August 5, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon talk about the Yankees latest skid in the season and claim that within a few weeks if things do not pick up, Aaron Boone could be fired and could Derek Jeter swoop in?!
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my Bays friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeh fours up, So you want.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
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And well, when you fight back against the Yankees and
the ninth inning to tie it and send it to
extra innings, and then win it with a walk off
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home run. You get to be the play of the day,
the one one and that ball hit high and deep.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Then the left field Domingos goes back.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Watch us with the rest of us has Josh Young
has just walked off the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hey three run home run to left center. Rangers win
it eight to five.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Rangers Radio Network on the called Young's three run. Homer continues.
I don't want to say prolong, but it just continues
the Yankees misery.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, that suns it up next.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
These last four days, I mean it like, I'm at
the point where I almost feel bad for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Almost eighteen of their last twenty three road games come
down to defeats.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Not that I do. I almost feel bad for my
dad all most.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, I mean, look, if your team had lost seven,
six and ten innings.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh hey, the Mets are saying, oh man, they're gonna
skewer us on the back pages of the paper all day.
Forget it, man, The Yankee said, hey, hold my walk off.
Yeah no, no, no, the Yankee next, don't forget, I
don't forget. Right here, the Yankees lose, and this is
this is how bad things have been, is that they
lose tonight. Devin Williams trying to close things out in
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the ninth inning and he gives up a big mammoth
home run to Jock Peterson, right, his third home run
all year, that ties the game at five.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yankees broadcasters in that at bat, we're kind of mocking
his futility. Ah, he signed a two year, twenty million
dollar deal. He his numbers, he's hitting one twenty six.
When that ball left the bat, Peterson literally turns into
the dugout.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's mean mugging.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Before he goes anywhere near first base, before he starts
trotting up the line like, oh, I got all it
because it was a laser, yeah right, an absolute rocket
to right.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Field, and a guy in a Jeter uniform channeled the
Yankees fielding, do I throw it back?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
A NOTD? What do I do? When they get up
off the ground, what do I catch it? What do
I do? What do I do?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And then we have the Josh Young walk off runs.
This is four days in a row for the Yankees,
which was kicked off with their awful loss to the
Marlins on Friday night. Now where are we getting on this?
Because I'll tell you what's gonna happen. This is a
big deal. Aaron Boone may only have a couple of
weeks left as Yankee manager because the Yankees now sit
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in a spot where not only are they giving away
their five game lead leading the division, now they're trailing
the Blue Jays by five games. They're looking up at
the Red Sox and the Rangers could pass them in
the wild card standings by the end of this series.
If the Yankees get to a point where they are
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two three games out of the wild Card, Aaron Boone
will be fired. Okay, Boone will be fired simply because
if the Yankee season ends poorly, he'll get fired anyway. Right,
I think they've given Aaron Boone more than a fair
chance to win a championship together.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Me eight years, eight years, wouldn't haven't won one, right?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean they got there last year, Okay, great, had
a big run second half of the year. They get
to the World Series, they lose to the Dodgers. They
throw up on themselves in Game five. But Aaron Boone,
this is eight years, and the Yankees measure success differently
than almost any other team in sports, if they haven't
down you, if you go from the World Series to
falling out of the playoffs after you led the division,
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you're gonna get fired. So the Yankees aren't gonna let
that happen without going down with a fight. They will
replace Aaron Boone, and I would say Boone's got another
couple of weeks to change the narrative or he'll wind
up getting fired because they could be out. They could
be out of the wild card looking in by the
end of the series with Texas, but they got to
be like two three games out, really and really another
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another couple of weeks of it doesn't look like they're
gonna get back to where they were right now. They're
hoping Aaron Judge returns tomorrow and maybe that's gonna be
a difference for him, but they don't. They don't have
anybody they can throw out there as a pitches look
as good a year as Max freed as having you
saw tonight he gave up runs. They need a stopper.
The Mets need a stopper too. That that's been the
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story for both New York teams, is that they don't
have a stopper when it comes to who can end
losing streaks, who can who can can stop the the
bad times rolling and can get teams going on. The
Mets tried to get one of the deadline, they couldn't.
And because the Mets are filled with guys that could
be high end two starters but no stoppers, and the
Yankees are missing Gartt Cole. But if the Yankees continue
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to lose, he's gonna pay the price because there's nothing
you can do with no added trade deadline. You can't
go out and say, hey, we're gonna overpay for a
star to come in for another five weeks. You can't
do it. The only way to do it is to say,
let's try to change the energy around the team. And
Aaron Boone will go because if this was a lost
season for the Yankees from the beginning, all right, Boon
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will manage out this year. They'll let him go. But
the Yankees aren't gonna sit back and go in in
the middle towards the end of August and go, boy,
what do we do? Do we just just continue on
this path, this downward spiral that we've been on for
two and a half months. No, we do something, We
do something that is not as damaging to the team
because well, we're gonna fire him in five weeks anyway,
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so why not fire him now and maybe we get
some sort of new energy, because that's what you do,
You fire the manager to get an underperforming team to
play up to their level. And in New York that
would certainly have a lot of attention. That would certainly
be a move we've seen plenty of times before. He's
got a couple of weeks and if the Yank I
mean it, they're not gonna fall too far out before.
They're not gonna get like five six games out and go, Okay,
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now we gotta fight our.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Way back in.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's gonna be, hey, two or three games out, we're
going in the completely wrong direction. We have now lost
seven places in the standings in the last seven weeks. Right,
that's gonna be you're talking about losing one place a
week in the Standard says they'd be looking up at
five teams, right, because you still have the Red Sox
pass them, right, even the Royals who were just sitting
at five hundred, Hey, they could be a team to
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pass them. The Rangers could pass them here. So they
get to that point two three games out, of the
wild card. That's it for Aaron Boone. He's done.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, I mean you look at what they've tried to
navigate through. You finally got standing back and he's been
hitting and starting to mash a little bit. So good signs. Wishing, wanting,
hoping that Judge is back. Don't know what it's gonna
mean for it, whether you got to hide him and
now you've got multiple dhs that you have to juggle,
or whether he's gonna be able to be back in
the field. Take all your World Series jokes for a moment.
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Luis Heel just finally got back in. Well, he didn't
last but three and a third against the Marlins this weekend,
so little hand ringing going on there. We talk about
the fielding woes, the base running woes, all of those things.
In the end, it's all back to fundamentals. You talk
about changing managers, usually it's a little earlier, you'll do
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it before the All Star break. This would go fall
in line to when the Nuggets got rid of Mike Malone.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He doesn't have a job, so it's Mike, not Michael anymore.
Mike Malone.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So when he got fired and you cleared out Calvin
Booth and all of that and just said we're gonna
make the best run we can and then you shuffle
up and deal porter Junior's gone or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
For the Yankees, that might just be the way to go.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You got Brad Ostmas who was a manager with the
with the Tigers, maybe he would be the next guy. Sure,
but try to get a different energy, different voice, and
maybe having a fire lit under your ass is exactly
what you need because you were front running.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Now they can't win on the road.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Whatever's going on that Like whatever bug you've caught there,
it's absolutely crushing you along the way in this huge slide.
But the Red Sox were kind of left for dead
five six weeks ago, where they're gonna be dealing at
the deadline and selling off. No, there they are. The
Blue Jays, which were an interesting, you know, long shot price.
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We talked about them in the preseason with John palmer
Osi when he joined us before he gave us his
inevitable Seattle pick. But we talked about the Blue Jays
of maybe if things broke right. But the way the
last six weeks have played out, it's an absolute disaster.
And for Aaron Boone guy that maybe after last year,
when you're talking about fundamentals and all of that, that
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maybe you should have had a different voice coming into
the year. But coming off a World Series, you understand
the stay of execution for him and for Brian Cashman,
who seems to have a lifetime deal at this point,
sure to do whatever you aw what that did?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Work? Again, it's too bad.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Meanwhile, you go back to Wildcat Joe, Joe Girardi before him,
Joe Torre. I wonder how much of that is it's
an organizational management versus Aaron Boone on his own as well,
which is maybe why he hasn't walked the plank yet.
Notice he doesn't get thrown out as many games as
he used to.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, No, well boy, because they
don't win those games anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Like I get thrown out in the first we come
back to win. They don't win those games anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Now, it's funny you mentioned you mentioned, uh, Austin's right. Okay,
so let's see what the Yankees do firing Aaron Boone.
Let me just throw this possibility out there for you, okay,
because remember this weekend was a really big deal because
Aaron Boone responded, didn't like the criticism that was levied
against him by Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez on on
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Fox Right. Didn't like the fact that they work they
were critical of him. On Fox's pregame show before the
Speedway Classic Saturday Night, Jeter said, listen, the Yankees make
way too many mistakes. You can't get away with making
that number of mistakes against great teams. They had base
running mistakes today. Trent Grisham god thrown out at home plate.
You have to clean stuff like that up. A Rod
went on to say, Hey, you know, if any you
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or I did that, we'd be sitting on the bench
and there's no accountability, which is true, right, We've seen
the Yankees make mistakes and there's no accountability. So let
me throw this out there now. He tried to own
a team didn't go that great. I was broadcasting for Fox.
Do you wait until the end of the season or
when you fire Aaron Boone, because clearly he's okay with this.
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Do you call up Jeter and come manage the Yankees?
Derek Jeter, the Yankee manager, do.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You do that? Do you do you do it? Now?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Do you wait until the end of the season because
you know, Jeter's got a lot of stuff going on.
Maybe he you know, hey, I got to think about it.
I don't want to jump right into managing unless the
short term thing. Hey, I'll manage the rest of this year.
I kind of liked it, so I'll come back next year.
Like I could see either way. I could see the
if the Yankees did this. I could see Jeter saying, yes,
I'll do it for the rest of this year because
I'm a Yankee and I'll come and I'll do it.
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And if he wins and loses, doesn't matter. He's still
a legend.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I did it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I manage the Yankees for a month and a half, right.
But I could also see him saying, yeah, it worked out, well,
I'm gonna stay on. I could see Jeter saying no,
but let me see for next year. So Austmin's does
it now or somebody else does it now? Maybe Joe
Torri was back and does it now for a little bit,
and then Jeter gets named the Yankee manager in some
time in the fall.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I'd love to see Joe Tory go creeping back down
in them help me with my stirrups. But the Jeter
angle is is mighty interesting. I do enjoy the fact
that these guys laid it out right that for whatever
you want to say about Alex Rodriguez, and plenty of
folks have slung ink and slung plenty of words across
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radio and TV against him relationship wise, you know history
and look he's got He's got a long history that
you can go through many paragraphs in the Wikipedia. Remember
he was the better shortstop and he deferred to Jeter
when he joined the Yankees. I don't think it gets
brought up enough that was a guy that sublimated ego,
went and learned how to play third base more effectively
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and made that thing work, and they did win a
World Series while he was there, something that he'll never
get credit for, you know, being maybe being a better teammate,
even if it was only for a year or two.
Then perhaps sees given credit for his career. But the
fact that they both went to their their pulpit on
the Fox broadcast and talked about fundamentals and what's killing him, Like,
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they got a lot of talent on that squad. They
give away so many runs to night and funny, it's
like watching the Dodgers a lot of nights. We celebrate
a lot of the stars. And Dave Roberts, I bet
you he's got a board up there going, all right,
what's our over under in terms of run runs we
took stealing bases and being smart on the base pats
versus what we gave away. And it's like counting cards
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in Las Vegas that that number goes up and down
every night for the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I like the Jeter angle.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Just think about you, what would that mean for the Yankees,
the Yankee brand for major League Baseball? Jeter is going
to manage the team. Now, if you're a superstar, you
always have to wonder if I get involved and we
don't win, what does that do to my image? And
you know, guys like Jeter, Hey, I want to be
have a great image. Yeah, you want to think that
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whatever he did on the on the field is great,
but it being New York and what have you done
for me lately? Jeter was great? Jeter was great, but
he can't manage. He's a horrible manager. But he's okay
with getting involved and criticizing the Yankees. If he was
someone that would stay away from stuff like that, I
would say, yeah, okay, but he's okay with getting.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
In this and get getting down and dirty.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's okay with this, say okay, back, yay, come in
and manage the team. And in fact, maybe that's how
I do it. If I'm the Yankees, I come out
him and say, listen, do it for the rest of
the season. Just do it for us the season and
we'll see and and that may be where Jeter says, Okay,
if we don't go anywhere, it's fine because I'm doing
the Yankees a favor.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Can we get a more exaggerated version of Oh my God,
Roger is in George's box where it's like a WWE
SuperStar's return where they're having a meltdown and instead of
going to the mound for a closer, it's Jeter comes
out and throws Aaron Boone out.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
He comes out with puts his jersey on, puts his
jersey on.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean, and think about it from a baseball perspective,
who's gonna who's gonna not, who's gonna question anything? Jeter says.
The guy's an absolute bleeping legend. It's gonna be Derek Jeters. Yeah,
I'm playing for Jeter, right, Are you really Are you
really gonna not listen to Jeter?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Are you? Jeter's gonna put you on the bench. Who's
not going to do that?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Because we've gotten those reports out in Raiders camp, the
things look a little cleaner. When suddenly Tom Brady skulking
along the sidelines. You're in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You dog it, oh man, that's how Paul Jeter call
Jater call it again us opening the door to being
okay with being critical of the Yankees, right, because he
would he could find a way. Look, Jeter, he would
listen to everything. Jeter and a Rod say, right, they
have that kind of reputation they could easily and have.
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They could easily be critical without taking on the manager door,
taking on a really strong take.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
They could easily say, hey, Yankees got to clean this up.
You have certain situations it shouldn't happen. Okay, that's great,
and say you're super critical stuff for other teams because
it is where you you know. I mean, Jeter's a
Yankee all the way through. But the fact that he
so okay with saying being critical of Aaron Boone tells me, hey, okay, man,
we'll come in and do this. Who maybe he's got
a little bit of that, and make it easy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Make it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That's why I think, more so than waiting until the
off season, because you could, you could kind of throw
a test balloon. Would you ever be answered managing the Yankees?
And maybe you give Jeter time to think about it.
Maybe he says yes, but then you give me time
to think about it and say no. But if you
come to him now and just say, dude, I know
you're doing Fox everything I get, but we need you
and it's at the worst, it's five weeks, but come in.
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You know the team, you know that, you know the personnel,
you know everything going on, you know the players. Just
come in, do it. Help us now, because that's what
got Magic in first. Sure, when Magic started and jumped
in to coach the Lakers, it was okay, Magic coach
the Lakers. Things went already, stayed on it. Then in
the end it didn't work out, But that's kind of
what it was like in the nineties. That's how I
push it. We'd say, come in and help us now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Immediately Maggie jumps and then that trial run, that test
balloon when he was suddenly on the sidelines, come in
everywhere for us and every time they were in a jam,
it looked like he was going to do one of
those Leslie Nielsen naked gun things where he rips out
his collar and the suit goes off and he's got
his uniform underneath.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh sure, he did it and bit it and they're
pulling kareem out. He's got his Lakers jersey on.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Listen, kid, you tell your old man to tried Dragon
Walton laneer up the court for forty eight minutes a night.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
My dad says, you're pretty good, but you don't play defense.
But now I want some of this show notes from
behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
To the last couple of weeks. How often is he
rumbling about oh yeah, and the problems.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
He focused on the Yankees watching the games be you know,
how often is that a thing? Because I don't know
how you say no. If it's just hey, come do
this for five weeks, potentially fix it, come in and
do this. He's got the little kids at home. Yeah,
but five because I met five week future missus Jeer
all those years. But again, it's five or more than that.
It's it's a little bit less than two months, right,
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you can do it for a little bit less than
two months.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, you got to get through October, so it's three Well.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I say, okay, but I say five weeks because if
you're firing Boone at the end of all, okay, and
Jeter coming in, you think about it. You could say,
because if it's more than five weeks, that's great, and
more than five weeks that's awesome. Right, Okay, that's great,
But you say five weeks. Can Jeter really say no?
Can you really say I can't come help the Yankees?
Would he really be able to say that? This thing
about that Derek Jeter Yankee manager, that would be just fun.
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Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Now just just for real quick to just
dig banned on this thought. We had a few minutes
ago this theory. Look, we talked about these status of
the Yankees and losing that game Friday night to the Marlins,
worst loss of the season, and we said, don't be surprised,
we're looking back at the end of the year and
saying that's the loss that ended the Yankee season. Now
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losers of four in a row, getting swept by the Marlins,
which has never happened, swept by the Marlins Man, not
the Marlins Man, but swept by the Marlins Comma Man.
And now losing tonight on a walk off to the
Rangers when Devin Williams gives up the game tying home
run the ninth. We told you you're gonna Aaron Boone's
gonna pay. If the Yankees fall a couple of games
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out of the Wild Card, which is close to happening,
he's gonna be done. And what if they call Derek Jeter,
who seems to be very much okay with pointing out
Aaron Boone's mistakes and what's going on and just think
about this, right, just from from more than a Yankee perspective,
the Yankees called Derek Jeter. Jeter comes and decides to
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manage a team. What's a bigger story in baseball the
last decade?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Is there one?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I know there is jem and every toni Otan, but
Jeter coming back to save his franchise. I mean that
the shock, the shock of Jeter coming because look, we've
known Otani's been good for a long time now, so okay,
it's not he's not quite of a shocking.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So it's like, boy, he's really really good. We've known this.
But then we get the fifty to fifty So I
mean that great.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But what's the idea that your iconic name one of
the last of the one team guys? Right, because we
talk about the homage to years going by major League Baseball.
We just had the Hall of Fame. What do you
do You celebrate the past, celebrate the legends, and there's
always that special nod to a guy that did.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It with just one team.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Jeter being one of the last of those iconic guys,
and he is the legend and what.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
People still he still has enough cachet with all fans
because they remember his career, remember the end of it.
Remember he's still him coming back. Here comes Yankee legend
Derek Jeter to manage the Yankees. I just think about
It's a great dear, Rob Bamford.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Wouldn't get criticized for anything for like two or three weeks.
Just I got Jeeter back in the game. We got
Cheter back. Yeah, I'll take credit for that. Yeah, we
got Jeter back in He's gonna I'm gonna have him
even if he's not in this series.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm gonna hand him a hunk of metal just because
I really want to do that. I want to give
that to Jeter.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So I'd say, how seismic of a story that would
be just here, Oh my god, Derek Jeter's coming back.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Talk about nikes. How do we get legends back into
the game?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I mean, we talked We'll get to Lebron James in
a minute. But it's a lot of the all right,
how long will he be around the game, how quickly
before he moves into an ownership stake? All of those
kind of things we talk about the you know, other
Major League Baseball greats.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Hey, do they have the inkling?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Do they do they want to get into managing or
the front office kind of thing, and we go team
to team and we see guys sidle up. You mentioned
Magic Johnson when he came out, uh, and.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Was a coach, Larry Bird was a coach for a bit,
Jordan's own squads and varying success because in the end
there's still business wins, uh, even if not off your court.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So all of that to say, to be able to
get Jeter back in into the Pinstripes, into that dugout, yeah,
that would be a seismic shift for Major League Baseball
in a year full of great stories. Yeah, and it
would also be the we we could look away from
all of the injured veteran players through the because the
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laundry list of guys. And maybe he can get Judge
back in the lineup while he's at it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'm supposed to come back tomorrow in theaters to come back.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Tomorrow, Judge and Jeter tomorrow, Well you just just get
him by the Judge. Yeah, I'm back in the line
of today, and I brought somebody with me, and the
lights start flickering and all of a sudden, we got pyrotechnics.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, and he takes off his mask like Downey when
they showed his Doctor Doom.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
He just takes off the mesk. Oh my goodness, it's
Derek Gina. Gina's back. He's gonna man it the Yankees
Gina's back. Look at that. You just quoted the AI
so from Derek Jeter to Lebron James. Okay, I love it. Luka.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Doncic signs his contract with the Lakers this week, and
which we knew was we told you frid Look, it's
gonna be early Saturday, Saturday night Sunday. We knew it
was coming. Yeah, And there was a lot of attention
on the fact that, hey, look at all the teammates
half the team showed up to congratulate Luca. Lebron not there. Okay, boy,
Lebron's not there. Now you know how savvy Lebron is
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because a couple hours after that was now was noticed.
Here's some of his teammates who were there for Luca,
and then he took some of them to Vegasy. The
Backstreet Boys pulls up. Who's the greatest Lebrony band of
all time? Lebron put a put a post off on
social media. I'm golfing, right, why would he do that?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
This is the thing, like we found out later on
earlier tonight, that Lebron did contact Luca and congratulate him.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Mark Stein had that right, We had it right. And
in all the ESPN reports it was the last line.
It was all sources and everything else, and then finally
at the final line was veteran reporter mark Stein was
the first.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, I know, ESPN never wants to have credit, h no.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So okay, So we know that he did congratulate Luca, right,
and and I would find it hard to believe that
he wouldn't because Lebron's not that kind of guy to say,
I'm not even going to congratulate Luca.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But here's the Lakers and they're all there for him,
and Lebron isn't.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Okay, I get it. That might not be Lebron's thing
to show up. I because look at the picture that
he took when he was at Summer League with all
his teammates, Like, I don't want to be in this picture, man, Okay, fine,
Like Lebron is Lebron, right, the guy is still an icon.
But he found a way that when people knew he
wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
To show you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, I don't need to be there because I'm golfing, right,
just like when I go back. How many ever, many
years ago, six years ago now, where Lebron, owner of
Blaze Pizza, said, oh, everybody come to Culver City for
the Blaze Pizza and the next day, I mean in
my neighborhood there there were news trucks, there, thousands of
people online and not only did Lebron not show up,
(26:23):
but every reason one who where's Lebron? Wears Lebron? What
do we get on social media? Two or three hours
into the people waiting for it, a picture of him
in his pool was donut floating or flo was floating
in it in a donut, and it was again Lebron, No,
I don't come down.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I don't do this.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, no, no, no, no Lebron. So you know Lebron
does this on social media once per point. I'm Lebron James,
I don't do this. Yeah, I said, come to Culver City,
And it was really crappy of him not to not
to come, especially when he basically said, hey, come to
Culver City tomorrow. Why not now here? Oh, here's Lebron
not there. Oh, let me show you that I'm golfing.
I don't come to this. I'm golfing.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I'm doing this. His reaction with Luca is one thing,
but he is now.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
We told you a few weeks ago the Lakers were
daring Lebron to ask for a trader. Now Lebron is
daring the Lakers and begging them to buy him out
with all of these postings. Look, you have this message here.
I don't show up. I'm not showing up at a
Laker event for Luka Donciic, even though I'm here to play.
I don't hear for that. But we get all off
season has been here. I'm working out with the Clipper
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logo behind me. Why is it on social media? Because
I want people to know. Oh, here he is with
Nikola Jokicic's agent, and Yokicic's agent puts out the statement saying, oh,
what a great time to make plans for the fall
of twenty twenty six. You know, jokic agent didn't just
say I'm putting this out there. You know this was
something that he and Lebron were okay with. Oh no, no,
we may not be talking about this, we're talking about
(27:48):
a new league that we're doing. Oh right, right, because
that's people care about as a league. But oh, why
are you wearing a welcome home hat? Oh I'm just
a hat that I'm wearing walking around Cleveland. I'm not
doing anything. Hey, why are you working out the Cleveland
Cavaliers facility on the fourth It's like, Oh, no reason,
I'm just back here working out like he is telling everybody,
I want out here.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I am.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I'm comfortable with the Clippers, I'm comfortable with the Nuggets,
I'm comfortable with the Cavaliers.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I want out.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
He's telling the Lakers buy me out, right, because now
at this point, the trade market form isn't quite what
he thought. It was not robust anymore, and teams aren't
saying we're a Lebron James away from anything. So now
it's okay, buy me out and I'll be able to because, hey,
there certainly be a market for him if he gets
bought out and goes someplace house many contenders would line
up to say, yes, give me Lebron for the next
(28:35):
year or two. He's still playing an incredibly high level.
So now it's gone from the Lakers daring Lebron to
ask for a trade to now it's it's Lebron saying
buy me out, because again I keep going back to
the fact that he's not gonna play out a season
where he's not wanted. Lebron icons don't do this. Lebron
couldn't let the whole thing with Luca press conference pass
(28:56):
without letting everybody know I'm not there. I'm golfing, right.
He couldn't people in the in the in the heat
in Culver City, thousands of people lining up. He couldn't
let that go by letting people know I'm hanging out
in my pool. I'm cool. He could not let that go.
He's not gonna play an entire season where the team
can take or leave him and they know he's leaving
at the end. Like I keep coming back to that, right,
(29:18):
And you heard Sean's have the big story today that hey, Yannis,
stuff happens. Stuff has happened in the end of August
and September with guys asking for trades. Kyrie went in
in September, and so did Damian Lillard last year. Jannie
is waiting things out. Maybe he asked for a trade.
The Lebron thing ain't over man Lebron. He is every
day that goes by, he is finding a way to
(29:38):
tell the Lakers, buy me out, buy me out. I
opted in for my fifty two million. Now you're gonna
buy me out so I can make that and go
sign someplace else and go play. He is telling he
is not going to have a whole season where he
plays in his second fiddle to anybody. And he's just
a guy that at the end of the year like, yeah,
that's great, you're here, but we're letting you go. He's
not playing out the season and is he is? He
(30:01):
is now begging the Lakers to say, buy me out.
I'm gonna keep doing stuff like this where I at
the end, I just walked back, go oh, I didn't
mean anything by this.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
So he didn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
By working out at the Clippers facility where he could
work out the Lakers' facility could have done that, right,
you're a Laker, They'll open the doors for you.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You could go there. No, the whole stuff with Cleveland,
with Yokus's agent, all of this is just oh, hey,
is this is me doing no?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Come on, man, you're not the guy in wrestling that
hits a guy with a chair, and when the referee
turns around.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
He go, why didn't do anything? What are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
No, no, no, everything is with Lebron has some sort
of outcome desired. And now this is what four teams
that he has shown you that Hey, I can link
up here and we can talk to these teams, and
this is where I'd like to go. I'd love to
go to the Clippers and stick it to you. I'll
go play with Kawhi and make things work with him
and Harden. I'd love to stick it to you. Yeah,
get me to the clip, buy me out, and I'm
(30:48):
comfortable going here. He's dying and daring the Lakers. He
wants Hi to buy him out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
If he wasn't so pathetic in all of this, you know,
if he didn't opt in and he went and hit
the marketplace, he could have chosen wherever the hell he
wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
So I say this, if I'm the Lakers, you want out?
What is it?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Fifty two six, fifty two to five? Pay it back,
pay it back? No you get nothing, buy me out instead? No, no, no,
buy me out instead.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's what I mean. You're getting nothing. You give us
all that money back talk.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
He's he's being a petrol job white and used the
Micah Parsons walking to the edge of the sure and
this is the same thing, only at the top of
the stairs is someone with a fifty two point six
million dollar check for him to come back to as
opposed to a bowl of macaroni. But he over he
overplayed his hand. He does you know in the end
that he really want to get traded. He wants to
(31:38):
He wants to choose where he can go. He want
you know, he does have the note he could, but
he could. But I think he also misread the market.
I think he probably thought, Hey, no matter what I am,
it's easier to make the deal and move around when
you know what kind of money I'm making for next year.
So I'm opting in. The deadline was too early for me.
He misread the market for a second. If he can
go back, you go, okay, we gotta do that differently.
(32:00):
I didn't know the teams wouldn't want to trade it, so.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
We said that at the time.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Was who's training fifty two million dollars worth of assets.
That's three or four pieces of a rotation for a
guy who's going to be forty one and a half
years old or whatever. This did the that's a lot
the cavaliers could have done it a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
That's a lot of guys that were key to the
rise up that you had.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But I think he thought, Okay, more teams than I
want teams will be in the teams I want to
go to, will be interested, but then opted and found out,
oh wait, it's a little bit more barren than I
thought it was. Now I'm kind of stuck like that
was a mistake. That's a lot that has to come back.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So you know, I'll take a victory lap on that
how this all ends again, you know, the petulant child
part of it.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
To me, I just chuckle at you can keep posting
this all you want.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Lakers decided to have a press conference knowing you weren't
going to show up on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
So they got their bit of revenge right there. It's like,
could have done it any other day.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Dan and I would talking about a little bit yesterday
morning in our Fox Sports Sunday fun being on the
mark steinline is out there, but it's just that idea
of they've shown you at every turn. Lucas in charge now,
so you're just noise time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But God has
been called the Lebron James of Fox Sports Radio. He
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was also playing golf on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
It's Steve de Sega boy that I also have not
been to Blaze pizza a while. The Spurs gave dearon
Fox a four year max extension where two hundred and
twenty nine million dollars. The WNBA was off tonight. Minnesota
All Star and a FISA Collier will miss at least
two weeks with a sprained ankle. The NCAA will not
expand the March Madness Field next year, but they'll talk
about expanding it for twenty twenty seven. To college football,
(33:47):
Texas and Ohio State are one two in the preseason
Coaches Poll. Texas will open at Ohio State August thirtieth
on Fox TV. The Jacksonville Jaguars listed rookie Travis Hunter
as a starting wide receiver and to back up defensive back.
Giants rookie running back Cam Scattabow mispractice again with a
leg injury. Brown's rookie quarterback Shoudoor Sanders return to practice
(34:09):
today set out team drills on Saturday with a sore arm.
Battling injuries or quarterbacks Dylan Gabriel and Kenny Pickett of Cleveland,
so the Browns agged quarterback Tyler Huntley Bucks QB Baker
Mayfield should return to practice on Tuesday after a bruised hand.
Cowboys defensive lineman Micah Parsons attended practice again, watching, not participating.
He's requested a trade. Jets defensive tackle Quinn Williams, with
(34:32):
the calf injury, is out this week. The forty nine
Ers release kicker Greg Joseph, needing roster space. Eagles wide
receiver AJ Brown did not practice again due to a
hamstring injury, and Buffalo Bill's running back James Cook set
out practice for a second straight day. He wants a
contract extension. The Bills are off Tuesday. The late ballgame
at Dodger Stadium went to Saint Louis with a run
(34:54):
in the ninth, beating LA three to two. The Dodger
offense went one for twenty two the first seven innings.
Arizona down San Diego six to two, Angels and Toronto
with wins. Blue Jays fifteen to one winners at Colorado
the Rockies record now thirty and eighty two. Texas homer
in the tenth to beat the Yankees eight to five.
Cincinnati down the Cubs in Chicago three to two. The
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Cubs offense went three for twenty nine. The Cubs are
now three games back in the first place. Brewers in
the NL Central Milwaukee won three to one at Atlanta
in a game where each team had only three hits.
Boston won at six game in a row Detroit one again.
Cleveland beat the Mets in ten innings, seven to six,
even though Pete Alonso had four hits four RBIs, including
a homer for the Phillies are now game and a
(35:37):
half over the Mets in the NL East. Six home
runs in Philly tonight as the Phills beat Baltimore thirteen
to three. Kyle Schwarber with two homers he has forty.
He had a Grand Slam tonight as part of his
three hits six RBI. Schwarber with ninety four runs betted
in Back.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
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Speaker 1 (36:22):
Diamond Dogs finished filming in Kansas City. Yeah, they finished
filming whatever in season four, which I assume is Rebecca
and Kelley coming back to Kansas City to convince Ted
to come coach the women's team, and now they will
go film in London mostly or in Greater Greater England.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Singing a little Black Sabbath as the rat little bit. Yeah,
get ready, this is Ted Lasso Talk with Ted ted
Lasso Talk here. That's Diamond Dogs. Take out a good
Diamond Dogs any how, that's how they do it. What
is the face you're making when.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You do it?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I'm doing How else do I make that that down
without making a face.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Oh it's a little exaggerated. There is a camera in
front of him, so I mean he's putting on a show.
I mean wailing in manamore. I can just do it
without moving my moving my mouth.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
You want to explain to people who explained to generation
answers who wailed in Matamar and he moved his mouth
the entire time like he wasn't even somebody that Rentrol
acquistam to pretend that I'm throwing my voice. Dog's gonna
pretend it's go do the woe. You're not pas attention
to me, That's it. Diamond Dog's on here. So this
weekend we got the response from Jerry Jones to Michaeh
(37:39):
Parsons contract situation, really want out, which Michael Parsons says,
I no longer want to be here, And Jerry Jones
did a really impressive thing and I'm being serious where
he backed off his criticism of Michah Parsons and talked about, hey,
it's a negotiation, but also dropped a couple of little
nuggets to let Michah Parsons know, Uh, I'm not gonna
(38:01):
trade you just because you want me to trade you.
So a combination of hey, I'm kind of backing off
a little bit, but I'm also gonna remind.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
You that I hold all the cards here.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So this is where, Okay, you want to know what
happens now If Micah Parsons really wants to get traded,
you really want to do this.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You want out, you leave camp because he's been in
camp just kind of hanging out in sweats.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
And everything else. And but if you want out, you
need to say, you know what, I still want out.
Nothing has changed. I'm now leaving camp and when you
trade me, that's the next time I'll be on a
football field.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Got to figure out where. That's the magic words are
what you have to do.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
But hanging around camp, eat it. If you're in sweats
going into those meetings. We heard shottenheim Er talking about it.
He's there and here's our expectations.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
You can't be there no.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Like you got it here showing that you really want
to be around the cowboys that you so all your
talk doesn't matter because your actions are not mad you
have to leave, doesn't matter. Not practicing that you got
to lead you. If you don't want to be here,
then you gotta guy. It's gotta be worth fifty thousand
a day being away from the game, like you gotta like.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Because you can get that money back.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
You're still on that deal to where you get you
can get your cash back, so uh, and even if
you didn't, it's gotta be worth it.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
In principle.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
If you're this is what you're doing, holding out for
whatever that gap is between the handshake agreement that you
that Jerry Jones claims you had and where you are.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Really look and I get that, Okay, you were the
bad guy, but by saying you don't want to be here,
let me temper that a little bit by still being
there for my teammates, talking everybody.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I understand that. I get that. But if you want out, man,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
But your team isn't gonna understand you're done. Of course,
the man, they're gonna understand exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You gotta leave. You gotta you gotta you gotta throw that,
draw that line in the sand and go yeah, that's all.
This is great.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
No, I don't want to be here, and understand that
it doesn't matter how long you stay out. You are
the best defensive player in the NFL. You are the
guy that thirty one teams because I can't count the
Cowboys anymore that if they could start their team with
any one defensive player, they would start it with you.
So you know that, no matter what, you're gonna get
that three year, one hundred and twenty one hundred and
(40:04):
thirty million dollar contract from someone. You are going to
get it. You just have to be patient and waited out.
But someone's gonna give it to you. Jerry Jones is
not gonna go through all this with you sitting out
and being a distraction as the team loses games. He's
not gonna have that. I may be talking great now
and you may have to sit out for a little while,
but you will get your money. He will absolutely want it.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
If TJ.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Watt at thirty one is getting paid for what he's
done for the Steelers, Micah Parsons at twenty five is
gonna get his three to four year deal for one
hundred and thirty one hundred and sixty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
It will happen. Yeah, eventually, Jerry O blink.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I'm kind of hoping it drags out because I can't
wait to see what kind of craziness comes out of
his mouth next.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Before we get out of here, Jason, would you like
to read the back of the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, we talked about Dougas potentially being close to the
end for Aaron Moon after tonight's Yankee loss. The back
of the New York Post says, bleep in the heart
of Texas. That's your New York Post headline tonight.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Versus Williams blows it in the ninth, Bird bashed in
tenth as Yanks lose again.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Telling you man, it's not far away for Aaron Boone
to get let go of The Yankees are falling through
the standings. Called Jeta, Jeta jea is okay with criticizing
Boon on Fox called geta.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Get you Peter in here. Your Mets only got the headlock. Jeeta, Jeet, Geeta, peta.
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the ninth inning to tie it and send it to
extra innings, and then win it with a walk off
(01:19):
home run. You get to be the play of the day,
the one one and that ball hit high and deep.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Then the left field Domingos goes back.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Watch us with the rest of us has Josh Young
has just walked off the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hey three run home run to left center. Rangers win
it eight to five.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Rangers Radio Network on the called Young's three run. Homer continues.
I don't want to say prolong, but it just continues
the Yankees misery.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, that suns it up next.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
These last four days, I mean it like, I'm at
the point where I almost feel bad for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Almost eighteen of their last twenty three road games come
down to defeats.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Not that I do. I almost feel bad for my
dad all most.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, I mean, look, if your team had lost seven,
six and ten innings.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh hey, the Mets are saying, oh man, they're gonna
skewer us on the back pages of the paper all day.
Forget it, man, The Yankee said, hey, hold my walk off.
Yeah no, no, no, the Yankee next, don't forget, I
don't forget. Right here, the Yankees lose, and this is
this is how bad things have been, is that they
lose tonight. Devin Williams trying to close things out in
(02:33):
the ninth inning and he gives up a big mammoth
home run to Jock Peterson, right, his third home run
all year, that ties the game at five.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yankees broadcasters in that at bat, we're kind of mocking
his futility. Ah, he signed a two year, twenty million
dollar deal. He his numbers, he's hitting one twenty six.
When that ball left the bat, Peterson literally turns into
the dugout.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's mean mugging.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Before he goes anywhere near first base, before he starts
trotting up the line like, oh, I got all it
because it was a laser, yeah right, an absolute rocket
to right.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Field, and a guy in a Jeter uniform channeled the
Yankees fielding, do I throw it back?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
A NOTD? What do I do? When they get up
off the ground, what do I catch it? What do
I do? What do I do?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And then we have the Josh Young walk off runs.
This is four days in a row for the Yankees,
which was kicked off with their awful loss to the
Marlins on Friday night. Now where are we getting on this?
Because I'll tell you what's gonna happen. This is a
big deal. Aaron Boone may only have a couple of
weeks left as Yankee manager because the Yankees now sit
(03:38):
in a spot where not only are they giving away
their five game lead leading the division, now they're trailing
the Blue Jays by five games. They're looking up at
the Red Sox and the Rangers could pass them in
the wild card standings by the end of this series.
If the Yankees get to a point where they are
(03:59):
two three games out of the wild Card, Aaron Boone
will be fired. Okay, Boone will be fired simply because
if the Yankee season ends poorly, he'll get fired anyway. Right,
I think they've given Aaron Boone more than a fair
chance to win a championship together.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Me eight years, eight years, wouldn't haven't won one, right?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean they got there last year, Okay, great, had
a big run second half of the year. They get
to the World Series, they lose to the Dodgers. They
throw up on themselves in Game five. But Aaron Boone,
this is eight years, and the Yankees measure success differently
than almost any other team in sports, if they haven't
down you, if you go from the World Series to
falling out of the playoffs after you led the division,
(04:41):
you're gonna get fired. So the Yankees aren't gonna let
that happen without going down with a fight. They will
replace Aaron Boone, and I would say Boone's got another
couple of weeks to change the narrative or he'll wind
up getting fired because they could be out. They could
be out of the wild card looking in by the
end of the series with Texas, but they got to
be like two three games out, really and really another
(05:04):
another couple of weeks of it doesn't look like they're
gonna get back to where they were right now. They're
hoping Aaron Judge returns tomorrow and maybe that's gonna be
a difference for him, but they don't. They don't have
anybody they can throw out there as a pitches look
as good a year as Max freed as having you
saw tonight he gave up runs. They need a stopper.
The Mets need a stopper too. That that's been the
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story for both New York teams, is that they don't
have a stopper when it comes to who can end
losing streaks, who can who can can stop the the
bad times rolling and can get teams going on. The
Mets tried to get one of the deadline, they couldn't.
And because the Mets are filled with guys that could
be high end two starters but no stoppers, and the
Yankees are missing Gartt Cole. But if the Yankees continue
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to lose, he's gonna pay the price because there's nothing
you can do with no added trade deadline. You can't
go out and say, hey, we're gonna overpay for a
star to come in for another five weeks. You can't
do it. The only way to do it is to say,
let's try to change the energy around the team. And
Aaron Boone will go because if this was a lost
season for the Yankees from the beginning, all right, Boon
(06:06):
will manage out this year. They'll let him go. But
the Yankees aren't gonna sit back and go in in
the middle towards the end of August and go, boy,
what do we do? Do we just just continue on
this path, this downward spiral that we've been on for
two and a half months. No, we do something, We
do something that is not as damaging to the team
because well, we're gonna fire him in five weeks anyway,
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so why not fire him now and maybe we get
some sort of new energy, because that's what you do,
You fire the manager to get an underperforming team to
play up to their level. And in New York that
would certainly have a lot of attention. That would certainly
be a move we've seen plenty of times before. He's
got a couple of weeks and if the Yank I
mean it, they're not gonna fall too far out before.
They're not gonna get like five six games out and go, Okay,
(06:49):
now we gotta fight our.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Way back in.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's gonna be, hey, two or three games out, we're
going in the completely wrong direction. We have now lost
seven places in the standings in the last seven weeks. Right,
that's gonna be you're talking about losing one place a
week in the Standard says they'd be looking up at
five teams, right, because you still have the Red Sox
pass them, right, even the Royals who were just sitting
at five hundred, Hey, they could be a team to
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pass them. The Rangers could pass them here. So they
get to that point two three games out, of the
wild card. That's it for Aaron Boone. He's done.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, I mean you look at what they've tried to
navigate through. You finally got standing back and he's been
hitting and starting to mash a little bit. So good signs. Wishing, wanting,
hoping that Judge is back. Don't know what it's gonna
mean for it, whether you got to hide him and
now you've got multiple dhs that you have to juggle,
or whether he's gonna be able to be back in
the field. Take all your World Series jokes for a moment.
(07:43):
Luis Heel just finally got back in. Well, he didn't
last but three and a third against the Marlins this weekend,
so little hand ringing going on there. We talk about
the fielding woes, the base running woes, all of those things.
In the end, it's all back to fundamentals. You talk
about changing managers, usually it's a little earlier, you'll do
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it before the All Star break. This would go fall
in line to when the Nuggets got rid of Mike Malone.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He doesn't have a job, so it's Mike, not Michael anymore.
Mike Malone.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So when he got fired and you cleared out Calvin
Booth and all of that and just said we're gonna
make the best run we can and then you shuffle
up and deal porter Junior's gone or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
For the Yankees, that might just be the way to go.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You got Brad Ostmas who was a manager with the
with the Tigers, maybe he would be the next guy. Sure,
but try to get a different energy, different voice, and
maybe having a fire lit under your ass is exactly
what you need because you were front running.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Now they can't win on the road.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Whatever's going on that Like whatever bug you've caught there,
it's absolutely crushing you along the way in this huge slide.
But the Red Sox were kind of left for dead
five six weeks ago, where they're gonna be dealing at
the deadline and selling off. No, there they are. The
Blue Jays, which were an interesting, you know, long shot price.
(09:05):
We talked about them in the preseason with John palmer
Osi when he joined us before he gave us his
inevitable Seattle pick. But we talked about the Blue Jays
of maybe if things broke right. But the way the
last six weeks have played out, it's an absolute disaster.
And for Aaron Boone guy that maybe after last year,
when you're talking about fundamentals and all of that, that
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maybe you should have had a different voice coming into
the year. But coming off a World Series, you understand
the stay of execution for him and for Brian Cashman,
who seems to have a lifetime deal at this point,
sure to do whatever you aw what that did?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Work? Again, it's too bad.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Meanwhile, you go back to Wildcat Joe, Joe Girardi before him,
Joe Torre. I wonder how much of that is it's
an organizational management versus Aaron Boone on his own as well,
which is maybe why he hasn't walked the plank yet.
Notice he doesn't get thrown out as many games as
he used to.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, No, well boy, because they
don't win those games anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Like I get thrown out in the first we come
back to win. They don't win those games anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Now, it's funny you mentioned you mentioned, uh, Austin's right. Okay,
so let's see what the Yankees do firing Aaron Boone.
Let me just throw this possibility out there for you, okay,
because remember this weekend was a really big deal because
Aaron Boone responded, didn't like the criticism that was levied
against him by Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez on on
(10:26):
Fox Right. Didn't like the fact that they work they
were critical of him. On Fox's pregame show before the
Speedway Classic Saturday Night, Jeter said, listen, the Yankees make
way too many mistakes. You can't get away with making
that number of mistakes against great teams. They had base
running mistakes today. Trent Grisham god thrown out at home plate.
You have to clean stuff like that up. A Rod
went on to say, Hey, you know, if any you
(10:49):
or I did that, we'd be sitting on the bench
and there's no accountability, which is true, right, We've seen
the Yankees make mistakes and there's no accountability. So let
me throw this out there now. He tried to own
a team didn't go that great. I was broadcasting for Fox.
Do you wait until the end of the season or
when you fire Aaron Boone, because clearly he's okay with this.
(11:12):
Do you call up Jeter and come manage the Yankees?
Derek Jeter, the Yankee manager, do.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You do that? Do you do you do it? Now?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Do you wait until the end of the season because
you know, Jeter's got a lot of stuff going on.
Maybe he you know, hey, I got to think about it.
I don't want to jump right into managing unless the
short term thing. Hey, I'll manage the rest of this year.
I kind of liked it, so I'll come back next year.
Like I could see either way. I could see the
if the Yankees did this. I could see Jeter saying, yes,
I'll do it for the rest of this year because
I'm a Yankee and I'll come and I'll do it.
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And if he wins and loses, doesn't matter. He's still
a legend.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I did it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I manage the Yankees for a month and a half, right.
But I could also see him saying, yeah, it worked out, well,
I'm gonna stay on. I could see Jeter saying no,
but let me see for next year. So Austmin's does
it now or somebody else does it now? Maybe Joe
Torri was back and does it now for a little bit,
and then Jeter gets named the Yankee manager in some
time in the fall.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I'd love to see Joe Tory go creeping back down
in them help me with my stirrups. But the Jeter
angle is is mighty interesting. I do enjoy the fact
that these guys laid it out right that for whatever
you want to say about Alex Rodriguez, and plenty of
folks have slung ink and slung plenty of words across
(12:26):
radio and TV against him relationship wise, you know history
and look he's got He's got a long history that
you can go through many paragraphs in the Wikipedia. Remember
he was the better shortstop and he deferred to Jeter
when he joined the Yankees. I don't think it gets
brought up enough that was a guy that sublimated ego,
went and learned how to play third base more effectively
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and made that thing work, and they did win a
World Series while he was there, something that he'll never
get credit for, you know, being maybe being a better teammate,
even if it was only for a year or two.
Then perhaps sees given credit for his career. But the
fact that they both went to their their pulpit on
the Fox broadcast and talked about fundamentals and what's killing him, Like,
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they got a lot of talent on that squad. They
give away so many runs to night and funny, it's
like watching the Dodgers a lot of nights. We celebrate
a lot of the stars. And Dave Roberts, I bet
you he's got a board up there going, all right,
what's our over under in terms of run runs we
took stealing bases and being smart on the base pats
versus what we gave away. And it's like counting cards
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in Las Vegas that that number goes up and down
every night for the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I like the Jeter angle.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Just think about you, what would that mean for the Yankees,
the Yankee brand for major League Baseball? Jeter is going
to manage the team. Now, if you're a superstar, you
always have to wonder if I get involved and we
don't win, what does that do to my image? And
you know, guys like Jeter, Hey, I want to be
have a great image. Yeah, you want to think that
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whatever he did on the on the field is great,
but it being New York and what have you done
for me lately? Jeter was great? Jeter was great, but
he can't manage. He's a horrible manager. But he's okay
with getting involved and criticizing the Yankees. If he was
someone that would stay away from stuff like that, I
would say, yeah, okay, but he's okay with getting.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
In this and get getting down and dirty.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's okay with this, say okay, back, yay, come in
and manage the team. And in fact, maybe that's how
I do it. If I'm the Yankees, I come out
him and say, listen, do it for the rest of
the season. Just do it for us the season and
we'll see and and that may be where Jeter says, Okay,
if we don't go anywhere, it's fine because I'm doing
the Yankees a favor.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Can we get a more exaggerated version of Oh my God,
Roger is in George's box where it's like a WWE
SuperStar's return where they're having a meltdown and instead of
going to the mound for a closer, it's Jeter comes
out and throws Aaron Boone out.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
He comes out with puts his jersey on, puts his
jersey on.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean, and think about it from a baseball perspective,
who's gonna who's gonna not, who's gonna question anything? Jeter says.
The guy's an absolute bleeping legend. It's gonna be Derek Jeters. Yeah,
I'm playing for Jeter, right, Are you really Are you
really gonna not listen to Jeter?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Are you? Jeter's gonna put you on the bench. Who's
not going to do that?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Because we've gotten those reports out in Raiders camp, the
things look a little cleaner. When suddenly Tom Brady skulking
along the sidelines. You're in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You dog it, oh man, that's how Paul Jeter call
Jater call it again us opening the door to being
okay with being critical of the Yankees, right, because he
would he could find a way. Look, Jeter, he would
listen to everything. Jeter and a Rod say, right, they
have that kind of reputation they could easily and have.
(15:42):
They could easily be critical without taking on the manager door,
taking on a really strong take.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
They could easily say, hey, Yankees got to clean this up.
You have certain situations it shouldn't happen. Okay, that's great,
and say you're super critical stuff for other teams because
it is where you you know. I mean, Jeter's a
Yankee all the way through. But the fact that he
so okay with saying being critical of Aaron Boone tells me, hey, okay, man,
we'll come in and do this. Who maybe he's got
a little bit of that, and make it easy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Make it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That's why I think, more so than waiting until the
off season, because you could, you could kind of throw
a test balloon. Would you ever be answered managing the Yankees?
And maybe you give Jeter time to think about it.
Maybe he says yes, but then you give me time
to think about it and say no. But if you
come to him now and just say, dude, I know
you're doing Fox everything I get, but we need you
and it's at the worst, it's five weeks, but come in.
(16:32):
You know the team, you know that, you know the personnel,
you know everything going on, you know the players. Just
come in, do it. Help us now, because that's what
got Magic in first. Sure, when Magic started and jumped
in to coach the Lakers, it was okay, Magic coach
the Lakers. Things went already, stayed on it. Then in
the end it didn't work out, But that's kind of
what it was like in the nineties. That's how I
push it. We'd say, come in and help us now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Immediately Maggie jumps and then that trial run, that test
balloon when he was suddenly on the sidelines, come in
everywhere for us and every time they were in a jam,
it looked like he was going to do one of
those Leslie Nielsen naked gun things where he rips out
his collar and the suit goes off and he's got
his uniform underneath.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh sure, he did it and bit it and they're
pulling kareem out. He's got his Lakers jersey on.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Listen, kid, you tell your old man to tried Dragon
Walton laneer up the court for forty eight minutes a night.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
My dad says, you're pretty good, but you don't play defense.
But now I want some of this show notes from
behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
To the last couple of weeks. How often is he
rumbling about oh yeah, and the problems.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
He focused on the Yankees watching the games be you know,
how often is that a thing? Because I don't know
how you say no. If it's just hey, come do
this for five weeks, potentially fix it, come in and
do this. He's got the little kids at home. Yeah,
but five because I met five week future missus Jeer
all those years. But again, it's five or more than that.
It's it's a little bit less than two months, right,
(17:53):
you can do it for a little bit less than
two months.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, you got to get through October, so it's three Well.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I say, okay, but I say five weeks because if
you're firing Boone at the end of all, okay, and
Jeter coming in, you think about it. You could say,
because if it's more than five weeks, that's great, and
more than five weeks that's awesome. Right, Okay, that's great,
But you say five weeks. Can Jeter really say no?
Can you really say I can't come help the Yankees?
Would he really be able to say that? This thing
about that Derek Jeter Yankee manager, that would be just fun.
(18:19):
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Speaking of the Lakers, we got something with Lebron and
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Speaker 1 (19:53):
Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Now just just for real quick to just
dig banned on this thought. We had a few minutes
ago this theory. Look, we talked about these status of
the Yankees and losing that game Friday night to the Marlins,
worst loss of the season, and we said, don't be surprised,
we're looking back at the end of the year and
saying that's the loss that ended the Yankee season. Now
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losers of four in a row, getting swept by the Marlins,
which has never happened, swept by the Marlins Man, not
the Marlins Man, but swept by the Marlins Comma Man.
And now losing tonight on a walk off to the
Rangers when Devin Williams gives up the game tying home
run the ninth. We told you you're gonna Aaron Boone's
gonna pay. If the Yankees fall a couple of games
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out of the Wild Card, which is close to happening,
he's gonna be done. And what if they call Derek Jeter,
who seems to be very much okay with pointing out
Aaron Boone's mistakes and what's going on and just think
about this, right, just from from more than a Yankee perspective,
the Yankees called Derek Jeter. Jeter comes and decides to
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manage a team. What's a bigger story in baseball the
last decade?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Is there one?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I know there is jem and every toni Otan, but
Jeter coming back to save his franchise. I mean that
the shock, the shock of Jeter coming because look, we've
known Otani's been good for a long time now, so okay,
it's not he's not quite of a shocking.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So it's like, boy, he's really really good. We've known this.
But then we get the fifty to fifty So I
mean that great.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But what's the idea that your iconic name one of
the last of the one team guys? Right, because we
talk about the homage to years going by major League Baseball.
We just had the Hall of Fame. What do you
do You celebrate the past, celebrate the legends, and there's
always that special nod to a guy that did.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It with just one team.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Jeter being one of the last of those iconic guys,
and he is the legend and what.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
People still he still has enough cachet with all fans
because they remember his career, remember the end of it.
Remember he's still him coming back. Here comes Yankee legend
Derek Jeter to manage the Yankees. I just think about
It's a great dear, Rob Bamford.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Wouldn't get criticized for anything for like two or three weeks.
Just I got Jeeter back in the game. We got
Cheter back. Yeah, I'll take credit for that. Yeah, we
got Jeter back in He's gonna I'm gonna have him
even if he's not in this series.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm gonna hand him a hunk of metal just because
I really want to do that. I want to give
that to Jeter.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So I'd say, how seismic of a story that would
be just here, Oh my god, Derek Jeter's coming back.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Talk about nikes. How do we get legends back into
the game?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I mean, we talked We'll get to Lebron James in
a minute. But it's a lot of the all right,
how long will he be around the game, how quickly
before he moves into an ownership stake? All of those
kind of things we talk about the you know, other
Major League Baseball greats.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Hey, do they have the inkling?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Do they do they want to get into managing or
the front office kind of thing, and we go team
to team and we see guys sidle up. You mentioned
Magic Johnson when he came out, uh, and.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Was a coach, Larry Bird was a coach for a bit,
Jordan's own squads and varying success because in the end
there's still business wins, uh, even if not off your court.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So all of that to say, to be able to
get Jeter back in into the Pinstripes, into that dugout, yeah,
that would be a seismic shift for Major League Baseball
in a year full of great stories. Yeah, and it
would also be the we we could look away from
all of the injured veteran players through the because the
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laundry list of guys. And maybe he can get Judge
back in the lineup while he's at it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'm supposed to come back tomorrow in theaters to come back.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Tomorrow, Judge and Jeter tomorrow, Well you just just get
him by the Judge. Yeah, I'm back in the line
of today, and I brought somebody with me, and the
lights start flickering and all of a sudden, we got pyrotechnics.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, and he takes off his mask like Downey when
they showed his Doctor Doom.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
He just takes off the mesk. Oh my goodness, it's
Derek Gina. Gina's back. He's gonna man it the Yankees
Gina's back. Look at that. You just quoted the AI
so from Derek Jeter to Lebron James. Okay, I love it. Luka.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Doncic signs his contract with the Lakers this week, and
which we knew was we told you frid Look, it's
gonna be early Saturday, Saturday night Sunday. We knew it
was coming. Yeah, And there was a lot of attention
on the fact that, hey, look at all the teammates
half the team showed up to congratulate Luca. Lebron not there. Okay, boy,
Lebron's not there. Now you know how savvy Lebron is
(24:44):
because a couple hours after that was now was noticed.
Here's some of his teammates who were there for Luca,
and then he took some of them to Vegasy. The
Backstreet Boys pulls up. Who's the greatest Lebrony band of
all time? Lebron put a put a post off on
social media. I'm golfing, right, why would he do that?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
This is the thing, like we found out later on
earlier tonight, that Lebron did contact Luca and congratulate him.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Mark Stein had that right, We had it right. And
in all the ESPN reports it was the last line.
It was all sources and everything else, and then finally
at the final line was veteran reporter mark Stein was
the first.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, I know, ESPN never wants to have credit, h no.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So okay, So we know that he did congratulate Luca, right,
and and I would find it hard to believe that
he wouldn't because Lebron's not that kind of guy to say,
I'm not even going to congratulate Luca.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But here's the Lakers and they're all there for him,
and Lebron isn't.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Okay, I get it. That might not be Lebron's thing
to show up. I because look at the picture that
he took when he was at Summer League with all
his teammates, Like, I don't want to be in this picture, man, Okay, fine,
Like Lebron is Lebron, right, the guy is still an icon.
But he found a way that when people knew he
wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
To show you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, I don't need to be there because I'm golfing, right,
just like when I go back. How many ever, many
years ago, six years ago now, where Lebron, owner of
Blaze Pizza, said, oh, everybody come to Culver City for
the Blaze Pizza and the next day, I mean in
my neighborhood there there were news trucks, there, thousands of
people online and not only did Lebron not show up,
(26:23):
but every reason one who where's Lebron? Wears Lebron? What
do we get on social media? Two or three hours
into the people waiting for it, a picture of him
in his pool was donut floating or flo was floating
in it in a donut, and it was again Lebron, No,
I don't come down.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I don't do this.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, no, no, no, no Lebron. So you know Lebron
does this on social media once per point. I'm Lebron James,
I don't do this. Yeah, I said, come to Culver City,
And it was really crappy of him not to not
to come, especially when he basically said, hey, come to
Culver City tomorrow. Why not now here? Oh, here's Lebron
not there. Oh, let me show you that I'm golfing.
I don't come to this. I'm golfing.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I'm doing this. His reaction with Luca is one thing,
but he is now.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
We told you a few weeks ago the Lakers were
daring Lebron to ask for a trader. Now Lebron is
daring the Lakers and begging them to buy him out
with all of these postings. Look, you have this message here.
I don't show up. I'm not showing up at a
Laker event for Luka Donciic, even though I'm here to play.
I don't hear for that. But we get all off
season has been here. I'm working out with the Clipper
(27:28):
logo behind me. Why is it on social media? Because
I want people to know. Oh, here he is with
Nikola Jokicic's agent, and Yokicic's agent puts out the statement saying, oh,
what a great time to make plans for the fall
of twenty twenty six. You know, jokic agent didn't just
say I'm putting this out there. You know this was
something that he and Lebron were okay with. Oh no, no,
we may not be talking about this, we're talking about
(27:48):
a new league that we're doing. Oh right, right, because
that's people care about as a league. But oh, why
are you wearing a welcome home hat? Oh I'm just
a hat that I'm wearing walking around Cleveland. I'm not
doing anything. Hey, why are you working out the Cleveland
Cavaliers facility on the fourth It's like, Oh, no reason,
I'm just back here working out like he is telling everybody,
I want out here.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I am.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I'm comfortable with the Clippers, I'm comfortable with the Nuggets,
I'm comfortable with the Cavaliers.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I want out.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
He's telling the Lakers buy me out, right, because now
at this point, the trade market form isn't quite what
he thought. It was not robust anymore, and teams aren't
saying we're a Lebron James away from anything. So now
it's okay, buy me out and I'll be able to because, hey,
there certainly be a market for him if he gets
bought out and goes someplace house many contenders would line
up to say, yes, give me Lebron for the next
(28:35):
year or two. He's still playing an incredibly high level.
So now it's gone from the Lakers daring Lebron to
ask for a trade to now it's it's Lebron saying
buy me out, because again I keep going back to
the fact that he's not gonna play out a season
where he's not wanted. Lebron icons don't do this. Lebron
couldn't let the whole thing with Luca press conference pass
(28:56):
without letting everybody know I'm not there. I'm golfing, right.
He couldn't people in the in the in the heat
in Culver City, thousands of people lining up. He couldn't
let that go by letting people know I'm hanging out
in my pool. I'm cool. He could not let that go.
He's not gonna play an entire season where the team
can take or leave him and they know he's leaving
at the end. Like I keep coming back to that, right,
(29:18):
And you heard Sean's have the big story today that hey, Yannis,
stuff happens. Stuff has happened in the end of August
and September with guys asking for trades. Kyrie went in
in September, and so did Damian Lillard last year. Jannie
is waiting things out. Maybe he asked for a trade.
The Lebron thing ain't over man Lebron. He is every
day that goes by, he is finding a way to
(29:38):
tell the Lakers, buy me out, buy me out. I
opted in for my fifty two million. Now you're gonna
buy me out so I can make that and go
sign someplace else and go play. He is telling he
is not going to have a whole season where he
plays in his second fiddle to anybody. And he's just
a guy that at the end of the year like, yeah,
that's great, you're here, but we're letting you go. He's
not playing out the season and is he is? He
(30:01):
is now begging the Lakers to say, buy me out.
I'm gonna keep doing stuff like this where I at
the end, I just walked back, go oh, I didn't
mean anything by this.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
So he didn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
By working out at the Clippers facility where he could
work out the Lakers' facility could have done that, right,
you're a Laker, They'll open the doors for you.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You could go there. No, the whole stuff with Cleveland,
with Yokus's agent, all of this is just oh, hey,
is this is me doing no?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Come on, man, you're not the guy in wrestling that
hits a guy with a chair, and when the referee
turns around.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
He go, why didn't do anything? What are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
No, no, no, everything is with Lebron has some sort
of outcome desired. And now this is what four teams
that he has shown you that Hey, I can link
up here and we can talk to these teams, and
this is where I'd like to go. I'd love to
go to the Clippers and stick it to you. I'll
go play with Kawhi and make things work with him
and Harden. I'd love to stick it to you. Yeah,
get me to the clip, buy me out, and I'm
(30:48):
comfortable going here. He's dying and daring the Lakers. He
wants Hi to buy him out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
If he wasn't so pathetic in all of this, you know,
if he didn't opt in and he went and hit
the marketplace, he could have chosen wherever the hell he
wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
So I say this, if I'm the Lakers, you want out?
What is it?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Fifty two six, fifty two to five? Pay it back,
pay it back? No you get nothing, buy me out instead? No, no, no,
buy me out instead.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's what I mean. You're getting nothing. You give us
all that money back talk.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
He's he's being a petrol job white and used the
Micah Parsons walking to the edge of the sure and
this is the same thing, only at the top of
the stairs is someone with a fifty two point six
million dollar check for him to come back to as
opposed to a bowl of macaroni. But he over he
overplayed his hand. He does you know in the end
that he really want to get traded. He wants to
(31:38):
He wants to choose where he can go. He want
you know, he does have the note he could, but
he could. But I think he also misread the market.
I think he probably thought, Hey, no matter what I am,
it's easier to make the deal and move around when
you know what kind of money I'm making for next year.
So I'm opting in. The deadline was too early for me.
He misread the market for a second. If he can
go back, you go, okay, we gotta do that differently.
(32:00):
I didn't know the teams wouldn't want to trade it, so.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
We said that at the time.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Was who's training fifty two million dollars worth of assets.
That's three or four pieces of a rotation for a
guy who's going to be forty one and a half
years old or whatever. This did the that's a lot
the cavaliers could have done it a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
That's a lot of guys that were key to the
rise up that you had.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But I think he thought, Okay, more teams than I
want teams will be in the teams I want to
go to, will be interested, but then opted and found out,
oh wait, it's a little bit more barren than I
thought it was. Now I'm kind of stuck like that
was a mistake. That's a lot that has to come back.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So you know, I'll take a victory lap on that
how this all ends again, you know, the petulant child
part of it.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
To me, I just chuckle at you can keep posting
this all you want.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Lakers decided to have a press conference knowing you weren't
going to show up on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
So they got their bit of revenge right there. It's like,
could have done it any other day.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Dan and I would talking about a little bit yesterday
morning in our Fox Sports Sunday fun being on the
mark steinline is out there, but it's just that idea
of they've shown you at every turn. Lucas in charge now,
so you're just noise time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But God has
been called the Lebron James of Fox Sports Radio. He
(33:22):
was also playing golf on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
It's Steve de Sega boy that I also have not
been to Blaze pizza a while. The Spurs gave dearon
Fox a four year max extension where two hundred and
twenty nine million dollars. The WNBA was off tonight. Minnesota
All Star and a FISA Collier will miss at least
two weeks with a sprained ankle. The NCAA will not
expand the March Madness Field next year, but they'll talk
about expanding it for twenty twenty seven. To college football,
(33:47):
Texas and Ohio State are one two in the preseason
Coaches Poll. Texas will open at Ohio State August thirtieth
on Fox TV. The Jacksonville Jaguars listed rookie Travis Hunter
as a starting wide receiver and to back up defensive back.
Giants rookie running back Cam Scattabow mispractice again with a
leg injury. Brown's rookie quarterback Shoudoor Sanders return to practice
(34:09):
today set out team drills on Saturday with a sore arm.
Battling injuries or quarterbacks Dylan Gabriel and Kenny Pickett of Cleveland,
so the Browns agged quarterback Tyler Huntley Bucks QB Baker
Mayfield should return to practice on Tuesday after a bruised hand.
Cowboys defensive lineman Micah Parsons attended practice again, watching, not participating.
He's requested a trade. Jets defensive tackle Quinn Williams, with
(34:32):
the calf injury, is out this week. The forty nine
Ers release kicker Greg Joseph, needing roster space. Eagles wide
receiver AJ Brown did not practice again due to a
hamstring injury, and Buffalo Bill's running back James Cook set
out practice for a second straight day. He wants a
contract extension. The Bills are off Tuesday. The late ballgame
at Dodger Stadium went to Saint Louis with a run
(34:54):
in the ninth, beating LA three to two. The Dodger
offense went one for twenty two the first seven innings.
Arizona down San Diego six to two, Angels and Toronto
with wins. Blue Jays fifteen to one winners at Colorado
the Rockies record now thirty and eighty two. Texas homer
in the tenth to beat the Yankees eight to five.
Cincinnati down the Cubs in Chicago three to two. The
(35:16):
Cubs offense went three for twenty nine. The Cubs are
now three games back in the first place. Brewers in
the NL Central Milwaukee won three to one at Atlanta
in a game where each team had only three hits.
Boston won at six game in a row Detroit one again.
Cleveland beat the Mets in ten innings, seven to six,
even though Pete Alonso had four hits four RBIs, including
a homer for the Phillies are now game and a
(35:37):
half over the Mets in the NL East. Six home
runs in Philly tonight as the Phills beat Baltimore thirteen
to three. Kyle Schwarber with two homers he has forty.
He had a Grand Slam tonight as part of his
three hits six RBI. Schwarber with ninety four runs betted
in Back.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
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(36:18):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Diamond Dogs finished filming in Kansas City. Yeah, they finished
filming whatever in season four, which I assume is Rebecca
and Kelley coming back to Kansas City to convince Ted
to come coach the women's team, and now they will
go film in London mostly or in Greater Greater England.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Singing a little Black Sabbath as the rat little bit. Yeah,
get ready, this is Ted Lasso Talk with Ted ted
Lasso Talk here. That's Diamond Dogs. Take out a good
Diamond Dogs any how, that's how they do it. What
is the face you're making when.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You do it?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I'm doing How else do I make that that down
without making a face.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Oh it's a little exaggerated. There is a camera in
front of him, so I mean he's putting on a show.
I mean wailing in manamore. I can just do it
without moving my moving my mouth.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
You want to explain to people who explained to generation
answers who wailed in Matamar and he moved his mouth
the entire time like he wasn't even somebody that Rentrol
acquistam to pretend that I'm throwing my voice. Dog's gonna
pretend it's go do the woe. You're not pas attention
to me, That's it. Diamond Dog's on here. So this
weekend we got the response from Jerry Jones to Michaeh
(37:39):
Parsons contract situation, really want out, which Michael Parsons says,
I no longer want to be here, And Jerry Jones
did a really impressive thing and I'm being serious where
he backed off his criticism of Michah Parsons and talked about, hey,
it's a negotiation, but also dropped a couple of little
nuggets to let Michah Parsons know, Uh, I'm not gonna
(38:01):
trade you just because you want me to trade you.
So a combination of hey, I'm kind of backing off
a little bit, but I'm also gonna remind.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
You that I hold all the cards here.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So this is where, Okay, you want to know what
happens now If Micah Parsons really wants to get traded,
you really want to do this.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You want out, you leave camp because he's been in
camp just kind of hanging out in sweats.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
And everything else. And but if you want out, you
need to say, you know what, I still want out.
Nothing has changed. I'm now leaving camp and when you
trade me, that's the next time I'll be on a
football field.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Got to figure out where. That's the magic words are
what you have to do.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
But hanging around camp, eat it. If you're in sweats
going into those meetings. We heard shottenheim Er talking about it.
He's there and here's our expectations.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
You can't be there no.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Like you got it here showing that you really want
to be around the cowboys that you so all your
talk doesn't matter because your actions are not mad you
have to leave, doesn't matter. Not practicing that you got
to lead you. If you don't want to be here,
then you gotta guy. It's gotta be worth fifty thousand
a day being away from the game, like you gotta like.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Because you can get that money back.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
You're still on that deal to where you get you
can get your cash back, so uh, and even if
you didn't, it's gotta be worth it.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
In principle.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
If you're this is what you're doing, holding out for
whatever that gap is between the handshake agreement that you
that Jerry Jones claims you had and where you are.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Really look and I get that, Okay, you were the
bad guy, but by saying you don't want to be here,
let me temper that a little bit by still being
there for my teammates, talking everybody.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I understand that. I get that. But if you want out, man,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
But your team isn't gonna understand you're done. Of course,
the man, they're gonna understand exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You gotta leave. You gotta you gotta you gotta throw that,
draw that line in the sand and go yeah, that's all.
This is great.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
No, I don't want to be here, and understand that
it doesn't matter how long you stay out. You are
the best defensive player in the NFL. You are the
guy that thirty one teams because I can't count the
Cowboys anymore that if they could start their team with
any one defensive player, they would start it with you.
So you know that, no matter what, you're gonna get
that three year, one hundred and twenty one hundred and
(40:04):
thirty million dollar contract from someone. You are going to
get it. You just have to be patient and waited out.
But someone's gonna give it to you. Jerry Jones is
not gonna go through all this with you sitting out
and being a distraction as the team loses games. He's
not gonna have that. I may be talking great now
and you may have to sit out for a little while,
but you will get your money. He will absolutely want it.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
If TJ.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Watt at thirty one is getting paid for what he's
done for the Steelers, Micah Parsons at twenty five is
gonna get his three to four year deal for one
hundred and thirty one hundred and sixty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
It will happen. Yeah, eventually, Jerry O blink.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I'm kind of hoping it drags out because I can't
wait to see what kind of craziness comes out of
his mouth next.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Before we get out of here, Jason, would you like
to read the back of the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, we talked about Dougas potentially being close to the
end for Aaron Moon after tonight's Yankee loss. The back
of the New York Post says, bleep in the heart
of Texas. That's your New York Post headline tonight.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Versus Williams blows it in the ninth, Bird bashed in
tenth as Yanks lose again.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Telling you man, it's not far away for Aaron Boone
to get let go of The Yankees are falling through
the standings. Called Jeta, Jeta jea is okay with criticizing
Boon on Fox called geta.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Get you Peter in here. Your Mets only got the headlock. Jeeta, Jeet, Geeta, peta.
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