March 4, 2026 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike welcomed in MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi to talk about the World Baseball Classic, Spring Training, Profar and so much more. Plus, reasons why the Seahawks are moving on from Kenneth Walker!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side hour to the Jason Smith Show
with my bas friend Mike Harmon her two let's go.
I have not seen any fracas, any disagreements between Luka
Doncic and JJ Reddick yet, have you. I've not seen it. No,
not yet.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I think they might not have captured it on camera.
On camera, but it is a five point deficit, three
point thirty three left in the first to the lowly Pelicans.
So you know, that's that that could blow up at
any moment.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Pee Pelicans, the Mighty Pelicans. So again, we'll keep you
updated on this, especially if something happens, you know, between
Donci and JJ Reddick. Wow, it's just inevitable, isn't it.
I Mean, come on now, speaking of basketball, before you
get to the NFL you know, we talked a few
minutes ago. I can't believe that we finally found the puck.
Jack Hughes scored the game winning goal, or it's the
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the Olympic gold medal winning goal against Canada. He didn't
get it. Nobody picked it up off the ice. None
of his teammates picked it up, none of his coaches
picked it up. Somehow, It's at the Hockey Hall of
Fame now and they have it, they're gonna display it.
And I feel like, you know, and I feel weird
about this because I feel like, yeah, that's where a
puck like that should be. But now I feel like
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that if it's a million dollar puck, and that's what
you know, people are saying, that would be worthy was
sold right now, That's something that could change somebody's life.
It could change somebody's life. Who's on Team USA. Look,
I'm on, but I'm not making a ton of cash.
I'm making a million dollars off of this, Okay, I'm
feeling excited about either way. A million dollars is a
million dollars. Yeah, I mean after taxes.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
If you sold it, no matter where you are, you're
still clear and enough for a house in most municipalities.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, we we are in an era where it's
twenty twenty six, where stuff like that people know that.
People know, Hey, Otani up, he's got fifty four stolen bases,
forty nine home runs. This ball is gonna be worth
a lot, This home run ball, this sixtieth home run,
this three thousandth hit ball. If it's a home run,
it is gonna be worth a lot. People have to
know that this puck is gonna someone's gonna score a
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game winning go whatever puck is used, it's worth a
lot of money.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Man, look at you and I somewhere Normally you would
be yelling at me, saying you're a ghoul that belongs
in the Hall of Fame. Whatever I'm glad in the museum.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Like doesn't dougman Kaevich have the ball from the Red
Sox world, But when he was celebrating, he held up
because he knew it was gonna be worth it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Dam about that when the White Sox won, when the
Cubs won, Like all of those pieces of memorabilia, whatever
was on the yield, the bat, the ball, the bases,
all of those things take on such great historic I mean, now.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You have to point out when you're in the field
for for a situation like that, right, like, say you're
you're on the field in Major League Baseball for the
final out of the World Series, the Cubs winning the
World Series, for the first out, whatever it's gonna be,
and you go, come on, fly ball to me, pop
out to me, round ball, second baseman, baseman to get
to I know that when hey, I if things get
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crazy for me, Hey, I got this ball I could
sell and it's gonna be worth a lot of money
to somebody, Like, come on, I want the ball.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Hit it to me.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Hit it to me. And Frostburg was just telling me,
you know, you guys watched that Golden Show on Netflix,
all about the memorabilia and how the Golden Company sells
stuff and makes a lot of money, and uh, you
just told me the story about Karmelone's wife taking all
the Dream Team stuff, all their gear after they won
the gold medal in nineteen ninety two in Spain in Barcelona.
This is thirty five years. I literally think he got
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like thirty to forty million dollars. Yeah, got a lot
of money for it. I know, signed all game used.
Everybody on the team just went in and got it
except Jordan's pair of shoes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, Scottie Pippen, who had never taken anything like those
are going up for auction because pis it a collection thing?
Uh yeah, no, tip, maybe that's why Jordan and Pippen
don't get a lot. He took my shoes. Well you
know what, no, no, no, my shoes. Remember, but like you
never asked for him? Like no, There was a famous
story because Jordan had his restaurant in Chicago and Pippin
had a huge birthday party and they stiffed the staff
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and it got back to Jordan's like, you don't come
into my place that like whatever you do, like.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You you can't do that to these folks. But but
remember there's no Jordan without Pippen, right, just ask him,
I mean, you know, just you know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Absolutely, I'm selling shoes. So he never asked for him,
but he got them to sign those shoes. He'd never
asked for stuff before that, but he got those Olympic shoes.
So those are up for auction.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Won't you, Bobby? These shoes. It was the Christmas shoes
or that's all the Christmas song in the world. Oh no,
that's the settest song. I got a lot of sad stuff.
I don't even I don't even have that. Are you kidding?
That's the settest song in the world. I can't even go.
Every time that comes on, I'm like, it's the holidays, man,
I don't want to think I'm gonna turn that off.
(05:15):
That's too sad. It's enough when I hear Abba slipping
through your fingers, you know when your kid's growing up, like, okay,
enough guy, But Christmas, Man, I'm in my final months.
When we get the abb on on the playlist, I
look at Maddie and I go, what are you doing
to me? It's like, what are you about to ask
me for that? You're playing the OBA and screwing with
my emotion? Dad, you buy me your car or I
am leaving forever. No, She'll make it a negotiation, your
(05:37):
daughter making a gun. I'll stay, but you're gonna cut.
You're gonna come up with something. You're gonna get me
the Jack Hughes puck. Dad, you're gonna get me that puck.
I want to put that on display. I would to
wear it around my neck like flavor flav where's a clock?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, I mean Harry Styles is in New York in
the fall. Hey, dad, we're going to her official visit
next next month, right, meet the team, run through some
paces whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Hey, you know what we got a day? How about
a little bit of Broadway? All right? Others Hadestown, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
All of those things, because you know, with the harm
and surname, we have to go see things that start
with H.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, you'll be living it up on top. Yeah. Now
here's Karl Malone explaining the windfall that he had thanks
to the Dream Team memorabilias. This is where we play
the Karmelone sound talking about all the stuff he's got.
(06:32):
Maybe we just played stocked in alone. Just play Pipin
talking about having Jordan's shoes and selling him family the
jerseys kind of landing the floor. Yeah, and my wife
just started going up picking up the jerseys. And that's
how it happened.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
She just walked around and picked up Yeah, yeah, game
is jersey everybody wore that day. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You got lucky enough to be the one to do it,
so I can't take all the crip there you go.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So all that and he gave it to gold now
Golden and sold them all. Golden sold all of them.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, so that went up a couple of years ago.
It's probably doubled in value sense. So the people that
bought those jerseys, geez, are probably looking piece.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Of memorabilia from the Dream Team in nineteen ninety two.
Think about who's on that team, bird Mage, Oh yeah,
oh yeah, it was that you, Yeah, it was everybody
was the greatest team ever late yeah, the greatest team
ever assembled. Barkley was on that team.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But think about that squad all the way through the
legends of the game. I mean that's top fifty guys,
all up and down that roster, and the jerseys, the shorts,
whatever else they left, if they left their shoes grabbed
those may walk around with a laundry bucket. I'm taking
all this with me and put my name on it.
I'm telling you this is down Malone stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I did.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Again. We're in such an era that and I guess
part of it is it's admirable that, hey, after such
a great moment, everybody would caught up in the in
the in the emotion of the United States winning the
gold medal and the celebration and I mean not the broadcast, true,
because they still pulled out to get the wide shot
of the crowd instead of the team celebrated. Yeah, but
there's something nice of that. But then I go back
(08:13):
to but not one person said, Hey, that puck is
worth a lot of money. Hey, that stick is worth
a lot of money. No, it rebably clows my mind though.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But like even now, like you and I, we've had
the opportunity to talk to a lot of people that
have played any number of sports through the years at
you know, collegiate stars, pro stars, and you talk to
them about things they might have kept. You know, my
kid kept this, or you know my parents. Like I
got a chance to do an event a couple of
weeks ago with Bryce Young and I'm like, are you
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swapping jersey?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, they're guys that I do with. But generally my parents.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Have taken up that for me, like either collecting cards
or the memorabilia whatever. So there's always the designated family
member that's like trying to keep it in perspective and
make sure that some of that stuff gets preserved. But
you think about it thirty forty years ago and some
of the stuff that comes up at auction or shows
up at a random good will or Salvation Army it's amazing.
(09:08):
I was like, well, this is a jersey from the fifties,
just was on a rack as Salvation Army. So you
never know what you're gonna find because the premium has
just been so much exacerbated in that market, exploding through
the years.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Man, I'll tell you a million dollar puck. Nobody picked
it up. Congratulations, Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I still can't believe that though, like someone off the
equipment staff didn't pocket that. Realizing the payday, I'll tell you,
as exciting as it was, I mean, one person all
they needed to tell you, like, yep, I'm gonna go.
I don't need to skate, I'm gonna crawl on the
ice to the back of that net, past the angry Canadians.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down, Jason Smith, Micarmon,
oh Wren memorabilia coming out. Just gonna watch the Golden Show. Yeah,
tell the episodes I've seen have been fantastic. H But
today was a big day. Tag day in the NFL.
Breesehall gets the franchise tag from the Jets. Kenneth Walker
gets no tag. He's gonna hit free agency with the Seahawks.
(10:08):
Daniel Jones gets the seldom used transition tag, but clearly
the biggest one. Hey, Brece Hall most talented running back. Sorry,
Kenneth Walker, You'll have to take getting paid and being
Super Bowl MVP. But bres Hall gets the franchise tag
from the Jets, and I'm gonna talk to you real
about this. When this first came out, I watched the
(10:30):
responses other Jets fans people on social media, and I
see their point. Great moves, twenty four years old, terrific
running back, ran for a thousand yards of the really
bad team. It's hard to do. Brees Hall has been
a really good playmaker since he came into the league.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I love Bresall and you need to keep playmakers. However,
I wouldn't have done this. I would have traded him
at the deadline and moved on because he's never been
the same guy he was As a rookie. He was great,
averaging like twelve yards of carry that he tears his
(11:05):
acl against Denver. And since he's come back, he's been good,
but he hasn't been that breakaway guy. He's been good
and he's a really good player. And like I said,
I love bres Hall, Right, he's the second best playmaker
the Jets have behind Garrett Wilson. Right, I love bres Hall,
but he's not been that same guy. But still twenty
four and he's shown that he's pretty good. But this
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is what gets me is that breas Hall wants two things,
all right. He wants to get paid and he wants
to get out of from with the Jets. Right, that's
what he wants. He wants to get paid the most,
but he also wants to get out from New York.
Understanding he doesn't control that. That's a bad combination to
pay someone when the number one thing they want is
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to get paid, and you know they also would love
to get paid someplace else than where they are, right
because the Jets franchise him for you know, thirteen fourteen million.
Darren Mougie the GM says, yeah, I feel like he
wants to be here. Oh, oh that's where you're at.
Feel like he wants to be here. I've seen all
his social media posts. He has been frustrated with the
Jets regularly and has hinted about wanting out, But he
(12:08):
doesn't control his destiny. When you pay someone who wants
to get paid but will get paid by anybody, even
the place he's at he doesn't want to be at.
That never works out well because if the Jets paid
Breeze Hall, I'll tell you what's gonna happen. Either the
relationship is still gonna sour and they're gonna have to
get rid of him anyway, because he's gonna be upset
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with the losing. He's talked about stuff I want to
accomplish in my career, X, Y, and Z. Either you're
gonna have to move on from him and trade him
because he's gonna still be upset with the team, or
he's gonna get paid and then watch his stats drop.
Because when a guy wants to get paid and the
team that pays him is not the place he wants
to be, are you going out going crazy? Hey, I
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gotta put myself on the line for this team. That's
a bad combination to have. The best thing for Breese
Hall would have been the Jets trade him at the deadline.
He can go anywhere he wants doing free agency, make
a lot of money. Jets would have gotten a good
pick back for him, probably a third round pick, maybe
could have juiced into a second round pick depending on
certain benchmarks Breese Hall makes. They could have turned into
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a really big pick and they would have gotten rid
of a guy who was not happy. And you can't
have guys that aren't happy around. It doesn't work all
of a sudden. It's not gonna be happy to be
there because I got paid. Anybody that gets paid from
a place, they don't want to be. Okay, I'm there
for the money, and you're miserable. Look at Deseean Watson
didn't want to be a Cleveland Brown. We're gonna guarantee
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you all this money. Look how miserable that's been from
both sides for the past five years. Right, that's why
the Breese Hall thing. I get it. It makes sense
on paper. But the guy doesn't want to be there.
And if you pay him long term, because they're gonna
still work on a long term deal, what's gonna happen
right this year? If he winds up playing the franchise tag. Yeah, okay,
maybe he winds up having a decent season, but he's
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gonna go after this year and the Jets aren't gonna
get anything for him. Right. He put out a message
on social media today, I always bet on myself, So hey, great,
year this year for a three and fourteen team. Then
he's gonna be gone and the Jets aren't going to
get anything for him. They could have really sold high
in him when they were selling up a bunch of
other guys. That was the right move. This seems like
it was right, but really it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Unless somebody gets truly desperate at the midpoint of the season,
then you'll have paid him about seven million dollars to
go on. Look, they give him the non exclusive tag
so someone could match or give them a better offer,
and then they'd have the opportunity the Jets to say no,
thank you and get two first round picks.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, we know that.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Sure as hell isn't gonna happen for a running back
as good as Breise Hall can be in spots, it's
the curiosity of what you think you can get in
the marketplace. Say he is motivated, right, bet on himself
while he has a good half a year, whatever you
do at quarterback, whatever you build around him, even if
you're not winning, that he can still show out, still
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show he's one of the best running backs in the game.
And maybe you get better than that third or fourth
round pick than you would have had a year ago.
It's a dicey business proposition. A lot of the insiders say, well,
they're working towards the long term deal. To your point,
we've chronicled it, your jetstum and just our love of
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ribbing each other with our respective team's angst. But brees
Hall is a guy clearly unhappy with the direction the
team has taken for the last two plus years. I
mean his entire run there with the Jets, but certainly
a much bigger picture now as you get into that
next phase of your career where you need that second,
second contract, where you're trying to get that big payday.
(15:33):
It's great to get the fourteen point three, that's fantastic,
but it doesn't get you to endgame and really you're
just kicking the tire down the road.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Yeah, on
the Surfa sounds great, but when you just look into
a little bit, yeah, probably should have moved on from earlier.
We got more NFL on the way, but straight ahead
a big preview of the World Baseball Classic. John Paul
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(16:03):
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Back from Italy where he try to get an interview
with Pope Leo. John Palmer Rosi's I guess right now,
John Paul, what's happening man? How are you welcome back?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Outstanding Gazi? No interview with the Pope, but I did
see two gold medal winning hockey games for the United
States of America, so that was a pretty successful trip
all the way around. And no word yet on if
Pope Leo plans to attend the US versus Italy match
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in the World Baseball Classic in Houston coming up within
the week. That would be a great venued interview the Pope.
But if if it doesn't happen, then I will look
for the next opportunity, either maybe during the World Cup
or another chance and hopefully is coming our way.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So you know, what would have been a even better
trip to Italy for you?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
What's that? You know?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It would have been a better trip if you had
gotten the Jack Hues game winning puck. You'd had a
million dollar puck.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
So that was my first question was where did the
puck go? And in whose hands did it find itself?
Because it went into the net so sneakily to begin
with that it had a certain mystery about it all
the way along. And yes, well I was. I was
in the stands and not in approximate location to be
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able to fish that puck out of the net. Remember,
there is still I may be mistaken on this, but
there was a lot of mystery about where the Chicago
Blackhawks twenty ten puck went. It was the game in
Philly ended in such chaotic fashion that there was a
mystery about that one too, So add that one to
the list.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Did you at least steal me a couple of ticket studs?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
So here's the interesting thing about that all tickets one
of the words no, so I did not. All tickets
were digital. I am contemplating ordering the actual paper tickets
after the fact. That's actually a question. Instead of you
asking me questions, I'm gonna put that to you. Is
that a worthwhile thing.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
To happen if you can get the paper tickets printed? Yes,
pay whatever you need to. Yeah, you used to have
a kiosk at Staples Center where you could do that
with your game ticket. It is well worth that the
marketplace for ticket stubs is starting to explode and only
a fraction of people will actually do it.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Interesting, Well, I have gotten insights into the world of
ticket stubs from you this evening, and I appreciate it
very much. Yeah, I gotta work on that now.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It would have been easier if you just went over
the boards and got the puck. Kenny Albert would have broadcasted.
And there's John Paul Morosi looking to get the puck.
There he is MLB Networks home looking at him. He's
got it. He's trying to find his way off the ice,
weaving his way past Connor Hellibuk.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I saw Kenny. I saw Kenny before that game, actually
in the on the third level of the of the stands.
I think I did I tell you that the story
about seeing ROUSIONI. If I didn't, I can tell you
what happened. So I was a great conversation with my
friend Steve Buckley, longtime Boston Columbus, who, of course Eruzioni knows.
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And so I was there on the concourse at the
little snack par there behind where the press was sitting,
and uh, and Eruzioni walks up and says I to Steve,
and then he says alone to me, very unlikely that
he knew had any clue who I was, nor should
he but he says alone to me, and I said, Mike,
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I have with me here the copy of La Gazette
Dento Sport, which is my favorite publication in the world,
really daily publication, because it is an all sports newspaper,
all in Italian, the best. And I said, Mike, this
story right here, like the center display of the paper
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was was all about the men's hockey gold medal game,
and and the the the page I'm looking at it
right now is miraco jacio, which we can guess what
that means, miracle on ice luto a, meaning that was
the last time the US won. So I have this
paper in Italian and I showed it. I said, Mike,
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look this, this paper is all in Italian. And look
there's there's your name. Your name is in this story.
It's in the story right here, so it's it's in
our native language about the miracle on ice. And Mike
looks at me and smiles and says, the only word
I know in Italian is and he said something I
can't repeat on the earth. So uh, that was that's
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my Eruzione story. That was our conversation before the gold
medal game. And of course hours later at long last
he had some company among the the gold medalists, among
the American men at the Olympic winner game.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
All right, now you leave the U the comfort of
Milan and the Italy Olympics to head to the World
Baseball Classic. If I said to you your confidence level
of the United States winning the WBC on a scale
of one to ten. If one is forget it not happening,
ten is yes, it's gonna happen, regardless of whatever Aaron
Judge says. Where are you right now? You're confidence level
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for the.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
United States, I've got it at a five. It's a
it's a toss up, and maybe even I would bump
that down a little bit to a four in the
sense that if you gave me all the teams in
the World Baseball Classic in one bucket and said, do
you think the winner's going to come from this bucket
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or is the winner going to be the United States?
I would take I would take the field, I think,
And there's no disrespect to the US. The US may
in fact have the best chance of anybody, but I
don't think it's more than fifty percent. Right now, there's
this there's so many good teams. I don't know, the
Dominican Republic played the Tigers tonight, a quality ball club,
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and like the last home run landed in my front
yard like five minutes ago. I mean, like all the
way from Senator to Mingo. I mean that lineup is unreal.
Team Japan maybe not quite as formidable as they were
last time around. Of course, if Twany is not pitching,
the pitching depth doesn't seem to be there. But I
do think Korea is better, Taiwan is better. Venezuela competitive again,
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as I mentioned, the Dominicans are certainly better. So in
a one one game playoff situation, anything can happen. So
I think the US probably still has the best chance
of any individual nation of winning it. But I don't
think any individual nation is above fifty percent. There's just
there's too many excellent baseball nations right now coming.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Off of the Olympics and end of this competition. I mean,
I would have hoped for a little more raw row
from Aaron Judge in that speech that went viral JP.
I mean, I don't know how inspiring that necessarily was.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Well, I think that that first of all, everybody's gonna
lead the way that they that they want to lead,
and and it's it's not It's not fair to expect
that Aaron Judge is going to be Herb Brooks. It's different,
different different sport, different time. Uh, maybe not even fair
to expect him to be Austin Matthews and Brady could chuck.
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Everybody's going to be their own person, their own leader.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I think that that from where I sit, that Aaron's
confidence is perfect. He's what he said is probably quite
similar to what Derek Jeter would have said in a
similar circumstance. And he has played every game of his
career pressure packed because the Yankees are supposed to win
every game. And and I think that he has worn
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that mantle of captain of the Yankees face of baseball
as well as anybody possibly could. And I think that
the ethos to me of Team USA is we're really talented.
We just need to play play, respect the competition, respect
the game, stay within ourselves, and we've got an excellent
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chance to win this tournament. And I think he's right.
The pitching, obviously is always the big question in this tournament.
But when you look at this lineup, I think they
can beat you in different ways than maybe they did
in past years. It's not just an All Star team
with a bunch of sluggers. They've got some players that
can play small balls, need be. I love Roman Anthony
being on this team. I love Bryce Draang being on
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this team. Some of the younger guys that have really
emerged a lot. So I'm a fan of the way
that they've put this team together, certainly Mark Durosa and
Andy Pettitt. They've got some rules around the pitching usage,
whether it's scoobable schemes or anybody else, that is totally normal.
Basically every American roster ever has had all with that.
(26:01):
That's the price of having great pitchers that are on
major league teams that want to protect them. Now, the
one thing I think is fascinating here is is Kershaw
is totally uninimited. He can do whatever he darn well bleazes,
and so it's not out of the realm of possibility
(26:23):
that a retired Clayton Kershaw will rank at the end
of the day among the five or six leaders in
its pitched just because he doesn't have a boss telling
him what he can and can't do like everybody else does.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
John Ballist we had a long discussion on this last night,
and I was called anti American. I don't understand something
we're not being told. Here's Clayton Kersher retired from Major
League Baseball winning the World Series. The Dodgers know we
can only throw him out there for a very short
amount of time in one game in the World Series,
and it worked out well for him. But he's retired.
(26:59):
But I'm going to go through the entire offseason. I'm
gonna train and I'm gonna get ready. And he looks
it looks like he's been training, doesn't quite have the
dad body had the end of the last couple of years,
but he knows coming in. Mark Turosis said, yeah, no
guarantees even gonna pitch, So that something doesn't compute with
me here that he retired. But i want to be
on the WBC team. But I'm not even guaranteed to pitch.
(27:19):
Something's not computing here.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
We wants to wear the uniform. That's a pretty cool
way to go out. I actually think it makes complete sense.
First of all, one of the most vital things that
you must have on a team in a tournament like
this where every inning is precious. Let's say tm USA
is leading Brazil nine to nothing and it's the eighth inning.
(27:42):
Instead of using David Betnar and the guys you need
for tomorrow's game, put Kersher out there and you know,
if things get goofy, I guess you still have Bednar there,
but cover those innings. It is not about throwing the
best guys in every inning. It is lining up your
pitching the best that you can to win the relay
(28:05):
race of seven games. That's the goal. It's the four
pool play games and you hope you play quarterfinal, semifinals
seven games. That's it. It is as short of a
tournament as you could possibly imagine. So it is about
getting as many big outs from your best pitchers as possible.
(28:27):
And if you have a nine to nothing lead on Brazil,
you do not need to waste schemes in that situation.
Get Kershaw on the game, Get some of your lower
leverage guys in the game. Ryan Yarborough Kershaw, get him
in there. And that's just smart managing for me. So
I realize there is a little bit of stage craft here.
(28:48):
This is baseball. Let's dull show business. I get it.
But he can actually serve a very valuable purpose and
that he's the only pitcher on the roster whose GM
is not sending Mark de Rosa a usage restriction that
looks something like the the you know, the the fifty
five page plans of a whole home generator that you got,
(29:10):
And that's what it looks like. It's not that, it's
it's with Kershard say hey, he's here, you can pitch.
That's it, And I think that's actually a very important
thing to have on your team.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. He is on Twitter
again at John Morosi. By that philosophy, John Paul would
be okay to say, hey, John Paul, we're gonna send
you to cover the World Baseball Classic. Get ready. Okay,
that's great, but we can't guarantee you that you're gonna
be on TV. Wait wait, wait what wait? Not just
go cover the cloud? We can't, but we can't guarantee
you're gonna be on TV. All right, go for the experience,
(29:40):
John Paul MOROSSI, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
You get it. Hey, listen, man, listen, these guys they're
not staying in a in a low budget one star hotel.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Man.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Okay, I mean there's a nice hotel hanging out with
a lot of really cool people. Where where are your
country on your jersey? All those things I think are
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
John Paul is always appreciated. Look, we'll talk to your
Friday after Game one. United States and Brazil. Enjoy the
trip to Houston.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Love it can't wait, My friends, all the best.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
See there goes John Paul Morose. I was gonna do
a trash can line there for him, but I decided,
I decided, Okay, yeah, well, I mean he loves baseball.
I mean Aaron Judge bored me. Yeah. Good. Well, here's
the thing about Aaron Judge, right, because I know he's
been getting a lot of a lot of a flak
on that, and I'm like, I get it, but I
honestly think it's stupid because it's not like a speech
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he was giving. They were gonna go out and play.
This wasn't This wasn't right before United This wasn'ty. We
played them ten times, they might beat us nine, but
not tonight. This is everybody's here. We're meeting each other
for the.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
First welcoming everybody to Vegas at the beginning of Oceans West.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
This is hey, everybody, we're all here. Hey, let's play
together and guess what we're gonna go home with the gold.
We're very excited about it. Let's go. This is the
first minute. This is not Hey, we're getting out there
in two minutes and let's go. No, this is not
that you were born to be baseball players, every one
of them. I mean, this is not that. Oh McClanahan,
come on, you got a bruise, get out there and play.
(31:12):
You want me to play? Coach you haven that I'll
get him going to the second period, like I mean that.
That's the thing is that If it was that kind
of speech, I get it. But this is just him, Hey,
welcome to camp. It's it's when you get to summer
camp and the councilor says everybody, welcome in. Everybody be okay,
the twelve year olds, you're in the bunk over there.
Thirteen year olds are across the the pond over there.
We're gonna meet two o'clock for a late lunch.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
But when we get everybody in at two o'clock, you
gotta put on a blanket show get welcome to camp. O,
Get goodbody campus.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I'm your uncle Laddie, and I welcome mute time not
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
So someone who's been called the Aaron Judge of Fox
Sports Radio, his pre show speeches are just okay, it's
Steve to say.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And both of the US are eight feet six inches
to Team USA today one exhibition in Arizona, fifteen to
one against the San Francisco Giants, Aaron Judge and Bryce
Harper with two run singles, Alex Bregman a solo homer.
By the way, It's Wednesday against the Rockies for Team USA,
and then Friday night they start the World Baseball Classic
(32:16):
in Houston against Brazil on Fox TV. FS one has
plenty of tournament games. Australia opens the Attorney in Tokyo
Wednesday and Thursday nights on FS one. So the US
with a win today in Arizona and Paul Skeins of
Pittsburgh was the starting pitcher. Three innings, one run, allowed,
four strikeouts, no walks. Then tonight the Dominican Republic won
(32:38):
its exhibition against the Detroit Tigers twelve to four home
runs from Juan Soto, Manny Machado, and Junior Camanaro, who
went four for four and for the Dominicans, leadoff man
Fernando Tatist Junior was three for three with a walk.
Braves outfielder Jerrekson Profar was handed a one year suspension
after failing a ped test for the second time last year.
(33:00):
He served eighty games last season. Dodgers pitcher Rookie Sasaki
allowed a grand slam in the first inning. The Dodgers
wound up winning the preseason game five to four against Cleveland,
which had only two hits after the first inning. Sasaki
went two innings with three walks. The Yankees won an
exhibition against Panama eleven to one. The win to Max
Freed three scoreless innings, did have three walks, and Toronto
(33:23):
beat Canada ten to seven. Today, three run homer bottom
of the eighth did the trick. The New York Jets
franchise tag running back Bresee Hall. The Colts used the
transition tag on quarterback Daniel Jones, so Indy has the
right to match any offer he gets. The Cardinals will
release quarterback Kyler Murray this month. Bears Pro Bowl center
Drew Dolman, who is retiring after five seasons to college
(33:46):
basketball at Arizona State. The Sun Devils have just beaten
number fourteen Kansas seventy to sixty on FS one. They
joined the UCLA game in progress and the Bruins at
home lead number nine Nebraska twenty seven to eighteen with
about seven and a half minutes to go in the
first half.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Has Mick Cronin thrown any of his players out of
this game yet? Oh, we're waiting for okay, waiting for that.
All right, we're still in the first half here, people. Oh,
that's straight in. It is early. It is early. My fault,
my foi.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
They'll still blow a nine point lead, they'll still be down.
There will be a fast break to come, and then
you'll get your wish. Vanderbilt right, twenty fourth comes back
for an overtime win at Ole Miss eighty nine eighty six.
Georgia upset number sixteen Alabama, and TCU won at number
ten Texas Tech seventy three sixty five. Miami, Ohio now
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thirty and oh after winning seventy four to seventy two
against Toledo. Two late games in the NBA, including the
Lakers at home now at halftime leading fifty four to
fifty one against New Orleans, which does have Zion Williamson
ten points for him in the first half he'd missed
last Sunday's game. Has JJ Reddick thrown Luka Doncic out
of this game yet? Has that happened once again? It's
(34:53):
just the first, okay, all right? One to make sure
I'm stressful, well to know. At Minnesota forty one points
for Anthony Edward, it's in a win over Memphis. At
Orlando thirty seven points for Polo Bancaro, it'll win against Washington.
Victories for New York, Oklahoma City and Cleveland. The Cabs
speed Detroit one thirteen, one oh nine.
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Speaker 1 (36:41):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, so Tag Day in the NFL. We
talked about Breeze Hall earlier this hour. Day in the
Franchise Tag from the Jets.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You're it in theory.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Sounds great, but I told you why bad idea. Kenneth Walker.
Super Bowl MVP. Kenneth Walker'll be allowed to test free agency.
I've already seen some rumors online of where the Seahawks
are gonna go to replace him. Look, we said it
at the time. I got a lot of hate from Seattle.
It's okay, I got big shoulders. KJR will have me
(37:15):
on any time I want to. We told you they
had to move on from Kenneth Walker. He is a
league average running back who splits time. That's at best
who he is. He only had the lion's share of
the carries because Zach Charbonnay got hurt. And I give
him a lot of credit because he played the best
football of his life at the absolute best time the
last couple of playoff games, super Bowl MVP. I'm happy
(37:37):
for him. He's gonna go somewhere in cash and he's
gonna get paid. But the Seahawks, you want to keep
that championship window open, you gotta pick where you're gonna
spend money, and you can't spend money on Kenneth Walker, right.
The guy is, He's just a guy. Can he help
other teams, Sure, other teams that are really running back bereft,
but you're gonna have Sharbonay coming back. There's other guys
out there that are gonna be cheaper. Kenneth Walker is
(37:59):
someone if he was great, if he was dynamic, I
would say okay. But he's a you know, a little
over four yard per carry guy. We've seen the best
of them and and he's just okay. He's in the
middle of the pack in every running back metric you
want to look at. Again, great games at the best time, right,
but he is a super Bowl here's one of those
guys you look back, we're looking back in you know, ten, fifteen,
(38:20):
twenty years in a whow Remember Kenneth Walker, that guy
was super Bowl MVP. Like we look back at guys
like Timmy Smith that were Super Bowl MVP, guys that
then hey, cash in because they have their best games
of a career. That is an okay career at the
right time. Kenneth Walker certainly is young, he certainly has talent,
but overall, there's better places to spend your money. He
is replaceable for the Seahawks. Yeah, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
They also put a tag On Holani, second year guy
that's played down the stretch for Walker, one of the
best things. He was part of the passing game far
more frequently down the stretch and into the playoffs, which
makes him look a little more attractive even then than
he was.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Thirty one catches in the regular season, nine in the postseason,
So showing that aptitude and the toughness as that touch
count went up, you know he'll He'll be a great
fit for say the Kansas City Chiefs if they can
clear enough cap space, or the Vikings as they move
on from Aaron Jones and look to support whomever the
next quarterback is alongside JJ McCarthy and go on down
(39:22):
the line. But to commit that much money to the
running back position when you already have Charmonague, who they
think will be back soon enough from the injury. You
have Alani and you can go back into the draft
and in free agency and cut your costs there while
you try to retain so many other free agents.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, it's best to move on. Yeah, I mean, look,
it's if everything was equal, you had money, you could
do it. I see it. But you have to make
a tough call. And I get that it's emotional. I
get it's really really difficult because the guy just won
Super Bowl MVP. But this is the NFL calendar, you know,
we turn it the next year right after right, not
too long ago. We had the commercial right after the
game ended was hey, the sun will come out tomorrow.
(40:02):
We're all zero and zero. Right, it's not too long.
That's just kind of how it goes. And if you
want to keep Kenneth walking, you want to pay him,
you want to franchise him or pay him long term.
What top five guys are getting, that's not gonna help you, right,
because he's not that good here. What he has given
you is replaceable.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Yeah, I mean you're just talking about the the tag
with Breis Hall. I mean it's fourteen point two million dollars, right,
Are you looking to pay that kind of money? Which
is why he didn't end up getting tagged? They have
sixty million dollars of cap space. But you're looking at
Young Woolen, sarat Shaheed, Mafe Jones, Joby and job and
(40:39):
Bryant that are unrestricted. That's just off the top before
you start looking at the other guys that you may
want to bring back into the fold.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
To drive.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Don't forget JSN wants a huge contract by the way, right.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Well, I mean I'm chucking more in terms of guys,
you have to make the immediate. But the other is
he's in the last year in that rookie deal. He's
making him happy. And as much as he said in
God's time and whatever else, he's like, I'm a business man.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
God's Time's coming. God Sait's here. I want to tell you,
it's here. It's I don't want to like. His whole
interview was I don't want to be that guy, but
I'm that guy. How do I bring it up by
saying it without not really saying it? Oh, this is
how I'll do it. He was very definitely done, by
the way. Yeah, so there goes a lot of your
sixty million exit at about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
(41:29):
Jason Smith macarman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Tough decision, but Seattle made the right call, and everybody
that hated me, he said, all you hate to the
Seahawks to see we agree. Coming up next, I think
I might know how to solve this issue the NBA
has with all these big blowout games and people not watching,
that's next Fox
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side hour to the Jason Smith Show
with my bas friend Mike Harmon her two let's go.
I have not seen any fracas, any disagreements between Luka
Doncic and JJ Reddick yet, have you. I've not seen it. No,
not yet.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I think they might not have captured it on camera.
On camera, but it is a five point deficit, three
point thirty three left in the first to the lowly Pelicans.
So you know, that's that that could blow up at
any moment.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Pee Pelicans, the Mighty Pelicans. So again, we'll keep you
updated on this, especially if something happens, you know, between
Donci and JJ Reddick. Wow, it's just inevitable, isn't it.
I Mean, come on now, speaking of basketball, before you
get to the NFL you know, we talked a few
minutes ago. I can't believe that we finally found the puck.
Jack Hughes scored the game winning goal, or it's the
(01:20):
the Olympic gold medal winning goal against Canada. He didn't
get it. Nobody picked it up off the ice. None
of his teammates picked it up, none of his coaches
picked it up. Somehow, It's at the Hockey Hall of
Fame now and they have it, they're gonna display it.
And I feel like, you know, and I feel weird
about this because I feel like, yeah, that's where a
puck like that should be. But now I feel like
(01:41):
that if it's a million dollar puck, and that's what
you know, people are saying, that would be worthy was
sold right now, That's something that could change somebody's life.
It could change somebody's life. Who's on Team USA. Look,
I'm on, but I'm not making a ton of cash.
I'm making a million dollars off of this, Okay, I'm
feeling excited about either way. A million dollars is a
million dollars. Yeah, I mean after taxes.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
If you sold it, no matter where you are, you're
still clear and enough for a house in most municipalities.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, we we are in an era where it's
twenty twenty six, where stuff like that people know that.
People know, Hey, Otani up, he's got fifty four stolen bases,
forty nine home runs. This ball is gonna be worth
a lot, This home run ball, this sixtieth home run,
this three thousandth hit ball. If it's a home run,
it is gonna be worth a lot. People have to
know that this puck is gonna someone's gonna score a
(02:28):
game winning go whatever puck is used, it's worth a
lot of money.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Man, look at you and I somewhere Normally you would
be yelling at me, saying you're a ghoul that belongs
in the Hall of Fame. Whatever I'm glad in the museum.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Like doesn't dougman Kaevich have the ball from the Red
Sox world, But when he was celebrating, he held up
because he knew it was gonna be worth it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Dam about that when the White Sox won, when the
Cubs won, Like all of those pieces of memorabilia, whatever
was on the yield, the bat, the ball, the bases,
all of those things take on such great historic I mean, now.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You have to point out when you're in the field
for for a situation like that, right, like, say you're
you're on the field in Major League Baseball for the
final out of the World Series, the Cubs winning the
World Series, for the first out, whatever it's gonna be,
and you go, come on, fly ball to me, pop
out to me, round ball, second baseman, baseman to get
to I know that when hey, I if things get
(03:28):
crazy for me, Hey, I got this ball I could
sell and it's gonna be worth a lot of money
to somebody, Like, come on, I want the ball.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Hit it to me.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Hit it to me. And Frostburg was just telling me,
you know, you guys watched that Golden Show on Netflix,
all about the memorabilia and how the Golden Company sells
stuff and makes a lot of money, and uh, you
just told me the story about Karmelone's wife taking all
the Dream Team stuff, all their gear after they won
the gold medal in nineteen ninety two in Spain in Barcelona.
This is thirty five years. I literally think he got
(03:57):
like thirty to forty million dollars. Yeah, got a lot
of money for it. I know, signed all game used.
Everybody on the team just went in and got it
except Jordan's pair of shoes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, Scottie Pippen, who had never taken anything like those
are going up for auction because pis it a collection thing?
Uh yeah, no, tip, maybe that's why Jordan and Pippen
don't get a lot. He took my shoes. Well you
know what, no, no, no, my shoes. Remember, but like you
never asked for him? Like no, There was a famous
story because Jordan had his restaurant in Chicago and Pippin
had a huge birthday party and they stiffed the staff
(04:33):
and it got back to Jordan's like, you don't come
into my place that like whatever you do, like.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You you can't do that to these folks. But but
remember there's no Jordan without Pippen, right, just ask him,
I mean, you know, just you know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Absolutely, I'm selling shoes. So he never asked for him,
but he got them to sign those shoes. He'd never
asked for stuff before that, but he got those Olympic shoes.
So those are up for auction.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Won't you, Bobby? These shoes. It was the Christmas shoes
or that's all the Christmas song in the world. Oh no,
that's the settest song. I got a lot of sad stuff.
I don't even I don't even have that. Are you kidding?
That's the settest song in the world. I can't even go.
Every time that comes on, I'm like, it's the holidays, man,
I don't want to think I'm gonna turn that off.
(05:15):
That's too sad. It's enough when I hear Abba slipping
through your fingers, you know when your kid's growing up, like, okay,
enough guy, But Christmas, Man, I'm in my final months.
When we get the abb on on the playlist, I
look at Maddie and I go, what are you doing
to me? It's like, what are you about to ask
me for that? You're playing the OBA and screwing with
my emotion? Dad, you buy me your car or I
am leaving forever. No, She'll make it a negotiation, your
(05:37):
daughter making a gun. I'll stay, but you're gonna cut.
You're gonna come up with something. You're gonna get me
the Jack Hughes puck. Dad, you're gonna get me that puck.
I want to put that on display. I would to
wear it around my neck like flavor flav where's a clock?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, I mean Harry Styles is in New York in
the fall. Hey, dad, we're going to her official visit
next next month, right, meet the team, run through some
paces whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Hey, you know what we got a day? How about
a little bit of Broadway? All right? Others Hadestown, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
All of those things, because you know, with the harm
and surname, we have to go see things that start
with H.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, you'll be living it up on top. Yeah. Now
here's Karl Malone explaining the windfall that he had thanks
to the Dream Team memorabilias. This is where we play
the Karmelone sound talking about all the stuff he's got.
(06:32):
Maybe we just played stocked in alone. Just play Pipin
talking about having Jordan's shoes and selling him family the
jerseys kind of landing the floor. Yeah, and my wife
just started going up picking up the jerseys. And that's
how it happened.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
She just walked around and picked up Yeah, yeah, game
is jersey everybody wore that day. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You got lucky enough to be the one to do it,
so I can't take all the crip there you go.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So all that and he gave it to gold now
Golden and sold them all. Golden sold all of them.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, so that went up a couple of years ago.
It's probably doubled in value sense. So the people that
bought those jerseys, geez, are probably looking piece.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Of memorabilia from the Dream Team in nineteen ninety two.
Think about who's on that team, bird Mage, Oh yeah,
oh yeah, it was that you, Yeah, it was everybody
was the greatest team ever late yeah, the greatest team
ever assembled. Barkley was on that team.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But think about that squad all the way through the
legends of the game. I mean that's top fifty guys,
all up and down that roster, and the jerseys, the shorts,
whatever else they left, if they left their shoes grabbed
those may walk around with a laundry bucket. I'm taking
all this with me and put my name on it.
I'm telling you this is down Malone stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I did.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Again. We're in such an era that and I guess
part of it is it's admirable that, hey, after such
a great moment, everybody would caught up in the in
the in the emotion of the United States winning the
gold medal and the celebration and I mean not the broadcast, true,
because they still pulled out to get the wide shot
of the crowd instead of the team celebrated. Yeah, but
there's something nice of that. But then I go back
(08:13):
to but not one person said, Hey, that puck is
worth a lot of money. Hey, that stick is worth
a lot of money. No, it rebably clows my mind though.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But like even now, like you and I, we've had
the opportunity to talk to a lot of people that
have played any number of sports through the years at
you know, collegiate stars, pro stars, and you talk to
them about things they might have kept. You know, my
kid kept this, or you know my parents. Like I
got a chance to do an event a couple of
weeks ago with Bryce Young and I'm like, are you
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swapping jersey?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, they're guys that I do with. But generally my parents.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Have taken up that for me, like either collecting cards
or the memorabilia whatever. So there's always the designated family
member that's like trying to keep it in perspective and
make sure that some of that stuff gets preserved. But
you think about it thirty forty years ago and some
of the stuff that comes up at auction or shows
up at a random good will or Salvation Army it's amazing.
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I was like, well, this is a jersey from the fifties,
just was on a rack as Salvation Army. So you
never know what you're gonna find because the premium has
just been so much exacerbated in that market, exploding through
the years.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Man, I'll tell you a million dollar puck. Nobody picked
it up. Congratulations, Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I still can't believe that though, like someone off the
equipment staff didn't pocket that. Realizing the payday, I'll tell you,
as exciting as it was, I mean, one person all
they needed to tell you, like, yep, I'm gonna go.
I don't need to skate, I'm gonna crawl on the
ice to the back of that net, past the angry Canadians.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down, Jason Smith, Micarmon,
oh Wren memorabilia coming out. Just gonna watch the Golden Show. Yeah,
tell the episodes I've seen have been fantastic. H But
today was a big day. Tag day in the NFL.
Breesehall gets the franchise tag from the Jets. Kenneth Walker
gets no tag. He's gonna hit free agency with the Seahawks.
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Daniel Jones gets the seldom used transition tag, but clearly
the biggest one. Hey, Brece Hall most talented running back. Sorry,
Kenneth Walker, You'll have to take getting paid and being
Super Bowl MVP. But bres Hall gets the franchise tag
from the Jets, and I'm gonna talk to you real
about this. When this first came out, I watched the
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responses other Jets fans people on social media, and I
see their point. Great moves, twenty four years old, terrific
running back, ran for a thousand yards of the really
bad team. It's hard to do. Brees Hall has been
a really good playmaker since he came into the league.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I love Bresall and you need to keep playmakers. However,
I wouldn't have done this. I would have traded him
at the deadline and moved on because he's never been
the same guy he was As a rookie. He was great,
averaging like twelve yards of carry that he tears his
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acl against Denver. And since he's come back, he's been good,
but he hasn't been that breakaway guy. He's been good
and he's a really good player. And like I said,
I love bres Hall, Right, he's the second best playmaker
the Jets have behind Garrett Wilson. Right, I love bres Hall,
but he's not been that same guy. But still twenty
four and he's shown that he's pretty good. But this
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is what gets me is that breas Hall wants two things,
all right. He wants to get paid and he wants
to get out of from with the Jets. Right, that's
what he wants. He wants to get paid the most,
but he also wants to get out from New York.
Understanding he doesn't control that. That's a bad combination to
pay someone when the number one thing they want is
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to get paid, and you know they also would love
to get paid someplace else than where they are, right
because the Jets franchise him for you know, thirteen fourteen million.
Darren Mougie the GM says, yeah, I feel like he
wants to be here. Oh, oh that's where you're at.
Feel like he wants to be here. I've seen all
his social media posts. He has been frustrated with the
Jets regularly and has hinted about wanting out, But he
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doesn't control his destiny. When you pay someone who wants
to get paid but will get paid by anybody, even
the place he's at he doesn't want to be at.
That never works out well because if the Jets paid
Breeze Hall, I'll tell you what's gonna happen. Either the
relationship is still gonna sour and they're gonna have to
get rid of him anyway, because he's gonna be upset
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with the losing. He's talked about stuff I want to
accomplish in my career, X, Y, and Z. Either you're
gonna have to move on from him and trade him
because he's gonna still be upset with the team, or
he's gonna get paid and then watch his stats drop.
Because when a guy wants to get paid and the
team that pays him is not the place he wants
to be, are you going out going crazy? Hey, I
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gotta put myself on the line for this team. That's
a bad combination to have. The best thing for Breese
Hall would have been the Jets trade him at the deadline.
He can go anywhere he wants doing free agency, make
a lot of money. Jets would have gotten a good
pick back for him, probably a third round pick, maybe
could have juiced into a second round pick depending on
certain benchmarks Breese Hall makes. They could have turned into
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a really big pick and they would have gotten rid
of a guy who was not happy. And you can't
have guys that aren't happy around. It doesn't work all
of a sudden. It's not gonna be happy to be
there because I got paid. Anybody that gets paid from
a place, they don't want to be. Okay, I'm there
for the money, and you're miserable. Look at Deseean Watson
didn't want to be a Cleveland Brown. We're gonna guarantee
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you all this money. Look how miserable that's been from
both sides for the past five years. Right, that's why
the Breese Hall thing. I get it. It makes sense
on paper. But the guy doesn't want to be there.
And if you pay him long term, because they're gonna
still work on a long term deal, what's gonna happen
right this year? If he winds up playing the franchise tag. Yeah, okay,
maybe he winds up having a decent season, but he's
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gonna go after this year and the Jets aren't gonna
get anything for him. Right. He put out a message
on social media today, I always bet on myself, So hey, great,
year this year for a three and fourteen team. Then
he's gonna be gone and the Jets aren't going to
get anything for him. They could have really sold high
in him when they were selling up a bunch of
other guys. That was the right move. This seems like
it was right, but really it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Unless somebody gets truly desperate at the midpoint of the season,
then you'll have paid him about seven million dollars to
go on. Look, they give him the non exclusive tag
so someone could match or give them a better offer,
and then they'd have the opportunity the Jets to say no,
thank you and get two first round picks.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, we know that.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Sure as hell isn't gonna happen for a running back
as good as Breise Hall can be in spots, it's
the curiosity of what you think you can get in
the marketplace. Say he is motivated, right, bet on himself
while he has a good half a year, whatever you
do at quarterback, whatever you build around him, even if
you're not winning, that he can still show out, still
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show he's one of the best running backs in the game.
And maybe you get better than that third or fourth
round pick than you would have had a year ago.
It's a dicey business proposition. A lot of the insiders say, well,
they're working towards the long term deal. To your point,
we've chronicled it, your jetstum and just our love of
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ribbing each other with our respective team's angst. But brees
Hall is a guy clearly unhappy with the direction the
team has taken for the last two plus years. I
mean his entire run there with the Jets, but certainly
a much bigger picture now as you get into that
next phase of your career where you need that second,
second contract, where you're trying to get that big payday.
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It's great to get the fourteen point three, that's fantastic,
but it doesn't get you to endgame and really you're
just kicking the tire down the road.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Yeah, on
the Surfa sounds great, but when you just look into
a little bit, yeah, probably should have moved on from earlier.
We got more NFL on the way, but straight ahead
a big preview of the World Baseball Classic. John Paul
Morosi stops by tvsas illnesses injuries? Do they have great chemistry?
(16:03):
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Speaker 1 (16:52):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. That music can only mean the welcome
in of one person who is getting set to head
to Houston, United States, Brazil Night one of the World
Baseball Classic on Friday. Are men covering it all? Longtime
Baseball insider MLB Network with us here at Fox Sports Radio.
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Back from Italy where he try to get an interview
with Pope Leo. John Palmer Rosi's I guess right now,
John Paul, what's happening man? How are you welcome back?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Outstanding Gazi? No interview with the Pope, but I did
see two gold medal winning hockey games for the United
States of America, so that was a pretty successful trip
all the way around. And no word yet on if
Pope Leo plans to attend the US versus Italy match
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in the World Baseball Classic in Houston coming up within
the week. That would be a great venued interview the Pope.
But if if it doesn't happen, then I will look
for the next opportunity, either maybe during the World Cup
or another chance and hopefully is coming our way.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So you know, what would have been a even better
trip to Italy for you?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
What's that? You know?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It would have been a better trip if you had
gotten the Jack Hues game winning puck. You'd had a
million dollar puck.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
So that was my first question was where did the
puck go? And in whose hands did it find itself?
Because it went into the net so sneakily to begin
with that it had a certain mystery about it all
the way along. And yes, well I was. I was
in the stands and not in approximate location to be
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able to fish that puck out of the net. Remember,
there is still I may be mistaken on this, but
there was a lot of mystery about where the Chicago
Blackhawks twenty ten puck went. It was the game in
Philly ended in such chaotic fashion that there was a
mystery about that one too, So add that one to
the list.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Did you at least steal me a couple of ticket studs?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
So here's the interesting thing about that all tickets one
of the words no, so I did not. All tickets
were digital. I am contemplating ordering the actual paper tickets
after the fact. That's actually a question. Instead of you
asking me questions, I'm gonna put that to you. Is
that a worthwhile thing.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
To happen if you can get the paper tickets printed? Yes,
pay whatever you need to. Yeah, you used to have
a kiosk at Staples Center where you could do that
with your game ticket. It is well worth that the
marketplace for ticket stubs is starting to explode and only
a fraction of people will actually do it.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Interesting, Well, I have gotten insights into the world of
ticket stubs from you this evening, and I appreciate it
very much. Yeah, I gotta work on that now.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It would have been easier if you just went over
the boards and got the puck. Kenny Albert would have broadcasted.
And there's John Paul Morosi looking to get the puck.
There he is MLB Networks home looking at him. He's
got it. He's trying to find his way off the ice,
weaving his way past Connor Hellibuk.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I saw Kenny. I saw Kenny before that game, actually
in the on the third level of the of the stands.
I think I did I tell you that the story
about seeing ROUSIONI. If I didn't, I can tell you
what happened. So I was a great conversation with my
friend Steve Buckley, longtime Boston Columbus, who, of course Eruzioni knows.
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And so I was there on the concourse at the
little snack par there behind where the press was sitting,
and uh, and Eruzioni walks up and says I to Steve,
and then he says alone to me, very unlikely that
he knew had any clue who I was, nor should
he but he says alone to me, and I said, Mike,
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I have with me here the copy of La Gazette
Dento Sport, which is my favorite publication in the world,
really daily publication, because it is an all sports newspaper,
all in Italian, the best. And I said, Mike, this
story right here, like the center display of the paper
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was was all about the men's hockey gold medal game,
and and the the the page I'm looking at it
right now is miraco jacio, which we can guess what
that means, miracle on ice luto a, meaning that was
the last time the US won. So I have this
paper in Italian and I showed it. I said, Mike,
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look this, this paper is all in Italian. And look
there's there's your name. Your name is in this story.
It's in the story right here, so it's it's in
our native language about the miracle on ice. And Mike
looks at me and smiles and says, the only word
I know in Italian is and he said something I
can't repeat on the earth. So uh, that was that's
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my Eruzione story. That was our conversation before the gold
medal game. And of course hours later at long last
he had some company among the the gold medalists, among
the American men at the Olympic winner game.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
All right, now you leave the U the comfort of
Milan and the Italy Olympics to head to the World
Baseball Classic. If I said to you your confidence level
of the United States winning the WBC on a scale
of one to ten. If one is forget it not happening,
ten is yes, it's gonna happen, regardless of whatever Aaron
Judge says. Where are you right now? You're confidence level
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for the.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
United States, I've got it at a five. It's a
it's a toss up, and maybe even I would bump
that down a little bit to a four in the
sense that if you gave me all the teams in
the World Baseball Classic in one bucket and said, do
you think the winner's going to come from this bucket
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or is the winner going to be the United States?
I would take I would take the field, I think,
And there's no disrespect to the US. The US may
in fact have the best chance of anybody, but I
don't think it's more than fifty percent. Right now, there's
this there's so many good teams. I don't know, the
Dominican Republic played the Tigers tonight, a quality ball club,
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and like the last home run landed in my front
yard like five minutes ago. I mean, like all the
way from Senator to Mingo. I mean that lineup is unreal.
Team Japan maybe not quite as formidable as they were
last time around. Of course, if Twany is not pitching,
the pitching depth doesn't seem to be there. But I
do think Korea is better, Taiwan is better. Venezuela competitive again,
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as I mentioned, the Dominicans are certainly better. So in
a one one game playoff situation, anything can happen. So
I think the US probably still has the best chance
of any individual nation of winning it. But I don't
think any individual nation is above fifty percent. There's just
there's too many excellent baseball nations right now coming.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Off of the Olympics and end of this competition. I mean,
I would have hoped for a little more raw row
from Aaron Judge in that speech that went viral JP.
I mean, I don't know how inspiring that necessarily was.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Well, I think that that first of all, everybody's gonna
lead the way that they that they want to lead,
and and it's it's not It's not fair to expect
that Aaron Judge is going to be Herb Brooks. It's different,
different different sport, different time. Uh, maybe not even fair
to expect him to be Austin Matthews and Brady could chuck.
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Everybody's going to be their own person, their own leader.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I think that that from where I sit, that Aaron's
confidence is perfect. He's what he said is probably quite
similar to what Derek Jeter would have said in a
similar circumstance. And he has played every game of his
career pressure packed because the Yankees are supposed to win
every game. And and I think that he has worn
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that mantle of captain of the Yankees face of baseball
as well as anybody possibly could. And I think that
the ethos to me of Team USA is we're really talented.
We just need to play play, respect the competition, respect
the game, stay within ourselves, and we've got an excellent
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chance to win this tournament. And I think he's right.
The pitching, obviously is always the big question in this tournament.
But when you look at this lineup, I think they
can beat you in different ways than maybe they did
in past years. It's not just an All Star team
with a bunch of sluggers. They've got some players that
can play small balls, need be. I love Roman Anthony
being on this team. I love Bryce Draang being on
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this team. Some of the younger guys that have really
emerged a lot. So I'm a fan of the way
that they've put this team together, certainly Mark Durosa and
Andy Pettitt. They've got some rules around the pitching usage,
whether it's scoobable schemes or anybody else, that is totally normal.
Basically every American roster ever has had all with that.
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That's the price of having great pitchers that are on
major league teams that want to protect them. Now, the
one thing I think is fascinating here is is Kershaw
is totally uninimited. He can do whatever he darn well bleazes,
and so it's not out of the realm of possibility
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that a retired Clayton Kershaw will rank at the end
of the day among the five or six leaders in
its pitched just because he doesn't have a boss telling
him what he can and can't do like everybody else does.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
John Ballist we had a long discussion on this last night,
and I was called anti American. I don't understand something
we're not being told. Here's Clayton Kersher retired from Major
League Baseball winning the World Series. The Dodgers know we
can only throw him out there for a very short
amount of time in one game in the World Series,
and it worked out well for him. But he's retired.
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But I'm going to go through the entire offseason. I'm
gonna train and I'm gonna get ready. And he looks
it looks like he's been training, doesn't quite have the
dad body had the end of the last couple of years,
but he knows coming in. Mark Turosis said, yeah, no
guarantees even gonna pitch, So that something doesn't compute with
me here that he retired. But i want to be
on the WBC team. But I'm not even guaranteed to pitch.
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Something's not computing here.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
We wants to wear the uniform. That's a pretty cool
way to go out. I actually think it makes complete sense.
First of all, one of the most vital things that
you must have on a team in a tournament like
this where every inning is precious. Let's say tm USA
is leading Brazil nine to nothing and it's the eighth inning.
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Instead of using David Betnar and the guys you need
for tomorrow's game, put Kersher out there and you know,
if things get goofy, I guess you still have Bednar there,
but cover those innings. It is not about throwing the
best guys in every inning. It is lining up your
pitching the best that you can to win the relay
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race of seven games. That's the goal. It's the four
pool play games and you hope you play quarterfinal, semifinals
seven games. That's it. It is as short of a
tournament as you could possibly imagine. So it is about
getting as many big outs from your best pitchers as possible.
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And if you have a nine to nothing lead on Brazil,
you do not need to waste schemes in that situation.
Get Kershaw on the game, Get some of your lower
leverage guys in the game. Ryan Yarborough Kershaw, get him
in there. And that's just smart managing for me. So
I realize there is a little bit of stage craft here.
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This is baseball. Let's dull show business. I get it.
But he can actually serve a very valuable purpose and
that he's the only pitcher on the roster whose GM
is not sending Mark de Rosa a usage restriction that
looks something like the the you know, the the fifty
five page plans of a whole home generator that you got,
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And that's what it looks like. It's not that, it's
it's with Kershard say hey, he's here, you can pitch.
That's it, And I think that's actually a very important
thing to have on your team.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. He is on Twitter
again at John Morosi. By that philosophy, John Paul would
be okay to say, hey, John Paul, we're gonna send
you to cover the World Baseball Classic. Get ready. Okay,
that's great, but we can't guarantee you that you're gonna
be on TV. Wait wait, wait what wait? Not just
go cover the cloud? We can't, but we can't guarantee
you're gonna be on TV. All right, go for the experience,
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John Paul MOROSSI, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
You get it. Hey, listen, man, listen, these guys they're
not staying in a in a low budget one star hotel.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Man.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Okay, I mean there's a nice hotel hanging out with
a lot of really cool people. Where where are your
country on your jersey? All those things I think are
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
John Paul is always appreciated. Look, we'll talk to your
Friday after Game one. United States and Brazil. Enjoy the
trip to Houston.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Love it can't wait, My friends, all the best.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
See there goes John Paul Morose. I was gonna do
a trash can line there for him, but I decided,
I decided, Okay, yeah, well, I mean he loves baseball.
I mean Aaron Judge bored me. Yeah. Good. Well, here's
the thing about Aaron Judge, right, because I know he's
been getting a lot of a lot of a flak
on that, and I'm like, I get it, but I
honestly think it's stupid because it's not like a speech
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he was giving. They were gonna go out and play.
This wasn't This wasn't right before United This wasn'ty. We
played them ten times, they might beat us nine, but
not tonight. This is everybody's here. We're meeting each other
for the.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
First welcoming everybody to Vegas at the beginning of Oceans West.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
This is hey, everybody, we're all here. Hey, let's play
together and guess what we're gonna go home with the gold.
We're very excited about it. Let's go. This is the
first minute. This is not Hey, we're getting out there
in two minutes and let's go. No, this is not
that you were born to be baseball players, every one
of them. I mean, this is not that. Oh McClanahan,
come on, you got a bruise, get out there and play.
(31:12):
You want me to play? Coach you haven that I'll
get him going to the second period, like I mean that.
That's the thing is that If it was that kind
of speech, I get it. But this is just him, Hey,
welcome to camp. It's it's when you get to summer
camp and the councilor says everybody, welcome in. Everybody be okay,
the twelve year olds, you're in the bunk over there.
Thirteen year olds are across the the pond over there.
We're gonna meet two o'clock for a late lunch.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
But when we get everybody in at two o'clock, you
gotta put on a blanket show get welcome to camp. O,
Get goodbody campus.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I'm your uncle Laddie, and I welcome mute time not
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
So someone who's been called the Aaron Judge of Fox
Sports Radio, his pre show speeches are just okay, it's
Steve to say.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And both of the US are eight feet six inches
to Team USA today one exhibition in Arizona, fifteen to
one against the San Francisco Giants, Aaron Judge and Bryce
Harper with two run singles, Alex Bregman a solo homer.
By the way, It's Wednesday against the Rockies for Team USA,
and then Friday night they start the World Baseball Classic
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in Houston against Brazil on Fox TV. FS one has
plenty of tournament games. Australia opens the Attorney in Tokyo
Wednesday and Thursday nights on FS one. So the US
with a win today in Arizona and Paul Skeins of
Pittsburgh was the starting pitcher. Three innings, one run, allowed,
four strikeouts, no walks. Then tonight the Dominican Republic won
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its exhibition against the Detroit Tigers twelve to four home
runs from Juan Soto, Manny Machado, and Junior Camanaro, who
went four for four and for the Dominicans, leadoff man
Fernando Tatist Junior was three for three with a walk.
Braves outfielder Jerrekson Profar was handed a one year suspension
after failing a ped test for the second time last year.
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He served eighty games last season. Dodgers pitcher Rookie Sasaki
allowed a grand slam in the first inning. The Dodgers
wound up winning the preseason game five to four against Cleveland,
which had only two hits after the first inning. Sasaki
went two innings with three walks. The Yankees won an
exhibition against Panama eleven to one. The win to Max
Freed three scoreless innings, did have three walks, and Toronto
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beat Canada ten to seven. Today, three run homer bottom
of the eighth did the trick. The New York Jets
franchise tag running back Bresee Hall. The Colts used the
transition tag on quarterback Daniel Jones, so Indy has the
right to match any offer he gets. The Cardinals will
release quarterback Kyler Murray this month. Bears Pro Bowl center
Drew Dolman, who is retiring after five seasons to college
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basketball at Arizona State. The Sun Devils have just beaten
number fourteen Kansas seventy to sixty on FS one. They
joined the UCLA game in progress and the Bruins at
home lead number nine Nebraska twenty seven to eighteen with
about seven and a half minutes to go in the
first half.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Has Mick Cronin thrown any of his players out of
this game yet? Oh, we're waiting for okay, waiting for that.
All right, we're still in the first half here, people. Oh,
that's straight in. It is early. It is early. My fault,
my foi.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
They'll still blow a nine point lead, they'll still be down.
There will be a fast break to come, and then
you'll get your wish. Vanderbilt right, twenty fourth comes back
for an overtime win at Ole Miss eighty nine eighty six.
Georgia upset number sixteen Alabama, and TCU won at number
ten Texas Tech seventy three sixty five. Miami, Ohio now
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thirty and oh after winning seventy four to seventy two
against Toledo. Two late games in the NBA, including the
Lakers at home now at halftime leading fifty four to
fifty one against New Orleans, which does have Zion Williamson
ten points for him in the first half he'd missed
last Sunday's game. Has JJ Reddick thrown Luka Doncic out
of this game yet? Has that happened once again? It's
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just the first, okay, all right? One to make sure
I'm stressful, well to know. At Minnesota forty one points
for Anthony Edward, it's in a win over Memphis. At
Orlando thirty seven points for Polo Bancaro, it'll win against Washington.
Victories for New York, Oklahoma City and Cleveland. The Cabs
speed Detroit one thirteen, one oh nine.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Oh. Jason Smith Micrmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, so Tag Day in the NFL. We
talked about Breeze Hall earlier this hour. Day in the
Franchise Tag from the Jets.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You're it in theory.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Sounds great, but I told you why bad idea. Kenneth Walker.
Super Bowl MVP. Kenneth Walker'll be allowed to test free agency.
I've already seen some rumors online of where the Seahawks
are gonna go to replace him. Look, we said it
at the time. I got a lot of hate from Seattle.
It's okay, I got big shoulders. KJR will have me
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on any time I want to. We told you they
had to move on from Kenneth Walker. He is a
league average running back who splits time. That's at best
who he is. He only had the lion's share of
the carries because Zach Charbonnay got hurt. And I give
him a lot of credit because he played the best
football of his life at the absolute best time the
last couple of playoff games, super Bowl MVP. I'm happy
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for him. He's gonna go somewhere in cash and he's
gonna get paid. But the Seahawks, you want to keep
that championship window open, you gotta pick where you're gonna
spend money, and you can't spend money on Kenneth Walker, right.
The guy is, He's just a guy. Can he help
other teams, Sure, other teams that are really running back bereft,
but you're gonna have Sharbonay coming back. There's other guys
out there that are gonna be cheaper. Kenneth Walker is
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someone if he was great, if he was dynamic, I
would say okay. But he's a you know, a little
over four yard per carry guy. We've seen the best
of them and and he's just okay. He's in the
middle of the pack in every running back metric you
want to look at. Again, great games at the best time, right,
but he is a super Bowl here's one of those
guys you look back, we're looking back in you know, ten, fifteen,
(38:20):
twenty years in a whow Remember Kenneth Walker, that guy
was super Bowl MVP. Like we look back at guys
like Timmy Smith that were Super Bowl MVP, guys that
then hey, cash in because they have their best games
of a career. That is an okay career at the
right time. Kenneth Walker certainly is young, he certainly has talent,
but overall, there's better places to spend your money. He
is replaceable for the Seahawks. Yeah, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
They also put a tag On Holani, second year guy
that's played down the stretch for Walker, one of the
best things. He was part of the passing game far
more frequently down the stretch and into the playoffs, which
makes him look a little more attractive even then than
he was.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Thirty one catches in the regular season, nine in the postseason,
So showing that aptitude and the toughness as that touch
count went up, you know he'll He'll be a great
fit for say the Kansas City Chiefs if they can
clear enough cap space, or the Vikings as they move
on from Aaron Jones and look to support whomever the
next quarterback is alongside JJ McCarthy and go on down
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the line. But to commit that much money to the
running back position when you already have Charmonague, who they
think will be back soon enough from the injury. You
have Alani and you can go back into the draft
and in free agency and cut your costs there while
you try to retain so many other free agents.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, it's best to move on. Yeah, I mean, look,
it's if everything was equal, you had money, you could
do it. I see it. But you have to make
a tough call. And I get that it's emotional. I
get it's really really difficult because the guy just won
Super Bowl MVP. But this is the NFL calendar, you know,
we turn it the next year right after right, not
too long ago. We had the commercial right after the
game ended was hey, the sun will come out tomorrow.
(40:02):
We're all zero and zero. Right, it's not too long.
That's just kind of how it goes. And if you
want to keep Kenneth walking, you want to pay him,
you want to franchise him or pay him long term.
What top five guys are getting, that's not gonna help you, right,
because he's not that good here. What he has given
you is replaceable.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Yeah, I mean you're just talking about the the tag
with Breis Hall. I mean it's fourteen point two million dollars, right,
Are you looking to pay that kind of money? Which
is why he didn't end up getting tagged? They have
sixty million dollars of cap space. But you're looking at
Young Woolen, sarat Shaheed, Mafe Jones, Joby and job and
(40:39):
Bryant that are unrestricted. That's just off the top before
you start looking at the other guys that you may
want to bring back into the fold.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
To drive.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Don't forget JSN wants a huge contract by the way, right.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Well, I mean I'm chucking more in terms of guys,
you have to make the immediate. But the other is
he's in the last year in that rookie deal. He's
making him happy. And as much as he said in
God's time and whatever else, he's like, I'm a business man.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
God's Time's coming. God Sait's here. I want to tell you,
it's here. It's I don't want to like. His whole
interview was I don't want to be that guy, but
I'm that guy. How do I bring it up by
saying it without not really saying it? Oh, this is
how I'll do it. He was very definitely done, by
the way. Yeah, so there goes a lot of your
sixty million exit at about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
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Jason Smith macarman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Tough decision, but Seattle made the right call, and everybody
that hated me, he said, all you hate to the
Seahawks to see we agree. Coming up next, I think
I might know how to solve this issue the NBA
has with all these big blowout games and people not watching,
that's next Fox
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