a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I don't put so much stock for quarterbacks that you
look great in seven on sevens beginning of summer practice.
But I put a lot of stocket if you look terrible, right, Okay,
maybe like hey, JJ McCarthy's post, he has really good
in Minnesota red flag man. Dude, how do you not
look good in the seven on sevens. You've had a
year with the offense. Now, yes, you've been rehabbing, but
you've had some time, right. Sam Darnold came in right
away and just said, hey, Justin right here, catch it.
(09:42):
So I look at Justin Fields. I know I have
no expectation for him anymore. I have no expectation is Shue.
I get it's the first it's the we're getting the
first game of the year in the preseason. But this
is kind of who Justin Fields is. This is who
he's been. He's been a scattershot passers and tie career.
But when he runs and runs well okay. But at
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the same time, I can convince myself into thinking, hey,
he's gonna be They're gonna be a run heavy team.
They have a great offensive line, the defense is gonna
be good. I like the culture. I like everything Aaron
Glenn is setting up with the Jets, and it may
be a year away from really seeing that the Jets
become a really good team, but so now I can
talk myself into Hey, even if Justin Field sucks, we
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could be nine to eight, stay in the playoff race
all the way through the season, and I'm buying back
in again when ninety seconds ago I told you how
bad Justin Fields was and I don't expect anything from
him this year.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
This is what being a Jet fan is like. Man, well,
you had to transfer.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Your energy somewhere because you've somehow come to resolution and
some level of equilibrium with the Mets as like, uh,
you know what, they're actually better than we expect. No, no,
they're a disaster. Lean into the hate, but no, what
are you doing. You're transferring it here and you're still
trying to sell hope.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I mean to you, what it is the fatal list Jets,
Mets Knicks guy.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Hey, Well, because it's still summer, so it's still there.
There's still possibilities. But here's the thing is I can
at the same time, I can go from I expect
nothing from him because passing that he's still you're in
the league. You're having a rookie type training camp. Yeah, okay,
for a guy's been in league four years, you're having
a rookie type training camp where one day you look good,
the next day the defense bears down and suddenly you
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look terrible. But I mean, I mean three practice of
row eight for thirty six throwing the fuck the defense,
Come on, man, But there's no you're not getting hit,
there's no pressure, you're not allowed to get hit.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
A lot of this is no pads like this is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Still you look this bad like this is how rookies practice.
In rookie quarterbacks. I get it from JJ McCarthy. I'm nervous,
but I get it for JJB. I get it for
Shador Sanders. I get it for all these rookies. You've
been in league four years. Man, when you're in shoulder
pads and helmets and and and a, you should be
looking better in seven on sevens. Man, you should be
looking bad. You shouldn't be two for ten, you should
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be two for anything.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh no, it's a disaster, there's no question about it.
Absolutely abject failure. But still this point, we're gonna run.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
If we have three running backs, you're gonna take football
back to the nineteen forties.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Eight thousand rushing attempts. We're gonna every game sixteen to ten.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, I've been working on some of the the iwuanch
reflex stuff. And I chuckle at the consensus rankings that
have Justin Fields as the number ten quarterback, but we'll
push that aside for another time. A couple of things
that to just kind of round this out, Yes, seven
on seven's early concerns culture and what he's building there.
From all the reports of the camp as a whole,
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you have to get a little bit excited about one
thing we do know, at least at the present, he
doesn't have any top wide receiver that are gonna be
suspended like we found out for JJ McCarthy, who's losing
Addison for three games.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, no, so there's that. So there is that.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So you know, we look, I gotta go positivity. You
paid the guys that you think are really good. Yeah yeah,
and now you're moving forward. But you got a great
wide receiver, got a great tight end, and I think
you're okay. I think I think you're a little bit better.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Shame banged up though, I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I mean four years and he looks like a rookie man.
Four years, he looks like a rookie.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
This is like, come on, man, he's learning exit.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How about a Fresco exit strolling dome yet learning how
to throw in complete passes?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
That's working out great?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Coming up next?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
How close are the Yankees to making a big panic move?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And maybe moving.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
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So how close are the Yankees depressing the panic button?
Are the Red Sox really the best team in baseball?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Joining us now?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I'm hotline for all the big one week post trade
deadline stories. A man who well, I want to give
him the nod because after a very difficult last twenty
four hours, he's joining us tonight. Because on MLB Network
last night, they put a pole in the field about
who the best JP of the night was, and the
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choices were JP Sears, who has since been sent back
down to the minors after last night, Jake Peevey, who
was in studio last night broadcasting from WILB Network, and
John Paul Morosi. And I think John Paul, I think
they did you wrong. You were the only one not
on the air, and I saw you came in third,
even though I voted for you multiple times to be
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the JP of the night last night. So I a
tough last day for you. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I appreciate it. It is a blessing to have great
friends like you and like Mike, appreciate your support. As
they say, vote early and often, and so I appreciated that.
The genesis, I'm not sure if you had caught this
part of the segment as to why my colleague Greg
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ham Singer was having so much fun. He basically, and
I don't even know whose idea it was still as
we have this conversation right now, but the MLB network
feed was playing over the main scoreboard and sounds system
at Chase Field, and so of course it's it's gonna
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be on a bit of a delay, just because of
the way that television works, and it was on about
a thirty second delay, which any of us have ever
done broadcasting. When you hear yourself on a one or
two second delay over a loudspeaker, it's moderately it's moderately problematic,
but you can just kind of get through it. You
just keep going. But when it's like thirty seconds, you
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you lose the plot very quickly. And about the second
answer I gave Greg could tell I mean, it was
all just kind of a joke, but there was a
moment there where I just had no idea if I
was speaking English, Italian, Spanish. I mean that was everything.
All my wires are getting crossed, so that that was
how I even came to be nominated for that award,
(18:05):
even though so uh, if you go back and queue
it up, you will see just how utterly clueless I
was about what I was even saying uh on the air,
which was which I would generally not recommend that you
try this at home. But it was it was fun TV.
As I said at the outset of my little intro
(18:26):
to the segment, I said, this is either going to
be great TV or such awful TV that it becomes
great TV one of the other. It's gonna be one
of the other. And I think it was probably the latter.
That I was so bad it was good. Uh, that's
the least what I hope it was.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So who do we make for the third JB Well,
we got JPV, we got JPC herees John Paul Geedny, No,
come on, we gotta have John Paul Morosi.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Come on, James Firesen, right, j is I mean, if
you want to go into other realms the great JP perise.
Of course, following there are some great jps JP more.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Yeah, a lot of yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I mean you got up, you were, you were on
the metal stand. I mean again, I voted for you
a couple of times. I'm sorry, I come from Chicago
multiple times.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna say that whenever all votes. The next
time we do this, I'm gonna speak with Amsinger and
make sure that all votes coming from the Fox Sports
radio studios count one hundred times the actual value. And
as long as we can do that, I like my chance.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All right, so let me bring you in. We'll start
off with what we've talked about a few minutes ago here. Actually,
it's been a big topic the last couple of nights
on the show. The Yankees lose again, they get shut
out by the Rangers. Aaron Judge comes back, it doesn't matter.
The Yankees are now at the point where they've given
up twelve games in the standings over the course of
the past five or six weeks. And we talked about
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this last night. The Yankees aren't gonna go quietly. And
if they don't turn things around, and they sit here
in the next couple of weeks and they go two
three games out of the wild card they'll get rid
of Aaron Boone. They'll do something because you can't bring
any players in because only one deadline. And the funny
thing is, is that, okay, if you're moving on from
Aaron Boone, Derek Jeter's been okay being critical of the
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Yankees over the course of the past few weeks and
critical of Aaron Boone.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I called Derek Jeter.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And say, Cap, you want to come in here for
the last five weeks of the season and help us out.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
What do you think JP?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I would doubt it. I would doubt.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I voted for you twice. You just said that's the
best idea ever.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I appreciate it. I see that now comes the time
in this segment where I just give you my honest answer.
And do I think that there is a chance that
Derek Jeter is managing the Yankees by the end of
this season? I would say highly, highly, unlikely, remote in
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the most remote possible realm. Now the separate question is
is is Aaron Boone in trouble here? And I think
the answer to that is no, not certainly, not yet.
There's just this team is not playing good baseball. And
I realized, listen, there are any number of circumstances that
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go on in internally that lead to coaches or managers
being in jeopardy. The way I see it, guys, there
is such stress and such turmoil with this team right
now that to bring in anyone unfamiliar with the dynamics
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right now, I think would be doing a disservice to everybody.
You're just now getting Aaron judged back. You're trying to
figure out how you're going to be able to utilize Stanton.
What are you going to do with Devin Williams who
gave it up again tonight. You acquired a reliever last week,
and you've already sent them down to the minor leagues.
I mean, it is complete turmoil right now. And when
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that's the case, you need familiar and not and not
just pulling additional panic levers. It's I get it. It's
it's not a good situation. They are still ever so
barely clinging to a postseason spot. And and you prefaced
it by saying that by next week, if they're three
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or you know, two or three games out of the
playoff spot, what do they do? Then it might be
a separate conversation because then you're there on the outside
looking in, I think is and again it's it's amazing
that I'm saying these words, but they got to just
see how how things go with the next few days,
getting Judge back in there and seeing if they can
find a way to just get some coherent play going.
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Again that that that last weekend against the Marlins, I
think really really made them look vulnerable because they just
were not playing good baseball and this and by the way,
the lack of fundamental found this there's a lot of
discussion right now about how much is it the manager's purview,
and I guess you could bench guys here and there,
but it's a fundamentally flawed team and that they don't
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do fundamental things well and have not since last year.
This was part of the reason why they lost the
Dodgers of the World Series, and it wasn't fixed. And
if you're not gonna all of a sudden become the
eighty five Cardinals overnight or the early the early aughts
Minnesota Twins, uh with with great fundamental play, it's just
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they're not that kind of a team. And that is
not the fault of Aaron Boone. No matter how many
calls are from the bench you can bench Jazz Chisholm. Okay, well,
I suppose you could do that, but it seems to
me that the issues with this team go far beyond
Jazz getting picked off in first base a couple of
days ago.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, I mean this is where Jeter can really help.
You could play a little bit of short and maybe
ob obp is still pretty high relative yet not a
bad thought.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
But I just I again, we have we have had,
we have we have offered many an idea in our
many conversations over the years, and including including my belief
the Lions will win every game twenty seven to fourteen.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I just don't think that it's quite gonna happen in
this fashion for the Yankees and their kids.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, we just went to the break glass in case
of emergency in a scenario here. So continuing with that,
Smith's walking around the studio is all calm collected, going, well,
we shouldn't even be anywhere close anyway, because of all
these injuries or whatever. Can the Mets do anything with
the roster has currently constructed to try to claw back
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against the fight and fills.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, the Phillies to me, have had the momentum now
and certainly that they bring in Joan Duran and his
entrance and the way that he's pitched so far has
given the Phillies a real swagger that they have not
had in a long time, especially in the late innings.
That their bullpen was the reason why they did not
win the World Series or get there in twenty twenty three,
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and even in twenty twenty two against the Astros, that
you could argue that they were a reliever or too
short in that World Series as well. There's to me
the Mets, and again another low scoring loss tonight. They
tried and I think made some decent upgrades of the deadline,
but you're right that they just have not been a
very healthy team this year in terms of what they
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thought they were going to get from montas Manaia at
different times. They just have not been able to get
consistency there. So I would be surprised if the Mets
win this division. I know that that's not what Jason
wats their right now, but I just think the Phillies,
look at the way Brandon Marsh's play, I think another
big start tonight from Taiwan Walker, the Phillies to me,
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seem to have all the momentum, the Mets can still
certainly make it to the playoffs, and they can win
a round or two, but it just does not seem
to me that the Mets have the pitching depth, nor
the top to bottom lineup depth, just with the healthy
bodies right now for them to win the World Series
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this year. So it's the whole idea of signing Soda,
of course, is that it's going to give you a
chance to win every year, and they've had a chance
to win this year. It just doesn't seem to me
that they are the top of the league and even
the top of the division. The fascinating thing is that
out West, the Dodgers look as beatable as they have
in a while, and they're just i think five and
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five in the last ten games of the Padres. They
lost a very winnable game last night against Arizona. So
there are certainly I would say that the National League
is more wide open than a lot of the initial
prognostications would have you believe, and that might be the
one thing that eventually works in the mets favor.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Well maybe the Dodgers said. Needing Max Munsey to come
back two home runs tonight, they're beating the Cardinals.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Maybe Munsey was the missing ingredient.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
He may have been. And actually it was interesting I
was I was texting with a a Dodger official at
the deadline and I said, you know what else is coming?
Any other moves? What do we think? And the response
is we're getting monthsly back at the deadline. That's monthly
is our deadline acquisition. And of course Tommy edmund went
on the IL to clear the spot for Monthly. Edmunds
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just had one of those injury plague seasons again for him,
but monthly in my view, if he's able to hit
like this, and certainly he changed his eyewear earlier this year,
so he's got the eyes fixed. He's feeling feeling better
now health health wise with his body, so if he
keeps swinging it like this, he may be the guy
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they need, because as we know, they've tried different things
with Mookie. His steason just has never quite gotten off
the ground. So it's again, it's not the same club
they had a year ago, but if they have Monthly
re emerging, that will go a long way towards helping
them hold off the Padres there in the National.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
League West so funny.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Addition, through subtraction the Red Sox and finding their after
vanquishing devers from the squad, changing up their lineup. We
talked about the Yankees quite a bit there, JP, but
a couple of weeks ago, I mean, the Red Sox
would have been one of those teams we were looking
at as potential sellers. And now all of a sudden
we're talking about the al Pennant and with Crochet at
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the top, perhaps you know those ex White Sox guys.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Can lead very impressive. Grett crochet I shared a note
statistically earlier tonight on AX about a left hander and
again at Fenway, it's hard to be a left hander
because he got the wall right there. It's not traditionally
been a good park for left handed starters. Crochet right
now has one of the eight lowest ras ever for
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a left handed starter of the Boston Red Sox who
made at least twenty starts in that particular season. Actually
on that list of eight is Babe Ruth twice. By
the way, Chris tails on that list once. It's just
he And this is where it's interesting. The Red Sox
were criticized for not doing more at the deadline. Okay, well,
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they haven't lost since the deadline, and the big move
they made is the one you're describing, which was moving
on from Devors when they did, and they've had one
of the best records of baseball since then. The Blue
Jays now have to worry about the Red Sox, not
the Yankees catching them. It's the Red Sox with the momentum.
And while I would have loved to have seen the
Red Sox do a bit more at the deadline, my goodness,
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scare Crochet. Right now, there's a real discussion about who
the most overpowering left hander is in the American League
between Schooble and him. I still give the edge to Schooble,
but it's a fun thy Young Award conversation down the
stretch in the American League, and you got two first
class left handers that I would I'd like to see
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matchup in a playoff series at some point in time
here before the month of October is done.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
He is the real JP with us here at Fox
Sports Radio. He went every John Paul Rossi the Pope.
You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi. MLB
Network insider John Paul is always buddy appreciated man.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
And if I haven't talked to those people in.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
The MLB Network studios there in Seacaucus, I'm gonna get
back to them and now make sure that they know
that you're the best.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You're the real JP.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I appreciate that. Jason, thank you very much. And by
the way, full marks for your proper New Jersey pronunciation
of sea Caucus, which I wish I when I really
want to sound uh what, I really want to sound authentic,
when I'm getting my when I'm going to Deli's there
in New Jersey, when I'm in studio, I always call
it Seacaucus. And it gives me a lot of a
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lot of credit there in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And also I'd be remiss if I didn't give you credit.
I keep forgetting John Paul, that big rookie in Kansas
City that everybody likes to talk about. I keep, I
keep forgetting how to pronounce his name. Cali, you're the best,
taking to anybody. We'll talk to you, Pamrosi, Well, I
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didn't visit with him time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports, So someone has
been called the John Palmosi of.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Fox Sports Radio. Oh, not likely.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
He wanted to be a pope when he was younger.
It's Steve Disager, Well, I do see smoke.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
The Dodgers are leading five to two over the Cardinals
in the top of the sixth inning, while the Padres
are losing at Arizona. It's Diamondbacks three to two over
San Diego in the top of the sixth. The Dodgers
are the first place team in the NL West, three
games up on the Pods.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
That lead was nine games a month ago.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Max Munsey, just back in the lineup from injury this week,
hit a first inning homer and a third inning homer
at Dodgers Stadium this evening. As for the other games
in progress, Mariners eight to one over the White Sox
in the bottom of the seventh inning a Johennio Suarez
with his thirty seventh home run of the year.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
He's back in Seattle.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
The Rays led seven to nothing early, now seven to
three at the Angels in the bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Everything else is final.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
The Blue Jays are first place in the AL East,
still three games up on Boston. Toronto won ten to
four at Colorado. Boston won at seventh straight games, six
to two over Kansas City. The Yankees lost their fifth
in a row, got shut out two nothing at Texas
winning pitcher Nathan Evaldi ten and three by the way
Garrett Crochet, Boston's winning pitcher Tonight thirteen and four, Milwaukee's
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Freddy Peralta thirteen and five. After a win at Atlanta
seven to two, the Brewers have won five straight. Their
record the last sixty games is forty four and sixteen.
They've taken first place in the NL Central, now four
games up on the Cubs, who lost at home five
to one to Cincinnati. Despite a great start from show
to e Minaga, he went six and a third just
one run, allowed seven strikeouts, but four runs in the
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seventh and no decision for Emanaga. The Mets were beaten
at home three two by Cleveland's and the Mets are
now two and a half games back in the first
place Phillies in the NL East. The Phills were five
nothing winners over Baltimore. Mets have lost seven of eight.
The A's got three solo homers from Shey Langealiers and
won sixteen to seven at Washington. It was sixteen three
in the ninth the Nationals have lost six in a row.
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Road wins for Houston and San Francisco and from Minnesota,
which won at Detroit six to three. WNBA victories for
New York and Chicago, although New York star Breonna Stewart
is still out with injury and Chicago star Angel Reese
is still out with injury. Connecticut's record is five and
twenty two and they're trailing sixty four to forty eight
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at Phoenix early fourth quarter. The La Rams gave running
back Kyron Williams a three year extension. The Chargers signed
free agent wide receiver Keenan Allen to a one year deal.
Tampa Bay signed veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, although Kyle Trask
is still the backup there. Bucks starting quarterback Baker Mayfield
returned to practice today after a bruised hand. On Thursday,
they'll have a joint practice with the Titans. Vikings wide
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receiver Jordan Addison was suspended for the first three regular
season games. He was arrested for duy a year ago.
Eagles star wide receiver aj Brown did not practice again
due to his hamstring injury.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Jets rookie tight.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
End Mason Tate is out with a high ankle spray,
and quarterback to Rod Taylor has a knee injury. Steelers
tight end John who Smith left practice today with a
sort knee, and Pittsburgh rookie quarterback Will Howard will miss
at least three weeks with a broken hand.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming
up next. If you remember something very specific happened in
the WNBA about ten days ago, somebody got arrested for
same thing happened last Thursday. The same thing just happened
in a game a few minutes ago. Oh no, and
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we have it next for you, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (34:49):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, late in the fourth quarter
in Los Angeles, the Sparks lead the Fever ninety to
sixty eight. It's a blowout win here for the La Sparks.
The Fever, of course, playing without Caitlin Clark again, who
(35:10):
has missed the last now I think eight games with
an injury. It's been a big night so far for
every single starter for the Sparks. Kelsey Plumb has twenty
one points and eleven assists. But this game is gonna
come down to a highlight that's gonna be shown on
television that we've seen now three times in the last
ten days. First time someone throws a green sex toy
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onto the court, it's a big headline.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
WHOA someone did that?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
All right?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
A few days later, out of game, someone does it again.
Over the weekend, we find out that someone was arrested. Yeah,
I got arrested for the first time. The second time.
There was no police report for it. I think the
WNBA was hoping, Okay, well, this is gonna.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Know the perpetrators are at large.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, the one guy got arrested. Ah, I see what
you did, Frostburg. I see what you did there, And
you thought, okay, well maybe now it's not gonna happen
anymore since the first.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Guy got arrested. It's a sizable problem.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
But with UH. But with Kelsey Plum at the free
throw line and Sophie Cunningham on the court. Remember Sophie
Cunningham was the one UH. Caitlin Clark's team made Who's
got a lot of publicity over the last couple of months,
who said, hey, people should not throw these things on
the court. Someone's gonna get hit by it. Someone could
get hurt. Kelsey Plum hits a free throw and it's
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hard to see right now from the the replays, but
after she hits the free throw, the fever gonna inbound
the basketball. All of a sudden, Sophie Cunningham kind of
skips and another green Sex toy lands right in the
middle of the key. Now right away, Kelsey Plum comes
over and kicks it off that good blue by Kelsey Pump,
(36:56):
good boot by Kelsey Plum, booting the green toy again,
A green toy get, a green Sex toy gets knocked off.
Sophie Cunningham walks off, kind of laughing with her friends,
and it's kind of it's kind of weird to see
this happen again. And what I think of now is
is when I see this, like, obviously there's you know,
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there's the part where you want to laugh about it,
the players want to laugh about it. But at the
same time, it's okay, here's this happening again, And I
where I am with this now is We talked about
it last week and I said, okay, well, there's going
to be a meeting, some kind of meeting with the WNB.
They're gonna say, Okay, if this happens again, don't show it,
don't make any sort of of allusion to it.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
And we have.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
But when you keep when you throw it on the
court and it lands in the middle of the key
after a free throw, people are gonna see it. What
I can't get past My initial response to this is
that the lack of respect that fans now sometimes that
that a lot of them have for the w NBA
because you have seen now this is now a thing.
This is not the first time a sex toways been
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thrown on the field of play, right, what happened to
the Bills games for a long time, but you now
saw it happened ten days ago, it happened again. Guy
got arrested for doing it. Guy was arrested, And you
would think, Okay, that's gonna be enough to get people
to stop, because whoa the first person that's gotta be
that's the that's the one thing we want to show.
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W Amis's listen. We want to go out here. We
want that that person gets arrested. That's gonna put a
tamp down on things. But now Sophie Cunningham, who has
been the was the one to say, hey, this shouldn't happen.
Someone could get hurt on it. She potentially gets this
thrown at her on the court. So here's somebody who decided,
I know the person got arrested, and here's a person
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who said they don't want to throw on the court,
and I'm still gonna throw on the court potentially at
her and it may have grazed her.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's it's hard to tell if she kind of skipped
because she got hit by it, she got skipped because
she got out of the way and she tried to.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Laugh it off.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
But the lack of respect that that I that I
see fans have for the w NBA, that's what I
hit me. That just surprised me because the fact that
now we've seen this now ten days row, it's become
a TikTok thing, right, It's like a TikTok thing. Oh
look at this, Look at this TikTok craze and then
it goes away. I was hoping it would go away
and you'd hope would go away after somebody got arrested
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for it, But no, no, no, it's gonna happen a
third time, and potentially the person that said, hey, stop
doing it gets it thrown out.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Well, I mean, you're still at a point in our
media world where I mean the league has for many
of our colleagues, it's still dismissed categorically as an ensity.
Well the fans like, we got plenty of jackasses run
onto fields and get arrested, right, getting trucked by security
trying to make the dare I can you know whatever
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the pot is to run across rybe you just drunk
off your ass and decide to make a break for it.
That hasn't curbed anything. We still see that with great regularity,
and they do everything they can to not publicize show
it as they do. But guess what, everybody's got a phone.
It's eventually going out. So in this case, I don't
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know what the answer is, right, Metal detectors aren't gonna
detect these things necessarily, right, So you go through and uh,
it's you try to get everybody on point, You do
your PSAs, you have your internal discussions. But I think
it's just it either continues as it as it is
(40:25):
or you're you're just wishing for it to die out.
Like I don't know that there's really anything substantively that
you can do.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Look, like I said, it's like one of those TikTok challenges,
one of those fads that shows up for a couple
of weeks and then it goes away.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
And I know the WNBA is hoping this thing would
go away.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
But the fact that you had somebody get arrested and
the second maybe they backed off the second one. We
don't want to arrest everybody, but we put this out there.
The first person's arrest. That's gonna get people to stop
doing it. Not only someone say screw it. I don't care.
I may throw it at the person, the one person
who is the most vocal about hey, don't throw stuff
on the court.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Stop Frosberg.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Well, and that's where you really have to I mean,
in this case, right, verify that she actually got hit
by it, and then you prosecute the hell out of them,
right and take it to its extreme.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I mean, really, I I can't get over the lack
of respect that that fans have for the It's just
blows me away. I will have more in this story
and a big story out of football.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
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