October 2, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike introduce you to Major League Baseball’s worst owner. And Tom Brady FIRES BACK at Baker Mayfield’s claims that playing with him made the locker room stressful.
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(00:50):
Big Night Major League Baseball Night one of the playoffs.
We saw the visiting team win the first three games.
This is kind of how it goes. Yeah, crazy start
before where Michael King and the Padres former Yankee Michael
King and the Padres shut out the Braves and now
the Braves, the Astros, Brewers, the Yankees through the Yankee
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there all one game away from elimination the Orioles as well. Look,
this is this is the fun part of the season
where hey, and all the way through and the and
the and the drama of the regular season, and you
get one day and then the day after that you
could be a day away from going home. Right, everything
you do to get in the playoffs, we're here. You
have one game, you lose it, Hey, you're going home.
(01:32):
You don't win tomorrow, you're gonna be home with the
White Sox. Yeah, just like that, all that extra effort,
all that extra.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Winning, and it didn't I mean, I guess you get
a playoff check, but other than that, it didn't mean
a damn thing. Oh boy, you're hanging out with one
hundred and twenty one lost White Soick.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Now you're a little bit, you know, giddier, you know,
coming off of your Mets win.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Of course due huge, but it's more the even though
the Yankees didn't play today, the Michael King thing allows
you to needle Yankee fans, including your dad, and yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
On a whole other love. It's a fun thing. It's
a fun Have you gotten any response from your father, No,
I think he's probably sleeping. That's why I mean, my
dad is not even think he's just ignoring. He's giving
you a double burn. Now, I think my dad's sleeping.
He's got his fingers up for you. He'll till text
me tomorrow. No, you know it'll do. I texted him
that would text my dad.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We've done sleep studies, and here's all the you know,
most folks.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Hey, there's the feet of this guy's got both middle
fingers in the air like he's at a kid rock concert.
And you're like, this is what my dad dies, flipping around.
This is what my dad will do. Because I texted him, Hey,
Michael King had a great night tonight. Where did he
play the last few years. I'm gonna wake up tomorrow.
I'm gonna get a text that's gonna just say Felix hunger,
(02:45):
because that's what my dad does. Felix hunger. That's his
f you, Felix hunger. He's just just a fan of
the Odd Couple. Yeah, not not with not not with
with with Robin Kelvin, but the Odd Couple with Yeah, yeah,
that's what Okay, Yeah, I'm not sure saying he doesn't
like Rothjory likes Rob Durry, likes Robin Kelvin. He watches
Rob on MLB Network where I think Rob's on tomorrow.
I think on MLB Network.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
No, No, very excited because he was telling us about
his pick of last year's World Series teams not making
it back to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But if your team didn't make it, it's okay because
this next few minutes of baseball wonderment is for you.
Let's go likely. Up until today, you didn't know the
name of the Diamondbacks owner, but now everybody does, Ken Kendrick,
because he decided I'm going scorched earth on so many
things today because the Diamondbacks didn't make the playoffs. First
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things first, he goes on on a podcast and he
talks about how upset he was that Major League Baseball
decided to finish the season with the Mets Braves doubleheader
on Monday. Remember, the Diamondbacks needed whoever won Game one
to win Game two because of the tie breakers, and
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once the Mets won Game one, of course, the Mets
are gonna do what's best for them in the play
because they have to play the playoff game today. So
they started all of their their backups and they brought
up a guy for they brought up Joey Lucazy from
the Miners to bitch. He pitched pretty well, but the
Mets showed absolutely no fight. Right, The Braves showed awful
low amounts of fight in that game. The Mets were
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just deader than the Brazs. Whi's why the Braves won
and squeaked into the playoffs. Right, The Braves should have
gone home. If it was a regular game, they would
have gone home. But the Mets were just deader, so
they made it. He was very upset, very upset. Major
League Baseball made it go the way it is because
the Mets couldn't put out a lineup that was major
League Baseball worthy. Okay, well, you know Alonso was in
vian TOAs was in. They still let some guys in there.
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But I get his point and I understand, and yes,
major League Baseball, this doesn't look good. Did this help? No,
because the Braids wind up screwing themselves, quite honestly, by
deciding we don't want to play the game. We didn't
want to do it. Major League Baseball could have stepped in,
they did not. The Braids wound up screwing themselves because
now Chris Sale wasn't a able to pitch now here.
They are one game away from elimination. Yes, it's bad.
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It's not good for anyone, right, it's not. It's not
the best look for baseball. It turned out to be
an incredible game. The first game was the game of
the year in Major League Baseball with so many twists
and turns and Lindor's home run. I mean, it's one
of the best wins of my life as a Mets fan.
But I get that the excitement of that game kind
of covers up a little bit of Boy, this wasn't
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done the right way because you see too many teams
that were, you know, screwed over because of it, and
the Diamondbacks and one of them. Now I say that,
and let me just say this. You know what I
would say to Ken Kendrick. Yeah, I get you, But dude,
don't lose five of your last seven No, that's right.
Don't lose fourteen of your last thirty one games. Don't
go fourteen and seventeen the final month of the season.
You had ample opportunities to win one more game. You
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just had to win one more game those two out
of three final week end of the season. Right, you
were terrible in the last week. So yes, I get
that you don't like having to watch, but it's not
like you didn't have anything under your control. Just don't
finish as crappy as you did, that's all.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's always the end game to this, right, we could
talk about rescheduling of games and how these things are managed.
Are around an awful circumstance, and certainly, you know, good
thoughts and where you can spare an extra buck, right
for the price of a cup of coffee, all of
those kind of PSAs if you can help in the
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relief effort, you know, coming off of the hurricane. I mean, certainly,
you know, do the best you can try to help.
But it's never gonna be a perfect situation. End of season,
you're gonna have these circumstances. And yes, unfortunately for game
two that's we're in, they didn't have anything to play for.
You had one hundred and sixty two opportunities to be
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a little bit better, to win one or two more
games to roll through. Now, I hope this anger that
he's got going on doesn't extend to where he's given
a directive to give bad grades because he's part owner
of the PSA company, where I send cards in to
get great. Well, forget it now, you hm and your
grant and a bunch of other dudes, like I might
be getting a bunch of out of seven's coming back now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I'm sure kidding. You're gonna get like four's And don't
interact with this guy. Yeah, sugag. Don't interact so like
I gotta be got what he emails you, dude.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I mean, I still have to say my piece here
on the radio of hey, win an extra game.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's a tough division that you're in. All of that
play the violins. You had your chances, you had one
hundred and sixty two opportunities to be great.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Mike. If you got the email, he was half this
this is a this is a men conditioned card. Yeah, sorry,
three and a half Come on that man a halfect
Come on, it's fresh out of a pack and into
a sleeve to get graded. I send it to you
in great ah ah oh no, oh, rest in peace
(07:49):
to kimber Uh. You would send it in, you would
get it back, and you would say, okay, so I
sent it to you. It was maybe a nine or
a nine point three. Yeah, I got back it was
ripped in half.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So how we got it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I don't know what to tell you how it came
to suck man. Every once in a while, there's that
that bad. It's like I sent that in that was perfect.
Now it's coming back with thumb prints on it. Come on, man.
So this wasn't all for Ken Kendrick today because he
decided I'm really gonna talk about the guys I'm upset about,
and number one on his list telling Arizona Sports podcast
(08:24):
was Jordan Montgomery. He was signed late in spring training.
He and at the time he was a great signing.
He was signed at the time he was a Boris guy.
But the guys had to sit around till late, right,
and Boris is a it's a deeper conversation Boris by
Jordan Montgomery sat around late like all the Boris clients did.
He sign right before spring training one year, twenty five million. Hey,
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he was gonna commit. And I loved what the Diamondbacks did.
They took a team that was this shorter winning the
World Series last year, they added some pitching and it
was great, except Jordan Montgomery wasn't any good. He had
a really bad year that had moved in the bullpen.
His era was over six. Now, generally when this happens,
the only doesn't really say anything about that. You understand,
sometimes you win, sometimes you don't win. Sometimes guys you
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sign are great. Sometimes the guys you sign aren't. But
I appreciated you went to the basics. Sometimes you win,
sometimes you don't. As you do. But Kendrick decides, oh no, no, no, no,
I want people to know that how mad I am
about the Jordan Montgomery signing, and signing him was my fault.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Signing Jordan Montgomery and Erod. I'll stick with Montgomery because
e Rod was hurt for a lot of the year
and we didn't get to see him in a full season.
But Jordan Montgomery was twenty five million dollars and he
pitched to an era well over six and got the
motives to the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
How disappointed are you in that time?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Let me say it the best way I can say it.
If anyone wants to blame anyone for Jordan Montgomery being
a diamondback, you're talking to the guy that should be
blanked because I brought it to their attention. I pushed forward,
they agreed to It wasn't in our game. Plan. You know,
when he was signed right at Dandas spring training and
looking back in hindsight, a horrible decision, you know, to
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have invested that money and a guy that performed as
poorly as he did.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mike, well, I should have never signed the guy. I
appreciated me. He raised his hand and just said, look,
bad signing. Terrible signing, especially for what you had to
pay him for one year. Because he's coming off of
the season that he had split between Saint Louis and
Texas thirty two starts. He was only ten and eleven
last season. But yeah, look, pitched you a strong R
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do I think wins and losses? Now, with the way
baseball has evolved, that that's not doesn't mean what it
used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's more about E R L, solid era, good whip,
all of those things, strike out to walk ratio. It
was strong, all of that to say, you put your
eggs in that basket and that's a pretty good, sizable
contract for a while year. All right, let's take our shot,
which again, well we talked about it at the time.
(11:04):
It's like, all right, starting pitching is his paramount to success, right,
you don't want to play bullpen games time and again,
and eventually they had to send him to the bolt
and it was.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So bad that was crut It's not like there. The
thing is is that it's not like they're on the
hook form for a long time. Like he's done, he's done, right,
But I think he has a player option. I'm gonna
go actually, legitimately, I think I think he has a
player option for for twenty five.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It was a horrible.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Decision to invest that money and a guy who performed
as poorly as he did. It's our biggest mistake this
season from a talent standpoint, and I'm the perpetrator of that.
I perpetrated this. Uh yeah again, Yeah, it's a player
option for twenty two and a half. Yeah. This is
not gonna make people wanna come sign with the Diamondbacks. Oh,
I could have a bad year and boy, the owner
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is just gonna blow towards But he wore it an interview.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
No no, but but he wore it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It was more on him making that decision than on
Montgomery's in effectiveness. If you okay, let's just say for instance,
let's just say, for instance, we're doing a radio show,
right and and and uh, Frostburg decides to hire you
to do a radio show. Yeah, all right, and you
have a really bad year. It's a bad year. You
have right, your your your your your whip is bad.
(12:19):
Your radio whip is bad. Your radio war is bad.
Your radio whips. You know, you don't use the right
words of times. You forget people who are who are
on teams and not on teams. Again, that's a lot
of what sports talk radio is now. But you just
have a really bad year. You have a really bad year,
the white Sox year. You're the whites. You're the white
Sox out here, and and said, Okay, you understand. You
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wanted to have a better year. It's not like you.
You didn't try. You wanted a better year. You didn't
have a better year. And then Frostburg starts going on
interviews everywhere saying, oh, hiring Harmon was the worst mistake
I ever made, worst mistake I ever made. He was awful.
He came in. We thought he was gonna be good.
He starts talking about sports and instead every time I
want to talk about some talking about his trading cards.
(13:01):
He keeps selling every day. It's like, hey, we just
won the super Bowl and he's saying Oh, I got
a card from Juju Smith Schuster that he signed. It's
worth this amount of money. Worst decision ever. I'm the
perpetrator of hiring Mike Harmon and putting him on everybody.
How would you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
They gotta have to wear it?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
No, you know, don't stop with that. You would take
my cash, you would be got paid. You would be pissed.
Don't don't change what your reaction is gonna be just
because it goes against what you'd be pissed. You'd be
upset about it, of course, and I would be upset, going, well,
I don't want to go work for Frostburg. If I
have a bad year, he's gonna tell me I'm as
bad as you want.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I don't want you.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Work for knowing a major League Baseball term. And this
is where it gets fun, is I mean they're guaranteed contracts.
So for Jordan Montgomery, I mean, look, he'd be the
first guy to tell you that he sucked this year. Yeah,
so the fact that he went on and did a podcast.
But is this something that people don't know? No, but
that's but that my point just lightened was obvious. The
(14:03):
way the guy framed the question That's all he said
was you want oh, you want me? Well, you want
to be a destination for people to come play there.
And he's breaking rule number one of that. Oh, if
things go bad, he's gonna cut me loose. And he's
gonna because what he's doing that maybe he's doing this,
say hey, we want him to completely opt out and
and and know what, we don't want to pay him
(14:24):
for next year whatever. It's going to be right, But
how does this help? How does this help the image
of the Diamondbacks. Obviously they need more help to make
it over the hump next year. How does this help? Oh,
I want to go sign there. No, by a bad years.
The owner is going to do an interview the day
after the season. I am to tell me how bad
I am. I know how bad I was. He doesn't
need to go on the air and make national headlines
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telling me how.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Bad I was.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I know how bad I was. No, But like I
interpreted the way he said that, it wasn't don't kill
Jordan Montgomery. He did what he did.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Like I made the decision right, because ultimately the fans
are going to go after the GM as much as
they go after a player for bad performance performance. They
go after the manager, they go after the GM, and
they go after the ownership for the decisions that they made.
So him raising his hand, going hey fans, it's on
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me and that decision didn't work out. Now, did he
get a little more descriptive in the failures of Jordan Montgomery,
Perhaps that a player would want. But in the end,
if they come with the biggest offer, guess what, you're
probably still signing in the desert.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah. I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't know.
I think the teams are gonna have You know, I
could get twenty million from Arizona, I get eighteen million
from somebody else. And I know the owner's not gonna
yell at me if I don't play well, Okay, I'm
gonna go there. You wanna be destination? Man?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know what else?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Like the like you said with the Diamondbacks, don't be
fourteen to seventeen in the final month, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Don't not play well, have a good year, don't let
Jordan Montgomery pitch and maybe won't finish fourteen and seventeen
last month of the Seatson. Ah, you're onto something now,
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get back into the Night in Major League Baseball. Coming
up in a few minutes has been the Tom Brady
Baker Mayfield War of words. Richard Sherman weighing in today
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because he spent the one season there with Brady, and
this all comes from a Baker Mayfield interview he did
last week where he was asked about hey, coming into Tampa,
what it was like for him, and you know, Baker
Mayfield's playing fantastic. Remember I told at the beginning of
the year, get ready Baker Mayfield NFL MVP, And he
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talked about how Tampa Bay said to him. This is
on a podcast interview where he said, look, they wanted
me to come in and and and be myself. You know,
it's a big stressful environment with Tom Brady. They wanted
you to come in and just you know, help everybody
relax and and and do their job. And that became
a bit of a thing. First of all, I can't
believe they actually told Baker Mayfield. I'm sure they said, dude,
(18:06):
just come in if you're any good, fine, but we're
gonna probably play Kyle Trask at some point, So I
don't think this was Hey, Baker Mayfield, you're coming in
being our quarterback of the future. Now he has since
played really with the fantastic and hey, this is this
is a land. Last year got to a jump. I
don't jump this year. I don't think they actually, hey,
we need you to come in and and and kind
of set the show, reset the culture. Yeah, yeah, you
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know that the way he described it, that's that's kind
of how he framed it. It's what we need to
reset the culture, not from the you know, we we were,
we won, we had some great things.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Guys aged out, guys got paid, guys moved on. But no, no, no,
we need you to reset it.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's where he looks behind it. You're talking to me
me resent the cult? Is there someone behind me? Is
is someone else? But you know my history, Patrick mahomes
behind No, he's okay, all right, that's great. Uh so, yeah,
so I don't know if that's case, but this is
what he said, and Tom Brady responded by saying, Hey, yeah, stressful.
I expected a lot of my of my teammates, and
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we won a championship. And if I was looking straight
for fun, I'd take my kids to Disneyland and Baker
Mayfield in the last twenty four hours responded back to
that by saying, wait, wait, my stuff was taken out
of context, and everybody's weighing in on the halways Baker
Mayfield saying that they wanted me to come in and
distress the environment because with Tom Brady was very stressful.
Richard Sherman today said, hey, listen, he understands both sides
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of it with Brady and Baker Mayfield. And I'm like, Okay,
that's a great politicians answer. But I'll tell you what,
Baker Mayfield, Dude, just what are you doing? Just shut up?
I mean, I don't ever have a blanket advice of
sh to people, but certain but certain players individually. Dude,
sh you've done nothing in Tampa. You've decided to say, Hey,
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I'm playing good. I'm back to being the Baker Mayfield
I was in Cleveland when I was really cocky and arrogant,
and now Venom has left Jerry Jones and jumped into
Baker Mayfield. Oh, Baker, do see something bad about Brady.
He'll show up and then I'll eat Brady's head and
then I'll be the best quarterback in the world. Oh God,
I can do that for a yeah. Yeah, and they
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wanted me to come in and just completely reset the culture. Good, Baker, good,
wait till he show. I'll just eat Brady's hands first,
that right hand had thrown so many touchdowns, the one
with all the rings on it, and I'll let you
keep one of the rings after I eat it. Oh yeah,
Jay Venom, I've been missing you, man. I'll tell you
I was just some dude the last year and a
half where I'm just playing well and no one's paying
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attention to me and the team is winning and I'm
a really good story. No, I want to be back
to be in that arrogant dude that nobody liked, that
flamed out of Cleveland and flamed out of Carolina. I
want to be that guy, like that's what's happened to
Baker Mayfield at this point. Dude, Just be quiet. Don't
sit here and say something crazily stupid like oh yeah,
too stressful environment Brady's when there's a reason why he's
(20:57):
got more just as almost as many, almost as many
fingers as super Bowl rings. That's how it works. You
play to win the trophy, right. Also, yeah, you played well?
There is that too, you know you play to win
the trophy, right, and yes, you play to have fun.
And I'm saying no one's having fun. But come on, man,
I mean, you know you're trying to win the super
Bowl here and if and Tampa Bay, who hadn't won
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in a long time. Brady shows up first year, Hey,
ready to go, Let's go win the super Bowl and
they do so. I mean, I don't know, I don't
know how Baker Mayfield comes out of this thinking, oh, yeah,
I'm looking good. This is this is Baker Mayfield feeling
how good he's playing. And now back to it. Yeah, okay,
the last year and a half, I kind of wasn't myself.
I'm flying under the radar. I'm not making any more commercials.
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I'm not at home with Baker Mayfield in Tampa anymore.
But hey, I'm playing the best football in my career,
and the last year and four weeks he has played
the best football of his career. But apparently that's not enough.
I didn't want to go out here and say something
crazily stupid like, oh yeah I had de strets because
Brady was here and all the oh, oh I'm sorry,
like like Brady was bad for the environment, Like Brady
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was bad showing up? Okay, bra Brady, Brady, what is
that that's eating away the great barrier reef like they
got got it rid of him, the fish, barnacles, whatever
it is. Yeah, Brady, he's showing up. Yeah, he's bad
for the environment. Brady, Oh, can't do it? Like, I
don't understand why he has decided now. I mean, I
get why because now he's playing well, he's feeling it.
But dude, you're really gonna say something about the biggest
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winner we have seen in the NFL, that plays the
same position as you, that has accomplished way more than
you have. You've had a nice last year and four
and four games. You really want to sit back and say, hey, Brady,
and I like he did this and I have to
do this. Come on, man, the best thing just go
play football, right, Just go play football, show that you're
(22:44):
still a leader and stuff like this, the knucklehead stuff.
Let it go. I know you like hearing the sound
of your own voice. A lot of people do. Because
everybody wants to be on podcasts. Now it's podcast beyond
the only Murders in the Building podcast, podcast podcast because
they'll use you for an episode podcast, they'll put you
in the base just when it comes to something like this,
don't listen to Venom, Baker Mayfield, listen to yourself where
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it's do I really want to start this? Because now
what's the conversation around Tampa. They had a big win
this week after after a loss last week. They're one
of the top three teams in the NFC. They have
Super Bowl aspirations. But now because Baker decides to say, oh,
I'm gonna insult Tom Brady. Oh, wait a minute, Wait
a minute, wait a minute, it shouldn't it shouldn't be
dealing with that.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So, first off, Venom just needs to come out. I'm
tired of the commercials, including the Dak Prescott one, which
is pretty funny considering we had Venom and Jerry Jones
and then Dak Prescott signed and after that they film
that Venom doc Prescott commercial like they someone owes us money,
Like that was our idea, ven Jones was our idea.
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Now Venoms with Dak Prescott because you know it because
he says, oh, my contract, he talks about his contract,
so you know they shot it after he got paid.
Someone owes us money. Someone owes us money for that.
Let's go. No one else was doing venom Jerry Jones.
I mean that's a pretty big thing to throw out there,
specific right there, right, So yeah, one that piece, the
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other for Baker Mayfield, right, everything of the maturation process, right,
he's got a child, here's family man. All of this
stuff calm collected and he got to fly under the radar.
Last year. It was a great season.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We paid attention to it to a degree and obviously
talked about, you know what the Buccaneers were building, the
greatness of Evans and everything else. But on the grand scale,
I'm still one of these subplots to the twenty three season.
Come into this year, they start playing well again, He's
getting some run. You had him preseason looking at the
(24:40):
Bucks saying the path could be there if Captain Kirk
and company falter early. Rest of the division stinks, So
the opportunity for the Bucks to be in a good
position is there, fantastic. Well what happens People start paying attention,
People start trying to find the next big story, and
can't he repeat the fantastic breakout performance of a year ago.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
The other being Tom Brady was coming to town, right
finally got away from doing nothing but Cowboys games.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It was the Grand Reunion. Yeah, hence, let's get some questions. Hey, hey, Baker,
how much do you know Brady? What was it like
when you inherited the team from Brady? All of this
poked the bear, knowing that he's just itching now that
he's getting the attention again to be that guy, the
guy that fought with Skip, the guy that fought with Colin,
the guy that fought with you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, sure right. There wasn't a social media account or
radio host or TV host that he didn't come at
at some point and it had all gone away for
a while. Played good football. Tom Brady's coming back to town.
He's not coming to take your job, man, He's coming
to do a broadcasting gig. That's all he's trying to do.
(25:52):
He's gonna come in, he's gonna broadcast the game, and
based on the way you played, he is gonna wash
you up and guess what went out? And he performed
like a champ on Sunday, and Tom Brady couldn't be
more effusive with the praise. Right his player of the
Week that he picks each week like it has a date.
He's like, hey, Baker came out and he had a
(26:14):
kick ass game. Good for him, but you didn't need
to do it. You took the bait. You took the bait.
So it's just lying there under the surface. Whenever you
start poking. He's gonna want to be that old version
of himself, which we liked coming into the league. Guess what,
until it didn't work And maybe that was Cleveland, No,
(26:35):
maybe it was, but it was a formula that didn't
work for you. Now you got this other thing and
you're on a good path, why torpedo it? And that's
what that's what doesn't make sense about this for Baker
is that he saw the way he came into the league.
I'm gonna be a quim, gonna be my own guy. Right,
I would be on my own quarterback. I don't care
if anybody else says I'm gonna be full of swagger. Right,
I'm gonna say what I want, do what I want,
(26:55):
whatever I want. Guess what didn't work? Okay, So I
learned that lesson I go to Carolina. I'm gonna try
to be here, be the teammate I need to be.
I'm still but I'm still that confident I'm cocky, I
got and guess what you flamed out of there too.
So now after two big reality checks, here's your last
chance to start in the NFL. And guess what it
happens for you. Because Tampa's got some really good receivers
(27:16):
that are still putting up big numbers. Mike Evans is
gonna be forty five years old, still one of the
top ten receivers in the NFL. And you don't have
any running game, but it doesn't matter. The defense is
good enough and you fit right. I always feel great
for quarterbacks that fit where they should be because sometimes
they spend their whole career they don't get an assistant
need to get in right. Took Gino Smith ten years
(27:37):
to get to the Seattle Seahawks, right, Sam Donald through
four weeks, took them four teams and six years to
get to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
We'll see what happens next four weeks. But forgot, like Mayfield,
he goes all the way around, makes it here, and
now it's say, okay, I forget where I came from.
I completely forget where I came from and where I was,
and now I'm gonna be venom Baker Mayfield, like you
saw the lesson, like you saw what it was like
the last few years.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You took the bait right, You got that reclamation year
where you're hanging out with the rams right turned whatever
it is, got your attention fix, some of the flaws,
go to Dave Canalis for a year and you get
You get a good return last year, and everything starts
off this year. Some questions of how it's going to go.
(28:21):
But you come out and as a squad like both
sides of the ball playing really well again. Bucky Irving,
Rashad White, You've got some effectiveness issues you don't need
to change through. I think Irving will start seeing more
of a of a workload. But yeah, Evans and Godwin
went healthy. They're as good as any one two tandem
(28:42):
in the league. And so you've got everything at your
feet and a division that's yours if you just go
take it.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But you got nervous because Tom Brady was coming back
in the building and they started asking questions about you know,
his link, his history is whatever, it's like, my man,
the threats in the building. Yes, I got sick and
tired of all that winning that we were doing with
Tom Brady you know here in Tampa. Look, Baker, I'm
gonna tell you, Hey, winning was great, but it really
(29:08):
wasn't that much fun. So you know, we really what
we'd like to do is kind of dial back on
the winning and let's dial up a stress free environment,
Like let's have more fun, but let's do less winning.
Can you do that Fun' Why we're bringing you in, Baker,
because you haven't really won.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Sounds like.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You seem kind of fun. You see you do commercials.
You seem like you're kind of a fun guy, and
so bring the fun winnings. You know what, Listen, it's
too stressful, Like none of us really like the stress
of winning. So you come in and you take care
of that for us. Just just dial it way down.
So if I were Fox, you know, i'd double down.
Guess who's calling the next Bucks game? Ta here?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I am.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, they apparently didn't let him call Patriots this week.
He saw ye oh yeah, well he probably wants to
go back to tamp Basey.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
We go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Oh, I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have made
that throw. It's a horrible throw. It's the worst throw ever.
I don't know why I'm doing that. Oh, it's bad.
I don't know what he's doing. I have no idea
Tommy's twelve out of twelve or hundred forty four yards
of two touchdowns. Yeah, but he could be a better
twelve out of twelve. I'm just saying I don't like
what he's done. But they're winning twenty seven. Nothing could
be thirty four. Nothing like Belichick, you gotta keep trying
(30:13):
no matter what the score is, right, there's no days off.
Look at that play right there, he kind of you
saw me, kind of his left hand moved a little
bit when he before he held out of the ball
and then threw it fifty five yards, So Chris Godwin,
maybe his left hand could have been a little more
on the bottom of the ball and maybe the play
would have looked a little bit cleaner.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Should we start flexing out Tom brady broadcasting assignments to
where there's potentially a bigger storyline because I made the
forty nine ers. I mean, that's his hometown team, right
growing up where he did going up against Arizona, I mean,
there's juice there, But I mean, why wouldn't you send
him agitator goes walking back?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Don't you think Brady, They send Brady whoever Brady wants
to go. Oh, I want to do a Patriots game,
and I want to do a forty nine Ers game,
and I want to do a bucks Can. I want
a bicycle, and I want I want to rick and
backer guitar, and I want all these great things. Uh,
exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smithshire with Mike Carmon live from the tirerack dot Com studios.
(31:09):
But tonight was a huge night in Major League Baseball.
No story bigger than the Mets eight to four win
over the Brewers.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Right now, Kevin Wyre, Yeah, the Mets actually won a
postseason game, so we can give them their congratulations.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
We won a game two years ago in the playoffs. Pfically,
it's not really the postseason though, yeah, it is the playoffs.
It is No, it's the playoff. Playoffs starts Saturday. Stop
playing for the right to get swept by the Phillies.
So congratulations to the Mets getting that eight to four
win against the Brewers. Okay, all right, that's great, And
now this editorial from Kevin Wyre. So okay, so here's
(31:42):
the thing. So if the Mets win the series. You
take how much time off the next two weeks the
Mets are playing? You don't work well the Mets play. Okay,
I'll take that. If there paid time off, I'll take no, no, no, no,
you don't get paid.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I have for this.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
There's no money getting exchanged.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
What's in the for me?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Then? Well, if you want to insult the Mets like that,
that's my offer. Well, okay, we'll see. Hey, I'll be
here in a couple of weeks if they end up
beating the Phillies. So I'll take it from you. If
indeed that happens every day, I'm Matthew win all right,
all right.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Anyway, they do get that eight to four win against
the Brewers, big five run fifth inning by New York,
so they do take the one nothing series lead up
in Milwaukee. Padres and Braves going fine all about an
hour or so ago down in San Diego. Michael king
Man twelve strikeouts and seven innings is five it's allowed
one of them for extra bases, no walk, so an
(32:37):
absolute gem.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
As the Padres get to run home run.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
From Fernando Tatis to help propel that offense to that
four to nothing victory. The San Diego leads this series
one game to nine and outstanding pitching in the American
League Tigers and Astros. It's tique schoo ball with six
strikeouts in six innings, although the Astros they made it
a bit interesting their toured the end, got the bases loaded,
(33:01):
but would fly out to end the game, as the
Tigers do hold on for that three to one win.
In the Royals shut up the Orioles one to nothing.
Cole Reagan's eight strikeouts in six innings out dueling Corman Burns.
He was the All Star starring pitcher for the American League.
But the Royals get a base hit at RBI base
hit from Bobby Wood Junior in the sixth inning and
that's all the offense they needed en Rooch to that
(33:22):
won nothing victory.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So they lead this series one game to none.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
And in WNBA Playoffs Liberty and Aces, it's New York
taking a two nothing series lead eighty eight eighty four
to the final. Links beat the Suns seventy seven to seventies.
So Minnesota on top, or excuse me, that series is
now tied at one game a piece.
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Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. Night one of the MLB Playoffs in the Books,
Tigers beat the Astros, Royals over the Orioles won nothing
Padres Thanks to Michael King, how's that Yankee fans? They
shut out the Braves four zip and the Mets over
the Brewers eighty four thanks to a big fifth inning,
(34:56):
And all of these games have something in common, and
it baffles me that still Major League Baseball managers manage
the way they do in the postseason. Everybody has a
much bigger reliance on the bullpen. The leash on starting
pitchers is way shorter than it used to be. And
(35:18):
I understand this because you get to the playoffs and
guys that thrown a lot of pitches. I get it.
But the way that managers default to the bullpen, I
shake my head and go, do you want to lose?
Because at bats in the postseason are different from at
bats in the regular season. Every single at bat in
the postseason is a grind for a player. It is
(35:41):
everything they can to see as many pitches as they
can to foul a ball. Not that they're not trying
to do this during the regular season, but there's just
much more of an emphasis on it. Boy, I think
I can hit this one to right field. A boy,
if I can't, I just want to foul it off.
I don't want to try to do too much with
it because I'm gonna wind up popping up. That's a
thought that probably goes through hitters' heads during the season.
(36:03):
I think I can get a hold of this. Oh
I just couldn't. But in the playoffs everything is magnified
and at bats are way better and more intense, more
balls are fouled off. It's every yet bad as much
more of a grind. When you have a pitcher going well,
leave him in right, and you saw today in all
of these games the absolute reasons why you leave a
(36:26):
pitcher in, why he's doing well, you don't take him
out early. Right, Michael King phenomenal through seven innings, right,
was at his pitch limit. Took him out. Padre's bullpen
wins the game. Okay, you watch the Tigers and the Astros.
Tigers took schoobl out a little bit early. What happened,
They almost gave it away in the ninth inning because
the relief relievers almost gave it away. Mets and the
Brewers two different philosophies, and the Brewers' bullpen gave it away.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Managers go to the bullpen and in the playoffs. I
really would like to talk to all of them and
say you know that when you go to the bullpen
in the playoffs, you're gonna find the guy who's not
his night, and you're gonna lose the game because you
keep going to guys like you do in the regular season,
and you're gonna find the guy that it's not his night.
And when that happens, you get the l And you
(37:12):
look at that Mets Brewers game where the bullpen really screwed,
really screwed the Brewers. But this was there. This is
how we do it, right, Brewers have a great bullpen, right,
one of the best bullpens in baseball. This is how
we do it. All year Freddy Peralta was cruising after
one tough inning with the Mets. Right, he had tough
second inning, he was a little bit wild, but he'd
retired nine in a row. Pitch count was only at
sixty eight, and so why are you going to the bullpen?
(37:35):
And the Brewers said after the game, Well, what did
he have? Maybe a couple of more innings and he
gets up to like eighty pitches liked, so he has
a couple more innings left. What what are you doing? Right?
I don't know what do you mean? I don't understand
that's the response of the reporter to gain. Yes, Pat
Murphy says, oh, you know what, do you have a couple?
And then when he gets to eighty pitches he would
see them a third time. I'm like, the dude is cruising,
(37:57):
Why do you want to mess Go to the bullpen?
If if you have to, if the Mets put a
cup a lot, go to the bull that's when you
go to the bullpen. But what does Murphy do, Hey,
Peralta is cruising, I'm gonna take him out. I'm gonna
go to the bullpen. What happened the next three guys
he went to It was all not there night. And
what happened The Brewers go home with an eight to
four loss instead of a win because he decided we
go to the bullpen because I've done it this way.
(38:19):
And when the guy still has gas left in the
tank and he's still pitching, well, I'm going to stop that.
And I don't understand why my manager's default to that
all the time in the playoffs. See Roberts Comma Dave
this weekend. But that's such a popular thing. And you
saw today in the games, Hey, you had one team
that really screwed up by going to the bullpen early.
One team that went a little bit early and almost
(38:40):
lost it, and one team that went to the bullpen
at the absolute right time, and that's where they were
able to win. It's there every single night you go
to the bullpen before you have to, you're gonna find
that guy who it's not a night when you're bringing
in three four relievers in a night. One of those
guys is not gonna be at the top of his
game and that's gonna give you an l in the playoffs. Oh,
we always talking about when you're putting together and we
(39:00):
love the analytics and putting together algorithms and talking it out.
You got to eliminate as.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Many variables as you can basic math, right, let's cut
all these things out, potential for things to go wrong,
and going to the bullpen repeatedly. It is different in
the postseason because you're not just setting up your bat.
You're trying to see pitches to give your next guy
an advantage, because that one run in the postseason means
everything during the regular season. Over one hundred and sixty two,
(39:28):
as we talked about with the Diamondbacks, gotta listen to
the whole show. Yeah, there's a game that you wish
you one because it makes your path up perhaps more
clear as you go. But for the postseason, you're not
as free swinging the three outcome side of things. You're
not as okay with it. It's now about grinding out,
get them on, get them over, get them in, seeing
(39:49):
as many pitches as you can, because perhaps the guy
in the on deck circle talking to the teammates, they
pick up something in the delivery, They pick up something
in in what the pitcher's given out that particular outing,
as opposed to just going up first ball swinging.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
So you have that.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
The Paralta one just made no sense. The Mets did
it perfectly. With Severino struggled earlier. You were losing your mind,
no question about it. I would have taken out Severna
the sun taken him out. Just say, take the uniform off,
leave it on the side of the mound. I get it.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
But you know, we we watched him pitch through his
struggles and then he's in the dugout high five and cheering,
losing his mind. After he finally left the game. Peralta
leaves so much left in the tank, and after three
glorious innings, much to the happiness of my tag team
partner mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
He gets so bullpen happy and it winds up killing him.
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Big Night Major League Baseball Night one of the playoffs.
We saw the visiting team win the first three games.
This is kind of how it goes. Yeah, crazy start
before where Michael King and the Padres former Yankee Michael
King and the Padres shut out the Braves and now
the Braves, the Astros, Brewers, the Yankees through the Yankee
(01:12):
there all one game away from elimination the Orioles as well. Look,
this is this is the fun part of the season
where hey, and all the way through and the and
the and the drama of the regular season, and you
get one day and then the day after that you
could be a day away from going home. Right, everything
you do to get in the playoffs, we're here. You
have one game, you lose it, Hey, you're going home.
(01:32):
You don't win tomorrow, you're gonna be home with the
White Sox. Yeah, just like that, all that extra effort,
all that extra.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Winning, and it didn't I mean, I guess you get
a playoff check, but other than that, it didn't mean
a damn thing. Oh boy, you're hanging out with one
hundred and twenty one lost White Soick.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Now you're a little bit, you know, giddier, you know,
coming off of your Mets win.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Of course due huge, but it's more the even though
the Yankees didn't play today, the Michael King thing allows
you to needle Yankee fans, including your dad, and yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
On a whole other love. It's a fun thing. It's
a fun Have you gotten any response from your father, No,
I think he's probably sleeping. That's why I mean, my
dad is not even think he's just ignoring. He's giving
you a double burn. Now, I think my dad's sleeping.
He's got his fingers up for you. He'll till text
me tomorrow. No, you know it'll do. I texted him
that would text my dad.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We've done sleep studies, and here's all the you know,
most folks.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Hey, there's the feet of this guy's got both middle
fingers in the air like he's at a kid rock concert.
And you're like, this is what my dad dies, flipping around.
This is what my dad will do. Because I texted him, Hey,
Michael King had a great night tonight. Where did he
play the last few years. I'm gonna wake up tomorrow.
I'm gonna get a text that's gonna just say Felix hunger,
(02:45):
because that's what my dad does. Felix hunger. That's his
f you, Felix hunger. He's just just a fan of
the Odd Couple. Yeah, not not with not not with
with with Robin Kelvin, but the Odd Couple with Yeah, yeah,
that's what Okay, Yeah, I'm not sure saying he doesn't
like Rothjory likes Rob Durry, likes Robin Kelvin. He watches
Rob on MLB Network where I think Rob's on tomorrow.
I think on MLB Network.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
No, No, very excited because he was telling us about
his pick of last year's World Series teams not making
it back to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But if your team didn't make it, it's okay because
this next few minutes of baseball wonderment is for you.
Let's go likely. Up until today, you didn't know the
name of the Diamondbacks owner, but now everybody does, Ken Kendrick,
because he decided I'm going scorched earth on so many
things today because the Diamondbacks didn't make the playoffs. First
(03:39):
things first, he goes on on a podcast and he
talks about how upset he was that Major League Baseball
decided to finish the season with the Mets Braves doubleheader
on Monday. Remember, the Diamondbacks needed whoever won Game one
to win Game two because of the tie breakers, and
(04:00):
once the Mets won Game one, of course, the Mets
are gonna do what's best for them in the play
because they have to play the playoff game today. So
they started all of their their backups and they brought
up a guy for they brought up Joey Lucazy from
the Miners to bitch. He pitched pretty well, but the
Mets showed absolutely no fight. Right, The Braves showed awful
low amounts of fight in that game. The Mets were
(04:20):
just deader than the Brazs. Whi's why the Braves won
and squeaked into the playoffs. Right, The Braves should have
gone home. If it was a regular game, they would
have gone home. But the Mets were just deader, so
they made it. He was very upset, very upset. Major
League Baseball made it go the way it is because
the Mets couldn't put out a lineup that was major
League Baseball worthy. Okay, well, you know Alonso was in
vian TOAs was in. They still let some guys in there.
(04:42):
But I get his point and I understand, and yes,
major League Baseball, this doesn't look good. Did this help? No,
because the Braids wind up screwing themselves, quite honestly, by
deciding we don't want to play the game. We didn't
want to do it. Major League Baseball could have stepped in,
they did not. The Braids wound up screwing themselves because
now Chris Sale wasn't a able to pitch now here.
They are one game away from elimination. Yes, it's bad.
(05:03):
It's not good for anyone, right, it's not. It's not
the best look for baseball. It turned out to be
an incredible game. The first game was the game of
the year in Major League Baseball with so many twists
and turns and Lindor's home run. I mean, it's one
of the best wins of my life as a Mets fan.
But I get that the excitement of that game kind
of covers up a little bit of Boy, this wasn't
(05:24):
done the right way because you see too many teams
that were, you know, screwed over because of it, and
the Diamondbacks and one of them. Now I say that,
and let me just say this. You know what I
would say to Ken Kendrick. Yeah, I get you, But dude,
don't lose five of your last seven No, that's right.
Don't lose fourteen of your last thirty one games. Don't
go fourteen and seventeen the final month of the season.
You had ample opportunities to win one more game. You
(05:45):
just had to win one more game those two out
of three final week end of the season. Right, you
were terrible in the last week. So yes, I get
that you don't like having to watch, but it's not
like you didn't have anything under your control. Just don't
finish as crappy as you did, that's all.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's always the end game to this, right, we could
talk about rescheduling of games and how these things are managed.
Are around an awful circumstance, and certainly, you know, good
thoughts and where you can spare an extra buck, right
for the price of a cup of coffee, all of
those kind of PSAs if you can help in the
(06:19):
relief effort, you know, coming off of the hurricane. I mean, certainly,
you know, do the best you can try to help.
But it's never gonna be a perfect situation. End of season,
you're gonna have these circumstances. And yes, unfortunately for game
two that's we're in, they didn't have anything to play for.
You had one hundred and sixty two opportunities to be
(06:42):
a little bit better, to win one or two more
games to roll through. Now, I hope this anger that
he's got going on doesn't extend to where he's given
a directive to give bad grades because he's part owner
of the PSA company, where I send cards in to
get great. Well, forget it now, you hm and your
grant and a bunch of other dudes, like I might
be getting a bunch of out of seven's coming back now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I'm sure kidding. You're gonna get like four's And don't
interact with this guy. Yeah, sugag. Don't interact so like
I gotta be got what he emails you, dude.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I mean, I still have to say my piece here
on the radio of hey, win an extra game.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's a tough division that you're in. All of that
play the violins. You had your chances, you had one
hundred and sixty two opportunities to be great.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Mike. If you got the email, he was half this
this is a this is a men conditioned card. Yeah, sorry,
three and a half Come on that man a halfect
Come on, it's fresh out of a pack and into
a sleeve to get graded. I send it to you
in great ah ah oh no, oh, rest in peace
(07:49):
to kimber Uh. You would send it in, you would
get it back, and you would say, okay, so I
sent it to you. It was maybe a nine or
a nine point three. Yeah, I got back it was
ripped in half.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So how we got it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I don't know what to tell you how it came
to suck man. Every once in a while, there's that
that bad. It's like I sent that in that was perfect.
Now it's coming back with thumb prints on it. Come on, man.
So this wasn't all for Ken Kendrick today because he
decided I'm really gonna talk about the guys I'm upset about,
and number one on his list telling Arizona Sports podcast
(08:24):
was Jordan Montgomery. He was signed late in spring training.
He and at the time he was a great signing.
He was signed at the time he was a Boris guy.
But the guys had to sit around till late, right,
and Boris is a it's a deeper conversation Boris by
Jordan Montgomery sat around late like all the Boris clients did.
He sign right before spring training one year, twenty five million. Hey,
(08:47):
he was gonna commit. And I loved what the Diamondbacks did.
They took a team that was this shorter winning the
World Series last year, they added some pitching and it
was great, except Jordan Montgomery wasn't any good. He had
a really bad year that had moved in the bullpen.
His era was over six. Now, generally when this happens,
the only doesn't really say anything about that. You understand,
sometimes you win, sometimes you don't win. Sometimes guys you
(09:09):
sign are great. Sometimes the guys you sign aren't. But
I appreciated you went to the basics. Sometimes you win,
sometimes you don't. As you do. But Kendrick decides, oh no, no, no, no,
I want people to know that how mad I am
about the Jordan Montgomery signing, and signing him was my fault.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Signing Jordan Montgomery and Erod. I'll stick with Montgomery because
e Rod was hurt for a lot of the year
and we didn't get to see him in a full season.
But Jordan Montgomery was twenty five million dollars and he
pitched to an era well over six and got the
motives to the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
How disappointed are you in that time?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Let me say it the best way I can say it.
If anyone wants to blame anyone for Jordan Montgomery being
a diamondback, you're talking to the guy that should be
blanked because I brought it to their attention. I pushed forward,
they agreed to It wasn't in our game. Plan. You know,
when he was signed right at Dandas spring training and
looking back in hindsight, a horrible decision, you know, to
(10:09):
have invested that money and a guy that performed as
poorly as he did.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mike, well, I should have never signed the guy. I
appreciated me. He raised his hand and just said, look,
bad signing. Terrible signing, especially for what you had to
pay him for one year. Because he's coming off of
the season that he had split between Saint Louis and
Texas thirty two starts. He was only ten and eleven
last season. But yeah, look, pitched you a strong R
(10:37):
do I think wins and losses? Now, with the way
baseball has evolved, that that's not doesn't mean what it
used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's more about E R L, solid era, good whip,
all of those things, strike out to walk ratio. It
was strong, all of that to say, you put your
eggs in that basket and that's a pretty good, sizable
contract for a while year. All right, let's take our shot,
which again, well we talked about it at the time.
(11:04):
It's like, all right, starting pitching is his paramount to success, right,
you don't want to play bullpen games time and again,
and eventually they had to send him to the bolt
and it was.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So bad that was crut It's not like there. The
thing is is that it's not like they're on the
hook form for a long time. Like he's done, he's done, right,
But I think he has a player option. I'm gonna
go actually, legitimately, I think I think he has a
player option for for twenty five.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It was a horrible.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Decision to invest that money and a guy who performed
as poorly as he did. It's our biggest mistake this
season from a talent standpoint, and I'm the perpetrator of that.
I perpetrated this. Uh yeah again, Yeah, it's a player
option for twenty two and a half. Yeah. This is
not gonna make people wanna come sign with the Diamondbacks. Oh,
I could have a bad year and boy, the owner
(11:53):
is just gonna blow towards But he wore it an interview.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
No no, but but he wore it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It was more on him making that decision than on
Montgomery's in effectiveness. If you okay, let's just say for instance,
let's just say, for instance, we're doing a radio show,
right and and and uh, Frostburg decides to hire you
to do a radio show. Yeah, all right, and you
have a really bad year. It's a bad year. You
have right, your your your your your whip is bad.
(12:19):
Your radio whip is bad. Your radio war is bad.
Your radio whips. You know, you don't use the right
words of times. You forget people who are who are
on teams and not on teams. Again, that's a lot
of what sports talk radio is now. But you just
have a really bad year. You have a really bad year,
the white Sox year. You're the whites. You're the white
Sox out here, and and said, Okay, you understand. You
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wanted to have a better year. It's not like you.
You didn't try. You wanted a better year. You didn't
have a better year. And then Frostburg starts going on
interviews everywhere saying, oh, hiring Harmon was the worst mistake
I ever made, worst mistake I ever made. He was awful.
He came in. We thought he was gonna be good.
He starts talking about sports and instead every time I
want to talk about some talking about his trading cards.
(13:01):
He keeps selling every day. It's like, hey, we just
won the super Bowl and he's saying Oh, I got
a card from Juju Smith Schuster that he signed. It's
worth this amount of money. Worst decision ever. I'm the
perpetrator of hiring Mike Harmon and putting him on everybody.
How would you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
They gotta have to wear it?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
No, you know, don't stop with that. You would take
my cash, you would be got paid. You would be pissed.
Don't don't change what your reaction is gonna be just
because it goes against what you'd be pissed. You'd be
upset about it, of course, and I would be upset, going, well,
I don't want to go work for Frostburg. If I
have a bad year, he's gonna tell me I'm as
bad as you want.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I don't want you.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Work for knowing a major League Baseball term. And this
is where it gets fun, is I mean they're guaranteed contracts.
So for Jordan Montgomery, I mean, look, he'd be the
first guy to tell you that he sucked this year. Yeah,
so the fact that he went on and did a podcast.
But is this something that people don't know? No, but
that's but that my point just lightened was obvious. The
(14:03):
way the guy framed the question That's all he said
was you want oh, you want me? Well, you want
to be a destination for people to come play there.
And he's breaking rule number one of that. Oh, if
things go bad, he's gonna cut me loose. And he's
gonna because what he's doing that maybe he's doing this,
say hey, we want him to completely opt out and
and and know what, we don't want to pay him
(14:24):
for next year whatever. It's going to be right, But
how does this help? How does this help the image
of the Diamondbacks. Obviously they need more help to make
it over the hump next year. How does this help? Oh,
I want to go sign there. No, by a bad years.
The owner is going to do an interview the day
after the season. I am to tell me how bad
I am. I know how bad I was. He doesn't
need to go on the air and make national headlines
(14:44):
telling me how.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Bad I was.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I know how bad I was. No, But like I
interpreted the way he said that, it wasn't don't kill
Jordan Montgomery. He did what he did.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Like I made the decision right, because ultimately the fans
are going to go after the GM as much as
they go after a player for bad performance performance. They
go after the manager, they go after the GM, and
they go after the ownership for the decisions that they made.
So him raising his hand, going hey fans, it's on
(15:17):
me and that decision didn't work out. Now, did he
get a little more descriptive in the failures of Jordan Montgomery,
Perhaps that a player would want. But in the end,
if they come with the biggest offer, guess what, you're
probably still signing in the desert.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah. I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't know.
I think the teams are gonna have You know, I
could get twenty million from Arizona, I get eighteen million
from somebody else. And I know the owner's not gonna
yell at me if I don't play well, Okay, I'm
gonna go there. You wanna be destination? Man?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know what else?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Like the like you said with the Diamondbacks, don't be
fourteen to seventeen in the final month, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Don't not play well, have a good year, don't let
Jordan Montgomery pitch and maybe won't finish fourteen and seventeen
last month of the Seatson. Ah, you're onto something now,
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get back into the Night in Major League Baseball. Coming
up in a few minutes has been the Tom Brady
Baker Mayfield War of words. Richard Sherman weighing in today
(17:24):
because he spent the one season there with Brady, and
this all comes from a Baker Mayfield interview he did
last week where he was asked about hey, coming into Tampa,
what it was like for him, and you know, Baker
Mayfield's playing fantastic. Remember I told at the beginning of
the year, get ready Baker Mayfield NFL MVP, And he
(17:46):
talked about how Tampa Bay said to him. This is
on a podcast interview where he said, look, they wanted
me to come in and and and be myself. You know,
it's a big stressful environment with Tom Brady. They wanted
you to come in and just you know, help everybody
relax and and and do their job. And that became
a bit of a thing. First of all, I can't
believe they actually told Baker Mayfield. I'm sure they said, dude,
(18:06):
just come in if you're any good, fine, but we're
gonna probably play Kyle Trask at some point, So I
don't think this was Hey, Baker Mayfield, you're coming in
being our quarterback of the future. Now he has since
played really with the fantastic and hey, this is this
is a land. Last year got to a jump. I
don't jump this year. I don't think they actually, hey,
we need you to come in and and and kind
of set the show, reset the culture. Yeah, yeah, you
(18:28):
know that the way he described it, that's that's kind
of how he framed it. It's what we need to
reset the culture, not from the you know, we we were,
we won, we had some great things.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Guys aged out, guys got paid, guys moved on. But no, no, no,
we need you to reset it.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's where he looks behind it. You're talking to me
me resent the cult? Is there someone behind me? Is
is someone else? But you know my history, Patrick mahomes
behind No, he's okay, all right, that's great. Uh so, yeah,
so I don't know if that's case, but this is
what he said, and Tom Brady responded by saying, Hey, yeah, stressful.
I expected a lot of my of my teammates, and
(19:06):
we won a championship. And if I was looking straight
for fun, I'd take my kids to Disneyland and Baker
Mayfield in the last twenty four hours responded back to
that by saying, wait, wait, my stuff was taken out
of context, and everybody's weighing in on the halways Baker
Mayfield saying that they wanted me to come in and
distress the environment because with Tom Brady was very stressful.
Richard Sherman today said, hey, listen, he understands both sides
(19:29):
of it with Brady and Baker Mayfield. And I'm like, Okay,
that's a great politicians answer. But I'll tell you what,
Baker Mayfield, Dude, just what are you doing? Just shut up?
I mean, I don't ever have a blanket advice of
sh to people, but certain but certain players individually. Dude,
sh you've done nothing in Tampa. You've decided to say, Hey,
(19:53):
I'm playing good. I'm back to being the Baker Mayfield
I was in Cleveland when I was really cocky and arrogant,
and now Venom has left Jerry Jones and jumped into
Baker Mayfield. Oh, Baker, do see something bad about Brady.
He'll show up and then I'll eat Brady's head and
then I'll be the best quarterback in the world. Oh God,
I can do that for a yeah. Yeah, and they
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wanted me to come in and just completely reset the culture. Good, Baker, good,
wait till he show. I'll just eat Brady's hands first,
that right hand had thrown so many touchdowns, the one
with all the rings on it, and I'll let you
keep one of the rings after I eat it. Oh yeah,
Jay Venom, I've been missing you, man. I'll tell you
I was just some dude the last year and a
half where I'm just playing well and no one's paying
(20:35):
attention to me and the team is winning and I'm
a really good story. No, I want to be back
to be in that arrogant dude that nobody liked, that
flamed out of Cleveland and flamed out of Carolina. I
want to be that guy, like that's what's happened to
Baker Mayfield at this point. Dude, Just be quiet. Don't
sit here and say something crazily stupid like oh yeah,
too stressful environment Brady's when there's a reason why he's
(20:57):
got more just as almost as many, almost as many
fingers as super Bowl rings. That's how it works. You
play to win the trophy, right. Also, yeah, you played well?
There is that too, you know you play to win
the trophy, right, and yes, you play to have fun.
And I'm saying no one's having fun. But come on, man,
I mean, you know you're trying to win the super
Bowl here and if and Tampa Bay, who hadn't won
(21:19):
in a long time. Brady shows up first year, Hey,
ready to go, Let's go win the super Bowl and
they do so. I mean, I don't know, I don't
know how Baker Mayfield comes out of this thinking, oh, yeah,
I'm looking good. This is this is Baker Mayfield feeling
how good he's playing. And now back to it. Yeah, okay,
the last year and a half, I kind of wasn't myself.
I'm flying under the radar. I'm not making any more commercials.
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I'm not at home with Baker Mayfield in Tampa anymore.
But hey, I'm playing the best football in my career,
and the last year and four weeks he has played
the best football of his career. But apparently that's not enough.
I didn't want to go out here and say something
crazily stupid like, oh yeah I had de strets because
Brady was here and all the oh, oh I'm sorry,
like like Brady was bad for the environment, Like Brady
(22:02):
was bad showing up? Okay, bra Brady, Brady, what is
that that's eating away the great barrier reef like they
got got it rid of him, the fish, barnacles, whatever
it is. Yeah, Brady, he's showing up. Yeah, he's bad
for the environment. Brady, Oh, can't do it? Like, I
don't understand why he has decided now. I mean, I
get why because now he's playing well, he's feeling it.
But dude, you're really gonna say something about the biggest
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winner we have seen in the NFL, that plays the
same position as you, that has accomplished way more than
you have. You've had a nice last year and four
and four games. You really want to sit back and say, hey, Brady,
and I like he did this and I have to
do this. Come on, man, the best thing just go
play football, right, Just go play football, show that you're
(22:44):
still a leader and stuff like this, the knucklehead stuff.
Let it go. I know you like hearing the sound
of your own voice. A lot of people do. Because
everybody wants to be on podcasts. Now it's podcast beyond
the only Murders in the Building podcast, podcast podcast because
they'll use you for an episode podcast, they'll put you
in the base just when it comes to something like this,
don't listen to Venom, Baker Mayfield, listen to yourself where
(23:06):
it's do I really want to start this? Because now
what's the conversation around Tampa. They had a big win
this week after after a loss last week. They're one
of the top three teams in the NFC. They have
Super Bowl aspirations. But now because Baker decides to say, oh,
I'm gonna insult Tom Brady. Oh, wait a minute, Wait
a minute, wait a minute, it shouldn't it shouldn't be
dealing with that.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So, first off, Venom just needs to come out. I'm
tired of the commercials, including the Dak Prescott one, which
is pretty funny considering we had Venom and Jerry Jones
and then Dak Prescott signed and after that they film
that Venom doc Prescott commercial like they someone owes us money,
Like that was our idea, ven Jones was our idea.
(23:47):
Now Venoms with Dak Prescott because you know it because
he says, oh, my contract, he talks about his contract,
so you know they shot it after he got paid.
Someone owes us money. Someone owes us money for that.
Let's go. No one else was doing venom Jerry Jones.
I mean that's a pretty big thing to throw out there,
specific right there, right, So yeah, one that piece, the
(24:07):
other for Baker Mayfield, right, everything of the maturation process, right,
he's got a child, here's family man. All of this
stuff calm collected and he got to fly under the radar.
Last year. It was a great season.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We paid attention to it to a degree and obviously
talked about, you know what the Buccaneers were building, the
greatness of Evans and everything else. But on the grand scale,
I'm still one of these subplots to the twenty three season.
Come into this year, they start playing well again, He's
getting some run. You had him preseason looking at the
(24:40):
Bucks saying the path could be there if Captain Kirk
and company falter early. Rest of the division stinks, So
the opportunity for the Bucks to be in a good
position is there, fantastic. Well what happens People start paying attention,
People start trying to find the next big story, and
can't he repeat the fantastic breakout performance of a year ago.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
The other being Tom Brady was coming to town, right
finally got away from doing nothing but Cowboys games.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It was the Grand Reunion. Yeah, hence, let's get some questions. Hey, hey, Baker,
how much do you know Brady? What was it like
when you inherited the team from Brady? All of this
poked the bear, knowing that he's just itching now that
he's getting the attention again to be that guy, the
guy that fought with Skip, the guy that fought with Colin,
the guy that fought with you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, sure right. There wasn't a social media account or
radio host or TV host that he didn't come at
at some point and it had all gone away for
a while. Played good football. Tom Brady's coming back to town.
He's not coming to take your job, man, He's coming
to do a broadcasting gig. That's all he's trying to do.
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He's gonna come in, he's gonna broadcast the game, and
based on the way you played, he is gonna wash
you up and guess what went out? And he performed
like a champ on Sunday, and Tom Brady couldn't be
more effusive with the praise. Right his player of the
Week that he picks each week like it has a date.
He's like, hey, Baker came out and he had a
(26:14):
kick ass game. Good for him, but you didn't need
to do it. You took the bait. You took the bait.
So it's just lying there under the surface. Whenever you
start poking. He's gonna want to be that old version
of himself, which we liked coming into the league. Guess what,
until it didn't work And maybe that was Cleveland, No,
(26:35):
maybe it was, but it was a formula that didn't
work for you. Now you got this other thing and
you're on a good path, why torpedo it? And that's
what that's what doesn't make sense about this for Baker
is that he saw the way he came into the league.
I'm gonna be a quim, gonna be my own guy. Right,
I would be on my own quarterback. I don't care
if anybody else says I'm gonna be full of swagger. Right,
I'm gonna say what I want, do what I want,
(26:55):
whatever I want. Guess what didn't work? Okay, So I
learned that lesson I go to Carolina. I'm gonna try
to be here, be the teammate I need to be.
I'm still but I'm still that confident I'm cocky, I
got and guess what you flamed out of there too.
So now after two big reality checks, here's your last
chance to start in the NFL. And guess what it
happens for you. Because Tampa's got some really good receivers
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that are still putting up big numbers. Mike Evans is
gonna be forty five years old, still one of the
top ten receivers in the NFL. And you don't have
any running game, but it doesn't matter. The defense is
good enough and you fit right. I always feel great
for quarterbacks that fit where they should be because sometimes
they spend their whole career they don't get an assistant
need to get in right. Took Gino Smith ten years
(27:37):
to get to the Seattle Seahawks, right, Sam Donald through
four weeks, took them four teams and six years to
get to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
We'll see what happens next four weeks. But forgot, like Mayfield,
he goes all the way around, makes it here, and
now it's say, okay, I forget where I came from.
I completely forget where I came from and where I was,
and now I'm gonna be venom Baker Mayfield, like you
saw the lesson, like you saw what it was like
the last few years.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You took the bait right, You got that reclamation year
where you're hanging out with the rams right turned whatever
it is, got your attention fix, some of the flaws,
go to Dave Canalis for a year and you get
You get a good return last year, and everything starts
off this year. Some questions of how it's going to go.
(28:21):
But you come out and as a squad like both
sides of the ball playing really well again. Bucky Irving,
Rashad White, You've got some effectiveness issues you don't need
to change through. I think Irving will start seeing more
of a of a workload. But yeah, Evans and Godwin
went healthy. They're as good as any one two tandem
(28:42):
in the league. And so you've got everything at your
feet and a division that's yours if you just go
take it.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But you got nervous because Tom Brady was coming back
in the building and they started asking questions about you know,
his link, his history is whatever, it's like, my man,
the threats in the building. Yes, I got sick and
tired of all that winning that we were doing with
Tom Brady you know here in Tampa. Look, Baker, I'm
gonna tell you, Hey, winning was great, but it really
(29:08):
wasn't that much fun. So you know, we really what
we'd like to do is kind of dial back on
the winning and let's dial up a stress free environment,
Like let's have more fun, but let's do less winning.
Can you do that Fun' Why we're bringing you in, Baker,
because you haven't really won.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Sounds like.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You seem kind of fun. You see you do commercials.
You seem like you're kind of a fun guy, and
so bring the fun winnings. You know what, Listen, it's
too stressful, Like none of us really like the stress
of winning. So you come in and you take care
of that for us. Just just dial it way down.
So if I were Fox, you know, i'd double down.
Guess who's calling the next Bucks game? Ta here?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I am.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, they apparently didn't let him call Patriots this week.
He saw ye oh yeah, well he probably wants to
go back to tamp Basey.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
We go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Oh, I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have made
that throw. It's a horrible throw. It's the worst throw ever.
I don't know why I'm doing that. Oh, it's bad.
I don't know what he's doing. I have no idea
Tommy's twelve out of twelve or hundred forty four yards
of two touchdowns. Yeah, but he could be a better
twelve out of twelve. I'm just saying I don't like
what he's done. But they're winning twenty seven. Nothing could
be thirty four. Nothing like Belichick, you gotta keep trying
(30:13):
no matter what the score is, right, there's no days off.
Look at that play right there, he kind of you
saw me, kind of his left hand moved a little
bit when he before he held out of the ball
and then threw it fifty five yards, So Chris Godwin,
maybe his left hand could have been a little more
on the bottom of the ball and maybe the play
would have looked a little bit cleaner.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Should we start flexing out Tom brady broadcasting assignments to
where there's potentially a bigger storyline because I made the
forty nine ers. I mean, that's his hometown team, right
growing up where he did going up against Arizona, I mean,
there's juice there, But I mean, why wouldn't you send
him agitator goes walking back?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Don't you think Brady, They send Brady whoever Brady wants
to go. Oh, I want to do a Patriots game,
and I want to do a forty nine Ers game,
and I want to do a bucks Can. I want
a bicycle, and I want I want to rick and
backer guitar, and I want all these great things. Uh,
exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smithshire with Mike Carmon live from the tirerack dot Com studios.
(31:09):
But tonight was a huge night in Major League Baseball.
No story bigger than the Mets eight to four win
over the Brewers.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Right now, Kevin Wyre, Yeah, the Mets actually won a
postseason game, so we can give them their congratulations.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
We won a game two years ago in the playoffs. Pfically,
it's not really the postseason though, yeah, it is the playoffs.
It is No, it's the playoff. Playoffs starts Saturday. Stop
playing for the right to get swept by the Phillies.
So congratulations to the Mets getting that eight to four
win against the Brewers. Okay, all right, that's great, And
now this editorial from Kevin Wyre. So okay, so here's
(31:42):
the thing. So if the Mets win the series. You
take how much time off the next two weeks the
Mets are playing? You don't work well the Mets play. Okay,
I'll take that. If there paid time off, I'll take no, no, no, no,
you don't get paid.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I have for this.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
There's no money getting exchanged.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
What's in the for me?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Then? Well, if you want to insult the Mets like that,
that's my offer. Well, okay, we'll see. Hey, I'll be
here in a couple of weeks if they end up
beating the Phillies. So I'll take it from you. If
indeed that happens every day, I'm Matthew win all right,
all right.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Anyway, they do get that eight to four win against
the Brewers, big five run fifth inning by New York,
so they do take the one nothing series lead up
in Milwaukee. Padres and Braves going fine all about an
hour or so ago down in San Diego. Michael king
Man twelve strikeouts and seven innings is five it's allowed
one of them for extra bases, no walk, so an
(32:37):
absolute gem.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
As the Padres get to run home run.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
From Fernando Tatis to help propel that offense to that
four to nothing victory. The San Diego leads this series
one game to nine and outstanding pitching in the American
League Tigers and Astros. It's tique schoo ball with six
strikeouts in six innings, although the Astros they made it
a bit interesting their toured the end, got the bases loaded,
(33:01):
but would fly out to end the game, as the
Tigers do hold on for that three to one win.
In the Royals shut up the Orioles one to nothing.
Cole Reagan's eight strikeouts in six innings out dueling Corman Burns.
He was the All Star starring pitcher for the American League.
But the Royals get a base hit at RBI base
hit from Bobby Wood Junior in the sixth inning and
that's all the offense they needed en Rooch to that
(33:22):
won nothing victory.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So they lead this series one game to none.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
And in WNBA Playoffs Liberty and Aces, it's New York
taking a two nothing series lead eighty eight eighty four
to the final. Links beat the Suns seventy seven to seventies.
So Minnesota on top, or excuse me, that series is
now tied at one game a piece.
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Speaker 1 (34:32):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. Night one of the MLB Playoffs in the Books,
Tigers beat the Astros, Royals over the Orioles won nothing
Padres Thanks to Michael King, how's that Yankee fans? They
shut out the Braves four zip and the Mets over
the Brewers eighty four thanks to a big fifth inning,
(34:56):
And all of these games have something in common, and
it baffles me that still Major League Baseball managers manage
the way they do in the postseason. Everybody has a
much bigger reliance on the bullpen. The leash on starting
pitchers is way shorter than it used to be. And
(35:18):
I understand this because you get to the playoffs and
guys that thrown a lot of pitches. I get it.
But the way that managers default to the bullpen, I
shake my head and go, do you want to lose?
Because at bats in the postseason are different from at
bats in the regular season. Every single at bat in
the postseason is a grind for a player. It is
(35:41):
everything they can to see as many pitches as they
can to foul a ball. Not that they're not trying
to do this during the regular season, but there's just
much more of an emphasis on it. Boy, I think
I can hit this one to right field. A boy,
if I can't, I just want to foul it off.
I don't want to try to do too much with
it because I'm gonna wind up popping up. That's a
thought that probably goes through hitters' heads during the season.
(36:03):
I think I can get a hold of this. Oh
I just couldn't. But in the playoffs everything is magnified
and at bats are way better and more intense, more
balls are fouled off. It's every yet bad as much
more of a grind. When you have a pitcher going well,
leave him in right, and you saw today in all
of these games the absolute reasons why you leave a
(36:26):
pitcher in, why he's doing well, you don't take him
out early. Right, Michael King phenomenal through seven innings, right,
was at his pitch limit. Took him out. Padre's bullpen
wins the game. Okay, you watch the Tigers and the Astros.
Tigers took schoobl out a little bit early. What happened,
They almost gave it away in the ninth inning because
the relief relievers almost gave it away. Mets and the
Brewers two different philosophies, and the Brewers' bullpen gave it away.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Managers go to the bullpen and in the playoffs. I
really would like to talk to all of them and
say you know that when you go to the bullpen
in the playoffs, you're gonna find the guy who's not
his night, and you're gonna lose the game because you
keep going to guys like you do in the regular season,
and you're gonna find the guy that it's not his night.
And when that happens, you get the l And you
(37:12):
look at that Mets Brewers game where the bullpen really screwed,
really screwed the Brewers. But this was there. This is
how we do it, right, Brewers have a great bullpen, right,
one of the best bullpens in baseball. This is how
we do it. All year Freddy Peralta was cruising after
one tough inning with the Mets. Right, he had tough
second inning, he was a little bit wild, but he'd
retired nine in a row. Pitch count was only at
sixty eight, and so why are you going to the bullpen?
(37:35):
And the Brewers said after the game, Well, what did
he have? Maybe a couple of more innings and he
gets up to like eighty pitches liked, so he has
a couple more innings left. What what are you doing? Right?
I don't know what do you mean? I don't understand
that's the response of the reporter to gain. Yes, Pat
Murphy says, oh, you know what, do you have a couple?
And then when he gets to eighty pitches he would
see them a third time. I'm like, the dude is cruising,
(37:57):
Why do you want to mess Go to the bullpen?
If if you have to, if the Mets put a
cup a lot, go to the bull that's when you
go to the bullpen. But what does Murphy do, Hey,
Peralta is cruising, I'm gonna take him out. I'm gonna
go to the bullpen. What happened the next three guys
he went to It was all not there night. And
what happened The Brewers go home with an eight to
four loss instead of a win because he decided we
go to the bullpen because I've done it this way.
(38:19):
And when the guy still has gas left in the
tank and he's still pitching, well, I'm going to stop that.
And I don't understand why my manager's default to that
all the time in the playoffs. See Roberts Comma Dave
this weekend. But that's such a popular thing. And you
saw today in the games, Hey, you had one team
that really screwed up by going to the bullpen early.
One team that went a little bit early and almost
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lost it, and one team that went to the bullpen
at the absolute right time, and that's where they were
able to win. It's there every single night you go
to the bullpen before you have to, you're gonna find
that guy who it's not a night when you're bringing
in three four relievers in a night. One of those
guys is not gonna be at the top of his
game and that's gonna give you an l in the playoffs. Oh,
we always talking about when you're putting together and we
(39:00):
love the analytics and putting together algorithms and talking it out.
You got to eliminate as.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Many variables as you can basic math, right, let's cut
all these things out, potential for things to go wrong,
and going to the bullpen repeatedly. It is different in
the postseason because you're not just setting up your bat.
You're trying to see pitches to give your next guy
an advantage, because that one run in the postseason means
everything during the regular season. Over one hundred and sixty two,
(39:28):
as we talked about with the Diamondbacks, gotta listen to
the whole show. Yeah, there's a game that you wish
you one because it makes your path up perhaps more
clear as you go. But for the postseason, you're not
as free swinging the three outcome side of things. You're
not as okay with it. It's now about grinding out,
get them on, get them over, get them in, seeing
(39:49):
as many pitches as you can, because perhaps the guy
in the on deck circle talking to the teammates, they
pick up something in the delivery, They pick up something
in in what the pitcher's given out that particular outing,
as opposed to just going up first ball swinging.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
So you have that.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
The Paralta one just made no sense. The Mets did
it perfectly. With Severino struggled earlier. You were losing your mind,
no question about it. I would have taken out Severna
the sun taken him out. Just say, take the uniform off,
leave it on the side of the mound. I get it.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
But you know, we we watched him pitch through his
struggles and then he's in the dugout high five and cheering,
losing his mind. After he finally left the game. Peralta
leaves so much left in the tank, and after three
glorious innings, much to the happiness of my tag team
partner mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
He gets so bullpen happy and it winds up killing him.
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