October 5, 2023 • 38 mins
In Hour 4 of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys revisit the Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift story, and discuss why people should not be up in arms over the NFL’s coverage of the couple. Jason and Mike discuss the Tampa Bay Rays poor attendance this playoffs, and why this will be the day we will look back on when MLB decided to reassess baseball in Tampa. Plus, the guys make predictions for the next round of the MLB playoffs and much more!
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Well we'll get to we'll get to that big NFL
story in a second. But I gotta say, I think
you know, you ever you ever eat dinner that you're
looking forward to and at the end you ate a
lot and you go, I really wasn't happy with what
I ate. You know, I thought I was gonna be
in the idea of it was great, and I thought,
(01:10):
but it just it. I don't know, this is it.
I feel very unsatisfied and all you can do. The
worst part is, at least for me, is that I'm
not hungry, so I got a weight to eat again
to make up for the meal that I just had.
Like my next meal is gonna be big, right, but
but right now I'm feeling so unfulfilled. I should have more.
I kind of get down.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, I kind of felt that way after finishing ah Soca.
I kind of, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I haven't started it yet, it's on the list for
this week.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I watched it and I said, what is what is
this for?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What? What? What? What was this entire thing for? And
unless the only reason they had this was to lead
up to the big Star Wars movie that's gonna finish
the stories of AHSCA and the Mandalorian book a Boba
Fat and that's supposed to be this big thing that
that A Felony is doing. But I'm I watched ah SOIAKA,
and I go, there's so many things just don't make sense,
(02:05):
and and that don't make sense, but that makes sense.
Why why did they even have this show?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Why? What? What? What? What? Is happening.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I've gotten really good at just uh, I don't need
to piece it all together and give it a big
thought piece kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's like any No, it's no, it's not that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's like it's like what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There's like there's what happened?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You know, Like like I go all the time, like
when I talk about the fifth book of Harry Potter,
The Order of the Phoenix, which is a great movie,
which is phenomenal, because the book like nothing happened. Like
I'm like nothing. Why do people say nothing? This book
was seven hundred pages long and there was absolutely nothing
that happened.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Right, So, hey, man, inspired by Dickens.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
What do you want that paid by the word nothing happened?
Why there was no need for this book at all?
There was no need at all. And I look at
a soilaka and I go, what really happened? What really happened?
I don't understand what really happened? I don't know, man,
Like it was fun if you watch Star Wars Rebels,
and it was They certainly put a lot of money
(03:00):
into it, and the sets look really good. But just overall,
I walk away, I'm unsatisfied. I really I'm unsatisfied. Yeah,
I'm sorry to hear that, buddy. Yeah, I really thought
it was gonna be about something you ate. So you
were going to justify a run, you know, toward towards
the border or a big Mac. Yeah right, Oh, no,
I'd run for a big Mac. Man. You know you
showed me that monster big Mac thing, the other monster Mac. Yeah,
(03:24):
the monster Mac that's like eight pieces of meat and
then pieces of cheese. Like, where can I you show
me a picture you never told?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I think you have to ask, buddy.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I think I think it's one of those you know, hey,
it's it's on the menu, and you gotta buy the
place that that has.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
A hitten menu, like I get that, and the and
the chocolate sheet.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Can and the loath cake. Yeah, you gotta get it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And we got to make sure we pronounced that properly.
Even in that monster that Monster Mac looked awesome, man.
I'll tell you, like eight patties, eight slices of cheese. Yeah,
it comes with legal forms you have to fill out. No,
and I would even go, I would even go this
and make Alex Tischer, but I would say, listen, listen,
I know it's eight patties and eight slices of cheese.
(04:04):
But what if? What if what if you cut like
three or four the patties and just gave me three
or four more slices of cheese instead. All right, okay,
that's that's better for me, right, It's it's like I'm
eating healthy. Hey, lester to give you though. Yeah, but
it's still better off than eating the Meat's kind of.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Like that beverage you got me that one night, that
Starbucks drink that had cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hey, you said to me, coffee drink.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Man, you just said, get me a coffee drink that's
something double or triple shot. And I brought you a
triple shot coffee drink that did have cholesterol.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
And I drank half of it before I looked at
the ingredients because I thought I was going blind.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Look the other thing.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Exactly what you wanted to dude, don't blame me. I
followed directions.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
To look, I asked, and that was answered. But you did.
We did bury the lead. McRib is returning.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, all of a sudden. No, we're never having them, ribbit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll wait, it'll come back in a year or so.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The McRib is gone. It's that right, right right, just
like the McRib and farewell concerts. Two things to never believe.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
The surviving members of a band that once upon a time,
what are they?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They're all their grandsons.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh really Yeah, it doesn't sound like the band at all,
and none of them can play instruments. But hey, you're
seeing you're seeing the band. You're seeing the band.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, but like you know, just a case of point.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
You know, me a big concert goer, right, so very
excited when things get announced and the girls and I
were going back, my daughters and I for those they're
teenagers for the uninitiated, welcome to the show, Welcome to
the family. Uh, and I gotta think, Hey, the Eagles
are coming back, Okay, cool Vince Gill. We've talked about
it on the show before. A couple more shows here
in LA in January. But opening for them, Steely Dan
(05:51):
Walter walking through that door. They're opening for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is Chevy Chase playing drums or do people still hate him?
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's on the comeback trail.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
He's been showing up at a lot of these conventions
and getting some love. Yeah, so he's getting back in
the podcasts and whatever. She's never gonna reconcile anything with
the people from Community.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
No, no, no, that's what I want. I want him
to be on a on a community podcast. That's what
I wanted to be on. I want to I wanted
to be on the reboot of Community. That's what I want.
Let's see that.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Let's yeah, well, I mean they're gonna do that movie,
and I guess they're moving production to Atlanta because that
was the only way they were going to be able
to get Donald Glover.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Uh, so part of the Star Wars universe. It all
ties together. That is, you know what you're right about this?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
He is Lando. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Uh. We talked last hour about the NFL apologizing for
all their Tailor Swift coverage, which we told you was
stupid because it's just people that want to hate for
no reason other than I like to hate things.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The over coverage of Taylor Swift has been a ridiculous
topic the last few days. But you want to get ridiculous,
you want to get really ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You want to get nuts. Let's hear this.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Here's the Travis Jason Kelsey podcast, which is now the
number one podcast on iTunes that talked about Taylor Swift.
Do look, we note Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift in
some kind of relationship. There was pictures of Travis Kelcey
leaving Taylor Swift's apartment in New York City before the
game Sunday night against the Jets and all of these things.
(07:19):
And there's been a backlash, especially on social media of
people who were up to, oh, it's too much coverage
of Taylor Swift. Well, apparently Jason Kelcey and Travis Kelsey
read too much of their own Twitter accounts and they
wanted to kind of fight back against people who think
there's too much Taylor Swift coverage by saying, hey, we
agree with you. Wait what take a listen.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Is the NFL overdoing it? What is your honest opinion not?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I think everybody was just like overwhelming for Taylor.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
What is your honest opinion on how the NFL is
treating celebrities at games?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I think it's fun when they show who all is
at the game, you know, I think, uh, I think
it brings a little bit more to the atmosphere, brings
a little bit more to to what you're watching. But
at the same time, I think, uh.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
They're overdoing it.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
They're they're overdoing it a little bit for sure, especially
my situation, right, I think they're they're just trying to
have fun with it, and a lot of a lot
of the people watching go ahead, let's here it.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I just think the NFL is not used to celebrities
coming to the games, like basketball has to figure it out.
They're all court side, they're sitting there. They show them
once or twice and then and then but they get
back to the game. The NFL is like, look at
all these days celebrities to the game. Keep showing them,
showing them, show them, show him, dude, listen, you show
him once, let him know there. Maybe after a touchdown
you get a little clip. But you can't can't be
(08:39):
overboard with it. People are there to watch the.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Game, right, Okay, First things first, I will say this,
doesn't Jason Kelsey sound a little bit like Jay Laser? Yeah,
A little bit of like when Jay comes on and
he's and he's you know, because Jay's been talking all
day and he comes out of there, a little bit
of Jay Lazer, right, a little bit of Jay Lazer.
Jason Kelsey, Uh, he's just he's just being ridiculously uh
out of touch. I mean, come on, man, first of all,
(09:03):
to say, oh, don't show them as much. Really, so
you're on board with people who want to complain that
they're showing the people too much in the crowd. Let
me get let me get it straight. That that's what
you're complaining about. You're complaining about they're showing her too much.
They're showing too much of her in a crowd cutaway.
That's what you're complaining about. You know what, Jason Kelsey
(09:23):
is someone I can already tell. He's someone that cares
so much about what people say about him, and he's
someone that sees in social media when people say I
can't believe I can't believe this because this is a
stupid thing to stand up for. Oh, the NFL doesn't
know how to figure out how to show people at
a game. What the hell are you talking about? Oh,
we don't know how do we do we show a person?
(09:43):
The sports have been showing celebrities at games forever. For
all it is is a cutaway into the crowd. That's
all it is. We don't miss a home run, we're
not missing a dunk, we're not missing a big three.
We're not missing anything else. It's a cutaway into the crowd.
This is Jason Kelsey's like, oh man, people don't like
me on social media for you know what if you
(10:04):
if you can't take people telling me you suck, get
off of social media. Right, that's the Jason Kelsey part,
Travis Kelsey part. Dude, you need to be quiet as well,
because it wasn't too much Taylor Swift coverage when your
jersey sales were going up four hundred percent, when your
podcast was going to number one in iTunes, when you
were gaining three hundred thousand followers or five hundred thousand
followers on social media and your brand and the money
(10:26):
you made the last couple of weeks increased tremendously. It
wasn't too much for you then, wasn't too much for
her that, but it's too much now. It's Oh now
it's a little bit too much because now you've gotten
what you wanted out of the publicity. Right, You've got
what you want your your podcast and you're a public
and you and your jersey. No, now it's a little
bit too it. No, no, stop, man, can't have it
both ways. You wanted this you embraced it, you fed it,
and you and you got a lot of big things
(10:48):
off it. If you really weren't happy, you would have
said something last week when whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
this is my private life and Taylor and I no, no,
but you had you had more than a your she
was at the game with your mom in a I
don't think anybody twisted anybody's arm to say, hey, mom,
you want to be in the suite with Taylor Swift
and watch a game together. Oh, here we are walking
out of the game together after we play against the Bears.
(11:10):
You could have got you could have left the game
under cover of darkness. You don't have to be you
have to be a video of you coming out of
the game. You want know you wanted this man, and
now suddenly because you're upset that people are having backlash
on social media, ignore those fools, right, but especially you,
who got a lot out of it to now say, oh, hey,
let's back off, dude. Come on, man, I mean really,
(11:31):
just just just just be be a man about it.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Well, that's the thing, you know, profess The love that
Kelseys are entertaining. Former guests to the show Travis Kelcey.
We had the photo that we put up on X
last last week, and all as we started talking a
little more on all this fun, the big thing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Here is your podcast.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
You decided to make it an issue this week. You
decided to have your say on it. You could have
said nothing and moved on. Let everybodybody else yell about it,
let guys get excited about it and on their their
different platforms, sports talk radio, sports television, scream as they
needed to get off my lawn, get the pop star
(12:12):
out of here, blah blah blah, whatever they need to do.
You decided to make that part of your teas for
this week and a big part of your podcast for
this week. So take some of the blame yourself. You
could have squashed it. You know what you could have done.
You could have talked more about holding. You could have
asked about Travis being taken down on that last play.
(12:34):
What was it like to be body slammed like Andre
the Giant or Big John stud had grabbed hold of you.
You could have gone through talked about the sauce gardener thing.
Really ad nauledgeable and you didn't have to address this
bit of.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It at all. But you did.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Look, you decided to open this door. You were more
than comfortable with it. And now, oh now let's back.
I mean, this is this is out of control. It's
just out of control with it. In the end, it's
not about yes, showing love to her, like that's the
side part.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Like she's just there. She showed up in a game.
Does she like attention? Absolutely, She's a performer, right, she
shows up in stadium seventy thousand large dominates in Mexico.
They had one where they filled up an extra racetrack
that was behind the stadium she was playing because they
didn't have enough seats, so they said, open the gates
because these people are standing outside, so you might as
(13:27):
well at least put them in seats so they sit
and listen along. So, I mean it's that kind of thing. Yes,
with that comes great attention. And again you shot your shot,
you hit your the target of at least being able
to hang out a little bit. And now the greater
sporting world wins for it, and for me, you know,
(13:49):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know, it's the good part of the job.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
When everybody seemed to be happy until folks decided no, no, no, no,
there's too much positivity here to hell with that.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Twitter at how about a fresca Mike gets swollen down
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon
It just irks me that.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh no, I'm getting a lot out of this. But now,
oh now, everybody's being a bit too much because people
are saying things on social media they might not like us. Dude,
be a man, be a grown ass man about it.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Coming up next, Hey, we have a big story out
of Major League Baseball tonight and what NFL team is
headed not only for a big reboot on the fly,
they will do it without their legendary head coach.
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It's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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We'll get to big NFL story coming up in a
couple minutes, because there's a team that's headed for a great,
big fall and way do we tell you who it is?
But tonight we watched in Major League Baseball as the
(15:34):
first round of the playoffs come to an end. We
had all four series end in two game sweeps.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I mean, it happens. You can't control the games. I
mean Arian Foster. He showed me a script. He said, listen,
you're not gonna like the first round of the playoffs.
Teams win the first two nights. I'm like, okay, But
one of the games. The most interesting thing to me
that I was going to pay attention for today was
how many people were gonna come to the game in Tampa,
right because yesterday game one of the Rays series against
(16:02):
the Rangers. You saw the videos that that that went viral.
Here's what the trop looks like fifteen minutes before first pitch,
and there were maybe a couple of thousand people in
the ballpark by the time was all said and done,
nineteen thousand people, which I guarantee you was way overestimated.
There were less people there than that nineteen thousand people
(16:24):
counted coming to a ballpark with a twenty five thousand
person capacity. Just think about that for a second. MLB
is okay with a team playing in a ballpark with
a twenty five thousand person capacity and also not filling it.
So here's the TV, here's your here's your first playoff
it uh But baseball cares just about through the turnstile
as much as they care about team.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
They tell you they always get that.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, you know why, because that's owners saying, wait a minute,
these are millions of dollars not going in my pocket.
I need I need, I need all these games. I
need a lot, I need forty thousand people at every game.
I gotta make money.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Well, it's the great balance saying act in that algorithm, right,
and in that overall equation, it's like, what's the share
that everybody gets off the television contract?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So we have games at three pm Eastern versus the
extra couple of dollars per ticket that get divvied up
thirty ways by people showing up, right because they don't
get you know, one thirtieth of the beer consumption and whatever.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
It's it's just butts in seat. And obviously for optics
you'd like them. But I would argue the television revenue
probably still uh weight waits down.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Their their saddle bags a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
But it's but it's more money, it's more made. So
what do you say about mister Burns. I'd give it
all for just no, no, but but if it wasn't working,
could have more people. Right. But if it wasn't working,
like for the television side of it, then they did.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Not have games in the afternoon, right.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
If the money wasn't greater on that side, they wouldn't
schedule them this way.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I think this was a surprise from Major League Baseball
because the Twins played the afternoon games that sellouts. Right,
everybody everybody did well, they're thirsty. Did you not hear
they had years? They are very thirsty. But seeing nineteen
thousand people at the game yesterday is embarrassing. It's a
bad optic. And we said, hey, five years from now,
(18:19):
where they're the Montreal Rays or the Nashville Rays or
the Carolina Rays, we'll look back and say this was
the night where baseball said, oh boy, we gotta look
at this again. I wanted to see what the attendance
was going to be tonight. After twenty four hours of Man,
this is really embarrassing for your city that other cities
can play during the day and get a lot of fans,
but you can today for Game two and the Rays
(18:42):
got eliminated. Twenty thousand people. Just over twenty thousand people
came to the game today. So after a day of embarrassing, Hey,
let's rally the troops and let's be proud here. We
love baseball and in the Tampa Saint Pete market, twenty
thousand people to a game out. This is what I'm
gonna say. I know that there's a one point three
(19:04):
billion dollar agreement for a ballpark on the table there
that's got to be signed off on.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
But at a giant water, you know, like giant, giant facility,
you know, with other entertainment and food options and whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
But I gotta say, is that the best use of
one point three billion dollars for a team that's gonna
draw not even half of what a what a regular
season crowd would be for a bad team. I think
the Mets last home game was forty thousand, and they've
been out of it for two and a half months.
I don't know, but I mean, hate watching is a
powerful thing. But going to a game and spending money
to hate, why now people like to hate watch them?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Afar, I'm gonna hate watch this thing, and that's Mets
fans are special that way.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I'm not gonna spend White.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Sox fans stay away. Mets fans, they get their pound
of flesh.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Baseball's got to look at this and go, hang on
a second, is this really the best usage of what
we have? Because you can't guarantee me that more people
are gonna come through the turnstiles and it's gonna get
any better. Baseball has been in Tampa for a while,
and what have they always struggled with attendance? Suddenly you're
gonna build a better ballpark and people are gonna come. No,
they're not gonna come. Okay, baseball in Tampa. You look
(20:11):
at this, They are telling you it has seen its day.
They were here for a while and you couldn't break through.
And you had a team after a thirteen and oh
start in a ninety nine win season. They couldn't even
fill a ballpark to it to the extent of what
a good Knicks game would be. Well, but this is
this is why you build them more in line with
Bemo Stadium.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Here, how out the garden or whatever? What is it
seed about twenty two thousand.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Instead just build just build a water park then, or
just just build a just building a six Flags or something,
because you know what, this is not tenable. Man If
I am Montreal or Nashville or Carolina, I'm calling Rob
Manford tomorrow going, hey, is that thing really gonna go forward?
In Tampa. We can guarantee you X, Y and Z.
We are in a better television market. You want to
(20:58):
talk about television money market of Raleigh or or Nashville. Hey,
we are here. You know what, why don't you why
don't you come here? Look at what we can guarantee you.
I can guarantee you better than what you're getting right there.
And if on baseball, I gotta say, yeah, maybe it's
time to listen to that because I look at this
and go, this is just embarrassing that you can't get
more than nineteen thousand people to a game. I mean, really,
(21:18):
I've watched so many teams. See this be the the
straw that broke the camel's back. Right when the Whaler
I'll tell you this, when the Whalers moved from Hartford
in nineteen ninety five, I'm taking you back to the nineties, right,
my hockey team moved from Carolina to from Hartford to Carolina.
The owner at the time, Peter Carmonos, bought the team,
(21:40):
and there was rooms, how is he gonna move the team?
Is he not? And the second night of the season,
right second night, so second second home game of the
season was going to be against the Blues. And when
the Whalers had just traded for Brendan Shanahan and a
couple of other guys, and it was a big Hey,
let's say thank you to the Blues for these guys.
Because Brendan Shanahan was a great player and the Whaler's
(22:01):
god was so exciting, and they built this up for
the longest time on the radio and TV. Make sure
to come out. We're gonna say thank you to the
Blues for Brendan Shanahan, and we have all these things
playing everything else. And I think they got about nine
thousand people to the game. And right after that was
when all of a sudden, the machinations went forward, I'm
moving this team. And a year and a half later
he moved the team to Carolina and it was gone.
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I mean, this is how it goes. This is how
it goes. When you can't do this, you can't tell me, oh, wait,
we can't draw up people here, but spending one and
a half billion dollars, yes, that's gonna get people there. No,
that's too much of a gamble from what I've seen
for twenty years, which is we can't get people into
the ball.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
It becomes another concert venue and everything else. So they
make money and you're thinking about the optics of NLP.
It's like the Bears, I don't care about the rest
of the NFL. They want their share of the pie
instead of the Chicago Park District.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Would you believe this? Now, that's true?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Right, they can have a monster truck rally, Taylor Swift Out,
I think three concerts there.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They don't get a dime of any of that.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
And they let the facility be used by high school
football tournaments and games and all sorts of other things.
The field gets torn up. Guess what, there's no compensation
for that. There's no consideration for that. It's all goes
back into the city.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But I digress.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Would you believe that the seventeen thousand, seven hundred and
eighty one average attendance is according to Baseball Reference dot
Com for the twenty twenty three version of these Tampa
Bay Rays, is the highest average they've had since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Telling me, man, it's I mean they've gotten jaded with
all of this playoff success. Man's right, Yeah, we don't
need to go douse. You go back good well two
thousand and eight, right, they go and they lose in
the World Series. They average twenty two to three. That
was Disney's Wide World of Sports Tropicana Field, And you
know they had a couple of games whatever. The next
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year twenty three thousand and one, little bump based on
going to the World Series. Great, Then another twenty three
thousand average attendance a year where they lost in the
divisional round. The next year they were down to nearly
nineteen thousand because they lost in the divisional round, nineteen thousand,
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the next year, eighteen thousand, in twenty thirteen when they
again lost in the divisional round, and then seventeen eight.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Point fifty eight.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That's the highest it's been until this year, since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I'm telling Montreal, Nashville, make calls, make calls.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I'm curious, I mean, because it does have all those
other ancillary parts, right with those communities still build it
as a non baseball entity. You know, do you look
at it for you know, one point three billion is
the stadium plus as it's been relayed. Now the curiosity is,
(24:59):
you know, we see the sticker shock out here.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Almost five billion dollars five and a half for what
so far became pretty crazy, right, costs of real estate
here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Exit ab out a fresca, exits swollen up. Make your
phone calls, because clearly this is not going to work.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
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Speaker 1 (25:26):
Look, we've talked a lot this year about Bill Belichick, Right,
you talk about being ahead of the curve that should
be the show and that Bill Belichick is coaching for
his new England Patriots life this year. Bobcraft is not
that patient. The team has not gotten better since Tom
Brady left, and you have seen Bill Belichick picking out
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the groceries, preparing the dinner, and it's not gone well.
The team is devoid of talent. They're not any closer
to winning than they were three years ago when this
big reorganization and jump on the fly started. And a
story today makes me look at Belichick a little bit differently,
right because for the longest time we talked about how
(26:09):
he wants to win a certain way. Right, he wants
to win with a lack of talent. He wants to
win with a quarterback that nobody thinks is any good
because he wants to be the guy. I'm the real
reason behind the Patriots dynasty. There's no other reason why
he shouldn't be going out trying to get star football players,
right should he had star football players with Brady. He
went out and got other guys. I signed guys the
big money contracts that were big star players, but now
(26:32):
he's not doing because he wants to win his way.
But a story today makes you look at Belichick a
little bit differently. An anonymous NFL executive says that mac
Jones is being not treated the right way in New
England when it comes to being put in position to
succeed where he succeeded at Alabama running a certain kind
of offense, and the Patriots have been putting him square
(26:55):
peg into round hole, trying to make him fit into
a system that doesn't take advantage of his strengths, right,
And usually you want to see a team saying, hey,
we take our quarterback. We know all quarterbacks are unique,
so we have to design our system around him. But
what has Belichick done? You know Mac Jones is our guy. Well,
he's given the job as a rookie, and then he struggles,
and then there's no offensive coordinator. Then a defensive coordinator
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is offensive coordinator and it doesn't work. And here's mac Jones,
who was struggling to even stay in the league after
getting bench last week. How far away is he from
being ex Patriots starting quarterback? Mac Jones? So when I
look at it this way, I think of Belichick like
I think of Jim Beheim. And when Beeheim left Syracuse
(27:38):
last year, I was nervous, you know, because, look, the
guy's a Hall of Fame coach. The guy's been great
for forty years. And no, the team hasn't won the
last few years. How much of it's on Beheim, how
much of it's not You could debate that. But Adrian
Autry is the new head coach. And I read something
a week ago at Syracuse dot com about how, hey,
one thing, with basketball practice starting Syracuse, you're gonna see
(28:01):
a little bit more modern approach to things defensively, offensively
from Autrey, because you know, look, Beheim did it his
way for a long time, and it was successful for
a long time. The two three zone different. You know,
he had his way of doing things. And now I
put that phrase stuck with me, that hey, we're gonna
get a little bit more modern approach now, and suddenly
all my concerns about we're gonna do without Bayheim they
(28:23):
kind of go out the window because maybe now this
is exactly what Syracuse need, is a jump to the
modern era. Because when a coach knows one way of
doing things and he hasn't shown a way to adapt.
Maybe the game has passed him by. You tell me
a way Bill Belichick has adapted the last couple of years.
He is not. He has tried to take football back
to nineteen eighty five. I'm gonna win with running backs
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and the quarterback who throws it when I can, and
try to win with great defense. Right, he has not
evolved at all. So now I look at Belichick the
same way I look at Beheim. Maybe the game has
passed them by. And Beheim stepped away at the end
of last year, and even he had little bit of
self reflection. I didn't really coach very well the last
few weeks, and maybe it's time. And I look at
(29:06):
Belichick the same way. Maybe it's time. Maybe it's just time.
Maybe the game has passed him by, because I don't
see anything he is doing that is Hey, this is
how we get into what football is in twenty twenty three.
And maybe girod Mayo is the guy to bring the
Patriots into twenty twenty three and beyond it. Maybe bigger
players are gonna want to come play in New England
now and it's gonna be a whole new don't be
(29:28):
afraid of making that decision, and I don't think Bob
Kraft is. So if it's another bad year, it could
be one of those. You know what, We're gonna spend
a lot of money in the offseason and I'm gonna
have a new head coach because it's not going in
the right direction. But maybe, yes, there's Belichick's ego, but
maybe the game is passing him by a little bit.
And I see that a lot. Jumping off of that
(29:49):
story from.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Today, Well, you had Christian Gonzales get hurt, he was
playing pretty well. Judon goes down, and what's the response,
Go trade for J C.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Jackson.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
See if you can't catch lightning at a bottle. While
the Chargers pick up most of that contract and then
they there's no more guaranteed money, So it's not as bad.
Everyone's like they're taking back on that big deal.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
He's out. No they're not. They're not.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
It'll be all good. But look, we've called for for
a long time. Particularly I'm banging the drum of I
need the separation of church and state is in. I
like Bill Belichick the coach. I can't have Bill Belichick
be the guy that's picking the talent and whatever that
relationship is, whoever else is in a front office working with.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Him, that's gotta go like that.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That's the part that's you know, we talked about it
with the Giants the other night, Jason, you know when
we talk and as we got down the Daniel Jones
trade or whatever highway. You can find that at Fox
Sports Radio at how about a fresca at Swollen Dome,
a very animated video discussion between the two of us there.
But the idea of all right, you got a bunch
(30:56):
of guys that you brought in. It's all just a
list of names. I'm reading articles today it's like the
Giants plan to get Darren Waller more involved in the offense.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Like what the hell took you four weeks to figure
that out? Especially that was yeah, he was the guy
that we're gonna give it all time. That was your
prize guy, your prize guy. Yeah, hiot was gonna be nice.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
And Robinson off and you all of these things. But
I digress. The idea is that you had quantity over
quality and you did the same thing here. What do
we read about Juju Smith Schuster Guy's like all right, fine,
he's he's serviceable right two three? Guy that kind of
guy that his knee could blow up at any time
is one of the things we're reading, like where's the
(31:38):
due diligence the other guys that have come through in
the receiving corps like they're they've taken swings on guys
that have that have struck out elsewhere in division. Maybe
on tape you saw some things you liked of DeVante
Parker or some of the others. It hasn't worked. So
from the talent evaluation, who's who's the only guy you
really quote fear on that offense? I mean, Stevenson's a
(32:01):
pretty good running back.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, right, Otherwise you got a bunch of guys and
I guess Hunter Henry is really good in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Problem is you've got to get there. It's a really
difficult it's a really difficult thing to see. But eventually
that decision is gonna have to be made. It's gonna
be made after the season because this season is just
gonna continue to spiral out of control because the Patriots
aren't good. There's no one riding to the rescue to
fix this.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
It's good to revisit this a month later after we
had started the fires a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Of time ago, ahead of the curve. We are no,
no question about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
The last point on this, though, is they're gonna be
just good enough to.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Be mid again.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
They're gonna get drummed by the good teams.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Look, and they're gonna win games against bad and mediocre
squads in this NFL in twenty twenty three, plenty of those.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Jason, how good are we gonna be?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You're gonna be good enough to be mid Oh wait, eh, I.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Don't know, but just good enough to not be in
the Caleb Williams or any other quarterback Mike excited.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Up next, we have a very special play of the night.
Now I know I say that, but we have not one,
not two, not three, but four potential plays of the night.
You gotta hear. Oh yeah, that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
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(33:23):
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(33:43):
for the next round of the MLB playoffs. But first
the play of the night, we bring you not one,
not two, not three, but four equally fantastic plays of
the night.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
The Kirk comes to the belt, he kicks, he fires, He.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Struck him out looking in the ballgames over.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
The Rangers have swept the Wildcard series and are hitting
the Baltimore for the Division Series seven to one. The
Rangers win it today to complete a two game sweep.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
The O two divers shall.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Peaz Switt win, Switt win twins.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
On the way and he struck him out swinging and
the ears on. The Diamondbacks will advance to the next
round of the postseason with a five to two win
tonight over the Brewers.
Speaker 10 (34:35):
No Bass two strikes, Soto ready, he kicks the pitch,
strike three called he got it looking one hundred miles
an hour and Chasm takes it for strike three and
the Phellies take the wild Card Series, sweeping Miami with
a seven to one win.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
So there you go. Your four plays the night your
four teams that that was like zone.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Right, We're going right from one to another. Louisiana Hot Sauce,
Rangers Radio Network, the Treasure Island Radio Network, Treasure on
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and ninety four WP Phillies Radio Network on the call
there there it was back to back to back to back.
So yeah, you and I are on opposite or not opposize.
(35:24):
We have different picks for what the upset of the
next round of the Baseball Playoffs could be. The team
I like that could pull the upset in the next round.
I like the Twins. I like the Twins one two
punch of Lopez and Gray, who probably they should think
about bringing back on three days rest this weekend. They
hit a lot of home runs. They looked phenomenal these
first two games. You're looking elsewhere in the American League
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for yours.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Yeah, I was eyeballing the Rangers against the Orioles, wondering
if the back end of the bullpen issue with losing
your closer to surgery comes back to haunt them. Right,
you get it, get in a close game late innings
and you don't have a guy that was absolutely nails
with a sub one five era. They're over thirty saves
to shut the door, So power on both sides. Obviously,
(36:10):
I've got ties to Baltimore and love the fact that
they have something to cheer for and get back to
the ballpark. They were joking many people that their workout
day was attended by more people than the Tampa Bay Ras.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Ye, that's hard to happen that way.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
So you got that going on. But you know, it's
a series I'm greatly looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Now. If you said to me, what's your best bet,
give me a team that one I know is going
to advance into the league Championship Series, I'll give you
the Dodgers. Look, the Braves are great, Philly's played really well.
I can't see the Dodgers losing the Diamondbacks. I can't
Kershaw's going in Game one. The Dodgers are the better team.
They have a little bit something something going on here.
I really find it hard to believe that I could
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see the Diamondbacks playing at such a high level that
they're gonna beat the Dodgers. I just can't see it.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Yeah, I'm gonna go the other National League see we're
kind of criss crossing along the way here the Dodgers.
You gotta gotta make sure, you know, when you're talking
about you don't imagine guys being able to go six innings.
That bullpen's got to stay right, and you gotta get
more production. And Mookie Betts has to wake up. He
had an awful September, So you know you woke him
(37:21):
up when September ended. Let's see what happened.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Well, he realized he wasn't gonna win the MVP, and
it's like, okay, I'm gonna put it away for the playoff.
I'm not gonna be you know, forty.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
So i mean, look, the playoff numbers ain't been there either,
So yeah, you gotta be a little careful there. But
certainly this September, after all all the push that he had,
I'll tell you, man, that's got it got me a
little nervous.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
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Well we'll get to we'll get to that big NFL
story in a second. But I gotta say, I think
you know, you ever you ever eat dinner that you're
looking forward to and at the end you ate a
lot and you go, I really wasn't happy with what
I ate. You know, I thought I was gonna be
in the idea of it was great, and I thought,
(01:10):
but it just it. I don't know, this is it.
I feel very unsatisfied and all you can do. The
worst part is, at least for me, is that I'm
not hungry, so I got a weight to eat again
to make up for the meal that I just had.
Like my next meal is gonna be big, right, but
but right now I'm feeling so unfulfilled. I should have more.
I kind of get down.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, I kind of felt that way after finishing ah Soca.
I kind of, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I haven't started it yet, it's on the list for
this week.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I watched it and I said, what is what is
this for?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What? What? What? What was this entire thing for? And
unless the only reason they had this was to lead
up to the big Star Wars movie that's gonna finish
the stories of AHSCA and the Mandalorian book a Boba
Fat and that's supposed to be this big thing that
that A Felony is doing. But I'm I watched ah SOIAKA,
and I go, there's so many things just don't make sense,
(02:05):
and and that don't make sense, but that makes sense.
Why why did they even have this show?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Why? What? What? What? What? Is happening.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I've gotten really good at just uh, I don't need
to piece it all together and give it a big
thought piece kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's like any No, it's no, it's not that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's like it's like what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There's like there's what happened?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You know, Like like I go all the time, like
when I talk about the fifth book of Harry Potter,
The Order of the Phoenix, which is a great movie,
which is phenomenal, because the book like nothing happened. Like
I'm like nothing. Why do people say nothing? This book
was seven hundred pages long and there was absolutely nothing
that happened.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Right, So, hey, man, inspired by Dickens.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
What do you want that paid by the word nothing happened?
Why there was no need for this book at all?
There was no need at all. And I look at
a soilaka and I go, what really happened? What really happened?
I don't understand what really happened? I don't know, man,
Like it was fun if you watch Star Wars Rebels,
and it was They certainly put a lot of money
(03:00):
into it, and the sets look really good. But just overall,
I walk away, I'm unsatisfied. I really I'm unsatisfied. Yeah,
I'm sorry to hear that, buddy. Yeah, I really thought
it was gonna be about something you ate. So you
were going to justify a run, you know, toward towards
the border or a big Mac. Yeah right, Oh, no,
I'd run for a big Mac. Man. You know you
showed me that monster big Mac thing, the other monster Mac. Yeah,
(03:24):
the monster Mac that's like eight pieces of meat and
then pieces of cheese. Like, where can I you show
me a picture you never told?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I think you have to ask, buddy.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I think I think it's one of those you know, hey,
it's it's on the menu, and you gotta buy the
place that that has.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
A hitten menu, like I get that, and the and
the chocolate sheet.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Can and the loath cake. Yeah, you gotta get it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And we got to make sure we pronounced that properly.
Even in that monster that Monster Mac looked awesome, man.
I'll tell you, like eight patties, eight slices of cheese. Yeah,
it comes with legal forms you have to fill out. No,
and I would even go, I would even go this
and make Alex Tischer, but I would say, listen, listen,
I know it's eight patties and eight slices of cheese.
(04:04):
But what if? What if what if you cut like
three or four the patties and just gave me three
or four more slices of cheese instead. All right, okay,
that's that's better for me, right, It's it's like I'm
eating healthy. Hey, lester to give you though. Yeah, but
it's still better off than eating the Meat's kind of.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Like that beverage you got me that one night, that
Starbucks drink that had cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hey, you said to me, coffee drink.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Man, you just said, get me a coffee drink that's
something double or triple shot. And I brought you a
triple shot coffee drink that did have cholesterol.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
And I drank half of it before I looked at
the ingredients because I thought I was going blind.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Look the other thing.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Exactly what you wanted to dude, don't blame me. I
followed directions.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
To look, I asked, and that was answered. But you did.
We did bury the lead. McRib is returning.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, all of a sudden. No, we're never having them, ribbit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll wait, it'll come back in a year or so.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The McRib is gone. It's that right, right right, just
like the McRib and farewell concerts. Two things to never believe.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
The surviving members of a band that once upon a time,
what are they?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They're all their grandsons.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh really Yeah, it doesn't sound like the band at all,
and none of them can play instruments. But hey, you're
seeing you're seeing the band. You're seeing the band.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, but like you know, just a case of point.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
You know, me a big concert goer, right, so very
excited when things get announced and the girls and I
were going back, my daughters and I for those they're
teenagers for the uninitiated, welcome to the show, Welcome to
the family. Uh, and I gotta think, Hey, the Eagles
are coming back, Okay, cool Vince Gill. We've talked about
it on the show before. A couple more shows here
in LA in January. But opening for them, Steely Dan
(05:51):
Walter walking through that door. They're opening for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is Chevy Chase playing drums or do people still hate him?
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's on the comeback trail.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
He's been showing up at a lot of these conventions
and getting some love. Yeah, so he's getting back in
the podcasts and whatever. She's never gonna reconcile anything with
the people from Community.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
No, no, no, that's what I want. I want him
to be on a on a community podcast. That's what
I wanted to be on. I want to I wanted
to be on the reboot of Community. That's what I want.
Let's see that.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Let's yeah, well, I mean they're gonna do that movie,
and I guess they're moving production to Atlanta because that
was the only way they were going to be able
to get Donald Glover.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Uh, so part of the Star Wars universe. It all
ties together. That is, you know what you're right about this?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
He is Lando. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Uh. We talked last hour about the NFL apologizing for
all their Tailor Swift coverage, which we told you was
stupid because it's just people that want to hate for
no reason other than I like to hate things.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The over coverage of Taylor Swift has been a ridiculous
topic the last few days. But you want to get ridiculous,
you want to get really ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You want to get nuts. Let's hear this.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Here's the Travis Jason Kelsey podcast, which is now the
number one podcast on iTunes that talked about Taylor Swift.
Do look, we note Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift in
some kind of relationship. There was pictures of Travis Kelcey
leaving Taylor Swift's apartment in New York City before the
game Sunday night against the Jets and all of these things.
(07:19):
And there's been a backlash, especially on social media of
people who were up to, oh, it's too much coverage
of Taylor Swift. Well, apparently Jason Kelcey and Travis Kelsey
read too much of their own Twitter accounts and they
wanted to kind of fight back against people who think
there's too much Taylor Swift coverage by saying, hey, we
agree with you. Wait what take a listen.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Is the NFL overdoing it? What is your honest opinion not?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I think everybody was just like overwhelming for Taylor.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
What is your honest opinion on how the NFL is
treating celebrities at games?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I think it's fun when they show who all is
at the game, you know, I think, uh, I think
it brings a little bit more to the atmosphere, brings
a little bit more to to what you're watching. But
at the same time, I think, uh.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
They're overdoing it.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
They're they're overdoing it a little bit for sure, especially
my situation, right, I think they're they're just trying to
have fun with it, and a lot of a lot
of the people watching go ahead, let's here it.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I just think the NFL is not used to celebrities
coming to the games, like basketball has to figure it out.
They're all court side, they're sitting there. They show them
once or twice and then and then but they get
back to the game. The NFL is like, look at
all these days celebrities to the game. Keep showing them,
showing them, show them, show him, dude, listen, you show
him once, let him know there. Maybe after a touchdown
you get a little clip. But you can't can't be
(08:39):
overboard with it. People are there to watch the.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Game, right, Okay, First things first, I will say this,
doesn't Jason Kelsey sound a little bit like Jay Laser? Yeah,
A little bit of like when Jay comes on and
he's and he's you know, because Jay's been talking all
day and he comes out of there, a little bit
of Jay Lazer, right, a little bit of Jay Lazer.
Jason Kelsey, Uh, he's just he's just being ridiculously uh
out of touch. I mean, come on, man, first of all,
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to say, oh, don't show them as much. Really, so
you're on board with people who want to complain that
they're showing the people too much in the crowd. Let
me get let me get it straight. That that's what
you're complaining about. You're complaining about they're showing her too much.
They're showing too much of her in a crowd cutaway.
That's what you're complaining about. You know what, Jason Kelsey
(09:23):
is someone I can already tell. He's someone that cares
so much about what people say about him, and he's
someone that sees in social media when people say I
can't believe I can't believe this because this is a
stupid thing to stand up for. Oh, the NFL doesn't
know how to figure out how to show people at
a game. What the hell are you talking about? Oh,
we don't know how do we do we show a person?
(09:43):
The sports have been showing celebrities at games forever. For
all it is is a cutaway into the crowd. That's
all it is. We don't miss a home run, we're
not missing a dunk, we're not missing a big three.
We're not missing anything else. It's a cutaway into the crowd.
This is Jason Kelsey's like, oh man, people don't like
me on social media for you know what if you
(10:04):
if you can't take people telling me you suck, get
off of social media. Right, that's the Jason Kelsey part,
Travis Kelsey part. Dude, you need to be quiet as well,
because it wasn't too much Taylor Swift coverage when your
jersey sales were going up four hundred percent, when your
podcast was going to number one in iTunes, when you
were gaining three hundred thousand followers or five hundred thousand
followers on social media and your brand and the money
(10:26):
you made the last couple of weeks increased tremendously. It
wasn't too much for you then, wasn't too much for
her that, but it's too much now. It's Oh now
it's a little bit too much because now you've gotten
what you wanted out of the publicity. Right, You've got
what you want your your podcast and you're a public
and you and your jersey. No, now it's a little
bit too it. No, no, stop, man, can't have it
both ways. You wanted this you embraced it, you fed it,
and you and you got a lot of big things
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off it. If you really weren't happy, you would have
said something last week when whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
this is my private life and Taylor and I no, no,
but you had you had more than a your she
was at the game with your mom in a I
don't think anybody twisted anybody's arm to say, hey, mom,
you want to be in the suite with Taylor Swift
and watch a game together. Oh, here we are walking
out of the game together after we play against the Bears.
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You could have got you could have left the game
under cover of darkness. You don't have to be you
have to be a video of you coming out of
the game. You want know you wanted this man, and
now suddenly because you're upset that people are having backlash
on social media, ignore those fools, right, but especially you,
who got a lot out of it to now say, oh, hey,
let's back off, dude. Come on, man, I mean really,
(11:31):
just just just just be be a man about it.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Well, that's the thing, you know, profess The love that
Kelseys are entertaining. Former guests to the show Travis Kelcey.
We had the photo that we put up on X
last last week, and all as we started talking a
little more on all this fun, the big thing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Here is your podcast.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
You decided to make it an issue this week. You
decided to have your say on it. You could have
said nothing and moved on. Let everybodybody else yell about it,
let guys get excited about it and on their their
different platforms, sports talk radio, sports television, scream as they
needed to get off my lawn, get the pop star
(12:12):
out of here, blah blah blah, whatever they need to do.
You decided to make that part of your teas for
this week and a big part of your podcast for
this week. So take some of the blame yourself. You
could have squashed it. You know what you could have done.
You could have talked more about holding. You could have
asked about Travis being taken down on that last play.
(12:34):
What was it like to be body slammed like Andre
the Giant or Big John stud had grabbed hold of you.
You could have gone through talked about the sauce gardener thing.
Really ad nauledgeable and you didn't have to address this
bit of.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It at all. But you did.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Look, you decided to open this door. You were more
than comfortable with it. And now, oh now let's back.
I mean, this is this is out of control. It's
just out of control with it. In the end, it's
not about yes, showing love to her, like that's the
side part.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Like she's just there. She showed up in a game.
Does she like attention? Absolutely, She's a performer, right, she
shows up in stadium seventy thousand large dominates in Mexico.
They had one where they filled up an extra racetrack
that was behind the stadium she was playing because they
didn't have enough seats, so they said, open the gates
because these people are standing outside, so you might as
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well at least put them in seats so they sit
and listen along. So, I mean it's that kind of thing. Yes,
with that comes great attention. And again you shot your shot,
you hit your the target of at least being able
to hang out a little bit. And now the greater
sporting world wins for it, and for me, you know,
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I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know, it's the good part of the job.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
When everybody seemed to be happy until folks decided no, no, no, no,
there's too much positivity here to hell with that.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Twitter at how about a fresca Mike gets swollen down
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon
It just irks me that.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh no, I'm getting a lot out of this. But now,
oh now, everybody's being a bit too much because people
are saying things on social media they might not like us. Dude,
be a man, be a grown ass man about it.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Coming up next, Hey, we have a big story out
of Major League Baseball tonight and what NFL team is
headed not only for a big reboot on the fly,
they will do it without their legendary head coach.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Book.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Hey, this is Tom Berducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network
and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
And I'm Joe Madden.
Speaker 10 (14:41):
Are We're going to be around to talk a little
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the dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's the Book of Joe podcast. I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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Speaker 10 (14:53):
Major League baseball, cars, wind, whatever else we want to
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Speaker 3 (15:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (15:12):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Live from the tire Raq dot Com Studios.
We'll get to big NFL story coming up in a
couple minutes, because there's a team that's headed for a great,
big fall and way do we tell you who it is?
But tonight we watched in Major League Baseball as the
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first round of the playoffs come to an end. We
had all four series end in two game sweeps.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I mean, it happens. You can't control the games. I
mean Arian Foster. He showed me a script. He said, listen,
you're not gonna like the first round of the playoffs.
Teams win the first two nights. I'm like, okay, But
one of the games. The most interesting thing to me
that I was going to pay attention for today was
how many people were gonna come to the game in Tampa,
right because yesterday game one of the Rays series against
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the Rangers. You saw the videos that that that went viral.
Here's what the trop looks like fifteen minutes before first pitch,
and there were maybe a couple of thousand people in
the ballpark by the time was all said and done,
nineteen thousand people, which I guarantee you was way overestimated.
There were less people there than that nineteen thousand people
(16:24):
counted coming to a ballpark with a twenty five thousand
person capacity. Just think about that for a second. MLB
is okay with a team playing in a ballpark with
a twenty five thousand person capacity and also not filling it.
So here's the TV, here's your here's your first playoff
it uh But baseball cares just about through the turnstile
as much as they care about team.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
They tell you they always get that.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, you know why, because that's owners saying, wait a minute,
these are millions of dollars not going in my pocket.
I need I need, I need all these games. I
need a lot, I need forty thousand people at every game.
I gotta make money.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Well, it's the great balance saying act in that algorithm, right,
and in that overall equation, it's like, what's the share
that everybody gets off the television contract?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So we have games at three pm Eastern versus the
extra couple of dollars per ticket that get divvied up
thirty ways by people showing up, right because they don't
get you know, one thirtieth of the beer consumption and whatever.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
It's it's just butts in seat. And obviously for optics
you'd like them. But I would argue the television revenue
probably still uh weight waits down.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Their their saddle bags a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
But it's but it's more money, it's more made. So
what do you say about mister Burns. I'd give it
all for just no, no, but but if it wasn't working,
could have more people. Right. But if it wasn't working,
like for the television side of it, then they did.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Not have games in the afternoon, right.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
If the money wasn't greater on that side, they wouldn't
schedule them this way.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I think this was a surprise from Major League Baseball
because the Twins played the afternoon games that sellouts. Right,
everybody everybody did well, they're thirsty. Did you not hear
they had years? They are very thirsty. But seeing nineteen
thousand people at the game yesterday is embarrassing. It's a
bad optic. And we said, hey, five years from now,
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where they're the Montreal Rays or the Nashville Rays or
the Carolina Rays, we'll look back and say this was
the night where baseball said, oh boy, we gotta look
at this again. I wanted to see what the attendance
was going to be tonight. After twenty four hours of Man,
this is really embarrassing for your city that other cities
can play during the day and get a lot of fans,
but you can today for Game two and the Rays
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got eliminated. Twenty thousand people. Just over twenty thousand people
came to the game today. So after a day of embarrassing, Hey,
let's rally the troops and let's be proud here. We
love baseball and in the Tampa Saint Pete market, twenty
thousand people to a game out. This is what I'm
gonna say. I know that there's a one point three
(19:04):
billion dollar agreement for a ballpark on the table there
that's got to be signed off on.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
But at a giant water, you know, like giant, giant facility,
you know, with other entertainment and food options and whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
But I gotta say, is that the best use of
one point three billion dollars for a team that's gonna
draw not even half of what a what a regular
season crowd would be for a bad team. I think
the Mets last home game was forty thousand, and they've
been out of it for two and a half months.
I don't know, but I mean, hate watching is a
powerful thing. But going to a game and spending money
to hate, why now people like to hate watch them?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Afar, I'm gonna hate watch this thing, and that's Mets
fans are special that way.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I'm not gonna spend White.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Sox fans stay away. Mets fans, they get their pound
of flesh.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Baseball's got to look at this and go, hang on
a second, is this really the best usage of what
we have? Because you can't guarantee me that more people
are gonna come through the turnstiles and it's gonna get
any better. Baseball has been in Tampa for a while,
and what have they always struggled with attendance? Suddenly you're
gonna build a better ballpark and people are gonna come. No,
they're not gonna come. Okay, baseball in Tampa. You look
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at this, They are telling you it has seen its day.
They were here for a while and you couldn't break through.
And you had a team after a thirteen and oh
start in a ninety nine win season. They couldn't even
fill a ballpark to it to the extent of what
a good Knicks game would be. Well, but this is
this is why you build them more in line with
Bemo Stadium.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Here, how out the garden or whatever? What is it
seed about twenty two thousand.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Instead just build just build a water park then, or
just just build a just building a six Flags or something,
because you know what, this is not tenable. Man If
I am Montreal or Nashville or Carolina, I'm calling Rob
Manford tomorrow going, hey, is that thing really gonna go forward?
In Tampa. We can guarantee you X, Y and Z.
We are in a better television market. You want to
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talk about television money market of Raleigh or or Nashville. Hey,
we are here. You know what, why don't you why
don't you come here? Look at what we can guarantee you.
I can guarantee you better than what you're getting right there.
And if on baseball, I gotta say, yeah, maybe it's
time to listen to that because I look at this
and go, this is just embarrassing that you can't get
more than nineteen thousand people to a game. I mean, really,
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I've watched so many teams. See this be the the
straw that broke the camel's back. Right when the Whaler
I'll tell you this, when the Whalers moved from Hartford
in nineteen ninety five, I'm taking you back to the nineties, right,
my hockey team moved from Carolina to from Hartford to Carolina.
The owner at the time, Peter Carmonos, bought the team,
(21:40):
and there was rooms, how is he gonna move the team?
Is he not? And the second night of the season,
right second night, so second second home game of the
season was going to be against the Blues. And when
the Whalers had just traded for Brendan Shanahan and a
couple of other guys, and it was a big Hey,
let's say thank you to the Blues for these guys.
Because Brendan Shanahan was a great player and the Whaler's
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god was so exciting, and they built this up for
the longest time on the radio and TV. Make sure
to come out. We're gonna say thank you to the
Blues for Brendan Shanahan, and we have all these things
playing everything else. And I think they got about nine
thousand people to the game. And right after that was
when all of a sudden, the machinations went forward, I'm
moving this team. And a year and a half later
he moved the team to Carolina and it was gone.
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I mean, this is how it goes. This is how
it goes. When you can't do this, you can't tell me, oh, wait,
we can't draw up people here, but spending one and
a half billion dollars, yes, that's gonna get people there. No,
that's too much of a gamble from what I've seen
for twenty years, which is we can't get people into
the ball.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
It becomes another concert venue and everything else. So they
make money and you're thinking about the optics of NLP.
It's like the Bears, I don't care about the rest
of the NFL. They want their share of the pie
instead of the Chicago Park District.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Would you believe this? Now, that's true?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Right, they can have a monster truck rally, Taylor Swift Out,
I think three concerts there.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They don't get a dime of any of that.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
And they let the facility be used by high school
football tournaments and games and all sorts of other things.
The field gets torn up. Guess what, there's no compensation
for that. There's no consideration for that. It's all goes
back into the city.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But I digress.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Would you believe that the seventeen thousand, seven hundred and
eighty one average attendance is according to Baseball Reference dot
Com for the twenty twenty three version of these Tampa
Bay Rays, is the highest average they've had since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Telling me, man, it's I mean they've gotten jaded with
all of this playoff success. Man's right, Yeah, we don't
need to go douse. You go back good well two
thousand and eight, right, they go and they lose in
the World Series. They average twenty two to three. That
was Disney's Wide World of Sports Tropicana Field, And you
know they had a couple of games whatever. The next
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year twenty three thousand and one, little bump based on
going to the World Series. Great, Then another twenty three
thousand average attendance a year where they lost in the
divisional round. The next year they were down to nearly
nineteen thousand because they lost in the divisional round, nineteen thousand,
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the next year, eighteen thousand, in twenty thirteen when they
again lost in the divisional round, and then seventeen eight.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Point fifty eight.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That's the highest it's been until this year, since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I'm telling Montreal, Nashville, make calls, make calls.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I'm curious, I mean, because it does have all those
other ancillary parts, right with those communities still build it
as a non baseball entity. You know, do you look
at it for you know, one point three billion is
the stadium plus as it's been relayed. Now the curiosity is,
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you know, we see the sticker shock out here.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Almost five billion dollars five and a half for what
so far became pretty crazy, right, costs of real estate
here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Exit ab out a fresca, exits swollen up. Make your
phone calls, because clearly this is not going to work.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Look, we've talked a lot this year about Bill Belichick, Right,
you talk about being ahead of the curve that should
be the show and that Bill Belichick is coaching for
his new England Patriots life this year. Bobcraft is not
that patient. The team has not gotten better since Tom
Brady left, and you have seen Bill Belichick picking out
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the groceries, preparing the dinner, and it's not gone well.
The team is devoid of talent. They're not any closer
to winning than they were three years ago when this
big reorganization and jump on the fly started. And a
story today makes me look at Belichick a little bit differently,
right because for the longest time we talked about how
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he wants to win a certain way. Right, he wants
to win with a lack of talent. He wants to
win with a quarterback that nobody thinks is any good
because he wants to be the guy. I'm the real
reason behind the Patriots dynasty. There's no other reason why
he shouldn't be going out trying to get star football players,
right should he had star football players with Brady. He
went out and got other guys. I signed guys the
big money contracts that were big star players, but now
(26:32):
he's not doing because he wants to win his way.
But a story today makes you look at Belichick a
little bit differently. An anonymous NFL executive says that mac
Jones is being not treated the right way in New
England when it comes to being put in position to
succeed where he succeeded at Alabama running a certain kind
of offense, and the Patriots have been putting him square
(26:55):
peg into round hole, trying to make him fit into
a system that doesn't take advantage of his strengths, right,
And usually you want to see a team saying, hey,
we take our quarterback. We know all quarterbacks are unique,
so we have to design our system around him. But
what has Belichick done? You know Mac Jones is our guy. Well,
he's given the job as a rookie, and then he struggles,
and then there's no offensive coordinator. Then a defensive coordinator
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is offensive coordinator and it doesn't work. And here's mac Jones,
who was struggling to even stay in the league after
getting bench last week. How far away is he from
being ex Patriots starting quarterback? Mac Jones? So when I
look at it this way, I think of Belichick like
I think of Jim Beheim. And when Beeheim left Syracuse
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last year, I was nervous, you know, because, look, the
guy's a Hall of Fame coach. The guy's been great
for forty years. And no, the team hasn't won the
last few years. How much of it's on Beheim, how
much of it's not You could debate that. But Adrian
Autry is the new head coach. And I read something
a week ago at Syracuse dot com about how, hey,
one thing, with basketball practice starting Syracuse, you're gonna see
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a little bit more modern approach to things defensively, offensively
from Autrey, because you know, look, Beheim did it his
way for a long time, and it was successful for
a long time. The two three zone different. You know,
he had his way of doing things. And now I
put that phrase stuck with me, that hey, we're gonna
get a little bit more modern approach now, and suddenly
all my concerns about we're gonna do without Bayheim they
(28:23):
kind of go out the window because maybe now this
is exactly what Syracuse need, is a jump to the
modern era. Because when a coach knows one way of
doing things and he hasn't shown a way to adapt.
Maybe the game has passed him by. You tell me
a way Bill Belichick has adapted the last couple of years.
He is not. He has tried to take football back
to nineteen eighty five. I'm gonna win with running backs
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and the quarterback who throws it when I can, and
try to win with great defense. Right, he has not
evolved at all. So now I look at Belichick the
same way I look at Beheim. Maybe the game has
passed them by. And Beheim stepped away at the end
of last year, and even he had little bit of
self reflection. I didn't really coach very well the last
few weeks, and maybe it's time. And I look at
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Belichick the same way. Maybe it's time. Maybe it's just time.
Maybe the game has passed him by, because I don't
see anything he is doing that is Hey, this is
how we get into what football is in twenty twenty three.
And maybe girod Mayo is the guy to bring the
Patriots into twenty twenty three and beyond it. Maybe bigger
players are gonna want to come play in New England
now and it's gonna be a whole new don't be
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afraid of making that decision, and I don't think Bob
Kraft is. So if it's another bad year, it could
be one of those. You know what, We're gonna spend
a lot of money in the offseason and I'm gonna
have a new head coach because it's not going in
the right direction. But maybe, yes, there's Belichick's ego, but
maybe the game is passing him by a little bit.
And I see that a lot. Jumping off of that
(29:49):
story from.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Today, Well, you had Christian Gonzales get hurt, he was
playing pretty well. Judon goes down, and what's the response,
Go trade for J C.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Jackson.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
See if you can't catch lightning at a bottle. While
the Chargers pick up most of that contract and then
they there's no more guaranteed money, So it's not as bad.
Everyone's like they're taking back on that big deal.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
He's out. No they're not. They're not.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
It'll be all good. But look, we've called for for
a long time. Particularly I'm banging the drum of I
need the separation of church and state is in. I
like Bill Belichick the coach. I can't have Bill Belichick
be the guy that's picking the talent and whatever that
relationship is, whoever else is in a front office working with.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Him, that's gotta go like that.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That's the part that's you know, we talked about it
with the Giants the other night, Jason, you know when
we talk and as we got down the Daniel Jones
trade or whatever highway. You can find that at Fox
Sports Radio at how about a fresca at Swollen Dome,
a very animated video discussion between the two of us there.
But the idea of all right, you got a bunch
(30:56):
of guys that you brought in. It's all just a
list of names. I'm reading articles today it's like the
Giants plan to get Darren Waller more involved in the offense.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Like what the hell took you four weeks to figure
that out? Especially that was yeah, he was the guy
that we're gonna give it all time. That was your
prize guy, your prize guy. Yeah, hiot was gonna be nice.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
And Robinson off and you all of these things. But
I digress. The idea is that you had quantity over
quality and you did the same thing here. What do
we read about Juju Smith Schuster Guy's like all right, fine,
he's he's serviceable right two three? Guy that kind of
guy that his knee could blow up at any time
is one of the things we're reading, like where's the
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due diligence the other guys that have come through in
the receiving corps like they're they've taken swings on guys
that have that have struck out elsewhere in division. Maybe
on tape you saw some things you liked of DeVante
Parker or some of the others. It hasn't worked. So
from the talent evaluation, who's who's the only guy you
really quote fear on that offense? I mean, Stevenson's a
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pretty good running back.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, right, Otherwise you got a bunch of guys and
I guess Hunter Henry is really good in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Problem is you've got to get there. It's a really
difficult it's a really difficult thing to see. But eventually
that decision is gonna have to be made. It's gonna
be made after the season because this season is just
gonna continue to spiral out of control because the Patriots
aren't good. There's no one riding to the rescue to
fix this.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
It's good to revisit this a month later after we
had started the fires a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Of time ago, ahead of the curve. We are no,
no question about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
The last point on this, though, is they're gonna be
just good enough to.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Be mid again.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
They're gonna get drummed by the good teams.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Look, and they're gonna win games against bad and mediocre
squads in this NFL in twenty twenty three, plenty of those.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Jason, how good are we gonna be?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You're gonna be good enough to be mid Oh wait, eh, I.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Don't know, but just good enough to not be in
the Caleb Williams or any other quarterback Mike excited.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Up next, we have a very special play of the night.
Now I know I say that, but we have not one,
not two, not three, but four potential plays of the night.
You gotta hear. Oh yeah, that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the ti
(33:23):
iraq dot com studios. Time now for the Play of
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we have a couple of big bold predictions coming up
(33:43):
for the next round of the MLB playoffs. But first
the play of the night, we bring you not one,
not two, not three, but four equally fantastic plays of
the night.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
The Kirk comes to the belt, he kicks, he fires, He.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Struck him out looking in the ballgames over.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
The Rangers have swept the Wildcard series and are hitting
the Baltimore for the Division Series seven to one. The
Rangers win it today to complete a two game sweep.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
The O two divers shall.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Peaz Switt win, Switt win twins.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
On the way and he struck him out swinging and
the ears on. The Diamondbacks will advance to the next
round of the postseason with a five to two win
tonight over the Brewers.
Speaker 10 (34:35):
No Bass two strikes, Soto ready, he kicks the pitch,
strike three called he got it looking one hundred miles
an hour and Chasm takes it for strike three and
the Phellies take the wild Card Series, sweeping Miami with
a seven to one win.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
So there you go. Your four plays the night your
four teams that that was like zone.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Right, We're going right from one to another. Louisiana Hot Sauce,
Rangers Radio Network, the Treasure Island Radio Network, Treasure on
I can Gamble or get Treasure, the Diamondbacks Radio Network,
and ninety four WP Phillies Radio Network on the call
there there it was back to back to back to back.
So yeah, you and I are on opposite or not opposize.
(35:24):
We have different picks for what the upset of the
next round of the Baseball Playoffs could be. The team
I like that could pull the upset in the next round.
I like the Twins. I like the Twins one two
punch of Lopez and Gray, who probably they should think
about bringing back on three days rest this weekend. They
hit a lot of home runs. They looked phenomenal these
first two games. You're looking elsewhere in the American League
(35:45):
for yours.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Yeah, I was eyeballing the Rangers against the Orioles, wondering
if the back end of the bullpen issue with losing
your closer to surgery comes back to haunt them. Right,
you get it, get in a close game late innings
and you don't have a guy that was absolutely nails
with a sub one five era. They're over thirty saves
to shut the door, So power on both sides. Obviously,
(36:10):
I've got ties to Baltimore and love the fact that
they have something to cheer for and get back to
the ballpark. They were joking many people that their workout
day was attended by more people than the Tampa Bay Ras.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Ye, that's hard to happen that way.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
So you got that going on. But you know, it's
a series I'm greatly looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Now. If you said to me, what's your best bet,
give me a team that one I know is going
to advance into the league Championship Series, I'll give you
the Dodgers. Look, the Braves are great, Philly's played really well.
I can't see the Dodgers losing the Diamondbacks. I can't
Kershaw's going in Game one. The Dodgers are the better team.
They have a little bit something something going on here.
I really find it hard to believe that I could
(36:54):
see the Diamondbacks playing at such a high level that
they're gonna beat the Dodgers. I just can't see it.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Yeah, I'm gonna go the other National League see we're
kind of criss crossing along the way here the Dodgers.
You gotta gotta make sure, you know, when you're talking
about you don't imagine guys being able to go six innings.
That bullpen's got to stay right, and you gotta get
more production. And Mookie Betts has to wake up. He
had an awful September, So you know you woke him
(37:21):
up when September ended. Let's see what happened.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Well, he realized he wasn't gonna win the MVP, and
it's like, okay, I'm gonna put it away for the playoff.
I'm not gonna be you know, forty.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
So i mean, look, the playoff numbers ain't been there either,
So yeah, you gotta be a little careful there. But
certainly this September, after all all the push that he had,
I'll tell you, man, that's got it got me a
little nervous.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
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