July 12, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Steve DeSaegher discuss their surprise teams and long shots for the NFL this year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon. Special delivery Steve de Sager in for
Harmon tonight. Hay Steve. Where I'm hoping I get an
honest night's work out of Steve de Sager as he is,
of course going to be just riveted to the Dodgers
Giants game.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hold on like you don't take time off when the
Mets are playing during the show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But I could do many things at once. I see,
I'm like, I'm like, if Caitlin Clark was still a
great score. Oh see, I could score, I could dish,
I could play defense, I get the rebounds. I could
do it all.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Steve many types of scores. She can still score on
the court in the w NBA.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But Otani with the two run homers you just mentioned
seconds ago. I know that we're not. I don't want
to say, well, yeah they are. The Dodgers are limping
into the All Star Absolute, and this is you know,
it's hard to say that you need some must wins
in the middle of the regular season, but the last
thing the Dodgers want to do, and yeah, you get
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to sort of wipe the sleigh clean and go, but
six game losing streak going into the series against your
bitter rivals, like this is where hey, you got you
gotta buckle down a little bit extra like this, this
is almost a must win night where we don't want
this storyline to continue as we get into it. And
now suddenly the Giants are thinking sweep and we can
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get back in. They can get within two games of
the division by the All Star break, like tonight. Is
not that it's all a must win, like it is
the end of the season. But as much as you
can say there's must wins in the regular he's in
a Major League Baseball Tonight kind of feels that way
for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And it's three pretty good pitchers the Giants have lined
up for this series against LA's Dustin May. Tonight it's
Logan Webb who's entering with an ERA under two point
seven zero. Landon group's been fine. He has the Saturday
afternoon game show. Hey Otani is due to be the
starter on the mound for LA tomorrow, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto
is pitching the Sunday afternoon game. Because he's pitching Sunday,
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he's not going to pitch in the Tuesday All Star Game.
But it's Yamamoto against Robbie Ray, who's got an ERA
in the twos and is nine and three for the Giants.
So it's certainly possible that the home team wins all
three this weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
See I don't have I have the change in the
in the Giants pitching. I have that it's going to
be Matthewson followed by gay Lord Perry on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's Christy Matthewson reference. That's the only one you will
hear on Fox Sports Radio this week pitching.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Before San Francisco was even discovered.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He was a New York Giants Hall of Fame pitcher. Okay,
what are the great.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's when the United States ended at the Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
River, Like, hey, we could have said like Matt Cain
or somebody you know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I could have said one Marishalgon. I could have said
Carl Hobble. No, I could have Yeah, I decided to
make Carl.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Hobble from the what was it thirty three All Star
Game or something like that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sure, No, if there's land on the other side of
this Mississippi River, we could put a baseball team there.
Let's just get let's keep going all this go as
far as.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We can, but let's wait until the fifties to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Make sure I got to wait as long as we can.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
By the way, this gives me a great excuse, mister
Met to mention to people because there are still even
baseball fans. I'm sure we're unaware that. When you know,
New York used to have three major League teams, not
just the Yankees, but the Dodgers and Mets were New
York teams. So then after fifty six when they moved
to the West Coast together, not that many years later,
the expansion Mets, one of the worst teams ever in baseball,
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started in the early sixties. But the colors of the
Mets are the orange and blue. Because of the two
colors we're seeing in the Dodgers at Giants game tonight,
orange and blue.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's awesome, right. I wish we could have taken the
players from there too in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
That's sorry. Duke Snyder is kinda go back to New York.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, listen, we get Duke, we get Willie. Yeah. I
know you guys want to move and as, but here's
where you're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
If you're gonna lead territorial draft picks.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We're going to extract our price of you. You leave
the Stars here, team can go right, you got new guys,
but you leave the two Boys. Suddenly the sixty two
Mets would have been a lot different.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, pretty much anything could have improved the two Mets,
because we talked about it on this show. During last season,
Mike Carmon's White Sox were approaching the all time record
for losses one hundred and twenty in one season, set
by the expansion Mets in nineteen sixty two. It had
been on the books for that long until the White
Sox were that bad. And now we have Colorado that
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is perhaps even worse this year. Even with the win
by the Rockies tonight, they are twenty two and seventy
two fifty games under five hundred before the All Star Break.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Now I ask you this now, with two days ago
before the also, I'm gonna put you on the spot.
What number is greater by the All Star Game? Number
of losses by the Rockies or home runs by cal Raley.
What's what's better?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Hold on, let me think it's a it's already losses
for one peace.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I mean, he's got thirty eight. I mean, you know
you could get there. You know. The thing is he'd
have to hit like two a day to catch up,
because you know they're gonna lose every day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think it was one in the eighth, one and
the ninth. Tonight we're thinking, oh, he's not gonna hit
one tonight. Well, this was a well, as you mentioned,
first hour, a close game, Seattle was playing at Detroit.
It winds up twelve three Seattle and to repeat, I
think most people don't know this stat, but of course,
thanks to the great researcher Sarah Langs, everyone should know it.
Most home runs in a season before the All Star Break.
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The record is thirty nine Barry Bonds in two thousand
and one. Cal Ray has thirty eight right now, with
still Saturday and Sunday games to go.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You want a good story for tonight before we'll get
We'll get to that big football story in a second,
but it makes sense to talk about Raleigh now. So
you know, my dad and I do the beat the
Street thing, beat the Street thing on MLB. Right, Yeah,
you pick you pick a player every day, and if
you get to fifty seven game days in a row,
you pick a guy with a hit, you win five and.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
A half home run. Just hit him.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Not a walk, right, Nope, not a walk. If he
walks four times, it just rolls over to the next game.
He doesn't have an official at bat, it rolls over
to the next gave. So you do just pick a guy.
And my dad was really upset because the last couple
of guys he had picked didn't get hit. So we
started over the street, over the streak, and now we're
going again. All right, We got a couple of we
got a few games under our belt, and he picked
cal Rawley for today and he was like, oh man,
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he goes, I'm sorry, we're gonna go out again. Because
Raley didn't have a hit into the eighth inning of
the game. Tonight he was over and it's like, okay,
he's got one last chance up here. The Mariners are winning.
I mean, yeah, they're not going to take him out
of the game because he's the DH tonight. But he's like, yeah,
eighth inning, Ah, he's over. I'm sorry. And then the
guys I said, I send him back a tech going, hey,
you see how the game in it for cal Rally.
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He rights my he goes, oh my god, was it
just one big it was?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It was the bomb Grand Slam in the night after
the home run in the eighth.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So now the pressures on me to come up with
a guy because we're getting close to.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You can't repea people, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, you take wherever you want to over every day.
I got to take wherever you want to.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So if you picked Joe DiMaggio and he had a
fifty six game hit streak, you you just stay with
Joe Demaju every day. You could win the cash prize.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Here if you knew day one that Demaga was going
to get it and you stuck with him for all
fifty six of those.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We think this is this is kind of like your
question about the Rockies this week. We should get the
Las Vegas guy on the phone. Again, if we bet
against the Rockies every day, how much of a prophet
would we be turning in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You know, you actually have to get to fifty seven,
so you could have taken Demaggio fifty six then, know. Okay,
now I got to jump off the bandwagon and go
to somebody else's right now. I'm gonna go to Ted Williams.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Somebody said Williams.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now for game thing because you got to get to
fifty seven games, and my dad, we have conversations.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They wouldn't be doing it online back then, back when
tell you you'd have to send in your postcards, which
would arrive six days later.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh, it's in by teletype. Okay, well so here here's this.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Was my pick for July third.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, it's got to be when fantasy baseball started and
people were calculating the stats. By end we got the
morning newspaper, so it was one for five.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Hey, it was enough for me when I would run
because I ran Fantasy Football League for oh, probably a
good ten years Commissioners commissioner as a commissioner, Yeah, from the
mid nineties to the mid two thousands and right around
the early two thousands is when you saw come but
he's take over and do statistics dates. Yeah, yeah, you would,
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you would, you would pay, you know, you would pay
a site whatever. And now like I mean, now you
just go any site does it basically for free. If
you want to customize your league, you pay a little bit.
But you could play free fantasy football a lot of places.
But back then it was, you know, you had to
pay money. And like I remember doing fantasy hockey, and
we did Fantasy Hockey for a long time, and I
was the commissioner and so it was basically they would
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do it and then they would mail me the standings
every week. So they would say the standings would go
through Sunday, and then like Tuesday, I would get the
print out.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You would play out where you are in the league, and.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I say, oh, here I am and through Sunday I'm
in third place now and then have to make copies
and put it in everybody's boxes at work, right like
here we go get doing it here, Like can you
imagine that in fantasy I know I might be in
first place. Did I win this week? I don't know, right,
maybe maybe I wont. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I know a guy who was commissioner of a fantasy
league around nineteen ninety and he would you literally get
the USA Today newspaper because it would have every team's
updated stats on a full page, no article, The whole
page was just statistics updated compared to the paper you
bought a week ago. And he would buy hand homers
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RBIs calculate the new batting averages everything by hand.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It's enough for me that I had to do that
for football, right, And this is where went running the
league because nobody sent stuff out to pay, because it
was easier to do it by yourself at that point.
Because the box scores would come in, you would see them.
And in the late nineties people were online and the
scores were online, so you could get stuff at that point.
But you would really pretty much do that yourself. And
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every Sunday night, like at work, like if I was
doing like if I was an ESPN or at Fox
and we were working Sunday nights, this is before I
was doing radio, and I would say, okay, all the
games are over, and I would sit down because I
would need, you know, a half hour forty minutes sure
to go through the stats. And the whole thing was
the whole thing back then was the commissioner generally played
for free. Right, If you were the commissioner of the league,
(11:05):
that was the payment. Yeah, you played for free, so
entry fee. Right. So say it's like one hundred bucks
a team, you know you would play.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's fair because that's a lot of legwork. You have
to calculate all the yardage and the TDS points.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's like okay, here it isn't this then,
and then you have to so you have to look
up all the players. And usually it's a ten or
twelve team league.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I mean that does take out some of the excitement
of not having the updated live online site where if you,
like happened to me this past year, it comes down
literally to the last game of the season and you're
trying to get an update. Oh man, I'm two points
behind or on one point ahead, and that's a thriller
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you it's let's let's wait till we get a paper
mimeograph and into your box.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And I can't tell you how many people when I'd
say okay, I would sit down, say after the late
the Sunday night game was over, right, so it would
be like eight o'clock here in LA. Everybody be done work,
and Okay, before I go home, I'm gonna do the
stats and get them ready because people want to know
what they need for Monday night. Right, So I'm like, okay,
So I would sit down and after a while like
people in the league, because everybody works Sunday, whether it's
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ESPN or at Fox and Fox Sports one when it
was Fox Sports News and I was, so they would
find me and I would sit down, and I would
sit down and and and I had to make a
rule that okay, first person to sit down, you sit
down in order, and I'll do your scores that one,
because I don't want like fifty people, you know, standing
around me going what do this? Do this? I'm like,
if you first person to sit down, I'll do that
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team score first. So people would go and they would
sit down, and I would have like a line next
to me going okay, okay, do your team first. Here
we go, okay, okay, okay, here's your here's your total?
All right? Great, Well, like.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
The Country doctor, eventually people are paying you in cows
and cheap.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah. Yeah, It's like like Bernard Hughes and Doc Hollywood
with Michael J. Foxx. Yeah, give him a give him,
give a soda pop. So I'd say okay, and he
would say, well, I want to know what's going on
in the game. Can you do the other team? And
go like, can't the other guys not in line? Then
they started coming in line two at a time, like, hey,
we're playing against each other, we're in line together. You
got to do our game. This is fun, fun, I
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mean that, That's what it was like doing Fantasy back then.
It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well the calculations on the Mets for fantasy purposes, only
the Royals have scored. It's one one going to the seventh.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh gee, thanks Steve. I appreciate it, but I commissioned.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Seriously, I do not envy you or anyone else that
is in that was in this position in the I'll
say it dark ages all of media in this It was.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Rough and if something was wasn't if something wasn't calculated, right,
hey wait a minute, I had Uh they didn't calculate
and I got two more points. I'm like, okay, let
me contact them and see you know, Oh this wasn't
in here. This is incorrect. I'm like, okay, let me,
let me go through and then free agents forget it,
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like like free that was the war. Honestly, that was
the worst thing of fantasy. It wasn't doing the scores.
It was free agency because everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh, you're adding a player now, and his stats from
earlier in the season don't count.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I would have to know. No, it was actually the
weekly pickups. It was Okay, send me your free agents.
So they would send me, Okay, here's who I'm here's
who I'm taking, and here's my guy, and here's who
I'll waive. And sometimes if they didn't, they wouldn't send
me a second player if someone picked the guy before him.
And it was just it was such a pain in
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the ass because I have to go back and go, dude,
you need to put in for your free agents. I
don't know. All Okay, I'll give you my guideamute. No,
it's got to be by midnight. I gotta get it.
That was the biggest pain in the ass. That's one
thing where I realized, you know what, I'm kind of
done being a commissioner.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Imagine though, being agents was the worst Fantasy Baseball commissioner.
And someone gets traded and so you have just pick anybody,
say Alex Bragman is traded mid season, and then you
have to subtract his first half stats from the other team,
you know, you know, like if there's a trade within
your league I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
About Yeah, yah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They counted for one guy in your league, and now
the rest of his season is counting for another guy
and you have to buy hand do that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah. That was one of my one of
my favorites. I'll finish with this story like when I
still talk to Keith Oldman before, you know, he and
I don't talk anymore because crazy stuff happened. He was
he's a big fantasy baseball guy.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh yeah, and he was.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Actually he would do fantasy like he did. He did
one of those fantasy leagues where like he based on
like the nineteen fifty one season, so he was playing,
you know, like May's and all these guys. But he
did one league and he made a trade and he
traded somebody. And this is back in the early night.
I want to say he traded some player for Mark
Clark was who he traded for because he needed pitching,
right Mark Clark, He's a pitcher with the Angels. All
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this stuff and the guy and this guy wound up
having a pretty good year. And every time, you know,
he would read his highlight on Sports Center, he would say,
and here's another home run, Like, I mean, it's not
a Von Rodriguez, but I'll just say Von Rodriguez, right,
I'll just say that is Avon Rodriguez in the fourth inning,
a two run homer to the left. It's his second
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homer of the week. Is this guy really worth? Mark Clark?
And people are like, what the hell is he talking about?
See Worth, Mark Clark? What do you mean, Well, he
made a trade. Yeah, he made a trade for him,
and so he's just mad about it. But that was
always what is he talking? What does he mean? Mark Clark?
Why does he bring up the number of friends who
used to say to me that I never hadn't talked
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to since high school that I ran into or started
talking to again once you get out of college. Everything
that Dan or Keith would say something on the show
and they would say what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
They would call me say, what does that mean? Oh,
I'm fine, how have you been? What's going on? I
mean I haven't talked to in six years? Like it's great, Yeah, yeah, hey,
when when Steve Leavey said the bulging thing on were
you working well? How did that happen? Like everybody just
wanted all the insights of what does Dan Patrick mean
when he says this? What didn't Dan mean when he does?
And I'm like, oh, like okay, yeah, great, I'll answer her.
And then it's like, okay, great. They don't hear from
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him for like six months.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You talk about great careers. By the way, Dan Patrick,
and he is not only still on our air every morning,
has been for years. Dan Patrick's crew was on Family
Feud last night against Rich Eisen's crew. That was the
Family Feud five from the one radio show against five
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from the other radio show. So that was quite the
pick hup. We happened to have passed that and made
sure to see it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We do well here, I think on Family Feud like
you Me, Harmon, Frostburg and Tyshirt, I think we do
pretty well. We do pretty well in Family Tysher I
think would be the wild card. I definitely look I'd
be I'd be the leader. I'd be the one say
okay and here and here's here's my best friend Mike Harmon.
Here's special delivery. Steve to say you're justin Frest. And
then there's Alex Tyscher at the end, and I think Tysher,
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you would like go really outside the box for a
lot of your answers and get a lot of strikes.
I think that's what I think.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
So, but it would get creative.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You say, yeah, like hey, something you wind up and
Tyser would say a letter. A letter. Okay, let's a letter.
A letter. How did you say a letter? Well, but
my mom used to write me letters when I was
a kid. You'd say, okay, time to wind up this letter.
Tell your mind, tell your family. I I'll talk to
you later on. So wind up a letter.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Enough of those answers and the answer would be a career.
We are winding up our career, thank you, by the way,
before not your career. But before we break, we can
update that the Dodgers are losing again because of a
deep fly ball. You remember that inside the park game
winning three run inside the park homer the Giants had
this week to that odd corner by center field. Well,
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the Giants just hit it toward that odd corner very deep,
and ta Oscar Hernandez could not catch up with it.
Ruled a two run triple Giants up three to two.
It looks like the Dodgers have thrown out a man
at the plate to end the fourth. It's under review,
but the Dodgers, who've lost straight, are losing again six straight.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We got more baseball on the way, but coming up next, Yes,
we get into a big store of the NFL this
week that I will have good news for a team
that I don't know has had good news a long time.
That's coming up next. Right here, Jason Smith, Steve Segeran
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Steve does. He has that very sexy sound. Yes, very
much like very white Steve the singer. When he comes in.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We are used.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
To start saying, I was gonna start singing like, no, no,
that's Lou Rolls. Never mind the right exactly. You're good. Yeah,
you're going to miss mink.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Thank you. There you go get down low for those
You get that low Steve as long and didn't say
I could get back up.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Uh ty shirt. Do you know who Rolls is?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I have no idea, okay, but I like the song
you Will Never Find.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He was a lead singer of led Zeppelin.
Yeah yeah, yeah you can he left. No no, no, no, no,
actually no, I'm sorry. Sting was the lead singer of
the Rolling Stone mixed up Zeppelin Rolling Stones, Yes, for
the Rolling Stones, got it? Yeah, you miss it? Yeah, Okay,
that's okay. I mean so, I mean, my dad tells
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me some of the concerts he went to when Lou
Rawls was singing for a led Zeut. Was it magical? Yeah,
I mean it was Highway to Heaven when they started. Yeah,
Michael Michael Landon showed up and then he uh yeah
for Highway.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
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Speaker 1 (21:23):
Do you know who Mike. You don't know who Michael
Linden is either.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I know Michael Douglass. That was one of the great
careers in television, actually, Michael Lennon.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, from Little House on the Prairie Highway to oh
is he the one that shot Lassie? Whoa Lassie was
never shot? Oh? That would have scored every kid of
the seventies.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
They didn't do that on TV back then.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh my goodness. On a very special.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Last being the three o'clock slot in the afternoon, when
you got Yeller episode just the just picked just video
of Lassie bleeding out.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's like, no, no, Douglas, no, no, I actually read
this week because now you know they're doing the sequel
to I Am Legend that it's gonna come out.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Did anybody.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well, I think Will Smith said, hey, that's a movie
I did that was really really good and we should
do another one. And the director did an interview this
week saying that the biggest thing, you know, revisiting I
Am Legend, which is again one of the great action
movies of all time, Like I Am Legend was so good.
Uh the scene when the dog dies, he's I can't
(22:31):
tell you how much. Well, it's it's the movie's been
around a long time. Still when Sam dies, number of
people that got up and and and left the theater
was he was, I still can't get over it, Like
the number of people that got up in the left
because that happened, and was like, ok yeah, people understand,
it's in a movie. You know, it didn't happen in
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real life. It was in a movie, you know, Okay,
but still a number of.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
People been attached.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So this is in the this is in the mid
two thousands where people were a little upset when you
see a dog guy on film. You imagine that on
like NBC on Sunday night, when when a bunch of
kids just taking their baths and showers getting ready for
school the next day. Oh yeah, here's wonderful world of
Disney and Lassie. Oh boy, Lassie ran on the wrong
person's property. What happened there?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
There was the old yellow reference and that is quite
an o. By the way, we have an All Star
update as we get to Fox has the All Star
Game Tuesday night, and people are getting replaced on the's
rosters left and right.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It's gonna be like the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
There's another replacement.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yes, it's five hundred and two people were actually named
All Stars this year.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We know.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Uh, Pitcher Zach Wheeler of Philly replaced in the All
Star Game by Padre reliever Adrian Marhone. I mentioned that
earlier because there's three relievers just from the Padres that
are All Stars now. But Jeff Passing reporting that the
Brewers rookie that's made such an impression already, Jacob Matzerowski,
has been named to the National League All Star Team
even though he's only owned five games. Yeah, that's the
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fewest games ever played by someone named the All Stars.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, this shows you where pitching is at in Major
League Baseball. Who do you got like? I mean David
Peterson making it for the Mets yesterday. I was like, no,
that's that's that's got to be an onion headlined. Yeah,
I mean, David Peterson's been okay, a good stretch.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, who's the Seattle outfielder. That's just kind of added.
Randy A. Rosarna has had a good stretch right now.
He replaces Julio Rodriguez on the roster.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, oh okay, that that sounds great, but well but
I'm looking at him, going, really, David Peterson the victory
the Angels rep you say, Kakuchi the picture replaced by
Tampa Bay pitcher Drew Rasmussen.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Jacob de Gram was replaced Brandon well I was injured,
so he was replaced. So we got two Kansas City
Royals in Carlosi Steves, mikeel Garcia.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Another Tiger, Brett Saberhagen is Danny Jackson.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, Casey Wiz is an All Star replacing Boston pitcher
Garrett Crochet. We do have another Giants home run four
to over the Dodgers and Dustin May bottom of the
fifth LA.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Johnny Mees on the home run we just camej.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Is going to Johnny Mies. I only know the name
because before he passed, he was he appeared in literally
every Old Timers game that ever existed through the I believe.
Oh this guy used to play third base for whoever
it was. And that's how you get to know the name.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right. Now, before we get to Dak Prescott, can
I tell you Johnny Meister, you want to go Johnny.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Mice have a Johnny Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeh story, yeah, yea yeah, it's a great story. It's
a great story. So this is back when I was
a production assistant at ESPN, and so the news room
was a bunch of desks in a row, and everybody
was there where you were a production assistant, a producer,
one of the talent, and everybody worked together and and
different shows. Every everybody had their had their computer. They
were probably about like five or six rows of like
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six or seven computers, and you sat at that your desk,
and that's where you were for the day. Right. So
when the six o'clock Sports Center went on, like everybody
doing the six left their stations, went down to sit.
People were coming in doing the eleven o'clock show, they
came and took their seats. Everything else, right, So I
was working on the eleven, So I would get a
computer and everybody we'd be watching the six o'clock Sports
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Center while we're planning stuff out. So six o'clock Sports
Center would always have like in the beginning of the show,
would always have big golf highlights, right, because that was
always the biggest thing going on. What's the big sporting
event they have on Thursday and Friday? Right, golf, you'd
be like three minute golf, like NFL Primetime three minute
golf highlights from like the Deposit Guarantee Classic in Hartford, Like, Okay,
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here's I got right. So there was there was a
Thursday and a Friday, and Larry Mize had a big
first couple of days, and so Thursday they get to
the point in the.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Highlight Larry Master's fame, not to be confused with Johnny
Mize wound up in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So Charlie Steiner is voice in the highlight, and it's
get to Larry myes and he and he goes, and
there's the and there's the putt by couples. He would
finish at four under Johnny May on seventeen and Myz
would make the pt and we all laugh. Oh my god,
he said, Johnny Miles.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Three hundred career hinter is lining up the pud.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah. So nobody says it. He's like, oh my goodness. Okay.
So the next day it's Friday, right, It's right, it's
the next day, same thing happened. Six o'clock show goes down,
everything else right, And so we're we're sitting there and
the highlight comes up again, you know whatever it was
that the you know, the deposit guarantee whatever Mercedes, whatever
it was. And so it comes up and Larry Mayes
had another couple another highlight. So when Charlie's doing the
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hoghlight again for the second day in the row, and
so we're sitting in there and he goes, you know,
and here it is, okay, and uh Nick Faldo there
he is the flop shot there he would tap in
for Parr Faldo a big day. He's at six under
Johnny Mayes. And then three different people, one person, one
executive from their office, one one per and a couple
(27:53):
produces back of me. Just yelled out all the different
times going. Kenny stopped calling him Johnny Mays.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I know Charlie's from New York Johnny Mize after World
War Two plays for the New York baseball teams. I'm
not kidding. I looked it up. Giants, then Yankees starting
in nineteen forty six.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh boy, the Nikes, Oh my god, it was so fun.
It was. He was getting stuck like dolings, like, come on,
stop calling him Johnny.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Bond is going to be all of us eventually. I've
said it over and over. I don't think it's really
dementia that's going to get some of us at the end,
not being able to think things or confusing it. I
think it's just the file cabinet is too full. It
might be you know, we remember the nineteen eighty eight
baseball season, you know, in so many seasons since, and
there's just too much info in there, and eventually it's
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just it just comes out like that.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That's how it's gonna be, uh. Jason Smith, Steve Desager,
Fox Sports Radio. Now. A big NFL story this week
has been the return to health of Dak Prescott. Right.
Dak Prescott talked this week saying he feels great, He's
ready to go. The hamstring injury that was more serious
than we anticipated. This yet another Dak Prescott injury that
is was more serious and anticipated, but he says he
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is a full go for training camp and he's ready
to go. Now all week? What is it?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The cow the Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
What?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But I will tell you this, this is probably the
best thing I've said about the Cowboys in months, right,
maybe a year right, maybe maybe going back to Jerry
Jones saying we're all in and by that I mean
and not signing any players. We're just all in. I
had to what's going on? But I will say this,
the Cowboys offense is going to have a really good year.
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Watch out right, even when the Cowboys are at their
normal right, not at their best, at their normal, which
is they're a tennish win team, and they sniff one
game in the playoffs and then Dak is awful the
first week in the playoffs and they wind up losing. Uh.
Dak has had some pretty big seasons and you look
at the weapons that he's got around him. Now, another
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year of the Cede Lamb connection. Not worrying about how
difficult it was last year with the holdouts and then
Dak wound up missing time he talked about the connection,
He's out look Seede Lamb's on the top five receivers
in the NFL. George Pickens in a honeymoon season where
if he's ever gonna really stand up and fly right, Yeah,
get rid of the problems that that that followed him
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in Pittsburgh. This is going to be the year to
do it. I'm a big believer that, hey, people would
have issues. The first year in a new location is
always the best before the old issues crop up again.
But clearly Pickens wants to get paid now. He's got
a star on his helmet. Like Pickens is extremely talented.
Jake Ferguson had a phenomenal twenty twenty three year with
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Dak Prescott. Right, people forget because Dak got hurt and
did Jake Ferguson as well. Fantasy exactly fantasy, You understand, boy.
I can't trade date Jake Ferguson. No one wants him
at this point. But twenty twenty three full year with Dek,
he was fantastic. Their running backs are kind of Jags,
but I like Javonte Williams. They'll be okay. The best
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thing Dallas can do throw the ball seven hundred times,
go over the top. This is what you're paying Dak
Prescott for he's got the weapons, he's got the offensive
line good enough, he can be able to He's still
got enough mobility to get out of trouble. He's got
a great he's got the best set of weapons around
him in the passing game then he's had in a
long time. This Cowboys offense is going to have a
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big season. Now again, still could wind up being ten
and seven or nine to eight. We miss because the
defense is not there. They lose a shootout because you know,
Dallas Cowboy things happen. But this is a this offense
is set up to put up some numbers this season.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, because a full season of Dak usually means what
sixty eight percent completion and over thirty touchdown passes and
moving the ball. And you're right, maybe throwing the ball
six hundred times.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I mean, well, I don't know. I think six hundred
is a little conservative. I go seven hundred, seven hundred seven.
Why even run the ball?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Okay? Seven to fourteen?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, seven to sixty three to break
the bonds.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Record if that's the record.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, well yeah, well, I mean it's it's in the
record books record.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Okay, if you say so it's.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Still the record is still there. But I mean, this
is the best balanced offense, the deep weapons, it's going
to be very difficult to try to figure out what
to do offensively. And yes, Brian Schottenheimer has been pretty
good with that over the course of his career. So yeah,
I may not matter record wise, right, Cowboys still could
be that nine and eight, ten and seven. Maybe we
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make the playoffs, maybe we don't. They're doomed to that
because the roster is not that great, but their numbers
on offense should be really, really good. Watch out. Best
thing I can say about the Cowboys, Steve. Best thing
I can say now, The best thing Steve the Sager
can tell you right now is what's trending in the
wide world of sports as d what you.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Got that the Dodgers are losing again in San Francisco.
It is four to two Giants over the Dodgers. In
the bottom of the fifth inning, the two for La,
a two run homer into the bay by sho hey Otani,
is thirty second home run of the season. Giants have
bases loaded one out in the bottom of the fifth
Right now, the Dodgers have lost six games in a row.
Blue Jay's out to a seven nothing lead at in
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the bottom of the fifth. Still Padres at home, leading
the Phillies three to two in the top of the
eighth inning. The first place Phillies only a game and
a half ahead of the Mets in the NL East.
The Mets are now trailing three to one at Kansas
City in the top of the eighth code. I Sengo,
off the injured list, pitched the first four scoreless innings
for the Mets. Tonight. The Angels have taken a five
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to four lead on the Diamondbacks bottom of the sixth,
and Cleveland's playing two at the White Sox after the
rainout yesterday. Cleveland took the opener four to two. The
Guardians are tied four to four at the White Sox
top of the tenth. In the nightcap, Milwaukee won its
fifth straight game, eight three over Washington, and the Brewers
are now just one game back of the first place
Cubs in the NL Central. All Star break comes up
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after this weekend. The Cubs were shut out eleven to
nothing in New York by the Yankees, who've won five
in a row. Cody Bellinger hit three home runs six
RBIs the winning pitcher Carlos Rodin with eight strikeouts in
his eight innings of work. Rodin was also added to
the AL All Star team, replacing Max Freed. It was
Atlanta six five winners at Saint Louis. Matt Olsen of
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the Braves replaces Ronald Decunye for the Home Run Derby,
which is Monday and then the All Star Game Tuesday
in Atlanta. Minnesota sent Pittsburgh to a seventh straight loss
two to one. Joe Ryan over Paul Skens, Texas and
Baltimore with wins. Colorado as well, thanks to a run
in the eighth on a wild pitch. Rockies won three
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two at Cincinnati. Colorado's record now twenty two and seventy two.
Boston won its eighth straight game on a two run
homer bottom of the ninth against Tampa Bay closer Pete
Fairbanks five to four. Red Sox the final Ray's All
Star second baseman Brandon Low finally went on the injured
list with a bad Obleaque and Seattle got two more
homers from cal Rale he has thirty eight. Mariners won
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twelve three at Detroit, beating Trek Scoobel, who had been
ten and two, but in five innings allowed four runs.
Just two games in the WNBA, Seattle at home leads
early fourth fifty nine fifty eight over Connecticut, which two
and sixteen. Indiana beat Atlanta ninety nine eighty two. Caitlin
Clark twelve points, nine assists.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve oh coming up next. Yes,
Earlier this week, I bashed one NFL team mercilessly well,
because it's positivity Friday. Wait till you get my big
Bowl prediction about them. You want my long shot pick
for the Super Bowl in the NFC, I got it
(35:28):
for you. It's next right here. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager,
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:44):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with special delivery
Steve de Saga in from Mike Harmon. Steve, uh, yeah,
we might be getting close to making that seven losses
in a row for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Giants lead LA seven to two right now.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And they've chased the starter Dustin May and the reliever
Anthony Bonda just stumbled covering first the trainer is out.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Oh boy. Uh so we got more baseball on the way.
But with the debut of Quarterback this week, you got
a plethora of great storylines rather for some Kirk Cousins
or you know why Joe Burrow didn't buy the batmobile,
or Jared Goff not being you know, told he was
getting traded away.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Like a streaming documentary talking.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yes, yes, the streaming documentary on Netflix of Quarterback, which
Jared Goff. Dude, I'm pretty sure that loss to the
Jets was when Sean McVay decided he was trading you.
The game was that bad. But all the criticism for
the Falcons who screwed up their quarterback situation by signing
Kirk Cousins and then drafting Michael Pennock junior, because zero
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teams sign a guy for four years, one hundred and
eighty million and then draft a guy high in the
first round. No teams do that except the Falcons. So
it was stupid. So they were stuck quarterback. Then, they
were stuck a few months ago. They're stuck now. However,
right now, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about
who my long shot pick for the Super Bowl was
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in the ASC. If you're looking for a long shot pick, no,
come on, well you're saying. If you're saying, who do
you think is gonna pick first in the draft next year,
they're your answer.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
So, Steve, would that be considered a long shot? Wouldn't
that be?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Come on? Okay? A team that I think can get there,
not a team that's not even gonna get close.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
That's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Dude, Kenny Pickett can win the starting job. He wears
seven gloves on his right hand. I mean, come on,
he did, He does wear that many.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
But Browns were only three and fourteen last year.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, you're true, that's true. They could
and they could. You know what, hey, I could see
them winning four games this year. They can. They can
up that victory. Respect that my surprise team. You're talking
about teams that are that your odds are talking about
like plus six plus eight plus ten thousand, the Indian
app plus Colts in the AFC. Right, they have all
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the weapons. Daniel Jones will be just fine. They did
a lot of moves to improve the defense. Uh, we've
got to see how it works out. But the division
is terrible, but offensively they have so many great weapons.
Big draft to tight end as well. Watch out for
the Colts.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
But how you say Daniel Jones will be just fine?
So Richardson doesn't play que Jones is completely healthy, that's
what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
They are done with Anthony Richardson. The guy can't stay healthy.
He's not productive.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Jones will you're saying they're done?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I mean Daniel Jones has to have
the job taken away from him because he's so bad,
that's the whole thing. But now he's got weapons. He's
in a position to succeed with the Colts, which he
was never You got you got a couple of really
good running backs, you got four good wide receivers. You
got a tight end that you went up and got
in the first round of the draft. Like you got
some weapons there in a bed.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
The next Dallas Clark the drafted. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
In fact, it was Dallas Clark who they drafted again.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
It's just give him the same number, hey, forty four again.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah he's been just squint your eyes. It looks like
Dallas I think. But in the NFC, my surprise, my
long shot team at plus eight thousand is the Falcons.
The Falcons have a lot of young talent. I know
I bashed them because they completely biff the quarterback position,
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but just think how much better things would be if
they didn't sign Kirk Cousins had all that money to
sign other players for different positions. But they do have
so much young talent across the board. On offense. If
Michael Pennix Junior is who they think he's going to
be and it's all on him, they have more than
enough to win that division. They'll win big at home
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and have forced other teams to come play there in
the playoffs. They just got to stay away from drama.
I mean, I know it's a thing, and now they're
trying to navigate Cousins and Pennix and it's really crappy.
And I'm sure at some point they'll bite the bullet
and move on from Cousins. But if Michael Pennick Junior,
I'm saying it's a big if, but you're talking if
for a quarterback. If second year the reps the off season,
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they have a lot of talent acrossport. One of the
best running backs the game, and Bjon Robinson there wide
receivers are deep. This is again and a bad division
that they can dominate their plus eight or nine thousand,
that's a phenomenal value. My surprise team in the NFC
is the Falcons.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
As soon as you said that, I said, that's not
a bad thing for one reason, and that's the division.
Because it seems like whoever wins that division seems to
be around nine and eight. So the Falcons were last
year around nine and eight. That means you're in contention
not only for the division, but in the past that's
been the controversial home game for the playoffs as well
as an aside.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah, I mean, because a lot of it comes down
to the schedule, comes down to who you play, comes
down to having games at home, especially when that home
game is going to be such.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
An Every season schedule is different. You're right, and it
goes by your previous season. By the way, do we
have a Mets update Mark Fientos. It's just today, three
run double and the Mets take the lead at Kansas
City four to three in the top of the eighth.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I think that's Mark Vientos's first hit since the Grand
Slam against the Dodgers in the NLCS in October. I
really do think.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
One thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Falcons plus eight thousand a huge Lebron James story. Next
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Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon. Special delivery Steve de Sager in for
Harmon tonight. Hay Steve. Where I'm hoping I get an
honest night's work out of Steve de Sager as he is,
of course going to be just riveted to the Dodgers
Giants game.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hold on like you don't take time off when the
Mets are playing during the show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But I could do many things at once. I see,
I'm like, I'm like, if Caitlin Clark was still a
great score. Oh see, I could score, I could dish,
I could play defense, I get the rebounds. I could
do it all.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Steve many types of scores. She can still score on
the court in the w NBA.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But Otani with the two run homers you just mentioned
seconds ago. I know that we're not. I don't want
to say, well, yeah they are. The Dodgers are limping
into the All Star Absolute, and this is you know,
it's hard to say that you need some must wins
in the middle of the regular season, but the last
thing the Dodgers want to do, and yeah, you get
(01:26):
to sort of wipe the sleigh clean and go, but
six game losing streak going into the series against your
bitter rivals, like this is where hey, you got you
gotta buckle down a little bit extra like this, this
is almost a must win night where we don't want
this storyline to continue as we get into it. And
now suddenly the Giants are thinking sweep and we can
(01:48):
get back in. They can get within two games of
the division by the All Star break, like tonight. Is
not that it's all a must win, like it is
the end of the season. But as much as you
can say there's must wins in the regular he's in
a Major League Baseball Tonight kind of feels that way
for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And it's three pretty good pitchers the Giants have lined
up for this series against LA's Dustin May. Tonight it's
Logan Webb who's entering with an ERA under two point
seven zero. Landon group's been fine. He has the Saturday
afternoon game show. Hey Otani is due to be the
starter on the mound for LA tomorrow, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto
is pitching the Sunday afternoon game. Because he's pitching Sunday,
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he's not going to pitch in the Tuesday All Star Game.
But it's Yamamoto against Robbie Ray, who's got an ERA
in the twos and is nine and three for the Giants.
So it's certainly possible that the home team wins all
three this weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
See I don't have I have the change in the
in the Giants pitching. I have that it's going to
be Matthewson followed by gay Lord Perry on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's Christy Matthewson reference. That's the only one you will
hear on Fox Sports Radio this week pitching.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Before San Francisco was even discovered.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He was a New York Giants Hall of Fame pitcher. Okay,
what are the great.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's when the United States ended at the Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
River, Like, hey, we could have said like Matt Cain
or somebody you know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I could have said one Marishalgon. I could have said
Carl Hobble. No, I could have Yeah, I decided to
make Carl.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Hobble from the what was it thirty three All Star
Game or something like that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sure, No, if there's land on the other side of
this Mississippi River, we could put a baseball team there.
Let's just get let's keep going all this go as
far as.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We can, but let's wait until the fifties to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Make sure I got to wait as long as we can.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
By the way, this gives me a great excuse, mister
Met to mention to people because there are still even
baseball fans. I'm sure we're unaware that. When you know,
New York used to have three major League teams, not
just the Yankees, but the Dodgers and Mets were New
York teams. So then after fifty six when they moved
to the West Coast together, not that many years later,
the expansion Mets, one of the worst teams ever in baseball,
(03:54):
started in the early sixties. But the colors of the
Mets are the orange and blue. Because of the two
colors we're seeing in the Dodgers at Giants game tonight,
orange and blue.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's awesome, right. I wish we could have taken the
players from there too in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
That's sorry. Duke Snyder is kinda go back to New York.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, listen, we get Duke, we get Willie. Yeah. I
know you guys want to move and as, but here's
where you're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
If you're gonna lead territorial draft picks.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We're going to extract our price of you. You leave
the Stars here, team can go right, you got new guys,
but you leave the two Boys. Suddenly the sixty two
Mets would have been a lot different.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, pretty much anything could have improved the two Mets,
because we talked about it on this show. During last season,
Mike Carmon's White Sox were approaching the all time record
for losses one hundred and twenty in one season, set
by the expansion Mets in nineteen sixty two. It had
been on the books for that long until the White
Sox were that bad. And now we have Colorado that
(04:55):
is perhaps even worse this year. Even with the win
by the Rockies tonight, they are twenty two and seventy
two fifty games under five hundred before the All Star Break.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Now I ask you this now, with two days ago
before the also, I'm gonna put you on the spot.
What number is greater by the All Star Game? Number
of losses by the Rockies or home runs by cal Raley.
What's what's better?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Hold on, let me think it's a it's already losses
for one peace.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I mean, he's got thirty eight. I mean, you know
you could get there. You know. The thing is he'd
have to hit like two a day to catch up,
because you know they're gonna lose every day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think it was one in the eighth, one and
the ninth. Tonight we're thinking, oh, he's not gonna hit
one tonight. Well, this was a well, as you mentioned,
first hour, a close game, Seattle was playing at Detroit.
It winds up twelve three Seattle and to repeat, I
think most people don't know this stat, but of course,
thanks to the great researcher Sarah Langs, everyone should know it.
Most home runs in a season before the All Star Break.
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The record is thirty nine Barry Bonds in two thousand
and one. Cal Ray has thirty eight right now, with
still Saturday and Sunday games to go.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You want a good story for tonight before we'll get
We'll get to that big football story in a second,
but it makes sense to talk about Raleigh now. So
you know, my dad and I do the beat the
Street thing, beat the Street thing on MLB. Right, Yeah,
you pick you pick a player every day, and if
you get to fifty seven game days in a row,
you pick a guy with a hit, you win five and.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
A half home run. Just hit him.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Not a walk, right, Nope, not a walk. If he
walks four times, it just rolls over to the next game.
He doesn't have an official at bat, it rolls over
to the next gave. So you do just pick a guy.
And my dad was really upset because the last couple
of guys he had picked didn't get hit. So we
started over the street, over the streak, and now we're
going again. All right, We got a couple of we
got a few games under our belt, and he picked
cal Rawley for today and he was like, oh man,
(06:50):
he goes, I'm sorry, we're gonna go out again. Because
Raley didn't have a hit into the eighth inning of
the game. Tonight he was over and it's like, okay,
he's got one last chance up here. The Mariners are winning.
I mean, yeah, they're not going to take him out
of the game because he's the DH tonight. But he's like, yeah,
eighth inning, Ah, he's over. I'm sorry. And then the
guys I said, I send him back a tech going, hey,
you see how the game in it for cal Rally.
(07:10):
He rights my he goes, oh my god, was it
just one big it was?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It was the bomb Grand Slam in the night after
the home run in the eighth.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So now the pressures on me to come up with
a guy because we're getting close to.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You can't repea people, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, you take wherever you want to over every day.
I got to take wherever you want to.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So if you picked Joe DiMaggio and he had a
fifty six game hit streak, you you just stay with
Joe Demaju every day. You could win the cash prize.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Here if you knew day one that Demaga was going
to get it and you stuck with him for all
fifty six of those.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We think this is this is kind of like your
question about the Rockies this week. We should get the
Las Vegas guy on the phone. Again, if we bet
against the Rockies every day, how much of a prophet
would we be turning in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You know, you actually have to get to fifty seven,
so you could have taken Demaggio fifty six then, know. Okay,
now I got to jump off the bandwagon and go
to somebody else's right now. I'm gonna go to Ted Williams.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Somebody said Williams.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now for game thing because you got to get to
fifty seven games, and my dad, we have conversations.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They wouldn't be doing it online back then, back when
tell you you'd have to send in your postcards, which
would arrive six days later.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh, it's in by teletype. Okay, well so here here's this.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Was my pick for July third.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, it's got to be when fantasy baseball started and
people were calculating the stats. By end we got the
morning newspaper, so it was one for five.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Hey, it was enough for me when I would run
because I ran Fantasy Football League for oh, probably a
good ten years Commissioners commissioner as a commissioner, Yeah, from the
mid nineties to the mid two thousands and right around
the early two thousands is when you saw come but
he's take over and do statistics dates. Yeah, yeah, you would,
(09:05):
you would, you would pay, you know, you would pay
a site whatever. And now like I mean, now you
just go any site does it basically for free. If
you want to customize your league, you pay a little bit.
But you could play free fantasy football a lot of places.
But back then it was, you know, you had to
pay money. And like I remember doing fantasy hockey, and
we did Fantasy Hockey for a long time, and I
was the commissioner and so it was basically they would
(09:28):
do it and then they would mail me the standings
every week. So they would say the standings would go
through Sunday, and then like Tuesday, I would get the
print out.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You would play out where you are in the league, and.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I say, oh, here I am and through Sunday I'm
in third place now and then have to make copies
and put it in everybody's boxes at work, right like
here we go get doing it here, Like can you
imagine that in fantasy I know I might be in
first place. Did I win this week? I don't know, right,
maybe maybe I wont. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I know a guy who was commissioner of a fantasy
league around nineteen ninety and he would you literally get
the USA Today newspaper because it would have every team's
updated stats on a full page, no article, The whole
page was just statistics updated compared to the paper you
bought a week ago. And he would buy hand homers
(10:16):
RBIs calculate the new batting averages everything by hand.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It's enough for me that I had to do that
for football, right, And this is where went running the
league because nobody sent stuff out to pay, because it
was easier to do it by yourself at that point.
Because the box scores would come in, you would see them.
And in the late nineties people were online and the
scores were online, so you could get stuff at that point.
But you would really pretty much do that yourself. And
(10:43):
every Sunday night, like at work, like if I was
doing like if I was an ESPN or at Fox
and we were working Sunday nights, this is before I
was doing radio, and I would say, okay, all the
games are over, and I would sit down because I
would need, you know, a half hour forty minutes sure
to go through the stats. And the whole thing was
the whole thing back then was the commissioner generally played
for free. Right, If you were the commissioner of the league,
(11:05):
that was the payment. Yeah, you played for free, so
entry fee. Right. So say it's like one hundred bucks
a team, you know you would play.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's fair because that's a lot of legwork. You have
to calculate all the yardage and the TDS points.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's like okay, here it isn't this then,
and then you have to so you have to look
up all the players. And usually it's a ten or
twelve team league.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I mean that does take out some of the excitement
of not having the updated live online site where if you,
like happened to me this past year, it comes down
literally to the last game of the season and you're
trying to get an update. Oh man, I'm two points
behind or on one point ahead, and that's a thriller
(11:44):
you it's let's let's wait till we get a paper
mimeograph and into your box.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And I can't tell you how many people when I'd
say okay, I would sit down, say after the late
the Sunday night game was over, right, so it would
be like eight o'clock here in LA. Everybody be done work,
and Okay, before I go home, I'm gonna do the
stats and get them ready because people want to know
what they need for Monday night. Right, So I'm like, okay,
So I would sit down and after a while like
people in the league, because everybody works Sunday, whether it's
(12:12):
ESPN or at Fox and Fox Sports one when it
was Fox Sports News and I was, so they would
find me and I would sit down, and I would
sit down and and and I had to make a
rule that okay, first person to sit down, you sit
down in order, and I'll do your scores that one,
because I don't want like fifty people, you know, standing
around me going what do this? Do this? I'm like,
if you first person to sit down, I'll do that
(12:33):
team score first. So people would go and they would
sit down, and I would have like a line next
to me going okay, okay, do your team first. Here
we go, okay, okay, okay, here's your here's your total?
All right? Great, Well, like.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
The Country doctor, eventually people are paying you in cows
and cheap.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah. Yeah, It's like like Bernard Hughes and Doc Hollywood
with Michael J. Foxx. Yeah, give him a give him,
give a soda pop. So I'd say okay, and he
would say, well, I want to know what's going on
in the game. Can you do the other team? And
go like, can't the other guys not in line? Then
they started coming in line two at a time, like, hey,
we're playing against each other, we're in line together. You
got to do our game. This is fun, fun, I
(13:10):
mean that, That's what it was like doing Fantasy back then.
It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well the calculations on the Mets for fantasy purposes, only
the Royals have scored. It's one one going to the seventh.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh gee, thanks Steve. I appreciate it, but I commissioned.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Seriously, I do not envy you or anyone else that
is in that was in this position in the I'll
say it dark ages all of media in this It was.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Rough and if something was wasn't if something wasn't calculated, right,
hey wait a minute, I had Uh they didn't calculate
and I got two more points. I'm like, okay, let
me contact them and see you know, Oh this wasn't
in here. This is incorrect. I'm like, okay, let me,
let me go through and then free agents forget it,
(13:55):
like like free that was the war. Honestly, that was
the worst thing of fantasy. It wasn't doing the scores.
It was free agency because everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh, you're adding a player now, and his stats from
earlier in the season don't count.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I would have to know. No, it was actually the
weekly pickups. It was Okay, send me your free agents.
So they would send me, Okay, here's who I'm here's
who I'm taking, and here's my guy, and here's who
I'll waive. And sometimes if they didn't, they wouldn't send
me a second player if someone picked the guy before him.
And it was just it was such a pain in
(14:27):
the ass because I have to go back and go, dude,
you need to put in for your free agents. I
don't know. All Okay, I'll give you my guideamute. No,
it's got to be by midnight. I gotta get it.
That was the biggest pain in the ass. That's one
thing where I realized, you know what, I'm kind of
done being a commissioner.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Imagine though, being agents was the worst Fantasy Baseball commissioner.
And someone gets traded and so you have just pick anybody,
say Alex Bragman is traded mid season, and then you
have to subtract his first half stats from the other team,
you know, you know, like if there's a trade within
your league I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
About Yeah, yah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They counted for one guy in your league, and now
the rest of his season is counting for another guy
and you have to buy hand do that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah. That was one of my one of
my favorites. I'll finish with this story like when I
still talk to Keith Oldman before, you know, he and
I don't talk anymore because crazy stuff happened. He was
he's a big fantasy baseball guy.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh yeah, and he was.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Actually he would do fantasy like he did. He did
one of those fantasy leagues where like he based on
like the nineteen fifty one season, so he was playing,
you know, like May's and all these guys. But he
did one league and he made a trade and he
traded somebody. And this is back in the early night.
I want to say he traded some player for Mark
Clark was who he traded for because he needed pitching,
right Mark Clark, He's a pitcher with the Angels. All
(15:44):
this stuff and the guy and this guy wound up
having a pretty good year. And every time, you know,
he would read his highlight on Sports Center, he would say,
and here's another home run, Like, I mean, it's not
a Von Rodriguez, but I'll just say Von Rodriguez, right,
I'll just say that is Avon Rodriguez in the fourth inning,
a two run homer to the left. It's his second
(16:04):
homer of the week. Is this guy really worth? Mark Clark?
And people are like, what the hell is he talking about?
See Worth, Mark Clark? What do you mean, Well, he
made a trade. Yeah, he made a trade for him,
and so he's just mad about it. But that was
always what is he talking? What does he mean? Mark Clark?
Why does he bring up the number of friends who
used to say to me that I never hadn't talked
(16:25):
to since high school that I ran into or started
talking to again once you get out of college. Everything
that Dan or Keith would say something on the show
and they would say what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
They would call me say, what does that mean? Oh,
I'm fine, how have you been? What's going on? I
mean I haven't talked to in six years? Like it's great, Yeah, yeah, hey,
when when Steve Leavey said the bulging thing on were
you working well? How did that happen? Like everybody just
wanted all the insights of what does Dan Patrick mean
when he says this? What didn't Dan mean when he does?
And I'm like, oh, like okay, yeah, great, I'll answer her.
And then it's like, okay, great. They don't hear from
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him for like six months.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You talk about great careers. By the way, Dan Patrick,
and he is not only still on our air every morning,
has been for years. Dan Patrick's crew was on Family
Feud last night against Rich Eisen's crew. That was the
Family Feud five from the one radio show against five
(17:15):
from the other radio show. So that was quite the
pick hup. We happened to have passed that and made
sure to see it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We do well here, I think on Family Feud like
you Me, Harmon, Frostburg and Tyshirt, I think we do
pretty well. We do pretty well in Family Tysher I
think would be the wild card. I definitely look I'd
be I'd be the leader. I'd be the one say
okay and here and here's here's my best friend Mike Harmon.
Here's special delivery. Steve to say you're justin Frest. And
then there's Alex Tyscher at the end, and I think Tysher,
(17:43):
you would like go really outside the box for a
lot of your answers and get a lot of strikes.
I think that's what I think.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
So, but it would get creative.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You say, yeah, like hey, something you wind up and
Tyser would say a letter. A letter. Okay, let's a letter.
A letter. How did you say a letter? Well, but
my mom used to write me letters when I was
a kid. You'd say, okay, time to wind up this letter.
Tell your mind, tell your family. I I'll talk to
you later on. So wind up a letter.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Enough of those answers and the answer would be a career.
We are winding up our career, thank you, by the way,
before not your career. But before we break, we can
update that the Dodgers are losing again because of a
deep fly ball. You remember that inside the park game
winning three run inside the park homer the Giants had
this week to that odd corner by center field. Well,
(18:31):
the Giants just hit it toward that odd corner very deep,
and ta Oscar Hernandez could not catch up with it.
Ruled a two run triple Giants up three to two.
It looks like the Dodgers have thrown out a man
at the plate to end the fourth. It's under review,
but the Dodgers, who've lost straight, are losing again six straight.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We got more baseball on the way, but coming up next, Yes,
we get into a big store of the NFL this
week that I will have good news for a team
that I don't know has had good news a long time.
That's coming up next. Right here, Jason Smith, Steve Segeran
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Speaker 3 (19:05):
I wonder what else you wind up?
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Speaker 1 (20:00):
Fro Hey Steve Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon. Harmon out this week delivery Steve the
saga in and he sounds sexy. He does, so that
Steve does. He has that very sexy sound. Yes, very
much like very white Steve the singer. When he comes in.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We are used.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
To start saying, I was gonna start singing like, no, no,
that's Lou Rolls. Never mind the right exactly. You're good. Yeah,
you're going to miss mink.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Thank you. There you go get down low for those
You get that low Steve as long and didn't say
I could get back up.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Uh ty shirt. Do you know who Rolls is?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I have no idea, okay, but I like the song
you Will Never Find.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He was a lead singer of led Zeppelin.
Yeah yeah, yeah you can he left. No no, no, no, no,
actually no, I'm sorry. Sting was the lead singer of
the Rolling Stone mixed up Zeppelin Rolling Stones, Yes, for
the Rolling Stones, got it? Yeah, you miss it? Yeah, Okay,
that's okay. I mean so, I mean, my dad tells
(21:08):
me some of the concerts he went to when Lou
Rawls was singing for a led Zeut. Was it magical? Yeah,
I mean it was Highway to Heaven when they started. Yeah,
Michael Michael Landon showed up and then he uh yeah
for Highway.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Michael Douglas.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Do you know who Mike. You don't know who Michael
Linden is either.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I know Michael Douglass. That was one of the great
careers in television, actually, Michael Lennon.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, from Little House on the Prairie Highway to oh
is he the one that shot Lassie? Whoa Lassie was
never shot? Oh? That would have scored every kid of
the seventies.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
They didn't do that on TV back then.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh my goodness. On a very special.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Last being the three o'clock slot in the afternoon, when
you got Yeller episode just the just picked just video
of Lassie bleeding out.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's like, no, no, Douglas, no, no, I actually read
this week because now you know they're doing the sequel
to I Am Legend that it's gonna come out.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Did anybody.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well, I think Will Smith said, hey, that's a movie
I did that was really really good and we should
do another one. And the director did an interview this
week saying that the biggest thing, you know, revisiting I
Am Legend, which is again one of the great action
movies of all time, Like I Am Legend was so good.
Uh the scene when the dog dies, he's I can't
(22:31):
tell you how much. Well, it's it's the movie's been
around a long time. Still when Sam dies, number of
people that got up and and and left the theater
was he was, I still can't get over it, Like
the number of people that got up in the left
because that happened, and was like, ok yeah, people understand,
it's in a movie. You know, it didn't happen in
(22:52):
real life. It was in a movie, you know, Okay,
but still a number of.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
People been attached.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So this is in the this is in the mid
two thousands where people were a little upset when you
see a dog guy on film. You imagine that on
like NBC on Sunday night, when when a bunch of
kids just taking their baths and showers getting ready for
school the next day. Oh yeah, here's wonderful world of
Disney and Lassie. Oh boy, Lassie ran on the wrong
person's property. What happened there?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
There was the old yellow reference and that is quite
an o. By the way, we have an All Star
update as we get to Fox has the All Star
Game Tuesday night, and people are getting replaced on the's
rosters left and right.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It's gonna be like the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
There's another replacement.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yes, it's five hundred and two people were actually named
All Stars this year.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We know.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Uh, Pitcher Zach Wheeler of Philly replaced in the All
Star Game by Padre reliever Adrian Marhone. I mentioned that
earlier because there's three relievers just from the Padres that
are All Stars now. But Jeff Passing reporting that the
Brewers rookie that's made such an impression already, Jacob Matzerowski,
has been named to the National League All Star Team
even though he's only owned five games. Yeah, that's the
(24:02):
fewest games ever played by someone named the All Stars.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, this shows you where pitching is at in Major
League Baseball. Who do you got like? I mean David
Peterson making it for the Mets yesterday. I was like, no,
that's that's that's got to be an onion headlined. Yeah,
I mean, David Peterson's been okay, a good stretch.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, who's the Seattle outfielder. That's just kind of added.
Randy A. Rosarna has had a good stretch right now.
He replaces Julio Rodriguez on the roster.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, oh okay, that that sounds great, but well but
I'm looking at him, going, really, David Peterson the victory
the Angels rep you say, Kakuchi the picture replaced by
Tampa Bay pitcher Drew Rasmussen.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Jacob de Gram was replaced Brandon well I was injured,
so he was replaced. So we got two Kansas City
Royals in Carlosi Steves, mikeel Garcia.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Another Tiger, Brett Saberhagen is Danny Jackson.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, Casey Wiz is an All Star replacing Boston pitcher
Garrett Crochet. We do have another Giants home run four
to over the Dodgers and Dustin May bottom of the
fifth LA.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Johnny Mees on the home run we just camej.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Is going to Johnny Mies. I only know the name
because before he passed, he was he appeared in literally
every Old Timers game that ever existed through the I believe.
Oh this guy used to play third base for whoever
it was. And that's how you get to know the name.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right. Now, before we get to Dak Prescott, can
I tell you Johnny Meister, you want to go Johnny.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Mice have a Johnny Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeh story, yeah, yea yeah, it's a great story. It's
a great story. So this is back when I was
a production assistant at ESPN, and so the news room
was a bunch of desks in a row, and everybody
was there where you were a production assistant, a producer,
one of the talent, and everybody worked together and and
different shows. Every everybody had their had their computer. They
were probably about like five or six rows of like
(25:49):
six or seven computers, and you sat at that your desk,
and that's where you were for the day. Right. So
when the six o'clock Sports Center went on, like everybody
doing the six left their stations, went down to sit.
People were coming in doing the eleven o'clock show, they
came and took their seats. Everything else, right, So I
was working on the eleven, So I would get a
computer and everybody we'd be watching the six o'clock Sports
(26:09):
Center while we're planning stuff out. So six o'clock Sports
Center would always have like in the beginning of the show,
would always have big golf highlights, right, because that was
always the biggest thing going on. What's the big sporting
event they have on Thursday and Friday? Right, golf, you'd
be like three minute golf, like NFL Primetime three minute
golf highlights from like the Deposit Guarantee Classic in Hartford, Like, Okay,
(26:31):
here's I got right. So there was there was a
Thursday and a Friday, and Larry Mize had a big
first couple of days, and so Thursday they get to
the point in the.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Highlight Larry Master's fame, not to be confused with Johnny
Mize wound up in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So Charlie Steiner is voice in the highlight, and it's
get to Larry myes and he and he goes, and
there's the and there's the putt by couples. He would
finish at four under Johnny May on seventeen and Myz
would make the pt and we all laugh. Oh my god,
he said, Johnny Miles.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Three hundred career hinter is lining up the pud.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah. So nobody says it. He's like, oh my goodness. Okay.
So the next day it's Friday, right, It's right, it's
the next day, same thing happened. Six o'clock show goes down,
everything else right, And so we're we're sitting there and
the highlight comes up again, you know whatever it was
that the you know, the deposit guarantee whatever Mercedes, whatever
it was. And so it comes up and Larry Mayes
had another couple another highlight. So when Charlie's doing the
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hoghlight again for the second day in the row, and
so we're sitting in there and he goes, you know,
and here it is, okay, and uh Nick Faldo there
he is the flop shot there he would tap in
for Parr Faldo a big day. He's at six under
Johnny Mayes. And then three different people, one person, one
executive from their office, one one per and a couple
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produces back of me. Just yelled out all the different
times going. Kenny stopped calling him Johnny Mays.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I know Charlie's from New York Johnny Mize after World
War Two plays for the New York baseball teams. I'm
not kidding. I looked it up. Giants, then Yankees starting
in nineteen forty six.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh boy, the Nikes, Oh my god, it was so fun.
It was. He was getting stuck like dolings, like, come on,
stop calling him Johnny.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Bond is going to be all of us eventually. I've
said it over and over. I don't think it's really
dementia that's going to get some of us at the end,
not being able to think things or confusing it. I
think it's just the file cabinet is too full. It
might be you know, we remember the nineteen eighty eight
baseball season, you know, in so many seasons since, and
there's just too much info in there, and eventually it's
(28:40):
just it just comes out like that.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That's how it's gonna be, uh. Jason Smith, Steve Desager,
Fox Sports Radio. Now. A big NFL story this week
has been the return to health of Dak Prescott. Right.
Dak Prescott talked this week saying he feels great, He's
ready to go. The hamstring injury that was more serious
than we anticipated. This yet another Dak Prescott injury that
is was more serious and anticipated, but he says he
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is a full go for training camp and he's ready
to go. Now all week? What is it?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The cow the Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
What?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But I will tell you this, this is probably the
best thing I've said about the Cowboys in months, right,
maybe a year right, maybe maybe going back to Jerry
Jones saying we're all in and by that I mean
and not signing any players. We're just all in. I
had to what's going on? But I will say this,
the Cowboys offense is going to have a really good year.
(29:35):
Watch out right, even when the Cowboys are at their
normal right, not at their best, at their normal, which
is they're a tennish win team, and they sniff one
game in the playoffs and then Dak is awful the
first week in the playoffs and they wind up losing. Uh.
Dak has had some pretty big seasons and you look
at the weapons that he's got around him. Now, another
(29:56):
year of the Cede Lamb connection. Not worrying about how
difficult it was last year with the holdouts and then
Dak wound up missing time he talked about the connection,
He's out look Seede Lamb's on the top five receivers
in the NFL. George Pickens in a honeymoon season where
if he's ever gonna really stand up and fly right, Yeah,
get rid of the problems that that that followed him
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in Pittsburgh. This is going to be the year to
do it. I'm a big believer that, hey, people would
have issues. The first year in a new location is
always the best before the old issues crop up again.
But clearly Pickens wants to get paid now. He's got
a star on his helmet. Like Pickens is extremely talented.
Jake Ferguson had a phenomenal twenty twenty three year with
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Dak Prescott. Right, people forget because Dak got hurt and
did Jake Ferguson as well. Fantasy exactly fantasy, You understand, boy.
I can't trade date Jake Ferguson. No one wants him
at this point. But twenty twenty three full year with Dek,
he was fantastic. Their running backs are kind of Jags,
but I like Javonte Williams. They'll be okay. The best
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thing Dallas can do throw the ball seven hundred times,
go over the top. This is what you're paying Dak
Prescott for he's got the weapons, he's got the offensive
line good enough, he can be able to He's still
got enough mobility to get out of trouble. He's got
a great he's got the best set of weapons around
him in the passing game then he's had in a
long time. This Cowboys offense is going to have a
(31:21):
big season. Now again, still could wind up being ten
and seven or nine to eight. We miss because the
defense is not there. They lose a shootout because you know,
Dallas Cowboy things happen. But this is a this offense
is set up to put up some numbers this season.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, because a full season of Dak usually means what
sixty eight percent completion and over thirty touchdown passes and
moving the ball. And you're right, maybe throwing the ball
six hundred times.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I mean, well, I don't know. I think six hundred
is a little conservative. I go seven hundred, seven hundred seven.
Why even run the ball?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Okay? Seven to fourteen?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, seven to sixty three to break
the bonds.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Record if that's the record.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, well yeah, well, I mean it's it's in the
record books record.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Okay, if you say so it's.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Still the record is still there. But I mean, this
is the best balanced offense, the deep weapons, it's going
to be very difficult to try to figure out what
to do offensively. And yes, Brian Schottenheimer has been pretty
good with that over the course of his career. So yeah,
I may not matter record wise, right, Cowboys still could
be that nine and eight, ten and seven. Maybe we
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make the playoffs, maybe we don't. They're doomed to that
because the roster is not that great, but their numbers
on offense should be really, really good. Watch out. Best
thing I can say about the Cowboys, Steve. Best thing
I can say now, The best thing Steve the Sager
can tell you right now is what's trending in the
wide world of sports as d what you.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Got that the Dodgers are losing again in San Francisco.
It is four to two Giants over the Dodgers. In
the bottom of the fifth inning, the two for La,
a two run homer into the bay by sho hey Otani,
is thirty second home run of the season. Giants have
bases loaded one out in the bottom of the fifth
Right now, the Dodgers have lost six games in a row.
Blue Jay's out to a seven nothing lead at in
(33:00):
the bottom of the fifth. Still Padres at home, leading
the Phillies three to two in the top of the
eighth inning. The first place Phillies only a game and
a half ahead of the Mets in the NL East.
The Mets are now trailing three to one at Kansas
City in the top of the eighth code. I Sengo,
off the injured list, pitched the first four scoreless innings
for the Mets. Tonight. The Angels have taken a five
(33:20):
to four lead on the Diamondbacks bottom of the sixth,
and Cleveland's playing two at the White Sox after the
rainout yesterday. Cleveland took the opener four to two. The
Guardians are tied four to four at the White Sox
top of the tenth. In the nightcap, Milwaukee won its
fifth straight game, eight three over Washington, and the Brewers
are now just one game back of the first place
Cubs in the NL Central. All Star break comes up
(33:43):
after this weekend. The Cubs were shut out eleven to
nothing in New York by the Yankees, who've won five
in a row. Cody Bellinger hit three home runs six
RBIs the winning pitcher Carlos Rodin with eight strikeouts in
his eight innings of work. Rodin was also added to
the AL All Star team, replacing Max Freed. It was
Atlanta six five winners at Saint Louis. Matt Olsen of
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the Braves replaces Ronald Decunye for the Home Run Derby,
which is Monday and then the All Star Game Tuesday
in Atlanta. Minnesota sent Pittsburgh to a seventh straight loss
two to one. Joe Ryan over Paul Skens, Texas and
Baltimore with wins. Colorado as well, thanks to a run
in the eighth on a wild pitch. Rockies won three
(34:25):
two at Cincinnati. Colorado's record now twenty two and seventy two.
Boston won its eighth straight game on a two run
homer bottom of the ninth against Tampa Bay closer Pete
Fairbanks five to four. Red Sox the final Ray's All
Star second baseman Brandon Low finally went on the injured
list with a bad Obleaque and Seattle got two more
homers from cal Rale he has thirty eight. Mariners won
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twelve three at Detroit, beating Trek Scoobel, who had been
ten and two, but in five innings allowed four runs.
Just two games in the WNBA, Seattle at home leads
early fourth fifty nine fifty eight over Connecticut, which two
and sixteen. Indiana beat Atlanta ninety nine eighty two. Caitlin
Clark twelve points, nine assists.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve oh coming up next. Yes,
Earlier this week, I bashed one NFL team mercilessly well,
because it's positivity Friday. Wait till you get my big
Bowl prediction about them. You want my long shot pick
for the Super Bowl in the NFC, I got it
(35:28):
for you. It's next right here. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager,
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with special delivery
Steve de Saga in from Mike Harmon. Steve, uh, yeah,
we might be getting close to making that seven losses
in a row for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Giants lead LA seven to two right now.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And they've chased the starter Dustin May and the reliever
Anthony Bonda just stumbled covering first the trainer is out.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Oh boy. Uh so we got more baseball on the way.
But with the debut of Quarterback this week, you got
a plethora of great storylines rather for some Kirk Cousins
or you know why Joe Burrow didn't buy the batmobile,
or Jared Goff not being you know, told he was
getting traded away.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Like a streaming documentary talking.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yes, yes, the streaming documentary on Netflix of Quarterback, which
Jared Goff. Dude, I'm pretty sure that loss to the
Jets was when Sean McVay decided he was trading you.
The game was that bad. But all the criticism for
the Falcons who screwed up their quarterback situation by signing
Kirk Cousins and then drafting Michael Pennock junior, because zero
(36:50):
teams sign a guy for four years, one hundred and
eighty million and then draft a guy high in the
first round. No teams do that except the Falcons. So
it was stupid. So they were stuck quarterback. Then, they
were stuck a few months ago. They're stuck now. However,
right now, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about
who my long shot pick for the Super Bowl was
(37:11):
in the ASC. If you're looking for a long shot pick, no,
come on, well you're saying. If you're saying, who do
you think is gonna pick first in the draft next year,
they're your answer.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
So, Steve, would that be considered a long shot? Wouldn't
that be?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Come on? Okay? A team that I think can get there,
not a team that's not even gonna get close.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
That's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Dude, Kenny Pickett can win the starting job. He wears
seven gloves on his right hand. I mean, come on,
he did, He does wear that many.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
But Browns were only three and fourteen last year.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, you're true, that's true. They could
and they could. You know what, hey, I could see
them winning four games this year. They can. They can
up that victory. Respect that my surprise team. You're talking
about teams that are that your odds are talking about
like plus six plus eight plus ten thousand, the Indian
app plus Colts in the AFC. Right, they have all
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the weapons. Daniel Jones will be just fine. They did
a lot of moves to improve the defense. Uh, we've
got to see how it works out. But the division
is terrible, but offensively they have so many great weapons.
Big draft to tight end as well. Watch out for
the Colts.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
But how you say Daniel Jones will be just fine?
So Richardson doesn't play que Jones is completely healthy, that's
what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
They are done with Anthony Richardson. The guy can't stay healthy.
He's not productive.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Jones will you're saying they're done?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I mean Daniel Jones has to have
the job taken away from him because he's so bad,
that's the whole thing. But now he's got weapons. He's
in a position to succeed with the Colts, which he
was never You got you got a couple of really
good running backs, you got four good wide receivers. You
got a tight end that you went up and got
in the first round of the draft. Like you got
some weapons there in a bed.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
The next Dallas Clark the drafted. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
In fact, it was Dallas Clark who they drafted again.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
It's just give him the same number, hey, forty four again.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah he's been just squint your eyes. It looks like
Dallas I think. But in the NFC, my surprise, my
long shot team at plus eight thousand is the Falcons.
The Falcons have a lot of young talent. I know
I bashed them because they completely biff the quarterback position,
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but just think how much better things would be if
they didn't sign Kirk Cousins had all that money to
sign other players for different positions. But they do have
so much young talent across the board. On offense. If
Michael Pennix Junior is who they think he's going to
be and it's all on him, they have more than
enough to win that division. They'll win big at home
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and have forced other teams to come play there in
the playoffs. They just got to stay away from drama.
I mean, I know it's a thing, and now they're
trying to navigate Cousins and Pennix and it's really crappy.
And I'm sure at some point they'll bite the bullet
and move on from Cousins. But if Michael Pennick Junior,
I'm saying it's a big if, but you're talking if
for a quarterback. If second year the reps the off season,
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they have a lot of talent acrossport. One of the
best running backs the game, and Bjon Robinson there wide
receivers are deep. This is again and a bad division
that they can dominate their plus eight or nine thousand,
that's a phenomenal value. My surprise team in the NFC
is the Falcons.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
As soon as you said that, I said, that's not
a bad thing for one reason, and that's the division.
Because it seems like whoever wins that division seems to
be around nine and eight. So the Falcons were last
year around nine and eight. That means you're in contention
not only for the division, but in the past that's
been the controversial home game for the playoffs as well
as an aside.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah, I mean, because a lot of it comes down
to the schedule, comes down to who you play, comes
down to having games at home, especially when that home
game is going to be such.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
An Every season schedule is different. You're right, and it
goes by your previous season. By the way, do we
have a Mets update Mark Fientos. It's just today, three
run double and the Mets take the lead at Kansas
City four to three in the top of the eighth.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I think that's Mark Vientos's first hit since the Grand
Slam against the Dodgers in the NLCS in October. I
really do think.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
One thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Falcons plus eight thousand a huge Lebron James story. Next
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