July 26, 2023 • 28 mins
Saquon Barkley agrees to a new 1-year deal worth up to $11M with the Giants. We may get to an NFL QB and an NBA star making $100M a year BEFORE 2030. Plus, the Progressive play of the night!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, Yeah, things not working out for the Dodgers as
good as it's been for them with a less than
normally stellar Dodger team, They're gonna need some help up
at the deadline. Justin Verlander and Max Schurzer are gonna
be the guys they're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's gonna be so exciting, Michael, only not Oh, it's
gonna be so great.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You keep trying to talk this into existence.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We we will trade you Verlander and Schurzer will take
Sindergard back.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We'll just wave him. It'll be fine. And you guys
are on the look for those guys for the year
and a half.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It'll be all you're just taking Cindergart.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No no, no, no, no, Well we'll take him for book.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You got him and James Harden.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Now pitching number eight, Key k a Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well that's it, and welcome back number eight.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm going home. How about that today?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm coming home, man.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You know, the Red Sox are sitting there and and
they're getting ready for their workout, and uh and you
get one of the traveling secretary comes out and says, hey,
we've just made a trade with the Dodgers, And Justin
Turner goes me, is it me? Oh no, Justin U
stay key k come on, you're coming He's on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm coming home. I'm coming home, key k r Nedez
is coming home.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
How pissed is Justin Turner? Oh so salty? He was
excited to be at that theme part. Yeahard, remember me
the beard guy? You know that court with the k
took him too right In Indiana, he was very excited
about that. But I'm sure keyk Hernandez leaving and him
still being stuck probably not the greatest day for him.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And then wait till like a couple of days now
when they go, hey, guess what the Dodgers just traded
for Justin me?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Justin Turner Verlander.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Sorry, Justin Turner, you have to stay with the Red
Sox for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I mean, I'll give them credit. I mean, Dave Roberts
at least let Rius get over one hundred pitches tonight,
and he did his six innings because yesterday and I
heard Money Smith on Matt Muney Smith on a five
seventy LA Sports. I was driving around before losing his
mind because yesterday what happened a little bit of trouble.
Sixty eight pitches from your start. Yeah, let's get into
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the bullpen in the first game of a series.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I read something today about you mentioned Orius that somebody
put on social media saying just think about this for
Vin Scully.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
He got Vin Scully trending a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He called a game that was managed by Connie Mack,
who was born I think in eighteen sixty seven or
something like that, and he also called a game which
Julio uri has pitched in who was born in nineteen
ninety six.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Let me just think about that. For Vince Scully legend,
it's insane.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I mean, it's unbelievable broadcass game with Connie Mack and
Julio Urias, like he could be able to say, you know,
this Urias game reminds me when I was broadcasting Connie
Mack and his game back with the Ads in nineteen five.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, that's just that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But I mean, think about all of the comparisons he
could be making with the new rules in Major League Baseball.
Oh no, I remember when games were two hours five
minutes back in you know, nineteen fifty seven, right, I mean,
you get right back at it. So, but it's an
opportunity to celebrate the greatness that is Vin Scully.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, oh man, the greatness that is today. Of course,
the New York Met says the Dodgers on the cusp
of getting who may have pitched his final game as
a Met tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
These garbage man.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And of course you want him, he's throwing ninety eighty.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I don't want him, of course, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
If you want it, you want him, and you want
Kate Upton. Who do you think she's been in New
York since the Mets have stunk? Like the Mets stunk
And she's like, yeah, I'm out all across the world.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, the answer is, of course you want Kate Upton.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I'm not hanging out here anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You don't want Justin Verlander's salary though, this isn't a
package deal. We don't want.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Listen, we we will, we will take uh, well, we'll
take Sindergarden and we'll just wave him. It's fine, I'll listen.
I'll call listen. I'll call Dave Roberts after after the
game is over, and i'll let you.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Know, tell him to let his pictures go a little
deeper into games. Let your starters breathe. Young guys don't
learn if they don't get to work out of trouble. Hey,
I watched that with the White Sox for years. Hey,
here's the next great thing. It might be a part
of the rotation for years to come. Nah, we're gonna
take him out in the fifth as soon as he
gets the first runner on or first and second, because
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you know, we don't. We don't want to distress him
too much. Like if he doesn't work out of it,
then he's never gonna learn. Come on, it's like getting
that first you know, teacher, that's that's a bit of
a hard ass. You know everybody, I mean, on the
nicer teacher.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, screw that.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Eventually someone's not gonna like you. Someone's gonna be a
little harder on you. You gotta learn to deal with it.
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Speaker 3 (05:35):
Hey listen, Dave.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Justin's real excited about being a Dodger, but he's got
one a stipulation.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, what is it? If he's pitching an O hitter,
you gotta leave him in. You can't. You can't take
him out. I mean, if you do that, you gotta
do it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, no, no, no, sorry. I gotta be able to
take him out if I can. But but what if,
like it's what if he's going to the ninth inning
and he's only thrown thirty three pitches. No, no, I
can take aim out. I canna take him out. I'm sorry,
have to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Left three. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Maybe I'll have two pitch inning sometimes, but I'll have
to do it. But it's impossible to have a two pitchingning.
Doesn't matter, no, no, no, gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He's that special.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Uh So, we will have more baseball on the way.
But a big story in the NFL today and I'm
really surprised at the angle that's been taken on this.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Saquon Barkley is gonna play this year. You know a
saga that began last week when Barkley got franchise tag
by the New York Giants, meaning he couldn't sign a
long term deal after this year. He, Josh Jacobs, Tony
Pollard all couldn't reach long term deals with their teams
right now. Josh Jacobs is the only one that has
not reached an agreement, and he's the only guy that's
not with the team. But Barkley is in. He signs
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a one year deal for eleven million dollars and it's
kind of like being franchise. He's getting a little bit
more money, but it's still technically the point where the
Giants can franchise him again if they want to next season.
Right So, it's not quite a franchise tag, but it's
not a new deal because he's not allowed to reach
a new deal after the deadline. But there was a
little there's a little bit of ways to to kind
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of make it a little bit larger or help a
little bit, but it's still the same situation. The Giants
can franchise him next year. And all I've read today
out of the New York Post and seen people say is, oh,
Barkley got worked.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
What a victory for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The Giants now you know, Barkley had his had his
little snit and had his whole situation and brought his
contract situation to light. And the Giants, you know, won this.
They beat him like a drum in this whole thing.
And I'm like, what did you think was gonna happen, Barkley?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Honestly, I'm not zigging where you think I'm gonna zeg
Barkley made this smart call. He made the right call
to go in because he saw and maybe he listens
to the show, because that's kind of what we've been
saying the last few nights.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You have to play. You can't sit out. If you
sit out and then try to play You are putting
yourself in a position to fail because you put yourself
in a position to come back to the team. Whenever
you want to come back to the team, you're coming
back either trying to get in shape and you want
end up getting hurt, or you're a little bit phased
out of the way the team has been building the
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offense and you don't quite have the season you expect
to have.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
How is that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Either of those situations going to help you get paid
next year? It's not because if you're having trouble getting
paid off the U you had last year, what's it
gonna be like if you're coming off an injury year
and say Kwon Barkley has been injured a lot through
his career or an ineffective year is not gonna do it,
So you're putting yourself in a position to fail. The
Giants weren't gonna give many extra money. They had all
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kinds of time to give him whatever money they wanted to.
They couldn't reach a deal, so he wound up being franchised.
So it wasn't like something the Giants were gonna say, Oh,
we're gonna give you cash. It's much different. Jerry Jones
is the only guy who was gonna blink at a
running back, and it turned out to be one of
the worst decisions he could possibly make. Because I drafted Zeke.
I wanted ze me. Paying Zeke makes me look good.
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So that's why Ezekiel Elliott held out knowing, Hey, he's
gonna give me money because he wants to give me money.
That's the big time flaw of Jerry Jones is when
he has players he's loyal to, he puts blinders on
when it comes to the right business move to make.
We knew he was gonna do it because he felt
it made him look good. The Giants weren't going to
sign Saquon bark Hey, you want to set out it's
one year, ten million. You're playing, or you're not, or
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we're moving on. We brought in a lot of weapons
this year, right, you know, we have Isaiah Hodgins, who
was a really good wide receiver that came out of nowhere.
Could be our number one this year. Wandale Robinson coming
off of tour in ACL He was a pretty big weapon.
Last year, we went out and signed Darren Waller. We
went out and drafted Jalen Hyatt. We brought some guys
in man just easily right, and they got called we
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got some weapons here, we can move on from you. So,
of course Saquon Barkley needs to make the right call
for his future, and the right call is put yourself
in a position to succeed.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So what did he do.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm coming to camp, I'm coming on time. I'm not
missing any time. I'm gonna have the normal lead up
to the season, which means I put myself in the
best position to stay healthy, and I put myself in
the best position to stay a big part of the
team going forward. I'm not gonna piss off my teammates,
because you know some of them must have and upset
with him saying last week, Oh, I can easily say
blank my teammates, blank the Giants, blank the locker room,
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and hold out if I wanted to Now, you don't
have to worry about that. Hey, I'm coming in. I
want to win. I took this contract. Now he's in
a position to succeed. It was the only play. There
was no other play, because everything else he could do
position to fail, the only position to succeed. Come in, play,
stay healthy, play well, and next year you'll get at
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least thirteen million dollars for next season. Maybe get a
two year deal. Maybe somebody says, hey, we want to
give you a couple of year contract. Or the Giants
step up and say, hey, we're so sorry. We're gonna
give you money, and you stay, but at the very
least be productive, stay healthy, and you're getting thirteen million
dollars next year.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, it sucks. You gotta wait for it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You'd like to have the comfort in the security, the
guaranteed money, but that's not how it is for running
backs and it's not changing anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
This is the best thing to do. When he did it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, as we talked about the day that the audio
of Barkley's blank you blank you your cool kind of conversation,
he didn't sound it wasn't said with venom. It was
more just a this is where we're at, Like I
could say this. I guess I could say this. It's like,
but it's clear that he didn't want to. I mean,
he's a football player. He's a guy that knows, you know,
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what the shelf life is for a running back, which
is why you fight for what you can get. And
I encourage anybody out there. I mean as best you can.
You recognize the situation is not always ideal, and you
might not get what you want. You might get told
in no uncertain terms, you're not getting what you want.
In this case that goes public. You start getting into camp,
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you recognize how vital he is to your success. And
that's not an indictment of Daniel Jones. It's it's a
machine that works together. And when you've got Quadzilla out there, Sorry,
AJ Dillon, he was first, Actually I was first, But
you know what, I'm willing and man enough to admit
I'm not, you know, having the same six hundred pound
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squat leg day that these guys are having. But it's
the idea that, all right, I get into camp and
that's the best option to maximize my year, my locker room,
my dollars. And it's being pragmatic, right, it's not caving,
it's not bowing down. And he made a deal with
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the giants that could net him an extra nine hundred
nine thousand dollars. Now he's got to hit some incentives
that might be difficult because he's got to get thirteen
hundred and fifteen thirteen hundred and fifty rushing yards plus
a playoff win, sixty five receptions and then eleven touchdowns,
all tough things. But what he also got was a
check or a wire transfer of two million dollars today,
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not when the season starts today time value of money
might be something. He really had that money earmarked for
good faith kind of effort. I'm like, all right, you're
not actually gonna start earning this, you know, in terms
of your play for a little while here, but this
is how much we want you in camp and to
make sure you recognize that we understand your value to
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this squad. I think it's a win, and it shows
an organization willing to think and be a little bit
creative with Barkley and his agent to come to this space.
Does that mean they're not in the same boat next year. No,
But for now, everybody with Brian Dable, he's got his squad.
He's ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And I really like the Giants this year. I gotta say.
I mean, we'll get into stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
As the summer goes along, but man, I'll tell you
I really like the Giants this year.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They added weapons. This is a really good team. They
took a lot of teams by surprise. They are well coached,
and every game they went out in a very business
like aspect last year did exactly what they had to do.
Daniel Jones is the right quarterback for this system.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I mean, this is one of those days where the
rest of the NFL goes, ah, great, they brought back
their running back man justin We thought, all right, hey,
they're gonna struggle a little bit here, and suddenly everybody
wants to trade for Matt Breda and fantasy we're feeling
pretty good. No, no, Suddenly a day like this after
he goes, oh man, they're going to be another tough out,
just like they were last year.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But I mean, that's the one thing about it, right,
is that wins losses and we know how NFL games
are mostly within the margins of that five to seven points, right,
if you roll over the course of a season. Yeah,
you get some blowouts in but that was a team
that kept fighting, kind of like Miami a couple of
years ago, where you watch them it's like they weren't
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aesthetically pleasing, but they stayed in a lot of games
with the Giants last year. Yes, was it the most
exciting brand of football? No, but you weren't. They weren't
going away easy. And now you add more weaponry to
to the wide outs, you bring Barkley back. Your defense
is pretty solid. I can't wait to see what this
next iteration looks like. Be sure to catch live editions
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Speaker 3 (14:54):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
My goodness, The Chase of Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tie iraq dot com studios,
and we are now somehow going to the tenth inning
in Los Angeles. The Blue Jays put three runs up
in the top of the ninth and and take a
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four run lead over the Dodgers. You're thinking, Okay, that's it. Nope,
Dodgers chip away, chip away, bases loaded two outs after JD.
Martinez strikes out, just waving at three curveballs, trying to
hit the ball five thousand feet.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well he had hated five thousand feet earlier this evening.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But you just watch him going, He's not going to
see a fastball, Are you kidding? I mean it was
it was. He just waved at three pitches.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Chris Taylor hits a line drive single, tips off the
first baseman's glove enough to score the tying run, enough
to score the sixth run of the game, and the
tying run Will Smith is waved around as the Blue
Jays can't grab a hold of the ball in the infield.
Now Max Munsey is called out on the getting caught
off a second base. But the Dodgers score four in
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the bottom of the ninth inning to tie this game.
As we go to extra things right now, wait.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
A second way, a second way to second Chason, I
heard Brian's update not too long ago. He said they
were getting butchered.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He did, yes, yes, he did, Yes, he did say that.
He did say that. I don't think that is any
longer the case, Okay, just making sure I don't think
that's happened.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I know they were being bamboozled.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yes, So now were they or they were they?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Or were they were they were getting rock bottomed?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Were they?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, no, no, they were eaten by sharks because it's
shark week, it is it might have been, it might
have been. But now that's not the case anymore. Uh.
Four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning. And
I'll tell you this, okay, even though this is not
you look at this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Dodger team and where they are right now at first
place in the NL West, despite the fact they didn't
go out and sign any big players at the end
of last year. In the offseason, they're waiting for the
trade deadline obviously to get what they need. And even
though they're in first place and they found a way
to get a five game lead in the Laws column.
Now over the Diamondbacks. They need some they need some
starting pitching. Right, They're gonna go out, They're gonna be active.
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I know how insane the Braves lineup is, right, I
mean they've scored, you know, five hundred and fifty runs
this year. Everybody's an All Star. Yes, I get how
great the Braves lineup is. But if I have a
lead in the final two minutes, the two innings of
a game, I would much rather face the Braves lineup
than the Dodgers. One hundred percent. I would much I
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don't care what's going, I don't care who's I don't
care if a Kunya is coming up six or seven
times in a row. I would rather face the Braves
because the Dodgers have just had that late inning magic,
that fudd that you get to the eighth inning with
a three run lead, and you're still not thinking every
everything is safe, you're on edge, You're not you're not
playing how you should. And the Dodgers do stuff like
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this all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Well everything after two. I mean, that is the mantra
they've carried all the way through. I mean it's organizational
from the time that they're scouted in Little league to
the time that they make it to the major league club.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And as I say this, Mookie Bets right now has
just thrown out the go ahead run at the plate.
It looks like Kevin Kermeyer is tagged out just before
he gets home plate.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It's going to be reviewed, but yes, he is out.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Well that's good. Why it's gonna be close? All that's
gonna be close. The throw is a little offline. Will
Smith has to come back to make the tag.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Gets him on the arm though, just get.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Him on the arm.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It looks like he might have got him on the
arm before he tags him on under under the arm.
I think he got him on the elbow and that's
going to be an out. That's gonna be two outs
in the top of the ten.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Though.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If this stands, it was a great throw. I mean
a little bit off. I mean, it could have been
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
An amazing throw.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It wasn't a great throw, it was it was off target.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
To the third base line. I had to come back
and reach. And then you look at it on the
first glance like why why did he slide with the
legs to the outside the base, And then you get
the replay, so now it's under a review. Do you
have a timer on this as to how quickly they
have to make a decision?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm did he get him on the l God's tough, man,
that's tough.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Get him before the hand really claps on the on
the plate is the question? You get him up around
the hip round.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's just if he had just slid straight in, he's
he's he's safe.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's what I thought, right, Yeah, if he slide, no,
it's it's confirmed.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He is out two outs runner at first the tying
run does not cross the plate, But if he slides
in straight.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
He's safe.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
On the arm, I don't understand that's the leg legs
should and you know it's like the sliding into first
base just run through.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's almost like Kermeier thought that the ball was going
to be closer, and it was better for him to
try to evade the tag like that. And and it's
not not realizing that, oh he's really got to come
pretty far to get it and I can slide straight.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
His big mistake was running on Mookie man. I mean,
that's just that's just it. And you know what I
think about the runner on second base that you could
tell me about all the rule changes you ever want
to make to me, that still is an affront to
my baseball sensibilities.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And apparently Mary Hart left this game. Quit left this game,
one run game in the eighth inning, Mary Heart left.
I'm seeing a lot of that. I can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Dodgers tearing around and get back to the game. Mary
still going on seven to seven in the top of
the tenth inning, So get on this Bets throughout the
rest of the show.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Big throw by Mookie Betts could have been more accurate,
but they did. He got the out. It's okay.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I mean it's gonna look like a laser a line
like he threw it as you know, a beatie straight
into the glove.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, no, no, you're absolutely right, hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He should have been able to it was it was
a they got him out a spectacular.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Throw and the sensational move my Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So we've talked a lot tonight about the big deals
signed by Justin Herbert and Jalen Brown. Right, justin over
two hundred and sixty two million dollars to extension with
the Chargers. Big deal Jalen Brown now the highest paid
player in NBA history, which will be held for five
minutes until somebody else gets a big extension. He gets
the three hundred million dollar extension and he's gonna make
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sixty nine million dollars in the last year of his contract.
Is Jalen Brown worth this money? No, he's not, because
I'm old enough to remember the NBA playoffs of this
year where Jalen Brown was not good and it was
can the Celtics win if Jalen Brown is their second
best player, they do a lot of moves. They bring
in Porzingis, Hey, we got we gotta make some trades here.
Marcus Smart is out, Porzingis is in. We have some
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things that we got to do here. And it's not
like that. Jalen Brown is coming off a playoff A boy,
he was unbelievable, but for a guy that's been an
All Star twice twice and player efficiency rating was fiftieth
in the league this year, just behind Desmond Bain. Okay,
and he's now the highest paid player at NBA history.
How and why does Jalen Brown get this kind of
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money Because the NBA stars, and when you're a star player,
you get afforded something that star players and other leagues
just do not, and that is teams are afraid to
replace you. Because in the NFL, Major League Baseball, teams
replace stars all the time. Right, Major League Baseball, Hey,
Bryce Harper's gonna be a free agent. We don't know,
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we're gonna let him go. And Bryce Harper leaves right,
what a great player?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Right? Good? Nope, nope, not.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Gonna get him what he wants. We weared him three
hundred million, he wants three hundred and forty million. We're
gonna let him go.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Happens all the time, right, we see guys at free agency,
they become too expensive, or even though a guy is
a great player, like Juan Soto, we don't think we'll
be able to sign him. Let's get some prospects for him,
and they trade him. In the NFL, same thing Sometimes
teams hold onto their stars, like signing Justin Herbert. Sometimes
it's hey, we have to trade Aaron Rodgers because we
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have a guy coming up that we drafted in the
first round a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
We want to.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
See play, so that happens. And both Sports Baseball and
the NFL, the draft and free agency is much more
amenable to breeding new stars and getting new stars than
it is in the NBA because you have many levels
of minor league play, where if you lose a shortstop, Hey,
well we got a guy that'sitting three point fifty in
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the minor leagues, we can let Corey Seeger go. We
can let somebody go. This kid might be really, really good.
We'll replace him. We have five really good prospects that
we can put out there, and rather than pay the
guys ahead of them, we can go to them. Same
thing in the NFL. Hey, our quarterback, we're not sure
he's a really good player. Doesn't matter. We're gonna draft
a guy to replace him. And hey, if this quarterback
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is good, we got to see him play. We'll move on.
They move on in the NFL. In Major League baseball
a lot easier because of the farm systems and the draft.
But in the NBA, the draft is a crapshoot, and
guys that come in sometimes it takes them four or
five years to become even a good role player. So
teams get scared when they have to replace a star.
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It's why every team says, if we're gonna trade so
and so, we need a star back, right, because we
can't wave goodbye to a star. And that's the bit
of leverage that NBA stars have that nobody else does.
It's Jalen Brown saying, you really want to make these
moves and try to go win without me.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You really want to.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Try to do that because I'm a pretty good player.
You want to try to How many guys out there
can you replace me with?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Not many? And teams are scared to do it because
they know they can't.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The Celtics made all these moves, right, If they don't,
if they don't sign Jalen Brown, are they a better
or worse team than they were last year? Are they're
worse because they haven't been able to replace him. It's
so hard to do that in the NBA because there's
not as many stars and there's no easy feeder program
to say all right, Hey, in a couple of years,
we're not gonna have to sign Jalen Brown. We got
a couple of guys here that can play his position
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pretty well. We want to give them more minutes. Doesn't
happen in the NBA. NBA stars have way more leverage
than every other star has in the NBA and the
NFL dred percent.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, I mean, would certainly talk about the guaranteed deals
for one which you know the money here, is he
worth it? Look? Man, they pay him the money to
them he was doesn't matter what the rest of the
league thinks about him under the CBA and the rules.
And I know folks get tired of hearing about the CBA,
but that's what governor governs all of this right as
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to who can pay whom more money and how the
process flows, and when it's all guaranteed, you got to
make a bet on a player or group of players.
In this case, you're thinking that your best chance to
win is keeping Tatum and Brown together and figuring out
the rest of it. Williams is gone, Smart is gone.
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What the rest of that roster looks like is a
question mark. But what you don't want to do is
shuffle up and deal right whenever we see these hey,
and they traded him for four first round draft picks.
That's why we had the Otani conversations, and we'll continue
to have them. Like what's proper compensation the handful of
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magic beans? Hoping one of them sprouts into an everyday
player alone that you find yourself and stumble into an
All star, right, that that's really what you're hoping for.
So in the NBA, if you have a player that
has played as well as he had in Spurts and Brown,
certainly deficiencies in his games, things that need to be
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cleaned up, turnovers and some of the playoff efforts that
need to be reworked, that you think you could still
coax more out of it. And after this year's NBA season,
that's certainly the case, right where injuries ineffectiveness led to
some really strange and exciting playoff runs. So for the Celtics,
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this was their best course of action. Keep your top
two players and then work to figure out who the third, fourth,
and fifth guys are.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean, look, the Knicks don't want to say goodbye
to Julius Randall. We can't just say scared.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Well, I mean, he was third team All NBA.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
We're too scared. We can't do it. We can't do it.
We can't we can't do it. No, no, no, we
can't say it. Yes, you get no, no. The NBA,
it's so difficult to do it, and teams get scared.
And that's what happened today.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well we're scared, all right, Well we cannot have Jalen bred,
so let's make him the highest paid player in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's kind of how I still get back to the pragmatism.
But sure scared.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
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So much drama right now. At Chavez Ravine, a walk
off double by James Outman was overruled and changed to a.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Home run put on board.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yes, Outman hits one off the top of the wall
in center field, and at first glance it looked like
it was a double. Obviously with the automatic runner on
second base, the Dodgers were going to win the game. Uh,
but it looked like where it landed that the umpires
were looking to see if in fact a landed and
was a home run.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Autman stopped at second base.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Uh stood there got you know, his teammates came out
and just you know, went crazy with him and celebrated.
Then he went back and stayed at second basis. The
umpires looked at it, and I think they ruled it
a home run.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Because I think the I think they got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, outmin rounded third and came home, and I'm like, okay,
so it was a home run. And I look at
the replay and it wasn't a home run in the park.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Dude, they called it a home run. It's a home run.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
But that's kind of a big deal. Is it the final?
Truly eight to seven? Because right now by the board
it's eighty seven. Hey, I had the overrunder, I had
fifteen runs. How do they do tonight? I mean betting?
I mean you got lines.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Moving right again? What did I say at the beginning?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
As great as the Braves lineup is, I'd rather face
them than the Dodgers in the final two winnings of the.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Game, and bruise dark grat gets your win.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
But they were getting butchered.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, Yeah, things not working out for the Dodgers as
good as it's been for them with a less than
normally stellar Dodger team, They're gonna need some help up
at the deadline. Justin Verlander and Max Schurzer are gonna
be the guys they're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's gonna be so exciting, Michael, only not Oh, it's
gonna be so great.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You keep trying to talk this into existence.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We we will trade you Verlander and Schurzer will take
Sindergard back.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We'll just wave him. It'll be fine. And you guys
are on the look for those guys for the year
and a half.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It'll be all you're just taking Cindergart.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No no, no, no, no, Well we'll take him for book.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You got him and James Harden.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Now pitching number eight, Key k a Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well that's it, and welcome back number eight.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm going home. How about that today?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm coming home, man.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You know, the Red Sox are sitting there and and
they're getting ready for their workout, and uh and you
get one of the traveling secretary comes out and says, hey,
we've just made a trade with the Dodgers, And Justin
Turner goes me, is it me? Oh no, Justin U
stay key k come on, you're coming He's on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm coming home. I'm coming home, key k r Nedez
is coming home.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
How pissed is Justin Turner? Oh so salty? He was
excited to be at that theme part. Yeahard, remember me
the beard guy? You know that court with the k
took him too right In Indiana, he was very excited
about that. But I'm sure keyk Hernandez leaving and him
still being stuck probably not the greatest day for him.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And then wait till like a couple of days now
when they go, hey, guess what the Dodgers just traded
for Justin me?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Justin Turner Verlander.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Sorry, Justin Turner, you have to stay with the Red
Sox for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I mean, I'll give them credit. I mean, Dave Roberts
at least let Rius get over one hundred pitches tonight,
and he did his six innings because yesterday and I
heard Money Smith on Matt Muney Smith on a five
seventy LA Sports. I was driving around before losing his
mind because yesterday what happened a little bit of trouble.
Sixty eight pitches from your start. Yeah, let's get into
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the bullpen in the first game of a series.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I read something today about you mentioned Orius that somebody
put on social media saying just think about this for
Vin Scully.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
He got Vin Scully trending a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He called a game that was managed by Connie Mack,
who was born I think in eighteen sixty seven or
something like that, and he also called a game which
Julio uri has pitched in who was born in nineteen
ninety six.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Let me just think about that. For Vince Scully legend,
it's insane.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I mean, it's unbelievable broadcass game with Connie Mack and
Julio Urias, like he could be able to say, you know,
this Urias game reminds me when I was broadcasting Connie
Mack and his game back with the Ads in nineteen five.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, that's just that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But I mean, think about all of the comparisons he
could be making with the new rules in Major League Baseball.
Oh no, I remember when games were two hours five
minutes back in you know, nineteen fifty seven, right, I mean,
you get right back at it. So, but it's an
opportunity to celebrate the greatness that is Vin Scully.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, oh man, the greatness that is today. Of course,
the New York Met says the Dodgers on the cusp
of getting who may have pitched his final game as
a Met tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
These garbage man.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And of course you want him, he's throwing ninety eighty.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I don't want him, of course, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
If you want it, you want him, and you want
Kate Upton. Who do you think she's been in New
York since the Mets have stunk? Like the Mets stunk
And she's like, yeah, I'm out all across the world.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, the answer is, of course you want Kate Upton.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I'm not hanging out here anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You don't want Justin Verlander's salary though, this isn't a
package deal. We don't want.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Listen, we we will, we will take uh, well, we'll
take Sindergarden and we'll just wave him. It's fine, I'll listen.
I'll call listen. I'll call Dave Roberts after after the
game is over, and i'll let you.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Know, tell him to let his pictures go a little
deeper into games. Let your starters breathe. Young guys don't
learn if they don't get to work out of trouble. Hey,
I watched that with the White Sox for years. Hey,
here's the next great thing. It might be a part
of the rotation for years to come. Nah, we're gonna
take him out in the fifth as soon as he
gets the first runner on or first and second, because
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you know, we don't. We don't want to distress him
too much. Like if he doesn't work out of it,
then he's never gonna learn. Come on, it's like getting
that first you know, teacher, that's that's a bit of
a hard ass. You know everybody, I mean, on the
nicer teacher.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, screw that.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Eventually someone's not gonna like you. Someone's gonna be a
little harder on you. You gotta learn to deal with it.
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Speaker 3 (05:35):
Hey listen, Dave.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Justin's real excited about being a Dodger, but he's got
one a stipulation.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, what is it? If he's pitching an O hitter,
you gotta leave him in. You can't. You can't take
him out. I mean, if you do that, you gotta
do it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, no, no, no, sorry. I gotta be able to
take him out if I can. But but what if,
like it's what if he's going to the ninth inning
and he's only thrown thirty three pitches. No, no, I
can take aim out. I canna take him out. I'm sorry,
have to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Left three. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Maybe I'll have two pitch inning sometimes, but I'll have
to do it. But it's impossible to have a two pitchingning.
Doesn't matter, no, no, no, gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He's that special.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Uh So, we will have more baseball on the way.
But a big story in the NFL today and I'm
really surprised at the angle that's been taken on this.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Saquon Barkley is gonna play this year. You know a
saga that began last week when Barkley got franchise tag
by the New York Giants, meaning he couldn't sign a
long term deal after this year. He, Josh Jacobs, Tony
Pollard all couldn't reach long term deals with their teams
right now. Josh Jacobs is the only one that has
not reached an agreement, and he's the only guy that's
not with the team. But Barkley is in. He signs
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a one year deal for eleven million dollars and it's
kind of like being franchise. He's getting a little bit
more money, but it's still technically the point where the
Giants can franchise him again if they want to next season.
Right So, it's not quite a franchise tag, but it's
not a new deal because he's not allowed to reach
a new deal after the deadline. But there was a
little there's a little bit of ways to to kind
(07:02):
of make it a little bit larger or help a
little bit, but it's still the same situation. The Giants
can franchise him next year. And all I've read today
out of the New York Post and seen people say is, oh,
Barkley got worked.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
What a victory for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The Giants now you know, Barkley had his had his
little snit and had his whole situation and brought his
contract situation to light. And the Giants, you know, won this.
They beat him like a drum in this whole thing.
And I'm like, what did you think was gonna happen, Barkley?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Honestly, I'm not zigging where you think I'm gonna zeg
Barkley made this smart call. He made the right call
to go in because he saw and maybe he listens
to the show, because that's kind of what we've been
saying the last few nights.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You have to play. You can't sit out. If you
sit out and then try to play You are putting
yourself in a position to fail because you put yourself
in a position to come back to the team. Whenever
you want to come back to the team, you're coming
back either trying to get in shape and you want
end up getting hurt, or you're a little bit phased
out of the way the team has been building the
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offense and you don't quite have the season you expect
to have.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
How is that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Either of those situations going to help you get paid
next year? It's not because if you're having trouble getting
paid off the U you had last year, what's it
gonna be like if you're coming off an injury year
and say Kwon Barkley has been injured a lot through
his career or an ineffective year is not gonna do it,
So you're putting yourself in a position to fail. The
Giants weren't gonna give many extra money. They had all
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kinds of time to give him whatever money they wanted to.
They couldn't reach a deal, so he wound up being franchised.
So it wasn't like something the Giants were gonna say, Oh,
we're gonna give you cash. It's much different. Jerry Jones
is the only guy who was gonna blink at a
running back, and it turned out to be one of
the worst decisions he could possibly make. Because I drafted Zeke.
I wanted ze me. Paying Zeke makes me look good.
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So that's why Ezekiel Elliott held out knowing, Hey, he's
gonna give me money because he wants to give me money.
That's the big time flaw of Jerry Jones is when
he has players he's loyal to, he puts blinders on
when it comes to the right business move to make.
We knew he was gonna do it because he felt
it made him look good. The Giants weren't going to
sign Saquon bark Hey, you want to set out it's
one year, ten million. You're playing, or you're not, or
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we're moving on. We brought in a lot of weapons
this year, right, you know, we have Isaiah Hodgins, who
was a really good wide receiver that came out of nowhere.
Could be our number one this year. Wandale Robinson coming
off of tour in ACL He was a pretty big weapon.
Last year, we went out and signed Darren Waller. We
went out and drafted Jalen Hyatt. We brought some guys
in man just easily right, and they got called we
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got some weapons here, we can move on from you. So,
of course Saquon Barkley needs to make the right call
for his future, and the right call is put yourself
in a position to succeed.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So what did he do.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm coming to camp, I'm coming on time. I'm not
missing any time. I'm gonna have the normal lead up
to the season, which means I put myself in the
best position to stay healthy, and I put myself in
the best position to stay a big part of the
team going forward. I'm not gonna piss off my teammates,
because you know some of them must have and upset
with him saying last week, Oh, I can easily say
blank my teammates, blank the Giants, blank the locker room,
(10:05):
and hold out if I wanted to Now, you don't
have to worry about that. Hey, I'm coming in. I
want to win. I took this contract. Now he's in
a position to succeed. It was the only play. There
was no other play, because everything else he could do
position to fail, the only position to succeed. Come in, play,
stay healthy, play well, and next year you'll get at
(10:26):
least thirteen million dollars for next season. Maybe get a
two year deal. Maybe somebody says, hey, we want to
give you a couple of year contract. Or the Giants
step up and say, hey, we're so sorry. We're gonna
give you money, and you stay, but at the very
least be productive, stay healthy, and you're getting thirteen million
dollars next year.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, it sucks. You gotta wait for it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You'd like to have the comfort in the security, the
guaranteed money, but that's not how it is for running
backs and it's not changing anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
This is the best thing to do. When he did it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, as we talked about the day that the audio
of Barkley's blank you blank you your cool kind of conversation,
he didn't sound it wasn't said with venom. It was
more just a this is where we're at, Like I
could say this. I guess I could say this. It's like,
but it's clear that he didn't want to. I mean,
he's a football player. He's a guy that knows, you know,
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what the shelf life is for a running back, which
is why you fight for what you can get. And
I encourage anybody out there. I mean as best you can.
You recognize the situation is not always ideal, and you
might not get what you want. You might get told
in no uncertain terms, you're not getting what you want.
In this case that goes public. You start getting into camp,
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you recognize how vital he is to your success. And
that's not an indictment of Daniel Jones. It's it's a
machine that works together. And when you've got Quadzilla out there, Sorry,
AJ Dillon, he was first, Actually I was first, But
you know what, I'm willing and man enough to admit
I'm not, you know, having the same six hundred pound
(11:55):
squat leg day that these guys are having. But it's
the idea that, all right, I get into camp and
that's the best option to maximize my year, my locker room,
my dollars. And it's being pragmatic, right, it's not caving,
it's not bowing down. And he made a deal with
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the giants that could net him an extra nine hundred
nine thousand dollars. Now he's got to hit some incentives
that might be difficult because he's got to get thirteen
hundred and fifteen thirteen hundred and fifty rushing yards plus
a playoff win, sixty five receptions and then eleven touchdowns,
all tough things. But what he also got was a
check or a wire transfer of two million dollars today,
(12:40):
not when the season starts today time value of money
might be something. He really had that money earmarked for
good faith kind of effort. I'm like, all right, you're
not actually gonna start earning this, you know, in terms
of your play for a little while here, but this
is how much we want you in camp and to
make sure you recognize that we understand your value to
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this squad. I think it's a win, and it shows
an organization willing to think and be a little bit
creative with Barkley and his agent to come to this space.
Does that mean they're not in the same boat next year. No,
But for now, everybody with Brian Dable, he's got his squad.
He's ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And I really like the Giants this year. I gotta say.
I mean, we'll get into stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
As the summer goes along, but man, I'll tell you
I really like the Giants this year.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They added weapons. This is a really good team. They
took a lot of teams by surprise. They are well coached,
and every game they went out in a very business
like aspect last year did exactly what they had to do.
Daniel Jones is the right quarterback for this system.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I mean, this is one of those days where the
rest of the NFL goes, ah, great, they brought back
their running back man justin We thought, all right, hey,
they're gonna struggle a little bit here, and suddenly everybody
wants to trade for Matt Breda and fantasy we're feeling
pretty good. No, no, Suddenly a day like this after
he goes, oh man, they're going to be another tough out,
just like they were last year.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But I mean, that's the one thing about it, right,
is that wins losses and we know how NFL games
are mostly within the margins of that five to seven points, right,
if you roll over the course of a season. Yeah,
you get some blowouts in but that was a team
that kept fighting, kind of like Miami a couple of
years ago, where you watch them it's like they weren't
(14:26):
aesthetically pleasing, but they stayed in a lot of games
with the Giants last year. Yes, was it the most
exciting brand of football? No, but you weren't. They weren't
going away easy. And now you add more weaponry to
to the wide outs, you bring Barkley back. Your defense
is pretty solid. I can't wait to see what this
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Speaker 3 (14:54):
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and we are now somehow going to the tenth inning
in Los Angeles. The Blue Jays put three runs up
in the top of the ninth and and take a
(15:18):
four run lead over the Dodgers. You're thinking, Okay, that's it. Nope,
Dodgers chip away, chip away, bases loaded two outs after JD.
Martinez strikes out, just waving at three curveballs, trying to
hit the ball five thousand feet.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well he had hated five thousand feet earlier this evening.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But you just watch him going, He's not going to
see a fastball, Are you kidding? I mean it was
it was. He just waved at three pitches.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Chris Taylor hits a line drive single, tips off the
first baseman's glove enough to score the tying run, enough
to score the sixth run of the game, and the
tying run Will Smith is waved around as the Blue
Jays can't grab a hold of the ball in the infield.
Now Max Munsey is called out on the getting caught
off a second base. But the Dodgers score four in
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the bottom of the ninth inning to tie this game.
As we go to extra things right now, wait.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
A second way, a second way to second Chason, I
heard Brian's update not too long ago. He said they
were getting butchered.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He did, yes, yes, he did, Yes, he did say that.
He did say that. I don't think that is any
longer the case, Okay, just making sure I don't think
that's happened.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I know they were being bamboozled.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yes, So now were they or they were they?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Or were they were they were getting rock bottomed?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Were they?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, no, no, they were eaten by sharks because it's
shark week, it is it might have been, it might
have been. But now that's not the case anymore. Uh.
Four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning. And
I'll tell you this, okay, even though this is not
you look at this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Dodger team and where they are right now at first
place in the NL West, despite the fact they didn't
go out and sign any big players at the end
of last year. In the offseason, they're waiting for the
trade deadline obviously to get what they need. And even
though they're in first place and they found a way
to get a five game lead in the Laws column.
Now over the Diamondbacks. They need some they need some
starting pitching. Right, They're gonna go out, They're gonna be active.
(17:07):
I know how insane the Braves lineup is, right, I
mean they've scored, you know, five hundred and fifty runs
this year. Everybody's an All Star. Yes, I get how
great the Braves lineup is. But if I have a
lead in the final two minutes, the two innings of
a game, I would much rather face the Braves lineup
than the Dodgers. One hundred percent. I would much I
(17:27):
don't care what's going, I don't care who's I don't
care if a Kunya is coming up six or seven
times in a row. I would rather face the Braves
because the Dodgers have just had that late inning magic,
that fudd that you get to the eighth inning with
a three run lead, and you're still not thinking every
everything is safe, you're on edge, You're not you're not
playing how you should. And the Dodgers do stuff like
(17:48):
this all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Well everything after two. I mean, that is the mantra
they've carried all the way through. I mean it's organizational
from the time that they're scouted in Little league to
the time that they make it to the major league club.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And as I say this, Mookie Bets right now has
just thrown out the go ahead run at the plate.
It looks like Kevin Kermeyer is tagged out just before
he gets home plate.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It's going to be reviewed, but yes, he is out.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Well that's good. Why it's gonna be close? All that's
gonna be close. The throw is a little offline. Will
Smith has to come back to make the tag.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Gets him on the arm though, just get.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Him on the arm.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It looks like he might have got him on the
arm before he tags him on under under the arm.
I think he got him on the elbow and that's
going to be an out. That's gonna be two outs
in the top of the ten.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Though.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If this stands, it was a great throw. I mean
a little bit off. I mean, it could have been
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
An amazing throw.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It wasn't a great throw, it was it was off target.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
To the third base line. I had to come back
and reach. And then you look at it on the
first glance like why why did he slide with the
legs to the outside the base, And then you get
the replay, so now it's under a review. Do you
have a timer on this as to how quickly they
have to make a decision?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm did he get him on the l God's tough, man,
that's tough.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Get him before the hand really claps on the on
the plate is the question? You get him up around
the hip round.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's just if he had just slid straight in, he's
he's he's safe.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's what I thought, right, Yeah, if he slide, no,
it's it's confirmed.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He is out two outs runner at first the tying
run does not cross the plate, But if he slides
in straight.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
He's safe.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
On the arm, I don't understand that's the leg legs
should and you know it's like the sliding into first
base just run through.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's almost like Kermeier thought that the ball was going
to be closer, and it was better for him to
try to evade the tag like that. And and it's
not not realizing that, oh he's really got to come
pretty far to get it and I can slide straight.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
His big mistake was running on Mookie man. I mean,
that's just that's just it. And you know what I
think about the runner on second base that you could
tell me about all the rule changes you ever want
to make to me, that still is an affront to
my baseball sensibilities.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And apparently Mary Hart left this game. Quit left this game,
one run game in the eighth inning, Mary Heart left.
I'm seeing a lot of that. I can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Dodgers tearing around and get back to the game. Mary
still going on seven to seven in the top of
the tenth inning, So get on this Bets throughout the
rest of the show.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Big throw by Mookie Betts could have been more accurate,
but they did. He got the out. It's okay.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I mean it's gonna look like a laser a line
like he threw it as you know, a beatie straight
into the glove.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, no, no, you're absolutely right, hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He should have been able to it was it was
a they got him out a spectacular.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Throw and the sensational move my Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So we've talked a lot tonight about the big deals
signed by Justin Herbert and Jalen Brown. Right, justin over
two hundred and sixty two million dollars to extension with
the Chargers. Big deal Jalen Brown now the highest paid
player in NBA history, which will be held for five
minutes until somebody else gets a big extension. He gets
the three hundred million dollar extension and he's gonna make
(21:14):
sixty nine million dollars in the last year of his contract.
Is Jalen Brown worth this money? No, he's not, because
I'm old enough to remember the NBA playoffs of this
year where Jalen Brown was not good and it was
can the Celtics win if Jalen Brown is their second
best player, they do a lot of moves. They bring
in Porzingis, Hey, we got we gotta make some trades here.
Marcus Smart is out, Porzingis is in. We have some
(21:36):
things that we got to do here. And it's not
like that. Jalen Brown is coming off a playoff A boy,
he was unbelievable, but for a guy that's been an
All Star twice twice and player efficiency rating was fiftieth
in the league this year, just behind Desmond Bain. Okay,
and he's now the highest paid player at NBA history.
How and why does Jalen Brown get this kind of
(21:59):
money Because the NBA stars, and when you're a star player,
you get afforded something that star players and other leagues
just do not, and that is teams are afraid to
replace you. Because in the NFL, Major League Baseball, teams
replace stars all the time. Right, Major League Baseball, Hey,
Bryce Harper's gonna be a free agent. We don't know,
(22:21):
we're gonna let him go. And Bryce Harper leaves right,
what a great player?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Right? Good? Nope, nope, not.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Gonna get him what he wants. We weared him three
hundred million, he wants three hundred and forty million. We're
gonna let him go.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Happens all the time, right, we see guys at free agency,
they become too expensive, or even though a guy is
a great player, like Juan Soto, we don't think we'll
be able to sign him. Let's get some prospects for him,
and they trade him. In the NFL, same thing Sometimes
teams hold onto their stars, like signing Justin Herbert. Sometimes
it's hey, we have to trade Aaron Rodgers because we
(22:51):
have a guy coming up that we drafted in the
first round a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
We want to.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
See play, so that happens. And both Sports Baseball and
the NFL, the draft and free agency is much more
amenable to breeding new stars and getting new stars than
it is in the NBA because you have many levels
of minor league play, where if you lose a shortstop, Hey,
well we got a guy that'sitting three point fifty in
(23:16):
the minor leagues, we can let Corey Seeger go. We
can let somebody go. This kid might be really, really good.
We'll replace him. We have five really good prospects that
we can put out there, and rather than pay the
guys ahead of them, we can go to them. Same
thing in the NFL. Hey, our quarterback, we're not sure
he's a really good player. Doesn't matter. We're gonna draft
a guy to replace him. And hey, if this quarterback
(23:36):
is good, we got to see him play. We'll move on.
They move on in the NFL. In Major League baseball
a lot easier because of the farm systems and the draft.
But in the NBA, the draft is a crapshoot, and
guys that come in sometimes it takes them four or
five years to become even a good role player. So
teams get scared when they have to replace a star.
(23:57):
It's why every team says, if we're gonna trade so
and so, we need a star back, right, because we
can't wave goodbye to a star. And that's the bit
of leverage that NBA stars have that nobody else does.
It's Jalen Brown saying, you really want to make these
moves and try to go win without me.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You really want to.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Try to do that because I'm a pretty good player.
You want to try to How many guys out there
can you replace me with?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Not many? And teams are scared to do it because
they know they can't.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The Celtics made all these moves, right, If they don't,
if they don't sign Jalen Brown, are they a better
or worse team than they were last year? Are they're
worse because they haven't been able to replace him. It's
so hard to do that in the NBA because there's
not as many stars and there's no easy feeder program
to say all right, Hey, in a couple of years,
we're not gonna have to sign Jalen Brown. We got
a couple of guys here that can play his position
(24:41):
pretty well. We want to give them more minutes. Doesn't
happen in the NBA. NBA stars have way more leverage
than every other star has in the NBA and the
NFL dred percent.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, I mean, would certainly talk about the guaranteed deals
for one which you know the money here, is he
worth it? Look? Man, they pay him the money to
them he was doesn't matter what the rest of the
league thinks about him under the CBA and the rules.
And I know folks get tired of hearing about the CBA,
but that's what governor governs all of this right as
(25:13):
to who can pay whom more money and how the
process flows, and when it's all guaranteed, you got to
make a bet on a player or group of players.
In this case, you're thinking that your best chance to
win is keeping Tatum and Brown together and figuring out
the rest of it. Williams is gone, Smart is gone.
(25:34):
What the rest of that roster looks like is a
question mark. But what you don't want to do is
shuffle up and deal right whenever we see these hey,
and they traded him for four first round draft picks.
That's why we had the Otani conversations, and we'll continue
to have them. Like what's proper compensation the handful of
(25:55):
magic beans? Hoping one of them sprouts into an everyday
player alone that you find yourself and stumble into an
All star, right, that that's really what you're hoping for.
So in the NBA, if you have a player that
has played as well as he had in Spurts and Brown,
certainly deficiencies in his games, things that need to be
(26:16):
cleaned up, turnovers and some of the playoff efforts that
need to be reworked, that you think you could still
coax more out of it. And after this year's NBA season,
that's certainly the case, right where injuries ineffectiveness led to
some really strange and exciting playoff runs. So for the Celtics,
(26:38):
this was their best course of action. Keep your top
two players and then work to figure out who the third, fourth,
and fifth guys are.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean, look, the Knicks don't want to say goodbye
to Julius Randall. We can't just say scared.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Well, I mean, he was third team All NBA.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
We're too scared. We can't do it. We can't do it.
We can't we can't do it. No, no, no, we
can't say it. Yes, you get no, no. The NBA,
it's so difficult to do it, and teams get scared.
And that's what happened today.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well we're scared, all right, Well we cannot have Jalen bred,
so let's make him the highest paid player in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's kind of how I still get back to the pragmatism.
But sure scared.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
So much drama right now. At Chavez Ravine, a walk
off double by James Outman was overruled and changed to a.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Home run put on board.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yes, Outman hits one off the top of the wall
in center field, and at first glance it looked like
it was a double. Obviously with the automatic runner on
second base, the Dodgers were going to win the game. Uh,
but it looked like where it landed that the umpires
were looking to see if in fact a landed and
was a home run.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Autman stopped at second base.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Uh stood there got you know, his teammates came out
and just you know, went crazy with him and celebrated.
Then he went back and stayed at second basis. The
umpires looked at it, and I think they ruled it
a home run.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Because I think the I think they got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, outmin rounded third and came home, and I'm like, okay,
so it was a home run. And I look at
the replay and it wasn't a home run in the park.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Dude, they called it a home run. It's a home run.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
But that's kind of a big deal. Is it the final?
Truly eight to seven? Because right now by the board
it's eighty seven. Hey, I had the overrunder, I had
fifteen runs. How do they do tonight? I mean betting?
I mean you got lines.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Moving right again? What did I say at the beginning?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
As great as the Braves lineup is, I'd rather face
them than the Dodgers in the final two winnings of the.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Game, and bruise dark grat gets your win.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
But they were getting butchered.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
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