May 31, 2025 • 40 mins
Shohei Ohtani homers twice as the Dodgers take Game 1 of the World Series rematch with the Yankees. Jason gives his biggest PR advice to Shedeur Sanders. And the guys give their Game 6 picks!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Moo job up right now?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Dodgers trying to hold down the bottom of the ninth
in on top of the ninth in against the Yankees.
Alex Vesia in to close out what right now is
an eight to five lead for the Dodgers. Is the
Yankees bat Cody Bellinger up top of the ninth one
on one out uh ten or Scott former closer?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
But then again, when you blow five saves? Chance are
you going to work a little bit? Less?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Leverage comes in in the eighth inning in a spot
gets a fly out to center field. So okay, things made,
Maybe things are turning for a little bit, But man,
five blown saves in two months.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's a lot of blown saves. Mike Carmon got to
rebuild the confidence, rebuild the structure of the back end
of that bullpen. You paid a lot of money, figure
out what's going on tipping pitches, what's going on with
his set and has wind up everything else. And then
obviously that does mean that you've had a lot of
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opportunities for him, So that I'll take the positive of
it that you're having the lead laid in the games
to give him an opportunity to blow.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
US West Coast Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I know Edwin Diaz has been good this year and
he's completely really good.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, every three four years he has an incredible year, hego, boy,
want to give him a lot of money, and then the.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Next two three years are terrible. But yeah, it happened.
It goes in cycles. But I mean the stress level
it does get you. I mean there's no question about it.
You see him for sure out and the fact that
he didn't come back out for the ninth against the
top of the order, well you know you're momentarily deposed.
Now you have to claw your way back in.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Now. Look, now this gets into a big discussion, Well,
We'll get to the Apple TV angle of this as well,
because look, this has been one of the games that
maybe the game of the year in Major League Baseball
so far.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The first seven innings were just so incredibly entertaining. I mean,
outside of everything. Pete crow Armstrong has been doing it.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Stop, I stopp We're not bringing up people bringing that
guy yet.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
We're not bringing that guy.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You good, Bro, you good. We're not bringing him up.
You're good, You're good. We're not bringing him up. We're
not now good not happening.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Mike said, I.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Did never he never had a chance to be good
because we made a ridiculously bad trade for him.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But yeah, Hobby Baez has had a fantastic career except
for the twenty nine games he played with the Mets. Well,
he's on the comeback trail now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So Vessia closes out the game for the dog Dodgers
gets a fly out to center field from Bellinger a
line out to third to end it, and in the
first World Series rematch, Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Beat the Yankees by the final of eight to five.
That exit velocity was one hundred and forty seven miles
an hour third pace. That was like you staring down Winfield.
Please don't hit it to me.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So the thing is is that here's the Dodgers who
have problems closing, right if you know what we actually
we're doing some things now or seeing where we're at
because they brought in Scott to be their closure.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Look, when they started the season, they had three guys
that could close.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now suddenly because the Dodgers, no matter what pitching they
bring in, it's never enough. Guys are either ineffective or injured,
and there's nothing you can do. The Dodgers could have
fifteen starting pitchers and forty five closers and by the
end of May it's gonna be hell. The Dodgers dipping
into the minor leagues to bring up a guy to
starting of the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They got to make some moves.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We're gonna sign a former closer to a minor league
deal and bringing Edwin Diaz his brother.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So this is how it goes for the Dodgers. Well,
you got to note earlier Steve put it in the update, right,
Evan Phillips done for the years.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, So, I mean it's like spinal tap with drummers.
But here's the thing, right, Otani has two home runs tonight,
and it's a big night for him, you know, as
a home run in the bottom of the first I
need to answer Aaron Judges' home run another one tonight.
He's gonna hit sixty home runs this year. But the
big question with him is when's he gonna come back
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and pitch. And what we've seen the last couple of
weeks has been him throwing like he may be getting ready,
and all we've heard from Dave Roberts at yeah, at
some point, yeah, at some point. We're not quite there.
There's still no timeline for Otani. We're gonna be nearly
two years away from him tearing his elbow the UCL
surgery before he potentially gets back on him mount Now,
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I tell you this, is that really a smart thing
for the Dodgers to bring him back as a starter?
Is that really a smart thing? Obviously he can't take
the wear and tear. Right, he's thirty years old. You
got what you could out of starter, but two bad
arm injuries. But his arm is still live. He can
still throw really well. The fact that he was throwing
in the playoffs last year looking like he's gonna come
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back and then didn't come back like, I did something
happen when he tried to ramp up and throw in
the players, because no way, he's ramping up in the
playoffs just to get ready for February where he couldn't
throw again. So I wonder did something happen in the fall?
What happened there? But obviously his arm can't stand the
wear and tear. We have seen great pitcher even just
mediocre starters, you know, mediocre to good starters like Dennis
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Eckersley and John Smoltz midway through their career, say you
know what, can't do it going to the bullpen, and
all of a sudden, what do we see?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They gave become Hall of Fame players. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Eckersley is synonymous with the greatest closers in Major League Baseball,
even though his biggest highlight is the home run to
Kirk Gibson. But Smoltz did it, and O'tani could do
it too, right Otani. If you're looking for the right
way to bring him back, it's as a closer. Now
for a bunch of different reasons. Number one, well, he's
a designated hitter. If he c yeah, if he closes, yes,
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you lose the spot in the lineup. But if he's
coming in to close, it means you're winning the game
and you're not worried about who's batting where, and if
something happens in the game's tied to figure it out.
You'll figure out the next day. We'll move on from there.
Every it's gonna happen, right, we'll pinch it for the
pitcher when his spot comes up in the light. It's
it's not suddenly something that is really out of the outside.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The realm of all. We can't figure that out.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
If he's pitching sixty sixty five innings a year, I
think that's doable, right either than trying to ask him
to go one hundred and forty hundred and fifty innings
one hundred and twenty ask him to go sixty sixty
five where he's not pitching back to back days. He's
pitching every third day. Maybe when you need him, it's
a bonus. He can close games. His stuff is still
really really good.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The guy's an All Star starter and the best hitter
in baseball. So it makes sense because that's the best
way to do it. You talk about the shot of
adrenaline it brings to the team. If Otani's coming in
to pitch the ninth inning of a game.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The crowd's gonna go crazy, the other team's gonna go
what the hell are we doing.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It's gonna be three quick outs, We're going home.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But really, the Dodgers can help solve a big problem.
And that's the back end of the bullpen because Tanner Scott,
you can't trust him. You're always gonna have injuries. If
he's coming back to pitch, and I've said this, you know,
going on two years now. If he's gonna come back,
closing is how to do it for Otani. It doesn't
make any sense to try to have him come back
as a starter, worry about his innings, how far can
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he go, and then have another arm injury because clearly
the stress of pitching six seven innings every fifth or
sixth day is too much on his arm. Now thirty
years old, two big arm surgeries. Time to make him
a closer.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, I mean that becomes the question of how much
he's he able to dictate. Hey, this is what I
want to do when I'm ready. I'm ready, and I
only want to be a starter. Right, that's the billion
dollar question. Literally in all of this is what O'tawi
wants in the timeline. Because we heard going back to
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the playoffs, as you mentioned Jason that you know he
was ramping up by her clip with oral hershas saying, yeah,
I have no doubt from what I've seen and what
I've watched that you know he should be ready. It's like, well,
if you're not pulling the trigger, then what what am
I missing? Here? Is the algorithm telling you that another
injuries on the horizon and this time you don't think
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he's going to be able to bat if he has
to go through it again?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Is that it it's a time bomb. Uh. And it's
just a matter of when not if you get UCL
surgery part three plus whatever else goes along with it.
I mean that that's what I have to wonder.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You talk about torque, you talk about velocity and how
many innings he can go. The difference between starting pitcher
and and being you know, crafty as you come back
from injuries. Say, I get it. Craft normally a hazer
for south baws, uh, you know, and junkers. But here
we're talking about a guy you know, you learn to
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pull the strings and pitch and it's not about max velocity,
but if he's a closer, the expectation is he's bringing
the heat with every pitch, so stressful innings, all of
those things, and trying to be judicial judicious about it
because it's a long term investment and it's a guy
with two years and where he's been rehabbing from injury
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while trying to play and all that, so the added
stress there. It really is a curiosity though, because the
Dodgers managed it well last year, what was it, seventeen
starting pitchers plus the litany of bullpen guys. It's a
year of living dangerously. But it looks like we're headed
back toward that path right now. I'd love to see
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him back on the mound, but it's the if it's
going to potentially deprive me of a you know, a
year and a half or two years of him hitting,
No thanks, I'll be just fine with you. Finding some
also ran that the pirates are giving up on.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
A we'll take that Skens guy. Yeah, we'll just get
in from you. I wasn't even winking and nodding towards him.
I just used it was either that or all right,
go rate the White Sox or the Orioles or whatever
else the you know.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
The the obvious sellers at at said deadline. But yeah,
it is the the question that that persists of with
all these bullpen sessions, and to a person it's like, wow,
he's got such a live arm and it's popping and
it's all this like, so, why is it the brave
(10:29):
heart or glady? You know, at my signal on leech
hell or hold hold, and now it's September one, I
was like, all right, go ahead. I mean, I don't
know what what the the strategy is. And obviously Dave
Robertson as good as he is with the media and
is giving as he is oftentimes, and you're not gonna
you sell out that part of the equation at this point.
(10:52):
You're gonna give us the euphemisms. But it is a
curiosity for those of us watching this team every day.
What do you think, Frostburg, what do you like like
that idea or not?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Well, do you want the latest update?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Give me the latest update? Sure, the second home run
or what?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh well, that's going to be the direct play of
the day.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Obviously, the exit for Otani, the exit Veilo on that
home run.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Heidi Watney just asked show, Hey, Otani, when we can
expect to see him on the mound?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Wow? Okay, did you preface it by saying Tanner Scott stinks,
we need you.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's not going to go that low.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Whatever. What are we going to see your show? Hey?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Hey, whenever I see Tanner on the mount, I start
getting my heart loose. They might need me here. Okay, God,
what we got, Frostburg? What do you got for that?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
He told the broadcast. He chuckled and said, you have
to go talk to Andrew Friedman about that.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Wow. Okay, all right, there you go, complete abdication of responsibility.
He was watching the NBA Western Conference Finals. He went
full a man, I don't know. I has said. It's
not my fault.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
He didn't miss.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
That's true. I look, I mean it makes sense for Otani,
it makes sense. It makes sense, says the Mets fan.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I got it trying to help you.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Man, this is a double truth.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's all about how this is all about having a
chess piece in the NLCS. Buddy, I'm just dude, Let's
make him the closer and said nobody ever, I.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't want to see him pitch and close against the Mets.
Because we're probably gonna we probably.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Lose onination would say something that.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Just what you'd wait? There a nation?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Now, well, everybody's a nation now you know it's Raider Cowboy.
There's all nations all over now. Yeah, well we knew
that there's Harmon day. It's everybody that dressed this in
purple clothes and wears shorts all the time of different colors.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well, I got to downsize and though that's the thing
I'm redoing the wardrobe, so all new purple merch. That's
Harmon nation right there.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Uh now, are you okay, John, because here here's a
big question. Now, yeah, I gotta ask you know, in
my best.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Passing, you have to ask you good bro, because you.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Didn't get to see the game tonight because it was
on Apple TV. Are you okay with that? You okay?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Then let's see it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I don't know, you know what. I think it's criminal, Okay,
people should probably be jailed.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Wow, okay, you get the needle.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Let's call it what it is. This game needed to
be on national TV.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
He's so Frostburg is not okay with.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So you set the game back fifty years.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Look at me, I'm a wreck, you know, every time
you hear that, that sets the game back fifty years.
Like when I think we go, boy, that means that
sets it back to the mid seventies.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
That's crazy, not like that. We're talking about bird camping
eras and that's a sound.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, that sets the game back to nineteen thirty. No, no, no,
it's like, no, it sends the game back to the
mid sevenes. No, that's the year Carlton Fiss is waving
a ball fair. Come on Garvy and and and the
Yankees and get Drie.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yo.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
He said the game back for me. Oh that's my
favorite part. Yeah, I'm bro oh Fox Sports rhy, I'm justin.
I'm sorry, but you won in the end, so it's okay.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You won the game, daddy, Would you like some sausage?
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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top of your screen. Well coming up next. Yes, we
got more from this game, more reaction. But there is
a controversial quarterback in the NFL. The advice I would
give him right now is just keep doing what you're doing.
Wait what, No, that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Daddy, look at me down.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
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Speaker 3 (15:13):
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hit not one, but two home runs on your way
to it likely is going to be sixty. Well for
not the first and not the last time this year.
Show Hey, o Tani, you get to be the play
of the day that.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
You are to.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Show touch first touch him all uh.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Dodgers Radio Network on the call, Yeah, rounding first show,
Hey missed first base, so likely if depending where it
was gonna be, he's gonna have to go back. Now
ball was over the fence because Aaron Judge was you know,
made a big leap at it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Couldn't get it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Hey goes back touch his first base and then goes
on and runs the rest of the bases. So show
he missed first base, but it went back and touch
it all the way around, and that makes him the
play of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
See I had I had an alternate in case show Hey,
you know we decided he's just a wizard. We expect this.
H There was a flyout uh to end the top
of the eighth that was induced by Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, congratulations Tanner Scott in a little bit lower
leverage situation, three run lead, but a couple of runners
on no I came.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He was Okay, yeah, but for fantasy purposes that gets
him a hold, didn't it?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
H If your league does not, you know what, Not
all leagues do holds. I've noticed, and it's a it's
a weird thing because not a lot of fantasy leagues,
like in the leagues I've done, they've done holds and
not done holds. The leagues that do holds, people that
play it tend to get mad because holds are almost
as valuable as saves, and it really doesn't make any.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Sense thaty to have a hold.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So most of the leagues I've played in, you don't
really get anything for you just get the stats for
whatever they come in.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Okay, well the box score says it's as fifty the year,
so you have yourself a day Tanner Scott way to go.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So we got more baseball coming up in a bit,
but a big story out of the NFL. This has
been another week of what is happening with Shador Sanders
in the earliest quarterback derby that any of us have
ever seen. It's the end of May, and yet every
day brings us all kinds of drama with a guy
who has been the most controversial player in college football
(18:04):
going into the draft, coming out of the draft right now.
This has been another great week for him in seven
on seven drills, everything going on. Look four quarterbacks they
have now it's Sanders and Dylan Gabriel and Joe Flacco
and Kenny Pickett. They're all battling it out. And another
week where Shador Sanders played really well. Now, how much
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stock can you put in seven on sevens? It's the
news that happens now. But the good news is he
is playing well. And my advice for him now because
every day seems to be one of two things. You
get a story on him throwing the ball really well
on seven on sevens, and then the next day you'd
get a story like did the dude really blow his
entire signing bonus on a Rolls Royce?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Like did you really? Because that was a story this week,
did you really buy a Rolls Royce? Like?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
This is the stuff that keeps coming up with him,
and it's knuckleheaded stuff and the best advice, and you know,
he tamps it down and says, look, I don't know
what you're talking about. Didn't do it on if I'm
giving him my pr advice, And clearly he's someone who
needs it. The shocking advice I would give him is
just keep doing what you're doing right now. You're on
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the field, you're playing well, you're about football, you're succeeding.
Everybody's noticing how you're coming in, they're noticing your skill set.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
With the Browns.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I know there's not a lot of reps and there's
somewhat of a of a glut right now with four guys.
But if you do this, everything's gonna turn out fine.
No knuckleheaded stuffcause that's why you fell to the fifth round.
If it's knuckleheaded stuff that starts keeping you down, it's
your own fault.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Don't do this.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Keep your dad away, keep away whenever something comes up,
because you know people are gonna steep trying to bring
things up that has happened to you, what you've done
in the past. Be about football, because I'm telling you,
if he's about football, Mike, by the time we get
to the fall, it's gonna be a question of is
Shador Sanders going to be the starting quarterback for the
Browns week one or will Joe Flacko start.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
For a few.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Weeks, Sanders gets used to the NFL and then he
jumps in sometime in October, because I'll tell you that's
the scenario the Browns are dying to have right now.
They have numbers at quarterbacks, like, okay, we got four guys,
but eventually somebody's got to go because you don't have
enough rep for everybody. You're not gonna keep all for
them and other teams. Yeah, I could see you getting
a draft pick for Kenny Pickett. Hey we need a
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backup quarterback. We like Kenny Pickett. We'll give you a
very small draft pick for him, or hey, we kind
of like Dylan Gabriel if he's not winning. Yeah, it
was a third round pick, but one of those guys
is gonna go right and it's gonna be Flacco and Chador.
Sanders are gonna be the guys that are gonna be
fighting for this job. And it may not be Sanders
right away, simply because I can see the brown saying, hey,
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he's been really good, but we don't want to rush him.
The last thing they want to do is have him
start Week one, have the game be too fast for
him and he's.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Not used to it.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They want to be able to go, Okay, when we
go to you, you're our guy. So I see this more.
As long as this is what he does. Be about football,
and he's been about football, and that's great, right, be
about football.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
By the end of the summer, guess what, it's you
and Flacco, and likely you will be the starting quarterback
of the Browns by the beginning of October. Now Flacco
starts out and throws two touchdowns a week for the
first month and he's got okay, then it's gonna be
a little bit longer, but likely that's gonna be the scenario,
because even though you're a fifth round pick, doesn't matter
the desire.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
To see him play.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
As long as he is playing well, he'll play in
the preseason, he'll get his chance to shine. That will happen,
and he's gonna wind up starting by October at the
latest for the Browns.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah, in the end, they got their guy several rounds later.
Whatever lessons learned, right the stay hungry. You could start
playing that song in the background if you want, and
you just kind of go through the paces. Dylan Gabriel
is a guy that he'll be a nice quarterback somewhere else.
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Kenny Pikett, super Bowl champion, probably somewhere else. Joe Flacco,
the KG veteran again Super Bowl champion. I remind you,
even when they were winning with him and that roster
and everything, where they got to the playoffs, he had
several games and his touchdown the interception ratio overall was
not good. He put the ball in arm's way. Some good,
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some bad, and overall it's the year of living dangerously.
But you're hoping that somewhere along the line, Gabrielfi sticks around,
and certainly Sanders. You learn from a guy who's been
what is this year sixteen at this point? Was he
two thousand and eight draft class? I mean, you look,
I think I think it was.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I think he was wrapped in the nineties. I really
think I got to go back a little bit for.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Him all the way. I mean, he is that throwback guy,
but all of that wasn't the question.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Way, who do they take him or Gino Toretta in
the third round?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I think that was the big choice. Nicely done. But
the point, it's a good reference, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was waiting for you to double back to that. Anyway.
That is that is a pretty good pull. You want
to you want to explain to people who don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Who explained to Blena they threw a football over a mountain.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But but all that to say the gen X Geno Touretta,
you yes, man, that was that was.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
The beginning of talking about the guy from Fast and Furious.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Gino Toretta was a better actor than Vin Diesel.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Right now, there's people right now out leaving a bar
going no telling you, man, that was his name.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That was who Vin Diesel was Gino Torretta, look it up, man. No,
all that story was that he was a quarterback in Might.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
All I see is Geno Toretta losing in a big
game to Alabama.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I don't understand. No, that's not him, man, it's not him,
all right. Sorry, But but all of that to say,
it's you're not going to be able to control any
of these side show things, right. I mean, we just
did the the story all week of the w n
b A and the alleged racist comments, chance noises, whatever else,
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and after a lengthy review, we have no idea how
many man hours and people were put on this thing. Well,
we weren't able to corroborate that this ever actually happened,
and nobody from the team ever claimed they heard it,
But look at how much noise, how much that costs
the league for a week. Right, You're talking reputation and
(24:28):
questions of how they handle things and adjudicate issues or
maybe go down rabbit holes they don't need to by
not standing up saying yeah, nobody saw anything, We'll be vigilant,
move on. But it's the kind of thing you can't
control one hundred percent what goes on in the interwebs, whatever,
unless we have access to Shadur Sanders banking records. I
(24:51):
don't know. He had money from his family and he
made a lot of money in nil. If he spent
five hundred grand on a car, guess what, I'm guess
he's got more than five hundred grands sitting around.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking if he was gonna get.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
A Rolls Royce, that's a d I think I got you, man,
don't worry. I got you. I'll got you. I'll give
your money. I got one. Even if he did, who cares. Uh,
he's gotta drive a car? Is it the thing I
would do with my money? No? But but all of
that to say, you're gonna have those stories circle circling
around you no matter what you do. So the only
thing you can do is go between the white lines,
(25:26):
go into your meeting room, be a good teammate, be
a good leader. Uh, maybe look in the rear view
mirror a little bit for some of the issues you
had when you called out your offensive line, when you
started barking at guys as you're going off the field
that you just dominated. Why I mean, now you're just
punching down you know, all of that, like those kind
(25:46):
of things. Leave that alone, go play. The Browns have
a decent roster. Right coming into last year was all right,
are you're gonna get any kind of quarterback play? Well,
clearly the Deshaun Watson experiment, as it was a complete
Nutter failure disaster. His injury takes him out of the equation,
but otherwise they've done some pretty good work building a roster.
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So for Shdor Sanders, the opportunities there to go and
win this job. And for the Browns they could look
like geniuses because they paid him an awful lot less
than they would have if they'd drafted him as many
suspected they would have in the first or second round
of it all. So now you have the opportunity to
go win, and the other three guys that are on
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the roster. Yes, it's a numbers game, all right. Any
of those guys world beaters. Yeah, you got two super
Bowl champions. One's light years from being there. The other
guy was along for the ride, you know, the one.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The one little bit of a wrench in these plans,
I feel is this is that. Okay, So you have
the four quarterbacks, right, it's Flacco, and it's Picket, and
it's Gabriel, and it's and it's Sanders. Now, clearly Picket
likely is gonna be the odd man out, right, because
now he's the he's a backup. But if you have Flacco,
and you have Gabriel, who you like and obviously because
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you draft him the third round you like him. And
then Sanders, who for some reason he said, oh we'll
take a quarterback and then we'll take another guy. He
seems to be the odd man out. But I'm gonna
I'm gonna throw this at you. Flacco decides to sign right,
and they talk. You know, you're gonna be the starter,
and he knows that that Deshaun Watson's out for the year.
He's not gonna play. He's not gonna come back to
the team. Kenny Pickett is there, Okay, I'll beat out
(27:26):
Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I'm gonna play.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
If it turns out, then it looks like he could
be losing the battle, all right. He could be losing
the deal to stay or to starter. Sanders winds up
taking things really better than you expect. Like there's there's
a part of me that thinks Flacco might just say,
you know what, I've had enough football and I'm done.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I'm not gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I'm not gonna lose a Derby to shador Sanders and
sit and back up when I'm just gonna go home
at that point.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So that's one thing. Trade him back to Indianapolis. He
can go fight with Danny Dimes for them.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The Colts have enough issues man with Daniel Jones and
Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Come on, man.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So you know that's the one part that could put
a little bit of a wrench into the plans. But
then it would just be okay, Pickets the backup, and
genero Sanders.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Is a starter. They'll keep Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So but I I there is a thing where if
Sanders does play really well, and all of a sudden
it looks like there's no we're just postponing the future.
If we keep them out, then he'll wind up starting.
But I still the most likely thing is it's him
and Joe Flacco. The fans are gonna want him to
start right away. Flacco's gonna start. Stefanski will make the call,
the fans will go crazy. We got to see him play,
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and once he gets used to the NFL for about
a month, he'll wind up playing.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That's how it's gonna go. Now, let me throw this
the other wrench in while while we're gonna really muck
this up. Is go back to the Kenny Pickett part
of things. I got super Bowl winning quarterback, Kenny the
super Bowl champion that try get that. I forgot get
that title, right, I understand. I really try to make
sure I get that in each and every time. But
(28:58):
remember we've talked about you know, the joke was Chicago
where quarterbacks go to die? Right, Cala Williams, Dad, We've
been talking about Pittsburgh in the quarterback situation quite a bit.
So is Pittsburgh one of those places that we really
don't know how good or bad Kenny Pickett is to
some degree. And then he goes to Philadelphia. But then
he goes to Philadelphia with a staff that's good and
(29:22):
well renowned for what they do. And now you go
to Stefanski, who mean, he couldn't do anything with Deshaun Watson.
But that's what Watson's doing and we acknowledge him as
a top tier coach. Is it possible that you can
unearth something else that was there for Kenny Pickett all along?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Wow, all of a sudden, I freed Kenny Pickett. I
let you know what I mean, Like the Baker Mayfield thing.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Right, Well, he was in Cleveland and he was okay,
flashed every once in a while, but overall, now it's
not working. Move on, and then he bounces around a bit,
and now all of a sudden, he's, you know, a
hero down in Tampa.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Oh, anything is possible, Like look anything.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Now he's gonna be starting for the Jets in two years,
is hey, come.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
On, I can't. I can't say that's out of the
rebel possibility. I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
But justin fields, but justin fields to today, he's gonna
have a career year a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'm excited. Career year for Justin Field's best shape of
his life. Yeah, he's gonna be great. We're gonna win
twelve games. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
From there, of there there exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen Dome. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carpet. So things are looking good? Should do
or say?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Just keep doing what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Tom how to find out what's trending in the wide
world of Sportsman Guy has been called the Dion Sanders
of Fox Sports Radio. He's got time for this every day.
It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Yeah, me and Bling synonymous. We'll get to the Dodger
comeback over the Yankees. But it is just ended at
the Women's College World Series.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You know, a heart breaker, heart breaker for all men.
My goodness.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
They're out in extra innings and this is after twelve
thirty in the morning. There softball normally seven innings. Ole
miss had scored three in the seventh to tie up Oregon,
but on a tenth inning bases loaded walk Oregon eliminates
Mississippi six five and ten. Earlier, Tennessee Oregan and Steve
Oregon loaded the bases.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They tried to bunt the runner over to second, and
they threw the ball down the line in right field
that put runners at second and third, and then they
wound uploading the bases and a bases loaded walk.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Yeah, pitcher in tiars after the ball four.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
As well, not five seconds after ball four. She was
in tears coming off the field. Oh my god, your heartbreaks.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
So Ole Miss is out, Florida is out.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Tennessee eliminated the Gators eleven to three in Oklahoma City Saturday,
Oklahoma against Texas Sooners are in the College World Series
for the ninth straight time. UCLA against Texas Tech tomorrow.
By the way, in spring football, the UFL's regular season
ends Sunday on Fox TV.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Tonight.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It ends. I thought it was just starting. It ends.
It's over.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I missed it in ten weeks.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Saint Louis finished eight and two, won the regular season finale.
I'll make the Jets on a very sloppy field at
d C thirteen eight Saint Louis the final.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
There's a weather delay at the start.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
This is where all the.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Games are played on the same field the same time. No,
it's like a big soccer tournament. If you're on field one,
you guys are on field two. You guys got a
worse field twelve. Well that's down near the bathrooms. You
go past where the concession or the bathrooms, that's field twelve.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Well, this nomering system makes no sense.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Oh well, you could say that at any soccer tournament.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
For the the Philadelphia Eagles are working on trading defensive
end Bryce Huff to the forty nine Ers. The Giants
signed first round quarterback Jackson Dart. The Vikings gave a
contract extension to general manager Kuisiadopho Mensa. Now to the
Major League Baseball What a game at Dodger Stadium, New
York Yankees led LA five to two in the third
inning four early home runs off Dodger starter Tony Gonslin
(32:59):
Aaron Udje in his nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Dodgers came back for an eight.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
To five win. Even though seven and zero. Max Freed
had been the starter and LA native for the Yankees.
He went five plus inning. Show Hey Otani hit two
home runs. He has twenty two. Shortstop Mookie Betts is
reportedly out for the weekend with a broken toe. Dodger
reliever Evan Phillips due for Tommy John surgery on Wednesday, he'll.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Miss at least a year.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
San Diego had only three hits but beat Pittsburgh three
to two. Giants were two nothing winners at Miami. The
Marlins offense, which is three it's Minnesota, won a comeback
at seattlee in ten innings twins twelve sixth. The final
cal Rale of the Mariners did hit at two home
runs he has twenty one, but the Mariners closer Andres Munoz,
who's ERA was zero this season, blew the save, allowing
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three runs in the ninth, including a homer. Washington and
Texas each one. Detroit one it's fifth in a row,
Milwaukee one, it's fifth straight. Houston won two to one
over Tampa Bay with a run in the eighth and
one in the ninth and the winning pitcher through a
complete game from Bervaldez through only eighty three pitches in
winning this one. Boston ended a five game losing streak
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with a five to one win at Atlanta. The Angels
ended a five game losing streak, winning at Cleveland four
to one. Mike troutoff the injured list, went one for
five the Guardians. Jose Ramirez had a twenty one game
hit streak and he went zero for three.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
With a walk.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Baltimore and Toronto each got wins. The Mets handed Colorado
a six straight loss, four to two. Francisco Lindor with
two solo homers part of his three hits three runs
scored the Mets at homer twenty two and seven. Losing
pitcher Kyle Freeland of the Rockies is zero to eight.
And Cincinnati beat the Cubs in Chicago today six to two.
Andrew Abbott five and oh got the win back to you.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Thanks a bunch. Steve O coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Tell you how I'm gonna be no matter how the
Knicks Pacers game comes out on Game.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Six and look at me, I'm a wreck. I know. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I get a zeg where you think I'm gonna zeg?
And a big bolt prediction for next year in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
That's next. Jason.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
You good bro, harm you good?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You good bro? You good. I'm feeling great, a righteeling great.
I'm gonna go seet final destination. I'm ready. Let's go
all right, man, to make sure you're good. Bro's the
way you end a night.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Two big things from the NBA, right, first thing is
this outside. We're all going to love this, right, But
seeing last night inside the NBA, thought they could have
been ending last night clearly if the Pacers beat the
Nixon Game five at the Garden, that was going to
be it with inside the NBA, leaving TNT moving to ESPN.
Huge drama we've been talking about for a year. But
(35:53):
final game could be Saturday, right, because that could be
the last time TNT he's got a game.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Last night, Jack had.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
A moment where he wanted to talk about what was next,
and he said, we're coming for people's jobs. It's gonna
be us. You can't beat us. Where the four horsemen,
It's gonna be us. That's gonna be a new show,
same same guys, all this crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Which guy thought to be arnoor Ole Anderson eight seven
nine if good arn Anderson reference, very nice. Thanks, Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
It's going to be incredibly entertaining for us because we've
seen how the last few years. Sometimes the only way
sports personalities can make headlines is by having some sort
of feud with another sports personality podcast. The only way
they get it. They can't talk sports anymore and make
headlines or have take Some people care about it. No,
I'm gonna tell other people in the industry.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You leave RG three and Ryan Clark alone, but inside
the NBA has a certain IDGAF about their show.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You already saw Charles Barkley say ESPN they're gonna try
to tell me what to say, like he's already gonna
be mad going in. They're not gonna care. They're gonna
light the world on fire at ESPN. They're gonna feud
with McAfee, they're gonna feud with Steven A.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Smith. They're gonna feud with everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And it's gonna be really entertaining for us because we're
gonna get crazy ass stuff like this all the time.
This is what Shaq said, this is what Barkley said.
Everybody's gonna appear on people shows and podcasts, and BARKI
will come on Dan Show and say I should have
come to Fox with everybody else all this, and the
only people that aren't gonna like it are gonna be
ESPN and ESPN executives who are gonna say this is
(37:33):
damaging for the brand. We can't keep having all these
stars fight with each other. I can't have Pat McAfee
calling me saying, dude, what the hell is up with
inside the NBA. They're gonna be eating maylocks and ums
by the boatful next year, trying to figure out every day?
Can we just not have one day where someone says
something about somebody else on our air. But I'm telling
you it's gonna be outstanding, because they are. They're gonna
(37:56):
light the world on fire.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
But that's just it. If it's good for ratings and
adverge tizing and whatever else, you'll you'll take the may
lox and you'll do it happily. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
But then people are gonna make demands and they're gonna
feed I'm not happy. And then then people are gonna
want out of contracts. And that's not how ESPN does it.
ESPN doesn't do it with that sort of level of
I can't even say jocularity.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They'll do with that with that sort level of content
to where they're happy about it. They don't like that,
and that's all it's gonna be. Now in a year,
it's that's all it's gonna be with these guys.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Well, it's it's fun outside looking in right, it's you know,
everybody was so sad, you know, and with the the
Game Show going off the airs, like oh no, it
was the last batch, you know, Like really, if if
that's what we were clinging to, we'd already lost so
uh long lived journalism to Horse as part of the
(38:51):
triple round. But yeah, it'll be a fun theater for me.
I'll get the popcorn. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Now, speaking of tomorrow with Game six, I'm a I'm
ad stop Frostburg Stop.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I know you're bitter because you didn't have Apple TV
to watch the Dodger state. It's not my fault. Uh.
Whatever happens tomorrow, I'll live with.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I'll be good unless it's something crazy where Halliburton hits
a shot from half court and it bounces off the
back of the rim and up and it hits off
Larry Bird's head and bound down through and they win
and everybody is making the choke gesture and fans are
making the choke Jester. Unless something like that happens, I'll
live with whatever happens. Right when you get down three
to one, you don't win that series, right, Like, what
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are teams nine hundred and fourteen? You know, a nine
hundred wins and fourteen losses overall? When it's three to one,
whatever happens happens if the and if the Knicks win
and we get to Game seven, I'll be a lunatic
on Monday night doing the show. But if they whatever
happens tomorrow, I'm gonna really be okay with whatever the
result is, just like I'm okay with the result at
(39:53):
the end of games. Hey, if the Knicks lose because
Jalen Brunson misses a three at the I don't care.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Whatever happens tomorrow, I'm telling you, I'm not lying to you.
It's a double truth.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Friday. I'll be okay with how it goes. I don't
believe you, but we'll be checking in on you as
it goes. Spreads four. So if it really is within
those margins, yeah, you're gonna be living and dying with
every shot. I'll be. I'll be after whatever happened, can't.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Move his feet, I'll be by a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Moo job up right now?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Dodgers trying to hold down the bottom of the ninth
in on top of the ninth in against the Yankees.
Alex Vesia in to close out what right now is
an eight to five lead for the Dodgers. Is the
Yankees bat Cody Bellinger up top of the ninth one
on one out uh ten or Scott former closer?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
But then again, when you blow five saves? Chance are
you going to work a little bit? Less?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Leverage comes in in the eighth inning in a spot
gets a fly out to center field. So okay, things made,
Maybe things are turning for a little bit, But man,
five blown saves in two months.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's a lot of blown saves. Mike Carmon got to
rebuild the confidence, rebuild the structure of the back end
of that bullpen. You paid a lot of money, figure
out what's going on tipping pitches, what's going on with
his set and has wind up everything else. And then
obviously that does mean that you've had a lot of
(01:34):
opportunities for him, So that I'll take the positive of
it that you're having the lead laid in the games
to give him an opportunity to blow.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
US West Coast Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I know Edwin Diaz has been good this year and
he's completely really good.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, every three four years he has an incredible year, hego, boy,
want to give him a lot of money, and then the.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Next two three years are terrible. But yeah, it happened.
It goes in cycles. But I mean the stress level
it does get you. I mean there's no question about it.
You see him for sure out and the fact that
he didn't come back out for the ninth against the
top of the order, well you know you're momentarily deposed.
Now you have to claw your way back in.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Now. Look, now this gets into a big discussion, Well,
We'll get to the Apple TV angle of this as well,
because look, this has been one of the games that
maybe the game of the year in Major League Baseball
so far.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The first seven innings were just so incredibly entertaining. I mean,
outside of everything. Pete crow Armstrong has been doing it.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Stop, I stopp We're not bringing up people bringing that
guy yet.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
We're not bringing that guy.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You good, Bro, you good. We're not bringing him up.
You're good, You're good. We're not bringing him up. We're
not now good not happening.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Mike said, I.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Did never he never had a chance to be good
because we made a ridiculously bad trade for him.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But yeah, Hobby Baez has had a fantastic career except
for the twenty nine games he played with the Mets. Well,
he's on the comeback trail now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So Vessia closes out the game for the dog Dodgers
gets a fly out to center field from Bellinger a
line out to third to end it, and in the
first World Series rematch, Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Beat the Yankees by the final of eight to five.
That exit velocity was one hundred and forty seven miles
an hour third pace. That was like you staring down Winfield.
Please don't hit it to me.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So the thing is is that here's the Dodgers who
have problems closing, right if you know what we actually
we're doing some things now or seeing where we're at
because they brought in Scott to be their closure.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Look, when they started the season, they had three guys
that could close.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now suddenly because the Dodgers, no matter what pitching they
bring in, it's never enough. Guys are either ineffective or injured,
and there's nothing you can do. The Dodgers could have
fifteen starting pitchers and forty five closers and by the
end of May it's gonna be hell. The Dodgers dipping
into the minor leagues to bring up a guy to
starting of the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They got to make some moves.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We're gonna sign a former closer to a minor league
deal and bringing Edwin Diaz his brother.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So this is how it goes for the Dodgers. Well,
you got to note earlier Steve put it in the update, right,
Evan Phillips done for the years.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, So, I mean it's like spinal tap with drummers.
But here's the thing, right, Otani has two home runs tonight,
and it's a big night for him, you know, as
a home run in the bottom of the first I
need to answer Aaron Judges' home run another one tonight.
He's gonna hit sixty home runs this year. But the
big question with him is when's he gonna come back
(04:24):
and pitch. And what we've seen the last couple of
weeks has been him throwing like he may be getting ready,
and all we've heard from Dave Roberts at yeah, at
some point, yeah, at some point. We're not quite there.
There's still no timeline for Otani. We're gonna be nearly
two years away from him tearing his elbow the UCL
surgery before he potentially gets back on him mount Now,
(04:47):
I tell you this, is that really a smart thing
for the Dodgers to bring him back as a starter?
Is that really a smart thing? Obviously he can't take
the wear and tear. Right, he's thirty years old. You
got what you could out of starter, but two bad
arm injuries. But his arm is still live. He can
still throw really well. The fact that he was throwing
in the playoffs last year looking like he's gonna come
(05:10):
back and then didn't come back like, I did something
happen when he tried to ramp up and throw in
the players, because no way, he's ramping up in the
playoffs just to get ready for February where he couldn't
throw again. So I wonder did something happen in the fall?
What happened there? But obviously his arm can't stand the
wear and tear. We have seen great pitcher even just
mediocre starters, you know, mediocre to good starters like Dennis
(05:32):
Eckersley and John Smoltz midway through their career, say you
know what, can't do it going to the bullpen, and
all of a sudden, what do we see?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They gave become Hall of Fame players. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Eckersley is synonymous with the greatest closers in Major League Baseball,
even though his biggest highlight is the home run to
Kirk Gibson. But Smoltz did it, and O'tani could do
it too, right Otani. If you're looking for the right
way to bring him back, it's as a closer. Now
for a bunch of different reasons. Number one, well, he's
a designated hitter. If he c yeah, if he closes, yes,
(06:02):
you lose the spot in the lineup. But if he's
coming in to close, it means you're winning the game
and you're not worried about who's batting where, and if
something happens in the game's tied to figure it out.
You'll figure out the next day. We'll move on from there.
Every it's gonna happen, right, we'll pinch it for the
pitcher when his spot comes up in the light. It's
it's not suddenly something that is really out of the outside.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The realm of all. We can't figure that out.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
If he's pitching sixty sixty five innings a year, I
think that's doable, right either than trying to ask him
to go one hundred and forty hundred and fifty innings
one hundred and twenty ask him to go sixty sixty
five where he's not pitching back to back days. He's
pitching every third day. Maybe when you need him, it's
a bonus. He can close games. His stuff is still
really really good.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The guy's an All Star starter and the best hitter
in baseball. So it makes sense because that's the best
way to do it. You talk about the shot of
adrenaline it brings to the team. If Otani's coming in
to pitch the ninth inning of a game.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The crowd's gonna go crazy, the other team's gonna go
what the hell are we doing.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It's gonna be three quick outs, We're going home.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But really, the Dodgers can help solve a big problem.
And that's the back end of the bullpen because Tanner Scott,
you can't trust him. You're always gonna have injuries. If
he's coming back to pitch, and I've said this, you know,
going on two years now. If he's gonna come back,
closing is how to do it for Otani. It doesn't
make any sense to try to have him come back
as a starter, worry about his innings, how far can
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he go, and then have another arm injury because clearly
the stress of pitching six seven innings every fifth or
sixth day is too much on his arm. Now thirty
years old, two big arm surgeries. Time to make him
a closer.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, I mean that becomes the question of how much
he's he able to dictate. Hey, this is what I
want to do when I'm ready. I'm ready, and I
only want to be a starter. Right, that's the billion
dollar question. Literally in all of this is what O'tawi
wants in the timeline. Because we heard going back to
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the playoffs, as you mentioned Jason that you know he
was ramping up by her clip with oral hershas saying, yeah,
I have no doubt from what I've seen and what
I've watched that you know he should be ready. It's like, well,
if you're not pulling the trigger, then what what am
I missing? Here? Is the algorithm telling you that another
injuries on the horizon and this time you don't think
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he's going to be able to bat if he has
to go through it again?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Is that it it's a time bomb. Uh. And it's
just a matter of when not if you get UCL
surgery part three plus whatever else goes along with it.
I mean that that's what I have to wonder.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You talk about torque, you talk about velocity and how
many innings he can go. The difference between starting pitcher
and and being you know, crafty as you come back
from injuries. Say, I get it. Craft normally a hazer
for south baws, uh, you know, and junkers. But here
we're talking about a guy you know, you learn to
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pull the strings and pitch and it's not about max velocity,
but if he's a closer, the expectation is he's bringing
the heat with every pitch, so stressful innings, all of
those things, and trying to be judicial judicious about it
because it's a long term investment and it's a guy
with two years and where he's been rehabbing from injury
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while trying to play and all that, so the added
stress there. It really is a curiosity though, because the
Dodgers managed it well last year, what was it, seventeen
starting pitchers plus the litany of bullpen guys. It's a
year of living dangerously. But it looks like we're headed
back toward that path right now. I'd love to see
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him back on the mound, but it's the if it's
going to potentially deprive me of a you know, a
year and a half or two years of him hitting,
No thanks, I'll be just fine with you. Finding some
also ran that the pirates are giving up on.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
A we'll take that Skens guy. Yeah, we'll just get
in from you. I wasn't even winking and nodding towards him.
I just used it was either that or all right,
go rate the White Sox or the Orioles or whatever
else the you know.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
The the obvious sellers at at said deadline. But yeah,
it is the the question that that persists of with
all these bullpen sessions, and to a person it's like, wow,
he's got such a live arm and it's popping and
it's all this like, so, why is it the brave
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heart or glady? You know, at my signal on leech
hell or hold hold, and now it's September one, I
was like, all right, go ahead. I mean, I don't
know what what the the strategy is. And obviously Dave
Robertson as good as he is with the media and
is giving as he is oftentimes, and you're not gonna
you sell out that part of the equation at this point.
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You're gonna give us the euphemisms. But it is a
curiosity for those of us watching this team every day.
What do you think, Frostburg, what do you like like
that idea or not?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Well, do you want the latest update?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Give me the latest update? Sure, the second home run
or what?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh well, that's going to be the direct play of
the day.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Obviously, the exit for Otani, the exit Veilo on that
home run.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Heidi Watney just asked show, Hey, Otani, when we can
expect to see him on the mound?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Wow? Okay, did you preface it by saying Tanner Scott stinks,
we need you.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's not going to go that low.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Whatever. What are we going to see your show? Hey?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Hey, whenever I see Tanner on the mount, I start
getting my heart loose. They might need me here. Okay, God,
what we got, Frostburg? What do you got for that?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
He told the broadcast. He chuckled and said, you have
to go talk to Andrew Friedman about that.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Wow. Okay, all right, there you go, complete abdication of responsibility.
He was watching the NBA Western Conference Finals. He went
full a man, I don't know. I has said. It's
not my fault.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
He didn't miss.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
That's true. I look, I mean it makes sense for Otani,
it makes sense. It makes sense, says the Mets fan.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I got it trying to help you.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Man, this is a double truth.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's all about how this is all about having a
chess piece in the NLCS. Buddy, I'm just dude, Let's
make him the closer and said nobody ever, I.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't want to see him pitch and close against the Mets.
Because we're probably gonna we probably.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Lose onination would say something that.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Just what you'd wait? There a nation?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Now, well, everybody's a nation now you know it's Raider Cowboy.
There's all nations all over now. Yeah, well we knew
that there's Harmon day. It's everybody that dressed this in
purple clothes and wears shorts all the time of different colors.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well, I got to downsize and though that's the thing
I'm redoing the wardrobe, so all new purple merch. That's
Harmon nation right there.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Uh now, are you okay, John, because here here's a
big question. Now, yeah, I gotta ask you know, in
my best.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Passing, you have to ask you good bro, because you.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Didn't get to see the game tonight because it was
on Apple TV. Are you okay with that? You okay?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Then let's see it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I don't know, you know what. I think it's criminal, Okay,
people should probably be jailed.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Wow, okay, you get the needle.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Let's call it what it is. This game needed to
be on national TV.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
He's so Frostburg is not okay with.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So you set the game back fifty years.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Look at me, I'm a wreck, you know, every time
you hear that, that sets the game back fifty years.
Like when I think we go, boy, that means that
sets it back to the mid seventies.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
That's crazy, not like that. We're talking about bird camping
eras and that's a sound.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, that sets the game back to nineteen thirty. No, no, no,
it's like, no, it sends the game back to the
mid sevenes. No, that's the year Carlton Fiss is waving
a ball fair. Come on Garvy and and and the
Yankees and get Drie.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yo.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
He said the game back for me. Oh that's my
favorite part. Yeah, I'm bro oh Fox Sports rhy, I'm justin.
I'm sorry, but you won in the end, so it's okay.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You won the game, daddy, Would you like some sausage?
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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top of your screen. Well coming up next. Yes, we
got more from this game, more reaction. But there is
a controversial quarterback in the NFL. The advice I would
give him right now is just keep doing what you're doing.
Wait what, No, that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Daddy, look at me down.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
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Speaker 3 (15:13):
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Speaker 1 (15:14):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Big story out of the NFL come in your way
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Speaker 1 (15:43):
Game of the Year at Major League Baseball and you
hit not one, but two home runs on your way
to it likely is going to be sixty. Well for
not the first and not the last time this year.
Show Hey, o Tani, you get to be the play
of the day that.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Show, right touches all the way he's.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You are to.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Show touch first touch him all uh.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Dodgers Radio Network on the call, Yeah, rounding first show,
Hey missed first base, so likely if depending where it
was gonna be, he's gonna have to go back. Now
ball was over the fence because Aaron Judge was you know,
made a big leap at it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Couldn't get it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Hey goes back touch his first base and then goes
on and runs the rest of the bases. So show
he missed first base, but it went back and touch
it all the way around, and that makes him the
play of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
See I had I had an alternate in case show Hey,
you know we decided he's just a wizard. We expect this.
H There was a flyout uh to end the top
of the eighth that was induced by Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, congratulations Tanner Scott in a little bit lower
leverage situation, three run lead, but a couple of runners
on no I came.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He was Okay, yeah, but for fantasy purposes that gets
him a hold, didn't it?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
H If your league does not, you know what, Not
all leagues do holds. I've noticed, and it's a it's
a weird thing because not a lot of fantasy leagues,
like in the leagues I've done, they've done holds and
not done holds. The leagues that do holds, people that
play it tend to get mad because holds are almost
as valuable as saves, and it really doesn't make any.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Sense thaty to have a hold.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So most of the leagues I've played in, you don't
really get anything for you just get the stats for
whatever they come in.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Okay, well the box score says it's as fifty the year,
so you have yourself a day Tanner Scott way to go.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So we got more baseball coming up in a bit,
but a big story out of the NFL. This has
been another week of what is happening with Shador Sanders
in the earliest quarterback derby that any of us have
ever seen. It's the end of May, and yet every
day brings us all kinds of drama with a guy
who has been the most controversial player in college football
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going into the draft, coming out of the draft right now.
This has been another great week for him in seven
on seven drills, everything going on. Look four quarterbacks they
have now it's Sanders and Dylan Gabriel and Joe Flacco
and Kenny Pickett. They're all battling it out. And another
week where Shador Sanders played really well. Now, how much
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stock can you put in seven on sevens? It's the
news that happens now. But the good news is he
is playing well. And my advice for him now because
every day seems to be one of two things. You
get a story on him throwing the ball really well
on seven on sevens, and then the next day you'd
get a story like did the dude really blow his
entire signing bonus on a Rolls Royce?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Like did you really? Because that was a story this week,
did you really buy a Rolls Royce? Like?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
This is the stuff that keeps coming up with him,
and it's knuckleheaded stuff and the best advice, and you know,
he tamps it down and says, look, I don't know
what you're talking about. Didn't do it on if I'm
giving him my pr advice, And clearly he's someone who
needs it. The shocking advice I would give him is
just keep doing what you're doing right now. You're on
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the field, you're playing well, you're about football, you're succeeding.
Everybody's noticing how you're coming in, they're noticing your skill set.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
With the Browns.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I know there's not a lot of reps and there's
somewhat of a of a glut right now with four guys.
But if you do this, everything's gonna turn out fine.
No knuckleheaded stuffcause that's why you fell to the fifth round.
If it's knuckleheaded stuff that starts keeping you down, it's
your own fault.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Don't do this.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Keep your dad away, keep away whenever something comes up,
because you know people are gonna steep trying to bring
things up that has happened to you, what you've done
in the past. Be about football, because I'm telling you,
if he's about football, Mike, by the time we get
to the fall, it's gonna be a question of is
Shador Sanders going to be the starting quarterback for the
Browns week one or will Joe Flacko start.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
For a few.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Weeks, Sanders gets used to the NFL and then he
jumps in sometime in October, because I'll tell you that's
the scenario the Browns are dying to have right now.
They have numbers at quarterbacks, like, okay, we got four guys,
but eventually somebody's got to go because you don't have
enough rep for everybody. You're not gonna keep all for
them and other teams. Yeah, I could see you getting
a draft pick for Kenny Pickett. Hey we need a
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backup quarterback. We like Kenny Pickett. We'll give you a
very small draft pick for him, or hey, we kind
of like Dylan Gabriel if he's not winning. Yeah, it
was a third round pick, but one of those guys
is gonna go right and it's gonna be Flacco and Chador.
Sanders are gonna be the guys that are gonna be
fighting for this job. And it may not be Sanders
right away, simply because I can see the brown saying, hey,
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he's been really good, but we don't want to rush him.
The last thing they want to do is have him
start Week one, have the game be too fast for
him and he's.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Not used to it.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They want to be able to go, Okay, when we
go to you, you're our guy. So I see this more.
As long as this is what he does. Be about football,
and he's been about football, and that's great, right, be
about football.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
By the end of the summer, guess what, it's you
and Flacco, and likely you will be the starting quarterback
of the Browns by the beginning of October. Now Flacco
starts out and throws two touchdowns a week for the
first month and he's got okay, then it's gonna be
a little bit longer, but likely that's gonna be the scenario,
because even though you're a fifth round pick, doesn't matter
the desire.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
To see him play.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
As long as he is playing well, he'll play in
the preseason, he'll get his chance to shine. That will happen,
and he's gonna wind up starting by October at the
latest for the Browns.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah, in the end, they got their guy several rounds later.
Whatever lessons learned, right the stay hungry. You could start
playing that song in the background if you want, and
you just kind of go through the paces. Dylan Gabriel
is a guy that he'll be a nice quarterback somewhere else.
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Kenny Pikett, super Bowl champion, probably somewhere else. Joe Flacco,
the KG veteran again Super Bowl champion. I remind you,
even when they were winning with him and that roster
and everything, where they got to the playoffs, he had
several games and his touchdown the interception ratio overall was
not good. He put the ball in arm's way. Some good,
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some bad, and overall it's the year of living dangerously.
But you're hoping that somewhere along the line, Gabrielfi sticks around,
and certainly Sanders. You learn from a guy who's been
what is this year sixteen at this point? Was he
two thousand and eight draft class? I mean, you look,
I think I think it was.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I think he was wrapped in the nineties. I really
think I got to go back a little bit for.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Him all the way. I mean, he is that throwback guy,
but all of that wasn't the question.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Way, who do they take him or Gino Toretta in
the third round?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I think that was the big choice. Nicely done. But
the point, it's a good reference, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was waiting for you to double back to that. Anyway.
That is that is a pretty good pull. You want
to you want to explain to people who don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Who explained to Blena they threw a football over a mountain.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But but all that to say the gen X Geno Touretta,
you yes, man, that was that was.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
The beginning of talking about the guy from Fast and Furious.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Gino Toretta was a better actor than Vin Diesel.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Right now, there's people right now out leaving a bar
going no telling you, man, that was his name.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That was who Vin Diesel was Gino Torretta, look it up, man. No,
all that story was that he was a quarterback in Might.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
All I see is Geno Toretta losing in a big
game to Alabama.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I don't understand. No, that's not him, man, it's not him,
all right. Sorry, But but all of that to say,
it's you're not going to be able to control any
of these side show things, right. I mean, we just
did the the story all week of the w n
b A and the alleged racist comments, chance noises, whatever else,
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and after a lengthy review, we have no idea how
many man hours and people were put on this thing. Well,
we weren't able to corroborate that this ever actually happened,
and nobody from the team ever claimed they heard it,
But look at how much noise, how much that costs
the league for a week. Right, You're talking reputation and
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questions of how they handle things and adjudicate issues or
maybe go down rabbit holes they don't need to by
not standing up saying yeah, nobody saw anything, We'll be vigilant,
move on. But it's the kind of thing you can't
control one hundred percent what goes on in the interwebs, whatever,
unless we have access to Shadur Sanders banking records. I
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don't know. He had money from his family and he
made a lot of money in nil. If he spent
five hundred grand on a car, guess what, I'm guess
he's got more than five hundred grands sitting around.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking if he was gonna get.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
A Rolls Royce, that's a d I think I got you, man,
don't worry. I got you. I'll got you. I'll give
your money. I got one. Even if he did, who cares. Uh,
he's gotta drive a car? Is it the thing I
would do with my money? No? But but all of
that to say, you're gonna have those stories circle circling
around you no matter what you do. So the only
thing you can do is go between the white lines,
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go into your meeting room, be a good teammate, be
a good leader. Uh, maybe look in the rear view
mirror a little bit for some of the issues you
had when you called out your offensive line, when you
started barking at guys as you're going off the field
that you just dominated. Why I mean, now you're just
punching down you know, all of that, like those kind
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of things. Leave that alone, go play. The Browns have
a decent roster. Right coming into last year was all right,
are you're gonna get any kind of quarterback play? Well,
clearly the Deshaun Watson experiment, as it was a complete
Nutter failure disaster. His injury takes him out of the equation,
but otherwise they've done some pretty good work building a roster.
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So for Shdor Sanders, the opportunities there to go and
win this job. And for the Browns they could look
like geniuses because they paid him an awful lot less
than they would have if they'd drafted him as many
suspected they would have in the first or second round
of it all. So now you have the opportunity to
go win, and the other three guys that are on
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the roster. Yes, it's a numbers game, all right. Any
of those guys world beaters. Yeah, you got two super
Bowl champions. One's light years from being there. The other
guy was along for the ride, you know, the one.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The one little bit of a wrench in these plans,
I feel is this is that. Okay, So you have
the four quarterbacks, right, it's Flacco, and it's Picket, and
it's Gabriel, and it's and it's Sanders. Now, clearly Picket
likely is gonna be the odd man out, right, because
now he's the he's a backup. But if you have Flacco,
and you have Gabriel, who you like and obviously because
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you draft him the third round you like him. And
then Sanders, who for some reason he said, oh we'll
take a quarterback and then we'll take another guy. He
seems to be the odd man out. But I'm gonna
I'm gonna throw this at you. Flacco decides to sign right,
and they talk. You know, you're gonna be the starter,
and he knows that that Deshaun Watson's out for the year.
He's not gonna play. He's not gonna come back to
the team. Kenny Pickett is there, Okay, I'll beat out
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Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I'm gonna play.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
If it turns out, then it looks like he could
be losing the battle, all right. He could be losing
the deal to stay or to starter. Sanders winds up
taking things really better than you expect. Like there's there's
a part of me that thinks Flacco might just say,
you know what, I've had enough football and I'm done.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I'm not gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I'm not gonna lose a Derby to shador Sanders and
sit and back up when I'm just gonna go home
at that point.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So that's one thing. Trade him back to Indianapolis. He
can go fight with Danny Dimes for them.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The Colts have enough issues man with Daniel Jones and
Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Come on, man.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So you know that's the one part that could put
a little bit of a wrench into the plans. But
then it would just be okay, Pickets the backup, and
genero Sanders.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Is a starter. They'll keep Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So but I I there is a thing where if
Sanders does play really well, and all of a sudden
it looks like there's no we're just postponing the future.
If we keep them out, then he'll wind up starting.
But I still the most likely thing is it's him
and Joe Flacco. The fans are gonna want him to
start right away. Flacco's gonna start. Stefanski will make the call,
the fans will go crazy. We got to see him play,
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and once he gets used to the NFL for about
a month, he'll wind up playing.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That's how it's gonna go. Now, let me throw this
the other wrench in while while we're gonna really muck
this up. Is go back to the Kenny Pickett part
of things. I got super Bowl winning quarterback, Kenny the
super Bowl champion that try get that. I forgot get
that title, right, I understand. I really try to make
sure I get that in each and every time. But
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remember we've talked about you know, the joke was Chicago
where quarterbacks go to die? Right, Cala Williams, Dad, We've
been talking about Pittsburgh in the quarterback situation quite a bit.
So is Pittsburgh one of those places that we really
don't know how good or bad Kenny Pickett is to
some degree. And then he goes to Philadelphia. But then
he goes to Philadelphia with a staff that's good and
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well renowned for what they do. And now you go
to Stefanski, who mean, he couldn't do anything with Deshaun Watson.
But that's what Watson's doing and we acknowledge him as
a top tier coach. Is it possible that you can
unearth something else that was there for Kenny Pickett all along?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Wow, all of a sudden, I freed Kenny Pickett. I
let you know what I mean, Like the Baker Mayfield thing.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Right, Well, he was in Cleveland and he was okay,
flashed every once in a while, but overall, now it's
not working. Move on, and then he bounces around a bit,
and now all of a sudden, he's, you know, a
hero down in Tampa.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Oh, anything is possible, Like look anything.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Now he's gonna be starting for the Jets in two years,
is hey, come.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
On, I can't. I can't say that's out of the
rebel possibility. I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
But justin fields, but justin fields to today, he's gonna
have a career year a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'm excited. Career year for Justin Field's best shape of
his life. Yeah, he's gonna be great. We're gonna win
twelve games. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
From there, of there there exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen Dome. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carpet. So things are looking good? Should do
or say?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Just keep doing what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Tom how to find out what's trending in the wide
world of Sportsman Guy has been called the Dion Sanders
of Fox Sports Radio. He's got time for this every day.
It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Yeah, me and Bling synonymous. We'll get to the Dodger
comeback over the Yankees. But it is just ended at
the Women's College World Series.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You know, a heart breaker, heart breaker for all men.
My goodness.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
They're out in extra innings and this is after twelve
thirty in the morning. There softball normally seven innings. Ole
miss had scored three in the seventh to tie up Oregon,
but on a tenth inning bases loaded walk Oregon eliminates
Mississippi six five and ten. Earlier, Tennessee Oregan and Steve
Oregon loaded the bases.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They tried to bunt the runner over to second, and
they threw the ball down the line in right field
that put runners at second and third, and then they
wound uploading the bases and a bases loaded walk.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Yeah, pitcher in tiars after the ball four.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
As well, not five seconds after ball four. She was
in tears coming off the field. Oh my god, your heartbreaks.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
So Ole Miss is out, Florida is out.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Tennessee eliminated the Gators eleven to three in Oklahoma City Saturday,
Oklahoma against Texas Sooners are in the College World Series
for the ninth straight time. UCLA against Texas Tech tomorrow.
By the way, in spring football, the UFL's regular season
ends Sunday on Fox TV.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Tonight.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It ends. I thought it was just starting. It ends.
It's over.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I missed it in ten weeks.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Saint Louis finished eight and two, won the regular season finale.
I'll make the Jets on a very sloppy field at
d C thirteen eight Saint Louis the final.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
There's a weather delay at the start.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
This is where all the.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Games are played on the same field the same time. No,
it's like a big soccer tournament. If you're on field one,
you guys are on field two. You guys got a
worse field twelve. Well that's down near the bathrooms. You
go past where the concession or the bathrooms, that's field twelve.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Well, this nomering system makes no sense.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Oh well, you could say that at any soccer tournament.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
For the the Philadelphia Eagles are working on trading defensive
end Bryce Huff to the forty nine Ers. The Giants
signed first round quarterback Jackson Dart. The Vikings gave a
contract extension to general manager Kuisiadopho Mensa. Now to the
Major League Baseball What a game at Dodger Stadium, New
York Yankees led LA five to two in the third
inning four early home runs off Dodger starter Tony Gonslin
(32:59):
Aaron Udje in his nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Dodgers came back for an eight.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
To five win. Even though seven and zero. Max Freed
had been the starter and LA native for the Yankees.
He went five plus inning. Show Hey Otani hit two
home runs. He has twenty two. Shortstop Mookie Betts is
reportedly out for the weekend with a broken toe. Dodger
reliever Evan Phillips due for Tommy John surgery on Wednesday, he'll.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Miss at least a year.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
San Diego had only three hits but beat Pittsburgh three
to two. Giants were two nothing winners at Miami. The
Marlins offense, which is three it's Minnesota, won a comeback
at seattlee in ten innings twins twelve sixth. The final
cal Rale of the Mariners did hit at two home
runs he has twenty one, but the Mariners closer Andres Munoz,
who's ERA was zero this season, blew the save, allowing
(33:47):
three runs in the ninth, including a homer. Washington and
Texas each one. Detroit one it's fifth in a row,
Milwaukee one, it's fifth straight. Houston won two to one
over Tampa Bay with a run in the eighth and
one in the ninth and the winning pitcher through a
complete game from Bervaldez through only eighty three pitches in
winning this one. Boston ended a five game losing streak
(34:08):
with a five to one win at Atlanta. The Angels
ended a five game losing streak, winning at Cleveland four
to one. Mike troutoff the injured list, went one for
five the Guardians. Jose Ramirez had a twenty one game
hit streak and he went zero for three.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
With a walk.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Baltimore and Toronto each got wins. The Mets handed Colorado
a six straight loss, four to two. Francisco Lindor with
two solo homers part of his three hits three runs
scored the Mets at homer twenty two and seven. Losing
pitcher Kyle Freeland of the Rockies is zero to eight.
And Cincinnati beat the Cubs in Chicago today six to two.
Andrew Abbott five and oh got the win back to you.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Thanks a bunch. Steve O coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Tell you how I'm gonna be no matter how the
Knicks Pacers game comes out on Game.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Six and look at me, I'm a wreck. I know. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I get a zeg where you think I'm gonna zeg?
And a big bolt prediction for next year in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
That's next. Jason.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
You good bro, harm you good?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You good bro? You good. I'm feeling great, a righteeling great.
I'm gonna go seet final destination. I'm ready. Let's go
all right, man, to make sure you're good. Bro's the
way you end a night.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Two big things from the NBA, right, first thing is
this outside. We're all going to love this, right, But
seeing last night inside the NBA, thought they could have
been ending last night clearly if the Pacers beat the
Nixon Game five at the Garden, that was going to
be it with inside the NBA, leaving TNT moving to ESPN.
Huge drama we've been talking about for a year. But
(35:53):
final game could be Saturday, right, because that could be
the last time TNT he's got a game.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Last night, Jack had.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
A moment where he wanted to talk about what was next,
and he said, we're coming for people's jobs. It's gonna
be us. You can't beat us. Where the four horsemen,
It's gonna be us. That's gonna be a new show,
same same guys, all this crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Which guy thought to be arnoor Ole Anderson eight seven
nine if good arn Anderson reference, very nice. Thanks, Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
It's going to be incredibly entertaining for us because we've
seen how the last few years. Sometimes the only way
sports personalities can make headlines is by having some sort
of feud with another sports personality podcast. The only way
they get it. They can't talk sports anymore and make
headlines or have take Some people care about it. No,
I'm gonna tell other people in the industry.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You leave RG three and Ryan Clark alone, but inside
the NBA has a certain IDGAF about their show.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You already saw Charles Barkley say ESPN they're gonna try
to tell me what to say, like he's already gonna
be mad going in. They're not gonna care. They're gonna
light the world on fire at ESPN. They're gonna feud
with McAfee, they're gonna feud with Steven A.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Smith. They're gonna feud with everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And it's gonna be really entertaining for us because we're
gonna get crazy ass stuff like this all the time.
This is what Shaq said, this is what Barkley said.
Everybody's gonna appear on people shows and podcasts, and BARKI
will come on Dan Show and say I should have
come to Fox with everybody else all this, and the
only people that aren't gonna like it are gonna be
ESPN and ESPN executives who are gonna say this is
(37:33):
damaging for the brand. We can't keep having all these
stars fight with each other. I can't have Pat McAfee
calling me saying, dude, what the hell is up with
inside the NBA. They're gonna be eating maylocks and ums
by the boatful next year, trying to figure out every day?
Can we just not have one day where someone says
something about somebody else on our air. But I'm telling
you it's gonna be outstanding, because they are. They're gonna
(37:56):
light the world on fire.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
But that's just it. If it's good for ratings and
adverge tizing and whatever else, you'll you'll take the may
lox and you'll do it happily. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
But then people are gonna make demands and they're gonna
feed I'm not happy. And then then people are gonna
want out of contracts. And that's not how ESPN does it.
ESPN doesn't do it with that sort of level of
I can't even say jocularity.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They'll do with that with that sort level of content
to where they're happy about it. They don't like that,
and that's all it's gonna be. Now in a year,
it's that's all it's gonna be with these guys.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Well, it's it's fun outside looking in right, it's you know,
everybody was so sad, you know, and with the the
Game Show going off the airs, like oh no, it
was the last batch, you know, Like really, if if
that's what we were clinging to, we'd already lost so
uh long lived journalism to Horse as part of the
(38:51):
triple round. But yeah, it'll be a fun theater for me.
I'll get the popcorn. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Now, speaking of tomorrow with Game six, I'm a I'm
ad stop Frostburg Stop.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I know you're bitter because you didn't have Apple TV
to watch the Dodger state. It's not my fault. Uh.
Whatever happens tomorrow, I'll live with.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I'll be good unless it's something crazy where Halliburton hits
a shot from half court and it bounces off the
back of the rim and up and it hits off
Larry Bird's head and bound down through and they win
and everybody is making the choke gesture and fans are
making the choke Jester. Unless something like that happens, I'll
live with whatever happens. Right when you get down three
to one, you don't win that series, right, Like, what
(39:33):
are teams nine hundred and fourteen? You know, a nine
hundred wins and fourteen losses overall? When it's three to one,
whatever happens happens if the and if the Knicks win
and we get to Game seven, I'll be a lunatic
on Monday night doing the show. But if they whatever
happens tomorrow, I'm gonna really be okay with whatever the
result is, just like I'm okay with the result at
(39:53):
the end of games. Hey, if the Knicks lose because
Jalen Brunson misses a three at the I don't care.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Whatever happens tomorrow, I'm telling you, I'm not lying to you.
It's a double truth.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Friday. I'll be okay with how it goes. I don't
believe you, but we'll be checking in on you as
it goes. Spreads four. So if it really is within
those margins, yeah, you're gonna be living and dying with
every shot. I'll be. I'll be after whatever happened, can't.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Move his feet, I'll be by a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
From Mike Jason. Coming up next, It's The Plank Show.
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