March 7, 2026 • 28 mins
Cowboys trade Micah Parsons for 2 1st round picks.
Cowboys trade a 1st and a 2nd for Quinnen Williams.
Cowboys offered a 1st and 2nd for Maxx Crosby.
And you wonder why I say Dallas is on a forever hamster wheel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side our four, The Jason Smith Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Jason, your Mike still works. Why would you think my
Mike wouldn't work.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh, you're anti America.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I am not anti Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I was even nice enough to say, with a ten
run lead, it would be okay to put Clayton Kershaw
in the game.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Five run lead. I don't know, Jason, I can't hear you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We'll have more on the World Baseball Class that coming
up in a few minutes. The United States WEDNS Night one,
thanks to seventeen walks, they beat Brazil fifteen to five.
But right before we got on the air tonight, a
huge NFL trade went down, something that we thought was
gonna happen. We heard that we was getting close maybe
by the end of the week, and it finally happens.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The second thing was it was being denied. Knew it
was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Max Crosby has been dealt by the Raiders to the
Baltimore Ravens. The five time Pro bowler, two time All
Pro goes in exchange for first round picks in twenty
twenty six and twenty twenty seven. Crosby's got to pass
a physical that can occur until the start of the
new league year, which is Wednesday, so everything official with
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this won't be until then. But the trade has happened,
the trade has been agreed upon, and we'll have more
on the Crosby end of it in a second. But
this is what's kind of gone under the radar here,
and I think this is just aw I'm gonna shows
you why the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Are who they are.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The trade that went down again first round picks this
year and next year. So now this year the Raiders
will pick first and fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
They beat out the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We're willing to offer a first and a second round
pick for Max Crosby, and obviously getting two first is
better than a first and a second, So okay, I
understand that, But just think about the last calendar year
for the Cowboys, where the cow where the Cowboys decide, No,
we're not gonna re sign Micah Parsons. I'm not gonna
pay him. He wants to get traded. We'll get a
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couple of first round picks for him. Oh, but you
know what, we still need defensive line. So we'll trade
a first and second round pick to the Jets to
get Quinn Williams. Oh but we still need to go
get the quarterback. So now let's trade another first and
a second to go get a guy that we didn't
need to get if we had just kept Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Like, this is.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Why the Cowboys are on a hamster wheel man, because
you go back a year. You go back a year
and it's okay, you had the guy who was gonna
get the quarterback and everything was five. But no, no,
let's make a trade and get draft picks, and then
trade two more draft picks and then potentially trade two
more draft picks to bring in a guy that plays
a position to the guy we traded the first time around.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You wonder why the Cowboys are who they are. That's
all you need to know. Right there.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, but that doesn't mean once you realize you've made
a colossal error, you don't try to rectify it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But they'd be back to where they began.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh well, when I go back to and I go
back to the top and look, sometimes you just need
to get back to base X and then you proceed
from there. Okay, all right, we screwed up there. We
recognize we screwed up there. Now let's go try to
maximize what's left of the Dak Prescott window. By the way,
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Micah Parsons is one of many current and former players
willing to go fight for a million dollars with one
of the Paul brothers.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So that's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
That's a nice little subplot developing.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, that's nice. That's nice.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I don't know, I don't know that i'd be excited
about seeing that, but okay, I mean I think what
it's Le'Veon Bell definitively right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, they're they're exchanging contract. We'll see if that actually
comes together, because remember you, as Le'Veon Bell chimed in,
he goes, no, no, no, no, no, you're retired. I'd
have to actually, you know, stop my wwe career and
everything else to uh, to train to fight you. It's
all fun and games, but yeah, it's it is curious
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to watch the Dallas Cowboys operate. And this is a
nice microcosm of the larger play of why we have
so many teams And by so many, I mean only
so many teams that we extol the virtues of their
front office management and how they operate uh professionally year
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to year. And then there's everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They are forever on a hamster wheel. I mean, they
are forever on a hamster wheel.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But that's it.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I mean that it's nice to know where you stand
in the pantheon of things, and it's the curiosity. Now
we talk about the trade going down, here's a couple
of first round picks, uh, and he's off to Baltimore.
But for the Cowboys and for all the other teams
out there, as we get ready for the new league
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year to unfold, right, we get into the no longer
legal tampering whatever term you want to put on it.
That this was the most anticipated of the moves. So
to see it go down first, I'm like, well, this
isn't what I wanted. I wanted to build up I
wanted more than just hey, there's a Dj Moore trade,
or HER's Taylor Decker telling the Lions, I'm done with
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you after a decade.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I need more than that. Yeah, no, no, no, look
and look.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And this was this was a trade that we're not
even at free agency yet, we haven't even seen all
the tree were gonna wind up seeing. And the Ravens
have won the offseason. They have absolutely won the off
season already because of the caliber of player they got. Right,
let's go back a few days to the and I
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love this quote from Rams GM Les Snead after the
Rams made the big trade for Trent McDuffie. Because the
Rams f them picks and they wind up continually staying
a super Bowl team. I don't know how they do
it year after year, bringing in players, giving them contracts,
trading away draft picks.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yet they find a way.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Is he said, the first thing you want to look
at in the offseason is what all pros can We
go get what all pros are available, because those are
the guys you want to get. Right, this is a
bad year in free agency, Okay, it's gonna be a
bad year. So hey, we saw there was an all Pro.
We were able to go get that was gonna help us.
We get a big cornerback and he's gonna wind up
getting a big contract from us. They go get the
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All Pro. The Ravens went out and got the All
Pro of All pros again. Two time All Pro, five
time Pro bowler ten sacks year. Was on pace for
his best year of the year last year until he
got hurt. Wanted to come back at the end of
the year. The Raiders said no. So you could see
why he wanted out. The Raiders couldn't keep him. This
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is the guy you go get at twenty eight years old.
He's got three or four a years left. Max Crosby
is the definition of a plug and play guy. You
take him and his motor and just PLoP him down
and he's gonna go get the quarterback and he's gonna
be the leader of year defense on the fields. He's
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the best kind of lunatic because he is one of
those players that he has a motor that I don't
know where he got it, but he does. And no
matter he's a type of guy that, no matter what
he's paid, no matter what his situation is, I'm going
to get the quarterback. I'm motivating to be the best
bleeping player I can be. And that's a guy you
have no problem saying, let's bring you in and let's
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put you out there.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They always say like there's good kinds of crazy, right,
and that's Max Crosby. There's he is the guy to
go trade to go, trade to go get, and the
Ravens make an incredible deal. He's the second best player
they've had in the Lamar Jackson era. Lamar Jackson has
been their best player, obviously Hall of Fame quarterback. They've
had other good players elsewhere, but in the last ten
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years went with since Lamar Jackson's taken over quarterback, now
they have the second most talented.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Guy they've had.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Because Max Crosby is that good. I can't believe the
Raiders didn't get more for him. I mean, you look
at what the Jets got for sauce Gardner. They got
to first and a player, right, they got ad Ni Mitchell. Now, granted,
the Colts wanted to move on from him because of
his dropping the football. Crossing the goal line against the
Rams last year was a big play, but still you
sauce Gardner, who was a cornerback who was great as
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a rookie and was pretty good in year two, and
then they changed the rules and started calling more hand.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Fouls and Sauce Gardner hasn't been the best guy. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
They still get to first in a player for him
and for Max Crosby, who impacts the game even more.
It's just to first, Like you should have gotten to
first and a second and a third, or two first
and a couple of thirds, or two first and a
player that's gonna make your team and be a difference maker. Like,
I don't know how the Raiders pulled the trigger on this.
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I mean the Ravens. I would have given three first
round picks for Max Crosby. I'm thinking, I'm having this
guy the next four years. Is gonna be awesome with him,
Like I really, I'm stunned the Raiders didn't get more
for Max Crosby.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Gonna put it up on eBay. You'd had guys at
least trying to snipe in the final moments. I mean,
just let us know what the deadline is to get
a bid in. I mean, this is absurd. Last year
they were tied for twenty eight. The Baltimore Ravens. In
terms of team sacks, they registered just thirty. You know,
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the only two teams that had less the Jets are fewer.
I can't the Jets, the Jets, the Jets and the Jets.
Jets forty nine ers only had twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's the Jets and the Mets. It was the Jets, all.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Right, Jets had twenty six and then tied for twenty eighth.
Where the Cardinals, the Panthers, and the Ravens. And we
talked about it all year. The Ravens defensively couldn't get
off the field, couldn't get that big play on third down.
They were better as the second half, as team got
healthier and they but they had to cheat and do
the all right, well, we can't get any kind of
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pressure with four or the fifth or here. Now we
just have to go full, all out assault and leave
the secondary exposed by bringing the extra guys. Now here
you have a guy who wins, a guy who was
putting up ridiculous pressure and sack rates for a team
that was never playing with the lead, and now you
go and have this opportunity. Just an absolutely huge move.
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But the fact that yeah, played.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
With the lead since twenty twenty one, Mike Harman. The
Raiders are not let in a football game in four years.
But you look at the man that might be true.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You look at the idea though of the two draft picks,
and you know, we got a little bit of feedback
as the night goes on, and we appreciate it that
this broke about a half hour before we went on air,
and we're talking about it throughout the night, the different
angles to it. Find the podcast as it goes up,
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and family, the larger discussion going. You know, two first
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round picks.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
For some people.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's always too rich, right. Some people love draft picks.
I get that, the idea of the Christmas present. As
you open it, what's it going to be? I don't know,
you shake it up. It's like, ah, something crazy in there.
Draft picks generally, and you go team by team. Do
you trust that your GM is going to be able
to do what he needs to and the team and
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the brain trust men and women in those rooms that
they're actually going to make the most of the draft picks?
I think for most teams we can say categorically, no,
I don't trust that they're gonna pan out, and when
I can get a top notch player to your less
sneed comment, Yeah, I'd rather have the player that I
know is going to destroy people. Doesn't mean I have
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to come over the top and pay that whatever the
market is for a player of that caliber. Sure, but
I know that I can pencil in that production and
that it's gonna make everybody around. Like what we talk
about pulling in for an offensive lineman, that's very good.
You know what, It makes the rest of your offensive
line better, right if you have a good center. Why
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linder Baum's gonna get paid a ton of money is
because the guys that might have been a second or
third tier offensive lineman next to him, Guess what, they
look a lot better when he's got to take on
the extra blocker, when he's doing that much more to
get your quarterback a cleaner pocket. Likewise, here, Max Crosby,
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everybody on that defensive line looks that much better because
their job just got a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Again a plus trade for the Ravens. They win the
offseason already because no one else is gonna bring in
a player of that caliber that you can just PLoP
right in and is gonna be a star for you. Man,
This is fantastic for the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
All my guys out in Baltimore are still just getting
their nights started in c clabratory mode.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's not gonna it's gonna be the It's gonna be
the forever weekend. They're gonna be out until Monday morning, going.
You believe we got Max Crosby. This is awesome And
all Tom Brady wanted was two first round picks.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Man, that's great.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Sending notes of thanks to Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We got more on this story coming up next because yeah,
the Tom Brady angle on it is a pretty big deal.
Plus we have the World Baseball Classic and we almost
had near NCAA basketball tournament mayhem occur earlier tonight. All
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
What wants like.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yours time?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The Japanese call of show, Hey otanis.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You hear it that? You just hear Otani in the middle?
What a great great call man? Really?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Show.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Hey, O Tani, not like you didn't expect this Grand
Slam home run for Japan. We can just fast forward
to United States Japan, right, we just fast forward to
that at the end.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I tried to ask JP that he wouldn't he wouldn't
have it. I think we can.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
John Paul works for Major League Baseball. They have a
lot invested in all of these games, as does Fox.
We want people to watch these games before we get
to United States Japan.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
But he's not with US now, so yes, Usa Japan.
O Tani pitches all nine innings. Let's go. Let's get ready. Now.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Look the thing about the United States before we get
to why, I'm not really anti American, Like I feel
like I can't have to say that. The one thing
like if I'm looking at the United States team tonight
and their lineup is terrific, And John Paul said, listen,
I don't know that I see any weakness in the roster.
If they if they, If the United States doesn't win,
it's because of the randomness of baseball, and sometimes the
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best team doesn't win. I'm a little concerned about the
starting pitching, about the pitching overall. And here's why. Because
look the lineup, there's it's a terrific lineup, right, I
mean you're just facing Superstar after Superstar. They were patient tonight.
The you know, you thought tonight would be a night
where maybe they're a little bit anxious, but you know, hey,
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seventeen walks they were I think they had pretty good
plate discipline. But you look at the starting pitches for
the United States, you go, wow, it seems pretty good,
right with Web and then you got Scooble and you
have schemes and then it's McLean. But remember, these guys
aren't going you know, seven innings, right, They're only going
they're only going a handful of innings before it's turned
over the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And once you get to.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The bullpen, yeah, they have some pretty decent arms in
the bullpen, but it's not it's not like you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Some you know, some lights out guys here like that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That's where I see because the bullpen really has a
lot more to say in the world baseball class. You know, yeah,
you may see Kershaw at some point that when it's
not a ten run game, because these guys are only
going to pitch a handful of innings, right, Like what
but four innings at the most right, like really, like
like Clay Holmes was stretching out for the Mets in
case they needed him, and he's not scheduled to go
in one of the first four games, but he was
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topping out at four innings, so no matter what, And
and there's no way that Mark de ros is gonna
gonna say, hey, you know you haven't thrown a lot
of pitches. We're gonna keep you with because teams are
gonna go, dude, you are not going to throw our
guys seven innings here in the middle of March.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Oh, show that that he could do any well. The
Pirates aren't really a threat, so that's fine. He could
probably but that but that's.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Where the the competitor of the player. And this is
where we I would love the the back channels and
the buzzing ass uh when the phone's going off, going hey,
you know he was only supposed to go thirty five pitches.
Jerk right, like the handshake a greements versus tell you
trying to tell schemes are one of these guys that
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they have to come out of the game if they're
feeling it, right, Like, there's that competitor in them. That's
gonna be like, I'll deal with the team when I
get back to camp. I'm giving you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Know, I think in theory I like that, except you know,
you have a guy like school but which said hey,
one game and I'm out, Like that's like that.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Got the guy, and like there's one thing to say
it before you show up. There's the other than once
you're around the team and you're actually playing for something, Yeah, right, Yeah,
then it becomes a different animal. Like think about the
Dodgers and their trepidation when it comes to you know,
Yamamoto or or for Otani in terms of their usage played, appearances, uh, innings, pitched,
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number of pitches and all of that stuff. Once they're
actually in with their squad. I wonder how much the
rules of engagement change a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well, you know, I think if it was middle of
the season, I would say, yeah, but these guys aren't
up to I mean, we're still three weeks away from
opening day. Guys still building up their arms. I don't
know that after fifty pitches, these guys are gonna have anything, right,
Like Logan Web went fifty pitches tonight, right and then
and then.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Here with that home run. Yeah, got on a bit
of a terror and then he was done.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I mean, and it's not like we're bringing in these
lights out. I mean, Michael Waka came in. I mean,
come on to pitch, you know. Next to the United States, SI,
it's not like we.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Come on lines or pac fan lines in.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
And walk a walk out, walk o walk.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I mean, we don't have a bunch of guy dudes
coming in out of the bullpen that are all gonna
throw ninety nine and with hilacious sliders like we have
just guys coming out of the bullpen. So if anything
that I see could be the issue for the United States,
I can see a team like Japan or Mexico really
feasting once you get out of the starting pitching, saying hey,
these relievers ain't great, man, because you saw Brazil tonight
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right Like you know, Web gets out of the first
four innings, gives up the home run to the open,
to the first bat or to many Ramirez's kid. Okay,
I'm fine after that, but then hey, here's a few
more runs in the seventh, another run in the eighth,
Like this is this is where I think if you're
looking for a place to be nervous about the United States.
It's when they get into their bullpen, especially this part
of the tournament. That's right, That's where I would look
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at and say, yeah, if it gets into a situation
like that, it's more of a toss up than people.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Very patient team. Though they Brazil through two hundred and
twenty one pitches tonight, only ninety six of them for strikes. Yeah,
game of five stolen bases. We had what the balk
that that brought home a run? Yeah, a lot of chaos.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Ninety six strikes and one hundred and twenty five Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Buddy, when they walk in three runs a balk. All
of that just absolute chaos.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Oh man. Now, and I want to say this coming
off of tonight, right.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Because the US laying nine and a half, got the
job done.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So so many greats that the Lakers are back, so
many greats that the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
The Knicks beat the Nuggets by.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Forty second night of a back to back, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, but they had two guys who hadn't played in
a long time come back.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
They were rusty and then stop stop.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And that's the best part for the Knicks is that
they won a game by forty where brunts and scored nine. Yeah,
watch out, I'll see you in the NBA Finals. Now,
I'll see in the finals, Frostburg. I'll see there. The
big story out of tonight, like so many big stuff
out of the World Baseball Classic. Yes, Manny Rire's his
kid with a couple of home runs tonight, and John
Paul Morosi told us a great story about how he
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taught him to hit lefty, and he showed him didn't
watch videos of his dad hitting, but watch videos of
David Ortiz hitting, which is just it's such a great story.
But Joseph Contreras, Jose Contreras's kid came in to pitch
the second inning tonight for Brazil, seventeen years old in
high school. Right in high school. He plays in the
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same ida was it the same travel ball or the
same high school conference as Mark Deurosa's son. So when
they're doing the interview in between innings, like, yeah, I
know my son's played against him, scouting report against some
mean these This kid's in high school and he's and
he comes in to face Harper and Bobby Witt and
he gets Aaron Judge to ground into a double play
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with the bases loaded. It is absolutely one not trolling.
It is okay to make fun of Aaron Judge grounding
out against a kid in high school.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That is one hundred percent okay to do well.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
He got did his social studies homework a little bit
earlier in the day. He's a commit to Vanderbilt. Yeah,
so he's I.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Think he actually did homework, bug out in between innings
and then went back out to pitt.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Might have might have had his flash cards out. I mean,
I don't know, I don't know what his method is
towards the greatness. But heading to Vandy, he's got a
head on his shoulder that's great, uh, you know, and
and ready to go. But a big pitch here with Judge.
I hope that the splinters of that broken bat go
into trading cards or that someone corralled them that we
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can find them in the memorabilia market, because that that's
a pretty big moment for the kid. I want the
ball and I want the shard of his bat, don't
you want?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Like his ap European history test, well, the result of
of his American history test, and it's something an apiece
ap math, ap calculus, pre calculus.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
But it's just such a great moment, right, I mean,
all of this and you talk about the largess of
this tournament and how much it's been embraced and all
the stars and the talk, and whether you love Judge's
speech or not, he is right now the the foremost player, uh,
taking the mantle from from those guys in the past
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like Mike Trout and and everybody else. And and now
you get him in this big moment. Now he'd already homeward,
so he'd already had his Captain America moment. But to
get him to ground into the double play with the
bases loaded, come on, that's a that's a musty moment
right there. I mean, that's that might be the peak
of his baseball. Greer, you think you're going back and
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pitching at Vandy's anywhere, like he's gonna mow these kids down.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Think about that, Uh, the two Aaron Judges gonna go
down in one of the five greatest Yankees of all time,
the two biggest moments of his career, dropping the fly
ball in center field and hitting into a double play
against a seventeen year.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Old Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Very anti American.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That is stop that it is okay to troll that
that is one hundred percent. It happened on the field.
It's okay, and we won, so it's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I mean people have been felled by the Brazilian butt
lift and other things Brazilian, the coco nut. You know,
they'll take you down. But here, I mean, just a
great pitch.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Vanderbilt's gonna be easy for him. It's gonna absolutely be easy.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now, the academics are gonna be tough to tackle. But
inside the white lines, I mean, you are you already
stared down a guy who looked like he was eight
feet taller than all of the people trying to interview him. Now,
and for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Forget about what he does on the baseball field. I'm
picturing him like in his first frat park with his
feet up and like a bunch of girls sitting around him, going. So,
I've got the bases loaded and Aaron Judges up right,
and I own Aaron Judge. Okay, I mean, this guy
comes up here, he's like six seven, six eight, doesn't matter.
I know, I come inside, I'm sawing off that bat.
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It's gonna break and I'm getting a five four to
three double playgrounder. I do and what happened here? I
got a queue up wright. You want to see it
on my phone?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
It's right here. Look that's me right there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
See there's Aaron Judge right there's the pitch sawed off
his bat there it is going to the dugout. Yeah, ladies,
what do you think? I'm Joseph Cantreres, who's ready to leave.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Watch me shrink this guy down to size.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I would tell that story everywhere.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Oh absolutely, you know I own Aaron Judge and I
knew I could saw as bad off. Uh, sir, this
is a Wendy's n I know, but I want to
tell you what happened before I order.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh listen. We're not gonna hire you to be our
official taste tester.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, We're giving that job to Jason Smith or Gino
Smith because we put that out there on social media
today as well.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, but let me tell you this story because gonna
want to give me my food for free. All right, sir,
go ahead, but just finish quick, all right, just finish fast. Now.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
The tops Now product that comes out and they do
the instant big Moment cards. They've got one for the
Otani Grand Slam already with a piece of the base
and everything. Do you think we can get one where
with the Mendoza or the the Morales card where he's saying,
I own air, Judge, do you think do you think
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we can get that?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the contreras I own, Aaron Judge, I
own and I own that's the that's the one of one.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
What did you think when Aaron Judge was coming up?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Judge much, I own that, dude. Now you come up, yeah,
what MVP's home run?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Whatever, man, Jason, this aggression will not stand. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's just it's just because No, no, it's just great.
But on the twenty eighth anniversary of Big.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Hitting Captain America.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Dude, he is like David Wright is Captain America. Okay, George, Jason, Aaron,
it's not his homework. Okay, we won. And Judge it
into a double playoff a high school kid.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, I'm looking to see if they've added the contreras.
Uh tops now yet they have not.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Oh it's such a perfect day. I want to share
it with you. Judge.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's into a double play off high school kid. The
Knicks win by forty. This may be as good as
it gets.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I reel is this your highlight of your life?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Right here? Is this the highlight of your life? Larry?
Is this the highlight of your life?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Larry?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
See the highlight might be the.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Best for you. But yeah, Contrera's I mean owns one
of the big moments right off the jump. How do
you top it?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I don't think you.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I can get you a toe.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side our four, The Jason Smith Show
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
Jason, your Mike still works. Why would you think my
Mike wouldn't work.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh, you're anti America.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I am not anti Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I was even nice enough to say, with a ten
run lead, it would be okay to put Clayton Kershaw
in the game.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Five run lead. I don't know, Jason, I can't hear you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We'll have more on the World Baseball Class that coming
up in a few minutes. The United States WEDNS Night one,
thanks to seventeen walks, they beat Brazil fifteen to five.
But right before we got on the air tonight, a
huge NFL trade went down, something that we thought was
gonna happen. We heard that we was getting close maybe
by the end of the week, and it finally happens.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The second thing was it was being denied. Knew it
was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Max Crosby has been dealt by the Raiders to the
Baltimore Ravens. The five time Pro bowler, two time All
Pro goes in exchange for first round picks in twenty
twenty six and twenty twenty seven. Crosby's got to pass
a physical that can occur until the start of the
new league year, which is Wednesday, so everything official with
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this won't be until then. But the trade has happened,
the trade has been agreed upon, and we'll have more
on the Crosby end of it in a second. But
this is what's kind of gone under the radar here,
and I think this is just aw I'm gonna shows
you why the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Are who they are.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The trade that went down again first round picks this
year and next year. So now this year the Raiders
will pick first and fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
They beat out the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We're willing to offer a first and a second round
pick for Max Crosby, and obviously getting two first is
better than a first and a second, So okay, I
understand that, But just think about the last calendar year
for the Cowboys, where the cow where the Cowboys decide, No,
we're not gonna re sign Micah Parsons. I'm not gonna
pay him. He wants to get traded. We'll get a
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couple of first round picks for him. Oh, but you
know what, we still need defensive line. So we'll trade
a first and second round pick to the Jets to
get Quinn Williams. Oh but we still need to go
get the quarterback. So now let's trade another first and
a second to go get a guy that we didn't
need to get if we had just kept Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Like, this is.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Why the Cowboys are on a hamster wheel man, because
you go back a year. You go back a year
and it's okay, you had the guy who was gonna
get the quarterback and everything was five. But no, no,
let's make a trade and get draft picks, and then
trade two more draft picks and then potentially trade two
more draft picks to bring in a guy that plays
a position to the guy we traded the first time around.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You wonder why the Cowboys are who they are. That's
all you need to know. Right there.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, but that doesn't mean once you realize you've made
a colossal error, you don't try to rectify it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But they'd be back to where they began.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh well, when I go back to and I go
back to the top and look, sometimes you just need
to get back to base X and then you proceed
from there. Okay, all right, we screwed up there. We
recognize we screwed up there. Now let's go try to
maximize what's left of the Dak Prescott window. By the way,
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Micah Parsons is one of many current and former players
willing to go fight for a million dollars with one
of the Paul brothers.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So that's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
That's a nice little subplot developing.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, that's nice. That's nice.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I don't know, I don't know that i'd be excited
about seeing that, but okay, I mean I think what
it's Le'Veon Bell definitively right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, they're they're exchanging contract. We'll see if that actually
comes together, because remember you, as Le'Veon Bell chimed in,
he goes, no, no, no, no, no, you're retired. I'd
have to actually, you know, stop my wwe career and
everything else to uh, to train to fight you. It's
all fun and games, but yeah, it's it is curious
(04:33):
to watch the Dallas Cowboys operate. And this is a
nice microcosm of the larger play of why we have
so many teams And by so many, I mean only
so many teams that we extol the virtues of their
front office management and how they operate uh professionally year
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to year. And then there's everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They are forever on a hamster wheel. I mean, they
are forever on a hamster wheel.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But that's it.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I mean that it's nice to know where you stand
in the pantheon of things, and it's the curiosity. Now
we talk about the trade going down, here's a couple
of first round picks, uh, and he's off to Baltimore.
But for the Cowboys and for all the other teams
out there, as we get ready for the new league
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year to unfold, right, we get into the no longer
legal tampering whatever term you want to put on it.
That this was the most anticipated of the moves. So
to see it go down first, I'm like, well, this
isn't what I wanted. I wanted to build up I
wanted more than just hey, there's a Dj Moore trade,
or HER's Taylor Decker telling the Lions, I'm done with
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you after a decade.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I need more than that. Yeah, no, no, no, look
and look.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And this was this was a trade that we're not
even at free agency yet, we haven't even seen all
the tree were gonna wind up seeing. And the Ravens
have won the offseason. They have absolutely won the off
season already because of the caliber of player they got. Right,
let's go back a few days to the and I
(06:13):
love this quote from Rams GM Les Snead after the
Rams made the big trade for Trent McDuffie. Because the
Rams f them picks and they wind up continually staying
a super Bowl team. I don't know how they do
it year after year, bringing in players, giving them contracts,
trading away draft picks.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yet they find a way.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Is he said, the first thing you want to look
at in the offseason is what all pros can We
go get what all pros are available, because those are
the guys you want to get. Right, this is a
bad year in free agency, Okay, it's gonna be a
bad year. So hey, we saw there was an all Pro.
We were able to go get that was gonna help us.
We get a big cornerback and he's gonna wind up
getting a big contract from us. They go get the
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All Pro. The Ravens went out and got the All
Pro of All pros again. Two time All Pro, five
time Pro bowler ten sacks year. Was on pace for
his best year of the year last year until he
got hurt. Wanted to come back at the end of
the year. The Raiders said no. So you could see
why he wanted out. The Raiders couldn't keep him. This
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is the guy you go get at twenty eight years old.
He's got three or four a years left. Max Crosby
is the definition of a plug and play guy. You
take him and his motor and just PLoP him down
and he's gonna go get the quarterback and he's gonna
be the leader of year defense on the fields. He's
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the best kind of lunatic because he is one of
those players that he has a motor that I don't
know where he got it, but he does. And no
matter he's a type of guy that, no matter what
he's paid, no matter what his situation is, I'm going
to get the quarterback. I'm motivating to be the best
bleeping player I can be. And that's a guy you
have no problem saying, let's bring you in and let's
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put you out there.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They always say like there's good kinds of crazy, right,
and that's Max Crosby. There's he is the guy to
go trade to go, trade to go get, and the
Ravens make an incredible deal. He's the second best player
they've had in the Lamar Jackson era. Lamar Jackson has
been their best player, obviously Hall of Fame quarterback. They've
had other good players elsewhere, but in the last ten
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years went with since Lamar Jackson's taken over quarterback, now
they have the second most talented.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Guy they've had.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Because Max Crosby is that good. I can't believe the
Raiders didn't get more for him. I mean, you look
at what the Jets got for sauce Gardner. They got
to first and a player, right, they got ad Ni Mitchell. Now, granted,
the Colts wanted to move on from him because of
his dropping the football. Crossing the goal line against the
Rams last year was a big play, but still you
sauce Gardner, who was a cornerback who was great as
(08:44):
a rookie and was pretty good in year two, and
then they changed the rules and started calling more hand.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Fouls and Sauce Gardner hasn't been the best guy. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
They still get to first in a player for him
and for Max Crosby, who impacts the game even more.
It's just to first, Like you should have gotten to
first and a second and a third, or two first
and a couple of thirds, or two first and a
player that's gonna make your team and be a difference maker. Like,
I don't know how the Raiders pulled the trigger on this.
(09:12):
I mean the Ravens. I would have given three first
round picks for Max Crosby. I'm thinking, I'm having this
guy the next four years. Is gonna be awesome with him,
Like I really, I'm stunned the Raiders didn't get more
for Max Crosby.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Gonna put it up on eBay. You'd had guys at
least trying to snipe in the final moments. I mean,
just let us know what the deadline is to get
a bid in. I mean, this is absurd. Last year
they were tied for twenty eight. The Baltimore Ravens. In
terms of team sacks, they registered just thirty. You know,
(09:44):
the only two teams that had less the Jets are fewer.
I can't the Jets, the Jets, the Jets and the Jets.
Jets forty nine ers only had twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's the Jets and the Mets. It was the Jets, all.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Right, Jets had twenty six and then tied for twenty eighth.
Where the Cardinals, the Panthers, and the Ravens. And we
talked about it all year. The Ravens defensively couldn't get
off the field, couldn't get that big play on third down.
They were better as the second half, as team got
healthier and they but they had to cheat and do
the all right, well, we can't get any kind of
(10:23):
pressure with four or the fifth or here. Now we
just have to go full, all out assault and leave
the secondary exposed by bringing the extra guys. Now here
you have a guy who wins, a guy who was
putting up ridiculous pressure and sack rates for a team
that was never playing with the lead, and now you
go and have this opportunity. Just an absolutely huge move.
(10:46):
But the fact that yeah, played.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
With the lead since twenty twenty one, Mike Harman. The
Raiders are not let in a football game in four years.
But you look at the man that might be true.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You look at the idea though of the two draft picks,
and you know, we got a little bit of feedback
as the night goes on, and we appreciate it that
this broke about a half hour before we went on air,
and we're talking about it throughout the night, the different
angles to it. Find the podcast as it goes up,
wherever you go, like it, Send it to your friends
and family, the larger discussion going. You know, two first
(11:21):
round picks.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
For some people.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's always too rich, right. Some people love draft picks.
I get that, the idea of the Christmas present. As
you open it, what's it going to be? I don't know,
you shake it up. It's like, ah, something crazy in there.
Draft picks generally, and you go team by team. Do
you trust that your GM is going to be able
to do what he needs to and the team and
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the brain trust men and women in those rooms that
they're actually going to make the most of the draft picks?
I think for most teams we can say categorically, no,
I don't trust that they're gonna pan out, and when
I can get a top notch player to your less
sneed comment, Yeah, I'd rather have the player that I
know is going to destroy people. Doesn't mean I have
(12:10):
to come over the top and pay that whatever the
market is for a player of that caliber. Sure, but
I know that I can pencil in that production and
that it's gonna make everybody around. Like what we talk
about pulling in for an offensive lineman, that's very good.
You know what, It makes the rest of your offensive
line better, right if you have a good center. Why
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linder Baum's gonna get paid a ton of money is
because the guys that might have been a second or
third tier offensive lineman next to him, Guess what, they
look a lot better when he's got to take on
the extra blocker, when he's doing that much more to
get your quarterback a cleaner pocket. Likewise, here, Max Crosby,
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everybody on that defensive line looks that much better because
their job just got a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Again a plus trade for the Ravens. They win the
offseason already because no one else is gonna bring in
a player of that caliber that you can just PLoP
right in and is gonna be a star for you. Man,
This is fantastic for the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
All my guys out in Baltimore are still just getting
their nights started in c clabratory mode.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's not gonna it's gonna be the It's gonna be
the forever weekend. They're gonna be out until Monday morning, going.
You believe we got Max Crosby. This is awesome And
all Tom Brady wanted was two first round picks.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Man, that's great.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Sending notes of thanks to Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We got more on this story coming up next because yeah,
the Tom Brady angle on it is a pretty big deal.
Plus we have the World Baseball Classic and we almost
had near NCAA basketball tournament mayhem occur earlier tonight. All
that and more next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
What wants like.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yours time?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The Japanese call of show, Hey otanis.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You hear it that? You just hear Otani in the middle?
What a great great call man? Really?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Show.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Hey, O Tani, not like you didn't expect this Grand
Slam home run for Japan. We can just fast forward
to United States Japan, right, we just fast forward to
that at the end.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I tried to ask JP that he wouldn't he wouldn't
have it. I think we can.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
John Paul works for Major League Baseball. They have a
lot invested in all of these games, as does Fox.
We want people to watch these games before we get
to United States Japan.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
But he's not with US now, so yes, Usa Japan.
O Tani pitches all nine innings. Let's go. Let's get ready. Now.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Look the thing about the United States before we get
to why, I'm not really anti American, Like I feel
like I can't have to say that. The one thing
like if I'm looking at the United States team tonight
and their lineup is terrific, And John Paul said, listen,
I don't know that I see any weakness in the roster.
If they if they, If the United States doesn't win,
it's because of the randomness of baseball, and sometimes the
(16:56):
best team doesn't win. I'm a little concerned about the
starting pitching, about the pitching overall. And here's why. Because
look the lineup, there's it's a terrific lineup, right, I
mean you're just facing Superstar after Superstar. They were patient tonight.
The you know, you thought tonight would be a night
where maybe they're a little bit anxious, but you know, hey,
(17:18):
seventeen walks they were I think they had pretty good
plate discipline. But you look at the starting pitches for
the United States, you go, wow, it seems pretty good,
right with Web and then you got Scooble and you
have schemes and then it's McLean. But remember, these guys
aren't going you know, seven innings, right, They're only going
they're only going a handful of innings before it's turned
over the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And once you get to.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The bullpen, yeah, they have some pretty decent arms in
the bullpen, but it's not it's not like you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Some you know, some lights out guys here like that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That's where I see because the bullpen really has a
lot more to say in the world baseball class. You know, yeah,
you may see Kershaw at some point that when it's
not a ten run game, because these guys are only
going to pitch a handful of innings, right, Like what
but four innings at the most right, like really, like
like Clay Holmes was stretching out for the Mets in
case they needed him, and he's not scheduled to go
in one of the first four games, but he was
(18:09):
topping out at four innings, so no matter what, And
and there's no way that Mark de ros is gonna
gonna say, hey, you know you haven't thrown a lot
of pitches. We're gonna keep you with because teams are
gonna go, dude, you are not going to throw our
guys seven innings here in the middle of March.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Oh, show that that he could do any well. The
Pirates aren't really a threat, so that's fine. He could
probably but that but that's.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Where the the competitor of the player. And this is
where we I would love the the back channels and
the buzzing ass uh when the phone's going off, going hey,
you know he was only supposed to go thirty five pitches.
Jerk right, like the handshake a greements versus tell you
trying to tell schemes are one of these guys that
(18:51):
they have to come out of the game if they're
feeling it, right, Like, there's that competitor in them. That's
gonna be like, I'll deal with the team when I
get back to camp. I'm giving you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Know, I think in theory I like that, except you know,
you have a guy like school but which said hey,
one game and I'm out, Like that's like that.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Got the guy, and like there's one thing to say
it before you show up. There's the other than once
you're around the team and you're actually playing for something, Yeah, right, Yeah,
then it becomes a different animal. Like think about the
Dodgers and their trepidation when it comes to you know,
Yamamoto or or for Otani in terms of their usage played, appearances, uh, innings, pitched,
(19:35):
number of pitches and all of that stuff. Once they're
actually in with their squad. I wonder how much the
rules of engagement change a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well, you know, I think if it was middle of
the season, I would say, yeah, but these guys aren't
up to I mean, we're still three weeks away from
opening day. Guys still building up their arms. I don't
know that after fifty pitches, these guys are gonna have anything, right,
Like Logan Web went fifty pitches tonight, right and then
and then.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Here with that home run. Yeah, got on a bit
of a terror and then he was done.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I mean, and it's not like we're bringing in these
lights out. I mean, Michael Waka came in. I mean,
come on to pitch, you know. Next to the United States, SI,
it's not like we.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Come on lines or pac fan lines in.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
And walk a walk out, walk o walk.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I mean, we don't have a bunch of guy dudes
coming in out of the bullpen that are all gonna
throw ninety nine and with hilacious sliders like we have
just guys coming out of the bullpen. So if anything
that I see could be the issue for the United States,
I can see a team like Japan or Mexico really
feasting once you get out of the starting pitching, saying hey,
these relievers ain't great, man, because you saw Brazil tonight
(20:38):
right Like you know, Web gets out of the first
four innings, gives up the home run to the open,
to the first bat or to many Ramirez's kid. Okay,
I'm fine after that, but then hey, here's a few
more runs in the seventh, another run in the eighth,
Like this is this is where I think if you're
looking for a place to be nervous about the United States.
It's when they get into their bullpen, especially this part
of the tournament. That's right, That's where I would look
(20:59):
at and say, yeah, if it gets into a situation
like that, it's more of a toss up than people.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Very patient team. Though they Brazil through two hundred and
twenty one pitches tonight, only ninety six of them for strikes. Yeah,
game of five stolen bases. We had what the balk
that that brought home a run? Yeah, a lot of chaos.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Ninety six strikes and one hundred and twenty five Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Buddy, when they walk in three runs a balk. All
of that just absolute chaos.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Oh man. Now, and I want to say this coming
off of tonight, right.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Because the US laying nine and a half, got the
job done.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So so many greats that the Lakers are back, so
many greats that the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
The Knicks beat the Nuggets by.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Forty second night of a back to back, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, but they had two guys who hadn't played in
a long time come back.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
They were rusty and then stop stop.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And that's the best part for the Knicks is that
they won a game by forty where brunts and scored nine. Yeah,
watch out, I'll see you in the NBA Finals. Now,
I'll see in the finals, Frostburg. I'll see there. The
big story out of tonight, like so many big stuff
out of the World Baseball Classic. Yes, Manny Rire's his
kid with a couple of home runs tonight, and John
Paul Morosi told us a great story about how he
(22:19):
taught him to hit lefty, and he showed him didn't
watch videos of his dad hitting, but watch videos of
David Ortiz hitting, which is just it's such a great story.
But Joseph Contreras, Jose Contreras's kid came in to pitch
the second inning tonight for Brazil, seventeen years old in
high school. Right in high school. He plays in the
(22:39):
same ida was it the same travel ball or the
same high school conference as Mark Deurosa's son. So when
they're doing the interview in between innings, like, yeah, I
know my son's played against him, scouting report against some
mean these This kid's in high school and he's and
he comes in to face Harper and Bobby Witt and
he gets Aaron Judge to ground into a double play
(23:00):
with the bases loaded. It is absolutely one not trolling.
It is okay to make fun of Aaron Judge grounding
out against a kid in high school.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That is one hundred percent okay to do well.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
He got did his social studies homework a little bit
earlier in the day. He's a commit to Vanderbilt. Yeah,
so he's I.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Think he actually did homework, bug out in between innings
and then went back out to pitt.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Might have might have had his flash cards out. I mean,
I don't know, I don't know what his method is
towards the greatness. But heading to Vandy, he's got a
head on his shoulder that's great, uh, you know, and
and ready to go. But a big pitch here with Judge.
I hope that the splinters of that broken bat go
into trading cards or that someone corralled them that we
(23:44):
can find them in the memorabilia market, because that that's
a pretty big moment for the kid. I want the
ball and I want the shard of his bat, don't
you want?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Like his ap European history test, well, the result of
of his American history test, and it's something an apiece
ap math, ap calculus, pre calculus.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
But it's just such a great moment, right, I mean,
all of this and you talk about the largess of
this tournament and how much it's been embraced and all
the stars and the talk, and whether you love Judge's
speech or not, he is right now the the foremost player, uh,
taking the mantle from from those guys in the past
(24:28):
like Mike Trout and and everybody else. And and now
you get him in this big moment. Now he'd already homeward,
so he'd already had his Captain America moment. But to
get him to ground into the double play with the
bases loaded, come on, that's a that's a musty moment
right there. I mean, that's that might be the peak
of his baseball. Greer, you think you're going back and
(24:48):
pitching at Vandy's anywhere, like he's gonna mow these kids down.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Think about that, Uh, the two Aaron Judges gonna go
down in one of the five greatest Yankees of all time,
the two biggest moments of his career, dropping the fly
ball in center field and hitting into a double play
against a seventeen year.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Old Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Very anti American.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That is stop that it is okay to troll that
that is one hundred percent. It happened on the field.
It's okay, and we won, so it's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I mean people have been felled by the Brazilian butt
lift and other things Brazilian, the coco nut. You know,
they'll take you down. But here, I mean, just a
great pitch.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Vanderbilt's gonna be easy for him. It's gonna absolutely be easy.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now, the academics are gonna be tough to tackle. But
inside the white lines, I mean, you are you already
stared down a guy who looked like he was eight
feet taller than all of the people trying to interview him. Now,
and for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Forget about what he does on the baseball field. I'm
picturing him like in his first frat park with his
feet up and like a bunch of girls sitting around him, going. So,
I've got the bases loaded and Aaron Judges up right,
and I own Aaron Judge. Okay, I mean, this guy
comes up here, he's like six seven, six eight, doesn't matter.
I know, I come inside, I'm sawing off that bat.
(26:17):
It's gonna break and I'm getting a five four to
three double playgrounder. I do and what happened here? I
got a queue up wright. You want to see it
on my phone?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
It's right here. Look that's me right there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
See there's Aaron Judge right there's the pitch sawed off
his bat there it is going to the dugout. Yeah, ladies,
what do you think? I'm Joseph Cantreres, who's ready to leave.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Watch me shrink this guy down to size.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I would tell that story everywhere.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Oh absolutely, you know I own Aaron Judge and I
knew I could saw as bad off. Uh, sir, this
is a Wendy's n I know, but I want to
tell you what happened before I order.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh listen. We're not gonna hire you to be our
official taste tester.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, We're giving that job to Jason Smith or Gino
Smith because we put that out there on social media
today as well.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, but let me tell you this story because gonna
want to give me my food for free. All right, sir,
go ahead, but just finish quick, all right, just finish fast. Now.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
The tops Now product that comes out and they do
the instant big Moment cards. They've got one for the
Otani Grand Slam already with a piece of the base
and everything. Do you think we can get one where
with the Mendoza or the the Morales card where he's saying,
I own air, Judge, do you think do you think
(27:26):
we can get that?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the contreras I own, Aaron Judge, I
own and I own that's the that's the one of one.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
What did you think when Aaron Judge was coming up?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Judge much, I own that, dude. Now you come up, yeah,
what MVP's home run?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Whatever, man, Jason, this aggression will not stand. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's just it's just because No, no, it's just great.
But on the twenty eighth anniversary of Big.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Hitting Captain America.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Dude, he is like David Wright is Captain America. Okay, George, Jason, Aaron,
it's not his homework. Okay, we won. And Judge it
into a double playoff a high school kid.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, I'm looking to see if they've added the contreras.
Uh tops now yet they have not.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Oh it's such a perfect day. I want to share
it with you. Judge.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's into a double play off high school kid. The
Knicks win by forty. This may be as good as
it gets.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I reel is this your highlight of your life?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Right here? Is this the highlight of your life? Larry?
Is this the highlight of your life?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Larry?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
See the highlight might be the.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Best for you. But yeah, Contrera's I mean owns one
of the big moments right off the jump. How do
you top it?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I don't think you.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I can get you a toe.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
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