July 16, 2025 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside hour three The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. Well, I hope you like
it when you get to see history, because that's what
we just got in the All Star Game. The game
tied at six after nine innings, we went to a
home run derby for the very first time. Now more
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than just Yankee fans. One, Aaron Boone fired because of
his home run derby selections. Sorry, too soon, too soon.
Jonathan Randa, needing to hit a home run to keep
it going, did not. And because Babe Schwarber hit three
homers in his chance to go, every batter got to
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hit three home runs, the National got to have three swings.
The National League clinches the All Star Game. They win
it because they had four home runs in their three
man home run derby. Pete Alonso did not have to
swing because they had a clinch because Randa did not homer,
so three for the American League, four for the National League,
and Kyle Schwarber three absolute bombs, including one that he
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falls to his knee after he hits, and this gives
the National League the victory. It was just fun. We
had never seen it. It's history. I get people are
gonna hate it, go on, hate it whatever again. If
you don't like it, baseball is not your thing, man,
I got, It's an exhibition game. It was awesome. It
was different. We had never seen it. Everybody watched this
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Tonight's gonna remember where they were the first time they
saw this happening.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know me, I'm a white Sox guy, always hated
the Cubs. But there was one guy I couldn't you
like the babe, Love the babe, Babe, Babe Schwarmer coming
up big, joining us now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
In the hotline to break it all down. MLB Network,
Fox Sports Radio Baseball Insider Extraordinary John Paul Morosi. He's
gonna join us, coming up in a second. But first
we have All Star James Wood, who's going to join
us here on the show to talk about what we
just so, what we all just saw.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
He's gonna join us. Member.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He had a great home run Derby last night, Right,
he had a big night. So we're gonna get to
talk to him in a second to get his reaction.
This is the first reaction we're gonna get. This is
like everywhere his history. Here's the first player being interviewed.
That's right about the about the home run Derby. James,
Welcome to the show man.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
How you doing, I'm doing good? Are you all right? Good?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Well, first of.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
All, what did you think the home run Derby the
way it went to decide the All Star Game?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I mean, I think it was cool. I mean nothing
by like that. When they tied it up in the nine,
we were all kind of wondering what was going to
go on if we were to go to extras, And
I think when we found that out we were kind
of shocked, But I think it ended up great.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How did they do there? How did the decision come
down who was going to hit? Who was going to
be able to be the ones to go out there?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I think they had an idea before and they had
already asked guys just in case. So I think that's
how it went down, But I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You didn't go up with a baton. So I'm ready,
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. Ready.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
No, I'll spectating this time.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
All right, So did did you guy? How many did
you know?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Did other players know in the dugout that this could
be the possibility that you there were going to be
a home run derby was a kind of new to.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Some of you.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I mean, I honestly remember I remember it being mentioned
like earlier this year, but like I completely forgot, and
I think a lot of other guys they weren't weren't
really sure what was.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What was going to go down either, since Skipper had
gone through all the pictures, maybe you guys were all
trying to figure out back in literal league through the
most who would have gotten the next what was that? Well,
since Dave Roberts used up all the pictures, just the
question of whether you guys, any of you positioned players.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Head experience, Yeah, I don't know, I mean I would
I'm not sure. I guess we never even Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It would have been an interesting thing.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But but for you, I mean, what what what does
this weekend mean for you or this midweek excursion.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I mean, it was just great just being in his
locker room and just being a part of everything. He
was a great experience.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
What was it like watching the watching the derby? Were
you nervous? Were you excited?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
What was it like?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I mean, I was just excited. I think I was
nervous earlier in the day, but once you got close,
so I was just more more ready to go than anything.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All right, James Wood, congratulations on the big week. A
nice job in the home run derby last night, and
maybe we'll maybe we'll see it in one of these
in the future.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, sounds good, Thank you man, great.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Stuff, James, what hey, some of them knew something, knew
what was going on? Okay, Now we got John Paul
Morosi joining us on the Hotlights, Big Night History guest
guest Bang Bang Bang MLB network insider extraordinaire, longtime friend
of the show, John Palmer ROSI, what's happening, buddy?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I'm doing great? And that was quite a flourish. I
rarely begin one of our conversations by citing the Twitter
feed or the X feed of Cessmenta's family barbecue. But
I felt as though I have to do it right
now because it's just that interesting quote. Kyle Schwebber is
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the first position player All Star Game MVP to go
hitless and also the first All Star Game MVP to
hit three home runs. End quote. And all that is true.
And if you had shown that post to anyone at
nine am today and said this will all be accurate
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by midnight, they would say, huh what? And yet that's
what we've got. It was awesome. I would I would
challenge anyone who would say that that was not fairly entertaining, dramatic.
And by the way, the most the most nervous I
was watching the hole undry was actually not for the
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contestants themselves. It was, in no particular order, the batting
practice pitchers on whom there was an immense amount of pressure.
There was one member of the Fox videography crew, one
of the camera people, who was basically standing behind the
catcher no protection, so he's standing on the warning track
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behind no plate. And then all the players who were
on the field. I mean, my goodness, I was so
nervous thinking, will anybody you get a foul ball that
accidentally is hitt into that crowd. That terrified me a
little bit, But in the end it was as brilliant
as anyone could have voted it to be. And I
also noticed by the way, I know if you saw this,
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I wanted the drives to right field. The door of
the Braves bullpen was open, so that if the ball
would have sailed over that because we hadn't seen everything
else in this game. Who determines if it's actually a
home run? I want to know who actually gets to
make that call. So it just inspired all these different
thoughts that we just never have during the latter stages
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of a game. And as James Wood just told the
two of you, a lot of the NL players didn't
even know that that was the rule until it actually happened.
I love it when baseball surprises us.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, today we're wondering, with all the arms that Dave
Roberts was going through, whether he'd put himself into a
I need a key k Hernandez on my All Star Team.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Moment right Well, that was I believe the thoughts and
I would have to go back check my All Star
Game history. Two thousand and eight Yankee stadium. That was
a long, extrading game. It was in the era of
the This time it counts with respect to the home
of the advantage being determined by the All Star winner.
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And I think that JD. Drew was identified by Terry
Francona as being possibly a guy that could throw late
in the game. It's just it's a fascinating set of circumstances.
And I'm just really thrilled that the Baseball writ large
won in a big way tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I mean, look, I said this, we're talking about this
Jay jumpall with everything we saw tonight, right, you go
back to the ABS having an incredible debut with the
players challenging. It worked really smooth. The pregame show was
very much something baseball hadn't done. It was terrific. The
uniforms looked great. The Kershaw miked up moment was phenomenal,
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him talking to John Smoltz and Smoltz telling him pitches
to throw the Kershaw doesn't throw. Come on, man, I
don't throw a cutter. And then it ends with this
home run Derby. Like if you watch this and you
don't like Baseball's is not your thing, It's like, okay,
go do something else, right, go buy something else.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
It was objectively one of the best shows, and I
mean that I'm using that term deliberately here one of
the best shows that I've ever seen on a baseball field.
Really was. They put on a true show. And by
the way, this is what it's supposed to be in
the years in which it determined home field advantage, I
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understood it. But this is meant as a showcase of
the game's greatest stars, and it's also a reflection of
the prevailing culture of the game. And the culture of
the game right now is very athletic and very fun,
and we saw that on the field tonight. This is
not the nineteen seventies of the Rose Fosse collision and
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hatred between the leagues and no fraternizing between players on
different teams. It's a different time and what you saw
in the field tonight, I think, and by the way,
most poignantly the Henry Aaron celebration and what a gorgeous,
just a beautiful photo of Billy Aaron watching just incredible
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moments that we saw from beginning to end. It really was,
I think one of the greatest showcases of the game
that we have ever seen in our lifetimes.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, that's the thing we always talk about JP is
you know, baseball does history right and the Aaron Tribute
doing that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
But certainly, you know the.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
In game interviews, everybody pointing out the breath and scope,
going to the veterans like Kershaw, to the first timers,
you know, and the camaraderie and going around and getting
those notes that you know, once again it hit every
mark true.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Good and you credit the decisions by Dave Roberts to
pull both Freeman and Kershaw out in the middle of
innings to make you think, get a great a great ovation.
And by the way, thinking about other other moments within
the game, if Matt Olsen, the hometown first baseman who
grew up in the Atlanta area and is now the
Braves first baseman, if he doesn't make that brilliant stop
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on the Jazz chishm ground ball to right field would
have been a ground ball to right field, the American
League may well win in regulation. At that point Chapman.
Noel was going to hit against Chapman tonight. I mean,
he was unbelievable in his innings. So I just think
there were there were a lot of planned things that
went great, and a lot of unplanned things that went great,
and and I think that's the that's the mark of
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a great event and one that I think we're gonna
cherish in our memories for a very very long time.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, John Paul I would.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Have just blamed Dave Roberts at the Nation League loss
because I'd like I would call it, you don't bring
Edwin Diaz in in the middle of an inning he
starts to in it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You've seen enough.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
You know.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
He probably heard you pounding the table all the way
from LA to Atlanta. Don't do it.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Don't do it.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
But it was even the conversation between the managers, Aaron
Boone and Dave Roberts, you could tell how much respect
they have going back to their college days in LA.
It was just it was a beautiful way to celebrate
the game all the way around.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Well, and then we had the home run derby yesterday
that gets everything off with the bang in cal Rawley,
one of the big stories. I mean, what do you
think of the point zero eight difference there? I mean
a lot of tinfoil hats. And we had him on
first sitting in studio watching it live.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
JP.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Hey, we all got out our abacus and measuring tape
and stat cast derivatives of various slopes and parabolas and
what would have been different distances. I understand that there
may have been a little technicality, but hey, it got
him into the dance and then he wanted from there.
This has been the year of Cal Raley and I
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as we sit here today, I would say if I
had an al MVP ballot in front of me right now,
I would put Raleigh one, Judge two. I just think
that the power hitting at that position is so unique
and the number of that bats he's able to take
while playing that position. It's a difficult staff to catch.
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The Mariners really rely a lot on their pitching. Again,
I love Aaron Judge. I would happily vote for him
every year. I just think that right now, what we've
seen in the first three plus months of the season,
Raleigh has been the most valuable player in the American League.
Now there's a lot of baseball left and catchers have
been known to wear down, and if he wears down,
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then it's probably going to be Judges Award, and that
would also be a great outcome. I just think right now,
what Raley is doing is truly historic. And if he
hit sixty home runs as a catcher, and let's judge
at sixty one, I'm not sure. I'm not sure how
you'd be able to not vote for Raleigh if in
fact he gets to sixty or even honestly to the
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range of fifty five.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Ever more, well, two things, John Paul to finished with. One,
congratulations of getting banned from Yankee Stadium. You can never
go back after that. And uh, Secondly, okay, I mean
maybe I think maybe pitching is overrated in Major League Baseball.
And I didn't think about that till tonight. But if
Clayton Kershaw could strike out the final better the inning
get outs while talking to Smoltz and everybody else getting
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and getting all sorts of advice, if he could have
that kind of an inning, maybe pitching is a little
bit easier than we think it is.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
What I'll say is this, they were having fun. They
were all having fun. Joe Davis, John Swoltz, Kershell, they
were all having a good time. And I'm a believer
that baseball is best played when you are relaxed. And
Kershaw and Scooble and Skians, they have all thrown so
many pitches in their lives that I think in some ways,
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if you can just trust your muscle memory and your
your mouth can be saying any words you need to
be saying as you're going through your delivery. Yeah, you
could say you've got a focus, but it's a loose
focus for me, I think. And and these guys, the hitters,
the pitchers, and I love that Johnson Bolts talked about
regarding how hard it is to do what Rooker did,
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which Warber did. It's this is superhuman stuff what they
were able to do. And I just think that it
was very impressive in that way. And it was also
just illuminating to hear Kershaw with that live conversation at
ease very much, Eddies. Maybe the relaxed Kurshaw could pitch
another ten years if you really wanted to, even though
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I think the body's probably telling him man the time
to hang him up. I might be getting a little
closer for him.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I mean when Smolt says throw a cutter and he goes,
I don't have the u son of ice, right, Yeah,
I love it.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Just you got the absolutely hysterical normal talk of a
baseball field, and that's what you want in an All
Star Game and credit the Fox, credit to MLB for
making it happen.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Well, you saw Dave Roberts telling him do you keep
that ball as he was walking off.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
That was great too, and just hearing what Clayton was
saying to his teammates. There Will Smith of course behind
the plate, he's been there for so many of his outings.
Freddy Freeman at that point was still in the game.
There was just a lot of really cool moments where
you could tell how much respect Clayton has so the
people around him, and certainly how much respect they have
for him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He's on Twitter at John Paul Morosi, that is at
at John Morosi, that is at John Rossi. John Paul
Morosi has always thanks so much. And again, I know
it was an All Star Game tonight, but three run
Homer by Alonso, please call Sternsey every day. That contract
that's more and more expensive.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Learned from the Jets, Lindor's in the game. There's a
lot of really positive things. And then of course the
forward met Pete pro Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, all right, we're not going to talk about it.
Bye bye, John Paul, Bye bye you. JPU Coming up next,
the ending of this All Star Game is very polarizing.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, it is, because it was anti baseball, was against
what baseball has been, right, what it's been like.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
But that's why it was so good.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
We'll explain coming up next right here, as we look
back at absolute history tonight.
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
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Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now we have.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, the twenty twenty five MLB All Star Game. People
are gonna go online and go wait, it says six
to sixth final?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, I know it's like soccer.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You gotta read the small print at the top that says, oh,
NL wins on home run, derby, swing off, tiebreaker, four
to three. You look at the top, prety sweet, you
know Brazil wins on penalties for to three. Oh okay,
there's your final score. Is this the baseball equivalent of
penalty kicks?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Absolute? Just kind of go I don't really I want
it to end naturally?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Well, do you really want like four more innings of player?
You want to go right to a home run derby
to write your home runner?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Take the physical challenge. No, look, I'll always for.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
More free sporting action. But I understand you hit a
natural stopping point because you only have so many pitchers.
You're not bringing guys back at Hey, you haven't pitched
in two hours. But get back out there.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Let's do this in the regular season. Let's put a
runner at second and have a home run at tenth inning.
Why did you start? Why did you bring that runner
at second?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Home run? I could be I might be able to
be talked into that the ghost runner. You're never getting
me on ball and the home run. Do both do
bother be great?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Or you say, okay, you could either have the runner
at second or three swings for two home runs.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You got it two home runs, so you got to
hit one or the other. Yeah, you can't just hit one.
Who's throwing the ball?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You know one of your guys, one of your guys
is doing You get to bring out one of the
like cal Rally, get to bring out his dad if
he wanted to. Sure, sure you either the runner at second,
nobody out, or you get three swings, got hit two
home runs and that counts as a run.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I'll take what's in the box the box. I love it,
no fun end.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It was a fun night all around, from from the
outset with Ludacris and company to the final swings you
had to throw ride all the way through, great celebration
of the sport. Now this is gonna be polarizing, right, Sure,
there's gonna be a lot of people that don't like
the way it ended. It don't like it ended with
a home run derby, And there's gonna be a lot
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of people that love it. And honestly, it's an exhibition.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It was fun, It was different a home run derby
or sorry, swing off tiebreaker, although we can call it
home run dirt. I mean swing off tiebreaker. I mean,
does somebody own the rights for home run derby on
Monday nights? Like we can only do it on Monday nights?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Well, I'm sure now, I mean they've moved on from that,
and swing off might be copyrighted and trademarked in a
whole lot of swing off.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh swing dancing, like we're gonna do a swing off.
We have these two couples. Time keep it clean. It's
ahead at ten o'clock's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Get throw back, a bottle of beard, and you got
everybody a horn section behind you and a giant wallet
and chain.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So there's good to be a lot of people who
hate this, right, I said, I loved it. I'm a
baseball purist. I grew up on baseball. You and I
both grew up on baseball. We're two of the biggest
baseball fans that are on the radio anywhere, even on
MLB network.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
This is true. But the people who hate it, that's
why it was so good.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A right.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The haters are gonna say, I don't want the derby.
I didn't like that I didn't like the players being
miked up. I don't like the abs calling balls and strikes.
It's not baseball. There's so many people that didn't like
the way that the introduction was done with ludicrous singing
welcome to Atlanta.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Ha.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Why can't the players just go out there and stand
on the line and wave like okay, why can't it
be that way?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, but it ends a week of complaining about this process,
right from how players are selected, who were the alternates
and guys getting called up. We talked a lot about
Miserowski and he finally made his appearance in the aid.
Dave was not gonna leave any stone unturned out of
that bullpen. But it's been a week complaining, and that's
the beauty of right. We always talk about it on
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the radio. Love us or hate us, don't be indifferent.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Why was so good is because it was so anti
what baseball is. Because it was so anti the baseball
that so many people grew up with. Right, as I said,
I love baseball.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Wait to me her baseball peers. Baseball peers don't like it.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Why because a lot of stuff I don't like Because
it was not really the baseball that I consume every day.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It wasn't the baseball that I watch.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's what made this great, Right, That's what made this
great because baseball showing you tonight, Hey, guess what we
Even though we're a timeless game, you can go back
and you look at all sports over the course of
the past fifty one hundred years and you can tell, Okay,
here's a football game that obviously is from nineteen twenty.
But baseball, hey, looks kind of the same from what
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you saw in nineteen nineteen versus what you see now.
Still nine players still on a fields to the fields
are still the same, the length of the field is
still the same. Right, players are throwing harder, they're bigger,
but baseball is recognizable. But every sport needs to be
able to adapt and show you something different. And what
Major League Baseball showed you tonight was we got lots
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of things that you might love.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
The ABS system that made its debut in the Alstar Game,
in which a player can challenge a pitch the result
of a pitch, but they have to do it right away.
Right A pitcher, catcher, or batter if they think a
pitch is called erroneously by homeplate umpire can challenge call,
but they got to do it right away, right, And
we watched the first three bang bang bang, all those
calls were reversed. Right, So great night for the abs,
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not a great night for the human umpires. And it
was fun. It was done quick. Treik schoobl had it great, Okay,
got it. We saw it a couple more times. Edwin
Diaz got out of a jam in the ninth inning
because he challenged the pitch and he thought struck out
Randy or Rose Arena. The home plate umpire didn't call
it a strike. They went to the review system, strike
three and we move on.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's a new thing. People are gonna hate that technology,
but it was great. It kept the game going.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It was different.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
The players loved it and they were fast here. It's
not like it took time away. It was something that
was kind of quick.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Okay, we say, okay, hey, we let the players make
that decision on the field.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Awesome. The Clayton Kershaw being miked up for his for
his inning. He was out there, he is miked up.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
In the in the in the millisecond before he throws pitches,
and you're gonna hear Kershaw's two and a half minute
rip coming up in a few minutes. It's phenomenal stuff.
It's groundbreaking stuff. Talking about what he's gonna throw. Usually
you get you get players miked up. We've seen that,
and look, Pete A. Lonza was miked up and he
was kind of boring. But here's Kershaw is in his
and you know, getting ready to go and his wind
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up saying, smolty, what do you want me to throw?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
He's just a cutter inside the eye. I don't throw that.
He throws another pitch.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He's having fun and and talking back and forth with
the guys in the booth about what pitches he should throw,
which again is probably why Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You know this is it? Kershaw know it's my last
off star right now. Think about it.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
He's the guy that needs the start time to be precise.
Like he he's a red ass in so many ways.
So the fact that he dialed that up. We talked
with John Paul Morosi about him and Dave Roberts saying no,
you keep that ball, and the way he was kind
of emotional as he left the mound all signs to that.
But we'll get to him in full later it was
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different and the home run derby, how did you want
them to solve the game?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Keep going?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Neither team had pitchers. It was made towards this. Everybody
had fun. Baseball showed you, hey, we have that different
side to us. We can adapt to a changing game.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
The big controversy about Misarowski getting set to this game,
Oh why is he here? He's only been in five games.
Every Philly player was upset that he was selected. Guess
what fans wanted to see him pitch? Right, he's a
great young fenom that every other pitch is one hundred
miles an hour. Yeah, you want people to watch the game,
so of course the interesting players are gonna be there, right.
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One Sodo should have probably been there. People would have
wanted to see him play. But this was great because baseball.
It was anti what we've all seen and what we've
come to love and know about baseball. It was Baseball saying, hey,
guess what we got something a little different we can do,
and yet it's gonna be a little weird because of
stuff you've never seen before, because generally baseball moves slower
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than any other sport. But we're showing you we can
do this, and we can bring you fun and something
different and innovations, and that was all what tonight was.
Because it was so different is what made it great.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Well, ultimately, times change, the way people consume things changed.
Major League Baseball was the first to really embrace the hey,
here listen to you're from Chicago, but you live in
LA you can hear your team in audio format and
eventually full blown video opportunities to that. So for all
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of the staid history that you know, people say how
the game doesn't evolve, they were first there, first move
or advantage. And this is also an opportunity with the
audio interviews in game, which they've been doing for years,
right from the dugout and whatever. But on the field,
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certainly for all Star games doing more of that and
players embracing it, from Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
To Pete Crow Armstrong. And even if if Pete Alonso
wasn't you know, the most.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Highlight worthy, I guess for a couple of minutes you're
talking about the game and his appreciation of it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
It's still a little bit of inside baseball. So it's good.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
All the rule changes that we've had in the regular season,
this is just an extension of that like they're trying
to change the pitch clock, which you can still debate
how much you love or hate the game moves right.
It fits into those windows. All Star game is an exhibition,
so you get the younger players in Misroowski. Guys want
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to decline it. Teams have to decide, all right, do
I pay the guy a bonus anyway?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Sarez?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Remember they were all mad about him. Well, he was
on a pitch count his last time out and then
wasn't going to pitch anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
So it all works itself out. So you celebrate the game.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's really ultimately what this is, showcase with as many
eyeballs as you can young stars veterans in their final throws,
to highlight your history of the game and.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Bridge to the future. They did it in every note
hit for this performance.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
If you don't like it, then you probably don't watch
regular season baseball, you know what I mean? Like, like
this was yes, the the home run derby at the
end is a little bit wow, that's how it's got end.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Did you want him to throw it up in a tie? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Hey, but seally, what'd you think about that? I mean, look,
it's it's it's that scene from a league of their own.
When Geena Davis is going to leave the team and
she tells Tom Hanks, it just got too hard, right.
She had problems with her sister and everything else, and
she wanted to go home and her husband was at war,
and she says it just got too hard. And Tom
Hank says, the hard is what makes it great, right, Oh, baseball,
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this is so different.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
This we don't do.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
The different is what made this great. I mean, I
don't know, I don't know what you could have possibly
else wanted. And John Paul Moros, who joined a few
minutes ago, you hit it right on the head. This
was the best show you could have seen Major League
Baseball put on.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
This was a show. Remember it's a television show. It's
an entertainment show. It was a show. It was a
show to everybody watching, which showed everybody in attendance. It
was a show to the players.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
You got twelve runs. Some of your biggest players had
big moments from the big towns. You got to introduce
some new stars. Rooker hits the pinch, hit home run,
a guy who a night ago we were talking about
being robbed and him saying, well, I wish I would
have known, you know what, we're at the standings where
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or not that it's gonna he's gonna hit it an
extra inch to get the victory over cal Raley in
the home run derby. But the fact that he comes
back the night after it hits that big home run
that ends up mattering, right, is when it went and
it's like, all right, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
But all of that to say, you got all these
big moments for four hours of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm telling you it was incredible. And just listen to
as this gun folds over the next twenty four hours
and you see the sides people take on this.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Sorry, Pete Alonso didn't get to hit for you that
it's all right.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He had a home run. His contract would have been,
it would have been more money. If he had a
home run to win the home every one would have
been a hero on another level in the back of
the fish rat. No question time not to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the pee Alonzo of Fox Sports Radio,
he didn't swing it all in the home run derby
tonight either hit Steve diseger.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I was expecting some Polar Bear reference.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
He nationally did win the All Star Game, and after
this spectacle in Atlanta tonight, Major League Baseball will have
another one in two and a half weeks, and it
will involve the Braves. Keep in mind that there is
what's called the Speedway Classic coming up at Bristol Motor Speedway.
There will be a Major League game, the first ever
in the state of Tennessee, the first Saturday night of August.
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One of the Fox games they have already laid out.
They showed a bit tonight, laid out a baseball field
on the infield of this huge NASCAR track, and all.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
The players are gonna be inside race cars like it's
the movie cars and they're gonna be playing.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
That's how it is.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Brad Pitt have actually put some seats along the third
base line, but most of the fans will be in
the regular NASCAR seats. It'll be the first time there's
a National League or American League game in the state
of Tennessee. And there's gonna be a Tim McGraw pregame concert,
Pitbull there and others. And we're only two and a
half weeks away from that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Starting pitchers Lightning McQueen and Chick Hicks for that one.
I wouldn't say whoever didn't throw tonight, but everybody threw tonight.
The National League used all thirteen of its pitchers in
the nine innings, so then we went to the new rule,
which apparently on paper, was instituted in twenty two. But
of course no All Star game had demanded extra innings
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until tonight, so we went to a swing off. Kyle Schwarber,
the game MVP, swatting home runs on all three of
his late swings. The National League takes it over the
Americans after the game had been tied six to six
after night innings. The American Leaguers got two runs in
the top of the ninth to tie the game.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
By the way, Al manager Aaron Boone the Yankee, said
that he made his picks for that mini home run
derby at the end based on who would be in
the game late and who wouldn't be you know.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Have been sitting around for some time.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
Longtime baseball writer Bob Nightingale says a Henne o' suarez
had X rays on the hand he was hit by
a pitch. They were negative, but he was pulled from
that home run derby. At the end, Nightingale claims the
game will officially go down as an NL victory of
seven to six, but MLB dot com says it goes
in the record books as a tie, with a notation
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that the NL won in a swing off, no winning pitcher,
no losing pitcher, and guys like shohe Otani were long
gone not considered for the home run derby. They showed
Trek schoobl the starting pitcher for the al had showered
and was out of uniform and came back on the
field just to watch the swing off. At the end,
it was an impressive night of entertainment. Pete Alonzo the
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Mets three run homer in the six, Corbyn Carrol of
Arizona a solo shot for a six to nothing lead,
and still it takes the swing off four to three.
In the swing off, the National League takes it. MLB's
regular season games resume on Friday. The Jets gave defensive
back Sauce Gardner a four year extension. The Chiefs gave
guard Tray Smith a four year extension. Washington wide receiver
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Terry McLaurin says he's frustrated by a lack of progress
on an extension, the Commanders will retire wide receiver Art
Monks number eighty one in November. Two WNBA games Tonight
wins for La and for Indiana. The Fever beat Connecticut
in Boston eighty five seventy seven. The Connecticut's son three
and nineteen now Caitlin Clark fourteen points in victory. She
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left late in the game with another groin injury. She
had just returned from injury last Wednesday after missing five
straight games, and it was announced today Clark is due
to be in the Friday three point shootout for All
Star Weekend, which is this weekend in Indianapolis. All Star
Game on Saturday, and a WNBA expansion team starting next
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year will be the Portland Fire.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
The nickname just announced back to you. Thank you, Steve O.
You know you see this on the innet all the time.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Hey, this is the best two minutes you'll see all
day about stuff coming up next. Yeah, the best two
minutes you'll hear all day. Clayton Kershaw miked up for
his what is likely final All Star appearance. That's next
right here, Jason.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
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Speaker 1 (34:53):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. The All Star Game decided by how
Run Derby and MVP Kyle Schwarber, who hit three of them.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Legend someone suiting in for the thirst time going what
the hell happened? Yeah, now that's how it was. Yeah,
he bent the knee on one.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Uh So we'll have more on that coming up in
about ten minutes because we had never seen that before.
He talked about the history of it. But you want
the best two minutes you're gonna listen to with something
Major League Baseball All Day. Clayton Kershaw, who was named
of the team very special selection by the commissioner what
is likely his final All Star Game after he finishes
off one of the greatest careers any of us have
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ever seen, was miked up for the two batters he
faced in his inning of work. And it's unlike any
miked up you could have possibly seen. Remember, he's pitching
and he's miked up, and here's what it is, him
talking to Smoltz and the other broadcasters. This courtesy of
Big Fox. During the game, give us Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
You you you.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
He was talking to Peter A. Lonzo. Here's Clayton Gershaw
miked up tonight and we're.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Actually gonna get to talk to these small with Clayton.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
I can't believe you're doing this, Clayton. Okay, you there,
Let's try to throw some cheese real quick. Hold on, yeah,
what'sit in near the left field? Hello, Tucker? Oh sick easy,
Oh sick.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Tucker.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Now with the Cups enjoying a great season, enjoying a
great catch. It's happy, my lave matter.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
That was sweet?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
How hard was that?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
One ninety one?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
It was an out?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
It was an out?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
All right?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Go on cheese again? Okay, yeah, that's all I mean.
You and Paul Skins are pretty much the same guy
right down the middle.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
I'm so glad you didn't swing. Okay, I'm going curve
ooy here, okay, short, what happened?
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Double up? All right?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Now, I think I've really gotta go slider. Let's think
what will thinks? But I think I gotta go slider here?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
No, no, you want scurveball again? All right? Fine? Oh
uncle Charlie, Okay, what do you want?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Spell see what do you want cut her in? Slider in?
I don't throw a cutter slid You're gonna make it
a mansion short? How about the splitty breakout?
Speaker 5 (37:38):
This this is so weird talking to you, guys. It's
kindly go to hey, I think that might be it
and us laden. What a year, buddy, what a career
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and what a moment. Soak it in. Thanks really.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
All right, thanks, thanks, thanks guys.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
That was fun.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
That was fun.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Thank you for thanks. Thanks, that was fun. Keep it you, George. Guys.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
All right, one of the greatest that ever lived, right there,
Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Ow fun, guys, thanks for talking. You're the best. Twenty
two Uh there was big Fox on the call.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I mean look to hear Clayton Kershaw do that right,
there's pictures that could have done something like that. He's
talking right up until the pitch. Smoltzye, what do you
want me to throw a cutter in? I don't throw
a cutter, sorry, John Smoltz. He was having so much
fun doing it. And this is a guy who with
first pitches and at seven eleven every night, that's it.
I'm I'm I'm gonna take the take, take the seats.
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Out of the stadium.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
We talk about guys in their routines in baseball and
certainly starting pitchers on game day and how locked in
they are, and Kershaw is always the top of the
list in terms of that kind of prep and just
stay out of his periphery, let alone something like this
for the fact.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
That he does it, he does it again.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Clayton Kershaw, who is a bear for detail, right right, Yeah,
for him to do that and enjoy it and not
seem like, hey, you're pulling teeth cause you see. Even
Pete Lonza was like, yeah, okay, I'll be micd up.
That's why I'm not gonna say anything. But this tells
you how at peace he is with this is the end.
It's his last All Star appearance ever.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
He knows this is the end.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I'm sure this will be the final year in his
career because I don't know that the Dodgers even have
a spot for him next year.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
He gets the ovation going off, like he knows, and
we all know this is the end. You're seeing.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
You have a finite amount of Clayton Kershaw starts and
appearances the rest of your life, so enjoy all of
them the rest of the way because tonight, seeing how
he was with this, you know, he knows this is
the end. I'm gonna have fun, this is my goodbye.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Well, he saw a little bit of it when he
got his three thousand strikeout, the same kind of exhale
to a degree of getting there right, because we always
watch guys trying to get that last win, that last
strike out of that and what a chore it can
become at times.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
That he hit that milestone and celebrated that, and for
this back and forth.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I love the fact that you got the full grunt
with the microphone like he was serving in tennis and
rolling through the having fun with Smoltz, and then the
celebration and thanking of all the infielders as they came through,
and Dave Roberts saying no, no, no, you keep that ball,
and the smile on his face as he was walking
off the mound. I mean that's priceless.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
I mean, really, that's the best two minutes you're gonna
hear right there, Hey, what.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Do you want, Smoltz? I don't throw that, you son
of it. And he even censured himself, like even sounded
himself there. Coming up next we get back of the
big questions surrounding the home run Derby
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside hour three The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. Well, I hope you like
it when you get to see history, because that's what
we just got in the All Star Game. The game
tied at six after nine innings, we went to a
home run derby for the very first time. Now more
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than just Yankee fans. One, Aaron Boone fired because of
his home run derby selections. Sorry, too soon, too soon.
Jonathan Randa, needing to hit a home run to keep
it going, did not. And because Babe Schwarber hit three
homers in his chance to go, every batter got to
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hit three home runs, the National got to have three swings.
The National League clinches the All Star Game. They win
it because they had four home runs in their three
man home run derby. Pete Alonso did not have to
swing because they had a clinch because Randa did not homer,
so three for the American League, four for the National League,
and Kyle Schwarber three absolute bombs, including one that he
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falls to his knee after he hits, and this gives
the National League the victory. It was just fun. We
had never seen it. It's history. I get people are
gonna hate it, go on, hate it whatever again. If
you don't like it, baseball is not your thing, man,
I got, It's an exhibition game. It was awesome. It
was different. We had never seen it. Everybody watched this
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Tonight's gonna remember where they were the first time they
saw this happening.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know me, I'm a white Sox guy, always hated
the Cubs. But there was one guy I couldn't you
like the babe, Love the babe, Babe, Babe Schwarmer coming
up big, joining us now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
In the hotline to break it all down. MLB Network,
Fox Sports Radio Baseball Insider Extraordinary John Paul Morosi. He's
gonna join us, coming up in a second. But first
we have All Star James Wood, who's going to join
us here on the show to talk about what we
just so, what we all just saw.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
He's gonna join us. Member.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He had a great home run Derby last night, Right,
he had a big night. So we're gonna get to
talk to him in a second to get his reaction.
This is the first reaction we're gonna get. This is
like everywhere his history. Here's the first player being interviewed.
That's right about the about the home run Derby. James,
Welcome to the show man.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
How you doing, I'm doing good? Are you all right? Good?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Well, first of.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
All, what did you think the home run Derby the
way it went to decide the All Star Game?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I mean, I think it was cool. I mean nothing
by like that. When they tied it up in the nine,
we were all kind of wondering what was going to
go on if we were to go to extras, And
I think when we found that out we were kind
of shocked, But I think it ended up great.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How did they do there? How did the decision come
down who was going to hit? Who was going to
be able to be the ones to go out there?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I think they had an idea before and they had
already asked guys just in case. So I think that's
how it went down, But I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You didn't go up with a baton. So I'm ready,
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. Ready.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
No, I'll spectating this time.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
All right, So did did you guy? How many did
you know?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Did other players know in the dugout that this could
be the possibility that you there were going to be
a home run derby was a kind of new to.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Some of you.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I mean, I honestly remember I remember it being mentioned
like earlier this year, but like I completely forgot, and
I think a lot of other guys they weren't weren't
really sure what was.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What was going to go down either, since Skipper had
gone through all the pictures, maybe you guys were all
trying to figure out back in literal league through the
most who would have gotten the next what was that? Well,
since Dave Roberts used up all the pictures, just the
question of whether you guys, any of you positioned players.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Head experience, Yeah, I don't know, I mean I would
I'm not sure. I guess we never even Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It would have been an interesting thing.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But but for you, I mean, what what what does
this weekend mean for you or this midweek excursion.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I mean, it was just great just being in his
locker room and just being a part of everything. He
was a great experience.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
What was it like watching the watching the derby? Were
you nervous? Were you excited?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
What was it like?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I mean, I was just excited. I think I was
nervous earlier in the day, but once you got close,
so I was just more more ready to go than anything.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All right, James Wood, congratulations on the big week. A
nice job in the home run derby last night, and
maybe we'll maybe we'll see it in one of these
in the future.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, sounds good, Thank you man, great.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Stuff, James, what hey, some of them knew something, knew
what was going on? Okay, Now we got John Paul
Morosi joining us on the Hotlights, Big Night History guest
guest Bang Bang Bang MLB network insider extraordinaire, longtime friend
of the show, John Palmer ROSI, what's happening, buddy?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I'm doing great? And that was quite a flourish. I
rarely begin one of our conversations by citing the Twitter
feed or the X feed of Cessmenta's family barbecue. But
I felt as though I have to do it right
now because it's just that interesting quote. Kyle Schwebber is
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the first position player All Star Game MVP to go
hitless and also the first All Star Game MVP to
hit three home runs. End quote. And all that is true.
And if you had shown that post to anyone at
nine am today and said this will all be accurate
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by midnight, they would say, huh what? And yet that's
what we've got. It was awesome. I would I would
challenge anyone who would say that that was not fairly entertaining, dramatic.
And by the way, the most the most nervous I
was watching the hole undry was actually not for the
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contestants themselves. It was, in no particular order, the batting
practice pitchers on whom there was an immense amount of pressure.
There was one member of the Fox videography crew, one
of the camera people, who was basically standing behind the
catcher no protection, so he's standing on the warning track
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behind no plate. And then all the players who were
on the field. I mean, my goodness, I was so
nervous thinking, will anybody you get a foul ball that
accidentally is hitt into that crowd. That terrified me a
little bit, But in the end it was as brilliant
as anyone could have voted it to be. And I
also noticed by the way, I know if you saw this,
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I wanted the drives to right field. The door of
the Braves bullpen was open, so that if the ball
would have sailed over that because we hadn't seen everything
else in this game. Who determines if it's actually a
home run? I want to know who actually gets to
make that call. So it just inspired all these different
thoughts that we just never have during the latter stages
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of a game. And as James Wood just told the
two of you, a lot of the NL players didn't
even know that that was the rule until it actually happened.
I love it when baseball surprises us.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, today we're wondering, with all the arms that Dave
Roberts was going through, whether he'd put himself into a
I need a key k Hernandez on my All Star Team.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Moment right Well, that was I believe the thoughts and
I would have to go back check my All Star
Game history. Two thousand and eight Yankee stadium. That was
a long, extrading game. It was in the era of
the This time it counts with respect to the home
of the advantage being determined by the All Star winner.
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And I think that JD. Drew was identified by Terry
Francona as being possibly a guy that could throw late
in the game. It's just it's a fascinating set of circumstances.
And I'm just really thrilled that the Baseball writ large
won in a big way tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I mean, look, I said this, we're talking about this
Jay jumpall with everything we saw tonight, right, you go
back to the ABS having an incredible debut with the
players challenging. It worked really smooth. The pregame show was
very much something baseball hadn't done. It was terrific. The
uniforms looked great. The Kershaw miked up moment was phenomenal,
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him talking to John Smoltz and Smoltz telling him pitches
to throw the Kershaw doesn't throw. Come on, man, I
don't throw a cutter. And then it ends with this
home run Derby. Like if you watch this and you
don't like Baseball's is not your thing, It's like, okay,
go do something else, right, go buy something else.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
It was objectively one of the best shows, and I
mean that I'm using that term deliberately here one of
the best shows that I've ever seen on a baseball field.
Really was. They put on a true show. And by
the way, this is what it's supposed to be in
the years in which it determined home field advantage, I
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understood it. But this is meant as a showcase of
the game's greatest stars, and it's also a reflection of
the prevailing culture of the game. And the culture of
the game right now is very athletic and very fun,
and we saw that on the field tonight. This is
not the nineteen seventies of the Rose Fosse collision and
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hatred between the leagues and no fraternizing between players on
different teams. It's a different time and what you saw
in the field tonight, I think, and by the way,
most poignantly the Henry Aaron celebration and what a gorgeous,
just a beautiful photo of Billy Aaron watching just incredible
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moments that we saw from beginning to end. It really was,
I think one of the greatest showcases of the game
that we have ever seen in our lifetimes.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, that's the thing we always talk about JP is
you know, baseball does history right and the Aaron Tribute
doing that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
But certainly, you know the.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
In game interviews, everybody pointing out the breath and scope,
going to the veterans like Kershaw, to the first timers,
you know, and the camaraderie and going around and getting
those notes that you know, once again it hit every
mark true.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Good and you credit the decisions by Dave Roberts to
pull both Freeman and Kershaw out in the middle of
innings to make you think, get a great a great ovation.
And by the way, thinking about other other moments within
the game, if Matt Olsen, the hometown first baseman who
grew up in the Atlanta area and is now the
Braves first baseman, if he doesn't make that brilliant stop
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on the Jazz chishm ground ball to right field would
have been a ground ball to right field, the American
League may well win in regulation. At that point Chapman.
Noel was going to hit against Chapman tonight. I mean,
he was unbelievable in his innings. So I just think
there were there were a lot of planned things that
went great, and a lot of unplanned things that went great,
and and I think that's the that's the mark of
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a great event and one that I think we're gonna
cherish in our memories for a very very long time.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, John Paul I would.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Have just blamed Dave Roberts at the Nation League loss
because I'd like I would call it, you don't bring
Edwin Diaz in in the middle of an inning he
starts to in it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You've seen enough.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
You know.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
He probably heard you pounding the table all the way
from LA to Atlanta. Don't do it.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Don't do it.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
But it was even the conversation between the managers, Aaron
Boone and Dave Roberts, you could tell how much respect
they have going back to their college days in LA.
It was just it was a beautiful way to celebrate
the game all the way around.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Well, and then we had the home run derby yesterday
that gets everything off with the bang in cal Rawley,
one of the big stories. I mean, what do you
think of the point zero eight difference there? I mean
a lot of tinfoil hats. And we had him on
first sitting in studio watching it live.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
JP.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Hey, we all got out our abacus and measuring tape
and stat cast derivatives of various slopes and parabolas and
what would have been different distances. I understand that there
may have been a little technicality, but hey, it got
him into the dance and then he wanted from there.
This has been the year of Cal Raley and I
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as we sit here today, I would say if I
had an al MVP ballot in front of me right now,
I would put Raleigh one, Judge two. I just think
that the power hitting at that position is so unique
and the number of that bats he's able to take
while playing that position. It's a difficult staff to catch.
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The Mariners really rely a lot on their pitching. Again,
I love Aaron Judge. I would happily vote for him
every year. I just think that right now, what we've
seen in the first three plus months of the season,
Raleigh has been the most valuable player in the American League.
Now there's a lot of baseball left and catchers have
been known to wear down, and if he wears down,
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then it's probably going to be Judges Award, and that
would also be a great outcome. I just think right now,
what Raley is doing is truly historic. And if he
hit sixty home runs as a catcher, and let's judge
at sixty one, I'm not sure. I'm not sure how
you'd be able to not vote for Raleigh if in
fact he gets to sixty or even honestly to the
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range of fifty five.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Ever more, well, two things, John Paul to finished with. One,
congratulations of getting banned from Yankee Stadium. You can never
go back after that. And uh, Secondly, okay, I mean
maybe I think maybe pitching is overrated in Major League Baseball.
And I didn't think about that till tonight. But if
Clayton Kershaw could strike out the final better the inning
get outs while talking to Smoltz and everybody else getting
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and getting all sorts of advice, if he could have
that kind of an inning, maybe pitching is a little
bit easier than we think it is.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
What I'll say is this, they were having fun. They
were all having fun. Joe Davis, John Swoltz, Kershell, they
were all having a good time. And I'm a believer
that baseball is best played when you are relaxed. And
Kershaw and Scooble and Skians, they have all thrown so
many pitches in their lives that I think in some ways,
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if you can just trust your muscle memory and your
your mouth can be saying any words you need to
be saying as you're going through your delivery. Yeah, you
could say you've got a focus, but it's a loose
focus for me, I think. And and these guys, the hitters,
the pitchers, and I love that Johnson Bolts talked about
regarding how hard it is to do what Rooker did,
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which Warber did. It's this is superhuman stuff what they
were able to do. And I just think that it
was very impressive in that way. And it was also
just illuminating to hear Kershaw with that live conversation at
ease very much, Eddies. Maybe the relaxed Kurshaw could pitch
another ten years if you really wanted to, even though
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I think the body's probably telling him man the time
to hang him up. I might be getting a little
closer for him.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I mean when Smolt says throw a cutter and he goes,
I don't have the u son of ice, right, Yeah,
I love it.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Just you got the absolutely hysterical normal talk of a
baseball field, and that's what you want in an All
Star Game and credit the Fox, credit to MLB for
making it happen.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Well, you saw Dave Roberts telling him do you keep
that ball as he was walking off.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
That was great too, and just hearing what Clayton was
saying to his teammates. There Will Smith of course behind
the plate, he's been there for so many of his outings.
Freddy Freeman at that point was still in the game.
There was just a lot of really cool moments where
you could tell how much respect Clayton has so the
people around him, and certainly how much respect they have
for him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He's on Twitter at John Paul Morosi, that is at
at John Morosi, that is at John Rossi. John Paul
Morosi has always thanks so much. And again, I know
it was an All Star Game tonight, but three run
Homer by Alonso, please call Sternsey every day. That contract
that's more and more expensive.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Learned from the Jets, Lindor's in the game. There's a
lot of really positive things. And then of course the
forward met Pete pro Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, all right, we're not going to talk about it.
Bye bye, John Paul, Bye bye you. JPU Coming up next,
the ending of this All Star Game is very polarizing.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, it is, because it was anti baseball, was against
what baseball has been, right, what it's been like.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
But that's why it was so good.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
We'll explain coming up next right here, as we look
back at absolute history tonight.
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
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Mike Harmon. We'd never seen it before.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now we have.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, the twenty twenty five MLB All Star Game. People
are gonna go online and go wait, it says six
to sixth final?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, I know it's like soccer.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You gotta read the small print at the top that says, oh,
NL wins on home run, derby, swing off, tiebreaker, four
to three. You look at the top, prety sweet, you
know Brazil wins on penalties for to three. Oh okay,
there's your final score. Is this the baseball equivalent of
penalty kicks?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Absolute? Just kind of go I don't really I want
it to end naturally?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Well, do you really want like four more innings of player?
You want to go right to a home run derby
to write your home runner?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Take the physical challenge. No, look, I'll always for.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
More free sporting action. But I understand you hit a
natural stopping point because you only have so many pitchers.
You're not bringing guys back at Hey, you haven't pitched
in two hours. But get back out there.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Let's do this in the regular season. Let's put a
runner at second and have a home run at tenth inning.
Why did you start? Why did you bring that runner
at second?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Home run? I could be I might be able to
be talked into that the ghost runner. You're never getting
me on ball and the home run. Do both do
bother be great?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Or you say, okay, you could either have the runner
at second or three swings for two home runs.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You got it two home runs, so you got to
hit one or the other. Yeah, you can't just hit one.
Who's throwing the ball?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You know one of your guys, one of your guys
is doing You get to bring out one of the
like cal Rally, get to bring out his dad if
he wanted to. Sure, sure you either the runner at second,
nobody out, or you get three swings, got hit two
home runs and that counts as a run.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I'll take what's in the box the box. I love it,
no fun end.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It was a fun night all around, from from the
outset with Ludacris and company to the final swings you
had to throw ride all the way through, great celebration
of the sport. Now this is gonna be polarizing, right, Sure,
there's gonna be a lot of people that don't like
the way it ended. It don't like it ended with
a home run derby, And there's gonna be a lot
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of people that love it. And honestly, it's an exhibition.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It was fun, It was different a home run derby
or sorry, swing off tiebreaker, although we can call it
home run dirt. I mean swing off tiebreaker. I mean,
does somebody own the rights for home run derby on
Monday nights? Like we can only do it on Monday nights?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Well, I'm sure now, I mean they've moved on from that,
and swing off might be copyrighted and trademarked in a
whole lot of swing off.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh swing dancing, like we're gonna do a swing off.
We have these two couples. Time keep it clean. It's
ahead at ten o'clock's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Get throw back, a bottle of beard, and you got
everybody a horn section behind you and a giant wallet
and chain.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So there's good to be a lot of people who
hate this, right, I said, I loved it. I'm a
baseball purist. I grew up on baseball. You and I
both grew up on baseball. We're two of the biggest
baseball fans that are on the radio anywhere, even on
MLB network.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
This is true. But the people who hate it, that's
why it was so good.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A right.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The haters are gonna say, I don't want the derby.
I didn't like that I didn't like the players being
miked up. I don't like the abs calling balls and strikes.
It's not baseball. There's so many people that didn't like
the way that the introduction was done with ludicrous singing
welcome to Atlanta.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Ha.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Why can't the players just go out there and stand
on the line and wave like okay, why can't it
be that way?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, but it ends a week of complaining about this process,
right from how players are selected, who were the alternates
and guys getting called up. We talked a lot about
Miserowski and he finally made his appearance in the aid.
Dave was not gonna leave any stone unturned out of
that bullpen. But it's been a week complaining, and that's
the beauty of right. We always talk about it on
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the radio. Love us or hate us, don't be indifferent.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Why was so good is because it was so anti
what baseball is. Because it was so anti the baseball
that so many people grew up with. Right, as I said,
I love baseball.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Wait to me her baseball peers. Baseball peers don't like it.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Why because a lot of stuff I don't like Because
it was not really the baseball that I consume every day.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It wasn't the baseball that I watch.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's what made this great, Right, That's what made this
great because baseball showing you tonight, Hey, guess what we
Even though we're a timeless game, you can go back
and you look at all sports over the course of
the past fifty one hundred years and you can tell, Okay,
here's a football game that obviously is from nineteen twenty.
But baseball, hey, looks kind of the same from what
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you saw in nineteen nineteen versus what you see now.
Still nine players still on a fields to the fields
are still the same, the length of the field is
still the same. Right, players are throwing harder, they're bigger,
but baseball is recognizable. But every sport needs to be
able to adapt and show you something different. And what
Major League Baseball showed you tonight was we got lots
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of things that you might love.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
The ABS system that made its debut in the Alstar Game,
in which a player can challenge a pitch the result
of a pitch, but they have to do it right away.
Right A pitcher, catcher, or batter if they think a
pitch is called erroneously by homeplate umpire can challenge call,
but they got to do it right away, right, And
we watched the first three bang bang bang, all those
calls were reversed. Right, So great night for the abs,
(23:34):
not a great night for the human umpires. And it
was fun. It was done quick. Treik schoobl had it great, Okay,
got it. We saw it a couple more times. Edwin
Diaz got out of a jam in the ninth inning
because he challenged the pitch and he thought struck out
Randy or Rose Arena. The home plate umpire didn't call
it a strike. They went to the review system, strike
three and we move on.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's a new thing. People are gonna hate that technology,
but it was great. It kept the game going.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It was different.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
The players loved it and they were fast here. It's
not like it took time away. It was something that
was kind of quick.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Okay, we say, okay, hey, we let the players make
that decision on the field.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Awesome. The Clayton Kershaw being miked up for his for
his inning. He was out there, he is miked up.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
In the in the in the millisecond before he throws pitches,
and you're gonna hear Kershaw's two and a half minute
rip coming up in a few minutes. It's phenomenal stuff.
It's groundbreaking stuff. Talking about what he's gonna throw. Usually
you get you get players miked up. We've seen that,
and look, Pete A. Lonza was miked up and he
was kind of boring. But here's Kershaw is in his
and you know, getting ready to go and his wind
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up saying, smolty, what do you want me to throw?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
He's just a cutter inside the eye. I don't throw that.
He throws another pitch.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He's having fun and and talking back and forth with
the guys in the booth about what pitches he should throw,
which again is probably why Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You know this is it? Kershaw know it's my last
off star right now. Think about it.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
He's the guy that needs the start time to be precise.
Like he he's a red ass in so many ways.
So the fact that he dialed that up. We talked
with John Paul Morosi about him and Dave Roberts saying no,
you keep that ball, and the way he was kind
of emotional as he left the mound all signs to that.
But we'll get to him in full later it was
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different and the home run derby, how did you want
them to solve the game?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Keep going?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Neither team had pitchers. It was made towards this. Everybody
had fun. Baseball showed you, hey, we have that different
side to us. We can adapt to a changing game.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
The big controversy about Misarowski getting set to this game,
Oh why is he here? He's only been in five games.
Every Philly player was upset that he was selected. Guess
what fans wanted to see him pitch? Right, he's a
great young fenom that every other pitch is one hundred
miles an hour. Yeah, you want people to watch the game,
so of course the interesting players are gonna be there, right.
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One Sodo should have probably been there. People would have
wanted to see him play. But this was great because baseball.
It was anti what we've all seen and what we've
come to love and know about baseball. It was Baseball saying, hey,
guess what we got something a little different we can do,
and yet it's gonna be a little weird because of
stuff you've never seen before, because generally baseball moves slower
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than any other sport. But we're showing you we can
do this, and we can bring you fun and something
different and innovations, and that was all what tonight was.
Because it was so different is what made it great.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Well, ultimately, times change, the way people consume things changed.
Major League Baseball was the first to really embrace the hey,
here listen to you're from Chicago, but you live in
LA you can hear your team in audio format and
eventually full blown video opportunities to that. So for all
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of the staid history that you know, people say how
the game doesn't evolve, they were first there, first move
or advantage. And this is also an opportunity with the
audio interviews in game, which they've been doing for years,
right from the dugout and whatever. But on the field,
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certainly for all Star games doing more of that and
players embracing it, from Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
To Pete Crow Armstrong. And even if if Pete Alonso
wasn't you know, the most.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Highlight worthy, I guess for a couple of minutes you're
talking about the game and his appreciation of it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
It's still a little bit of inside baseball. So it's good.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
All the rule changes that we've had in the regular season,
this is just an extension of that like they're trying
to change the pitch clock, which you can still debate
how much you love or hate the game moves right.
It fits into those windows. All Star game is an exhibition,
so you get the younger players in Misroowski. Guys want
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to decline it. Teams have to decide, all right, do
I pay the guy a bonus anyway?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Sarez?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Remember they were all mad about him. Well, he was
on a pitch count his last time out and then
wasn't going to pitch anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
So it all works itself out. So you celebrate the game.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's really ultimately what this is, showcase with as many
eyeballs as you can young stars veterans in their final throws,
to highlight your history of the game and.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Bridge to the future. They did it in every note
hit for this performance.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
If you don't like it, then you probably don't watch
regular season baseball, you know what I mean? Like, like
this was yes, the the home run derby at the
end is a little bit wow, that's how it's got end.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Did you want him to throw it up in a tie? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Hey, but seally, what'd you think about that? I mean, look,
it's it's it's that scene from a league of their own.
When Geena Davis is going to leave the team and
she tells Tom Hanks, it just got too hard, right.
She had problems with her sister and everything else, and
she wanted to go home and her husband was at war,
and she says it just got too hard. And Tom
Hank says, the hard is what makes it great, right, Oh, baseball,
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this is so different.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
This we don't do.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
The different is what made this great. I mean, I
don't know, I don't know what you could have possibly
else wanted. And John Paul Moros, who joined a few
minutes ago, you hit it right on the head. This
was the best show you could have seen Major League
Baseball put on.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
This was a show. Remember it's a television show. It's
an entertainment show. It was a show. It was a
show to everybody watching, which showed everybody in attendance. It
was a show to the players.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
You got twelve runs. Some of your biggest players had
big moments from the big towns. You got to introduce
some new stars. Rooker hits the pinch, hit home run,
a guy who a night ago we were talking about
being robbed and him saying, well, I wish I would
have known, you know what, we're at the standings where
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or not that it's gonna he's gonna hit it an
extra inch to get the victory over cal Raley in
the home run derby. But the fact that he comes
back the night after it hits that big home run
that ends up mattering, right, is when it went and
it's like, all right, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
But all of that to say, you got all these
big moments for four hours of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm telling you it was incredible. And just listen to
as this gun folds over the next twenty four hours
and you see the sides people take on this.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Sorry, Pete Alonso didn't get to hit for you that
it's all right.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He had a home run. His contract would have been,
it would have been more money. If he had a
home run to win the home every one would have
been a hero on another level in the back of
the fish rat. No question time not to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the pee Alonzo of Fox Sports Radio,
he didn't swing it all in the home run derby
tonight either hit Steve diseger.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I was expecting some Polar Bear reference.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
He nationally did win the All Star Game, and after
this spectacle in Atlanta tonight, Major League Baseball will have
another one in two and a half weeks, and it
will involve the Braves. Keep in mind that there is
what's called the Speedway Classic coming up at Bristol Motor Speedway.
There will be a Major League game, the first ever
in the state of Tennessee, the first Saturday night of August.
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One of the Fox games they have already laid out.
They showed a bit tonight, laid out a baseball field
on the infield of this huge NASCAR track, and all.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
The players are gonna be inside race cars like it's
the movie cars and they're gonna be playing.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
That's how it is.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Brad Pitt have actually put some seats along the third
base line, but most of the fans will be in
the regular NASCAR seats. It'll be the first time there's
a National League or American League game in the state
of Tennessee. And there's gonna be a Tim McGraw pregame concert,
Pitbull there and others. And we're only two and a
half weeks away from that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Starting pitchers Lightning McQueen and Chick Hicks for that one.
I wouldn't say whoever didn't throw tonight, but everybody threw tonight.
The National League used all thirteen of its pitchers in
the nine innings, so then we went to the new rule,
which apparently on paper, was instituted in twenty two. But
of course no All Star game had demanded extra innings
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until tonight, so we went to a swing off. Kyle Schwarber,
the game MVP, swatting home runs on all three of
his late swings. The National League takes it over the
Americans after the game had been tied six to six
after night innings. The American Leaguers got two runs in
the top of the ninth to tie the game.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
By the way, Al manager Aaron Boone the Yankee, said
that he made his picks for that mini home run
derby at the end based on who would be in
the game late and who wouldn't be you know.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Have been sitting around for some time.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
Longtime baseball writer Bob Nightingale says a Henne o' suarez
had X rays on the hand he was hit by
a pitch. They were negative, but he was pulled from
that home run derby. At the end, Nightingale claims the
game will officially go down as an NL victory of
seven to six, but MLB dot com says it goes
in the record books as a tie, with a notation
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that the NL won in a swing off, no winning pitcher,
no losing pitcher, and guys like shohe Otani were long
gone not considered for the home run derby. They showed
Trek schoobl the starting pitcher for the al had showered
and was out of uniform and came back on the
field just to watch the swing off. At the end,
it was an impressive night of entertainment. Pete Alonzo the
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Mets three run homer in the six, Corbyn Carrol of
Arizona a solo shot for a six to nothing lead,
and still it takes the swing off four to three.
In the swing off, the National League takes it. MLB's
regular season games resume on Friday. The Jets gave defensive
back Sauce Gardner a four year extension. The Chiefs gave
guard Tray Smith a four year extension. Washington wide receiver
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Terry McLaurin says he's frustrated by a lack of progress
on an extension, the Commanders will retire wide receiver Art
Monks number eighty one in November. Two WNBA games Tonight
wins for La and for Indiana. The Fever beat Connecticut
in Boston eighty five seventy seven. The Connecticut's son three
and nineteen now Caitlin Clark fourteen points in victory. She
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left late in the game with another groin injury. She
had just returned from injury last Wednesday after missing five
straight games, and it was announced today Clark is due
to be in the Friday three point shootout for All
Star Weekend, which is this weekend in Indianapolis. All Star
Game on Saturday, and a WNBA expansion team starting next
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year will be the Portland Fire.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
The nickname just announced back to you. Thank you, Steve O.
You know you see this on the innet all the time.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Hey, this is the best two minutes you'll see all
day about stuff coming up next. Yeah, the best two
minutes you'll hear all day. Clayton Kershaw miked up for
his what is likely final All Star appearance. That's next
right here, Jason.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:53):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. The All Star Game decided by how
Run Derby and MVP Kyle Schwarber, who hit three of them.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Legend someone suiting in for the thirst time going what
the hell happened? Yeah, now that's how it was. Yeah,
he bent the knee on one.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Uh So we'll have more on that coming up in
about ten minutes because we had never seen that before.
He talked about the history of it. But you want
the best two minutes you're gonna listen to with something
Major League Baseball All Day. Clayton Kershaw, who was named
of the team very special selection by the commissioner what
is likely his final All Star Game after he finishes
off one of the greatest careers any of us have
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ever seen, was miked up for the two batters he
faced in his inning of work. And it's unlike any
miked up you could have possibly seen. Remember, he's pitching
and he's miked up, and here's what it is, him
talking to Smoltz and the other broadcasters. This courtesy of
Big Fox. During the game, give us Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
You you you.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
He was talking to Peter A. Lonzo. Here's Clayton Gershaw
miked up tonight and we're.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Actually gonna get to talk to these small with Clayton.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
I can't believe you're doing this, Clayton. Okay, you there,
Let's try to throw some cheese real quick. Hold on, yeah,
what'sit in near the left field? Hello, Tucker? Oh sick easy,
Oh sick.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Tucker.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Now with the Cups enjoying a great season, enjoying a
great catch. It's happy, my lave matter.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
That was sweet?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
How hard was that?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
One ninety one?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
It was an out?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
It was an out?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
All right?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Go on cheese again? Okay, yeah, that's all I mean.
You and Paul Skins are pretty much the same guy
right down the middle.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
I'm so glad you didn't swing. Okay, I'm going curve
ooy here, okay, short, what happened?
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Double up? All right?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Now, I think I've really gotta go slider. Let's think
what will thinks? But I think I gotta go slider here?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
No, no, you want scurveball again? All right? Fine? Oh
uncle Charlie, Okay, what do you want?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Spell see what do you want cut her in? Slider in?
I don't throw a cutter slid You're gonna make it
a mansion short? How about the splitty breakout?
Speaker 5 (37:38):
This this is so weird talking to you, guys. It's
kindly go to hey, I think that might be it
and us laden. What a year, buddy, what a career
(38:03):
and what a moment. Soak it in. Thanks really.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
All right, thanks, thanks, thanks guys.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
That was fun.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
That was fun.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Thank you for thanks. Thanks, that was fun. Keep it you, George. Guys.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
All right, one of the greatest that ever lived, right there,
Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Ow fun, guys, thanks for talking. You're the best. Twenty
two Uh there was big Fox on the call.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I mean look to hear Clayton Kershaw do that right,
there's pictures that could have done something like that. He's
talking right up until the pitch. Smoltzye, what do you
want me to throw a cutter in? I don't throw
a cutter, sorry, John Smoltz. He was having so much
fun doing it. And this is a guy who with
first pitches and at seven eleven every night, that's it.
I'm I'm I'm gonna take the take, take the seats.
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Out of the stadium.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
We talk about guys in their routines in baseball and
certainly starting pitchers on game day and how locked in
they are, and Kershaw is always the top of the
list in terms of that kind of prep and just
stay out of his periphery, let alone something like this
for the fact.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
That he does it, he does it again.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Clayton Kershaw, who is a bear for detail, right right, Yeah,
for him to do that and enjoy it and not
seem like, hey, you're pulling teeth cause you see. Even
Pete Lonza was like, yeah, okay, I'll be micd up.
That's why I'm not gonna say anything. But this tells
you how at peace he is with this is the end.
It's his last All Star appearance ever.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
He knows this is the end.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I'm sure this will be the final year in his
career because I don't know that the Dodgers even have
a spot for him next year.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
He gets the ovation going off, like he knows, and
we all know this is the end. You're seeing.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
You have a finite amount of Clayton Kershaw starts and
appearances the rest of your life, so enjoy all of
them the rest of the way because tonight, seeing how
he was with this, you know, he knows this is
the end. I'm gonna have fun, this is my goodbye.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Well, he saw a little bit of it when he
got his three thousand strikeout, the same kind of exhale
to a degree of getting there right, because we always
watch guys trying to get that last win, that last
strike out of that and what a chore it can
become at times.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
That he hit that milestone and celebrated that, and for
this back and forth.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I love the fact that you got the full grunt
with the microphone like he was serving in tennis and
rolling through the having fun with Smoltz, and then the
celebration and thanking of all the infielders as they came through,
and Dave Roberts saying no, no, no, you keep that ball,
and the smile on his face as he was walking
off the mound. I mean that's priceless.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
I mean, really, that's the best two minutes you're gonna
hear right there, Hey, what.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Do you want, Smoltz? I don't throw that, you son
of it. And he even censured himself, like even sounded
himself there. Coming up next we get back of the
big questions surrounding the home run Derby
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