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July 31, 2025 • 41 mins

Jason and Mike open hour 3 reacting to Eugenio Suarez being traded back to Seattle. Then they get into the recently released Madden ratings for Travis Hunter and Ashton Jeanty. They close out the hour discussing whether any MLB team is flailing worse than the Yankees right now.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Yeah I'm back from vacation.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah I was.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I didn't. This is the first time I've ever done
this where I've gone on vacation, I've come back in
the middle of the following week. How's it feel it's
I tell you, it's better than I thought, because generally
I subscribe the philosophy of Okay, well, if I'm gonna
take vacation, i'm going to be you know, my last
day will be on a Friday. That way, I'm off

(01:25):
Saturday and Sunday. I take the next week, and I'm
off Saturday Sunday right after, you know, like nine days off. Right,
it's awesome. Okay, great, So I think, Okay, that's what
I'm gonna do. And then I'm like, ah, we're coming
back this week. We're going back to Michigan to visit
Pam's family. All Right, this is what we're gonna do.
And we're gonna come back and I'll work on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Okay,
that's great. Anyway, I jet back and get ready to

(01:47):
go and I'm like, oh, it's already Wednesday, and I'm like, oh,
it's it's already humpday. I got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and
then I'm off this weekend. So it's almost kind of
like I'm working on vacation a little bit. I kind
of dig that a little bit. Now, that's not a
bad way to go. Yeah, I kind of like this
whole coming back, you know, for the last three days

(02:07):
of the week. I kind of like that.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
You get the Hall of Fame game tomorrow as well
as the trade deadline, although we got one of those
passing bombs if you check your direct messages there in
the Twitter verse of something we probably need to discuss.
I'll let you do the honors. But all of that
to say, I mean, it's three days of chaos. Summer's
getting towards the end, and so you go into any

(02:30):
store and it's either closed or all sorts of notebooks
and pens on sale and people trying to get you
to get a credit card to pay for it all.
So it's that fun time of year as we get
ready for August to begin. In earnest, yesterday we had
a tsunami watch, which tells you it's towards the end
of summer because the weather gets a little bit wild,

(02:51):
the humidity through the roof, all of those things. But
you got through Michigan. I do have to ask the question,
how many white castles did you did you visit, because
you know you could either use it as white castles
instead of white castle Hamburgers, or how many you know, satchels,
did you dial up?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
We landed in Detroit at eleven thirty last Thursday, eleven
thirty pm. Okay, eleven thirty pm, and I said, okay,
you know, we're on a plane all night and everything.
I'm like, okay, you know what, Okay, uh yeah, let's
go to White Castle. Wife goes, oh, come on, I go,
there's a white castle on every cause there is. There's

(03:33):
no more white castle than there is in the greater
Detroit area, and white Castle is my favorite. I go, no,
you got if there's gotta be one, there's guy. She goes, oh, oh,
not only is there one open, but it's a twenty
four hour and we can go inside. I go, we
can go and eat inside at eleven thirty Let it go.
So we drove there and we walk in and we

(03:53):
ordered food and we're eating inside a white castle at midnight.
See that's the best fan out that I had to
go to the drive through, we eat in the car,
or go back to the hotel, whatever it is. No,
we just walked in, which again, you know out, did
I feel safe going into a restaurant at Okay, maybe
not one hundred percent, but everything was fine. Everything was great. Yeah,

(04:13):
let's go in man. We went into White Castle. Was fantastic. Yeah,
I landed. I wasn't in Detroit more than forty five
minutes before I had my first white Castle.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
That is impressive. Yeah, the one that we used to
go to and you know, the late night come back
from a game or a concert or whatever we were
out doing. It was either that or the Burrito as
big as your head place. But if we went to
white Castle, that one's no longer there because well, safety
really uh got dicey as it went on, so and

(04:43):
we were not part of closing it down. I will
I will have you know.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh okay, all right, very go close for you. Yeah,
like the Beastie Boys, we went to White Castle, then
we got thrown out. I can't right, Mike Dy, I
got a King ad Rock. Uh So while that has
been going on, yes, we did get a pass and
bomb just a few moments ago. The most sought after
player at the trade deadline is going back to his

(05:11):
former team. Genio Suarez is going from the Diamondbacks in
a return to the Seattle Mariners. The trade is pending
a medical review. There is no detail as of yet
as to what they had to trade in return. Now,
Suarez is one of the players who you look, the
Diamondbacks are basically saying, okay, give us your best offer,

(05:32):
then we're gonna ask for even more. So this was
the guy who was being they were holding out for
the absolute most they can get, because look's not often
a guy with thirty five home runs is getting trade
in the middle of the season. But this is where
we're at. So Suarez going back to the Mariners. The
trade pending medical review. It's not known yet what the

(05:52):
price is going back from the Mariners to the Diamondbacks
or if another team is involved, but the Mariners are
getting a Genio Suarez back. Remember he was there a
couple of years ago. The Mariners thought with him and
Jay Rodd and they brought in cal Rally and oh,
look at this, we're gonna hit home run after home
and after home run. Didn't really quite work out that way.
But this is a really, really gutsy move. Without knowing,

(06:15):
I'm gonna tell you, I guarantee you they gave up
a ton. But this is a Mariners team that sees
a wide open American League because look, the Tigers still
have the best record, tied with the Blue Jays. But
the Tigers aren't unbeatable. The Tigers are a team that
for the most part of the season has been playing
at the top level of where they can achieve. Him
a lot of overachieving everyday players. Yes, Schooble is phenomenal,

(06:36):
the best pitcher in baseball. But it's not like they
they're gonna bludget you with a lot of stars, right.
It's not like their lineup suddenly is incredible top to bottom. No,
the American League is really wide open. The Mariners are
four and a half games out of first place, and
they are in a wildcard spot right now. And I
love the guts to going forward to bring him back.
And yeah this now there are six games over five hundred.

(06:58):
This is a big bold move because they clear need
another jolt to to that lineup. And man, I'll tell
you what, now, maybe the home run's gonna start flying
out even more. That was fun.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I mean, Huio Rodriguez has rediscovered his stroke of late
and we're starting to see the power numbers rise up.
Cal Raley has been the story at baseball now, the
favorite to win the al MVP with Judge on the
shelf indefinitely. So you have the opportunity and now you say, okay,
well we're losing to the A's we really need This
is just insulting to all of us. So let's figure

(07:29):
this out. You got a great pitcher in Brian wu
and then, like I got to go to the great researcher,
as we often do on the show, Sarah Langs has
a stat for you, Jason. Okay, go ahead, you know,
because whenever we can get a Sarah Lang's stat we
have to slang. On sports, most consecutive starts have at
least six innings to start a season over the last

(07:51):
ten years. In twenty nineteen, Clayton Kershaw had twenty three
with his six and a third innings tonight five runs.
Not the best of outings. Brian Wu is at twenty one. Wow,
So it's a set it and forget it to where
you're at least not exhausting your bullpen when he takes
the hill, but you know, rounding things out for Suarez,

(08:14):
it's gonna be really interesting, right. He averted disaster when
he got hit in the hand, and everybody's like, ah, man,
there goes one of the trade chips, kind of like
maybe Class A. When suddenly he got oh no, too
soon to go down that Guardian's pad.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow, Hey, the market got better for closers.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
We're gonna get more ones off the board. But with Suarez,
it'll really be interesting to see, right Because we talk
about deadlines. We joked about it with Jason Cole as
related to contracts in the NFL. When do they really
need to, you know, put pen to paper to get
on with with things and not have it caused on

(08:51):
considerable unrest and disruption. But here you've got a deadline
tomorrow afternoon. So this deal got consummated. So either they
got every thing they wanted and the proverbial bag of
chips or the market didn't materialize. Is they hoped? They said, well,
this is as good as it gets, and they didn't
want to play the waiting game because as we know,

(09:12):
the playing hungry hungry hippos kind of sucks too. So yeah,
I don't know which is worse. Yeah, we get the
Simpsons in wherever.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
We can now. According to Daniel Kramer of MLB dot com,
and I'm seeing this on Twitter right now and I'm
trying to verify this as as I've seen this, he
doesn't have a check mark but he has twenty thousand followers.
It says he covers the Mariners for MLB dot Com,
Tyler Locklear and two pitching prospects going back to Arizona
in the Suarez trade. According to a source, now again

(09:42):
this is, you know, allegedly what we're seeing. These the
first couple of names that we're seeing. Sure, so lock
the a couple of pitching prospects going back, which honestly,
would it surprised me? It's not more not that I
was expecting, you know, big dumper to go back in
the trade, but sure, you know that you may maybe
maybe this is something where the the Diamondbacks realized, oh wow,

(10:02):
we are really over selling our standing point here. So okay,
all right, then.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well well well we look at it. You know, you
start going into the economics of it all and trying
to like, because this is the final year of Suarez's
deal too, so you know, whoever brings him on is
going to be looking at mid thirties guy and wondering
how many more years you're going to have that bat,

(10:30):
So you don't want to do the gross overpay and
fully deplete your prospects. Locklear, a twenty four year old
light hitting at the moment, but a guy that's been
been you know, mentioned a bunch when you start doing
the big prospect lists each and every spring. But yeah,
with Swarz, this is in his club option and then

(10:51):
he's an unrestricted free agent next year. So that's that's
got to be part of the math as you're going
through it, trying to figure out when he's going to be,
you know, thirty four to thirty five years old, how
many years you want to sign him for, because hitting
thirty home runs a year, he's he's gonna try to
command a king's ransom and there's only a few teams

(11:12):
that are going to try to get on board there, right.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, I thought for a second when you said, hey,
the Jeff passing bomb, I'm like Steve Mattz getting traded
to the Red Side. Yeah, were for me because Steve
MaTx used to be on the Mets. No, the average
baseball you know, if he's still in the league. Oh,
Steve Max is still in the league. Okay, that's great.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
That was me filibustering so you can get to that
the Red Sox. Yes, because I had also let you
know that Matts was heading back. I mean because Look,
he goes in exchange for a guy named Blaze. Jordan's Blaze.
That not one of the best names going.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hey, come saw, look Blaze Jordan got trade and the
Mets traded a guy named Blade, you know, to you know,
to get one of the relievers that they got today, right,
think got Tyler Rodd had the traded to pitch your
name Blade? And look, and I'm upset whenever you trade
somebody with a name like that, because I think they
have to be good. If your name is Blaze or Blade,
like you got something going on, man, Like I'd love

(12:10):
my name to be Blade growing up, Like Blade would
have been so cool. Like I said that to my mom,
Hey Mom, why couldn't you name me Blade? Like That's
what a great name that is.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
People think, what a badass. He's got to be really
good looking and smart and street smart and savvy. Yeah,
like Blade and Blaze, Like those are great names. Man,
those are pretty good. The expectations are going to be
high for you to perform though, Yeah, but that's okay.
I'm okay with high expectations. Give me the name.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Whereas for all the destinies and jeeves out there, I mean,
you know, we know what goes there. I mean, come on, we.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Gotta trade Blade. Well, you know, Blade Tidwell is only
the number twelve prospects. But his name is Blade. All right,
we'll put him in the trade.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
We should we change the name of the show? Blade
would just start calling you Blade or Laize going forward?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well, who would you want to be if I'm Blade?
Do you want to be Blaze?

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Okay, let's go. Cash is also another good name. Oh yeah,
like Blade in Cash, Like if we were Blade in Cash, Like,
oh my god, what a show.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Well, I mean, we could do a rebranding. There's nothing
stopping us Blade in Cash. You know, that's one of
the few things dress up like WWE Superstars chaps, you know.
And I said, we're Blade in Cash, tag tam here
one of the things, like one of the few things.
And I'll say this because he's not listening, because he's
on his way back from Syracuse.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Like one of the things I've always been really thankful
for with my dad was he won the the the
the battle with him and my mom what to name me? Okay,
so because my mom and only because I know what
kids are like, and like you like, like I know
coming up with names, and we're coming up names for
Zoe and I know when you came up for for
Ellie and Natalie saying okay, what are some nickname proof names?

(13:51):
Like what are some? And I don't want you know,
you think you don't want your kid to have any
any issues at school or be because of their name.
People make fun of their name. You don't want their name.
And my dad said, okay, Jason, because that was a
you know, now everybody goes Jason. That's such an old name. Yes,
but in the seventies Jason was the name, right, it
was cool and Jason forties right, Jason. But my mom

(14:12):
wanted to name me Noah. And I was like, oh
my goodness, the Bible and the flood jokes that I
would have gotten. I'm like, oh, Dad, thank you for
winning that one. Like she really and if.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Your pants were a little little cut short on a
bad day, man, that would really terrible.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Like I would say what's your name in couse to say, uh,
who are you? Noah Smith? No, I don't know a Smith.
Do you know a Smith? Haha? Like that would have
my whole life forget it. I would have never been
able to I'd had to change my name. Then I
could have changed my name to Blade. Hey listen, I'm
not Noah anymore. I'm Blade. I'm going by Blade.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
I kind of dig that. I mean, going forward, we'll
just call you Blade.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Blade. Blade is better than Blaze. I think if they
are both great, but I think Blade, Yeah, Blade just
has some whoa whoa whoa. I'm sharp, I'm cutting, I'm this,
like Blaze is like, Okay, this guy's out of control
and he's this and there's fire and you know, okay,
it's been between the two. I would like Blade a
little bit more.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Okay, Well, if you can get that movie made, you'd
win two.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Like if Eugenio Suarez was Blade Suarez, like, oh wow,
what a great name that would be. Or Blaze Suarez
or yeah, or Cash Suarez like well it's cool names.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, yeah, but we end up with either Blade Runner
or Now you're a vampire fighting at night, including the
I R S. So, I mean, you got a.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Lot of stuff going on a v waite, I'm a
vampire fighting the I R S. W last they're coming
like the worst, that's the worst vampire movie ever. What
do they do? Well, they go to the I R S.
Office for the guys working late at night around tax season,
and those are the cots.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
They no, but it's the fight, right because you know,
you got all sorts of creatures coming after Wesley Snipes
and you gotta be aware of the I r S
while they're at it. So I mean you got you
got villainy all over the place. For those that are
anti government getting into your wallet. I mean, we're gonna
get their money.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
At the box office.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Come on, they're gonna want to watch that that battle,
no question about it.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
The I r S and the bad guys are all
the CPA. Oh the CPA, watch out, you're gonna get
it worked. It worked in the WWE. You had the
million dollar man in I R S. When Mike Rotunda
was running around. Who was from Syracuse?

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Was he not? He was from Syracuse. He wants to
see you there you go. That's what I did. You
know in the name game, not to be Uto the
one up yet my mom being so drugged up, they
ran out of blue stuff to put me in. So
I was in pink and I got my girl Michelle. Oh,
and then they slapped her awake again and said no,
it's a boy. It's like I'm Michael. It's like, how

(16:48):
creative are you?

Speaker 1 (16:48):
You saw? Fine? Whatever, He's the third boy I've had.
Whatever here do you want him? I don't really care.
I just I already got to a home. It's fine.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
I was only number two with them.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I thought you were the youngest. Oh you're in the middle,
jam Brady. Okay, all right. Very good.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Probably explains a lot.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
It probably does. It probably does now, but also what
it gives me an idea for this, Like the big
line at the end of the Vampire I r S
Movie is like when the bad guy, the bad CPA
is gonna kill Blade, you know, the vampire. It says,
it looks like you're going to miss the deadline, and

(17:28):
then like but then something happens and the hero gains
the upper hand and just says, take this tax day.
It just like gets it with a steak between the heart.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
I like that. You take the steak and it's like, no,
you're supposed to sign.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
It and pay yea or or no no, or the
one bad CPA is gonna kill the one hero right
and says you miss the deadline. But then the but
then the vampire's wife kills the bad guy from behind
and then the big line is like he just cuts
his head off, and then the the vamp, the female
vampire with the blood on it just goes. We file jointly.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
This is gonna be a Simpsons episode.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
All this, all this born from Suarez headed back to
Seattle from the Diamondbacks pending medical review. He asked the trades.
We even said it first hour of the show, We're
gonna get a big passing bomb tonight. We got it,
and we got it midnight it happened.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
How great is that?

Speaker 1 (18:33):
All right, so we wanted to bring you that big
breaking news. We got a big NFL story on the
way next right here, and maybe some more lines for
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(20:25):
In Major League Baseball, we at the biggie Genio Suarez
trade going down a few minutes ago. Headed back to
Seattle Marators. But other big NFL news today, Mike and
and this was kind of fun because you know, I
love that players get all sorts of bent out of
shape whenever they see things like this. But apparently the

(20:45):
Madden ratings were out for the rookies today, and it
was a very big deal that in the Madden ratings,
Travis Hunter had a rating of eighty four, which is
the highest rookie rating in the last decade, right, second
best rookie rating overall behind Calvin Johnson when he came

(21:06):
into the league a bunch of years ago. So here's
Travis Hunter with a Madden rating of eighty four. And
some of the other ratings are a little weird, and
understand why a couple are the way they are, but well.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I mean, you had a couple from yesterday, right, as
the veterans got announced and there were a couple of
weight I'm a ninety eight. What do you mean I'm
a ninety eight. You can't round up for me?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, yeah, you can't get it. You're not part of
the perfect?

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
What's wrong with that? What are you talking about? So?
So I see this and I go, you know, there
are too many people that are just completely missing everything
when it comes to Travis Hunter. When we look back
at this draft in ten years, we're gonna say, how

(21:51):
was he not the number one overall pick? How did
we not think that he was going to be this good? Right?
Too many experts and pundits are hung up on what
he can't and shouldn't do. He can't play offense and
defense every snap. He can't do it. He can't play
both sides of the ball when he's done this his
whole career, Yes, it's a jump to do it in

(22:12):
the NFL. Will he play every snap? No, he's not
gonna play every snap. They're gonna find a way to
get his rest. They're gonna take him off the field
on some running plays, and obviously he'll take He'll get
a defensive series off here and there. But This is
why you drafted the guy. You know you drafted the
guy because he is this kind of player. You didn't
draft him because he's a wide receiver and a defense.

(22:34):
We gotta pick one side of the ball. This is
what he does, This is what he wants to do.
Don't get hung up on limitations and everybody's hung up
on limit Take what. We've never seen the guy do
this for? So why did you think you do? No
one thought joey Otani could do what he's doing. Guess
what he's doing it?

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Right?

Speaker 1 (22:48):
This guy is that talented, right you're talking about Heisman Trophy,
Bulittna cough Winner, w the guys has done things that
none of us have seen anyone do on a college
football field ever. Be it will play both sides the
way he does at the high level that he does.
So why everybody is all caught up in, oh, we
can't do this. You want to make sure you don't

(23:09):
do this like everybody suddenly an expert. When if the
Jaguars are smart and hey, okay, let's give him everything
it can handle. And if he shows that he can't handle, okay,
then we dial it back. But why not you put
him out there to do whatever he wants to do
to This is why you draft him, because he's this
kind of player. So put him out there and give
him a chance to do it. And he is that talented.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
He is a dude.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
And when he goes out there and plays that way,
I'm telling you, in ten years, we're going to look
back and go why was everybody so upset at the guy?
Why did nobody think he could do that? Just because
we haven't seen it. But everybody wants to tell him, no,
you can't do that. And there's so much of an
overload in the media of he can't do it, he
can't do it, you can't No, I'm sorry, but but
you have to look at this from what can the
guy do? And this is why he was drafted the

(23:51):
top of the first round. Travis Hunter is that good.
Don't foist all your old beliefs on him. It's too easy,
I know, to be stubborn and say the guy can't
do this, can't do this, and you get okay, put
him out there, let him see what he can do.
And I'll be the first guy to say, you know,
what's a little too much warm right now? Clearly he's
struggling in coverage, or he's struggling offensively, he's not getting open.

(24:11):
Maybe you got to dial it back a bit, but
he's been able to do this at every level, So
why not do it here? Because this is why you
drafted him. I mean, we're gonna look back and say,
just why was everybody so hesitant on this guy? Again,
you've seen him in camp. You see what he can do.
Albeit a lot of it's been without pads, but some
of the plays he makes, some of the body control
he has, it's just stunning to watch his highlights on

(24:32):
a daily basis from camp. Yeah, in ten years, we're
going back and go. Man, they got a first ballot
almost unanimous Hall of Famer with that pick. Travis Hunter
is gonna be that good. I really hope you're right.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Man. I don't think you will, but I really want
you to be right because I want to see things
I've never seen before on a football field. Right, We've
seen it in pieces. We go back to Dion Sanders
and the way he operated special teams, some gadget offense
and obviously one of the best defensive players we've ever seen.
Didn't like tackling so much, but you didn't throw anywhere

(25:06):
near him, so that really wasn't an issue. So you
have the opportunity for Hunter, and the fact that he
went to Jacksonville I think plays a part in some
of people's thinking. You know, like we talk about fantasy
numbers can come from anywhere. I mean, look at Jerry
Judy a year ago with the quarterback situation they had
in Cleveland, and go on down the line that you
know Malik Neighbors finishing as well as he did with

(25:28):
the equivalent at times if you or I throwing in
his general direction. But for Travis Hunter, yeah, it's a
whole other thing, right. You expand your mind and open
yourself to the possibilities that decided step up in class.
Certainly there were games in his time at Colorado where
the competition was a step below, but he achieved. So

(25:52):
next level, let's get proof of concept. You know. Liam
Cohen put Trevor Lawrence something we talked about while you
were gone. He did the diner quiz with him, Basically,
here's one hundred things that you're gonna need to work through,
let me see how you do. He got an eighty five.
So they were pretty happy that at the start of
camp for everything Liam Cohen wanted to throw on Trevor Lawrence.

(26:14):
He was already that to that point, and now it
was tweaking the rest for Travis Hunter. I gotta imagine
they've had plenty of benchmarks that they've lined up in
terms of how they're running him out there and play calls,
the coordination of which meeting room he's in, and who's
he working with on a daily basis. I really hope
it works. I think it would be fantastic for football.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Iron Man.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I mean, look, we've been paying tribute to Ozzy all
night here you go. I know he wants to call
himself the Unicorn, but the Unicorn sucks. Okay, that's useless
that it's been used before. Iron Man. I mean, the
Road Warriors haven't been together in a long time. I
mean they're together in the Great Beyond and whatever for
going on a few years here now. But you know,

(26:56):
we can bring iron Man back and that can be
a theme song because he comes out there while the
Browns have Fantastic four. See, we're getting theme songs forever.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Fantastic Fog. Yeah, No, iron Man's greatly take it. Just
think of all the different outfits you could put him
in the iron look and I would so cool man
would come off.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, you push him out in one of those game
of thrones, Iron Thrones. It's another time he's on a
flatbed of a truck being pulled by a guy who's
playing a flaming guitar while chained up to it. I mean,
you've got so many different thing You got the spiky
shoulder pads that the Road Warriors had all those times.
I mean, look it rights itself. That's three games and
we haven't even we haven't gotten out of September, and

(27:37):
we built a legend and a myth. You know, the
matting ratings are always funny. I haven't played with any
regularity in a very long time. Perhaps once the kids
go to school, that'll become one of the hobbies. Unless
it won't. Since my hand's other not old claws from
typing at a keyboard flow these many years. So getting

(27:57):
the controller in my hand for eight to ten hours
a day to be useful on those games. By the
way it looks, it looks too lifelike. I need eight
bit guys again. I need that. You know, to where
you'd throw the ball and it would hit him in
the leg and say it's.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
A catch, but I need less life left. I need
I need my epixelation look really really bad.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
I need to dial it back because now I'm freaking
out like I'm truly controlling the universe, and that just
that just doesn't sit well for the Mike Harmon psyche.
That's all I can say here. But you've got a
team where with Brian Thomas Junior again another guy who
achieved great heights despite mediocre quarterback play with regularity from
Trevor Lawrence, the arrival of Travis Hunter, even if we're

(28:37):
still kind of going in between his offense and the
defensive reps. It can't help, can't help but help both
of them. Add Diami Brown, who became the odd man
out in Washington when they added Deebo Samuel and others.
I mean, you've got a three man rotation there in
your wide receiving corps that could be pretty special. Not

(28:58):
to mention good old tank bigsby fighting off Travis etn.
Before it's all said and done for the number one spot,
still need to figure out the tight end position, but
at wide receiver, you've got enough depth to where Hunter
is going to be the beneficiary of some second and
third cornerbacks come in his way, at least until he
proves that he's that guy, that he is the unicorn

(29:21):
he claims to be.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Everybody's too cut up on the negative. Oh, this guy
can't do Why can't he do it? Well, because we okay,
but understand that this is this is thinking that holds
you back as a franchise and as an analyst or
as any sort of talent. Evaluate, Oh, we can't do it.
He can't. Why it's on what he can't do? Now,
if you've seen instances and evidence of why he can't
do this? Okay, but so far it's always just been well,

(29:44):
no one's ever done you can't do that in the NFL. Well, really,
they are a list of things that I could tell
you in the last ten years where you can't do
that in the NFL. Now, pretty sure I've seen guys
do that in the NFL. Let me ask you, guys,
do that? Tell me the truth? Did you or did
you not watch Moneyball at least once during your trip
to come up with this take? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,

(30:06):
not watch I've seen Moneyball enough to know a Oh now,
did I watch the end of Moneyball last night on
the plane coming back when we were getting ready to land. Yeah,
and I did watch the end of Moneyball last night,
Yeah my plane.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Madeline is going through a very long list that we've
you know, keep adding another ten movies to uh with
great regularity, in addition to seeing the new ones in theaters. Today.
She picked Bull Durham as the movie to watch. He
came down after about forty minutes, she goes, I hate you.
This movie stinks.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
It's like, who am I supposed to like in this?
In this whole thing? I hate them all?

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Wow? How could you not like Jimmy? Come on, Jimmy
the second baseman Allie Whites wanted to get married and
you know, yeah, you know, he married someone that everybody
was kind of, wow, they're gonna get married. Okay, how
do you not like Jimmy?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Come on, Jimmy?

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Do you not like Robert wall You know I do
not like Robert Wall. Well, I tried to explain to her,
like the Bull, Come on, the Bull gets hick with
a ball a couple Well, I tried to explain that
once upon a time Robert Woll, also in Batman nineteen
eighty nine, was a guy that I did shows with
and I co hosted, and then I did sub work

(31:19):
for long, long ago.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
So he's partially responsible for the madness that became Whatever
your dad does, man, Robert Wall. Maybe that's why she
now hates it a little more. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, you know what I think, I think you need
that might have helped inform that a little bit. Let's
find out what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports, and Martin Wise and what do you got
for us? My friend?

Speaker 6 (31:41):
What we have right here is a angry and salty
Detroit Tiger's fan because Aohneo Suarez is returning home, but
not to Detroit. He's going back to Seattle, where he
also played more famously likely than for Detroit. But he's
going back to Seattle after the Diamondbacks moved off from him.
It's also penned medical because when he was in Detroit,

(32:02):
Will vest hit him with the pitch in the eighth inning,
and I'm convinced that's probably why he's not a Tiger
right now.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
And I was watching that, I was like, you gotta
be kidding me.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
This guy's the crown jewel to trade that line, Will
Vast is hitting him with the pitch, and anyway, the
Phillies acquired closer.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
He was trying to depress the market, and maybe that's
what the case was.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
You know, the Mariners sent back first basement prospect they're
high on, you know, a couple other guys. But heyl
Souarez back to Seattle where he's joining cal Riley, where
all they do is hit home runs.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I suppose, So, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I like the Mariners now, Phillies.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Griffy, you know, sure, Jay Buner. All they're gonna do
is hit home runs.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
Nown Phelps the nl he's adding to their bullpen arms,
the Phillies acquiring closer John Dura from the Twins, and
the Mets trading for Clardon's closer Ryan Helsley right handed
pitcher Tyler Rogers from the Giants. The Tigers did make
a trade, but it was for Braves, right hand to
Raphael Montero. The Cubs traded for a right hander as well,
Michael Sakor from the Nationals, and the Red Sox adding

(33:08):
veteran arm Steven Matts, formerly of the New York Mets,
but this time he came from the Cardinals. The Reds
made two moves, getting Brian Hayes from the Pirates and
also starting pitcher zact Lytel from the Rays, and the
Astros reportedly acquiring infield and Ramonirius from the Orioles. All Right,
that was a mouthful a lot of trades going on.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
The Reds beat the Dodgers five to two.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
Show Hail Tani. He left the pitching start today in
the fourth inning after throwing three straight I mean sorry,
six straight balls, none of them quite hit were he
close to the plate, but reports say he suffered cramps.
He did stay in the game as a DH. The
Marlins beat the Cardinals two to nothing. The Yankees walk
off the Rays five to four in a single by
new third baseman Ryan McMann. Elsewhere in baseball, the Cubs

(33:52):
be the Brewers ten to three, White Sox nine to
three over the Phillies, Pirates and ten innings beat the
Giants two to one, Raise five to nothing over the Mets,
and the Guardians five nothing over the Rockies. God, I'm sorry,
excuse me. The Rangers beat the Angels in the late
game six to three. Athletics beat the Mariners five to four.

(34:13):
In the WNBA, the Fever beat the Mercury one oh
seven to one eleven, list of Thomas with thirty two
and fifteen and the loss ary MacDonald led Indiana with
twenty seven. Kate and Clark didn't play Dream beat the
Wings eighty eight to eighty five, Links over the Liberty
ninety I'm Sorry one hundred to ninety three. Ravensight end.
Isaiah likely will undergo surgery. He's got a broken bone

(34:35):
in his foot. He suffered that on Wednesday's practice. Right now,
reports say he suspected to miss six weeks. Xavior Worthy
Chiefs Receiver and concussion Protocol. The Seahawks resigned John Snyder
the GM to a four year contract extension, and NBA
star Gilbert Arenas and five on the defendants were arrested
yesterday at a federal indictment a legend they were operating

(34:58):
a legal gambling business in which the high stakes poker
game has We're played at an Encino mansion that Arenas owned.
Arenas has now been on social media disputing that, saying
he just rented the place and saying they can't keep
me in here.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
As he walked out of the courthouse thanks a bunch
moret there's a picture of him skipping down the courthouse steps,
going I just rented it and this ain't got blank
to do with me. I just rented it out, I
didn't do anything. And he's skipping down the steps. Exit out,
bout of Fresco, Exit swollen Dove. Jason Smith Mike Harmon

(35:33):
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,
a big night. MLB trade deadline is less than sixteen
hours away. We saw the big move by the Mariners
getting Suarez a few minutes ago. What big time contender
is absolutely flailing right now and in full panic mode Cleveland.

(35:56):
The answer is gonna surprise you, and ninety nine percent
of the country's gonna sa Yeah, that's next right here,
Jason to Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Well here we are even the trade deadline, and the
first big blockbuster comes in a few moments ago. Gino
Suarez heading back to the Mariners. Mariners giving up just
a couple of pitchers and a player. That's wow. Makes

(36:35):
you think the Mets gave up a lot to get
Tyler Rogers, but that's not about that. Uh So Suarez
going back to Seattle where you know he takes his
thirty five home runs and hopefully him and Cal Rawley
hit a home run every night and the Mariners win.
So we'll have more on this story coming up in
a few minutes. But look, other moves have been made today. Look,

(36:56):
you said the Mets get a couple of bullpen pitchers
back into the bullpen. The Phillies get a closer. The
Yankees went out and decided, well, let's see, we gotta
follow up that big move of I'm at Rosario by
getting an outfielder because you know, Aaron Judge is hurt
for a while. So okay, there is no team that

(37:18):
is flailing at the deadline more than the Yankees are. Look,
they go get Austin Slater from your White Sox today
because Aaron Judge. Now, the fact they made this move
makes me think, boy, how long is Aaron Judge really
gonna be out for? But this is a team that
they have lost ten games off their standing in the

(37:40):
last month. In the a least, they went from a
five and a half game lead over a rested division
that was terrible. And now I don't know that they're
gonna even catch the J's and they might get passed
by the Red Sox any day. Now. They blew a
big lead tonight, they come back to when an extra inning,
So okay, But this is a team that this and
this is really weird to see the Yankees in this.

(38:01):
But they feel like they are just in absolute panic
mode right now at the deadline. They need so much. Yeah,
they thought coming off the World Series last year, we
need a couple of things, but we're still a really
good team. And no, they're just a team, a good
team like a lot of other good teams in the
American League. It's a wide open year this year. The
Yankees are like the Rays or the Red Socks, not

(38:22):
even as good as the Ja's right now or the Tigers,
And the Tigers aren't even that great. The Yankees are
just they feel like there's no plan. They're just adding
players hoping that it works, like like like when I
would would get a bad headache and I just want
to go to bed and close my eyes and wake
up with no headache, Like I'm just such a I'm
just hoping that I close my eyes and wake up

(38:43):
and things are gonna be different. I feel like that's
what Yankee fans are doing right now. Mike. It's like, Okay,
I don't like what's happening. We just lost ten games
in the standings in the Alies. I want to close
my eyes. I want to wake up. Everything is better.
That's what I wanted. That's what I expect everything to
be for the Yankees, and that's clearly not the case.
They're they're throwing some band aids. Hear at some moves
and trying to bring in guys and take chances. The
guys took chances on in the offseason haven't been working out.

(39:07):
Like Devin Williams blew the game tonight. His ERA is
up over five. Like they are just in a panic
mode right now at the deadline.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Well, I mean, that's the difficulty of it. I you know,
you come into the season, you don't have Garrett Cole,
You've got only three guys that have started more than
fourteen games on the year. Clark Schmidt was having an
okay run to things four and four seven quality starts
in his fourteen but hasn't pitched since the third of July,

(39:34):
you got Rodin and Freed getting it done. Rodin's had
injuries in the past, but right now, workhorse Freed, you know,
with his twelve wins. Rodin's got eleven. But then you
really shuffle from there where you know, It's like we
talk about a number of teams trying to figure out,
all right, if you do get into an extended series,
how quickly are you getting into bullpen games?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Right?

Speaker 3 (39:55):
How quickly do you have an opener on your squad
to run through it? And certainly when we go to
you know, the usual suspects and missing time due to injury,
and Judge had a great start and they rode that
as long as they could. Well, now we'll see how
long it is before he's able to get back into
the lineup. Stanton hasn't been there. You haven't gotten the

(40:19):
usual requisite greatness from some of these other players, right,
they've been hot or cold. Bellinger has been better of late,
but and is back up to two eighty three on
his average. But otherwise, you know, the lineup isn't there
to go and make the big, big pitch, right. You
don't have the same number of arms, more bullpen arm

(40:41):
arms than starters available, and then you get into hitters. Mean,
Suarez is the only name that you've heard. They were like,
all right, cool Him and Stephen quand the only two
big names of hitters that have been photoshopped into a
bunch of uniforms. Otherwise it's a bunch of prospects. You're
hoping to catch lightning in a bottle, and then you're
in the Unford to part with with the extra wild card?

(41:02):
Is that a lot of teams still don't know if
they want to sell even tonight.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
I'll tell you man, but I'll tell I know, I
know that that the Yankees are gonna be a little
bit more active, But wow, it just feels like there's
where's the panic button? We are so panicky?

Speaker 3 (41:18):
And send that to your dad.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Yay.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
I will have more on the big Suarez trade and
the Dodgers next Fox
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