August 22, 2024 • 41 mins
The guys begin the 3rd hour talking about the controversial play in the A’s v. Rays game where Miguel Andujar rounded first and was called out after he was preoccupied for going for his helmet. Then, the guys give an update on the ongoing Aaron Judge controversy with a local little league team in New York.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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(01:00):
what just happened in the Rays and the A's.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Game turned out. The the miscommunication about a game that
I wasn't looking for, but there was on the monitor.
You know, gave us a win.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Not even the White Sox, not even the Mets have
pulled a play like this.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, I can't. It's fantastic. It's some terrible things. I mean,
go back to NIMO last night. You know you want
to look.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It at athletes, and I know that athletes don't get
the credit they deserve because you can't play professional sports
for a living, by and large, if you're not always
mentally aware of what's going on what you need to do.
Like look, Jay Glazer tells us all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You can't be stupid to play in the NFL. I
couldn't make it. The stuff these guys have to know,
going in and play fast and reacting, I don't know
how they do it right. And I don't think players
get enough credit for it. It's not just boy. I
have this gift of being able to go out and
and see the fastball or be able to adjust my swing.
I can see the dot for the curve and hit it.
You know, people don't get enough credit. And then I
(02:01):
see a play like this. Okay, so Miguel Anduhr, who
once upon a time the Yankees wouldn't trade for anybody, right,
you can show. Hey, how about Miguel and har and
somebody else? Are Bryce Harper the presses? Nope, nope, no, no, no,
all right, Bryce Harper and Otawanni and Trout Nope nope,
can't do it. Can't trade Miguel and Harp. Right now,
Miguel and Horr is on the A's, which tells you
(02:22):
where his career is gone. Right, this is back when
Brian KM We're not trading any We're not trading anybody,
not trade anybody. So Miguel, it's it's the eighth inning.
And look, this is about the play. It's not about
a pendant. Look, this is the raise in the A's.
But Andrew Harr it's a ground ball to the left
side of the enfield, and he beats out the throw,
or it's close enough play where it looks like he
would have beat it out, but the throw gets away
(02:44):
from the NDD as at first base. It kind of
gets away for a few feet, right, It gets away
like maybe ten or twelve feet, and Dow Horr crosses
first base and as he's getting to first base, his
helmet comes off. His helmet comes off, and it bounces
into the field of play a little bit and it's
a I don't know, five or six feet in fair
territory off of first base. Okay, so his helmet comes off,
(03:08):
but you know, he beats out the play. He looks
behind him and he sees that the ball is bouncing
ten or twelve feet away from Diaz at first base.
Anderwar turns to come back to the base and decides,
I'm gonna go in and get my helmet.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, I mean, he wanted to be protected.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
While the play is still going on. He goes in
to get his helmet, which when you turn towards second base,
you're you can be tagged out. So he doesn't go
back to the base, then call time out, get your helmet. No, no,
I'm gonna get my helmet as I go back to
the base, Like what the hell are you thinking? What
is wrong with you? So he goes to get his helmet.
Diaz gets the ball, comes back and tags him as
(03:46):
he's getting back to first base, and he is called out.
It is a pickoff. It's a single and a pickoff.
That's how that's called. But this is a guy who decided,
while the play is going on, I'm gonna go get
my helmet and then go back to the base, Like
what kind of like what goes through your head where
you think this is what I want to do? Like
how help locked into a game and playing, are you
when to go?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yea, I'm gonna go get my help while the play
is going on, get back to the base era. That's
like a guy stealing second base sliding in the ump.
Calls him safe, but his helmet comes off. I get
off the base to get my helmet. Come back, nobody
does that. I'm gonna go try to get my helmet
because it's in fair territory. Like if it was in
foul territory, he would have been fun. But it's in
fair territory, so I go to get it. Mark Kotze
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comes out, the A's manager, and he was like Hulk
Hogan coming out of the locker room watching somebody get
beat up by two guys in the middle of the
ring during during a WrestleMania he comes flying out. He's
screaming about the play because on replay it looks like
Andrew har gets his foot in just before the tag
(04:47):
and it's enough of a I it's enough of a Oh.
He looks like he's safe. He's in there and somehow
it doesn't get overturned. So I understand how mad Kotze
is about that. But I look at that, and I
look at andw har and I go, dude, you to
be thrown out just for that?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, I mean I can't. I can't read most of
the tweets that have come through no, like this blank that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well, you can read him, you just can't read them
out loud on the show. Good point. Yeah, yeah, that's
their point. I don't think there are words you haven't
seen before you grew up in Chicago after all.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh my my ears, oh my eyes, oh my virgin ears.
I've never heard those words, never never combine those at all. Yeah,
he might have been safe. There's some argument of letter
and spirit of the law related to the turn towards
the field right of going to get your helmet?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Do z?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Is that the same as I'm turning and trying to
go to second People are trying to argue this and
lawyer this wherever they can't. You can't. But you can't.
You can't go.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can't make a turn towards second base. And sometimes
it's just a step. This is six feet in. It
doesn't matter. You're going to get your helmet. You can't
you know, you can't go do that like find like
I hope the homeplate umpire looked at the video came
back and when I said, after reviewing the play, the
runner had beaten the throw back to first base. However,
(06:06):
because he was stupid, we're still calling him.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
We have called him out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I like that, Jules, you give that guy that briefcase,
I will shoot him on general principle.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Maccatze gets thrown out, of course he does, you know, I
mean that that was a little bit of excitement here.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm a bad manager. My player doesn't know what he's doing,
and we didn't get the call on replay. I'm leading
to be fair for him.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I guess. I guess that's the uh, the little gift.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Please throw me out.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But like that one's those are not the ground rules
you have to go over before a game when you
go to a different ballpark, in his case, at your
home park. I don't I watch and hard do that.
I said, what does he think he's doing? What is
he think?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You want to know why, But it's the first thing
you teach.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You were teaching playing softball, and you might have first
time players you're like, all right, let's explain how this
is gonna work.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You always you turned towards when you run down first base,
you turn towards foul territory, and you you look for
the ball. If you're gonna turn and try to go
to second, and you look and you go straight, you
don't try to get back in. You go straight from
there because it's a straight line.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But but don't turn the other ways. If you turn
the other way and the ball and you just give
it like a jab step, you're making a play for
said the umpire could say you made a play for
a second.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's the thing in this case. I don't know how
much of an argument you have that he legitimately managed
turned towards second.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh, he was going to get his helmet, like, but
he went six feet into the field of play, like
he could have kept saying the second.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
This is the longest yard. I can't where either Burt
Reynolds or Adam Sandler is walking walking and he's like
shoot him.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
He's trying to escape, shoot him, and he's yelling crew
picks up the football a band.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But you know, it's a matter of interpretation. What was
he trying to do. He's not trying to his cave.
He just wanted his football, and then he turned back
and smiles at you. But yeah, it's it's insanity, like
the return on social media here, next level stuff. Well,
of course, no question. My favorite though anytime when they
had the bases where if you were playing first base,
(08:16):
they'd have the orange base or red base or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
like the two together, and you always ask jumpires like
I can use this as a first baseman, right, and
you look at you goes, yeah, go, so now I've
got that much more space that I can operate out
of throat coming to first. So as a runner, you
also not only had to worry about touching the base,
you had to worry about whether you're going to run
(08:37):
into a brick wall first base. Yeah, yeah, I want
a couple of those. It was.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was always there for protection. So you don't run
the first basement over because in little league, you know
who knows is the first basement standing where they should be?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Meanwhile, what people don't understand is that the three most
important positions in little when your teach kids growing up
on your team are pitcher, catch, your first base, Like
that's where you got to put your three best players
short stutt Nope, pitcher catch your first base. If you
don't have players that catch your in first base, you're
gonna lose. That's how it goes. You're gonna lose because
if your first baseman can't catch and your catcher can't catch,
(09:10):
guts one trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's a wrong day. Uh just remember all you out there,
Blessed number one turned back towards the stand. I don't
wave to the nice people after you touch first base.
Miguel Andrew Harr has had a grand total of one
even acceptable year in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Sea in twenty eighteen. He had a great year rookie
year with the Yankees twenty seven ninety two, and he
hit two ninety seven. Right, this was the hell, He's
gonna be a superstar. And I remember so many teams
wanted him, and it was, oh my god, if we
could get Miguel andwhar to trade from the Yankees, and
there were superstars the Yankees could have gotten for Miguel
andywar But I get at that point, hey, we can't
(09:51):
really trade it, because look, the guy's great, right, he's
twenty three years old making no money Yeah, no, no, we're
not gonna do it. But then he's still a hot
name in twenty nineteen, didn't really play a lot in
twenty nineteen he was hurt. Twenty twenty he didn't even
play in half the season. Twenty twenty one, he you know,
he's been hurt, been in and out of the game.
So but at some point when he was still there,
the Yankees could have moved him, but they still wouldn't
(10:11):
do it. And it's still a Brian Cashman. I can't
I gotta walk around in this town. I got I
I can't do it, and I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Andrew Harr and Glabor Tours were the two guys that
are touchable.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, and Gary Sanchez for a long time. Yeah, were
those are the three guy was scary. Those were the
three guys that were the ones that everybody wanted, and
that Cashman said no, we can't do it, and it
was stuff like, hey, de Grom for Andrew Harr and Sanchez,
like that was the story, and the Yankee said no,
(10:43):
like what I mean, Look, you're talking about de Grom,
who was the most dominant pitcher of the last ten years,
and Mets didn't We're gonna able to resign, and we're
not sure de Grom for andw Harr and Sanchez Nope,
not doing it. Nope, nope, can't do it. Can't do it,
can't do it. Did really worked out for ant of him. Man,
you could have got you could have got it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Well, de Grim won the World Series last year even
though he into him play, and that's you know, I say,
that was a real you know, when I saw that
picture of de Gram with the World Series trophy, my
first reaction was he didn't even play. Secondly, he was
you know, he was the best pitcher for the Mets
for so many years, his bets pitcher in Baseball three
Cy youngs and I gotta see him in jeans holding
(11:19):
the World Series trophy because he didn't pitch all season long,
hasn't pitched all year this year, collecting all sorts of money.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So yeah, in the end, that one kind of pissed
me off a bit. It's like I earned this for
all the years I toiled. Remember that rotation. We actually
have a promo and be kind of chuckling of a
conversation you and I had about the rotation that was
gonna surpass the early seventies orioles. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Let me just ask you this now, because once upon
a time from Miguel Anduhar, what do you think is
the best season Miguel andu Har has had besides that
year home runs in RBIs eight and forty four, four
and thirty. You know what year that was?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
This year.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And thirty? Good for you, that's in his best year.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
We got some positivity out of him getting tagged out
for going again his helmet.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I just a game that wasn't even supposed to be that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's one of those plays where and obviously we're in
the Little League World Series right now, and I guarantee
you tomorrow Williams League World Series or no, the League
of Litle leaguer wouldn't make that play. They would, they would
turn it. No, I can't go he better, Yeah they know,
but I guarantee you in Williamsport tomorrow, the coaches are
going to talk about that play. Hey, if your helmet
comes off, don't go get it. Look what happened to Miguel.
(12:32):
And this is the A's and the Rays last night.
And that's why I'd love all these kids, because all
these kids care deeply, and all these kids are gonna say,
what am I a major leaguer?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Come on, they know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They all love baseball so much they care about the
Rays and the A's a late night what happened?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Can you see?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Did you see this? See what Miguel and Noward did?
But I guarantee you it's gonna be hey teaching lesson
if your helmet falls off and have fallen into the
field of play, go back to the base.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Call time out, then get your helmet. It's either that
or do a an interview with the local newspaper and
rip Aaron Judge not meeting with your team. We're from
South Dakota. It doesn't matter. He was supposed to come
say hello.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh boy. And now I can't wait for Marcotte's postgame
news conference because the A's.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Have just lost with the Rays four to two.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Ah, they had a good runs here. No, you can't
just say they had a good run when they stink.
It doesn't why I know you default to that. Sometimes
it works, sometimes it doesn't. Like you're you're at like
a You're like a uh, who what I say?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You're like, who's a good guy to compare you? To
you are lady as one World Series back in the day.
You are just celebrated Conseco. You are.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You are like Angel Reese's field goal percentage. Like you
say they had a good run, and you're right, like
thirty nine to forty percent of the time. The other
sixty percent you're wrong because you just say it. When
did the A's have a good runs? But nineteen seventy four, fine, okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Forty years ago when Tony LaRussa reinvented the bullpen and
guys were juiced.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Out of that.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
That's that's twenty five years ago. They were sweating juice.
That's how much they put in. They can't say they
had a good run. Like you know, people look at
you and Dave Stewart was running around. What are you
talking about me? You mean the guy from the Rhythmics.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, Sweet Dreams made.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Us good.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, you can't keep saying they had a good run
when they didn't because people who don't know you, like
you always know, people are tuning into the positivity. People
are tuning into the show for the for the people
are pressing you for a while. They know, oh yeah, yeah,
they had a good run.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's Arbon's thing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But people for the first time we he just I
listened to this guy in the radio lized he said,
the A's had a good run. What's he talking? Who
the hell is that?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But if you want to take that onto your local
radio station, in a blog or in a social media
at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
We're gonna play it back. This audio from Fox Sports
Radio heard on our on our station nights here, the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon. Here's Mike Carbon talking
about how good to run the A's have had this
Here he's our eadiot of the day here on w
A a Q.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
What does that get me? So get me some chicken way.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The probably probably put a picture you online and the like,
you know, with with like spilled nachos over you.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't know something like that. Probably well those that
really know me know I would never spill my nachos.
So there, I mean, I get I I am just
special a nacho helmet. I am stunned by that play.
I am stunned by that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Uh coming up next, Okay, So we had to get
to that because that was a that was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
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At something I never a phrase I never thought i'd
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Speaker 3 (17:19):
It into a show, I'm gonna get to say, I'm
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Speaker 1 (17:25):
Ohok, we got some big football stuff coming up. We
got big quarterback news, Bo Nix gets the job with
the Broncos, the latest on the Steelers. But this Aaron
Judge story continues to rear its ugly head and even
more headlines today than there was a day ago. This
all because of the Little League World Series and Staten Island,
(17:46):
my hometown.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The manager, the head coach of the team, was very
upset that on Sunday night, look the Yankees playing. You know,
there's one game they played Williams Porter ofver year for
Little League World Series. It's a great, great day where
players on both teams get to go meet all the
kids and sign autographs, all kinds of fun stuff. Team
from Staten Island was there and they played, and now
they got eliminated yesterday, and it's become a story the
(18:13):
last couple of days that the manager, the head coach
is really mad because Aaron Judge didn't make enough time
to come and talk to the kids.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Other Yankees were there.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
He said, ah, you know Garrett Cole and a couple
other guys, DJ LeMay who came for a little bit,
but they really wanted Aaron Judge too.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Djlmay who's only hitting one fifty nine or something in
his last thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Listen, we can we can't have this guy hitting under
two hundred showing up talking to kids. I don't want
I don't want this stink of him to get on
these kids. I got kids hitting four or five hundred.
He's hitting a buck eighty nine. I can't. He goes
over shake somebody's ind and guess what happens That kid
goes cold. He's like the Cooler, right, He's like Bill
Macy in that movie. So of all the Yankees come over.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
What a great movie that is? I haven't seen it.
Underrated the Cooler Alec Baldwin, Maria Bellow, Aaron Judge who
spent a lot of time with kids. He did signing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
There's picture them everywhere signing autographs everything else.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
O guy. John Morosi had the video I know, I know,
I know, I know the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So what's the phrase? The phrase the pays is coming.
So this is crazy. And the Yankees defended him a
day ago by saying, Aaron Judge met with with a
bunch of kids. No one does, no one does more.
Aaron Judge is always out doing things for kids. He's
one of the great ambassadors a baseball judge.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
He met a lot of kids, he signed autographs, and
the manager was upset. Aaron Judge didn't come meet the kids.
And when the kids were yelling at him in the field,
Aaron Judge didn't turn their way during the game. Don't
worry Smith, there's these players. These players are all professionals.
This can't sway them. Strawberries kred Tier comes out of
(19:48):
Strawberries's eye. So uh, it became a whole thing because
Bob Laturza, who is the coach of the Shout South
Shore Little League team again three little leagues on Staten Island,
not the one I played in, and and the Yankees
came out to defend him. And today Aaron Boone and
Aaron Judge both addressed this. Aaron Judge said, that's ridiculous.
(20:10):
I'm not even gonna give this any time. He's one
of the great ambassadors of the sport right right right away.
I'm not even gonna get into this at all. And
Aaron Judge basically saying the same thing. I'm not gonna
get involved in this back and forth. I have no response.
We got a chance to spend a time with quite
a few kids. It's about the kids, So I'm not
gonna respond to this. I get booed if I go,
(20:30):
oh for one, So I'm not gonna throw any weight
on this. It's you know, I plan from forty thousand
people every single night. I don't really want to put
any weight onto his comments. So now it's become a
thing because Bob liturns it did the interview with the
Staten Island Advance. Oh Bye, my hometown paper where I
(20:53):
am from Staten Island, where I grew up. He did
the interview with the Staten Island Advance.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You know, anybody that's working for that paper, you know,
it's funny you say that.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Uh, there's no paper I have read more in my
life than the Staten Island Advance. Every every day growing up,
you would read the Advance, the New York Post and
the daily News. You would just you would just read
all of that. I mean we always had the both
the Times and the Tribute and cause Staten Island Advance
it was always so bulky because it was one of
those that big long papers had the fold in the middle,
(21:21):
and I was like, oh my god, look you had
to have a whole table open ready to read unless
you wanted to fold it and have it your hands
all full of ink.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So I'm like, oh my god, the Guide to the
New of course with the Staten Island Advance. And I'm going,
oh my goodness, to Advance Staten Island Advance. And I
had this incredible memory today of and it's a great
memory but also a bad memory because it's it's it's
got my grandfather so bad at me, so the Staten
Island Advance. When I was a kid in the eighties.
(21:50):
Growing up, they would have this contest where you went
against one of their writers picking football games. Guy's name
is Joe NuGen and I knew him. He lived around
the corner from me. I played baseball with his son.
He was always a great guy. He would always talk
baseball with me. I was one of those kids where
when I met an adult, they're like, oh, this kid
knows a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
About baseball, Like I'm just not.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, oh, so adults and I always had great conversations,
and I guess that's where I kind of in growing up.
I always did really well with the parents of the
girls I liked, but the girls I had a little
bit more trouble with.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I get that boy.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I like Jason, I don't understand what's going out. Man,
he's talking about the menta. So so Joe Nugent and
he would pick the g All you had to do
was pick the games, win or a loser. Right, So
what you had to do was this is the eighties, right,
They would every Friday, or no, every every Thursday. They
would print the games in a box and you picked
the games and Joe NuGen made his picks right. He
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was the big writer for the Staten Island Advance. So
you had to make your picks and then fold it up,
put it in an envelope and mail it to the
Staten Island Advance. Now mail would get there in a
day because it's Staaten Island. It's it's not a hug,
it's not one of the bigger burroughs. So you have
to get it there. They say, if it's postmarked by
Friday at noon, you know, or Saturday, Saturday, Saturday at noon,
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Saturday at noon, Saturday noon was a day, satday noon,
and you get it. So I wanted to I wanted
to win so bad because you would win a bumper
sticker and you got your name in the paper like
it would it would say, hey, the following people, you know,
Joe Nugen's record this week was was you know, was
was eight and seven or they didn't use the Monday
night game like they were eight and c was eight
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and seven. So anybody that picked nine or more games,
nip NuGen, here's a list of those people. And they
would print how many games you picked, right, and your
name you give you your record too, And I was
and I'm like, oh my god, I want to get
my name and I want to get my name in
the paper so bad. Right, And now there's a lot
of people doing this, So when they print the names
of the people who nip nudgen, there's like in the
(23:46):
hundreds of names doing it right, Like that that's what
it is, right, So it's all any you know again,
not not with with pointspread or anything else.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Picking.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And the first year that I really knew about this
and wanted to do it, I was dying to win.
All I talked about My mom would say to me,
can you stop talking about nipping nugent? Can you stop
talking about this and getting your name in the paper?
I go, but I want all day I wanted that
was a nip nugent contest and you got a bumper
sticker that said I nipped nugent, Like that was the
all thing that was like, if I could get that,
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that was my holy grail, right, that was my absence.
If I get an I Nipped NuGen bumper sticker, like
that was it. I was like, Oh, on the here,
I'm gonna put it on my I'm gonna put it
on my notebook when I go into school. Class, and
if I win again, I'll just keep putting them on
there because I nip NuGen. So finally, after like I
don't know, like five or six weeks, like it took
me a while, and I finally won, and I was like,
oh my god, this is so great. I'm gonna get
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a bumpers everything. So the paper comes on Monday and
I look and my name's not in the paper, and
I'm so upset. I think I'm I'm I'm like eleven,
I'm like ten or eleven, and I'm so upset. I
start crying because I'm so mad. I'm so mad that
my name's not in the paper. And I looked and
I checked like five times, and I'd looked through like,
you know, a couple hundred names, but I knew how
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many I got right, and I couldn't find any. But
maybe I got Maybe did I pick the Cowboys? I
don't know that, Or did I pick the Did I
picked the Redskins in this game?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So I look and I can't find it. And my grandfather,
God bless him. He and I did not get along
a lot, but he felt so but he was, what's
going on? I know, I won, Pop, I know, I want.
I wrote, I wrote down my picks and everything else. Oh,
I know I won. My name's not in the paper.
He goes, well, I'm gonna call the advance. He picks
up the phone and he calls the advance stand Island
Advance Sports Department. Please, I'm like, what are you doing?
(25:28):
So he calls a sports apartment. Someone whoever hits the
phone stand is in advanced sports. My grandson, Nip NuGen,
and his name isn't in the paper, and I want
you to tell me why. And I'm going cause he
was eleven, pop, I'm going, yeah, Pop, Okay, okay, he's
going I don't know. He Nip NuGen. His name is
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Jason Smith. His name should be in the paper. I
don't know why. And this is an exact voice, like
I'm not doing this is out speak for the rest
of the night.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And he so he.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Says he and he's his name should be in the
paper and I don't know why it's not. You got
to tell me. And then they put him on hold
and he comes back and he goes, keep checking, keep checking.
I go, Pop, it's not there. I checked like one hundred,
it's not there. It's not there, all right. Guy goes back.
He has to tell the next guy the same story.
This is Fred Olivery Senior, My grandson Jason Smith nipped
Nugent in the football picking contest, and his name is
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supposed to be in the paper and it's not.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I just love the fact that it's not. At any point, Hey,
he beat him this week.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
He's like, he nipped Nuja because that was the contest,
and you get that.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
And he should be getting your uncle stand from gravity
falls and he should be getting the bumper sticker.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And I want to know why it's not, and why
what did you get it? Did you all this stuff? Look?
And apparently the guys are looking for it now. They're
looking on the thing, like where this guy's gonna come in.
And he's like, I'm Fred Olivery Senior. My grandson's Jason Smith.
His name should be in the paper. So he's looking,
he's talking and this is like, you know, eight o'clock
(27:00):
at night, I think. So he's called so the ad,
the sports ad. They're trying to get the paper next edition.
They're looking for the late high school scores of games
and everything football games, what everything else? And i'd wait
and all of a sudden, I look and I'm looking
through that. I'm looking through it like my eyes are
tearing and I'm looking through and I look and I go, oh,
there's my name. It's right there. How did I How
(27:23):
did I miss that? Like the seventeen times that I
look through it? And this is now a theme of
my life because my wife would tell me the same thing. Oh,
I completely believe that you do like I do. Like that,
Now I don't see it's not there. Oh there, it
is right there. So I finally got and I didn't
know what to do because I'm like, Okay, either I
(27:45):
let this go and Pop does whatever he does on
the phone with this guy the right, or we got
Pop on the war path, or I tell him I
found it. And now my joy at finding my name
is tempered by the fact that he wants he's gonna
want to kill me, right, He's gonna want to kill me.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Now you've repped him up. He's wasting his time. He
rated multiple people.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Oh he was you always like like he was a
lot like Mickey and Rocky. When Mickey would get mad
at Rocky, like that's that's what's going on. You micking
you I'm getting no title shot rocked. These guys are handpicked.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
He wants to kill you.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's club a Lang. So I don't know what to
do and I sit there frozen for a few seconds,
and I finally I gotta tell him I got I
can't let it because he's still talking, going his name.
He says he got nine right, or ten right? Ten
games right? Maybe eleven. He's not true, And I just
go I go, oh, there it is Pop.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I found it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And he looks at me and he says, thanks, we
found it, and he hangs up the phone, and I go, oh,
he was he was pretty good. He was pretty good there.
And he looks at me and he says, you come
home from school tomorrow and you don't leave the house
until Monday. And he walked out and went to bed.
And this is like, Donald, this is like on a
(29:03):
Wednesday for that. You come home from school tomorrow and
you don't leave the house until monday.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
How quickly did you take a pair of scissors, cut
your name out and put it on a wall? Was
he was? So? I did I cut that? I took
that immediately. I'm sure you probably went, yeah, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, you know, here's how I got the paper because
I want to do it right. But my grandmother's like,
what's going on. She comes to my grandmother's Switzerland anytime
something happened in the house. He was like, I'm not
in the middle of it. Great, thanks Graham, I'm ten
years old. Can you help me? But she comes in.
What happened? I tell her what happened, I said, But
all right, I'm gonna take the paper upstairs. And she goes,
your grandfather hasn't finished reading it. Leave it here, I'll
(29:46):
get She very much like Edith Monker, the way she talked, Oh, Auntie,
how was your day? So she says, leave it here
and I'll give it to you tomorrow. Don't take it now.
So I said, okay, So I leave it. He reads
the paper everything else, and then she is it to
me and I cut it out and I put it.
I put it up in my room. He would never
come to my room. He would never come to my
for some reason, he just never would. It was upstairs.
(30:07):
He didn't come up. He never came into my room.
And like, so now and it ends right, It's like
it's over, okay. But now this is the part in
the horror movie where okay, the killer is alive again.
So so he comes up to the room like two
months later, like like two months later and just to
tell me something like, oh, hey, tomorrow at school or where
I'll drop you off here this is going on, okay, great.
(30:28):
He comes into my room and of course I'm laying
on the bed and I'm doing homework or something, and
he sees that the nip nugent thing is behind on
my bed on the wall, and I have I have
it highlighted, I have drawings around it, I have the
debt like it's like a shrine. And my grandfather looked
at he says, ah, that's when you had me on
the phone when you couldn't find your name on that Tomorrow,
(30:52):
after I pick you up, we're coming straight home.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm like, how did I get in trouble for something
I didn't do? Just because you went mad again about
it two months later? So he grounded me again for
a day just because he got mad that he thought
he was reminded of when he was on the phone
to the Staten Island Advanced Sports Apartment and he got
embarrassed him and you started yelling double Jeopardy Double Jeopardy.
I already served a time for this.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Man, I'm like, pop, come on, man, pop that I
didn't do anything for this.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I did not do anything. It's still I got trouble
for Yeah. Look at least at least that is. That
is has girded me for married life.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Where sometimes I wake up in the morning and I
just go, Okay, I know today's not my day. All
I did was wake up and I know today's not
my day. Today, today is not whatever is going on?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I asked a.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Couple of questions. I try, I pour a bowl of cereal.
Today is not my day. I know today is not mine.
You know what, You're gonna be in the bullpen all
day tonight. Yeah, you're gonna be in the bullpen tomorrow.
This is tomorrow is a new day. It is not
new day because something has happened in the morning before
I woke up and I'm like, oh, you know what,
I'm I can't do anything right today.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
You woke up to a different universe. Sometimes you can't
help that up.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's what it was. Uh So there you go. Staten
Island Advance. I never thought, but I and I got
the bumper sticker. Yeah, buddy, story, let's find out what's
trending right now in the wide world of sports from
a guy who could never nip nugent because he grew
up in three thousand miles away and didn't read.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
This nugent in a stranglehold. Baby, Yeah, let's go. And
I said, too bad. I didn't pick the damn Yankees
with nugent? TJ. Brian, Can you take us higher?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
That's like a song, isn't take me high?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Damn Yankees high enough?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, I don't want to hear about it anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw got anyway, keep going.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I feel like there was an an Iowa football player
with the last named NuGen but.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
He was a kicker. That's right, that Ohio state. The
Jets draft them in the second round, thinking win the
Super Bowl, just taking a kicker in the second round.
The kicker, thanks for that, Thanks for that. That's another
great hand too.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
But I bring up Iowa because this is something that
I don't think anybody saw coming, or at least at
least tonight. According to The New York Times, Iowa had
football coach Kirk Friends and his wide receivers coach John
Budmar getting one game suspensions for recruiting malpractice when they
pursued quarterback Cade mc damara before the transfer portal opened
(33:32):
in twenty twenty two. The source could not say if
this penalty came from IOWA or the NCAA. So that
coming on the the the AP wire as of.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Are they penalizing they can't score touchdowns next year? Well,
I don't score touchdowns anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
That was the joke, dude, that was the joke. Man.
I'm the guy who when I hear a joke.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
He doesn't get it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
And then by the time it's explained the third of
the fourth time, it's no longer funny. And now people
have lost all enjoyment of the moment.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
So I'm sorry for that, I really am.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
In regards to what else is going on in the
world of sports, bo Nick's name the Broncos starting quarterback
for Week one, Brown QB DeShawn Watson, did just a
little bit of practice today and the reason why because
of a sore arm. And with that development now his
status is unclear for Saturday's preseason game. Major League Baseball
one game left that hasn't wrapped up. That would be
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the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium, looking to hold on eight
to three in their favor as the score against the
Seattle Mariners. Eighth inning, top of the eighth, Nolan Aernado,
how about this? Do you think of all the ways
to win a game? In extras, Cardinals fans were feasting
on the incredible nature of the ending of this game.
(34:55):
Courtesy of Nolan Aernado.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Bottom of the tip, Arenado, the pitch swaying.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
In a line drive down the left field line, stay
fair and it's gold. A slimmer per Nolan Arenatto.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
A walk up, slimmer, Yeah, walk off, grand slim that
courtesy of the Cardinals Radio Network. On the way to
a ten to six win for the Cards over the Brewers.
In ten Philly is over the Braves three to two.
Yankees got two home run Samaron Judge, He's got forty
seven on the season. Yanks overcome the Guardians eight to one.
Padres fall short eleven to four to the Twins. White
(35:33):
Sox win a stunner six to two against the Giants.
Here the Chicago White Sox scoring four runs in the
ninth inning. Red Sox win so do the Mets. And
I'll leave you guys with this because the Mets won
in walk off fashion. Jesse Winker Any relation to Harry Winkler, Nolan.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Henry Winkler, the far Henry. You gotta get the name right,
Is it Henry or Harry Henry. I don't know who
Harry Winkler is. I'm a little afraid maybe they're the
Winkler VI Twins. He was a sitcom rider for the
Adams Family, The Doris Day Show.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
There was a real Harry Winkler. Yeah, and George George,
That's what I meant.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Sure, And no relation to the Winkler Voss Facebook twins.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No, I think we're done. Yeah, I think you're done too.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
And the Mets won three over the Oil so they
got done in a happy way.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
But they send them away and then when they're doing
the performance in and pitch perfect and they lose you
when they get eliminated. What was the u RS cut off? Here?
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Brian Findley, the Jason Smithster with Mike Carbon coming up next,
A big quarterback battle decided the NFL. We'll tell you why.
This is a masterclass on how to anoint a number
one quarterback. As here comes Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades.
Yesterday I nip nu gent events.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I call the sports department said my name wasn't in
the newspaper. I'm running.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
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Speaker 1 (37:35):
Big football news today Bonnicks not surprising, but still big.
Bonnicks becomes a starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos, officially
getting named by Sean Payton today. This is an absolute
masterclass by how you conduct a quarterback derby involving a
rookie quarterback, and they should teach this to every single
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team because Sean Payton did this in a masterful way.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Are you jumping on board the He's a wizard again? Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
No, no, I know I look. Are you just getting
I'm ginging credit for how he was able to conduct
this quarterback derby because any team that has a quarterback derby,
if you have two guys going, they're gonna battle it
out in camp.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Great.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
So you're telling me you have no idea what you want.
I We're gonna have Russell Wilson and Justin Field to
battle it out, So you have no idea what you want. Basically,
are have to do guys cutting whoever runs a team better.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
No, you need to have some what are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
We're gonna have a nationwide search to find our new
Afternoon Drive candidate.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Here our slammer.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
It's an awful way to do a quarterback derby. You
can't just take guys and say these guys are gonna
battle it out. We still see it, right, we still
see it with the Patriots and the and the Steelers.
You drafted Bonnicks.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
You know, he's your.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Quarterback of the present and your quarterback of the future.
So what do you do to have a fixed competition
that's going to make it look like it's a competition,
So everybody's on their toe, but it's put in a
position where bow Knicks can walk out of this as
the winner with a lot of confidence getting ready for
the regular season. He puts him up against two guys
who are Jags, right, they're break glass in case emergency.
(39:13):
Jared Sidham's not a get by quarterback. He's a backup.
He's a guy that, okay, if he has to play
in relief for a week, okay, fine. But he's not
Gardner Minshew. He's not a guy that can start for
a few weeks. He's a Jag. And Zach Wilson is
just hoping to stay in the NFL. Right, but you
have like this quarterback derby that is fixed because you're
pretty sure, you know, hey, we bring bow Nicks along.
(39:33):
He can do it kind of out of the spotlight
a little bit because other guys are there. Maybe Jarrett
will start, maybe bow won't. So he's able to advance
at his own pace. And after six weeks, Hey, bow
Knicks proves I'm the best quarterback in camp. I become
the starting quarterback and it seems like I beat these
guys out and boy, but but all he did was
was put in a position to succeed where all I
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do is not fall on my face, and I'm gonna
be the starting quarterback. And now I'm full of confident.
I'm ready. I'm ready for the start of the season.
I'm ready with what I've been taught and I learned
at a great pace. Now, if he fell on his face,
of course, you're gonna go with a guy for a
couple of weeks until Bo Nicks is ready, right, So
that way, Jared said, Okay, he's playing two weeks. You
know Bonnick is gonna play early anyway, so it doesn't matter.
(40:16):
But if I have to, you go for this guy
for a couple of weeks. But mainly what you're hoping is,
this is what happens with Bo Nicks and he succeeded.
This is how you run a fixed quarterback.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Well, the beauty of it is here. You're in a
position like Sean Payton. You got the long term deal,
the cachet, and the benefit of the doubt because they're
still in terms of our media presence as a whole.
Not a lot of guys that'll raise their hand with
me and going Drew Brees ain't walking through that door.
Show me what you got kind of thing. But most
folks aren't gonna go at him. So if even if
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this year was a struggle and Nicks didn't play. They
were gonna be like, all right, he Peyton wants to
bring him along at his pace. He was gonna get
every excuse made for him this year. So I'm actually
kind of impressed that Week one he's gonna be the
guy because that means, uh, there's a trust. Yeah that's
been developed.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
I We'll have more on this and more on another
big quarterback story coming up next. The quarterback who absolutely
makes me laugh the most every time I hear him talk.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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We'll be talking about what we're going to talk about
in a few minutes. But we have to tell you
(01:00):
what just happened in the Rays and the A's.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Game turned out. The the miscommunication about a game that
I wasn't looking for, but there was on the monitor.
You know, gave us a win.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Not even the White Sox, not even the Mets have
pulled a play like this.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, I can't. It's fantastic. It's some terrible things. I mean,
go back to NIMO last night. You know you want
to look.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It at athletes, and I know that athletes don't get
the credit they deserve because you can't play professional sports
for a living, by and large, if you're not always
mentally aware of what's going on what you need to do.
Like look, Jay Glazer tells us all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You can't be stupid to play in the NFL. I
couldn't make it. The stuff these guys have to know,
going in and play fast and reacting, I don't know
how they do it right. And I don't think players
get enough credit for it. It's not just boy. I
have this gift of being able to go out and
and see the fastball or be able to adjust my swing.
I can see the dot for the curve and hit it.
You know, people don't get enough credit. And then I
(02:01):
see a play like this. Okay, so Miguel Anduhr, who
once upon a time the Yankees wouldn't trade for anybody, right,
you can show. Hey, how about Miguel and har and
somebody else? Are Bryce Harper the presses? Nope, nope, no, no, no,
all right, Bryce Harper and Otawanni and Trout Nope nope,
can't do it. Can't trade Miguel and Harp. Right now,
Miguel and Horr is on the A's, which tells you
(02:22):
where his career is gone. Right, this is back when
Brian KM We're not trading any We're not trading anybody,
not trade anybody. So Miguel, it's it's the eighth inning.
And look, this is about the play. It's not about
a pendant. Look, this is the raise in the A's.
But Andrew Harr it's a ground ball to the left
side of the enfield, and he beats out the throw,
or it's close enough play where it looks like he
would have beat it out, but the throw gets away
(02:44):
from the NDD as at first base. It kind of
gets away for a few feet, right, It gets away
like maybe ten or twelve feet, and Dow Horr crosses
first base and as he's getting to first base, his
helmet comes off. His helmet comes off, and it bounces
into the field of play a little bit and it's
a I don't know, five or six feet in fair
territory off of first base. Okay, so his helmet comes off,
(03:08):
but you know, he beats out the play. He looks
behind him and he sees that the ball is bouncing
ten or twelve feet away from Diaz at first base.
Anderwar turns to come back to the base and decides,
I'm gonna go in and get my helmet.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, I mean, he wanted to be protected.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
While the play is still going on. He goes in
to get his helmet, which when you turn towards second base,
you're you can be tagged out. So he doesn't go
back to the base, then call time out, get your helmet. No, no,
I'm gonna get my helmet as I go back to
the base, Like what the hell are you thinking? What
is wrong with you? So he goes to get his helmet.
Diaz gets the ball, comes back and tags him as
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he's getting back to first base, and he is called out.
It is a pickoff. It's a single and a pickoff.
That's how that's called. But this is a guy who decided,
while the play is going on, I'm gonna go get
my helmet and then go back to the base, Like
what kind of like what goes through your head where
you think this is what I want to do? Like
how help locked into a game and playing, are you
when to go?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yea, I'm gonna go get my help while the play
is going on, get back to the base era. That's
like a guy stealing second base sliding in the ump.
Calls him safe, but his helmet comes off. I get
off the base to get my helmet. Come back, nobody
does that. I'm gonna go try to get my helmet
because it's in fair territory. Like if it was in
foul territory, he would have been fun. But it's in
fair territory, so I go to get it. Mark Kotze
(04:27):
comes out, the A's manager, and he was like Hulk
Hogan coming out of the locker room watching somebody get
beat up by two guys in the middle of the
ring during during a WrestleMania he comes flying out. He's
screaming about the play because on replay it looks like
Andrew har gets his foot in just before the tag
(04:47):
and it's enough of a I it's enough of a Oh.
He looks like he's safe. He's in there and somehow
it doesn't get overturned. So I understand how mad Kotze
is about that. But I look at that, and I
look at andw har and I go, dude, you to
be thrown out just for that?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, I mean I can't. I can't read most of
the tweets that have come through no, like this blank that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well, you can read him, you just can't read them
out loud on the show. Good point. Yeah, yeah, that's
their point. I don't think there are words you haven't
seen before you grew up in Chicago after all.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh my my ears, oh my eyes, oh my virgin ears.
I've never heard those words, never never combine those at all. Yeah,
he might have been safe. There's some argument of letter
and spirit of the law related to the turn towards
the field right of going to get your helmet?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Do z?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Is that the same as I'm turning and trying to
go to second People are trying to argue this and
lawyer this wherever they can't. You can't. But you can't.
You can't go.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can't make a turn towards second base. And sometimes
it's just a step. This is six feet in. It
doesn't matter. You're going to get your helmet. You can't
you know, you can't go do that like find like
I hope the homeplate umpire looked at the video came
back and when I said, after reviewing the play, the
runner had beaten the throw back to first base. However,
(06:06):
because he was stupid, we're still calling him.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
We have called him out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I like that, Jules, you give that guy that briefcase,
I will shoot him on general principle.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Maccatze gets thrown out, of course he does, you know, I
mean that that was a little bit of excitement here.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm a bad manager. My player doesn't know what he's doing,
and we didn't get the call on replay. I'm leading
to be fair for him.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I guess. I guess that's the uh, the little gift.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Please throw me out.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But like that one's those are not the ground rules
you have to go over before a game when you
go to a different ballpark, in his case, at your
home park. I don't I watch and hard do that.
I said, what does he think he's doing? What is
he think?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You want to know why, But it's the first thing
you teach.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You were teaching playing softball, and you might have first
time players you're like, all right, let's explain how this
is gonna work.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You always you turned towards when you run down first base,
you turn towards foul territory, and you you look for
the ball. If you're gonna turn and try to go
to second, and you look and you go straight, you
don't try to get back in. You go straight from
there because it's a straight line.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But but don't turn the other ways. If you turn
the other way and the ball and you just give
it like a jab step, you're making a play for
said the umpire could say you made a play for
a second.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's the thing in this case. I don't know how
much of an argument you have that he legitimately managed
turned towards second.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh, he was going to get his helmet, like, but
he went six feet into the field of play, like
he could have kept saying the second.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
This is the longest yard. I can't where either Burt
Reynolds or Adam Sandler is walking walking and he's like
shoot him.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
He's trying to escape, shoot him, and he's yelling crew
picks up the football a band.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But you know, it's a matter of interpretation. What was
he trying to do. He's not trying to his cave.
He just wanted his football, and then he turned back
and smiles at you. But yeah, it's it's insanity, like
the return on social media here, next level stuff. Well,
of course, no question. My favorite though anytime when they
had the bases where if you were playing first base,
(08:16):
they'd have the orange base or red base or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
like the two together, and you always ask jumpires like
I can use this as a first baseman, right, and
you look at you goes, yeah, go, so now I've
got that much more space that I can operate out
of throat coming to first. So as a runner, you
also not only had to worry about touching the base,
you had to worry about whether you're going to run
(08:37):
into a brick wall first base. Yeah, yeah, I want
a couple of those. It was.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was always there for protection. So you don't run
the first basement over because in little league, you know
who knows is the first basement standing where they should be?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Meanwhile, what people don't understand is that the three most
important positions in little when your teach kids growing up
on your team are pitcher, catch, your first base, Like
that's where you got to put your three best players
short stutt Nope, pitcher catch your first base. If you
don't have players that catch your in first base, you're
gonna lose. That's how it goes. You're gonna lose because
if your first baseman can't catch and your catcher can't catch,
(09:10):
guts one trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's a wrong day. Uh just remember all you out there,
Blessed number one turned back towards the stand. I don't
wave to the nice people after you touch first base.
Miguel Andrew Harr has had a grand total of one
even acceptable year in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Sea in twenty eighteen. He had a great year rookie
year with the Yankees twenty seven ninety two, and he
hit two ninety seven. Right, this was the hell, He's
gonna be a superstar. And I remember so many teams
wanted him, and it was, oh my god, if we
could get Miguel andwhar to trade from the Yankees, and
there were superstars the Yankees could have gotten for Miguel
andywar But I get at that point, hey, we can't
(09:51):
really trade it, because look, the guy's great, right, he's
twenty three years old making no money Yeah, no, no, we're
not gonna do it. But then he's still a hot
name in twenty nineteen, didn't really play a lot in
twenty nineteen he was hurt. Twenty twenty he didn't even
play in half the season. Twenty twenty one, he you know,
he's been hurt, been in and out of the game.
So but at some point when he was still there,
the Yankees could have moved him, but they still wouldn't
(10:11):
do it. And it's still a Brian Cashman. I can't
I gotta walk around in this town. I got I
I can't do it, and I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Andrew Harr and Glabor Tours were the two guys that
are touchable.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, and Gary Sanchez for a long time. Yeah, were
those are the three guy was scary. Those were the
three guys that were the ones that everybody wanted, and
that Cashman said no, we can't do it, and it
was stuff like, hey, de Grom for Andrew Harr and Sanchez,
like that was the story, and the Yankee said no,
(10:43):
like what I mean, Look, you're talking about de Grom,
who was the most dominant pitcher of the last ten years,
and Mets didn't We're gonna able to resign, and we're
not sure de Grom for andw Harr and Sanchez Nope,
not doing it. Nope, nope, can't do it. Can't do it,
can't do it. Did really worked out for ant of him. Man,
you could have got you could have got it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Well, de Grim won the World Series last year even
though he into him play, and that's you know, I say,
that was a real you know, when I saw that
picture of de Gram with the World Series trophy, my
first reaction was he didn't even play. Secondly, he was
you know, he was the best pitcher for the Mets
for so many years, his bets pitcher in Baseball three
Cy youngs and I gotta see him in jeans holding
(11:19):
the World Series trophy because he didn't pitch all season long,
hasn't pitched all year this year, collecting all sorts of money.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So yeah, in the end, that one kind of pissed
me off a bit. It's like I earned this for
all the years I toiled. Remember that rotation. We actually
have a promo and be kind of chuckling of a
conversation you and I had about the rotation that was
gonna surpass the early seventies orioles. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Let me just ask you this now, because once upon
a time from Miguel Anduhar, what do you think is
the best season Miguel andu Har has had besides that
year home runs in RBIs eight and forty four, four
and thirty. You know what year that was?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
This year.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And thirty? Good for you, that's in his best year.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
We got some positivity out of him getting tagged out
for going again his helmet.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I just a game that wasn't even supposed to be that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's one of those plays where and obviously we're in
the Little League World Series right now, and I guarantee
you tomorrow Williams League World Series or no, the League
of Litle leaguer wouldn't make that play. They would, they would
turn it. No, I can't go he better, Yeah they know,
but I guarantee you in Williamsport tomorrow, the coaches are
going to talk about that play. Hey, if your helmet
comes off, don't go get it. Look what happened to Miguel.
(12:32):
And this is the A's and the Rays last night.
And that's why I'd love all these kids, because all
these kids care deeply, and all these kids are gonna say,
what am I a major leaguer?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Come on, they know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They all love baseball so much they care about the
Rays and the A's a late night what happened?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Can you see?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Did you see this? See what Miguel and Noward did?
But I guarantee you it's gonna be hey teaching lesson
if your helmet falls off and have fallen into the
field of play, go back to the base.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Call time out, then get your helmet. It's either that
or do a an interview with the local newspaper and
rip Aaron Judge not meeting with your team. We're from
South Dakota. It doesn't matter. He was supposed to come
say hello.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh boy. And now I can't wait for Marcotte's postgame
news conference because the A's.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Have just lost with the Rays four to two.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Ah, they had a good runs here. No, you can't
just say they had a good run when they stink.
It doesn't why I know you default to that. Sometimes
it works, sometimes it doesn't. Like you're you're at like
a You're like a uh, who what I say?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You're like, who's a good guy to compare you? To
you are lady as one World Series back in the day.
You are just celebrated Conseco. You are.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You are like Angel Reese's field goal percentage. Like you
say they had a good run, and you're right, like
thirty nine to forty percent of the time. The other
sixty percent you're wrong because you just say it. When
did the A's have a good runs? But nineteen seventy four, fine, okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Forty years ago when Tony LaRussa reinvented the bullpen and
guys were juiced.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Out of that.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
That's that's twenty five years ago. They were sweating juice.
That's how much they put in. They can't say they
had a good run. Like you know, people look at
you and Dave Stewart was running around. What are you
talking about me? You mean the guy from the Rhythmics.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, Sweet Dreams made.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Us good.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, you can't keep saying they had a good run
when they didn't because people who don't know you, like
you always know, people are tuning into the positivity. People
are tuning into the show for the for the people
are pressing you for a while. They know, oh yeah, yeah,
they had a good run.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's Arbon's thing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But people for the first time we he just I
listened to this guy in the radio lized he said,
the A's had a good run. What's he talking? Who
the hell is that?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But if you want to take that onto your local
radio station, in a blog or in a social media
at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
We're gonna play it back. This audio from Fox Sports
Radio heard on our on our station nights here, the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon. Here's Mike Carbon talking
about how good to run the A's have had this
Here he's our eadiot of the day here on w
A a Q.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
What does that get me? So get me some chicken way.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The probably probably put a picture you online and the like,
you know, with with like spilled nachos over you.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't know something like that. Probably well those that
really know me know I would never spill my nachos.
So there, I mean, I get I I am just
special a nacho helmet. I am stunned by that play.
I am stunned by that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Uh coming up next, Okay, So we had to get
to that because that was a that was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The story is that I didn't think we'd ever do
and a phrase I never thought i'd say on the show?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Is it the phrase that pays?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm gonna say, wait for the touchtones Baleine on Fox
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Speaker 3 (15:48):
But that show?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
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At something I never a phrase I never thought i'd
say ever in sports are without having to force.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It into a show, I'm gonna get to say, I'm
kind of digging this the antis patient.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Ohok, we got some big football stuff coming up. We
got big quarterback news, Bo Nix gets the job with
the Broncos, the latest on the Steelers. But this Aaron
Judge story continues to rear its ugly head and even
more headlines today than there was a day ago. This
all because of the Little League World Series and Staten Island,
(17:46):
my hometown.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The manager, the head coach of the team, was very
upset that on Sunday night, look the Yankees playing. You know,
there's one game they played Williams Porter ofver year for
Little League World Series. It's a great, great day where
players on both teams get to go meet all the
kids and sign autographs, all kinds of fun stuff. Team
from Staten Island was there and they played, and now
they got eliminated yesterday, and it's become a story the
(18:13):
last couple of days that the manager, the head coach
is really mad because Aaron Judge didn't make enough time
to come and talk to the kids.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Other Yankees were there.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
He said, ah, you know Garrett Cole and a couple
other guys, DJ LeMay who came for a little bit,
but they really wanted Aaron Judge too.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Djlmay who's only hitting one fifty nine or something in
his last thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Listen, we can we can't have this guy hitting under
two hundred showing up talking to kids. I don't want
I don't want this stink of him to get on
these kids. I got kids hitting four or five hundred.
He's hitting a buck eighty nine. I can't. He goes
over shake somebody's ind and guess what happens That kid
goes cold. He's like the Cooler, right, He's like Bill
Macy in that movie. So of all the Yankees come over.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
What a great movie that is? I haven't seen it.
Underrated the Cooler Alec Baldwin, Maria Bellow, Aaron Judge who
spent a lot of time with kids. He did signing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
There's picture them everywhere signing autographs everything else.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
O guy. John Morosi had the video I know, I know,
I know, I know the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So what's the phrase? The phrase the pays is coming.
So this is crazy. And the Yankees defended him a
day ago by saying, Aaron Judge met with with a
bunch of kids. No one does, no one does more.
Aaron Judge is always out doing things for kids. He's
one of the great ambassadors a baseball judge.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
He met a lot of kids, he signed autographs, and
the manager was upset. Aaron Judge didn't come meet the kids.
And when the kids were yelling at him in the field,
Aaron Judge didn't turn their way during the game. Don't
worry Smith, there's these players. These players are all professionals.
This can't sway them. Strawberries kred Tier comes out of
(19:48):
Strawberries's eye. So uh, it became a whole thing because
Bob Laturza, who is the coach of the Shout South
Shore Little League team again three little leagues on Staten Island,
not the one I played in, and and the Yankees
came out to defend him. And today Aaron Boone and
Aaron Judge both addressed this. Aaron Judge said, that's ridiculous.
(20:10):
I'm not even gonna give this any time. He's one
of the great ambassadors of the sport right right right away.
I'm not even gonna get into this at all. And
Aaron Judge basically saying the same thing. I'm not gonna
get involved in this back and forth. I have no response.
We got a chance to spend a time with quite
a few kids. It's about the kids, So I'm not
gonna respond to this. I get booed if I go,
(20:30):
oh for one, So I'm not gonna throw any weight
on this. It's you know, I plan from forty thousand
people every single night. I don't really want to put
any weight onto his comments. So now it's become a
thing because Bob liturns it did the interview with the
Staten Island Advance. Oh Bye, my hometown paper where I
(20:53):
am from Staten Island, where I grew up. He did
the interview with the Staten Island Advance.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You know, anybody that's working for that paper, you know,
it's funny you say that.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Uh, there's no paper I have read more in my
life than the Staten Island Advance. Every every day growing up,
you would read the Advance, the New York Post and
the daily News. You would just you would just read
all of that. I mean we always had the both
the Times and the Tribute and cause Staten Island Advance
it was always so bulky because it was one of
those that big long papers had the fold in the middle,
(21:21):
and I was like, oh my god, look you had
to have a whole table open ready to read unless
you wanted to fold it and have it your hands
all full of ink.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So I'm like, oh my god, the Guide to the
New of course with the Staten Island Advance. And I'm going,
oh my goodness, to Advance Staten Island Advance. And I
had this incredible memory today of and it's a great
memory but also a bad memory because it's it's it's
got my grandfather so bad at me, so the Staten
Island Advance. When I was a kid in the eighties.
(21:50):
Growing up, they would have this contest where you went
against one of their writers picking football games. Guy's name
is Joe NuGen and I knew him. He lived around
the corner from me. I played baseball with his son.
He was always a great guy. He would always talk
baseball with me. I was one of those kids where
when I met an adult, they're like, oh, this kid
knows a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
About baseball, Like I'm just not.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, oh, so adults and I always had great conversations,
and I guess that's where I kind of in growing up.
I always did really well with the parents of the
girls I liked, but the girls I had a little
bit more trouble with.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I get that boy.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I like Jason, I don't understand what's going out. Man,
he's talking about the menta. So so Joe Nugent and
he would pick the g All you had to do
was pick the games, win or a loser. Right, So
what you had to do was this is the eighties, right,
They would every Friday, or no, every every Thursday. They
would print the games in a box and you picked
the games and Joe NuGen made his picks right. He
(22:45):
was the big writer for the Staten Island Advance. So
you had to make your picks and then fold it up,
put it in an envelope and mail it to the
Staten Island Advance. Now mail would get there in a
day because it's Staaten Island. It's it's not a hug,
it's not one of the bigger burroughs. So you have
to get it there. They say, if it's postmarked by
Friday at noon, you know, or Saturday, Saturday, Saturday at noon,
(23:06):
Saturday at noon, Saturday noon was a day, satday noon,
and you get it. So I wanted to I wanted
to win so bad because you would win a bumper
sticker and you got your name in the paper like
it would it would say, hey, the following people, you know,
Joe Nugen's record this week was was you know, was
was eight and seven or they didn't use the Monday
night game like they were eight and c was eight
(23:26):
and seven. So anybody that picked nine or more games,
nip NuGen, here's a list of those people. And they
would print how many games you picked, right, and your
name you give you your record too, And I was
and I'm like, oh my god, I want to get
my name and I want to get my name in
the paper so bad. Right, And now there's a lot
of people doing this, So when they print the names
of the people who nip nudgen, there's like in the
(23:46):
hundreds of names doing it right, Like that that's what
it is, right, So it's all any you know again,
not not with with pointspread or anything else.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Picking.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And the first year that I really knew about this
and wanted to do it, I was dying to win.
All I talked about My mom would say to me,
can you stop talking about nipping nugent? Can you stop
talking about this and getting your name in the paper?
I go, but I want all day I wanted that
was a nip nugent contest and you got a bumper
sticker that said I nipped nugent, Like that was the
all thing that was like, if I could get that,
(24:15):
that was my holy grail, right, that was my absence.
If I get an I Nipped NuGen bumper sticker, like
that was it. I was like, Oh, on the here,
I'm gonna put it on my I'm gonna put it
on my notebook when I go into school. Class, and
if I win again, I'll just keep putting them on
there because I nip NuGen. So finally, after like I
don't know, like five or six weeks, like it took
me a while, and I finally won, and I was like,
oh my god, this is so great. I'm gonna get
(24:36):
a bumpers everything. So the paper comes on Monday and
I look and my name's not in the paper, and
I'm so upset. I think I'm I'm I'm like eleven,
I'm like ten or eleven, and I'm so upset. I
start crying because I'm so mad. I'm so mad that
my name's not in the paper. And I looked and
I checked like five times, and I'd looked through like,
you know, a couple hundred names, but I knew how
(24:57):
many I got right, and I couldn't find any. But
maybe I got Maybe did I pick the Cowboys? I
don't know that, Or did I pick the Did I
picked the Redskins in this game?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So I look and I can't find it. And my grandfather,
God bless him. He and I did not get along
a lot, but he felt so but he was, what's
going on? I know, I won, Pop, I know, I want.
I wrote, I wrote down my picks and everything else. Oh,
I know I won. My name's not in the paper.
He goes, well, I'm gonna call the advance. He picks
up the phone and he calls the advance stand Island
Advance Sports Department. Please, I'm like, what are you doing?
(25:28):
So he calls a sports apartment. Someone whoever hits the
phone stand is in advanced sports. My grandson, Nip NuGen,
and his name isn't in the paper, and I want
you to tell me why. And I'm going cause he
was eleven, pop, I'm going, yeah, Pop, Okay, okay, he's
going I don't know. He Nip NuGen. His name is
(25:48):
Jason Smith. His name should be in the paper. I
don't know why. And this is an exact voice, like
I'm not doing this is out speak for the rest
of the night.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And he so he.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Says he and he's his name should be in the
paper and I don't know why it's not. You got
to tell me. And then they put him on hold
and he comes back and he goes, keep checking, keep checking.
I go, Pop, it's not there. I checked like one hundred,
it's not there. It's not there, all right. Guy goes back.
He has to tell the next guy the same story.
This is Fred Olivery Senior, My grandson Jason Smith nipped
Nugent in the football picking contest, and his name is
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supposed to be in the paper and it's not.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I just love the fact that it's not. At any point, Hey,
he beat him this week.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
He's like, he nipped Nuja because that was the contest,
and you get that.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
And he should be getting your uncle stand from gravity
falls and he should be getting the bumper sticker.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And I want to know why it's not, and why
what did you get it? Did you all this stuff? Look?
And apparently the guys are looking for it now. They're
looking on the thing, like where this guy's gonna come in.
And he's like, I'm Fred Olivery Senior. My grandson's Jason Smith.
His name should be in the paper. So he's looking,
he's talking and this is like, you know, eight o'clock
(27:00):
at night, I think. So he's called so the ad,
the sports ad. They're trying to get the paper next edition.
They're looking for the late high school scores of games
and everything football games, what everything else? And i'd wait
and all of a sudden, I look and I'm looking
through that. I'm looking through it like my eyes are
tearing and I'm looking through and I look and I go, oh,
there's my name. It's right there. How did I How
(27:23):
did I miss that? Like the seventeen times that I
look through it? And this is now a theme of
my life because my wife would tell me the same thing. Oh,
I completely believe that you do like I do. Like that,
Now I don't see it's not there. Oh there, it
is right there. So I finally got and I didn't
know what to do because I'm like, Okay, either I
(27:45):
let this go and Pop does whatever he does on
the phone with this guy the right, or we got
Pop on the war path, or I tell him I
found it. And now my joy at finding my name
is tempered by the fact that he wants he's gonna
want to kill me, right, He's gonna want to kill me.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Now you've repped him up. He's wasting his time. He
rated multiple people.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Oh he was you always like like he was a
lot like Mickey and Rocky. When Mickey would get mad
at Rocky, like that's that's what's going on. You micking
you I'm getting no title shot rocked. These guys are handpicked.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
He wants to kill you.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's club a Lang. So I don't know what to
do and I sit there frozen for a few seconds,
and I finally I gotta tell him I got I
can't let it because he's still talking, going his name.
He says he got nine right, or ten right? Ten
games right? Maybe eleven. He's not true, And I just
go I go, oh, there it is Pop.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I found it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And he looks at me and he says, thanks, we
found it, and he hangs up the phone, and I go, oh,
he was he was pretty good. He was pretty good there.
And he looks at me and he says, you come
home from school tomorrow and you don't leave the house
until Monday. And he walked out and went to bed.
And this is like, Donald, this is like on a
(29:03):
Wednesday for that. You come home from school tomorrow and
you don't leave the house until monday.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
How quickly did you take a pair of scissors, cut
your name out and put it on a wall? Was
he was? So? I did I cut that? I took
that immediately. I'm sure you probably went, yeah, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, you know, here's how I got the paper because
I want to do it right. But my grandmother's like,
what's going on. She comes to my grandmother's Switzerland anytime
something happened in the house. He was like, I'm not
in the middle of it. Great, thanks Graham, I'm ten
years old. Can you help me? But she comes in.
What happened? I tell her what happened, I said, But
all right, I'm gonna take the paper upstairs. And she goes,
your grandfather hasn't finished reading it. Leave it here, I'll
(29:46):
get She very much like Edith Monker, the way she talked, Oh, Auntie,
how was your day? So she says, leave it here
and I'll give it to you tomorrow. Don't take it now.
So I said, okay, So I leave it. He reads
the paper everything else, and then she is it to
me and I cut it out and I put it.
I put it up in my room. He would never
come to my room. He would never come to my
for some reason, he just never would. It was upstairs.
(30:07):
He didn't come up. He never came into my room.
And like, so now and it ends right, It's like
it's over, okay. But now this is the part in
the horror movie where okay, the killer is alive again.
So so he comes up to the room like two
months later, like like two months later and just to
tell me something like, oh, hey, tomorrow at school or where
I'll drop you off here this is going on, okay, great.
(30:28):
He comes into my room and of course I'm laying
on the bed and I'm doing homework or something, and
he sees that the nip nugent thing is behind on
my bed on the wall, and I have I have
it highlighted, I have drawings around it, I have the
debt like it's like a shrine. And my grandfather looked
at he says, ah, that's when you had me on
the phone when you couldn't find your name on that Tomorrow,
(30:52):
after I pick you up, we're coming straight home.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm like, how did I get in trouble for something
I didn't do? Just because you went mad again about
it two months later? So he grounded me again for
a day just because he got mad that he thought
he was reminded of when he was on the phone
to the Staten Island Advanced Sports Apartment and he got
embarrassed him and you started yelling double Jeopardy Double Jeopardy.
I already served a time for this.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Man, I'm like, pop, come on, man, pop that I
didn't do anything for this.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I did not do anything. It's still I got trouble
for Yeah. Look at least at least that is. That
is has girded me for married life.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Where sometimes I wake up in the morning and I
just go, Okay, I know today's not my day. All
I did was wake up and I know today's not
my day. Today, today is not whatever is going on?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I asked a.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Couple of questions. I try, I pour a bowl of cereal.
Today is not my day. I know today is not mine.
You know what, You're gonna be in the bullpen all
day tonight. Yeah, you're gonna be in the bullpen tomorrow.
This is tomorrow is a new day. It is not
new day because something has happened in the morning before
I woke up and I'm like, oh, you know what,
I'm I can't do anything right today.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
You woke up to a different universe. Sometimes you can't
help that up.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's what it was. Uh So there you go. Staten
Island Advance. I never thought, but I and I got
the bumper sticker. Yeah, buddy, story, let's find out what's
trending right now in the wide world of sports from
a guy who could never nip nugent because he grew
up in three thousand miles away and didn't read.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
This nugent in a stranglehold. Baby, Yeah, let's go. And
I said, too bad. I didn't pick the damn Yankees
with nugent? TJ. Brian, Can you take us higher?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
That's like a song, isn't take me high?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Damn Yankees high enough?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, I don't want to hear about it anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw got anyway, keep going.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I feel like there was an an Iowa football player
with the last named NuGen but.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
He was a kicker. That's right, that Ohio state. The
Jets draft them in the second round, thinking win the
Super Bowl, just taking a kicker in the second round.
The kicker, thanks for that, Thanks for that. That's another
great hand too.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
But I bring up Iowa because this is something that
I don't think anybody saw coming, or at least at
least tonight. According to The New York Times, Iowa had
football coach Kirk Friends and his wide receivers coach John
Budmar getting one game suspensions for recruiting malpractice when they
pursued quarterback Cade mc damara before the transfer portal opened
(33:32):
in twenty twenty two. The source could not say if
this penalty came from IOWA or the NCAA. So that
coming on the the the AP wire as of.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Are they penalizing they can't score touchdowns next year? Well,
I don't score touchdowns anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
That was the joke, dude, that was the joke. Man.
I'm the guy who when I hear a joke.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
He doesn't get it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
And then by the time it's explained the third of
the fourth time, it's no longer funny. And now people
have lost all enjoyment of the moment.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
So I'm sorry for that, I really am.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
In regards to what else is going on in the
world of sports, bo Nick's name the Broncos starting quarterback
for Week one, Brown QB DeShawn Watson, did just a
little bit of practice today and the reason why because
of a sore arm. And with that development now his
status is unclear for Saturday's preseason game. Major League Baseball
one game left that hasn't wrapped up. That would be
(34:34):
the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium, looking to hold on eight
to three in their favor as the score against the
Seattle Mariners. Eighth inning, top of the eighth, Nolan Aernado,
how about this? Do you think of all the ways
to win a game? In extras, Cardinals fans were feasting
on the incredible nature of the ending of this game.
(34:55):
Courtesy of Nolan Aernado.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Bottom of the tip, Arenado, the pitch swaying.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
In a line drive down the left field line, stay
fair and it's gold. A slimmer per Nolan Arenatto.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
A walk up, slimmer, Yeah, walk off, grand slim that
courtesy of the Cardinals Radio Network. On the way to
a ten to six win for the Cards over the Brewers.
In ten Philly is over the Braves three to two.
Yankees got two home run Samaron Judge, He's got forty
seven on the season. Yanks overcome the Guardians eight to one.
Padres fall short eleven to four to the Twins. White
(35:33):
Sox win a stunner six to two against the Giants.
Here the Chicago White Sox scoring four runs in the
ninth inning. Red Sox win so do the Mets. And
I'll leave you guys with this because the Mets won
in walk off fashion. Jesse Winker Any relation to Harry Winkler, Nolan.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Henry Winkler, the far Henry. You gotta get the name right,
Is it Henry or Harry Henry. I don't know who
Harry Winkler is. I'm a little afraid maybe they're the
Winkler VI Twins. He was a sitcom rider for the
Adams Family, The Doris Day Show.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
There was a real Harry Winkler. Yeah, and George George,
That's what I meant.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Sure, And no relation to the Winkler Voss Facebook twins.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No, I think we're done. Yeah, I think you're done too.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
And the Mets won three over the Oil so they
got done in a happy way.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
But they send them away and then when they're doing
the performance in and pitch perfect and they lose you
when they get eliminated. What was the u RS cut off? Here?
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Brian Findley, the Jason Smithster with Mike Carbon coming up next,
A big quarterback battle decided the NFL. We'll tell you why.
This is a masterclass on how to anoint a number
one quarterback. As here comes Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades.
Yesterday I nip nu gent events.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I call the sports department said my name wasn't in
the newspaper. I'm running.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
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Speaker 3 (37:33):
Should be well.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Big football news today Bonnicks not surprising, but still big.
Bonnicks becomes a starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos, officially
getting named by Sean Payton today. This is an absolute
masterclass by how you conduct a quarterback derby involving a
rookie quarterback, and they should teach this to every single
(37:57):
team because Sean Payton did this in a masterful way.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Are you jumping on board the He's a wizard again? Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
No, no, I know I look. Are you just getting
I'm ginging credit for how he was able to conduct
this quarterback derby because any team that has a quarterback derby,
if you have two guys going, they're gonna battle it
out in camp.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Great.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
So you're telling me you have no idea what you want.
I We're gonna have Russell Wilson and Justin Field to
battle it out, So you have no idea what you want. Basically,
are have to do guys cutting whoever runs a team better.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
No, you need to have some what are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
We're gonna have a nationwide search to find our new
Afternoon Drive candidate.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Here our slammer.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
It's an awful way to do a quarterback derby. You
can't just take guys and say these guys are gonna
battle it out. We still see it, right, we still
see it with the Patriots and the and the Steelers.
You drafted Bonnicks.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
You know, he's your.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Quarterback of the present and your quarterback of the future.
So what do you do to have a fixed competition
that's going to make it look like it's a competition,
So everybody's on their toe, but it's put in a
position where bow Knicks can walk out of this as
the winner with a lot of confidence getting ready for
the regular season. He puts him up against two guys
who are Jags, right, they're break glass in case emergency.
(39:13):
Jared Sidham's not a get by quarterback. He's a backup.
He's a guy that, okay, if he has to play
in relief for a week, okay, fine. But he's not
Gardner Minshew. He's not a guy that can start for
a few weeks. He's a Jag. And Zach Wilson is
just hoping to stay in the NFL. Right, but you
have like this quarterback derby that is fixed because you're
pretty sure, you know, hey, we bring bow Nicks along.
(39:33):
He can do it kind of out of the spotlight
a little bit because other guys are there. Maybe Jarrett
will start, maybe bow won't. So he's able to advance
at his own pace. And after six weeks, Hey, bow
Knicks proves I'm the best quarterback in camp. I become
the starting quarterback and it seems like I beat these
guys out and boy, but but all he did was
was put in a position to succeed where all I
(39:56):
do is not fall on my face, and I'm gonna
be the starting quarterback. And now I'm full of confident.
I'm ready. I'm ready for the start of the season.
I'm ready with what I've been taught and I learned
at a great pace. Now, if he fell on his face,
of course, you're gonna go with a guy for a
couple of weeks until Bo Nicks is ready, right, So
that way, Jared said, Okay, he's playing two weeks. You
know Bonnick is gonna play early anyway, so it doesn't matter.
(40:16):
But if I have to, you go for this guy
for a couple of weeks. But mainly what you're hoping is,
this is what happens with Bo Nicks and he succeeded.
This is how you run a fixed quarterback.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Well, the beauty of it is here. You're in a
position like Sean Payton. You got the long term deal,
the cachet, and the benefit of the doubt because they're
still in terms of our media presence as a whole.
Not a lot of guys that'll raise their hand with
me and going Drew Brees ain't walking through that door.
Show me what you got kind of thing. But most
folks aren't gonna go at him. So if even if
(40:46):
this year was a struggle and Nicks didn't play. They
were gonna be like, all right, he Peyton wants to
bring him along at his pace. He was gonna get
every excuse made for him this year. So I'm actually
kind of impressed that Week one he's gonna be the
guy because that means, uh, there's a trust. Yeah that's
been developed.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
I We'll have more on this and more on another
big quarterback story coming up next. The quarterback who absolutely
makes me laugh the most every time I hear him talk.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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