Hour 4 - All-Star Game Awesomeness

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight, the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm gonna ask man,
true the home run derby or the the swing off?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Sorry, the swing off? All right? Swing off? Are you
gonna buy a swing off T shirt? And swing off?
I survive the swing off walking around a grocery store
with an upside down pineapple. Swing off, swing off, swing off?
The Nash League winds they All Star game thanks to
the swing off. I had six six after nine innings.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
With new rules a few years ago, put in, hey,
if we have a tied game after nine, we're gonna
go to a home run derby.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Okay, yeah, each.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Side got to pick three batters. Everybody got three swings,
most home runs after all three batters go that side wins.
The National League didn't even get or have to get
to Pete Alonzo, who was hitting third. Of course, you
have Pete Alonza winning thirty and a three on homer
tonight because Kyle Schwarber, as the second batter of the

(01:34):
night for the National League in the home run derby,
hit three home runs and then Aranda could not go
deep at all. Everybody besides Yankee fans now want Aaron
Boon fired. Heyl come, you didn't put a better guy
up there. You put a guy up there with eleven
home runs? What are you doing? Hey, Aaron, what are
you doing? You just cost us that right this game.
You cast us this game, you call you cause us

(01:56):
this game.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
So if it was for home field advantage like he
used to, yeah, they might have been.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Calling for Hey Aaron, judge, get dressed. We need you
back out there. I need you back out there. So
Alonzo doesn't need to go. The National League with four
home runs after two rounds, after three rounds, the American
League with three think of it like it was penalty
kicks in soccer, because that's basically what it is. And
now we're gonna ask and answer some of the biggest

(02:24):
questions that I know everybody's gonna have coming off of
the home the Homer Derby to to to allow this, Yeah,
okay suck.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
So first of all, well, I mean, yeah, he did
give up the tying run. If he blew the save.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
If Kwan doesn't hit that dribbler off of Diaz in
the ninth inning that brings in the tying run, Alonzo's
the MVP.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Sounded like Archie Booker, Hey, bit me up, will you one?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
If that hit that doesn't even go more than twenty feet,
Alonzo's the MVP. I think of the the the argument
he had with uh with with Meathead about Harvey Haddocks.
Per you know the twelve inning. No, you know Haddicks
had a perfect game that night.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
No he didn't.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Arch I give up a hitler, he goes, Of course,
he goes, I have the paper and show up the
paper says, Haddicks loses no hitter in thirteenth inning, easy, Meathead.
If he didn't have a no hitter, how could he
lose it? And if Alonzo would have taken care of Jake,
he wouldn't have gun shot in the ass. Ah ah,
very good Prosberg. So number one, number one how does

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this go down in Vegas?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Right?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Because it goes in as a tie, but the National
League wins in a swing off, right, Like what kind
of gambling.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Does this effect? Right?

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
The National League winning seven to six?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Like?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Is that how it goes down? And the over under
for runs? Like what what do you do to the
over under for runs? Because it changes in game?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Right?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
It was yeah, ten and a half, Well it was
ten and a half when we were watching it, and
then it pushed to eleven and a half when okay,
it be game six four, all right, I don't know
what it ended at.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Though, Okay, but but it goes in the National League
win and the overrun. Depending where you had the over
under at you were gonna look you probably.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Most most most of the bets probably cashed on that one, Okay, so.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
They're not gonna say, oh sorry, this over under you had, Okay,
as long as the over you would cash. The under
you're not cashing.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, I mean again, depends where you where you bought
bought in on the process, okay, because pre game it
was it was lower. If you if.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
You bet on someone who hit a home run tonight,
like if I bet Kyle Schwarber is going deep. Do
I win that bet? Because it didn't happen during the game.
It happened in the home run derby.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Do you win that bet? Don't know. I don't think
somebody hit a home run. He had three home runs.
I watched him. I watched them at three home runs
in an exhibition. Yeah, it doesn't matter. But is a
good question.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
But the whole game was an exhibition, Frost, but the
whole game this was garbage.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You didn't like the uh the swing.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Absolutely hated it last night, folks, Wow, you just why
are you hating on that?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
It was fun?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
It was absolute fun. Out a day where your Chargers
debuted the Navy Blue Unis.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Again they're gonna win. That is the only reason I'm
still here. I'm wondering if there wasn't any time home run,
what the anytime?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Because that's any time, right, that's an anytime home run.
It's during the game, like it's actually going on. Because
that's the thing, right is it's the because it's in
the game. It's the event in the game. The game
one because of them.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Look at you like you're Michill for a it's.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
In the game. It's in the game. You know, if
only we knew somebody like Todd ferm Well, it's a
question of Vegas. Inside at this point, he's probably it's
like six in the morning where he.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Is always, always he's out of the trick. It's six
in the morning in Vegas. Well, it's five o'clock somewhere
and it could be six am in Vegas. I will
send the note out see if we can find him.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
So there's the gambling question. Second question is this. Now
we saw the home run derby. People are gonna like
it or hate it, right, so okay, but how were
you with the number of pitches that were thrown because
it was a little.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Bit longer than we thought.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yes, each batter getting three swings, and obviously they wanted
to make sure they were swinging at perfect pitches.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
So there were a lot of tastes. Sure, I get
I understand where there's going to be and I've.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Already seen some some reaction blue check marks about uh ah,
we got to speed it up a little bit. I
thought it was fine. I mean, it was done in
it was done in less than ten minutes. You had
an extra inning, uh with full of excitement, and it
was done in ten minutes. I was okay because honestly
watching the pitch, I'm like, oh, don't swing, ooh, swing
at that.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh, don't swing, ooh, swing at that. And it was okay.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Like each guy probably looked at between five and seven
pit probably saw about ten pitches overall, and uh, swung
at three and saw between five and seven. I was
kind of okay with that.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, in the end, it's moving fast. Yeah. We noted
as we were watching it live that both guys that
were pitching actually really emulated a pitching machine motion the
way there are were coming up over the time. Like
that can't be good for your shoulder. That just can't
like that for a lot of time. Yeah. I mean Dino,

(07:10):
who was it was out there still smiled.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Waiting for them.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Back into the bucket for the next ball. But no,
like pacing was fine. They brought everything out fast. It was.
It was done as good as you possibly can. You
interviewed everybody you got live. Hey, how you feeling forward
before you went up? He's like, I'm nervous. There's a
lot of pressure with this. Look.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
I'll be honest with you, I almost thought it was
done perfectly because you don't want it to seem rushed.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
If it seems rushed, it doesn't. You don't get the same.
You don't walk away from it being wow, what a
great thing we just saw. I just saw a home run.
Derby did to if it's rushed, if heels like, are
they just throwing this together? But it was it was
like the John wouldn't line what is always one of
his always the tenants. John wouldn't be quick, but don't
hurry right, that be quick, And that's.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Kind of what it was. Right away we knew.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
The broadcast explained it to everybody. They brought up Aaron
Boone and Dave Roberts, what are we doing? Here are
your pitcher? We knew right away who the hitters were
gonna be. There was really no delay. I think Steve
Disager had it within a minute and a half of
the end of the ninth inning that we knew, and
we knew who the hitters were going to be, We
knew why they were chosen, and they brought the balls
out really quickly. They brought the batting practice pitchers out,

(08:25):
they brought and it was we began very fast and
we had a nice quick interview with the player for
about thirty seconds before they went up. You want to
see them. Hey, how do you feel? What are you
looking at?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
That was great. It wasn't something that went three four minutes.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I mean, honestly, I think that went about as perfectly
as you could possibly have.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
And I get I get it.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
We're in a society where even we see something want
to complain about it. Nah, I can't believe that. But honestly,
everything moved at a really good pace. We were about
ten to twelve minutes from beginning to when you think about, okay,
what's an extra ending like in Major League Baseball? There
and there was enough excitement, the players were on the field.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
It was okay.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I mean it was imperfect, which was all right, like
what John Paul Morosi said during one of Schwarber's home runs.
The door to the bullpen was open, like okay, like
how was that gonna go? But it still felt like
they knew this was gonna be a possibility and they
were ready for it. They were ready for they were
ready to adapt on this and turn on a dime,
and they put it out to make it seem like, yeah,

(09:23):
we've done this so many times before. Here's how we're
deciding the All Star Game. I really it was almost
it was almost like seeing a perfect game being pitched
in the tenth inning of how this was put on,
both for the players, for the people in the stands,
and for everybody watching on television.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
That was good that we didn't get the confusion and
standing around. It was get them on, there's the next
stnel quick break, and now we assemble. We get Boone
and Roberts together. They do an interview talking about selecting
their players. Get them on, get them over, get them in.
It's the become. The mantra for rob Manford is the
all about pace of play, and that was no different here.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
If you could say anything about it, and and I
get this, I get this part.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
It's like, okay, if you're.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Doing a home run derby, you want to be able
to pick Okay, I want to see Judge and Raleigh.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
And Guerrero, Rooker, whoever it was.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Rooker was great because you had the whole Rooker rivalry
with with Big Dumper last night when you lost by
less than an inch. Right in the Nation League, you
want to see Otani, you want to see Alonso, probably Schwarber, right.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, Schwarber would have been one of the pick I
mean fun. Yeah, he's fun.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
So you know, seeing that, it's like, okay, but some
players weren't available and and and now.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Not available can mean a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Not available can be well, they were out of the
game for too long, and Otani and Judge clear were
out of the game for a while, so all right.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Maybe we can't go to them.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
But out of the game could also be they weren't there, right,
because if guys are out of the game, something like
Judge hung around for a while, but was all all.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
The guys still there?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
They were they all still in uniform or were some
guys changed and ready to go, Like I'm out of
the game, right, I'll do my postgame after and I'm
leaving right Like that could be unavailable, So I get
why they're not unavailable and they're not available, but like
that's something where what's the degree to which they weren't available?
Was it was I don't want you to strain yourself
and get hurt because now a sudden you got to
go back and hit after you've been out of the
game and you're been cold for two and a half hours,

(11:23):
or it just hey, dudes and sandals and flip flops
and shorts. He's not gonna come in hit unless you
wanted to hitting sandals and flip flops. Oh yeah, he's
not gonna do.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Some of the guys would come back out to watch,
but certainly others like Elvis had left the building and
they're done. I mean that used to be a big controversy,
right A Rod and other people where they're like, wow,
they already flew out of here. It's like, well, they
were done for the night, and they want to actually
enjoy a day off before they get back to it.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Right.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
You talk about the art long and arduous process of
getting through and we just celebrated the end of the
NBA season and talk about how long that is. Talk
about how long the NHL season is, plus the NHL playoffs,
and certainly from Major League Baseball, you're talking about early February.
I mean, you're training all year, right, you don't get
months off anymore, but you certainly don't get blocks off

(12:14):
of time. So any guy that just says to help
with it, I can get thirty six hours with my people,
or I can go sit on a beach and I
can get on the plane and sleep and awake in
another you know, country or whatever. I'm gone. I'm sorry
because there's no re entry rules here. I'm out the
whole run derby. If it happens, there's three guys that

(12:35):
are gonna be willing to hit. There's no question.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Again, honestly, I'm okay with it because sometimes the slight
imperfections are worth it, right, And it's like, okay, how
does this would have.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Been a perfect thing?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
But okay, would we have gotten the heroics of Schwarber? Right,
because maybe Otani hits three homers, Like, I mean, we
still got something that it still stars a major League
baseball and Kyle Schwarber became an all star legend with
what he did.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
He also I mean fat in a lot of people's wallets,
you know when he went off as his MVV how really,
Oh wow, that's.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Huge talking about a big return. It would have been great.
But I'm okay with it. I'm okay with not to
In the end, what did I not do? I didn't
see Otani win. It's not like I was any less
invested because Randia rose Arena was batting instead of Aaron Judge. Right,
It's not like I was any less invested. Because Pete A.
Lonzo was on deck instead of show, Hey Otani like
you still you still got a great and unbelievable show

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at its highest level. Right and then look and then
maybe those guys don't at home runs, maybe because Otani
decides to do it, Schorber doesn't hit and guess what
it naturally doesn't.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Maybe it's ti do we get another three guys just
like penalty? Oh we got then you go swing for
swing and it just needs go. Yeah, I mean we
just get absolute insanity that way. I mean, it's it
created great drama. It was players invested, were truly invested.
We played the Kershaw sound and being Mike up and

(14:00):
talking to the booth, you know, with with Joe Davis
and John Smoltz last hour and just on and on.
Pete crow Armstrong was great, yet he almost ran into
Kyle Tucker as he's talking to the guys and trying
to chase down a fly ball. So, I mean, you
had all of this chaos, some big plays, some big
home cooking in terms of the scorecard, and all those

(14:22):
things that you'd want from an exhibition game. You got
everything you wanted and it still looked like baseball felt
like baseball and you got a bonus home run Derby
where once again you were sitting here in studio, you
go like back back, back, back back. Oh could have
done that, back back, God, I could have gotten two days.

(14:43):
I'm home run Derby.

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more big questions coming off the absolute history we just
saw with the first ever swing off slash home run
dirty to decide the All Star Game. Plus we'll talk
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(15:08):
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Speaker 1 (16:02):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. The Swing Off gives the All Star
Game to the National League Babe Schwarber with three home
runs and the National League wins at seven to six.
Teams were out of pitchers. The new rule that came

(16:23):
into place three years ago. First time we got to
see it was after nine innings. We go to a
home run derby. Now, now, good for Dave Roberts. Yeah, yeah,
good for doing the rule. I can use all the he
got through everybody. Everybody got to play. I can use
all all my pitchers. I could go through everybody. Oh great,
I can make it a bullpen game.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
It's great. Yeah, because we've been talking about how great
all this was. Yeah, we missed one very key element.
Now Kyle Schwarber got that bat. Okay, did we get
Rick Wild at all? Or representative like Rick Wilde about
technology and stuff. I don't think we the one thing missing. Yeah, No,
we got all the pageantry, pomp and circumstance, fire works, songs, ceremony,

(17:02):
here's your truck swing off. I think we got one
of those forty to one onds. Congratulate one man. Uh Now,
I vividly.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Remember, okay, and I'm taking you back to two thousand
and two the All Star Game. I was here Fox
Sports Radio and I was doing the late night show,
the late night show into overnight. We had a show
was eleven to two that I was on right because
that was my career as I started here at Fox.
I did updates and I co hosted a show at
night Jim Daniels, who does stuff that he's a DJ.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
In Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
And we were on the air doing eleven to two,
and the game happened, the tie All Star Game, and
I vividly remember, and it's funny that Joe Tory was
there tonight. Joe Tory actually come out to for a
pitching take.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Looked just like Joe Tory coming out to the mouth. Okay, Well,
he goes and gets the White Sox pitcher Smith who
hit sores then got it out it's like you're done. Yes.
So the two thousand and two All Star Game, you're talking.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
About the tie and still people talk about it to
this day. And both both managers, including Joe Torri, were
out of pitchers, and so they went to Bud Seiling
after the ninth and said, Hey, well, I don't know
what we can do. We're out of We're out of
pitchers here. I don't know what to do. And I
still remember Bud seial league because he knew the camera

(18:24):
was on him and he's gesturing why they like, what
do you want me to do?

Speaker 3 (18:28):
His hands are out like, I don't know what you want?
What do you want me to do? Is nothing we
can do?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
The All Star Game is a tie, right, And this
is where Major League Baseball you understand that for a
for Bud Ceiling, for the game, for the business of baseball,
he was incredible, for the morality of baseball, for baseball
the sport, he was terrible, right, Like you can't because

(18:51):
I remember going on the air and saying, how do
you not have like a home run Derby? How exciting
would that have been? Right twenty years ago? I remember
going to answer, how do you not have a home
run derby. That would have been so exciting. You say, hey,
we're gonna have three guys come up, just like the tis,
We're gonna have three guys come up.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
We're gonna have a home run derby, and whoever that
who wins it.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
I want to say that that might have been this
time it counts a home field advantage might have been.
I'm not sure, but like I remember saying that twenty
years ago, that would have been. Anything would have been
better than to say, we have a tie yet, Bud
like but yet.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Bud ceiling. I fell like, no, I'm not gonna wear that. No, no, no,
no tie, it's tie. It's over.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
How about hey, let's sit back and let's make a
decision that yeah, is on the fly, but would have
been embraced by everyone. Everyone have said home run derby. Yeah, sure, man,
we'll have a home run derby. That'll be awesome, and
then that's how you decide who wins the All Star Games.
Twenty years ago, I remember saying that on the air
about the twenty years twenty three years ago tonight, in

(19:50):
about a half hour from now, I would have been saying.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
About that, Yeah, the home field advantage was two thousand
and three to twenty sixteen was the next chosen. Next
year they started, oh okay, well we can't have that again.
Got the egg, got our face off of this. It's
a tie for home not as much as when we canceled.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
The World Series is gonna best of six, so everybody
can have the same three games, three games. What if
it's side of three and it's a tide World Series.
Because the other thing, guys, we were talking.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
About, you know, people being all mad about the potentially,
you know, the All Star Game being decided by the
swing off, like in the whole thing that we love
home runs, going back to the Glavin Ads all those
years ago. The chicks dig the long ball. It's a
three outcome league. Yeah, there's a couple of guys that
steal bases now, yeah, occasionally you play a little bit

(20:39):
of small ball and steal the extra base, but in general,
it's still that no matter how many innovations did you make.
So the fact that it gets decided by home runs,
why is that a bad thing? No?

Speaker 1 (20:50):
It was tonight, Like I said, it was just fun.
It was fun to see, it was fun to experience,
and it was fun because it was anti baseball. It
was against everything we've seen baseball do. It was against tradition,
it was against heritage. Well everything we saw tonight from
Ludacris's pregame.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
To the ABS. Oh, by the way, well more than that.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
In a couple minutes to the ABS to the Clayton
Kershaw miked up unlike we've ever seen him. While he's
actually throwing pitches, he's talking to the home run derby.
That's everything that's one hundred and eighty degrees opposite of
Major League baseball. And that's what made it so good
is that baseball can let its hair down. Hey, we can.
I can do this, right, I know you think of

(21:33):
It's like Olivia Newton John at the end of Grease, right,
you see her, the entire thing, and she's got the
school army sweater and the long skirt.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
And it's, oh, Denny, how do you say this about me?

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:42):
My goodness.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
And they have different ideas of what happened at the beach.
You know they would they did she get friendly down
in the sand? You know they would they only stay
out till ten o'clock.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
I mean, what a day we stayed out till ten o'clock.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Hey, you know back in the day. Right, Okay, this
is baseball. She's baseball for the entire time, right, He's
all the way through, and oh goodness, and I can't
become friends. The pink ladies don't like me, and you know,
I'm too pure for them. She's too pure to be pink.
And all of a sudden, Hey, I don't know, I'm
kind of lost. But then what happens at the end,
she really Oh wait a minute, Wait a minute, he wins,

(22:15):
you know in grease lightning.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Hang on a second.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I'm gonna go put on a bunch of leather and
you get a cigarette and say tell me about it,
stud and throw it out.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
We're gonna do. You're the one that I want in
the shake shack, and then we're all gonna go. We
go together.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Then the flying car happens like that's major League Baseball.
Tonight turned into Sandy. At the end of Greece, I.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Was reading you merminism man boom. I mean you had
a key word in there that ties.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
None like in Australia, how they would break ties, not
exactly how they did it tonight. DJ Okay, okay, it's
it's it's not that it's John Volta saying that at
the end of Grease, it's ap he goes a wop bbaloma.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Everybody goes a wop bam boom, and.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Then they go into we go together, and then now
I don't think he has that one, and then the
car flies off for some reason.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
There's a car flying off at the end, and as
they fly off, they hit the Uh. Hey, I gotta
gotta kid guardian Frankie. He was flying in the sky
and checking in on the kids and DJ he had
to go back to that big malt shop in the sky. Dj. Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
So that's what baseball was. And hey, did everybody love
Sandy at the end of Grease? Of course they did.
Wait a minute, that's Sandy. Whoa, Sandy whoa? And Kinicki
points a Zuko and turns around and they say, tell
me about it, stud, And then Marty says, throw the
cigarette away.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Throw the cigarette a, you know, just like you saw
it a couple of weeks ago with his blonde wig eye.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
That was amazing, Yeah, amazing that that's what babe, and
I understand. That's what baseball did tonight. And it was
and it was an incredible show. I mean I don't
know baseball tonight or Olivia Newton John in that leather outfit.
That's that's that's a tough one. That's that's a tough
eight seven. That's a tough because I remember the first
time seeing that going wow. I was like nine, and

(24:18):
I'm like wow, I like girls, Yeah, wow.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I want to watch again. Brilliant musicals. Aren't you want
to watch the whole thing? No, just come back to
this part. Just come back to the part right here,
Just go back. But that was before you had VCRs.
It was like, ah, they had to show it on television,
and it was like you couldn't tape it or anything.
You just had to sit back and say, all right, well,
maybe i'll get it next time it's on who knows? Yeah?

(24:43):
So many one liners to run DJ clearly none save
for the air.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Much like Beauty School, The All Star Game wasn't what
people thought it would be, and you know what it
never is DJ one of the great diss songs of
all time. Yeah okay, yeah, okay, who wants their haircut
by a slob?

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah yeah yeah go join your Sandel is such a looker, Yeah,
turn you into Cus.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Demurs would go to you unless TJ. Batting was Brent Rooker,
well done, well played, But yeah that that is on
the list that will be uh we we will promoted
all the great disc songs.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Uh So, gonna bring this back for you right now
as you think about the end of Greece in Major
League Baseball. We got to talk to Nationals All Star
James Wood a couple hours ago on the show, right
after the home run derby ended the National League One.
Remember he had a big night in the home run
derby the night before, and we got to hear his
version of what it was like to watch it and
did everybody kind of know what was gonna happen when

(25:47):
the game was a tie after nine innings. Here's a
little bit of us with James would be welcome to
the show. Thank him for stopping on with us. Take
a listen, All right, good? Well, first of all, what
did you think the home run derby the way it
went to decide the All Star Game?

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (26:02):
I mean I think it was cool. I mean I
think by like that. When they tied it up in
the nine, we were all kind of wondering what was
going to go on and if if we were to
go to extras, and I think when we found that
out they were kind of shocked, But I mean, I
think it ended up great.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
How did they be there?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
How did the decision come down who was going to hit?
Who was going to be able to be the ones
that go out there?

Speaker 4 (26:22):
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 you didn't.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Go up with a bat and sound ready, I'm ready,
I'm ready, ready, I'll spectating this time.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
All right, So did did you guy? How many did
you know?

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Did other players know in the dugout that this could
be the possibility that there were going to be a
home run derby?

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Was it kind of new to some of you?

Speaker 4 (26:47):
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 what was going to go down.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Either, since Skipper had gone through all the pictures, maybe
you guys were all trying to figure out back in
literally through the most who would have gotten the next well,
since Dave Roberts used up all the pictures. Just the
question of whether you guys, any of you position players.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Head Yeah, I don't know. I mean I would, I'm
not sure. I guess we never even Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
It would have been an interesting thing. But but for you,
I mean, what what did this weekend mean for you
or this midweek excursion?

Speaker 4 (27:37):
I mean it was just great just being in his
locker room and just being a part of everything. It
was a great experience.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
What was it like watching the watching the derby? We
were you nervous? Were you excited?

Speaker 4 (27:49):
What?

Speaker 3 (27:49):
What was it like?

Speaker 4 (27:51):
I mean I was just excited. I think I was
nervous earlier in the day, but once we got closer,
I was just more more ready to go than anything.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
All right, James Wood, congratulations on the big week, A
nice job in the home run derby last night.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
And uh maybe we'll maybe we'll see it in one
of these in the future. That'll be awesome.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, man, it's there.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
He was, Hey, some people knew some people, which okay,
because you know, I had to remember, wait a minute,
we're getting into the ninth inning here and getting out.
He was like, no, yes, remember three years ago, Oh right, right,
it's going to be a home run derby and how
many people get to go? So like, I think everybody,
you know, even even people who were kind of in
the know, had.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
To be like, okay, so how does this go again?

Speaker 1 (28:32):
So oh right, right, right, it's home run derby and
three and who is it that gets to go? And
who gets selected? So yeah, I get that.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
I mean it's not done.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
McNabb going, Yeah, I don't know the rules of overtime.
This is a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, this is a little off the uh, the beaten path,
no question about it. You haven't set precedents. I was
obviously doing the quick Google search and just to make
sure we had all our teas cross and ies dotted.
But I guarant damn t I know one guy who
knew every bit of the rules. You think, I think
he did.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, let's go talk to that man right now. Because
he who has been called the Danny Zuko, he has
been a Foxports leather jacket. Is he's resplendent because he
got because he got a letter for track and field
in high school.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
It's Steve de Sager with what's trying.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
To all those twenty eight year olds and nicer like
Creek eight I think.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Stocker Channing was like shirty thirty. I think so stocker
Channing was like thirty five.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Oh my goodness, swim, I've got so many hickeys. That's
a different six degrees of separation. Nice, nice one.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
In the All Star Game in Atlanta tonight, the National
League was seven six winners over the AL and officially
MLB is calling it a seven sixth final. It was
tied six to six after nine innings and instead of
extra innings now in the Midsummer Classic, it's a brief
home run derby.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
At the end.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
The swing off went to the National League four to three,
thanks to the game MVP Kyle Schwarber. He homered on
all three of his swings. Now that league was up
six to nothing after six. Pete Alonzo with the Mets
a three run homer in the sixth inning. Corby and
Carroll of Arizona solo shot in that frame, and earlier,
much earlier, dh sho heey Otani had led off the

(30:13):
first for the NL with a single, and then Atlanta's
own Ronald Acunya infield single, Ktel Marte of Arizona with
a two run double off Trek Scooble of Detroit allowed
its to the first three batters. Eventually Brent Rooker of
the A's with a pinch three run homer. In the comeback,
Bobby witt Junior of the Royals two late RBIs and
scored the tying run the NL no doubt, Dave Roberts,

(30:35):
knowing the rule, used all thirteen of its pitchers in
the nine, would have used more.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
If he could guin as many as you give me,
I'll use them, yeah, include Key ca Hernandez Sure.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Paul Skeins of Pittsburgh started like last year's All Star
Game tonight. He pitched a one two three first inning
with a couple of strikeouts. Dodger veteran pitcher Clayton Kershaw
faced two batters, got two outs in the top of
the second. He was the commissioner's legend selection to get
into this game. He's now an eleven I'm All Star.
Kershaw at age thirty seven. By the way, home run
derby Monday Night on Cable had ratings that were up

(31:06):
five percent over last year five point seven million viewers.
Major League Baseball's regular season games resume on Friday, and yes,
the Rays would have postseason games in the ten thousand
seat stadium they're using this year. Their usual stadium is
unavailable all year after hurricane damage. The Jets gave defensive
back Sauce Gardner a four year extension. The Chiefs gave

(31:28):
guard Tray Smith a four year extension. Washington wide receiver
Terry McLaurin is frustrated by a lack of progress on
an extension as he enters the final year of his deal.
He had skipped mandatory mini camp in June and was
fined over one hundred thousand dollars. The Commanders will retire
wide receiver Art Monks number eighty one in November. In
the WNBA Indiana wins against Connecticut, the game was held

(31:49):
in Boston, eighty five seventy seven. The final Connecticut's son
three to nineteen now Caitlin Clark from three point range
one of seven. She was already shooting just twenty nine
percent from long distance this season. Nonetheless, was announced today
as being in Friday's three point shootout. All Star Weekend
is in Indianapolis this week. Unfortunately, Clark Tonight left late

(32:11):
in the game with another groin injury. She had just
returned from injury last Wednesday. She had missed five previous games.
Atlanta All Star Ryan Howard is out for the rest
of the month with knee injury, so Minnesota's Kayln McBride
place replaces her in the Saturday All Star Game. As
for the what's coming up, the full NHL schedule comes
out on Wednesday. The quarterfinals of the women Soccer Euro

(32:35):
start on Wednesday on Fox TV Italy against Norway, and
then the Thursday quarterfinal is England Sweden.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming
up next. Yes, it was a big night for the
home run derby for the swing Off, a big night
for Clayton Kershaw, but something else actually had a bigger
night at the All Star Game.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
What was it? I'll tell you next right here, Jason
and Mike This.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific