December 10, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon weigh-in on the "Tension" brewing on the Bucks roster with Giannis. And tell you why it’s now too far down the road for Giannis to stay. He's getting traded soon. He's played his last game for Milwaukee. Plus, Jason claims he’s 100% OK with the Mets letting Edwin Diaz go to the Dodgers!
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single night. And I'm telling you, I don't know how many
times I have to say it. I'm fine with the
Mets not giving Edwin Diaz one hundred million dollars for
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that roller coaster ride that he's been for the past
six years. It had just been seventy million off. Fine,
I'm fine. I do like that. It's three years, sixty
nine million. Somewhere rob Ronkowski is look and let me
say this right because there is a lot to do
with this right before before we get to the NBA.
(02:15):
Is that All day? I've seen so many different media
personalities talking about, oh, the Mets blew it. I can't
believe the metsage. The Mets were trending all day. How
do you let Edwin Diaz go? How do you Leedwin
Diez go? And I'm like, Okay, yeah, okay, you don't
know baseball and you know anything, you know okay, because
here's the thing is that the Dodgers. And look, and
I'm the biggest Mets fan in the world, and I'm
(02:36):
telling you, I get that people want to go to
the Dodgers. I don't think Edwin Diaz was picking the
Dodgers because he was just pissed at the Mets and
he said, oh, I'll go to the Dodge. You know,
it was okay, the Dodgers, I'm here, three years, sixty
nine million. The Mets came up with the same basically
the same offer. Okay, so we do to keep you.
That's great. But Edwin Diaz wanted to go to LA
(02:57):
I get it. I understand why you want to go
to a team that's loaded, that's winning World Series, that
is that is global, that is coast to coast, that
is the most popular team in Major League Baseball. I
guess popular as the Mets are, as popular, as the
Yankees are as popul as other teams are. I get it.
The Dodgers is a completely different animal. I want to
go there, I want to win. I get players wanting
to go play for the Dodgers. It's not like he
(03:19):
ditched the Mets for the Rays, you know, or he
went or he decided to go you I'm gonna go
to the Angels. I mean, it's not like that happened. Man.
I mean understand that there's only so much you could
if the guy wants to be a Dodger, and I
understand wanting to be a Dodger, but it has extra
value on so many levels.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Right, we talk about the global brand like major League
Baseball as a whole. Right, We've got a couple of
We talked with John Paul Morosi last hour at John
Morosi where you find him on Twitter for his latest
from the winter meetings. But talked about, you know, the
Japanese players that are coming in this year and the
bidding wars that maybe we get some surprises where the
Pittsburgh Pirates actually spend money. But we talk about the
(03:59):
the global impact. Right, there's estimates that the Dodgers have
already made back what they spent on the Otani contract
that's now just sitting in estro and will be paid
out when they need to do it. Like that, that's
how big a brand. This is how big an impact.
And guess what, Yeah, he's a star. Yamamoda is a star, Suzaki,
(04:21):
all these other guys are stars now too, in popular
in Jaban because they're part of this global enterprise.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So there's more.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Value beyond the three to sixty nine that you're going
to get by being a member of the Dodgers and
that level of exposure. Not to mention, you know, winning
feels pretty good. Los Angeles is pretty nice. Man. Sometimes
there's stuff to break down on Diaz and there's stuff
that we'll get into more in detail. Looking nobody knows
Diaz better than I do. But like, understand, okay, when
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you're leaving for the best team in baseball, how did
that something become? How do you not keep that guts right?
That's ridiculous what we're trying to find a way. But
the Mets embarrass themselves enough with many other things. There's
no reason, Ah, the Mets fail. The guy wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But this is the kind of thing he's like, do
I have to show your receipts of messages with his
agent to say this is what.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We're offering him? Like, and I get it. There's some
backstory as to maybe he wasn't you know, on the
front burner.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
One of those I want to be field loved, right,
go back to Jerry Maguire. It's like, ah, you know,
we did all this stuff, you weren't with us, so
we moved on kind of thing, right, So you know,
I understand maybe a little bit of frustration there and
the fact that you bring in Devin Williams and you're
looking around going what are we doing here? But the
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reality is he goes to a situation where he can
be king after a year where they was break glass
in case of emergency at the closer position time and
again for a guy to be solid and bring a
guy that can play a trumpet like that with him.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, he's probably got a record deal already.
You got in Game Entertainment. I'm sure Timmy L. Trump
It has a record deal already. Timmy loss Trumpet L
to me, L Trumpet's got a record deal. Does the
L travel. I'm sure he's gonna be on the new
Taylor Swift album. I'm sure that's gonna happen. There'll be
another one Confessions of a Trumpet Player, and he's gonna
be on there. It's gonna be him. Do you think
(06:14):
the price of those cards that tops Now did with
the autograph Timmy l Trumpet went up today. Oh yeah,
one hundred percent. I can't believe you didn't start the
show by saying I want to buy a couple of
Timmy old Trumpet cards. Because that's you normally do whatever
normally do. Whenever a player has a big night you
you or or a big day the day before, you
spend the next day trying to get some rookie cards
(06:35):
of his as cheap as possible and trying to flip
him for money. You always say, hey, you want to
buy You said to me last night you want to
buy a Cameron Dicker rookie card football. I mean I
did not, Yes, no, categorically wrong, liar.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You said that.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You said that on the air three times. You try
to on air. You try to just put a card
in my pocket and say just pay me when you're running.
I'm like, no, I don't want a Cameron Dicker rookie card.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I know you're good for it. Now, l autograph out of.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Elsewhere. Tonight it's an NBA Cup night, and we watched
the Knicks and the Magic win their quarterfinal matchups to
head to the Semis matchup. Hey, Knicks are the only
NBA team to go to the quarterfinals in each of
the three years. We're hanging that bleeping batter at MSG. Man,
here come the Knicks. Now, there's two takeaways we get
to hear an N one B game tomorrow night. Is
(07:28):
that the Knicks sort of seem like they're figuring it out.
It was a little rocky in the beginning. Again, I
worry about the minutes they play again. They're up fifteen
in the final two minutes and for some reason, Brunson
and Towns are still on the court. I can't trust it.
NBA man, It's like, is Tims coaching the team from afar?
Like is he still calling and going no, I'll leave
those guys on the floor. Did you look at the minutes?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But the Clarkson and Mitchell Robinson were the only two
off the bench to play double digit minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, it was a cup game. It was a
cup game. Was so I get if you did have
a lead of fifteen or more. Pretty much from the
middle of the second quarter, the Raptors took their starters
out before the Knicks did, Like, I don't know how
you don't do that many took. They took the starts
out with two and a half minutes left to go.
Why are you doing that? Why are you leaving your guy?
Does Brunson really need to be in there with a
minute twenty left you're up by fifteen points. No, he doesn't.
(08:18):
The game is over, man, it's over. But this is
bad news for Yannis, right If the Knicker is preferred destination,
the more the Knicks figure it out, the less likely
they're gonna want to say we'll upset the apple cart
and trade from the deadline. Giannis was their break glass
in case of emergency plan, and we found out tonight
there's tension. Sham Stroania has the report there's tension in
(08:39):
Milwaukee with the players on the team and Giannis's situation
where he's potentially could get traded anytime. If the Knickers
preferred destination. He needs them to stink, he needs them
to find a way to not win, and Karl Anthony
Towns to not be an answer, because that's the way
he's getting to New York. It's why I said the
beginning of the year, Hey, I'm in club med because
if the Knicks are good, great, I'm feeling awesome. If
(09:02):
the Knicks aren't good. Guess what we're getting yanis to
the deadline. So I'm good either way. But this is
if the knicksers preferred destination. The more the Knicks win,
and now they're beating pretty good teams double digits. Now
they're winning games on the road, they were in control
of the entire night. Tonight, Brunson was a house of
fire in the first quarter. We hat like eighteen in
the first quarter. Like, this is bad news for Yannis
because now suddenly he's got to say, are the Knicks
(09:25):
really gonna do this? I might have to start looking
at other places where I could go, at least for
this year or however long I want to, because the
more they win, it doesn't look like they're gonna put
They're gonna pull the trigger for the deadline, and I
gotta go someplace.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, there's some curious reports out of Chicago as a
potential destination, and certainly you start expanding back Miami and
some others along the way. Some of the unrest in Milwaukee,
I also have to believe is all right. Well, while
Yannis may not go, what does it mean for us?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Right? Do we get packaged and suddenly you're uncomfortable with.
I may be on borrowed time here where I go
to another place minutes whatever may be changing, but I've
got to uproot my life in the next four to
six weeks or thereabouts. And maybe you're you're comfortable in
your space, but certainly from Milwaukee, we've talked about it
(10:15):
like Yan hasn't been there since twenty thirteen. You have
the title run and a lot of mediocrity, some great
regular seasons and early flameouts, so looking for an exit
your knicks. You're too good, right and even and I
hate shut it even you've used those words.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
But we look at the Eastern Conference. You've had a
couple of teams like the Bulls that got out to
fast starts. Gets what they fizzled. We're not even a
halfway anywhere close to halfway into the season and you
already see them sinking towards the bottom. Several other teams
in that same spot. You just decimated Toronto that everybody's
held up as a pretty good squad. So now it
(10:57):
becomes the how do we upset this? Because it's not
one for one, right, That's the hard part is that
it becomes three or four guys have to go back
the other way. And when we're talking about rotations, which
isn't terribly deep as it is, Yan is coming off
and being compromised from an injury. You're talking about a
year that all right, and we're gonna change what we've
(11:17):
got and bring in a guy wishing and hoping that
his legs.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Hold up for the rest of this year.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
We may love it long term, but we're gonna give
up a year of Brunson playing at this level.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's a difficult proposition, my friend. Meanwhile, another injury that
plays into tomorrow. Because of tomorrow night's another e Cup Night, Oh, huge,
Cup night. Huge? Is that at eight o'clock start on Peacock?
I think so. I think they're starting at noon and
at midnight. I think that's what they're doing. Okay, yeah,
they're They're still too close together. So noon we get
the Lakers and the Spurs, and then midnight we get
(11:49):
the Thunder. What do they play in between the uh uh, Well, no,
the game goes all the way, only they stretch it out.
They stretch all the way, a lot of timeouts. They
go all the way to the pre show, and boy,
it's gonna be a long pre show, uh Wenby officially
ruled out for the E Cup quarterfinal game tomorrow, and
I know, I'm gonna tell you it's admirable how well
(12:13):
the Spurs have played without Wemby. This again, when they
were my long shot picking the Western Conference, going, hey,
Wemby's gonna be the best player in the league sometime
this season. They're my team in the Western Conference. Right
Detroit was my team in the East preseason. Wemby and
the Spurs my team in the West. I didn't think
they'd not just stay this afloat, but they'd still win games,
which tells you how good they are and how dangerous
(12:34):
they'll be when Wemby comes back. But he's not back tomorrow.
Spurs and the Lakers, it's gonna wind up being the Lakers.
And I know the thunder of the big draw. But
now suddenly you're saying, wait a minute, we could get
Knicks Lakers E Cup final. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
we get Nick Lakers Knicks Lakers, which means we'll wind
up getting Magic in the thunder. But we could get
we could get Nix Lakers a Cup final because the Lakers.
(12:56):
Right now, we said it about seven eight days ago,
and it's still true they have while we're ahead of
the curve. They have no problems right now. The Lakers
have no Lebron getting like the game where he broke
his double digit point streak and still turned out to
be a hero. He didn't celebrate with the team, Still
have to be a hero. The next game was big
for him as well, taking over down the stretch. Guys
(13:17):
are still taking their picture with them after the game
is over. The Lakers have no problems. They've even figured
out how to welcome Lebron back in an awkward way
when you knew coming back you're the third maybe fourth
option some nights. They've now welcomed him back and everything
is fine. That's how much the Lakers have no problems
right now because it's not awkward with Lebron at all.
(13:38):
Didn't think that was possible. But this is the Lakers,
seventeen and six. They're only five and a half point
favorites in this game. To your point about how well
the Spurs have coalesced with wemby sideline sixteen and seven
on the year, are the Spurs two thirty seven? You're
over under as we get ready for Cup action Curious
(14:01):
long term, right, it's work short term and we've seen
great play overall. This also always swirling about contracts, futures,
trades and those dynamics that start to go around, especially
as superstar names get thrown out there like Giannis. But
(14:22):
for the Lakers, yeah, I mean, you've got Luca and
Reeves playing ridiculous basketball, Ruya Chimura's shooting really well from
three point range, and DeAndre Ayton most nights shows you
that guy that you wished he was going to come
into the league as when he was with Phoenix. So
Lebron James, We'll see how long he's content to play
(14:45):
this role because I'm still waiting for the other shooting jobs. Now,
you have no problem and like.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Your your cup thing, I would like to have Bavakua online,
so like I know, it gets played out on a court. Yeah,
but when the it is the magic and the thunder
and not the Nixon Lakers, we go to him for comment.
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Jason Creed or Nickelback. Oh this is Creed Creed Creed
Glow who owse it's actually Santa lays this for my
kid earlier and she told me she hated me. Here's
where I'm at right now when I hear because I
listen to the Holly Stations right the Jimmy fallon holiday
(16:31):
and all this. Why why have they play holiday songs?
Holiday holiday? I was just asking about Fallons. They play
holiday song well, Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Channel and the Holly Channel.
I don't listen to Christmas classics. It's like, here's another
one from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. What do you got
against Mormons? No, I'm just saying like, okay, I've heard
(16:52):
a lot of that. I like the modern songs. So
when I listen, are you really talking over this and
they play that, well, yeah, that is not the John Cena.
This aggression will not stand man. When when I listen
to those channels and they play like rude all for
(17:13):
all I want for Christmas? You, I find myself singing
the mashup lyrics from whatever heavy metal or rock song
that ty shirt has matched them up with. So I
actually heard this today and I was singing.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So let's go there, let's go down.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The chimney, because I'm just making my own stuff up. Now. No,
I don't sing you shoot, I don't sing along to
the actual Christmas lyrics. I know, oh we have a
mashup to this one, so I do that. Now you
should record yourself singing them's ah, maybe that's the next
mashup chaos karaoke me singing the mashup of the mashup
the ty shirt has Okay, Yeah, that will work out,
(17:51):
that'll work out good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I mean you got a couple of weeks before the
holiday holiday holidays. Yeah, get to work.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I always, you know, I always get to a point
where I feel like, man, I should have been I
should have listened to more holiday music this year. I
don't know why it happened to me, Like, like the
two holidays that always sneak up on me, the most
or holidays are Halloween and Thanksgiving. I feel like, man,
I should have listened to more scary Halloween songs and
listen to seen more Halloween movies. And I feel like
I should have listened to more Christmas songs because I
(18:19):
can't listen to Christmas songs the week after Christmas, Like
Christmas is relly, like the toy it's done. Like, let
me do all New Year songs. Let's hear New Year
songs that because I'm like, I here it is again.
It's it's because it's not like it was and we
were kids where because now now that I've moved away,
and I'm you know, Pam and I are out here.
We started our own family and everything where if you
live around your family, it's okay, Well we do Christmas
(18:40):
Day and everybody comes over, and then the day after
Christmas we're all off. We're going to mom's sister's house
and we're gonna do Christmas that day. And then two
days later we go to dad's brother's house and we
do Christmas that day and then like it's not the
Chris like once again, like okay, it's over, Like I
feel like, really Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh see, I'm pull on the elvis. Why can't every
day be like Christmas? And I celebrate the hell out
of it? Different song.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm still enjoying the whole holiday holiday, holiday season. But
I'm like, okay, but no, no, Christmas is over now.
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's one of my presets on the iHeart Radio app
right next to Fox Sports Radio. What is it five
seventy so I could listen to Christmas all the time?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
New Year's Day? Day after New Year's is that when
it finishes?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Generally, you're you're looking at January seventh, when you have
the feast long three Kings and everything.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Uh so it goes Wow Christmas stations,
or you could go all the way to January the eighth,
which is Elvis's birthday. Really you can go anywhere you
want to because you can go on YouTube and find
whatever song you want.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
But that's the thing, right is on the iHeart radio app.
You've got the Holiday channel. I could listen to in July.
It's like when mel Torm wrote Christmas, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And that's it, you know. I want that to be
the next I think that might be the next great documentary,
right like in the in the in the vein of
the Morgan Spurlock, I ate McDonald's every day for a month.
I want a lot more going on there. But I
want that other do I'm saying where you know, like
he ate McDonald's every day. Whatever it was, is like,
(20:11):
I want there to be a documentary on someone who
listens to all Christmas songs three hundred and sixty five
days a year. You start the day after Christmas with
them and you take them all the way to the
next year Christmas Day. They have to live any time
they're in the car whatever. So I'm listening to it's
got to be You're not allowed to listen to anything
(20:31):
else but Christmas songs for a full year.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And I want to see what that person is like.
Can mister beasts offer me a bunch of money, I'll
do it. Well, listen, Greg's got a couple of Christmas
songs that I can still have in my list.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Hey, someone could say to you, Hey, I will hit
you in the head with a baseball back. Well does
it pay? I'll do it like that. Yeah, I mean
ultimately for free to you. He means to you. No,
he means to you. He's pointing to you. No, he
wouldn't do it. That's pointing to you like it was two
both of us. Okay, But I mean I want to
see what that would be like. Like would how would
(21:05):
be able to be the.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Happiest son of an ungoing It's like if I went
to Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, sixty five days, you couldn't hear Duley, you couldn't
hear after No, They've got holidays music you could own,
but that's all you could listen to. Not one time
can you turn on the song that's not holiday music?
Can't listen to it for a year.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We have we have to figure out what the lines are.
It's kind of like the college football playoffs. We got
to figure out where the guardrails are as to what
extends to a holiday holiday holiday song. If you had
a holiday the two holiday stations that just went all
year run, that's the only thing you could listen to.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, but only.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But again, it's in the parameter of how big is
that playlist and what does it extend to.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, it's you have to take I get Stings winter album.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No, you have to take whatever is on a state
because then if they let if you pick, well, but
this technically is a holiday song. No, it's not a
holiday man, We're gonna we have been arguing die hard
for thirty years. Whatever it is on a playlist, like
whatever's on on serious appe. I think I could do
this for whatever. You can do it for an entire year.
No other music. You who changes songs every fifty seconds?
(22:10):
No at all. That's categorically one. Come on, nomost been
in the car together? You change songs? We listen. We
haven't been in my car in years. I don't, I
don't think. Okay, probably a year, but in the in
the ten years leading up to it, you change songs
every fatasy second. No, no, no, why need to call
your kids, get them on the show round you love Me?
They will. They're gonna be one hundred percent if you
(22:32):
don't call them and say, hey, do Daddy is solid? No,
they'll come on and say, oh you hundred percent. Dad
changes songs all the time. I don't get a minute
into a song before he's finding something else. He celebrates
the whole cattle you have. You have some sort of
like music tick where you're like, all right, no, no,
new song, new song, your song, all right, let's listen
to it again. I listen to new song.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I do have a thing right. I don't generally like choruses.
I don't like chorus. No, no, no, And it goes back
to the whole Paradise City conundrum. That become nine minutes
of that when it gets to the part of the
song everybody can sing along too.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, no, I don't doubt you know.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's like I like hate jud until he comes to
nine No no, I like it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, no, no no. I'll tell you that there's your
next documentary, right the patent pending patten Penner. I'm in
Christmas songs every day. Put that go pro on my head,
let's go h. So we'll get to the Edwin Diaz
signing coming up in a few minutes with the Dodgers,
because there's a there's a big there's a couple of
big takeaways from this. But before that, today, Kyle Schwarber
(23:31):
best free agent out there that we think is going
to be out there, that's going to that could have
changed teams. Right guy finished second in MVP voting this year.
Maybe we're getting a big trade. But as far as
free agents go, Kyle Schwarber re ups with the Phillies
five years, one hundred and fifty million dollars. We had
heard that other teams were in on the mix with him,
potentially the Reds. As I saw this come out, I'm like, Yeah,
(23:54):
he's using all these teams against the Feet. He doesn't want
to leave the Phillies. He knows he's got a good
thing going. The fact that these other teams are kind
of in there tells me that we're trying to juice
the mark a bit so I can get all I
need from the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The one, the one thing that I thought could have
happened was a reunion in Chicago. Could have been that
that that might have went with Kyle Tucker expected to
leave that potentially that was the homecoming folk herod did
good all of that and comes back and mashes at
Wrigley Field again.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now I'm gonna surprise you because you think, okay, Phillies.
He's gonna say X, Y and Z about the Phillies
and Kyle schwart This was a really good contract. It
was really good. Now the end is gonna be rough
because Kyle Schwarber is not going to age well thirty
two but only designated hitter. So that's it frightened. But
it's not like they signed him for ten years. They're
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not stuck like they are with Bryce Harper, who is
honestly is a very good player. Like we were ahead
of the curve with that. Now their GM is saying
that he's a very good plan that didn't go. Bryce
Harper hasn't been an elite player in a long time.
He was never one hundred percent elite all the time.
He had a couple of really big years, but basically
he's a guy. He's a thirty and ninety guy, right
(25:07):
and he used to walk one hundred sometimes he doesn't
do that anymore. He is a very good player. I'm
sorry that he feels that way, but that contract is
gonna be an albatross. This is five years. The next
two to three years from Kyle Schwarber are gonna be
good because number one, the guy is still gonna hit
home runs. It's gonna drive in runs. The Phillies are
still gonna spend, as you see, they're gonna spend to
stay in contention, right, they have no choice when you
(25:28):
when you go in on on on Bryce Harper, like
you did, well, we gotta we got to keep this
team going, right, You're gonna get Zach Wheeler back next year.
Maybe it's a little bit better. There's gonna be changes,
obviously it needs to be because you're not good enough
to be a World Series team. But let's say the
contract goes bad and Shore becomes a bit of a
(25:49):
I don't want to say, someone who who drags the
team down but is no longer worth thirty million a year.
It's not gonna be more than the last year and
a half of his deal. And that's absolutely palatable, especially
now when you're thinking that at the end of this
deal is in five years, right, so it's the next
three years. This is a great contract, right, don't have
to worry about him playing in the field. He's a
DH only. Yes, it's a lot to spend in the DH,
(26:11):
but coming off a season of fifty eight home runs
one hundred and thirty RBIs Yeah, this is a good
deal for the Phillies. And they talk about what a
great clubhouse guy he is, and honestly, he is the
most important player on that team. Bryce Harper is not.
He can think that he is, but Kyle Schwarber, they
would not have been where they are. They could have
still finished and won the NL East without Bryce Harper.
(26:32):
They're not gonna do it without Kyle Schwarber hitting lead
off for most of the year, doing it also hitting
second in that order. He is the guy that makes
that team go. It's like when Shaq and Kobe played
together and Shaq was the one and Kobe was the
one A, and when Kobe got too close to being
the one, the Lakers let Shaq go. Right, this is
where you're seeing. Kyle Schwarber was the one A to
(26:54):
Bryce Harper the last couple of years. Now, Kyle Schwarber'
is the one. Bryce Harper's the one A. Like this
was a great. He doesn't need to play the field.
He's gonna rake, He's gonna get all the at bats.
This is who he is. He knows he's got a
good thing going. He stayed in Philadelphia. This was a
great contract by the Phillies. And I'm tough as a
Mets fan. I'm telling you, this is a great contract
by the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I mean, they have the reports out there that both
the Reds and Orioles came a calling with the numbers
to match, which is kind of curious, right, especially we
talked with JP last hour and the fact that the
Orioles and Pirates are names are two teams that are
really being aggressive and trying to add talent. That's great,
(27:32):
that's good for Baseball Pirates, especially as they try to
convince Paul Skeens to stick around. But you look at
schwarb with fifty six home runs last four years, forty six,
forty seven, thirty eight. He's got three straight one hundred
RBI season. He walks over one hundred times every year.
Like all of those things, you're setting the table and
(27:54):
you're clearing it. Right, it's a beautiful thing, right, he
does both. He's gonna clear the table if if guys
get on Bay and then he's also getting on base
a ton to give Harper and the others a chance.
So he's gonna hit two thirty to two forty. That
is what you're gonna have to deal with. He had
that one to ninety seven batting average going back to
(28:14):
twenty twenty three. But for his career he's a two
thirty one hitter. That's what you expect. A lot of walks,
a ton of strikeouts. We've normalized what a strikeout is.
Perhaps eventually the pendulum will swing back as to what
constitutes a quote good out in baseball again, like contact
mattered once upon a time. But until that day, you know,
(28:35):
Schwarber is a good folk hero. He's a good clubhouse guy.
He's a good.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Fan rallying around point no question about it in Philadelphia.
And when when you look at that production, who else
in the marketplace is matching that? Right, there's a lot
of question marks. And at five years that'll put him
at thirty seven years old. You're fine, especially if you're
not suddenly breaking glass in case of emergency where suddenly
(29:02):
he's got to strap on the catching gear again or
play a bunch of the field to where a he's
a butcher and can't do it and be he's more
likely to get hurt from this button. It's brilliant. Exit up,
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(29:23):
So someone who's been called the Kyle Schwarber of Fox
Sports Radio, he can hit the ball just as far
it's seems to say, go over that mountain.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Okay, Yeah, I'll go with that. I've also appeared on
Abbott Elementary The Philly's. The Phillies fre signed Kyle Schwarber
to a five year contract. He finished second in MVP
voting this season, and Schwarber will be on Team USA
in March at the World Baseball Classic along with Dodger
catcher Will Smith, Seattle catcher Cal Raley, and team captain
(29:54):
Aaron Judge. Philadelphia gave manager Rob Thompson a one year
extension for twenty twenty seven. Have made the playoffs four
straight seasons. Shoheo Tani was voted AP's Male Athlete of
the Year for a record tying fourth time. The Female
Athlete of the Year will be announced on Wednesday. Asia
Wilson won Time Magazine's award Today. The Dodgers are signing
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closer Edwin Diaz from the Mets to a three year deal.
The mets new closer is Devin Williams. The Tigers resigned
closer Kyle Finnegan. The White Sox won MLB's draft lottery.
Last Saturday Night's Big Ten Football title game drew over
eighteen million viewers on Fox TV. And Atlanta Falcons are
playing this Thursday at Tampa Bay and Atlanta wide receiver
(30:35):
Drake London misspractice again today with his sprain knee. The
colt signed quarterback Philip Rivers, who hasn't played in five years,
but Indy has three injured quarterbacks, including Daniel Jones, will
have achilles surgery this week. Just about everything's final in
sports tonight, except for the late NHL game. In a shootout.
Colorado is even three to three at Nashville. Already wins
(30:57):
for Tampa Bay, Dallas, and Carolina on four to one
at home against Columbus, Anaheim stole one at Pittsburgh a
shootout four to three victory. Two games in college basketball,
hat Madison Square Garden number five ranked Yukon beat Florida
seventy seven seventy three. Before that, it was tenth rang
BYU on a three pointer at the buzzer, beating Clemson
(31:18):
sixty seven sixty four BYU who had trailed by twenty
one points at the half. Young superstar for the Cougars,
aj Debonsa, in the comeback win did something that in
the last thirty seasons only one other Division one freshman
has done, to have at least twenty eight points, nine rebound,
six assists and no fouls in the game. Steph Curry
(31:40):
did that as a freshman in two thousand and six.
By the way, tonight in Las Vegas, the College Football
Hall of Fame award dinner the class of twenty twenty
five included Wisconsin running back Monty Ball. Also former noted
ame quarterback Terry Hanratty from the nineteen sixties, Hello Dinanta,
who was University of Oregon defensive tackle about twenty years ago.
(32:01):
Michael Strahan who played at Texas Southern, and former Virginia
Tech quarterback Michael Vick is in the College Hall of Fame.
Among the coaches honored tonight, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer.
There were two NBA games tonight. These are NBA Cup
Quarterfinals New York a winner at Toronto one seventeen one
oh one Jalen Brunson thirty five points, and top seed
(32:21):
Orlando eliminated Miami one seventeen to one oh eight Desmond
Bane thirty seven points. The Western Conference quarterfinals are Wednesday.
They include number one Oklahoma City hosting Phoenix, okse winners
of what fifteen Strait Spurs at the Lakers and Center
Victor Women. Yama will still be out for that one
with his strain calf. Las Vegas will host the tournament
(32:43):
Semis and the final starting this Saturday. Hawk star guard
Trey Young is optimistic he can return from injury this month.
He's been out since late October with a sprained MCL.
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Speaker 1 (33:20):
Hold on, it's better. Okay. What is good advice? What
is this song have in common with a Jets loss
that is not John Cena? What does this song have
in common with a Jets loss? It's about John Cena
for Christmas. I don't like it. I don't like the Jets. Well, okay,
(33:42):
that's fair, that's fair, But fumble. I was just listen,
we're John Cena, Carolyn. We wanted time. So today you
probably woke up, or if you're like me, your phone
was going off crazy and I said, something happened. Something happened,
and Edwin Diaz, former Mets closer, leaves the Mets for
(34:04):
the Dodgers three years, sixty nine million dollars. Uh, and
it vexes you to no end. No, And here's the thing,
I am okay with it for a couple of reasons. No,
you're not. I mean, you took your Mets hat off.
That's how mad. You have just got hot in the studio,
so I took it is really warm in here. I
don't know what those guys do. Rob Parker's sixty's he's
(34:27):
got it jacked up to like eighty five degrees when
he comes in here.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Me man, it's like.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
When you walk in sweat lies. It's like when you
walk in on Christmas and you go to like your
mom's aunt's house and you're freezing cold, and you walk
into the house and something, it's like, oh my god,
it's so dry in here.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
There's something could catch fire.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
My skin is getting ashy. I if I walk too
fast across the rug, there's gonna be sparks. It's so
hot in his house. But I'm okay with it for
a couple of reasons. One, but you're not. No, I'm
absolutely okay because he's a close right. Edwin Diaz meant
a lot to the Mets. I get it. You need
(35:04):
to change after last year with blowing the playoff lead. Yeah,
I'm not going to give a hundred million dollars to
a closer. Right, thee hundred million dollars for Diez was
not a great investment. It wasn't a great investment. They
had it, and I feel like the Mets are lucky
that he opted out and now signing this bigger deal
with the Dodgers a couple of years later, because you
know what he's been in every other year. Guy, right,
(35:24):
his first year with the Mets, was awful. His second
year was really good. Third year he got hurt, missed
the whole year. Next year he was terrible. Last year
he was really good. He's not Rivera, he's not Hoffman,
he's not Bruce Sooner, he's not Raleigh Fingers. Sure, he's
not any of these guys. Right, what he's not a
year in a year. There's nobody who's a year and
in year. Lights out closer. When you were figuring out
(35:47):
a bullpen, you got to figure out, Okay, we want
a guy coming off a year where he's on an
upswing because guys aren't consistent every year. It's why the
Devin Williams saying, Okay, he was great two years ago,
last year not quite as great. That's broken. Feel like, okay,
we can fix him a little. Okay, I see that.
I get why teams do that. You're trying to play
whack a mole with relievers, like we want to pick
(36:07):
a guy again him when he's having a big year,
because you don't want to sign a guy for a
long term because they hardly ever work out. And Diaz
has been in every other year player right, and I
mean it for the Dodgers, Yes, they went out and
you feel like, Okay, they figured out their big problem
after last year, they figured out the bullpen. Well, you
know what, this time last year we said the Dodgers
figured out the bullpen. They went out and got Tanner Scott,
(36:29):
they had three closers, everything was fine. What happened the
end of the year they had no closers. Right, the
Clayton Kershaw's coming in at the end to help close
games out right, Roki Sasaki has to come out and
close games because that's all they have left. There's nobody else.
So in theory, you want to say, yes, the Dodgers
took care of their Okay, you know what, maybe they didn't.
Because DZ is coming off a great year. Is he
(36:50):
really gonna have another year like this? Right? Because for
every outing you get from Edwin Diaz that's twelve pitches,
three strikeouts, ninety eight mile an hour pipe out slider,
you're gonna get an outing where he comes in with
a three to nothing lead in the ninth and after
three batters it's two walks and a hit by pitch
and suddenly the bases loaded with nobody out. You're going,
what the hell is happening here? Like that's Edwin Diaz.
(37:12):
He's not. And if you're gonna spend money on players,
you gotta spend money more than just what we're trying
to lock down the ninth inning. The Dodgers can do
it because they have everything else taken care of, and
we'll see if they're right about this. Right on paper,
it's a great move, But I'm telling you, I know
Edwin Diaz. I know what he's been for the past
five plus years with the Mets. That's he's at every
other game. Guy Narco will be exciting, loading the basis
(37:34):
for no reason. Is not going to be throwing wild pitches,
is not going to be That's that's the Edwin Diaz experience.
And I'm not gonna pay one hundred million dollars just
to bring him back for the ninth inning. When you
have a lot of money you can spend in other places.
You'll figure out the back end of the bullpen. You're
gonna go through relievers anyway every single year. Relievers are
very replaceable. That's just how it goes in Major League Baseball. Yeah,
(37:56):
we look at the saves through his career.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
He's got two fifty three four for his run last
year was fantastic in his sixty six and a third
innings pitched, no question about it. You look at the
strikeout to walk a ratio ninety eight strikeouts in that
period against twenty one walks, and just dominance. To your
point where we look at closers, A couple of bad
(38:20):
outings really can submarine a stat line and you arride
the lightning right all the guys you mentioned Hall of Famers,
there's a very large swath of closers and plenty of
guys that have had one or two good years and
then we're broken and never resurrected.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, to this point, you know when Padres tried to
do last year, Oh we locked up the bullpet Okay, great,
how far did that get you? But right, I mean, look,
you guys brought in Devin Williams, guy that a couple
of years ago used said you were listening to that
ninth inning and Pete Alan's and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
I did listen to that, right, I did listen to that.
So in theory, you've got your guy, So Edwin Diaz.
Part of it is hubris, Like, why am I gonna
stay here? I'm not necessarily the guy. I'm a cod
closer ish, Hey, what are we doing right? You're guaranteed.
And when we're talking about money, difference between New York
and LA money ain't much. Right when we get down
(39:12):
to it, maybe it was quibbling over one more year
he would have taken it. If he've gotten the fourth
year in New York, he'd stayed, or whatever the case
may be. But going to the Dodgers, I mean, plenty
of opportunities. But they've also shown the ability as you
navigated this season, if we need to pull you from
that that spot for a while to see if you
(39:32):
can get right, they will. And so coming into twenty
twenty six, very curious space. But three year, sixty nine
million dollars is a drop in the bucket. Okay, Look,
it's not a bad contract. I'm not saying it's a
bad contract. Three year, sixty nine million, Okay. He obviously
wanted to be a Dodger. Mess offer him the same money.
I want to go to the Dodgers. I understand that
(39:53):
the Dodgers are great, right, I get people wanting to go.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Play for the Dodgers. It's not a bad contract. It's
just get ready for the Edwin Dazic experience. This is
not going to be every single game he's lights out
top to bottom. He has issues, he fluctuates, and again
you're coming off a great Edwin d As year, and
every great Edwin d As year for most of his
career has been followed up by a less than subpar year.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Well we thought that with Blake Snow he won a
World Series in his half here, Yeah, you had.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Only signed one year deals to keep getting more.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
No, but well no, he signed a big deal, so like,
we'll see what happens in year two of his But
maybe he just needs to get away from the Mets
Jets conundrum.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh that could be. I thought that could always X
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and I love putting this content out for you every
single night. And I'm telling you, I don't know how many
times I have to say it. I'm fine with the
Mets not giving Edwin Diaz one hundred million dollars for
(01:54):
that roller coaster ride that he's been for the past
six years. It had just been seventy million off. Fine,
I'm fine. I do like that. It's three years, sixty
nine million. Somewhere rob Ronkowski is look and let me
say this right because there is a lot to do
with this right before before we get to the NBA.
(02:15):
Is that All day? I've seen so many different media
personalities talking about, oh, the Mets blew it. I can't
believe the metsage. The Mets were trending all day. How
do you let Edwin Diaz go? How do you Leedwin
Diez go? And I'm like, Okay, yeah, okay, you don't
know baseball and you know anything, you know okay, because
here's the thing is that the Dodgers. And look, and
I'm the biggest Mets fan in the world, and I'm
(02:36):
telling you, I get that people want to go to
the Dodgers. I don't think Edwin Diaz was picking the
Dodgers because he was just pissed at the Mets and
he said, oh, I'll go to the Dodge. You know,
it was okay, the Dodgers, I'm here, three years, sixty
nine million. The Mets came up with the same basically
the same offer. Okay, so we do to keep you.
That's great. But Edwin Diaz wanted to go to LA
(02:57):
I get it. I understand why you want to go
to a team that's loaded, that's winning World Series, that
is that is global, that is coast to coast, that
is the most popular team in Major League Baseball. I
guess popular as the Mets are, as popular, as the
Yankees are as popul as other teams are. I get it.
The Dodgers is a completely different animal. I want to
go there, I want to win. I get players wanting
to go play for the Dodgers. It's not like he
(03:19):
ditched the Mets for the Rays, you know, or he
went or he decided to go you I'm gonna go
to the Angels. I mean, it's not like that happened. Man.
I mean understand that there's only so much you could
if the guy wants to be a Dodger, and I
understand wanting to be a Dodger, but it has extra
value on so many levels.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Right, we talk about the global brand like major League
Baseball as a whole. Right, We've got a couple of
We talked with John Paul Morosi last hour at John
Morosi where you find him on Twitter for his latest
from the winter meetings. But talked about, you know, the
Japanese players that are coming in this year and the
bidding wars that maybe we get some surprises where the
Pittsburgh Pirates actually spend money. But we talk about the
(03:59):
the global impact. Right, there's estimates that the Dodgers have
already made back what they spent on the Otani contract
that's now just sitting in estro and will be paid
out when they need to do it. Like that, that's
how big a brand. This is how big an impact.
And guess what, Yeah, he's a star. Yamamoda is a star, Suzaki,
(04:21):
all these other guys are stars now too, in popular
in Jaban because they're part of this global enterprise.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So there's more.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Value beyond the three to sixty nine that you're going
to get by being a member of the Dodgers and
that level of exposure. Not to mention, you know, winning
feels pretty good. Los Angeles is pretty nice. Man. Sometimes
there's stuff to break down on Diaz and there's stuff
that we'll get into more in detail. Looking nobody knows
Diaz better than I do. But like, understand, okay, when
(04:51):
you're leaving for the best team in baseball, how did
that something become? How do you not keep that guts right?
That's ridiculous what we're trying to find a way. But
the Mets embarrass themselves enough with many other things. There's
no reason, Ah, the Mets fail. The guy wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But this is the kind of thing he's like, do
I have to show your receipts of messages with his
agent to say this is what.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We're offering him? Like, and I get it. There's some
backstory as to maybe he wasn't you know, on the
front burner.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
One of those I want to be field loved, right,
go back to Jerry Maguire. It's like, ah, you know,
we did all this stuff, you weren't with us, so
we moved on kind of thing, right, So you know,
I understand maybe a little bit of frustration there and
the fact that you bring in Devin Williams and you're
looking around going what are we doing here? But the
(05:38):
reality is he goes to a situation where he can
be king after a year where they was break glass
in case of emergency at the closer position time and
again for a guy to be solid and bring a
guy that can play a trumpet like that with him.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, he's probably got a record deal already.
You got in Game Entertainment. I'm sure Timmy L. Trump
It has a record deal already. Timmy loss Trumpet L
to me, L Trumpet's got a record deal. Does the
L travel. I'm sure he's gonna be on the new
Taylor Swift album. I'm sure that's gonna happen. There'll be
another one Confessions of a Trumpet Player, and he's gonna
be on there. It's gonna be him. Do you think
(06:14):
the price of those cards that tops Now did with
the autograph Timmy l Trumpet went up today. Oh yeah,
one hundred percent. I can't believe you didn't start the
show by saying I want to buy a couple of
Timmy old Trumpet cards. Because that's you normally do whatever
normally do. Whenever a player has a big night you
you or or a big day the day before, you
spend the next day trying to get some rookie cards
(06:35):
of his as cheap as possible and trying to flip
him for money. You always say, hey, you want to
buy You said to me last night you want to
buy a Cameron Dicker rookie card football. I mean I
did not, Yes, no, categorically wrong, liar.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You said that.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You said that on the air three times. You try
to on air. You try to just put a card
in my pocket and say just pay me when you're running.
I'm like, no, I don't want a Cameron Dicker rookie card.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I know you're good for it. Now, l autograph out of.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Elsewhere. Tonight it's an NBA Cup night, and we watched
the Knicks and the Magic win their quarterfinal matchups to
head to the Semis matchup. Hey, Knicks are the only
NBA team to go to the quarterfinals in each of
the three years. We're hanging that bleeping batter at MSG. Man,
here come the Knicks. Now, there's two takeaways we get
to hear an N one B game tomorrow night. Is
(07:28):
that the Knicks sort of seem like they're figuring it out.
It was a little rocky in the beginning. Again, I
worry about the minutes they play again. They're up fifteen
in the final two minutes and for some reason, Brunson
and Towns are still on the court. I can't trust it.
NBA man, It's like, is Tims coaching the team from afar?
Like is he still calling and going no, I'll leave
those guys on the floor. Did you look at the minutes?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But the Clarkson and Mitchell Robinson were the only two
off the bench to play double digit minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, it was a cup game. It was a
cup game. Was so I get if you did have
a lead of fifteen or more. Pretty much from the
middle of the second quarter, the Raptors took their starters
out before the Knicks did, Like, I don't know how
you don't do that many took. They took the starts
out with two and a half minutes left to go.
Why are you doing that? Why are you leaving your guy?
Does Brunson really need to be in there with a
minute twenty left you're up by fifteen points. No, he doesn't.
(08:18):
The game is over, man, it's over. But this is
bad news for Yannis, right If the Knicker is preferred destination,
the more the Knicks figure it out, the less likely
they're gonna want to say we'll upset the apple cart
and trade from the deadline. Giannis was their break glass
in case of emergency plan, and we found out tonight
there's tension. Sham Stroania has the report there's tension in
(08:39):
Milwaukee with the players on the team and Giannis's situation
where he's potentially could get traded anytime. If the Knickers
preferred destination. He needs them to stink, he needs them
to find a way to not win, and Karl Anthony
Towns to not be an answer, because that's the way
he's getting to New York. It's why I said the
beginning of the year, Hey, I'm in club med because
if the Knicks are good, great, I'm feeling awesome. If
(09:02):
the Knicks aren't good. Guess what we're getting yanis to
the deadline. So I'm good either way. But this is
if the knicksers preferred destination. The more the Knicks win,
and now they're beating pretty good teams double digits. Now
they're winning games on the road, they were in control
of the entire night. Tonight, Brunson was a house of
fire in the first quarter. We hat like eighteen in
the first quarter. Like, this is bad news for Yannis
because now suddenly he's got to say, are the Knicks
(09:25):
really gonna do this? I might have to start looking
at other places where I could go, at least for
this year or however long I want to, because the
more they win, it doesn't look like they're gonna put
They're gonna pull the trigger for the deadline, and I
gotta go someplace.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, there's some curious reports out of Chicago as a
potential destination, and certainly you start expanding back Miami and
some others along the way. Some of the unrest in Milwaukee,
I also have to believe is all right. Well, while
Yannis may not go, what does it mean for us?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Right? Do we get packaged and suddenly you're uncomfortable with.
I may be on borrowed time here where I go
to another place minutes whatever may be changing, but I've
got to uproot my life in the next four to
six weeks or thereabouts. And maybe you're you're comfortable in
your space, but certainly from Milwaukee, we've talked about it
(10:15):
like Yan hasn't been there since twenty thirteen. You have
the title run and a lot of mediocrity, some great
regular seasons and early flameouts, so looking for an exit
your knicks. You're too good, right and even and I
hate shut it even you've used those words.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
But we look at the Eastern Conference. You've had a
couple of teams like the Bulls that got out to
fast starts. Gets what they fizzled. We're not even a
halfway anywhere close to halfway into the season and you
already see them sinking towards the bottom. Several other teams
in that same spot. You just decimated Toronto that everybody's
held up as a pretty good squad. So now it
(10:57):
becomes the how do we upset this? Because it's not
one for one, right, That's the hard part is that
it becomes three or four guys have to go back
the other way. And when we're talking about rotations, which
isn't terribly deep as it is, Yan is coming off
and being compromised from an injury. You're talking about a
year that all right, and we're gonna change what we've
(11:17):
got and bring in a guy wishing and hoping that
his legs.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Hold up for the rest of this year.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
We may love it long term, but we're gonna give
up a year of Brunson playing at this level.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's a difficult proposition, my friend. Meanwhile, another injury that
plays into tomorrow. Because of tomorrow night's another e Cup Night, Oh, huge,
Cup night. Huge? Is that at eight o'clock start on Peacock?
I think so. I think they're starting at noon and
at midnight. I think that's what they're doing. Okay, yeah,
they're They're still too close together. So noon we get
the Lakers and the Spurs, and then midnight we get
(11:49):
the Thunder. What do they play in between the uh uh, Well, no,
the game goes all the way, only they stretch it out.
They stretch all the way, a lot of timeouts. They
go all the way to the pre show, and boy,
it's gonna be a long pre show, uh Wenby officially
ruled out for the E Cup quarterfinal game tomorrow, and
I know, I'm gonna tell you it's admirable how well
(12:13):
the Spurs have played without Wemby. This again, when they
were my long shot picking the Western Conference, going, hey,
Wemby's gonna be the best player in the league sometime
this season. They're my team in the Western Conference. Right
Detroit was my team in the East preseason. Wemby and
the Spurs my team in the West. I didn't think
they'd not just stay this afloat, but they'd still win games,
which tells you how good they are and how dangerous
(12:34):
they'll be when Wemby comes back. But he's not back tomorrow.
Spurs and the Lakers, it's gonna wind up being the Lakers.
And I know the thunder of the big draw. But
now suddenly you're saying, wait a minute, we could get
Knicks Lakers E Cup final. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
we get Nick Lakers Knicks Lakers, which means we'll wind
up getting Magic in the thunder. But we could get
we could get Nix Lakers a Cup final because the Lakers.
(12:56):
Right now, we said it about seven eight days ago,
and it's still true they have while we're ahead of
the curve. They have no problems right now. The Lakers
have no Lebron getting like the game where he broke
his double digit point streak and still turned out to
be a hero. He didn't celebrate with the team, Still
have to be a hero. The next game was big
for him as well, taking over down the stretch. Guys
(13:17):
are still taking their picture with them after the game
is over. The Lakers have no problems. They've even figured
out how to welcome Lebron back in an awkward way
when you knew coming back you're the third maybe fourth
option some nights. They've now welcomed him back and everything
is fine. That's how much the Lakers have no problems
right now because it's not awkward with Lebron at all.
(13:38):
Didn't think that was possible. But this is the Lakers,
seventeen and six. They're only five and a half point
favorites in this game. To your point about how well
the Spurs have coalesced with wemby sideline sixteen and seven
on the year, are the Spurs two thirty seven? You're
over under as we get ready for Cup action Curious
(14:01):
long term, right, it's work short term and we've seen
great play overall. This also always swirling about contracts, futures,
trades and those dynamics that start to go around, especially
as superstar names get thrown out there like Giannis. But
(14:22):
for the Lakers, yeah, I mean, you've got Luca and
Reeves playing ridiculous basketball, Ruya Chimura's shooting really well from
three point range, and DeAndre Ayton most nights shows you
that guy that you wished he was going to come
into the league as when he was with Phoenix. So
Lebron James, We'll see how long he's content to play
(14:45):
this role because I'm still waiting for the other shooting jobs. Now,
you have no problem and like.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Your your cup thing, I would like to have Bavakua online,
so like I know, it gets played out on a court. Yeah,
but when the it is the magic and the thunder
and not the Nixon Lakers, we go to him for comment.
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Jason Creed or Nickelback. Oh this is Creed Creed Creed
Glow who owse it's actually Santa lays this for my
kid earlier and she told me she hated me. Here's
where I'm at right now when I hear because I
listen to the Holly Stations right the Jimmy fallon holiday
(16:31):
and all this. Why why have they play holiday songs?
Holiday holiday? I was just asking about Fallons. They play
holiday song well, Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Channel and the Holly Channel.
I don't listen to Christmas classics. It's like, here's another
one from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. What do you got
against Mormons? No, I'm just saying like, okay, I've heard
(16:52):
a lot of that. I like the modern songs. So
when I listen, are you really talking over this and
they play that, well, yeah, that is not the John Cena.
This aggression will not stand man. When when I listen
to those channels and they play like rude all for
(17:13):
all I want for Christmas? You, I find myself singing
the mashup lyrics from whatever heavy metal or rock song
that ty shirt has matched them up with. So I
actually heard this today and I was singing.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So let's go there, let's go down.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The chimney, because I'm just making my own stuff up. Now. No,
I don't sing you shoot, I don't sing along to
the actual Christmas lyrics. I know, oh we have a
mashup to this one, so I do that. Now you
should record yourself singing them's ah, maybe that's the next
mashup chaos karaoke me singing the mashup of the mashup
the ty shirt has Okay, Yeah, that will work out,
(17:51):
that'll work out good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I mean you got a couple of weeks before the
holiday holiday holidays. Yeah, get to work.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I always, you know, I always get to a point
where I feel like, man, I should have been I
should have listened to more holiday music this year. I
don't know why it happened to me, Like, like the
two holidays that always sneak up on me, the most
or holidays are Halloween and Thanksgiving. I feel like, man,
I should have listened to more scary Halloween songs and
listen to seen more Halloween movies. And I feel like
I should have listened to more Christmas songs because I
(18:19):
can't listen to Christmas songs the week after Christmas, Like
Christmas is relly, like the toy it's done. Like, let
me do all New Year songs. Let's hear New Year
songs that because I'm like, I here it is again.
It's it's because it's not like it was and we
were kids where because now now that I've moved away,
and I'm you know, Pam and I are out here.
We started our own family and everything where if you
live around your family, it's okay, Well we do Christmas
(18:40):
Day and everybody comes over, and then the day after
Christmas we're all off. We're going to mom's sister's house
and we're gonna do Christmas that day. And then two
days later we go to dad's brother's house and we
do Christmas that day and then like it's not the
Chris like once again, like okay, it's over, Like I
feel like, really Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh see, I'm pull on the elvis. Why can't every
day be like Christmas? And I celebrate the hell out
of it? Different song.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm still enjoying the whole holiday holiday, holiday season. But
I'm like, okay, but no, no, Christmas is over now.
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's one of my presets on the iHeart Radio app
right next to Fox Sports Radio. What is it five
seventy so I could listen to Christmas all the time?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
New Year's Day? Day after New Year's is that when
it finishes?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Generally, you're you're looking at January seventh, when you have
the feast long three Kings and everything.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Uh so it goes Wow Christmas stations,
or you could go all the way to January the eighth,
which is Elvis's birthday. Really you can go anywhere you
want to because you can go on YouTube and find
whatever song you want.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
But that's the thing, right is on the iHeart radio app.
You've got the Holiday channel. I could listen to in July.
It's like when mel Torm wrote Christmas, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And that's it, you know. I want that to be
the next I think that might be the next great documentary,
right like in the in the in the vein of
the Morgan Spurlock, I ate McDonald's every day for a month.
I want a lot more going on there. But I
want that other do I'm saying where you know, like
he ate McDonald's every day. Whatever it was, is like,
(20:11):
I want there to be a documentary on someone who
listens to all Christmas songs three hundred and sixty five
days a year. You start the day after Christmas with
them and you take them all the way to the
next year Christmas Day. They have to live any time
they're in the car whatever. So I'm listening to it's
got to be You're not allowed to listen to anything
(20:31):
else but Christmas songs for a full year.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And I want to see what that person is like.
Can mister beasts offer me a bunch of money, I'll
do it. Well, listen, Greg's got a couple of Christmas
songs that I can still have in my list.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Hey, someone could say to you, Hey, I will hit
you in the head with a baseball back. Well does
it pay? I'll do it like that. Yeah, I mean
ultimately for free to you. He means to you. No,
he means to you. He's pointing to you. No, he
wouldn't do it. That's pointing to you like it was two
both of us. Okay, But I mean I want to
see what that would be like. Like would how would
(21:05):
be able to be the.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Happiest son of an ungoing It's like if I went
to Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, sixty five days, you couldn't hear Duley, you couldn't
hear after No, They've got holidays music you could own,
but that's all you could listen to. Not one time
can you turn on the song that's not holiday music?
Can't listen to it for a year.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We have we have to figure out what the lines are.
It's kind of like the college football playoffs. We got
to figure out where the guardrails are as to what
extends to a holiday holiday holiday song. If you had
a holiday the two holiday stations that just went all
year run, that's the only thing you could listen to.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, but only.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But again, it's in the parameter of how big is
that playlist and what does it extend to.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, it's you have to take I get Stings winter album.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No, you have to take whatever is on a state
because then if they let if you pick, well, but
this technically is a holiday song. No, it's not a
holiday man, We're gonna we have been arguing die hard
for thirty years. Whatever it is on a playlist, like
whatever's on on serious appe. I think I could do
this for whatever. You can do it for an entire year.
No other music. You who changes songs every fifty seconds?
(22:10):
No at all. That's categorically one. Come on, nomost been
in the car together? You change songs? We listen. We
haven't been in my car in years. I don't, I
don't think. Okay, probably a year, but in the in
the ten years leading up to it, you change songs
every fatasy second. No, no, no, why need to call
your kids, get them on the show round you love Me?
They will. They're gonna be one hundred percent if you
(22:32):
don't call them and say, hey, do Daddy is solid? No,
they'll come on and say, oh you hundred percent. Dad
changes songs all the time. I don't get a minute
into a song before he's finding something else. He celebrates
the whole cattle you have. You have some sort of
like music tick where you're like, all right, no, no,
new song, new song, your song, all right, let's listen
to it again. I listen to new song.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I do have a thing right. I don't generally like choruses.
I don't like chorus. No, no, no, And it goes back
to the whole Paradise City conundrum. That become nine minutes
of that when it gets to the part of the
song everybody can sing along too.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, no, I don't doubt you know.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's like I like hate jud until he comes to
nine No no, I like it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, no, no no. I'll tell you that there's your
next documentary, right the patent pending patten Penner. I'm in
Christmas songs every day. Put that go pro on my head,
let's go h. So we'll get to the Edwin Diaz
signing coming up in a few minutes with the Dodgers,
because there's a there's a big there's a couple of
big takeaways from this. But before that, today, Kyle Schwarber
(23:31):
best free agent out there that we think is going
to be out there, that's going to that could have
changed teams. Right guy finished second in MVP voting this year.
Maybe we're getting a big trade. But as far as
free agents go, Kyle Schwarber re ups with the Phillies
five years, one hundred and fifty million dollars. We had
heard that other teams were in on the mix with him,
potentially the Reds. As I saw this come out, I'm like, Yeah,
(23:54):
he's using all these teams against the Feet. He doesn't want
to leave the Phillies. He knows he's got a good
thing going. The fact that these other teams are kind
of in there tells me that we're trying to juice
the mark a bit so I can get all I
need from the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The one, the one thing that I thought could have
happened was a reunion in Chicago. Could have been that
that that might have went with Kyle Tucker expected to
leave that potentially that was the homecoming folk herod did
good all of that and comes back and mashes at
Wrigley Field again.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now I'm gonna surprise you because you think, okay, Phillies.
He's gonna say X, Y and Z about the Phillies
and Kyle schwart This was a really good contract. It
was really good. Now the end is gonna be rough
because Kyle Schwarber is not going to age well thirty
two but only designated hitter. So that's it frightened. But
it's not like they signed him for ten years. They're
(24:46):
not stuck like they are with Bryce Harper, who is
honestly is a very good player. Like we were ahead
of the curve with that. Now their GM is saying
that he's a very good plan that didn't go. Bryce
Harper hasn't been an elite player in a long time.
He was never one hundred percent elite all the time.
He had a couple of really big years, but basically
he's a guy. He's a thirty and ninety guy, right
(25:07):
and he used to walk one hundred sometimes he doesn't
do that anymore. He is a very good player. I'm
sorry that he feels that way, but that contract is
gonna be an albatross. This is five years. The next
two to three years from Kyle Schwarber are gonna be
good because number one, the guy is still gonna hit
home runs. It's gonna drive in runs. The Phillies are
still gonna spend, as you see, they're gonna spend to
stay in contention, right, they have no choice when you
(25:28):
when you go in on on on Bryce Harper, like
you did, well, we gotta we got to keep this
team going, right, You're gonna get Zach Wheeler back next year.
Maybe it's a little bit better. There's gonna be changes,
obviously it needs to be because you're not good enough
to be a World Series team. But let's say the
contract goes bad and Shore becomes a bit of a
(25:49):
I don't want to say, someone who who drags the
team down but is no longer worth thirty million a year.
It's not gonna be more than the last year and
a half of his deal. And that's absolutely palatable, especially
now when you're thinking that at the end of this
deal is in five years, right, so it's the next
three years. This is a great contract, right, don't have
to worry about him playing in the field. He's a
DH only. Yes, it's a lot to spend in the DH,
(26:11):
but coming off a season of fifty eight home runs
one hundred and thirty RBIs Yeah, this is a good
deal for the Phillies. And they talk about what a
great clubhouse guy he is, and honestly, he is the
most important player on that team. Bryce Harper is not.
He can think that he is, but Kyle Schwarber, they
would not have been where they are. They could have
still finished and won the NL East without Bryce Harper.
(26:32):
They're not gonna do it without Kyle Schwarber hitting lead
off for most of the year, doing it also hitting
second in that order. He is the guy that makes
that team go. It's like when Shaq and Kobe played
together and Shaq was the one and Kobe was the
one A, and when Kobe got too close to being
the one, the Lakers let Shaq go. Right, this is
where you're seeing. Kyle Schwarber was the one A to
(26:54):
Bryce Harper the last couple of years. Now, Kyle Schwarber'
is the one. Bryce Harper's the one A. Like this
was a great. He doesn't need to play the field.
He's gonna rake, He's gonna get all the at bats.
This is who he is. He knows he's got a
good thing going. He stayed in Philadelphia. This was a
great contract by the Phillies. And I'm tough as a
Mets fan. I'm telling you, this is a great contract
by the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I mean, they have the reports out there that both
the Reds and Orioles came a calling with the numbers
to match, which is kind of curious, right, especially we
talked with JP last hour and the fact that the
Orioles and Pirates are names are two teams that are
really being aggressive and trying to add talent. That's great,
(27:32):
that's good for Baseball Pirates, especially as they try to
convince Paul Skeens to stick around. But you look at
schwarb with fifty six home runs last four years, forty six,
forty seven, thirty eight. He's got three straight one hundred
RBI season. He walks over one hundred times every year.
Like all of those things, you're setting the table and
(27:54):
you're clearing it. Right, it's a beautiful thing, right, he
does both. He's gonna clear the table if if guys
get on Bay and then he's also getting on base
a ton to give Harper and the others a chance.
So he's gonna hit two thirty to two forty. That
is what you're gonna have to deal with. He had
that one to ninety seven batting average going back to
(28:14):
twenty twenty three. But for his career he's a two
thirty one hitter. That's what you expect. A lot of walks,
a ton of strikeouts. We've normalized what a strikeout is.
Perhaps eventually the pendulum will swing back as to what
constitutes a quote good out in baseball again, like contact
mattered once upon a time. But until that day, you know,
(28:35):
Schwarber is a good folk hero. He's a good clubhouse guy.
He's a good.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Fan rallying around point no question about it in Philadelphia.
And when when you look at that production, who else
in the marketplace is matching that? Right, there's a lot
of question marks. And at five years that'll put him
at thirty seven years old. You're fine, especially if you're
not suddenly breaking glass in case of emergency where suddenly
(29:02):
he's got to strap on the catching gear again or
play a bunch of the field to where a he's
a butcher and can't do it and be he's more
likely to get hurt from this button. It's brilliant. Exit up,
exit out, bout of Fresca, exit swalling down. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Tom gotta
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
(29:23):
So someone who's been called the Kyle Schwarber of Fox
Sports Radio, he can hit the ball just as far
it's seems to say, go over that mountain.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Okay, Yeah, I'll go with that. I've also appeared on
Abbott Elementary The Philly's. The Phillies fre signed Kyle Schwarber
to a five year contract. He finished second in MVP
voting this season, and Schwarber will be on Team USA
in March at the World Baseball Classic along with Dodger
catcher Will Smith, Seattle catcher Cal Raley, and team captain
(29:54):
Aaron Judge. Philadelphia gave manager Rob Thompson a one year
extension for twenty twenty seven. Have made the playoffs four
straight seasons. Shoheo Tani was voted AP's Male Athlete of
the Year for a record tying fourth time. The Female
Athlete of the Year will be announced on Wednesday. Asia
Wilson won Time Magazine's award Today. The Dodgers are signing
(30:14):
closer Edwin Diaz from the Mets to a three year deal.
The mets new closer is Devin Williams. The Tigers resigned
closer Kyle Finnegan. The White Sox won MLB's draft lottery.
Last Saturday Night's Big Ten Football title game drew over
eighteen million viewers on Fox TV. And Atlanta Falcons are
playing this Thursday at Tampa Bay and Atlanta wide receiver
(30:35):
Drake London misspractice again today with his sprain knee. The
colt signed quarterback Philip Rivers, who hasn't played in five years,
but Indy has three injured quarterbacks, including Daniel Jones, will
have achilles surgery this week. Just about everything's final in
sports tonight, except for the late NHL game. In a shootout.
Colorado is even three to three at Nashville. Already wins
(30:57):
for Tampa Bay, Dallas, and Carolina on four to one
at home against Columbus, Anaheim stole one at Pittsburgh a
shootout four to three victory. Two games in college basketball,
hat Madison Square Garden number five ranked Yukon beat Florida
seventy seven seventy three. Before that, it was tenth rang
BYU on a three pointer at the buzzer, beating Clemson
(31:18):
sixty seven sixty four BYU who had trailed by twenty
one points at the half. Young superstar for the Cougars,
aj Debonsa, in the comeback win did something that in
the last thirty seasons only one other Division one freshman
has done, to have at least twenty eight points, nine rebound,
six assists and no fouls in the game. Steph Curry
(31:40):
did that as a freshman in two thousand and six.
By the way, tonight in Las Vegas, the College Football
Hall of Fame award dinner the class of twenty twenty
five included Wisconsin running back Monty Ball. Also former noted
ame quarterback Terry Hanratty from the nineteen sixties, Hello Dinanta,
who was University of Oregon defensive tackle about twenty years ago.
(32:01):
Michael Strahan who played at Texas Southern, and former Virginia
Tech quarterback Michael Vick is in the College Hall of Fame.
Among the coaches honored tonight, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer.
There were two NBA games tonight. These are NBA Cup
Quarterfinals New York a winner at Toronto one seventeen one
oh one Jalen Brunson thirty five points, and top seed
(32:21):
Orlando eliminated Miami one seventeen to one oh eight Desmond
Bane thirty seven points. The Western Conference quarterfinals are Wednesday.
They include number one Oklahoma City hosting Phoenix, okse winners
of what fifteen Strait Spurs at the Lakers and Center
Victor Women. Yama will still be out for that one
with his strain calf. Las Vegas will host the tournament
(32:43):
Semis and the final starting this Saturday. Hawk star guard
Trey Young is optimistic he can return from injury this month.
He's been out since late October with a sprained MCL.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve oh Coming up next,
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Speaker 2 (33:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Hold on, it's better. Okay. What is good advice? What
is this song have in common with a Jets loss
that is not John Cena? What does this song have
in common with a Jets loss? It's about John Cena
for Christmas. I don't like it. I don't like the Jets. Well, okay,
(33:42):
that's fair, that's fair, But fumble. I was just listen,
we're John Cena, Carolyn. We wanted time. So today you
probably woke up, or if you're like me, your phone
was going off crazy and I said, something happened. Something happened,
and Edwin Diaz, former Mets closer, leaves the Mets for
(34:04):
the Dodgers three years, sixty nine million dollars. Uh, and
it vexes you to no end. No, And here's the thing,
I am okay with it for a couple of reasons. No,
you're not. I mean, you took your Mets hat off.
That's how mad. You have just got hot in the studio,
so I took it is really warm in here. I
don't know what those guys do. Rob Parker's sixty's he's
(34:27):
got it jacked up to like eighty five degrees when
he comes in here.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Me man, it's like.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
When you walk in sweat lies. It's like when you
walk in on Christmas and you go to like your
mom's aunt's house and you're freezing cold, and you walk
into the house and something, it's like, oh my god,
it's so dry in here.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
There's something could catch fire.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
My skin is getting ashy. I if I walk too
fast across the rug, there's gonna be sparks. It's so
hot in his house. But I'm okay with it for
a couple of reasons. One, but you're not. No, I'm
absolutely okay because he's a close right. Edwin Diaz meant
a lot to the Mets. I get it. You need
(35:04):
to change after last year with blowing the playoff lead. Yeah,
I'm not going to give a hundred million dollars to
a closer. Right, thee hundred million dollars for Diez was
not a great investment. It wasn't a great investment. They
had it, and I feel like the Mets are lucky
that he opted out and now signing this bigger deal
with the Dodgers a couple of years later, because you
know what he's been in every other year. Guy, right,
(35:24):
his first year with the Mets, was awful. His second
year was really good. Third year he got hurt, missed
the whole year. Next year he was terrible. Last year
he was really good. He's not Rivera, he's not Hoffman,
he's not Bruce Sooner, he's not Raleigh Fingers. Sure, he's
not any of these guys. Right, what he's not a
year in a year. There's nobody who's a year and
in year. Lights out closer. When you were figuring out
(35:47):
a bullpen, you got to figure out, Okay, we want
a guy coming off a year where he's on an
upswing because guys aren't consistent every year. It's why the
Devin Williams saying, Okay, he was great two years ago,
last year not quite as great. That's broken. Feel like, okay,
we can fix him a little. Okay, I see that.
I get why teams do that. You're trying to play
whack a mole with relievers, like we want to pick
(36:07):
a guy again him when he's having a big year,
because you don't want to sign a guy for a
long term because they hardly ever work out. And Diaz
has been in every other year player right, and I
mean it for the Dodgers, Yes, they went out and
you feel like, Okay, they figured out their big problem
after last year, they figured out the bullpen. Well, you
know what, this time last year we said the Dodgers
figured out the bullpen. They went out and got Tanner Scott,
(36:29):
they had three closers, everything was fine. What happened the
end of the year they had no closers. Right, the
Clayton Kershaw's coming in at the end to help close
games out right, Roki Sasaki has to come out and
close games because that's all they have left. There's nobody else.
So in theory, you want to say, yes, the Dodgers
took care of their Okay, you know what, maybe they didn't.
Because DZ is coming off a great year. Is he
(36:50):
really gonna have another year like this? Right? Because for
every outing you get from Edwin Diaz that's twelve pitches,
three strikeouts, ninety eight mile an hour pipe out slider,
you're gonna get an outing where he comes in with
a three to nothing lead in the ninth and after
three batters it's two walks and a hit by pitch
and suddenly the bases loaded with nobody out. You're going,
what the hell is happening here? Like that's Edwin Diaz.
(37:12):
He's not. And if you're gonna spend money on players,
you gotta spend money more than just what we're trying
to lock down the ninth inning. The Dodgers can do
it because they have everything else taken care of, and
we'll see if they're right about this. Right on paper,
it's a great move, But I'm telling you, I know
Edwin Diaz. I know what he's been for the past
five plus years with the Mets. That's he's at every
other game. Guy Narco will be exciting, loading the basis
(37:34):
for no reason. Is not going to be throwing wild pitches,
is not going to be That's that's the Edwin Diaz experience.
And I'm not gonna pay one hundred million dollars just
to bring him back for the ninth inning. When you
have a lot of money you can spend in other places.
You'll figure out the back end of the bullpen. You're
gonna go through relievers anyway every single year. Relievers are
very replaceable. That's just how it goes in Major League Baseball. Yeah,
(37:56):
we look at the saves through his career.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
He's got two fifty three four for his run last
year was fantastic in his sixty six and a third
innings pitched, no question about it. You look at the
strikeout to walk a ratio ninety eight strikeouts in that
period against twenty one walks, and just dominance. To your
point where we look at closers, A couple of bad
(38:20):
outings really can submarine a stat line and you arride
the lightning right all the guys you mentioned Hall of Famers,
there's a very large swath of closers and plenty of
guys that have had one or two good years and
then we're broken and never resurrected.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, to this point, you know when Padres tried to
do last year, Oh we locked up the bullpet Okay, great,
how far did that get you? But right, I mean, look,
you guys brought in Devin Williams, guy that a couple
of years ago used said you were listening to that
ninth inning and Pete Alan's and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
I did listen to that, right, I did listen to that.
So in theory, you've got your guy, So Edwin Diaz.
Part of it is hubris, Like, why am I gonna
stay here? I'm not necessarily the guy. I'm a cod
closer ish, Hey, what are we doing right? You're guaranteed.
And when we're talking about money, difference between New York
and LA money ain't much. Right when we get down
(39:12):
to it, maybe it was quibbling over one more year
he would have taken it. If he've gotten the fourth
year in New York, he'd stayed, or whatever the case
may be. But going to the Dodgers, I mean, plenty
of opportunities. But they've also shown the ability as you
navigated this season, if we need to pull you from
that that spot for a while to see if you
(39:32):
can get right, they will. And so coming into twenty
twenty six, very curious space. But three year, sixty nine
million dollars is a drop in the bucket. Okay, Look,
it's not a bad contract. I'm not saying it's a
bad contract. Three year, sixty nine million, Okay. He obviously
wanted to be a Dodger. Mess offer him the same money.
I want to go to the Dodgers. I understand that
(39:53):
the Dodgers are great, right, I get people wanting to go.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Play for the Dodgers. It's not a bad contract. It's
just get ready for the Edwin Dazic experience. This is
not going to be every single game he's lights out
top to bottom. He has issues, he fluctuates, and again
you're coming off a great Edwin d As year, and
every great Edwin d As year for most of his
career has been followed up by a less than subpar year.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Well we thought that with Blake Snow he won a
World Series in his half here, Yeah, you had.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Only signed one year deals to keep getting more.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
No, but well no, he signed a big deal, so like,
we'll see what happens in year two of his But
maybe he just needs to get away from the Mets
Jets conundrum.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh that could be. I thought that could always X
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